Search Results: Titles starting with N from Voewood Rare Books

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd 1953, 1953. Two bound volumes. Volume 171 (January 3 1953 to June 27 1953) and Volume 172 (July 4 1953 to December 22 1953). Bound in maroon (vol. 171) and brick-red (vol. 172) cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Worthing Public Library and title page of volume 172 (and verso of volume 171) has a small round Worthing Public Library stamp. The papers are as follows: 1. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, by J.D.Watson and F.H.C. Crick. Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp737-738. 2. Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids, by M.H.F. Wilkins, A.R.Stokes and H.R.Wilson Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp738-740. 3. Molecular configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate by Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G.Gosling. Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp740-741. 4. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid by… Read More

London: Printed for J Jenkins by L Harrison n.d. [1828]. First edition. 387x290mm. viii, [2bl]. Unpaginated, signatures erratic as usual. Dedication to the Earl of St Vincent. Fifty-five hand coloured aquatint plates and one uncoloured plate containing two etchings showing battle plans for the Bombardment of Algiers an the Battle of Trafalgar. The original paintings were done by Thomas Whitcombe (c1760-1824) who was one of the finest marine painters of the time. The hand-coloured plates were done by Sutherland, Bailey and Jeakes and are of the highest quality and are in superb condition in this copy. The paper is watermarked 1827 which provides a clue as to the date of this copy. All the tissue guards are present. The title page vignette of Britannia standing on the English shore while Neptune, kneeling before her, invites her to conquer the broad oceans has been hand coloured. The text describes the battles or other scenes (mainly the capture of French or Spanish ships) in the prints and, in some… Read More

London: Printed by E. Owen 1750, 1750. First edition. 4to. 264x205mm. pp. [viii], 191 [1bl]. Engraved title page within an attractive rococo border and engraved illustrations on the left margin of each page and three engravings in the text. Contemporary calf, upper and lower covers with gilt dog-tooth border and gilt fleurons at the corners. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt although somewhat rubbed and faded. Tan morocco label lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed and a small scuffed patch on the lower cover. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. Internally very good. Overall a very nice copy of the first illustrated maritime dictionary in English. The illustrations are in particularly good condition and give a charming pictorial addition to the definitions of almost every aspect of boats and sailing from anchors to wrain staves. Thomas Blanckley (1717-1753) was the Clerk of the Survey at Portsmouth Dockyard and Commissioner of the Victualling Office. In… Read More

Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald 1865, 1865. First edition. 8vo (212x133mm). pp. [iv], 96. Marbled paper over boards, backed with brown cloth. Remains of handwritten title label to head of the spine. Some wear to outer edges and corners but otherwise very good. Contents are very good but with light damp-staining to the lower third of the first thirty two pages. Browning to the title page and the last leaf but otherwise this is a clean tight copy. Ownership stamp on the title page of Dr med. R. Kobert, pract. Arzt. This is quite probably Rudolf Kobert (1854-1918), a pharmacologist and toxicologist who began his career working as an assistant to the physiologist Friedrich Goltz who, like Setschenow and Paschutin carried out experiments on the brains of animals. A nice copy of this important text with an interesting association. The title translates as "New experiments on the brain and spinal cord of the frog" and follows the publication in 1863 of "Physiological studies on the inhibition… Read More

n.p. [S. Gribelin] 1704. First edition. Oblong 4to. 260x193mm. 12 leaves (including engraved pictorial title page), printed on recto only. Some foxing, mainly to the margins but otherwise a very good copy of this rare work by one of the most important and influential engravers of the early 18th century. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, spine lettered in gilt, rubbing and wear to extremities. Bound with and after A New Book of Cyphers; More Compleat and Regular than Any yet Extant Wherein the Whole Alphabet (twice over) Consisting of 600 Cypher, Is Variously Changed, Inter-Woven, and Reversed...Composed By Colonel Parsons. London: Printed for the Author and sold by W. Rogers and H. Rhodes; E. Harris; T. Newborough; and B. Barker, 1704. Oblong 4to, ll. [iv], 50, [2]. A mounted engraved portrait of Parsons (89x61mm) is loosely inserted. Frontispiece has a repaired tear and there is some marginal foxing (heavier on the preliminary leaves) but overall in very good condition. Front free endpaper has… Read More

New York: Random House 1967, 1967. New edition. 8vo. pp. xxxiv, 139. Includes a Preface and an Introduction by Carvel Collins. An entirely reset new edition which has been corrected in the light of new evidence and which contains an additional Faulkner essay on Sherwood Anderson. Original black cloth, gilt lettered on spine and upper cover. Small blob of glue on spine. Original olive green dust-jacket lettered in yellow and light green, very slight wear at head of spine and upper corners; a very good copy.

