Search Results: Titles starting with M from Loe Books

London: Longman, Hurt, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Harrow school prize binding. pp xii 361, the crest of Harrow School in gilt within the spine compartments. Pp.445. Contemporary full polished blue calf prize binding by Crossley & Clarke, Harrow, with extensive gilt decoration to the spine, red spine label, gilt tooling to leather edges. All edges marbled to match end papers. Binding very good with a little rubbing to edges and joints. Contents clean and tight, very little foxing to the first and last free papers only, no inscriptions or annotation. A very handsome prize binding..

United Kingdom, 1978. Painting. Illus. by Mildred Elsie Eldridge. Near Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. 175mm x 230mm. Original watercolour and pencil, detailed study of a Treecreeper. The image measures approximately 175mm x 230mm (Landscape) plus a very good gilt frame, an acid free mount with ruled lines giving a total dimension of 360mm x 415mm. The work is in near fine condition, paper a little worn, fine crease line to the top edge, colours remain vibrant, no toning or spotting. An example of Eldridge's superb work. [Mildred Elsie Eldridge (1909-1991) Mildred Eldridge was a British artist, mural painter and book illustrator. born in Wimbledon in London. She attended Wimbledon School of Art before studying at the Royal College of Art where she was taught by William Rothenstein and Eric Ravilious. She later studied in Rome and on return to England in 1936 she worked, along with Evelyn Dunbar, Charles Mahoney and others, on a large scale set of murals based on Aesop's… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo (approx. 14 x 22cm). b/w illustrations by elisa Trimby; introduction by Owen Dudley Edwards. Slip-case fine, minimal rubbing. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions, pages crisp - appears unopened. A fine copy in a fine slip-case..

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 349 pages, frontispiece plate from a painting by Hutchinson showing the .303 inch Vickers machine gun, b/w photographic illustrations throuhgout. Original dust, very scarce to find in good condition such as this one, some strengthening and repair from the reverse, some general dust staining, lightly chipped to head/tail of the spine repaired, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good, cloth faded on the spine. Contents clean and tight, original end-papers unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy with a scarce dust jacket..

London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. 512 pages, engraved title page. Publisher's red cloth blind decorated to the boards and gilt decorated to the spine, very good with a little light rubbing and a little wear to edges, gilt to spine slightly dulled. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy..

Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (30 x 25 cm). The English edition translated by Dr. K. Jordan. Two volumes, complete text & plates. Pp. 479,+ 56 chromolithographed plates. The standard of printing of the plates is outstanding. Bound in contemporary half black morocco leather with cloth-coverd boards, good and strong with a little general wear, corners a little bumped. Contents clean and tight, end papers lightly marked. A very good set of volume 2 covering the Bombyces and the hawkmoths. [Bibliographic note: This work is renowned for its outstanding colour plates, some of which required printing from up to 14 different colour blocks (including metallic inks), resulting in a quality of colour printing so excellent that it has remained unsurpassed. But this meticulous chromolithographic printing was incredibly expensive and labour intensive. The project was hugely ambitious - to cover every known species of the World's Macrolepidoptera, but… Read More

Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann, 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (32 x 25 cm). Preface dated 1909. The English edition translated by Dr. K. Jordan. Bound in one volume pp. [8], 379, [5] + 89 fine chomolithographed plates. Bound in contemporary (publisher's?) half black leather with black textured cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine. A little general wear and some rubbing to extremities and joints, professional and inconspicuous repair to head and tail of joints. Contents clean and tight, original grey paper endpapers, paper and plates toned as usual, a little offsetting to one or two plates, very short nicks to the lower margins of pages 229-234. Overall a very good copy of sought after vol. I, tome I, which covers European butterflies. [Bibliographic note: This work, which was published in three language editions, German, English, & French is renowned for its outstanding colour plates, some of which required printing from up to 14 different colour blocks… Read More

Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (32 x 25 cm). The English edition. Bound in two volumes; vol. I: pp. (text) [4], iii, 511, [1]; vol. II: [4] + 75 very fine chomolithographed plates. Bound in half leather and cloth covered boards, gilt lettering, good and strong with some light general wear and rubbing to corners and edges. Contents clean and tight, a little foxing to the front free papers. Plates are clean with ruled paper bound in between each plate. A very good copy of vol. 3. [Bibliographic note: This work, which was published in three language editions, German, English, & French is renowned for its outstanding colour plates, some of which required printing from up to 14 different colour blocks (including metallic inks), resulting in quality of colour printing so excellent that it has remained unsurpassed. But this meticulous chromolithographic printing was incredibly expensive and labour intensive. The project was hugely ambitious - to… Read More

Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann, 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (32 x 25 cm). The English edition translated by Dr. K. Jordan. Bound in two volumes pp. 379 text and 89 fine chomolithographed plates. Bound in contemporary half leather with green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine. A little general wear and some rubbing to extremities and joints, professional repair to the joints of the text volume. Contents clean and tight, endpapers marked from tape residue, paper and plates a little toned as usual, a little offsetting to one or two plates, a little wear to page edges but no loss or significant tears. Overall a very good copy of sought after vol. I, which covers European butterflies. [Bibliographic note: This work, which was published in three language editions, German, English, & French is renowned for its outstanding colour plates, some of which required printing from up to 14 different colour blocks (including metallic inks), resulting in quality of colour… Read More

London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Book. Illus. by 'MMR'. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo (9.5 x 12cm). No date, but neat inscription to front end paper dated 1910. A charming and scarce children's book in very good condition. Unpaginated, 12 colour plates, original pictorial end-papers. Original beige paper-covered boards with colour on-lay to the front board, gilt and black title lettering; binding very good with minimal wear. Contents very good and clean. A very good copy..

