Boortin,Daniel J. and others

VISITING OUR PAST America's Historylands

Washington USA, National Geographic Society 1977 Fine color photography throughout. . Folio cloth with a gilt stagecoach scene in dust jacket with small edge tears no loss 400pp. *Periods in American history from first settlements, Colonial life, Revolution, Expansion westward, Civil War, etc.

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Sonstige Stichworte: America history USA

Borenius,Tancred

ITALIAN PAINTING up to Leonardo and Raphael

London, Avalon Press/Central Institute of art & design 1945 Color and monochrome plates (36). . Octavo plum blindstamped cloth (sl.fading/no dust jacket) [26]pp) +[41]pp of illustrations. Slight dusting to free endpaper else V.G. *History of Italian painting.

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Sonstige Stichworte: art Italy painting

Melmoth [translator] & Rev. F.C.T.Bosanquet [revised & additional notes & short memoir]

LETTERS OF CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS

London, George Bell and Sons 1895 . 8vo navy blue cloth gilt spine with Bohn's Libraries & gilt Bell & Anchor to foot of spine [spine relaid /edges rubbed & corners slightly exposed] xii [includes half title +title +Preface & Introduction] + 415pp including index of names & general index +48pp of selected works dated 1898. Three neat ownership signatures to endpapers and half title. Contents clean and tight.

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Sonstige Stichworte: letters

Bossuet

DISCOURS SUR L'HISTOIRER UNIVERSELLE nouvelle edition augmentee de notes necessaires et plus correcte que les editions precedentes

Paris, Plon freres + Plancy [chez] Societe de Saint-Victor 1847 Engraved Frontispiece . 8vo Handsome Purple full leather with blindstamped and gilt covers Spine extra gilt gilt dentelles [sl. Chipping to gilt line around the covers/corners sl.worn] All edges marbled 468pp includes all preliminaries and contents list as the end. Minor pale foxing to the first and last 4 leaves else lovely clean bright and tight book. *In three parts from the creation to Charlemagne with the second part Abraham and the patriarches, the prophets, the corrumption and idolatries and reflections on tn religion. The third part deals with Egypian and middle eastern religions ending with the Romans

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Botham,Ian and Kenneth Gregory

BOTHAM's BEDSIDE CRICKET BOOK Illustrations by Haro

London, Fontana Collins 1983 approx) Amusing drawings by Haro. . Square paperback 124pp no signs of having been read. *Cricketer's anecdotes and unbelievable happenings.

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Bourliere, Francois

MAMMALS OF THE WORLD Their Life and Habits

London, George Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1955 Colour plates (15 of 16 lacks elephants in a river) + 100s of photos of animals in natural surroundings. . Quarto rose cloth in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed dust jacket lacks spine many tears/creases) 223pp ex Pates Gammar school for Girls with stamp to titlepage & bookplate to pastedown. *This book claims to be a first in comprehensive photographs of animals in their natural habitat and remarks that advances of miniature cameras, telephoto lenses and electronic flash have made this possible. Text includes principles of anatomy, systematics & species geography concluding with adaptations to aerial & aquatic life.

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Sonstige Stichworte: mammals habitat comprehensive survey animals zoology

Bowen,Franck C.

FROM CARRACK TO CLIPPER a book of Sailing-Ship Models

London, Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd 1st edition 1927 Color plates (4) + 67 plates of ship models + line illus. by R. Morton Nance & Cecil King. . Large octavo blue cloth (worn & soiled and corner of board cracked) 64pp +plates 1 plate torn without loss. *Good details incl. American Clipper ships, men o' war, 17th and 18th century models etc.

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Sonstige Stichworte: antiques ship models collecting

Bowness,Alan

MODERN EUROPEAN ART with 207 illustrations

London, Thames & Hudson 1980 Colour and black/white illustrations (207). . Octavo pictorial card covers (tips a bit rubbed) 224pp. *From Manet to Francis Bacon + sculpture and architecture.

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Boycott,(Geoffrey)

BOYCOTT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

London, Macmillan 1st edition 1987 Plates . Large square octavo boards in price clipped dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 287pp slight uniform paper toning else V.G in V.G jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: cricket sport

Boycott,[Geoffrey]

BOYCOTT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

London, Corgi Books 1988 Plates (36). . Paperback (minor creases/tips rubbed) 376pp.

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Brander,Michael edits

INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHOOTING

London, Pelham Books 1st edition 1972 Color plates, text illustrations & diagrams. . Quarto navy cloth (tips slightly worn, small tape removal mark where dust jacket anchored) 352pp ex library with usual marks and lacking flyleaf but clean and tight copy of useful encyclopaedia.

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Sonstige Stichworte: shooting hunting sport big game

Brooke,Stopford A.

THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING

London, Isbister and Co.Ltd. 1903 . Large octavo blue diapered cloth gilt lettered (spine ends worn/dusty) bottom edge uncut. TP in red/black +(ii)+455pp name June C.Burgon to margin of TP, & Victoria de Rin to half-title. EPs foxed & with news clipping tipped in. Annotations/underlining in pencil to first 70pages and to chapter 9 & index. Includes some marginal imaginative drawings - all in pencil so erasable if desired.

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Sonstige Stichworte: literature history criticism poetry

Brookesmith, Peter

LIFE AFTER DEATH

London, Orbis 1984 Color and monotint illustrations to every page. . Quarto card covers (corners sl.creased and rubbed) 208pp. *Includes mediums, spirit photography, regression & hypnosis, communications etc.

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Sonstige Stichworte: occult afterlife religion

Brown,E.T.

YEAR IN MY FLOWER GARDEN

London, Chapman & Hall reprint 1932 Plates nad illustrations. . Octavo green pictorial cloth (tips sl.worn) xii +220pp name on endpaper else V.G.

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Sonstige Stichworte: gardening flowers horticulture

Browning, Norma Lee

JOE MADDY OF INTERLOCHEN .. FOREWORD BY Van Cliburn

Chicago, Henry Regnery Company 1963 photographs on 12 pages . 8vo light blue cloth in dust jacket [sl.chipped edges to dust jacket] half title +titlepage +dedication +poem + author's note + foreword +297pp

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Sonstige Stichworte: summer music camp