Rhemes: John Fogny 1582, 1582. The editio princeps of the translation of the New Testament made in accordance with Roman Catholic doctrine. Quarto. 227x165mm. pp. [28], 745, [27]. Handsome modern panelled speckled calf, decorated in blind, spine with raised bands, brown morocco label in second compartment, lettered and decorated in gilt. Title page has been remargined and the next two preliminary and the final three leaves repaired. Very small marginal worm track at the gutter between Yiii and Ddii, otherwise internally very good. Woodcut vignettes and historiated initials throughout. Some (illegible) contemporary manuscript annotations on the final two leaves. p378 has a hand-drawn Patriarchal Cross (Cross of Lorraine) in the margin next to the paragraph defining the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning good works. An excellent copy of a theologically important translation with combative doctrinal notes and commentaries marking a significant English contribution to the Counter-Reformation.… Read More

New York Undated (c. late 1990s, early 2000s), 2000. Spraypaint, acrylic and marker pen and stencil on an original New York subway map. Signed by Seen in black felt pen and numbered 142/500. Although numbered as a print, these NYC Subway Maps with added graffiti are original works as each has a different graffiti style. Image measures 810x570mm and the frame is 890x640mm. The map is a folding plan showing all the subways, buses, railroad and ferry links in NYC. It has been unfolded and is laid flat on a white card and framed. In excellent condition. In the 1970s, SEEN organised a crew for the sole purpose of getting his name in the New York subway system. The crew was titled U.A. (UNITED ARTISTS) also known as the UA boys. While other crews recruited as many as possible, the UNITED ARTISTS intentionally kept their number low. There were a total of 5 members SEEN, MAD, PJAY, DUSTER and SIN. Seen is frequently referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti and although he did not invent graffiti art, he… Read More

n.p. n.d. [c1780], 1780. A manuscript poem on one side of a single leaf. Five verses of four lines each written in a neat italic hand. It has been folded in three for posting (there is the mark of a seal and, on the verso, the name of the addressee, Chas Blatchley Esq, Bury. A strip has been torn on the left edge no doubt when the letter was opened but there is no loss of text. Otherwise it is in very good condition with nice clear text. This poem by Sir Wilful Wiseacre is in praise of the recently invented Water Closet. The first patent for a flushing lavatory was given in 1775 to the Scottish watchmaker Alexander Cummings. In jaunty, amusing, mildly risqué verse, Wiseacre makes plain the advantages of this important invention: "No more her L[ad]y[shi]p shall go Trembling her Secrets to deposite Through Heat or Cold through Frost or Snow When shelter'd by our Water Closet".

London: Country Life. Arts et Metiers, Paris; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1938, 1938. First edition. 250 by 190mm. [iv], 64pp black and white photographs. Illustrated card cover. Small crease to bottom right corner, small split to joint at foot of spine and front cover, bumping to head of spine and corners, some marking to white lower cover but overall the condition is very good considering its age and fragility. Internally very good. The introduction by James Bone is in English and the captions are in English and French. This English edition is scarce. Brandt's second book, A Night in London, was published in London and Paris in 1938. It was based on Paris de Nuit (1936) by Brassaï, whom Brandt greatly admired. The book tells the story of a London night, moving between different social classes and making use as with The English at Home of Brandt's family and friends. This is a very good copy of a ground-breaking collection of superb photographs. 'I photographed pubs, common lodging… Read More

Paris: Les Libraires Entre Les Lignes 2000, 2000. Limited edition. No. 20 of 80 numbered copies initialled by Bourgeade. The total print is 107 all printed on Velin BFK rives 210g. 240x164mm. pp48. 17 colour photographs tipped in. On the opposite page is a short poem or aperçu by Bourgeade. Original white card cover lettered in black and red. Original glassine wrapper. Some chipping to the glassine wrapper but the cover and contents are in excellent condition. A fine copy. "No Love" is a challenging work - violent, bloody, sexual, unarousing, pretentious, French. "Où finit l'érotisme, où comment l'obscénité ? Cela dépend, peut-être de celui qui regarde, autant, sinon plus, que de celui qui agit".

