Search Results: Titles starting with S from Roz Hulse

Pitt, Moses and Swart, Stephaman. Duynckercke, [Dunkirk]. Ca 1683. Hand coloured, copper engraved sea-chart. Chart size 440 x 505 mm, sheet size 580mm x 690mm. Two charts on one sheet showing the Dunkirk approaches. The larger chart from that of Blaeu's Pourtraict de la fameuse ville et havre de Duynckercke. With Rhumb lines, compass rose and scales. Townships and sandbanks indicated. Decorated with fleets of galleons off shore. With an inset panorama of Duynckercke [Dunkirk] after Jan Van Loon and a smaller coastal profile of Cales. The smaller chart showing the coast of Flanders, from Walchren [ Walcheren ] to Boloigne. Early hand coloured charts with later red ruled border on wide blank margins. Small tear without loss to lower blank margin, otherwise in bright and clean condition. Rare and attractive Sea Charts.

Colomb, Jacob Aertsz. De Custe van Engelant tußchen Poortlant en Lezard. Additional title: Les Costes d'Angleter re de Fierleij jusques á Lezard. Ca 1640. Listed in the The New Fierie Sea-Colomne from 1633-1651. Copper engraved, early hand coloured chart. Chart size approx 525mm x 375mm. Orientation NNE top centre cartouche contains scale. Decorative title cartouche to upper right and additional title cartouche below scales. Chart covers land areas from Portland to the Lizard. Among the places indicated on the coast line are Bridport, Torbay, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Fowey and Truro. Decorative compass rose, rhumb lines and sea vessel on sea area, which also includes the Ideston [Eddystone] Rock and the Kasquettes [Casquets] . Side margins tight with small breaks just touching edge of engraved area. One tear in sea area, repaired. Very early handwritten note to top margin, commenting on the soundings of this area and that of Falmouth, suggesting this chart had been used as a working reference at… Read More

Collins, Greenville : Chart of Milford Haven, from Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, ca.1760. Copper engraved chart. Map size approx 560mm x 440mm. Wide margins, hand coloured, good impression on heavy paper, showing the Welsh coast at Milford Haven. Compass rose, rhumb lines, scale. Cartouche with cherub, dedicated to Sir Hugh Owen. Light water stain to top margin just touching printed area, otherwise a very good, bright and attractive chart.

Hippisley Coxe, Antony. A Seat at the Circus. Connecticut, Archon Books. 1980. Revised Edition. 8vo. Red cloth with unclipped dustwrapper. PP258. Illustrated throughout. With author's inscription to Poet Arnold Rattenbury. With Arnold Rattenbury's signature in front free end paper. Dustwrapper a little bumped, edges lightly foxed. All pages and binding clean and bright throughout. Arnold Rattenbury (1946-2007) was an innovative exhibition designer, a critic and an original, lyrical poet of the heroic age of British Communism.

Lee., Christopher. The Secret Field.Poems By Christopher Lee. The Fortune Press. ND [1940] 1st Edition. 8vo. Red Cloth, gilt titles to spine. Priced Dus twrapper. Pp48, deckle edge. Book cloth a little faded. Dust wrapper age toned to edges, some light foxing to pages. A neat complete book.

Blish, James. The Seedling Stars. Faber & Faber, London, 1967. 1st UK Edition. 8vo. Unclipped dustwrapper in very good order and now in loose protective clear cover. Blue boards, silver titles to spine. Pp185. Binding and all pages in tight, fine order.

Tolstoy, Alexei. Selected Stories. Foreign Languages Publishing House, First Edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Blind tooled decoration to spine and front covers. With ribbon marker. Tipped in portrait frontis onto heavy tooled cream card with printed authors signature. Binding lightly bumped at edges, all pages tight , bright and clean. A good example from this publisher form the 1940's.

Gascoyne, David. Selected Prose. London, Enitharmon Press, 1998. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardback, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. Pp462. A collection of pieces regarding the likes of W.H. Auden, Salvador Dali, Lawrence Durrell, T.S. Eliot, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Henry Miller, Graham Sutherland, Humphrey Jennings, Julian Trevelyan and Vernon Watkins. This book is inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author to A Gaby G. [Goldscheider]/ en toute amitie/David Gascoyne/IeW (IOW) 10.X.98. Gaby Goldscheider was daughter of Phaidon's co-founder Ludwig Goldscheider and a close friend of David and Judy Gascoyne. A notable book, with an interesting provenance, in fine order throughout.

