Search Results: Titles starting with P from Forest Books

Londini: Typis M. Clarke, Impensis Richardi Green, Bibliopolæ Cantabrigiensis, 1683. 8vo (150 x 90 mm), [10], 305, [5]pp., with additional engraved title signed "Mathematica. Edward : Story", printed title, 20 engraved plates, contemporary calf, joints starting, morocco label, a very good copy. Pierre Gautruche (Gaultruche, Galtruche) was born in Orleans in 1602, he entered the society of Jesuits and stayed there for 57 years. Successively he professes the humanities, philosophy, theology, mathematics in which he made remarkable progress for his time. Provenance: Ownership inscription on front fly-leaf "Sum ex libris Hugonis Foulks e Coll: Jesu Commensalis 1691." Wing, G383.

Oxford University Press. 1965. Second Edition, 692pp., ex-library, orig. cloth. This revised and greatly enlarged edition includes, classified by island group and by subject, the most important of the many writings on the people of the Pacific Islands, including New Zealand.

Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa. 1982. 137-[141]pp., one of 500 copies, orig. cloth, printed paper label on spine.

Oxford: A. Rosenthal Ltd., [c. 1961.]. Orig. printed wrappers, 1,067 items.

Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1969. First edition, 360pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. This book provides the first full guide to the pamphlet attacks on Pope during his lifetime. In addition to a brief bibliographical description of each item, there is complete summary of each pamphlet.

New York: Published by The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1938. 8vo, 8pp., of introduction followed by 35pp., of facsimile, orig. cloth, a nice copy.

Printed for S. Popping: J. Harrison; A. Dodd; M. Baldwin, 1716. First Edition, no half-title, [16], 93, [1]pp., disbound.

[London:] W. Tombleson & Company, [1830.]. Lithographed vertical panoramic strip measuring 1260 x 163 mm, single sheet printed on one side only (folded), some light offsetting. A strip-view of the river Rhine from Cologne to Mayence, with marginal notes of places of importance en route.

The Paper Publications Society, Hilversum. 1959. Large 4to, 46,[2]pp., one of 600 copies, 25 illustrs., in the text, 28 plates of watermarks, parchment-backed decorated boards. Extra volume in the series on papermaking issued by the Paper Publications Society and Edited by E.J. Labarre.

Methuen & Co. 1907. First Edition, xii, 282pp., + adverts, a very good ex-library copy, intermittent foxing, illustrs., orig. cloth. The best general history of the paper industry in the nineteenth century.

Cedric Chivers Ltd., Bath. [c.1909]. First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 23 illustrs., orig. cloth. Not in Meyer or Brenni. A look at the deterioration of paper in lending library books.

Santa Cruz: The Good Book Press, 1976. 16mo (74 x 48 mm), 32pp., limited to 150 copies, this being no. 83, printed on purple paper, 5 paper samples tipped-in, 8 illustrs., orig. purple boards, paper sample pasted within recess on upper board, a fine copy. The Paper-Making Rhyme changes the well-known "Peter Piper" rhyme to "Peter Papermaker made a piece of purple paper..." etc, and includes five tipped-in paper samples: bird of paradise; new zealand flax; cotton; abaca; lawn clippings. "This book has been printed by letterpress and photocopying on Peter's handmade paper, using photographs taken in 1976 at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire."—Colophon.

The Paper Publications Society, Hilversum. 1964. Large 4to, xxiv,203pp., one of 550 copies, 51 plates followed by a further 178 plates showing 787 watermarks, orig. buckram, gilt. Volume X in the series on papermaking issued by the Paper Publications Society and Edited by E.J. Labarre.

[London: House of Commons], 1804. Folio, 14pp., without wrappers, marbled paper spine.

[London: 1805-06. 13 vols. in one, folio, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked but holding, rubbed, morocco labels. 1. Copy of a Minute of Sir John Shore,.... late Governor General of Bengal; detailing the measures adopted in Oude, which led to the deposition of Vizier Ally, and placing on the throne the Nabob Saadut Ally,.... [18 other papers], [4], 71, [1] pp. 2. Such Extracts of the Letter from the Governor-General in Council at Bengal,.... as relate to the Continuance of a Part of the Company's Troops in the Territories of the Nabob Vizier at Futtyghur;.... [15 other papers], 44 pp. Supplement 2. to No. 3. Rajars of Sasnee and Bidjeghur, and of Cutchura and Titteah. 271-302 pp. 5. No.6. - Copy of all Communications to the Secret Committee or Court of Directors, by the Governor General; respecting the Nabob Saadut Ally, previous to, or after, the Conclusion of the Treaty of Lucknow in 1801;.... with large folding map, 41, [1] pp. 6. Copy of a Treaty concluded between the Marquis… Read More

[London: s.n., 1796.]. 4to, [4], 77, [3]pp., terminal leaf blank, disbound. ESTC locating 4 copies (all at the British Library), giving a collation of [4], 77, [10], 82-120pp. 2 of their copies collates as ours, one with 116pp. and one with the aforementioned collation. 'Eighteenth Century Collections Online' version collates the same as our copy.

London: Hakluyt Society, 1927. 398pp., numerous illustrs., and folding maps, orig. blue cloth, lettered in gilt, a copy.

London: J. & A. Churchill, 1879. First edition, viii, 156, 24pp., of adverts, rear inner hinge shaken, orig. cloth, lower hinge split. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

London: Printed by J. L. Cox and Son, 1832. First edition, 4to (280 x 220 mm), [2], 213, [1]pp., folding map of Political India coloured in outline (lightly offset on to title page), nineteenth-century ownership inscription, re-cased, contemporary calf, rubbed, title on upper cover and spine. COPAC and OCLC locates 3 copies only, the British Library, King's College London and University of Manchester.

Rudolf M. Rohrer, Leipzig. 1938. 32pp., 2 folding plates, orig. wrappers.