Search Results: Authors starting with N from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1950. Tall 8vo. x, 324 pp. Numerous tables, photos, text figures, diagrams. Burgundy cloth, blk & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (edgewear, rubbng, couple mnr clsd tears, creasng), F/VG-. First edition of this invaluable work on the theory and descriptions underlying chemical-emssion spectroscopy.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1984]. Folio. 292, [20] pp. 263 illusts. (80 pages in colour). Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr, blkd out ownrshp inscrptn on ffep), w/ d.j. (mnr dustsoilng, edgewear, rubbng), VG-/VG copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated history of the legendary jewelers.

London: Walter Scott, [1897]. Thick 8vo. xix, [1], 449, [1] pp., plus 16 pp. publ. ads. Frntsp. photo, numerous illusts. & photos, map. Plum-coloured cloth over bevld boards, gilt lettrng & illust. on frnt cvr & spine (mnr bmpng to crnrs, mnr sunng to spine, edgewear), still good copy. Revised & expanded edition of this recounting the famed polar explorations of Nansen.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. 8vo. vi, [4], 401, [1] pp., plus 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Frontisp., 11 plates, map. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth, cover art of Napoleonic-era redcoat on front cover by Paget, gilt & white lettering (minor closed tear to spine, some bumping to head & foot, minor dustsoiling), still G copy. First edition of this Henty adventure set against the backdrop of the 1809 Peninsular War in which Sir John Moore was killed in Northern Portugal against Napoleon's armies. Hero is an Irishman, Terence O’Connor, a colonel in the Portuguese army who battles on the sea and land, witnesses the capture of Oporto, Wellesley's expulsion of Soult's army and the advances into Spain. Paget (1860-1908) is best remembered as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes in the Strand, but those in the present work are wonderfully rendered.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [2001]. 8vo. xiv, 322 pp. Numerous photos, text illusts., maps. Black boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this concise history of the famed peninsular campaign against Napoleon by Wellington.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1978. 8vo. xi, [1], 308 pp. Numerous illusts. Half-white cloth over red boards, w/ d.j., NF/NF. First edition, stated.

New York: Macmillan Co., [1963]. 8vo. 192 pp. Numerous plates, text illusts., maps. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art from painting by General Louis-Francois Lejeune (slght bmpng hd of spine), NF/VG. First edition of this concise history of the famed campaign against Napoleon by Wellington.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1957]. 8vo. [12], 313, [1] pp. Frntsp., double-page map, numerous illusts. Gray cloth, orange lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr dustsoilng, slght scuffng), cover art by Ismar David, VG/VG-. First edition, stated, of this informative biography of the famed assassin who failed to kill Napoleon III.

New York: Taplinger Publishing, [1979]. 4to. 272 pp. Numerous illusts., diagrams, maps. Black boards, gilt lettrng (vry mnr foxng to fore-edges), w/ d.j. (price-clppd), NF/VG. First edition of this authoritative and complete survey published of the armies of the Napoleonic wars.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1969]. 8vo. [8], 356 pp. Numerous photos, illusts. Beige cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr dustsoilng, foxng to fore-edges, price-clppd), still VG/VG- copy. First edition of this niece of Napoleon who reigned over the most brilliant of French Salons.

London: Bickers & Son, Leicester Square, 1889. 8vo. [10], 408 pp. Black & white mounted Woodbury-type photo, nine mounted Woodbury-type photos, 1 folding colour map. Full calf publisher’s prize binding from St. Peter’s College, Radley, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, gilt outer dentelles, Radley College’s lozenge medal in gilt on both covers, marbled endpapers (minor rubbing, slight scuffing), still VG bright copy, awarded to J.F. Elwes in 1892 for honors in history, and from the collection of Christian A. von Hassell. First edition, thus, of this concise abridgement of Napier’s classic history of the famed campaigns in Spain, Portugal, and the south of France during the Napoleonic Wars, augmented with Woodbury-type photographs taken from painting of the battles. This rousing eyewitness account is dedicated to Wellington, and provides one of the best specimens of military history in any language, detailing the long series of campaigns and battles with the imagination of a great romantic… Read More

London: Barrie & Rockliff, [1961]. 8vo. xi, [1], 402 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo illusts., plates, text illusts., maps. Tan boards, blk lettrng (slght shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr scuffng, vry mnr chppng hd of spine), VG/VG-. First edition of this biography of Napoleon III from his election as President through the Franco-Prussian war disaster.

