Search Results: Authors starting with M from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

New York : Owens-Corning, 1960. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy octavo, [18.125cm/7.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 16. Illustrated with b-w halftones and sketches by Don Winslow. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

London: Histories and Mysteries of Man Ltd,, 1991. Fascimilie Copy of the 1894 Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed alabaster-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xxi, 294, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The chair of Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London was set up and funded in 1892 following a bequest from Amelia Edwards, who died suddenly in that year. Petrie's supporter since 1880, Edwards had instructed that he should be its first incumbent. He continued to excavate in Egypt after taking up the professorship, training many of the best archaeologists of the day. In 1904 Petrie published Methods and Aims in Archaeology, the definitive work of his time, in which he lucidly defined the goals and methodology of his profession along with the more practical aspects of archaeology—such as details of excavation, including the… Read More

Ventura, California: BlueWater Freedivers, 1995. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full pictorial cloth with matching mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 214, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, caracatures &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Terry Maas is a veteran freediver. He started diving when he was 14 years old and has been freediving steadily for the last 47 years. In his early years Terry won the individual U.S. National Spearfishing championships 4 times. His team won 10 championships. In 1982, his interests turned to blue water hunting. For the next 10 years he captured 3 world records for yellowfin and bluefin tuna. His 398-lb Pacific bluefin tuna record still stands. In 1995, Terry published his first book, BlueWater Hunting and Freediving. This book is richly illustrated with pictures and stories from Mexico. Several years later he published his second… Read More

Dublin: His Magesty's Stationary Office, 1887, 1893, 1895, 1901. First Impressions. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed & rebound olive-green cloth, sans dust jackets. Paginated by volume. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. The Annals of Ulster (Irish: Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland. The entries span the years from AD 431 to AD 1540. The entries up to AD 1489 were compiled in the late 15th century by the scribe Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín, under his patron Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa on the island of Belle Isle on Lough Erne in the province of Ulster. Later entries (up to AD 1540) were added by others. Previous annals dating as far back as the 6th century were used as a source for the earlier entries, and later entries were based on recollection and oral history. T.M. Charles-Edwards has claimed that the main source for its records of the first millennium AD is a… Read More

London: Longman's , Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870. A New Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [19.5cm/7.75inches], full gilt-embossed burgundy-coloured levant, sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. vii, 855, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Sir Thomas James Babington Macaulay, Baron of Rothley generally known as Lord Macaulay, ( 1800 – 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer. His books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. Macaulay held political office as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. He played a major role in introducing English and western concepts to education in India, publishing his argument on the subject in the "Macaulay Minute" published in 1835. He supported the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the… Read More

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed Cumberland-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xvi, 301. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Williamsburg was one of America's first planned cities. Laid out in 1699 under the supervision of Governor Francis Nicholson, it was to be a "new and well-ordered city" suitable for the capital of the largest and most populous of the British colonies in America. A succession of beautiful capitol buildings became home to the oldest legislative assembly in the New World. The young city grew quickly into the center of political, religious, economic, and social life in Virginia. The Capital was moved in 1780, this time up the James River to Richmond, where it remains today. Williamsburg reverted to a quiet… Read More

New Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1965. Second Issue. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed navy blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp.xiv, 334. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Wiki notes: "Macdonell was born at Muzaffarpur in the Tirhut region of the state of Bihar in British India, the son of Charles Alexander Macdonell, of the Indian Army. He was educated at Göttingen University, then matriculated in 1876 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German, Chinese, and the Boden Scholarship for Sanskrit). He graduated with classical honours in 1880 and was appointed Taylorian Teacher of German (language) at Oxford. In 1883 he obtained his PhD from the University of Leipzig, and then became Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1888, and Boden Professor of Sanskrit in 1899." Macdonell edited various Sanskrit texts, wrote a… Read More

Birmingham, Alabama: Palladium, 2013. Fascimilie of the 1950 First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [24cm/9.5inches], full fancy gilt-embossed mahogany-coloured calf sans dust jacket, pp. xv, 284, Illustrated with b-w plates. sketches, graphs &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A February 1968 review of Modern Gunsmithing by Harold E. MacFarland noted: ". In this handy, workbench reference you get easy-to-follow, trou le-free ways for solving problems of malfunction, picking and improving actions. getting the best pull and accuracy, choosing and working different steels, correcting and mounting scopes and sights, employing reliable methods with metal finishes, creating sporting stocks, licking assembly confusion. It's every gun owner's pinpoint guide to successful gun fixing.