Thomas. R.S. Good. Selected Poems 1946-1968. Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, Granada Reprint 1980. 8vo. Brown Cloth, Gilt title to Spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. PP134. Neat signature of author Arnold Rattenbury on front free endpaper. Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean condition throughout. A good Poetic Provenance.

Gascoyne, David. Selected Poems. London, Enitharmon Press, London. 1994. Signed, Limited, 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover, grey cloth, gilt titles to spine, Lee Miller's Photograph Revenge on Culture laid on upper cover, wrapped in original glassine. pp xx, 253. Limited edition of 50, this is number 21 writtten and signed by author on imprint page. In fine order throughout.

Lamb, Charles. Seven Letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Ryle of the East India House 1828-1832. Oxford University Press. 1931. First, Limited edition of 250. London, Wide 8vo, approx, 200mm x 260mm. Grey cloth backed marbled boards with printed label to front. Uncut, pp vi,7, [p4] illustrations. In fine condition throughout.

Gay., John. The Shepherd's Week in Six Pastorals. London, The Scholar Press Limited., 1973. 8vo, Board covers with paper dustwrapper, pp60. Frontis and 4 full page illustrations. Small tear (4mm) to top edge of dustwrapper, otherwise in bright clean condition. An attractive Book.

Callow., Simon. Shooting the Actor. With interventions by Dusan Makavejev. Nick Hern Books. Ist Edition 1990. Unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. Blue boards, silver titles to spine. PP265. Gift Inscription from Author on title facing page. To Arnold RATTENBURY/At the Palm Court./Why? 15XI90/Simon/C. In excellent clean and bright condition throughout. Bookseller

Thomas, Lowell. Sir Hubert Wilkins. His World of Adventure. London. Arthur Barker 1962. 8vo, 1st UK Edition. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, pp278, 28 blanck and white illustrations on 8 leaves. Dustwrapper chipped with a little loss to front. Binding and all pages tight, bright and clean. Wilkins undertook the first flight over antarctica, and in command of the Submarine Nautilus made the first voyage beneath polar ice. An interesting perspective on Polar exploration.

Brett. Simon,. Situation Tragedy. Gollancz Book Club Associates. 1981. 8vo. Red Cloth boards, Gilt title to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. Pp170. Dustwrapper a little chipped at top edge, otherwise in excellent clean, tight and bright condition throughout.

Adams. Anna,. Six Legs Good. Mandville Press, Hitchin, 1987. Small 4to, 185mm x 260mm, Green wraps with black title to front. pp[14]. Full page engraved frontis copy of Episodes of Insect Life. Signed limited Edition No 26 of 60. Authors signature also on title page. A collection of nine poems.

de Linde, C. A., Sking. Foyles. 1959. 8Vo, 1st Edition. Illustrated boards, 106 pages. With unclipped price on introductory page. Spine lightly discoloured. Otherwise binding and all pages are tight, bright and clean.

Lunn, Peter. A Ski-ing Primer. Methuen, London 1951 Second Edition. 8vo. Pp107. Grey cloth, blue titles to spine. With unclipped dustwrapper, a little age toned to spine. Binding and all pages tight, bright and clean. An excellent book

Forester, C. S. The Sky and The Forest. London, Michael Joseph, 1948. Ist Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, silver titles to spine, in excellent order. Pp219. With unclipped dustwrapper, a little chipped at edges with small losses. Binding and all pages tight bright and clean.

Constantine,. David,. Sleeper. The Delos Press Birmingham, The Redlake Press Clun. 1995. 1st Edition Limited, number 63 of 210. Illustrated by Mark Mawer. Large 8vo, Quarter cloth on textured paper boards. Title, Imprint, Full page illustration by Mark Mawer, Dedication, Pp [14], Colophon. Fine illustration, binding and printing, signed by author and artist. In near fine condition. Scarce.