Berenice Abott 302185

Berenice Abbott. Volume I: Portraits - The American Scene - Science. Volume II: New York. [Two-volume set in slipcase]

Steidl Gerhard Verlag, 2013. Linnen band. Pp: 264. ISBN: 9783865215925. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

De SlegteProfessional seller

Book number: 3500696

Catalogue: Fotografie

Keywords: 9783865215925

Abott à Beckett, Gilbet.

The Comic history of Rome.

Bradbury, n.d. 308 pp. Col. plts & text-ills. Cloth,worn.

Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.(NVvA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 169760

Keywords: Caricature Karikatuur

Abott, J.

Four faces of Siva (The detective story of a vanished race)

Simon Publications, Safety Harbor, 2001 373 p., Soft Cover, Very Good.

De AlkenaerProfessional seller

Book number: 3939

Keywords: History (general)

ABOTT, STEVE (EDITOR) E. A.

The Mathematical Gazette - Volume 82: Number 493 - March 1998

Washington: Mathematical Association of America, 1998. First Edition. Softcover (Original decorated wrappers). Original colour decorated wrappers. With diagrams and plates. With essays collected by various authors. Slight shelfwear. ; 14x22x1 cm; 160 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

Literary Cat BooksProfessional seller

Book number: LCB61830

Catalogue: Mathematics

Keywords: Journals Lectures Complex Analysis Calculus Derivatives Philosophy

ABOTT, W. E.

Mount Wingen and the Wingen Coal Measures.

First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 26, (8) maps and plates; marbled endpapers, 2 coloured one page maps, 1 cross section diagram, 4 full page b/w. photographic plates, in pocket on rear board a large (35cm x 46cm) coloured folding map "Showing Geological formation in the vicinity of Mount Wingen Upper Hunter District of N.S.W.", bound in half black calf with green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate of Henry L. White on front endpaper, some foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Together with a small archive of items on Mount Wingen - ABBOTT, J. H. M., the Burning Mountain of the Kingdon Ponds Valley.( being a paper read before the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1921) typescript copy, early black morocco binding, bookplate of H.L White, with ink inscription from the author to H.L. White. - Two Typescript copies of reports of Mount Wingen in 1828 and 1829, one being a 6 page letter from Charles Wilton to the Editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1829, both together in later printed wrappers with White's stamp. - original b/w. photograph circa 1891 at Mount Wingen inscribed to White from his field worker, the ornithologist and author S. W. Jackson. - An attractive and valuable archive, with distinguished provenance on the world famous coal seam fire in the Hunter Valley. Sydney; Angus & Robertson Limited; 1918. Burning Mountain, the common name for Mount Wingen (224 km north of Sydney) it takes its name from a smouldering coal seam running underground through the sandstone. The underground fire is estimated to be at a depth of around 30 meters, it is estimated that the fire has burned for approximately 6.000 years and is said to be the oldest known coal fire. ------- Henry Luke White (1860-1927) was a wealthy pastoralist, book collector and amateur ornithologist of Scone, New South Wales. ------- William Edward Abbott (1844-1924) was one of the larges pastoralists in the Upper Hunter region of NSW, by the 1890's his Abbotsford estate incorporating Glengarry and Murralla stations, had 21,00 sheep and 100 cattle on 30,000 acres. As well as the book listed here he was the author of several other books.

Time BooksellersProfessional seller

Book number: 114041

Keywords: Australian new south wales local history coal seam fire geology

ABOTT HESSE, MARY & PAMELA SHELDON JOHNS.

De vier seizoenen. Een culinaire reis.

De Lantaarn, 1995. 36 x 25,5 cm. Gebonden met stofomslag. Hardcover. Rijk geïllustreerd in kleur en z/w. 225 pag. KEURIG EXEMPLAAR

Antiquariaat Frans MelkProfessional seller

Book number: 91826

Gilbert Abott Beckett

The Comic Blackstone

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1856. Fine Binding. Gilbert Abbott Beckett satirises contemporary Victorian laws in this playful commentary A neat copy of this whimsical story from English lawyer and humourist Gilbert Abbott Beckett, with a frontispiece by Victorian illustrator George Cruickshank. As well as producing around fifty plays, contributing to several newspapers, and editing the comic paper Figaro in London, Beckett was also one of the original staff at Punch magazine. In this work, Beckett provides a satirical commentary on contemporary British laws, with a particular focus on the division of property, and the laws surrounding public and private wrongdoings. Bookplate of Egerton Parker to recto of front free endpaper. In a quarter calf binding over marbled boards. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards, with a little wear and discolouration of the calf towards the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: George Cruickshank. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 845N23

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: The Comic Blackstone Victorian Humour Gilbert Abbott Beckett Illustrated Victorian Humour George Cruickshank

WHISTLER, James Abott McNeill.

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right.

New York: John W Lovell Co, 1890. 8vo. [xvi], 292pp, tail-pieces. Original brown cloth gilt backed boards, uncut. Extremes rubbed, leaf edges spotted.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 18281

Keywords: LITERATURE