Search Results: Titles starting with S from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

New York: John S Taylor, 1851. Book. Good. Cloth. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original embossed green cloth, few stains, slight edgewear & slight spine fade. Victorian sentimentality by Headley about the Holy Lands. Must have sold well, as new editions until 1867. First was 1847. Illustrated by 6 excellent steel engravings. second edition. Protected in a clear, mylar dustjacket..

NY The Free Press, Macmillan 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 Vo. Two middle east academics get to the bottom of Saddam, the butcher. Fine binding, fine dustjacket and as new inside..

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: The Free Press, Macmillan , 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy, very clean and tight inside. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Two middle east academics get to the bottom of Saddam, the butcher..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A thought provoking study of third world economic nationalism. Recommended with increasing focus on climate change. A fine, unread copy. No prior owner marks. .

London: Richard Bentley, 1854. Book. Illus. by Tinted Map, 6 Tinted Lithographs, 67 Wood Engravings Vol One; 6 More Lithographs & 35 Woodcuts in Vol Two. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Subtitled, "During a Residence of Upwards of Twenty Years, Pepresenting Sporting Incidents, and Subjects of Natural History, and Devices for Entrapping Wild Animals". Contemporary green calf with gilt lines along the board borders, raised bands on the spines with elaborately decorated panels in gilt and maroon title labels, red volume labels with gilt still bright. This is a fine, signed binding by Bickers & Son. Marbled page edges and matching marbled endpapers. Pages xxi, 512 and xi, 527. This is a very complete account of trapping and hunting in the area north of Goteborg around Bohus. Inside, very clean and tight with slight foxing on the back of some plates, and on the preliminary pages after the endpapers. A beautiful set on nature… Read More

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Book. Illus. by 9 tables, 36 illustrations including folding maps. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This volume lays out the plan for this epic (now 27 volumes) study of China. It includes a geographic introduction, an historical introduction and the travel of ideas and techniques between China and Europe over the centuries. Fine black cloth with illustrated boards and bright gilt (as new) title on the spine. No edgewear. Hiinges tight inside and out. Very clean pages with no foxing or browning. no prior owner marks. Dustjacket has minor edgewear and is protected by a clear, mylar sleeve. .

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1962. Book. Illus. by 360 illustrations and 6 tables. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The fourth volume in this epic (now 27 volumes) study of China. This volume, part 1, is entirely devoted to physics. Near fine black cloth with illustrated boards and bright gilt (as new) title on the spine. Only a hint of edgewear. Hinges tight inside and out. Very clean pages with no foxing or browning. no prior owner marks. Dustjacket has minor edge wear and is protected by a clear, mylar sleeve. .

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Book. Illus. by 41 illustrations & 13 tables. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Volume Five in the epic (now 27 volumes) study of China. This volume,Volume 5, part 2 discusses alchemy, gold and chemistry. Near fine black cloth with illustrated boards and bright gilt (as new) title on the spine. No edgewear. Hinges tight inside and out. Very clean pages with no foxing or browning. no prior owner marks. Dustjacket has minor edge wear and is protected by a clear, mylar sleeve. .

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Book. Illus. by 258 illustrations , 8 tables and 3 maps. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Volume Five in the epic (now 27 volumes) study of China. This volume,Volume 5, part 9 covers China's important contribution to textiles. Near fine black cloth with illustrated boards and bright gilt (as new) title on the spine. No edgewear. Hinges tight inside and out. Very clean pages with no foxing or browning. no prior owner marks. Dustjacket has minor edge wear and is protected by a clear, mylar sleeve. .

Muscat: Journal of Oman Studies, 1988. Book. Illus. by photos, some color, and charts. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine copy of a rare and thorough study of the archaeology and history of portions of Oman. Special Report No. 3. Original cloth with no edge wear, as new inside. No prior owner marks. Some fading on the dust jacket, but no tears. University of Durham was heavily involved in this thorough study of earth sciences. A large, heavy book may require extra postage. .

