Search Results: Authors starting with O from Loe Books

Bremen: Muller, 1877. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Stamp tot he front blank " given to A. J. Wilmott by H. G. baker Mar. 1945" [see notes below] 434 pages. Original half leather binding with marbled boards, poor with front board detached and damage to spine, requires rebacking but the boards remain good.. Contents clean and tight, some beautifully hand written notes inserted and also on the rear blank endpaper, paper toned, otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A good copy with an important provenance in need of rebinding. [Herbert Baker, author, botanist played a pivotal role in transforming reproductive biology, especially pollination biology, from a mostly descriptive endeavor to a quantitative science. He called himself an "evolutionary ecologist."] [Alfred James Wilmott (1888 - 1950) was primarily an English botanist and museum curator. His author standard form is Wilmott and his area of interest was spermatophytes].

Burnley: Burnley Express, 1939. Book. Illus. by H. Swindlehurst. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 86; map, b/w plates after photographs by H. Swindlehurst. Red cloth hardback binding very good. Contents clean and tight, bound upside-down in the casing..

Germany: Tyrolia - Verlag, 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 128 pages; b/w photographs. Original hardback binding, good with a little general wear, rubbing to extremities. Contents clean and tight, foxing to front and back free endpaper and page edges, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 398, numerous illustrations, foldout colour maps of India Spain and Portugal, portrait frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Privately bound polished calf prize binding for Malvern Collegel, gilt vignette to the front board, gilt decoration to the spine and boards, some cracking to leather on the front hinge, secure. Contents clean and tight, marbled endpapers and matching marbled fore-edges, all plates clean. A very good attractive copy..

London: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III. in Pursuance of an Address of The House of Commons of Great Britain, 1821. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (29 x 46cm). pp. [iv] + 511. Contemporary paper-covered boards (detached) with paper covering to spine chipped. Contents clean and tight, single stamp (MOD Library Services Withdrawn from Stock) otherwise contents unmarked. A good clean copy ideally in need of rebinding..

Devon: Devon Committee for Rescue Archaeology, 1979. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. 82 pages; spiral bound with card covers. A little wear to covers, contents clean. A very good copy, [DAS/DACRA PUBLICATION no. 5] A scarce publication.

Cornwall: BBNO, 2001. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 103 pages, colour & b/w illustrations photographs. Covers very good with a little general wear and slight rubbing. Contents clean and tight, ex-library book with stamps on title and dedication page. Otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. b/w frontispiece. Original dust jacket very good, with minimal wear, price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing. A fine copy. (In the Oxford English Monographs series).

Blunham: British Birds Ltd., 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp.192; colour photographic illustrations. Original dust jacket near fine, very slight fading to the spine only. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy in a near fine jaket..

London: Michael Joseph, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to. Signed by the author and enclosed signed letter. 224 pages; b/w and colour illustrations. Original dust jacket near fine, not price clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Included with the book is a typed slip from The wildlife Trust, Slimbridge from Malcolm Ogilvie to David Paull, the slip is signed in ink. [David Paull, bird illustrator and contributor to regional Bird Reports.].

London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Complete set of two. Total of 42 colour lithographic plates. Original cloth bindings, very good, a little faded on the spines. Contents clean and tight, a little toned, numerous chromolithographic plates unmarked, a few spots to the text and fore-edges, each volume has a plate belonging to Eric Hosking on the pastedown. A very good set with wonderful illustrations. [From the library of Eric Hosking, OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in… Read More

London: Alan Sutton, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed By the Authors. First Edition. 8vo. Signed by both Malcolm Ogilvie and Carol Ogilvie to the half title page. 121 pages, colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket very good, with slight rubbing to edges, not price-clipped. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good csigned opy..

London: The Practitioner, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. The Practitioner Handbooks. Dust jacket with just a little general wear and a little faded to spine, not price-clipped, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket..

Tokyo: The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, 1992. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. pp. ix, 83; 8 b/w photographic plates, errata. Card covers fine, slightly faded to the spine, date info, neatly added in manuscript to top corner of the front cover. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A very good copy of this scarce work. Text in English. Lists all species found and their locations..

Finland: University of Oulu, 1983. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. Covers very good with light general wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Tokyo: The Toyodo, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 10 double page woodblock illustrations printed in lithography, 8 english text pages, a comprehensive description of the plates. Bound accordion style, covers good with light general wear and a little creasing only. The paper covered boards are delicately decorated and to the front the title is in red ink, the spine is silk and shows a little loss and wear. Contents clean and tight, the colours remain vibrant, paper bright and unmarked, no inscriptions or annotation, matching endpapers. To the rear of the book on the pastedown is the original book advertising plate - The Toyodo, Tokyo and Mr .M. Okado Tokyo . A very good copy of this rare and stunning example of early 20th century Japanese illustrated children's books. Found on COPAC.

London: The Religious Tract Society Book. Very Good. Hardback. 12mo. No date - The British Library gives 1853. (neat inscription dated 1865) pp.viii, 104 + 4 adverts. B/w engraved frontispiece, further b/w engravings throughout text. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering, and blind stamped decoration to the boards, very good with a little general wear and slight rubbing to extremities, gilt to spine dulled. Original pale yellow end-papers, contents clean and tight. A very good tight copy of this rare little book..

Amorim, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. pp 159, colour photography throughout. Laminated boards, cork slipcase. A fine copy - virtually as new. Produced to promote the Cork industry in Portugal - a interesting monograph on both the cork oak - Quercus suber and the cork oak industry..

Cape Town: Purnell, 1967. Book. Illus. by Irma Von Below, Fay Anderson and Others. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author & Illustrator. First Edition. 4to. Collector's Edition limited to four hundred copies, this being no.273. pp. lxvi 176 pages, colour frontispiece, numerous colour plates and fold out map. Limited edition bound in green leather with gilt lettering to the spine and front panel, a little wear to corners. Contents clean and tight, plate to the reverse of the front free ednpaper with the signatures of both artists and authors, owners attractive plate to the half title, no inscriptions, no marks. A near fine, clean copy..

The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1976. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 4to. Original publication consisting of stapled typescript of 7 leaves printed to one side only. Very good, front cover marked to top edge..