Search Results: Titles starting with A from Pelargos Bookstore, MBS

The Boy Travellers in the Far East - Part fifth. Illustrated. 473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt. Some wear at corners and spine ends (see photos). Pages bright and clean. A dedication written on a blank page. Richly illustrated with engravings. Tight binding.

Translated from the Italian. Illustrated by Frederick Richardson. 250 pp. 22x16 cm. The John C. Winston Company, Chicago, s.d.
--- Cloth-bound. Illustrated front cover, gilt lettering on front cover+spine. Minor wear to the edges and corners of the covers. Illustrated endpapers. Exlibris inside front cover and a name+date (1931) written on blank page. Pages bright and clean.

First edition. xviii+259 pp.+65 B&W illustrations and 4 folding maps in two colours h.t. 25,2x19,5 cm. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1920.
--- Blindstamped cloth gilt (publishers bindint). Occasional foxing, light edgewear.

First edition (stated). xxiii+153 pp. 22,3x14,7 cm. The Kent University Press, 1970.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). No dust jacket. Light wear on the spine. Unmarked. Pages bright and clean.

With 5 colour illustrations h.t. by Charles Pears. 155 pp. 10,7x7,5 cm. Collins Clear-Type Press, n.d. (c.1920)
--- Full-leather (soft leather – publisher's binding), gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Marbled endpapers, all-edges gilt. Pages bright and clean.

Avec 21 cartes et 69 plans. Treizième édition. xxxiv + 368 pp. + Indicateur et plans de Berlin (22 pp.+cartes). 16,2x11 cm. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1909.
--- Text in french. Clothbound (publishers cloth), gilt letters on front cover and spine. All edges marbled. Pages clean and bright, colored folding maps h.t.
"Qui songe à voyager,
Doit soucis oublier,
Dès l'aube se lever,
Ne pas trop se charger,
D'un pas égal marcher
Et savoir écouter"

Préface de Pierre - H. Savignac. Illustrations d'André Servais. Première édition. 22,5x15,3 cm. Les Éditions de la Francité, 1991. Édition limitée.
--- En feuillets. Avec son boîte originale (en velours). Deux illustrations en couleur.

32 pp. 23x15 cm. Compiled and designed for the Las-Stik Manufacturing Company by the Rowe & Wyman Company, Advertising, Cincinnati, 1965. This Almanac celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Las-Stik Manufacturing Company.
--- The leading feature in this booklet is an alphabetical listing of the names of over 2.300 American-made automobiles.
--- Paperback. B&W illustrations.

Hundertzehn photographische Aufnahmen der Stadt und ihrer Bau- und Kunst-Denkmäler. Mit alten Ansichten und Plänen sowie einer geschichtlichen Einleitung von Dr. Ernst Diez und einer Stadt- und Kulturbeschreibung und kunstgeschichtlichen Erläuterungen von Dr. Heinrich Glück. 24 pp.+111 phot. h.t. 27x21,5 cm. Roland Verlag, München, 1920. --- Text in german. Double panorama of Istanbul (71 cm.). DJ with tears - Small pieces of paper at the edges are missing. The book is in near fine condition.

With an introduction by John Langdon-Davies. xviii+246 pp.+11 illustrated pages h.t. 21,5x14,5 cm. A Borzoi Book / Alfred. A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers binding), with gilt lettering and decoration at front cover and spine.

Préface de Louis Bertrand. xvi+304 pp.+10 gravures h.t. 21x13,5 cm. Les Maîtres de l'Histoire / Éditions d'Histoire et d'Art - Librairie Plon, Paris, 1946.
--- Half-leather (private binding, initials on spine). Spine in five compartments, with gilt lettering and decoration. Previous owners stamp on frontispiece, first and last pages. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

11ème Année, 1877. lxxvi+392 pp.+ 1 pl. h.t. 22x15 cm. Maisonneuve et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs, Paris, 1877.
--- Text in french. Half-leather, with gilt lettering on spine. Wear on the spine (see photo). Marbled endpapers. Very tight binding. Pages bright and clean. No foxing. Unmarked.

12ème Année, 1878. c+306 pp. 22x15 cm. Maisonneuve et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs, Paris, 1878.
--- Text in french. Half-leather, with gilt lettering on spine. Wear on the spine (see photo). Marbled endpapers. Very tight binding. Pages bright and clean. No foxing. Unmarked.

Graece & Latine una cum Prognosticis, Prorrheticis, Coacis, & aliis decem eiusdem opusculis, Aphoristicabrevitate conscriptis. Pleraque ex interpretatione Iohannis Heurnii Ultraiectini Iterata editio, commodior. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Iohannis Maire, 1627. 636 pp. 13,5 x 8 cm.
--- Text in ancient greek and latin. Parchment binding, very tight, with light wear. Occasional light foxing. Previous owner's names written on front endpaper and on the first blank pages. Among them, the name of the German doctor Heinrich Landerer (1814-1877). The date of the edition is 1627, but in front cover, under the acronym PSK, is written 1632. The original form of the famous Hippocratic Oath on page 454.

Le fotografie sono dell'Autore, di Fosco Maraini, di Pier Maria Bianchin e di Rudolf Pestalozzi. 99 pp. 27x21,2 cm. No. 2 - "Immagini del Mondo" / "Leonardo da Vinci" Editrice, Bari, 1954.
--- Text in italian. Dedication written on first blank page - all other pages bright and clean. B&W photographs.

Selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (1332-1406) translated and arranged by Charles Issawi. xiii+190 pp. 19x13 cm. John Murray, London, 1958.
--- Hardcover. Dust jacket with edgewear. All pages are clean.

With 50 plates h.t., 53 text illustrations and 24 maps. xxxii+400 pp. Methuen & Co Ltd., London, n.d. (1939)
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's binding). B&W ills., pages bright and clean.

Illustrated. 198 pp. + 6 engravings h.t. 18,5x13 cm. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, 1894.
--- Blindstamped cloth (publishers binding). Some wear at the corners of the covers and the edges of the spine. Pages are clean. Signs of use, otherwise the copy is very good.

Or, the quest of Jason for the golden fleece, the epic poem first set down in the ancient greek tongue by Apollonius of Rhodes in the third century B.C. Together with the translation into english prose by Edward P. Coleridge; with a preface by Moses Hadas, and illustrations by A. Tassos. xix+307 pp. 28,50x21 cm. The Heritage Press, New York, 1960.
--- Half cloth (publishers binding) with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Unmarked. Top edges red. In a box, with some wear on the corners. Text in ancient greek - english.

17 photographies et 6 esquisses d'un peintre nommé Kleanthis. Matériel de 75 M/M de campagne et de montagne à tir rapide - Système "Schneider" et "Schneider - Danglis". 44,5x30,5 cm.
--- Text in french. Three-quarter leather binding. 17 b&w photos + 6 sketches by Kleanthis (dogfight, possibly the greek cruiser Averof, etc.)