London: Gulielmi Jaggard [William Jaggard] 1608. First edition. Folio in 4s. 333x222mm. pp. [8], 110, [2], 111-126, [2], 117 (i.e.127), 130-154, 156-166 (i.e. 155-156), 157-182, [2], 187-186 (i.e.183-4), 187-190. Collates complete notwithstanding the eccentric pagination. Three full page engravings and six further engravings, showing the ceremonial dress of the nobility as well as one image of Queen Elizabeth on the throne and another of her presiding over Parliament. Final leaf loosely inserted and also loosely inserted is a list of thirteen books on English heraldry with their prices. Although undated, no book on this list is later than 1679 and it would seem to date from the late seventeenth, or very early eighteenth century. Bound in contemporary vellum, double gilt fillet on upper and lower cover. Gilt coat of arms of Paul Pétau in centre of both covers, spine with six raised bands, compartments tooled with gilt monogram "AEP". Second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Corners… Read More

Chicago: Michael J. Lotus and Vincent L. Michael 1989, 1989. 278x218mm. pp. 52 with illustrated paper covers. Stapled at spine. Literary and art magazine with a collection of pieces on themes of dark, wintry, melancholia.

London: Printed for Edmund Casson. 1623. Second edition in English. 4to. 175x130mm. Unpaginated. [118pp., lacking final blank P4]. Bound with a frontispiece engraved map of Norwich taken from Hermannides's Britannia Magna. Although the second edition of Norfolke Furies, this is the first appearance of the Description of Norwich (L1-4) which is the first published history of Norwich in English. Nineteenth-century tan calf with a decorated border in blind and gilt decoration to spine. Two morocco labels to spine, lettered in gilt. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Charles Barclay, for whom the book was probably bound. A pencil note on a blank preliminary records that this copy was bought at the George Nassau sale in 1824 for £2 15s. Corners worn and and some slight fading and rubbing to spine. Some foxing and browning. The four leaves of gathering M have been cropped with the loss of a few words but otherwise this is a very nice copy of a rare book with a good Norfolk provenance. JISC… Read More

London: Archibald Constable and Co 1819, 1819. First edition. 12mo. 190x110mm. pp. viii, 170. Uncut in the original boards. Rubbing and some wear to extremities and boards are loose (but holding). Some foxing but otherwise in very good condition. Joseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Fry were brother and sister, scions of the great Gurney banking family. Elizabeth was already a noted campaigner for prison reform when she joined Joseph on a tour of prisons in Scotland and the North of England. This book is their report. It was presented to Parliament where it made an impact on Robert Peel who, as Home Secretary between 1822 and 1827, introduced the Gaols Act which led to payment for prison officers, education for prisoners, putting female warders in charge of female prisoners and the prohibition of the use of irons and manacles.

Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo 1971, 1971. First edition. Portfolio of ten gravure prints, eight in black and white and two in colour. 592x420mm. The prints are in a large white envelope together with a separate title page on the verso of which are notes and details about the photographs (text in Japanese). They are protected inside the envelope by a heavy sheet of cardboard. This is all placed in a black card folder with an illustrated label covering part of the upper cover, spine and lower cover. The photographs are in excellent condition although there are some marks on the rear of the prints but these do not affect the images in any way. The white envelope has some fading and sunning and there is a little marking and spotting to the black portfolio case. Overall this is in very good condition - an excellent example of the complete set of these striking images many of which are from Shinoyama's 1970 book "Nudes". These place the nude human form in the expansive landscape of Death Valley to create a… Read More

London: Sands & Co. n.d. [1893], 1893. First edition? 8vo. pp. iv, 92. Folding illustrated alphabet and further illustrations in the text, decorative initials. Verse written by Lady Strachey, 1840-1928, the wife of Richard Strachey and the mother of Lytton. Original light blue pictorial cloth. A very good copy in original glassene wrapper, darkened and torn with slight loss.

Paris Les Editions Prisma 1961, 1961. small 8vo, unpaginated, illustrated throughout w/B&W photographs, introduction by Robert Guillain. VG in ivory card and illustrated card wraps. A collection of artfully shot Japanese nude studies.