New York: Macmillan Co., [1966]. 8vo. 319, [1] pp. Frntsp., plates, maps. Brown cloth, white & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art by Milton Glaser (mnr dustsoilng, scuffng), VG/VG-. First American edition.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1991]. Tall thick 8vo. xliii, [3], 555, [1]; [4], 556-1172 pp. Titles in red & black. Frontispieces in both vols., numerous illustrations, maps in colour, plates. Uniformly bound in full black leather, gilt illust. & decorated covers, Eagle armorial on covers, raised bands & gilt decorated spines, silk moire endpapers, a.e.g., NF set, w/ Easton Press Collector’s Notes laid-in, from the library of Robert A. Taylor, w/ bookplates on front pastedowns. First Easton Press Collector’s Edition of this exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon’s art of war as he developed and perfected the major military campaigns of his career. Issued as part of Easton’s “Military History” series.

Stuttgart: J. Scheible, 1834. Thick 8vo. 616 pp. Engravd frntsp., engravd title, 32 engravings on 16 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, red & gilt spine labl (browning to frntsp. & title, some signatures brownd), still G copy. First edition in German of this early biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879. 8vo. 254 pp. Illust. title in red & blk. Engravd frntsp., numerous plates. Embssd & decrtd brick-red cloth, gilt & blk lettrng & decrtn frnt cvr & spine (vry mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), VG copy, w/ 19th-century booksellers label for G.H. Hill City Book Store, Portland, Oregon. Revised edition of this scarce account of the sentimental story of the Comte de Charny, a political prisoner, who saved himself from madness during captivity during the early Napoleonic era.

London: Thomas and William Boone, 1856. Six volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 522; xiii, [3], 500; xi, [1], 427, [1]; xvii, [1], 479, [1]; x, [2], 444; vii, [1], 463, [1] pp. 56 engraved maps. Uniformly bound in half-brown calf over marbled boards, marbled fore-edges, tooled & decorated spine, gilt & green morocco spine labels (some rubbing, scuffing, occasional wear, slight bumping to some corners, slight sunning to spines), still a very good set, William McDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership markings on front pastedown, and other ownership markings on endpapers. Revised & expanded edition of this classic history of the famed campaigns in Spain, Portugal, and the south of France during the Napoleonic Wars. This rousing eyewitness account is dedicated to Wellington, and provides one of the best specimens of military history in any language, detailing the long series of campaigns and battles with the imagination of a great romantic writer. Napier… Read More

New York: Viking Press, [1979]. Thick 8vo. xvii, [3], 768 pp. Numerous plates, double-page map. Half-gold cloth over blk boards (mnr bmpng), w/ d.j. (couple vry sml clsd tears), VG/VG-. First edition of this vital history of the corrupt scenario of the Second Empire and Napoleon III.

Wayne, NJ: Avery Publishing, 1986. Oblong folio. 4 leaves, 67 colour maps. Spiral-bound colour-illust. covers as issued, slght shlfwr, NF. First edition of this excellent reference.

New York: James Pott & Co., [1909]. Thick 8vo. ix, [1], 304 pp. Hand-coloured photogravure frontisp., 18 plates, illustrated endpapers. Blue publisher’s cloth, illustrated in gilt on front cover, gilt lettering, elaborately decorated spine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing to corners, front inner hinge starting), still VG copy, w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, of this informative biography of Napoleon’s consort.