Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Eastleach Books

Hodder & Stoughton, 1960. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth spined boards, dj, VG/VG. 160pp, price clipped dustjacket a little faded to the spine, edges foxed a little. A philosophical debate on whether or not animals have a soul.

Oxford University Press, 1967. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G. xxii+481pp, endpaper maps, map frontis, 26pp b/w plates, folding map at rear, index, a near fione copy in a rubbed & creased dustjacket that is a little slack around the book. Detailed history of the Ross ICe Shelf sector in Antarctica, staging post & drop off point for many South Pole expeditions. The book starts with the voyages of Bellinghausen, Cooke & Ross, the moving in to the modern age with the expeditions of Shackelton, Amundsen & Scott.

Spring Books, nd [1965]. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G. 360pp, b/w frontis, 11 b/w illustrations, dustjacket rubbed & repaired with sellotape, a good copy. A new version of Mayhews London Labour & The London Poor with a new introduction.

Reprint Society, 1943. book club edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, G/P+. 319pp, b/w frontis, 2 b/w plates, index, dustjacket chipped & worn, pages tanned, a good reading copy. A biography of Byron from July 1811 & April 1816. This period was spent in England, Byron's fame rising after the publication of the first cantos of Childe Harold. He rapidly became the most brilliant star in the dazzling world of Regency London, but debt & rumours about his private life forced him to leave England forever in 1916.

Messidor Books, 1994. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. iv+549pp, covers bumped at the corners, internally a fine copy. Detailed biography of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade [ 1740 - 1814 ] which tries to give a balanced picture of the man who today is remembered for only one part of his life - the penning of pornographic tales which were to give rise to two new worrds in the English labguage - Sadism & Sadistic. The book alos attempts to understand what it is that drives men to fantasise & perform sexual violence upon women.

printed for J Murray, N° 32 Fleet Street & C Elliot, Ebinburgh, 1778. 1st edition.. Disbound. Disbound, VG. xl+320pp, with half title, original upper printers board present, spine lacking, the book has new hesian to the spine & a repacement rear board as if someone had started to rebind the book, 2 ink stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to the title, text block un-opened, pages uncut. A collection of eleven papers on contagious diseases of the West Indies which were written over several years & sent to Dr Donald Monro [ 1727 - 1802 ] of Scotland. Six of the letters are by Dr John Quier [ 1739 - 1822 ] and include an accounts of his experiments with small pox and the mass inoculation of slaves at the Worthy Park plantation. It has been noted of Quier's methods 'From the descriptions of some of his early treatments it seems that his patients might well have stood a better chance with no treatment at all' [ Craton : Death, Disease and Medicine on Jamaican… Read More

Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1984. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 444pp, 356 colour & 327 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy in a very slightly edge worn, but otherwise fine dustjacket. Monumental overview of the work of Max Ernst [ 1891 - 1976 ] the German painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. Ernst was involved personally in the selection of which of his many works should be included in the book.

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. viii+138pp, index, a nice fine copy. As New. An anthropological study of Dante's Divine Comedy. The book examines foundation sacrifice - the death of another that has become a parable for existence.

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. viii+138pp, index, a nice fine copy. As New. An anthropological study of Dante's Divine Comedy. The book examines foundation sacrifice - the death of another which has become a parable for existence.

Oxford University Press, 1965. reprint.. Paperback. Paperback, G. x+204pp, index, edges rubbed, a working copy. A critical biography of Jonathan Swift.

typis Couret de Villeneuve, Aurelianis [ Orléans ], 1767. editio nova. Hardback. Speckled calf, VG. [ii]+vi+231pp, gilt ruled calf, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, complete with the half title, contemporary marginalia ( ink crosses ), leather a little rubbed especially to the corners, hinges firm with a few small cracks, a nice copy. Colophon reads: Litterae, quibus impressus est hic liber, à P.S. Fournier juniore incisae sunt. A French edition of John Bond's well received annotated edition of the poems of Horace which was first published in 1606. Of Bond's Horace, John Brinsley, the author of Ludus literarius: or, The Grammar Schoole, recommended 'M. Bonde upon Horace; who hath by his paines made that difficult Poet so easie, that a very childe which hath been well entred, and hath read the former Schoole Authors in any good manner may go thorough it with facilitie, except in very few places'. John Bond [ 1550 - 1612 ] English physician and classical scholar. Read More

Joannem Murray [ John Murray ] , 1853. reprint.. Hardback. Faux vellum, G. iv+490+14pp, 304 text illustrations, water stain to the bottom ege of the text block which gets larger as the text progresses until it cover the bottom 2 inches of the page foir the last 100pp, binding rather grubby & worn, text unmarked. Prize bookplate, Binders ticket of Remnant & Edmonds to the rear pastedown. The complete works of the Roman poet Horace [ 65 BC - 8 BC ] as editied by Henry Hart Milman [ 1791 - 1868 ]. In this edition the illustrations are by George Scharf and the ornamental page borders by Owen Jones.