[JAMESON, JOHN]

Andrew Jameson 1916 - 1934

Edinburgh: Douglas & Foulis, 1935. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 210mm (10" x 8"). 153pp. B/W illustrations. Printed for private circulation.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Lower and fore edges untrimmed .

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Book number: d4298

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography

[THEOPHILE KORN]

Biographie Moderne Ou Dictionnaire Biographique de Tous Les Hommes Morts Et Vivans. 4 Volume Set

Breslau: Chez Guill.- Theophile Korn, 1806. Seconde Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 520pp; 524pp; 516pp; 524pp. Qui ont marque a la fin du 18e siecle et au commencement de celui-ci, par leurs ecrits. leur rang, leur emplois, leur talens, leurs malheurs, leur vertus, leur crimes, et ou tous les faits qui les concernent sont rapportes de la maniere la plus impartiale et la plus authentique. Particularly concerning participants in the French Revolution.. G : in Good condition. Covers rubbed and faded. Ex-lib .

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Book number: r4271

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Military History 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

[OWEN, HARRIET MARY BROWNE ]; [HUGHES, HARRIET]

Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs Hemans

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1841. Reprint. Leather hardback cover. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 352pp.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Some scuffing to leather. Staining to title page and frontis. Text clean with a little browing. Previous owner inscriptions to feps. Aeg .

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Book number: 1731

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

EDITOR

Memorials of the Life of a Soldier. Comprising the More Interesting of His Observations and Experiences in the Army, During a Service of Twenty-One Years, Interspersed with Moral Reflections

Edinburgh: Printed by W L Rollo, 1864. [First Edition]. Half-leather hardback with brown cloth boards. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). viii, 170pp.. G : in good condition. Rubbed at joints and edges. Bookplate at pastedown. Browning within .

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Book number: d4393

Catalogue: Military Biography

Keywords: Military Biography 1850 - 1900 Antiquarian

EDITOR

Public Characters of All Nations. Volume 1 Only

London: Plummer and Brewis for Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1823. [First Edition]. Half leather hardback with marbled boards. 160mm x 130mm (6" x 5"). xxx, [695pp]. Portraits. The pagination is somewhat confused, running xxx, 1 - 575, then 2 - 120.. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and edgeworn .

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Book number: c3553a

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography

EDITOR

Public Characters of 1805

London: Richard Phillips, 1805. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather marbled board cover. 220mm x 130mm (9" x 5"). 628pp, + ads. 4 plates.. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed with edge wear. Spine rubbed and lacking title. Scattered browning. Two plates misplaced. Text block firm .

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Book number: g1809

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

[SHERER, MOYLE]

Recollections of the Peninsular

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1825. Fourth Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 220mm x 130mm (9" x 5"). 358pp. 'By the Author od Sketches of India'.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Slight foxing. Name stamp on fep .

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Book number: r7282

Catalogue: Military Biography

Keywords: Military Biography Military History 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

P. L-S

Record of an Ascent; a Memoir of Sir Richmond Thackeray Ritchie

Cambridge: Dillon's University Bookshop, 1961. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 225mm x 145mm (9" x 6"). 43pp. Frontispiece and two other plates. A short biography or eulogy of Sir Richmond Ritchie who served as Permanent Under Secretary of State for India from 1909 to 1912 and as a less well known mountaineer, being the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mont Blanc at that time.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Boards marked and rubbed. Spine ends worn .

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Book number: d1837

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Mountaineering

EDITOR

The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book. Volume II of 5

London: T. Egerton, 1820. Third Edition. Quarter leather blue cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 424pp. 'Containing the Services and Progress of Promotion of the Generals, Lieutenant-Generals, Major Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, and Majors of the Army, According to Seniority; With Details of the Principal Military Events of the Last Century.' Book-plate of Henry and Mary Ponsonby 'Pro Rege Lege Grege.'.. G : in Good condition. Outer spine missing. Text block firm. Light scattered browning. Heraldic book-plate on paste-down .

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Book number: e6045

Catalogue: Military Biography

Keywords: Military Biography Military History 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

ABBATT, JOHN D

Five Capital Cities. A Temporal Journey. Volume I York

Victoria BC: John Abbatt, 1992. First Edition. Crean illustrated card cover. 270mm x 210mm (11" x 8"). xviii, 212pp. Victoria BC published biography.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed and slightly soiled .

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Book number: 0351

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Farming and Country

ACLAND, ARTHUR H D [ED.]

Memoir and Letters of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. Signed Copy

London: Arthur H D Acland, 1902. Limited Edition. Black hardback cloth cover with leather spine title. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 409pp. 16 b/w plates some tissue guarded. Printed for private circulation only. Presentation copy from author with tipped in letter to Spence Watson dated Aug 2 1902 signed by author. [Spence Watson was the President of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 1901-1911]. Includes facsimile letter to W E Gladstone.. Worn condition. Ex lib. Cover headily rubbed with cracks and loss to upper spine. Content in overall good condition .

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Book number: r0515

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography History Autographed Editions

ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS

Alexander Woollcott: His Life and His World

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1947. Second Impression. Blue hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 388pp. b&w photographs.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked .

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Book number: bgw095

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography

ADDISON, A STUART [ED.]

John Henry Brookes. Craftsmen Educator Administrator

Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1979. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 260mm (8" x 10"). 76pp. A Memorial to the Life and Work of John Brookes in Oxford 1928 to 1975, Contributed by His Friends and Colleagues.. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket and protective cover .

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Book number: g7596

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Arts Crafts

ADDISON, WILLIAM

Worthy Dr Fuller

London: J M Dent & Co, 1951. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 298pp. B/w plates.. G : in good condition without dust jacket .

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Book number: bgf479

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography

ADYE, RALPH WILLETT

The Bombadier and Pocket Gunner

London: T Egerton, 1806. 5th Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 140mm x 90mm (6" x 4"). [xii], 277pp, 9pp.. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Hinges cracked. Slight foxing .

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Book number: j9103

Catalogue: Military Biography

Keywords: Military Biography 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian