Search Results: Titles starting with M from Sky Duthie Rare Books

[Leeds: Original manuscript]., [1930-1931].. Printed record book completed in ink manuscript. Quarto. Original card wrappers with printed paper title label completed in manuscript to the upper cover, indicating the owner to be Edna Brown of Wrangthorn School, Leeds. 92pp., of which 58pp. bear manuscript entries. WITH: An original watercolour design for a handkerchief case, signed in pencil by Edna Brown, alongside the finished embroidered case itself, mounted on a black paper sheet and captioned in white beneath, evidently used as an aid in teaching crafts. The condition of the book is very good indeed, the binding square and firm with just a few minor marks to the covers. The contents with some occasional light toning are otherwise in very good order. The embroidered handkerchief case and watercolour design are also in very good condition; the sheet upon which they are mounted is somewhat tatty at the edges. A detailed book of lesson plans kept by Edna Brown of Leeds during the early 1930s. Brown… Read More

[Original manuscript]; [Tewkesbury: Shuthonger House School]; London: Relfe Brothers., [1859]. Manuscript school calligraphy book belonging to Master W. Dee, a pupil of Shuthonger House School, Tewkesbury. Quarto. Contemporary half green morocco over blue marbled boards with printed name plate to the upper board. Marbling to page edges. Decorative printed title page. 85pp. completed in calligraphic manuscript in black and red ink (the remaining 29pp. blank), comprising 33 poetic and literary excerpts, with decorative titles to each piece, some incorporating drawings of quills. Condition is very good, the binding is firm with some chipping to the head of the spine and rubbing to the boards. The contents with a little cracking in places are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A beautifully-executed calligraphic commonplace book produced by a talented young English scholar, notable - and uncommon - for its inclusion of an early American patriotic poem - 'The American Eagle' by C. W.… Read More

[Original manuscript], [c.1805]. Original ink manuscript letter. 30 x 22.2cm. The paper watermarked with a French imperial eagle and the name of the papermaker "Poviata". Small ink stamp "Bibliotheca Lindesiana" to the lower-right corner, indicating that the letter was once part of the great library formed by the Lindsay family, Earls of Crawford and Balcarres. Condition is very good with a couple of minor chips to the blank lower margin, two light diagonal creases to the top-right corner, and an old linen mount to the left-hand margin where the letter was once inserted into an album. An unusual and evocative letter in which the young Dominique Joseph Robaglia, aged just sixteen and a half, from Napoleon's own birthplace of Ajaccio, Corsica, asks the emperor to admit him to the school of Artillery (presumably at the École Militaire in Paris, where Napoleon had himself trained to become an artillery officer as a young man).Addressed "Sire", the letter states: "Robaglia (Dominique Joseph) aged sixteen… Read More

London: The Pilot Press., [1942].. First edition. Original stapled paper wrappers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 48pp. A good copy of a somewhat fragile production, the binding secure with a faint vertical fold, some minor nicks to the edges, a minor chip to the bottom corner of the rear cover, and a couple of small marks to the covers. The contents with a previous owner's name to the inside of the front cover, toning to the pages (due to the wartime paper quality), a small mark to a handful of page margins, and a small crease to the bottom tip of the corner of pp.35-48, are otherwise in very good order. A detailed account of the activities of the Norwegian government and armed forces in exile during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. Published in Britain, the work includes details of the escape of Norwegians from the Nazis, and the efforts of both those remaining in the country and Norwegians now overseas to fight back against the occupying forces.An… Read More

[Original manuscript]., [c.1850-1895]. 8vo. Contemporary half roan over marbled boards, the spine ruled in gilt. 168pp. of manuscript notes in ink in several different hands, with individual entries often signed with initials, plus 45pp. of blanks. Yellow endpapers. Contemporary printed notes regarding the mixing of inks and the dispensing of medicines affixed to the front pastedown and rear endpaper respectively. The binding with some cracking to the hinges, rubbing to the boards and wear to the spine ends and corners. A working notebook, the contents, with one page loose, have various splash marks throughout as well as a little toning to page edges. An extensive apothecary's notebook spanning the second half of the nineteenth century and including detailed instructions for the preparation of a wide-range of remedies, salves, potions and solutions, including gout mixture, "harmless hair cleanser", cold creams, skin lotions, shampoos, "Mr. Philpott's Cough Balls", "hair restorer", "tincture of myrrh &… Read More

[Original photographs], [1951]. Collection of 85 original snapshot photographs documenting life in the city of Cuttack, in the state of Odisha, eastern India, taken by a British engineer on secondment. The majority measuring 8.7 x 6.2cm (with a few smaller), displayed across six thick-card pages, loosely corner-mounted both recto and verso, most with captions in ink or pencil beneath. Contained within a contemporary black cloth ring binder for the engineering firm Woods of Colchester (30 x 25.5cm). There is a minor nick to edge of a couple of photographs, otherwise they are excellent condition, remaining clean and sharp. An unusual collection of photographs providing a window into life in Cuttack, India in 1951, including images of Circuit House (headquarters of the British administration), local people, such as policemen and a coconut vendor, street scenes including rickshaws, bicycles, and wagons, a police station, cinema, jail, and the shop front of 'H. Bilimoria & Co.' (captioned "best shop in… Read More

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882.. Folio. Handsomely bound in early twentieth-century quarter vellum over oak boards in the style of Douglas Cockerell, with Celtic knot decoration in the Arts and Crafts taste tooled in blind to the vellum on the upper and lower boards. The spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Original white metal clasps to the upper board and braided vellum ties to the lower board (now defective). Tooled vellum turn-ins. All edges gilt. The pages comprising the textblock have been slightly shuffled by the binder so as to create the look of being untrimmed. The contents complete, although bound somewhat idiosyncratically, beginning with the half title, contents, list of illustrations, and lxiipp. life of John Milton and introduction, prior to the first plate and the title page, which are then followed by the text itself (329pp.). The life of Milton and the introduction are misbound within themselves as i-xx, liii-lxii, xlv-lii, xxi-xliv. Four leaves of laid… Read More