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

Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1970. . pp. lxii, 740. Folding plate at the rear. Covers a little dull and with some marks on the front cover, a good copy.

. All in contemporary patterned paper boards, leather spine labels, uncut and occasionally unopened, some foxing in all volumes, three labels chipped and worn, some wear to the spine ends and occasionally at the edges of the spines, complete with engraved portraits as called for, all with the book-plate of MATTHEW ARNOLD and occasionally the bookseller's ticket of Williams and Norgate, offered as an important association collection of 13 volumes, in 12. *MATTHEW ARNOLD [1822-1888] - as a literary critic Arnold held Goethe in the highest esteem, not only as a creative writer, but as one of Europe's most important thinkers. In his poem 'March 22 Death of Goethe', he mourned the passing of 'Europe's sage' : WHEN Goethe's death was told, we said: Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage.

Stanley Paul. London. 1937. . pp. 255, (i). Portrait frontispiece, 12 plates. Spine faded, else a very good copy in the original cloth.

Longmans, Green. London. 1937. First edition.. pp. xi, (i), 132. A very nice copy in dust wrapper.

N. G. Elwert. Marburg. 1903.. pp. (iv), 150, (ii). 3 Tables and 11 plates, mostly folding. Original cloth, a very good copy.

Ivor Nicholson & Watson. London. 1935. . pp. xv, (i), 182, (ii) blank. Coloured frontispiece, 12 plates and numerous text line drawings. Original white hessioan with a central vignette on the front board, a very good copy.

Spellmount. Staplehurst. 2002.. pp. 310. Numerous text illustrations. Dust wrapper with a couple of edge tears. no loss, a very good copy.

. SIZE : c.14.5 x 12.5 cms., folded card with lithographed snow scene on the front signed K.C., 1919, and a lettered banner with the plebiscite regions around the whole, inside a list of the Allied Brigades and the constituent Companies, and on the opposite side, the greeting in red and black; on the reverse an extract from the Treaty of Versailles, June 28th. 1919. A couple of corners with the slightest bumps and a couple of trivial scuffs, overall in excellent condition. *The forces of French, Italian and British troops policed the various plebiscite areas listed on the banner prior to the referenda and the list inside gives a detailed listing of the British units.

[1872].. A chromolithograph SIZE : c. 35 X 45 cms., framed and glazed in modern frame. *HANS CHRISTIAN LEY [1828-1875], best known for his townscapes of Copenhagen - this one is titled ' No.59, Danske Billeder - Eneberethget '.

. This volume is vellum-bound, the paper watermarked for C. HARRIS 1846, the stationer's label for FREDERICK WALLER, 49 Fleet Street, London, the front free end-paper with Gosse's name written as in plate 4 of FREEMAN & WERTHEIMER Bibliography, the front board with label 'INFUSORIA.4.', the rear board with 'Journal' in script. A pencil note in Richard Freeman's hand, signed by him, reads : 'Given to me on my sixtieth birthday........ 1 April 1975.' *The major portion of the Infusoria comprises detailed descriptions of some 75 species of Rotifer, each entry dated, with reference to a figure, the location found [many from Hampstead Heath, Berger's Lily Pond, the fountains of Trafalgar Square, Kensington Palace]. Part 2 is primarily a list of approx. 31 species, most of which are ascribed GOSSE, some with the postscript 'n.sp.' [new species?]. SEE - FREEMAN and WERTHEIMER Bibliography, 1980, #169-172 (1886-1889) - 'The rotifers had early attracted Gosse's attention and he had published seventeen… Read More

Offprint from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. 1889. 4to.. pp. 291-350. 2 lithographed plates, 7 text figures. Wraps lacking with exposed pages dusty and nicked at the edges and corners. *LEONARD DARWIN [1850-1943], eighth child of Charles and Emma Darwin, commissioned in the Royal Engineers, 1870. In the above paper, he contributed sections on the Coronograph and the Prismatic Camera, having had a longstanding interest in photography. He had photographed his father at Down House, in a basket chair, a much reproduced image.

Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1945 (reprint).. pp. viii, 183, (i). A very good copy. *Three parts - I. Greek Cosmology; II. Renaissance View of Nature; III. Modern View of Nature.

Macmillan. London. Vol.XLIX. 1926.. pp. vi, 605, (i). Many illustrations. An ex-library copy with occasional marginal stamp, the covers age-darkened, a few later leaves with the top corners creased, a good copy of vol. 49. *GARRISON-MORTON #4607 - 'maladie d'Adie'. With other contributions from MACDONALD CRITCHLEY - JEAN LHERMITTE a.o.

The Bath and Cheltenham Gazette Printing Works. 12 Old Bond Street. Bath. No date [1881].. pp. x, (ii), 106, (ii) blank. [One of the last poems is signed with the above initials, in letter-press not ms.]. Original brown cloth, spine faded else a very good copy. *VERY SCARCE with only one location recorded by COPAC - the Hathi Trust Digital Library.

John Milne. London. 1910.. pp. xvi, 279, (i). Frontispiece, 39 plates. Publisher's red cloth faded along the spine, a touch of marginal worming at the front diminishing to a single tiny hole internally and affecting the front board, free end-paper and the succeeding eight leaves, plate guards a little foxed, overall a good copy.

Medici Society. Bond Street, W.1 [London]. 1922. 2 volumes. No. 452 of LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies.. pp. (iv), xxxv, (i), 92, (viii). Frontispiece and 14 plates, all in colour; (iv), xi, (i), 28, (vi). Frontispiece and 4 plates, all in colour. Linen-backed boards, paper labels on spines and front boards, dust wrappers, uncut and top edges gilt, wrappers slightly faded, scattered marginal foxing, a small rough patch at the lower edge of the front cover in the second volume clearly as issued, spare labels for each volume at the rear of the books, very good copies.

Fielding and Walker. London. 1779. 2 parts in 1. 8vo.. pp. (ii), iii, (i), 86; (ii), ii, 50. Early tree calf with modern reback, occasional foxing, a very good copy. *COPAC records the Bodleian copy only of this edition. Each part has a separate title-page and pagination though the register is continuous. Other copies are preceded by Voltaire's On Toleration.

Focal Press. London. August 1947. First edition. . pp.72. Ills. Decorated wrappers, a very good copy.

No publisher. Taipei. 1954.. pp. (x), 32 rectos only, (ii). Original red boards, the front lettered in Chinese and English, some rubbing of the edges, name clipped from top corner of the title-page, else a very good copy.

Warren & Son. Winchester. 1919.. pp. viii, 184. Large folding map, numerous illustrations. Original printed red cloth, adervtisement end-papers, a very good copy.