London: T. C. & E. C. Jack Book. Illus. by E. m. Steedman. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. A very good copy with the scarce dust jacket. No date but Copac cgives 1917. 184 pages; iIllustrated with 8 tipped-in colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Original dust jacket with colour paste-on to the front panel; good, with some general wear and rubbing to edges, chipped to head/tail of the spine with some loss, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good and bright having been protected by the dust jacket, small rub to base of front joint. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, plates all in very good condition. A very good copy with a good dust jacket. The illustrations by E. M. Steedman are excellent and redolent of the period..

North Eastern Univesity Press, 1998. Book. As New. Hardback. 1st. 374pp, index, b/w illus..

Pergamon Press, 1968. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust jacket with some general wear, some chipping to top/tail of spine, some fading to spine, not price-clipped, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents good, front free endpaper missing, old sellotape marks to paste-downs. Stamp of Bristol Grammar School to rear of title page. A good copy in a good dust jacket..

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 306 + publisher's adverts, with twenty-four plates (b/w) and endpaper maps. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering, slight wear only, bright and fresh, no browning to spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy of this book that describes travels through Libya..

Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (17 x 25cm). 476 pages, errata. Original dust jacket, with a little general wear and a little rubbing to edges, slightly scuffed to the head/tail of the spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good, slightly bowed. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no annotation, no foxing. A very good clean copy. Very scarce..

Painting. Fine. Framed. John Cyril Harrison (1898-1985) A monumental watercolour of a Verreaux's Eagle with outstretched wings on a rocky outcrop with the Dragensburg mountains stretching away into the distance. This was certainly a painting that pleased Harrison as, at some point, in the 1960s it hung on his studio wall (see attached image). Signed lower right. Very large, the painting measuring 940 x 610 mm (37" x 24"). Gilt frame with double acid-free mount, overall dimension1,160 x 810mm. Condition is excellent, very light wear to the frame. Harrison, later in his career spent much time in Africa particularly focusing on the birds of prey. An undoubted favourite species was Verreaux's Eagle of the Dragensburg Mountains. (Also known in Southern Africa as the Black Eagle, though this name usually refers to another unrelated species from south and southeast Asian.) We are aware of at least six other paintings featuring Verreaux's Eagle, two of which are very closely… Read More

United Kingdom, 1840. Book. Very Good. Leather. Original. 24 x 29.5 Cm. A collection of 43 very fine, early/mid 19th century, comparatively large (approximately 285 x 235 mm), original watercolour studies of different species of South African Ericas, each autographed with the species name. Housed in a red straight-grained morocco case with closing flap and the words "In Memoriam Madre Mia" (in memory of my mother). While there is no reference to the originator of these studies, they are executed in a style close to that used by Henry C. Andrews for his Monograph on the Genus Erica (1804-1812). The present watercolours do not correspond directly to those but the composition is similiar and it is possible they were executed by Andrews in connection with the publication. Notwithstanding, they are highly accomplished, reminiscent of the best botanical artists of the day. They are painted onto fine-textured card; this card for a number of paintings is blind embossed to the corners… Read More

1998. Painting. Illus. by Ann Smith. Very Good. Framed. A fine, framed and glazed, original botanical watercolour painting of Magnolia grandiflora, 490 x 345 mm [frame 700 x 560 mm] with a double, white, acid-free, conservation mount, and clean-lined solid hardwood frame with a 'limed' finish. By the late botanical artist Ann Smith, signed and dated 1998. The frame is very slightly marked, otherwise in very good condition, ready to hang. [Artist's biography: Ann Smith was a goldsmith by trade, a highly skilled artisan working out of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, but with a passion for botanical illustration. She was a member of various botanical art societies; she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Botanical Art exhibitions held in The Lindley Hall, London; for the 2004 exhibition she prepared a mixed collection of botanical works including studies of Romneya coulteri and Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere', in a later exhibition she presented a themed… Read More

London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. X and 222 pages. Original green cloth binding very good with light general wear only, gilt bright. Contents good and tight, inscriptions of Syon Abbey, Devon to the front end paper, a little spotting mostly to page edges, end papers tanned. A very good copy. Very scarce - Copac records just one library holding a copy..

London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1888. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. [viii], 216; original end-papers. Original paper-covered boards printed in red cloth, good with some general wear and rubbing to extremities, paper covering to spine chipped at head/tail of the spine and the joints. Contents clean and tight, previous owner's signature dated August 1888. A good copy of what was always a fragile binding..