Search Results: Titles starting with B from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

Kell Bros. Chromo Litho, Castle St., Holborn [London]. [1863?].. The lithograph shows the interior of Baker Street Station, groups of passengers on opposite platforms, and a steam train entering the station. The rail track has three lines, one of which was provided in order to allow both narrow and broad gauge railway engines to use the system. The mount is discoloured by age, chipped and worn at the edges and with a semi-circular mark in one margin. The surface of the lithograph has a few very small surface scratches, visible in the image provided, otherwise a finely coloured and evocative print. *The underground railway station at Baker Street was opened on January 10th. 1863, one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway line, opening for traffic in 1863. Thus 2013 sees the 150th. anniversary of that occasion ! The North Metropolitan Railway, the original name of the Metropolitan Railway, was incorporated in 1853 in order to establish a line… Read More

British Patents. Ringwood, Hants. [1949].. pp. 47, (i). Many text illustrations. Blue paper decorative paper wrappers, stapled, very good copy. *COPAC gives OXFORD and NLS only, though the British Library does have a copy from which the publication date is taken.

A. M. Philpot. London. [1926?].. pp. 138, vi Catalogue. Frontispiece and 4 plates. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, very slight wear to spine ends, uncut, a very good copy. *Rather scarce, nine COPAC locations.

Oxford University Press. London. [1914] Fifth impression.. pp. 8. CONTAINED IN : OXFORD PAMPHLETS 1914 - VII. DAVIS, H. W. C. The Retreat from Mons; DAVIS, H. W. C. The Battles of the Marne and Aisne; THURSFIELD, J. R. The Navy and the War; OSLER, Sir William. Bacilli and Bullets. Printed card covers, a bit faded along the spine else a very good copy.

Heinemann Medical Books. London. 1966-1969. 3 volumes.. pp. (viii), 160. Text ills.; xii, 87, (i). Text ills.; vi, (iv), 186. Text ills. All in boards with dust wrappers in very good condition. *MACDONALD CRITCHLEY was involved in the organisation of these Symposia and contributed to each one. These come from his library.

Bacon's Map Establishment. 127 Strand, London. No date . An engraved map on fine linen, 71 x 51 cms. qpprox. folded to fit the cloth slip-case lettered 'FLEXIBLE MAP OF LONDON', slight browning in places and slightly crumpled at one edge, else in very good condition.

Walter Scott. London. No date.. pp. xiii, (i), 459, (i), (xiv) Advertisements. 20 photo-micrographs. Original cloth, spine ends bruised, a very good copy. *CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES #14.

HMSO. London. 1923.. pp. 167, (i), (iv) Publications. 3 folding tables, 2 plates. A very good copy in the original printed wrappers, stamp on front cover and title.

Ernest Benn. London. 1926.. pp. 43, (i). Original lemon paper wrappers, discoloured along the spine and rear wrap with staples rusted, occasional marginal foxing, SIGNED by Gerhardi in a LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies.

University Press. Cambridge. 1889.. pp. (viii), 130, (ii). 6 maps. Original cloth, spine faded and a bit rubbed, a little foxing, good copy.

Leonard Smithers. London. 1899. [Seventh edition?].. pp. (viii), 31 (numbered and printed rectos only, (ii) blank. Quarter white cloth over light brown cloth covers, uncut, one early leaf with a couple of small tears in the fore-edge margin, the following leaf with one small tear, no loss to either, in all other ways a very good copy, with Wilde's name in the title but not on the spine.

Longman, Hurst and others. London. 1823. Third edition. 12mo.. pp. vii, (i) Embellishments, 109, (i) blank, (i) Advertisement, (i) Printer's imprint. Title vignette and 4 text cuts. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with leather spine label, uncut, some foxing at the front and the leaf edges slightly dusty, overll a very good copy.

The Research Publishing Company. [1967].. pp. 190. Frontispiece, 20 plates, 11 pedigree charts. A very good copy in dust wrapper.

Sands and Co. London. 1899. Landscape folio. . pp. Title, one leaf letterpress, 20 plates. Advertisement end-papers. Original cloth, a very good copy.

Field & Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse. London. [1881]. L4to. 2 volumes. LARGE PAPER COPIES, this being no.10, signed by ANDREW TUER in v.I.. Vol.I : pp. (xii), 211, (i) blank, (vi) Index, (ii) blank. Frontispiece, title vignette, 4 plates; Vol.II : pp. (viii), 152, (ii) blank, (iii) Index, (i) blank, (ii) Advertisements, (ii) blank. Frontispiece, title vignette, 5 plates [this volume extensively interleaved with blanks in order to make the volumes uniform]. Vellum bound, titles in gilt on the front boards, the boards stitched with cords, top edges gilt, uncut, the lower corners bumped, small snag in the spine of v.I, covers dusty and marked but not badly, text foxed at the ends, a lovely production overall.

No publisher. No date. Small oblong folio. . 10 albumen prints, mounted on card, 2 double-page, each photograph captioned below in manuscript. Original red cloth, the title in gilt on the front cover. Very good. *The bas-reliefs are by BONASSA, TAGLIAPIETRA, TORETTI (Canova's teacher) and MORLASTER. Most of the photographs are signed by J.D. and numbered, in the negative.

R. H. Johns. Newport, Mon. 1951.. pp. 107, (v). 33 photographs and diagrams. Pictorial paper covers, staples rusted, top corner of title creased, else a very good copy. *COPAC gives 3 locations - BL - Bodleian - NLS.

Printed and Published by E. R. Blackett. Bath. 1894. . pp. (xiv) Advertisements, (xx), 21-146, (xx) Advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of Mayor Mainwaring, one plate with four portraits. Original red glazed printed stiff card wrappers, one leaf of the ads. at the front plus the port now loose from the stitching, the paper of the ads. at the front now browned, the two plates with slight damp-marking around the edges, the text otherwise clean, ex-Bath Municipal Libraries with a book-plate on the verso of the front cover [partially removed], 'Sold' stamp on title. *Very scarce - COPAC does not appear to have a copy of this title.

Country Life. London. [1945]. R8vo.. pp. xii, 228. Frontispiece and 7 plates, all in colour, 6 charts, 76 illustrations in monochrome. Dust wrapper, a very good copy. *Loosely added a few relevant news cuttings, a note on headed paper from HMS Pelican PLUS an original gouache sketch of an MTB ?, size : c.12.5 x 17 cms., not signed.

Magna Books. Leicester. 1991. Folio.. pp. 176. Profuse illustration, much in colour. Very good copy in dust wrapper.