London & New York : Alfred A. Knopf, the British Museum BBC. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed red cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 606, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones as well as colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cobalt-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.192, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, schematics, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Salenstein, Switzerland: Benteli, 2006. First Edition. Paperbound. New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 60. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads notes: "Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma."

Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis Publishers, Ltd, 1951. No. 56 of a Ltd. Run of 500 Copies. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No . Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed rust-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 151 w/ 442 item List of Works. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 46 b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Scottish National Galleries opined: "Arthur Melville (1855-1904) was one of the most innovative Scottish painters of his generation. The intensity of his colours, his fascination with effects of brilliant light and his dramatic compositions had a revolutionary impact on watercolour as an art form. Melville spent much of his life travelling around the world, including time spent in France, Spain, Egypt, Morocco, and the Middle East. His travels inspired spectacular watercolours and paintings. When not travelling, Melville was based mainly in Edinburgh. He enjoyed a varied career as an artist and is respected… Read More

York, England: The Ebor Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [20cm/8inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 212. Indexed. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed. The term was borrowed from horse racing and was not widely used until after 1910. Traditionally, the record is based on average speed rather than passage time because ships follow different routes. Also, eastbound and westbound speed records are reckoned separately, as the more difficult westbound record voyage, against the Gulf Stream and the prevailing weather systems, typically results in lower average speeds even in the same ship.

London: Victoria & Albert Museum V&A, 2001. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ebony cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 360, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Google Books notes: "One hundred years after the death of Queen Victoria, Western culture still bears the indelible imprint of her reign. The hallmarks of the modern world -- global commerce and communications, shopping and leisure, sports and entertainment -- first emerged during the Victorian era. This landmark book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, immerses readers in a wealth of imagery and facts that bring to life this extraordinary period of human achievement. The Victorian Vision presents life in the latter part of the 19th century on both a grand and intimate scale, from the small innovations that began to transform domestic… Read More

Oxford: The Society of Antiquaries, 1936. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [30cm/12 inches], full gilt-embossed ruddy-brown cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 348, indexed. Illustrated with 79 b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Society of Antiquaries of London ``is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly. ... The society's first journal was Archaeologia (full title: Archaeologia; or, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity), of which the first volume appeared, in a quarto format, in 1770. The journal mainly contained papers that had been delivered at the society's meetings: in the early years these included many delivered in previous decades that had remained unpublished. Archaeologia continued to appear… Read More

New York: Gramercy Park, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full chrome-embossed mustard-colouredcloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 299. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American epic adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by producer Carl Foreman was based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel The Guns of Navarone, which was inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. The film stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala and James Darren. The book and the film share the same basic plot: the efforts of an Allied commando unit to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea. ... Force 10 from Navarone is a 1978 British-American war… Read More

Newport, Rhode Island: The Point Association, 1962. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], paperbound with green pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully Illustrated with pen & ink sketches by Edith Ballinger Price. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Edith Ballinger Price (1897–1997) was an American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books. Starting in 1911 she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She later studied at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. Her first book, Blue Magic, was originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1918, and was published in book form by The Century Company in September, 1919. It concerns a seven-year-old invalid named Fen, who is travelling in Egypt and Italy with his family, but who is prevented by his poor health from leaving their yacht. He is befriended by an old family connection who, to… Read More

San Diego: Maritime Museum Association of San Diego, 1973. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: Maritime Museum Association of San Diego, 1980. Journal. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 6. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A good extant example of a "Steam Schooner is the "Wapama", a Natonal Historic Site in San Francisco California. She was the last surviving example of some 225 wooden steam schooners that served the lumber trade and other coastal services along the Pacific Coast of the United States".- [-Wikipedia].

San Diego: Maritime Museum Association of San Diego. Journal. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 6. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.