The Dramatic Universe. Volume One. The Foundations of Natural Philosophy
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 1997 (first thus) / 1956. More
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 1997 (first thus) / 1956. More
London, Turnstone Books, 1973. Plus several plates from photographs. More
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 1989 (reprint)/ 1973. "... a book that dares to disturb complacency and arouse a practical concern for the future of our planet ..." (rear cover). More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. More
Paris, Leon Willem, 1870 ('nouvelle edition')/ [circa 1616]. Printed for subscribers only, this copy comes from the issue on fine laid China paper. 'Cet ouvrage, imprimé à petit nombre aux frais & pour le compte des Souscripteurs n'a pas été mis en vente. MM. les Libraires-Souscripteurs sont prévenus qu'il leur..... More
Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1959. With the contemporary ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin, and his very occasional emphases. More
London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John..... More
Tolz, Bremer Presse, 1920. Number 215 of 270 copies printed by Johannes Hoops, based on the first complete edition of 1625. This may be a secondary binding; it is certainly not up to the standard of the quality of the paper or the presswork. More
London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757 [first edition]. The first edition of this popular satire against the 'vain, luxurious and selfish effeminacy of England's higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years' War' (ODNB). This..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1929. The Rede Lecture, 1929, delivered by novelist and MP John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. More
London, Allen and Unwin, 1967. More
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1985 [first edition thus]. Mounted on the flyleaf is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 332) and the original subscriber's name. Classics of Medicine Library. More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882 (sixteenth edition). More
London, The University of Chicago Press, 1958 (second impression)/ 1956. More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987. Inscribed, dated (2 June 1987) and signed by joint author John Finnis. There is a publisher's printed and handwritten card to the recipient loosely inserted. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 2005. With over 365 full-page colour plates. More
Not having time to offer a full critique of a manuscript Vogel has sent him, Gorki writes that he will limit himself to a brief sketch of his own conception of religion, which is entirely contrary to Vogel's. 'La religion surgit de la sensation de la liaison entre l'homme et..... More
Cleveland, Ohio University Press, 1968/ 1967. More
Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Apud Danielem Elsevirium [Elzevir], 1678. A scarce offprint from the 1679 Elzevir edition of Livy's 'History of Rome' (the second and third volumes bearing the date 1678, as here; not to be confused with the 1678 edition in one volume). With an early printed ownership label of 'M..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. More
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 (second edition)/ 1995. More
London, Macmillan and Co., 1892. More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1939. With the ownership signature of Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated 1940. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson'. The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to..... More
London, Macmillan and Co., 1887 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1884. 'This edition has been carefully revised, and numerous sections have been almost entirely rewritten [and] an index has been added'. More
Ann Arbor, Printed by Edwards Brothers Malloy for Xlibris, 2017. The 'satirical tale of artist Hephzibah Brown, who is persuaded by Cedric, the Imp of Perversity, to follow him to the recently independent Ghana, following with the temptation that they will compose a tourist book for him to write and..... More