New York: Praeger, 1958. Book. Illus. by 405 Photos By Eliot Elisofon. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Preface by Dr Ralph Linton who was a professor of anthropology at Yale Univ. Fagg was the preeminent expert on African sculpture in the 1950s and 1960s, and this is a classic combination of fine photography with the Fagg knowledge. Dustjacket is a bit soiled but no tears. Inside, very clean and tight. A large, heavy book that may require extra postage..

New York : MacMillan, 1965. Book. Illus. by fine photos, a few in color, by Amdre <artom. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. Oblong 4 to. Original near fine terra cotta cloth with a bright gilt title on the spine. Dustjacket has one tiny tearat a bottom coerner, otherwise near fine and NOT price clipped. Wonderful photos of an important mosque in the desert of Tunisia. Text translated from the French by Richard Howard. .

Peiping, China: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1936. Book. Illus. by 175 illustrations. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Limited edition of 200 copies, bound in string tied Chinese style with blue paper covers , all fine in three volumes. Inside no foxing or stains or prior owner marks. Preserved in the original blue cloth slipcase with bone clasps. Title label in Chinese is paper, glued on to the blue cloth. Slipcase cloth is faded at both ends, but no edge wear. The title label is repeated on the outside cover of volume one., and an English title label is pasted to the inside cover of that volume. 168 images of Shang and Zhou bronzes, 7 images of Qin and Han bronzes, all in black and white. The author was a famous archaeologist and paleographer. A s,a;; fp;op soze. 13 inches tall, by 9, and 2 inches thick. Price includes free postage. .

London: Arrowsmith ., 1924. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The binding is very good with spine faded. Gilt mosque on front. However, very tight & clean inside, with no foxing or browning . Pages 307 with index. The author was a noted nature photographer and he illustrated the book with 60 pp pages of old photos. first edition..

London: Saqi, 1990. Book. Illus. by 2 Maps & 39 Vintage Photos. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine copy of a Shi'a Pilgrimage to Arabia by a well-educated Iranian. Beautiful photos, and an insightful text. Pages xxxii, 380 with index. As new copy..

London and Paris: Fisher, Son & Co., 1839. Book. Illus. by map at end of volume 2, 64 full page plates and an engraved title. Fine. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New binding of brown morocco spines and corners, with hand marbled boards, matching endpapers AND matching page edges. Raised bands and bright gilt titles on the spines. A beautiful gift set that looks like it was just puolished. Each plate has its tissue guard. Surprisingly, no foxing, no browning, no stains, no prior owner marks. Each plate, from Gibralter to Sicily and Italy and Greece and Tunisia to Rhodes , has a 3 or 4 page essay by the impressive Rev. Wright. No date, but known to have been published in 1829 -`840. Most copies seem to have a plate or two missing. .

Edinburgh: Birlinn, Ltd., 2016. Book. Illus. by maps and illustrations. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A beautiful copy with no wear, no prior owner marks, no flaws inside or out. With a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Burnes was a remarkable young man, thrust into leadership by his linguistic and other talents, but buffeted by rivalries in the British Empire, and poor policy. The author was a diplomat, now academic, who knows of such buffeting and is the better writer and researcher for it. That research included much time in the archives of the East India Co. in India. Enclosed in this copy is a review by Hayden Peake in CIA's Studies in Intelligence..

Iowa City : Iowa Historical Society , 1948. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8 Vo. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket that has chips at the corners and head of the spine. First edition was 1839 by which early time Plumbe had lived in frontier Iowa all of 3 years. Introduction by Wm Petersen. Illustrated by frontspiece and a nice folding map of early Iowa. 2nd edition..

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Grossman's first novel, of falsehood and fantasy in Israel. Very well received. Stated first U.S. edition. Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket that is NOT price clipped. No stains or prior owner marks. Included in this copy is a NY Times article from 8 February 1996 about Grossman and his writings. .

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, 1969. Book. Illus. by map and photos, drawings. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Numbrt 236 of 250 copies of this limited edition, in pale blue cloth with Title and a skeleton of a cow's head on the front. As new inside, clean and tight with a photo of the former military officer/author. A concise and robust history of the expansion to the West, often via the Snake River to the Columbia and the Pacific. .