Search Results: Titles starting with Q from The Last Word

London: John Churchill & Sons, 1870. Fifth Edition. Leather. Fair. Dr. C. Remigius Fresenius 8vo. 377pp, The 3/4 leather Front and rear covers are detached and two thirds of the spine is missing. Red marbled endpapers. Aware inscription tipped in "University of Otago Session 1874 Laboratory Class 1st prize (aequus) awarded to Mr Peter Seton Hay . 3/4 leather binding Otago Witness , Issue 2767, 27 March 1907, Page 12 DEATH OF MR P. S. HAY. Mr Peter S. Hay, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, died at Wellington on the 18th. Deceased contracted pleurisy last November, and had been in the hospital for some time ... He was a most able and conscientious officer, and but for his extreme modesty would probably have occupied a much, higher position in the engineering world. He was born in Glasgow, and arrived at Port Chalmers in the ship Storm Cloud in 1860, when only eight years of age. He went through the public schools, and then attended the Otago University, where he gained hie B.A.… Read More

Collins, 1960. First printing. magazine. Good. 40 pages MaGAZINE FORMAT. Some cockling from water contact. Page 1 has part of an illustration missing but otherwise in nice condition

Amsterdam: Ioannis Blaeu, 1650. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Text in Latin. Ioannis Blaeu, Amstelaedami, 1650, TP with woodcut illustration, and 2 contemporary ink signatures and dates, and signature to rear Errata page, 1-93 plus index, Philologia 1-83 plus index, Mathesios pp1- 467pp, plus index and Errata, full vellum, Text block separated from covers. An important early history of Mathematics and related Liberal Arts by the renowned Dutch humanist. Pages are consistently clean, with one tear at top of Epist, Dedicat of Mathesios. Rare copy. Quarto. Each part is paginated separately, with a divisional title page and index: [16], 94, [12]; [8], 83, [11]; [16], 467, [37]pp. The rare first edition.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Masters' And Past Masters' Lodge No 130, 1983. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A very good and tight binding, with dustwrapper. Thick 8vo. 8.75" x 5.75" x 1.5" , pp.xxvii/pp. 435 pages. Original blue boards, with silver gilt titles to spine. Blue & white illustrated dustwrapper in very good condition. Clean text throughout. A very good copy of a scarce book.

Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. First edition thus. Paperback. Good. Coronet Books 232 pages. Some tanning to pages edges. No creasing to spine. First published in 1981

Auckland, New Zeaalnd: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. First edition thus. Paperback. Good. Coronet Books 232 pages. Some tanning to pages edges. No creasing to spine. Some rubbing to rear cover. First published in 1981

Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. First edition thus. Paperback. Good. Coronet Books 232 pages. No creasing to spine. First published in 1981. This is the first edition in paperback.

Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. First edition thus. Paperback. Near Fine. Coronet Books 232 pages. no tanning to page edges. No creasing to spine. No rubbing to covers. No inscriptions. Remainder marks to page edges . First published in 1981. Looks unread. Remaider mark to page edges