Search Results: Heraldry from Minotavros Books

Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Printed originally for presentation only and now enlarged. Orig. brown cloth. v, 223 pp. Spine ends bumped, chafing to extremities, spine tilted. Light soiling to turn-ins. Age toning to text block. Ink inscription to ffep. Inner hinge cracked at p. 137.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo (royal). Red cloth boards with black and gilt emblem of a griffin on front board. Title in black and gilt on spine. 58 p.p., [2]. Colour frontispiece of famous tapestry, The Unicorn in Captivity. Illustrated with photographs and images of representations of animals in medieval manuscripts, artwork, and architecture. Ex libris stamp of Marian Bradshaw embossed on half-title. Some scuffing to boards. Spine lightly sunned. Interior clean.

London: G. And W.B. Whittaker, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. In Two Volumes. Halfbound brown calf over marbled boards. Title and volume no. on red and black leather spine labels. Spine decorated in gilt. Vol. I: xxii, 334 p.p.; Vol. II: 372 p.p. Edward Nares [1762-1841] was an English historian and author. He was a professor of modern history at Merton College, Oxford. In Heraldric Anomalies, Nares discusses various titles of honour and nobility, lords and ladies, esquires and gentleman, and others. Light wear to boards and outer edges. Small stain to top-edge of first volume. Ownership signature in both volumes on front fly-leaf and front free endpaper. Pages and endpapers lightly foxed. Some sporadic smudges. Otherwise interior clean. A bright copy. Near fine.

Delft: Andries Voorstad, 1713. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 18mo. 18mo.Full vellum. Title written on spine. [14], 266p.p., [4] leaves of plates [1 folding] including frontis. Bumped edges, boards slightly warped, some soiling to spine partially affecting the title. Some yellow staining to pages, with pen markings on verso of front free endpaper and fly leaf. Otherwise in good condition. Cornelis van Alkemade was a historian and antiquities collector. He studied law at the University of Leiden, and became a notary in 1680. He contributed works on the history of Rotterdam. Translated from the title, this book is an "introduction to the ceremonial and the ceremonies of burial and heraldry.

London: Printed for B. Crosby, 1808. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Late Correspondance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer With the Bank, and a List of the Statutes...Tan cloth boards. viii, 172 p.p. Includes frontispiece of Abraham Newland. Bruising to bottom corners and light wear to tips. Previous tape-marker to spine tail and front and rear board. Remains of sticker label on front board Light rubbing at edges. Institute of Bankers Regulations of Library pasted on the front pastedown endpaper [banking I written in red ink]. Front upper hinge starting. Light foxing. Some roughly cut edges. Otherwise a very good copy. Abraham Newland [1730-1807] was the Bank of England's principal cashier in 1782, a post he held until 1807.

London: George Redway, 1889. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (small). Full red cloth. Floral patterned endpapers. viii, 250 pp., [50 pp. ads]. With 124 illustrations from designs by the author. Light rubbing to front joint, spine ends and corners. Crack to inner hinge at p. v.