E.Penning-Rowsell.L.Underwood. Flood Hazard Research Project. Flood Hazard and Flood Plain Management: Surveys of Existing Studies.Progress Report No.2
Middlesex,UK.: Enfield College of Technology.Middlesex Polytechnic., 1972. This is the First Edition. Card Cover/Cloth Spine.. Near Fine (NEAR NEW)/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall EX PUBLIC SECTOR LIBRARY BLACKED OUT STAMPS. CARD COVERED PAPERBACK This book is the Progress Report No.2 in the series. Flood Hazard and Flood Plain Management: Survey of existing studies.This book is part of a large purchase from a Public Sector Library and except where mentioned are for the most part LIKE NEW! MOSTLY the ONLY flaws are the blacked out (they insisted) Library stamps which show many of them to be UNUSED! This copy is Very Good (AVERAGE) with Near Fine (NEAR NEW) contents. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! (Book ref. 33333336566) £45.00
Kretschmer, Paul and Skutsch, Franz. GLOTTA Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Spache. Vols. 1-30 bound in 22. [only].
Göttingen Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1909-43. 22 vols. German text. Some mainly marginal browning, original wrapps. bound in at rear, ex.-lib. with bookplates, discreet ink stamps to prelims., rebound in gilt lettered lib. cloth, spines sl. faded. Paul Kretschmer (1866–1956) was a German linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the Indo-European languages and showed how they were influenced by non-Indo-European languages, such as Etruscan. Franz Skutsch (1865–1912) was a German classical philologist and linguist. US$273 (Book ref. 185981) £175.00
PATTON John (signed) and TAYLOR Steve: A Century of Cathedral Music 1898- 1998 : A comparison with previous music surveys of 1898, 1938, 1958 and 1998
John Patton, Winchester 2000 softback, 8vo., glossy pictorial cover, 200 pages, condition is FINE. Signed on title page W.J.Patton. (Book ref. 8920) £12.00
Jensen, Gerard J. G.: Modern Drainage Inspection and Sanitary Surveys;
London, The Sanitary Publishing Co, Ltd, 1899; Hardback. Very good condition. 132pp with numerous illustrations & diagrams , period adverts plus publishers catalogue. Black endpapers. Maroon covers with blind rule & gilt motif on front, gilt tile on spine. (Book ref. 15558) £58.00
Willis, Captain J.C.T., R.E., With a Foreword by Brigadier H. St. J. L. Winterbotham, C.M.G., D.S.O., A.D.C. An Outline of the History and Revision of 25-inch Ordnance Survey Plans
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1950. Reprint of 1932 Edition. Fair. 270mm x 340mm tall (8.5" x 13.5" approx.). 18pp + 9 colour-printed, double-folding Plans, Withdrawn stamp impressions of The Liverpool College of Commerce. Original soft green card covers/black title faded and rubbed to edges. Internally, staples rusting but sound, otherwise good. (Book ref. 003954) £35.00
(Wise). Partington, Wilfred. THOMAS J. WISE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. The Life and Records of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw.
Robert Hale 1946. 1st Ed. 372pp. Port. frontis., 26 ills. Ex.-libris J.W. Hill, e.ps. lightly spotted, sm. catalogue description tipped in to front f.e.p., sl. rubbed original gilt lettered cloth with rubbed gilt device to upper board, corners sl. bumped, boards sl. stained. US$47 (Book ref. 207815) £30.00
HALL A L THE GEOLOGY OF THE BARBERTON GOLD MINING DISTRICT (with Separate Geological Map)
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA - DEPARTMENT OF MINES & INDUSTRIES, 1918. 1st. Card. VG. Large 8vo South African Geological Survey Memoir No.9 with accompanying Geological Map. Standard british style Geological memoir of this gold mining district of South Africa. 347pp, with photos and drawings etc, plus separate fold out colour geological map in its original printed green paper wrapper. A ;ittle minor wear to edges, but generally VG. Scarce. (Book ref. 010802) £40.00
Simonson ( editor ) Non Agricultural Applications Of Soil Surveys: developments in soil science 4
Elsevier Scientific, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 178 pages, tight and clean, ex library book with all the usual stampings, pocket and withdrawn stampings. Overall ageing, jacket tatty, boards square, good working copy. (Book ref. 000650) £12.00
Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Ltd. Television and Religion
London: University of London Press, 1964. 1st. Paperback. Near Fine/No Dustwrapper. 12mo A poll carried out on behalf of ABC Television. "The average man's attitude to religion and aspects of the Christian faith". A paperback of 151 pages including the questionnaire used. The pages are browning as is the white cover, only less so. A crisp clean book. (Book ref. 027979) £5.00
Stanley Rubinstein: Historians of London; an account of the many surveys, histories, preambulations, maps and engravings made about the City and its environs, and of the dedicated Londoners who made them.
London: Peter Owen, 1968. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 239pp. Frontispiece, text illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 072063850X (Book ref. 20687) £9.50
George Tibbits & Angela Roennfeldt: Port Phillip colonial, 1801 - 1851; early government buildings and surveys in Victoria.
State Library of Victoria, 1989. First edition (softcover). 4to, 79pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original laminated wrappers. Short ownership inscription, else the book is in very good condition. ISBN 0731649079 (Book ref. 19388) £9.50
Farr, M W: Accounts and surveys of the Wiltshire lands of Adam de Stratton.
Devizes: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1959. First edition, limited to 325 copies (hardcover). 8vo, xxxviii, 266pp. Original blue cloth, no dustwrapper (as issued). Extremities of binding rubbed, endpapers spotted, and a former owner has written their name on the front free endpaper - overall, the book is in good plus condition. Volume XIV of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. (Book ref. 13317) £12.50
Alastair Macdonald: Ordnance Survey, mapping the world: a history of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1946-1985.
London: HMSO, 1996. First edition (hardback). 8vo, xvi, 210pp. Frontispiece, text illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0117015903 (Book ref. 25003) £15.00
A C Maby: Venezuela; economic and commercial conditions in Venezuela [Overseas Economic Surveys].
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. First edition (softcover). 8vo, xiv, 254pp. Folding map. Original printed card wrappers. This copy is only in fair to good condition - the covers are rubbed and scuffed, and the lower corner of the text block is a little creased. Signed by the author on the title page. (Book ref. 21788) £20.00
CHALMERS Henry World Trade Policies: The Changing Panorama, 1920-1953 - A Series of Contemporary Periodic Surveys
University of California Press, 1953 pp.xxxvii,546, hardback (publisher’s yellow cloth), a very good ex-library copy (Because of the weight of this book, the default postal charge will not suffice and we will request an additional charge for this item.) (Book ref. 110869) £25.00
JENNINGS Humphrey & MADGE Charles (Eds) May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day-Surveys 1937 - by over two hundred observers
Faber and Faber, 1987 440p, paperback, a very good copy [0571148727] (Book ref. 110839) £6.00
Farey, John: General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire; with observations on the means of their improvement, drawn up for the consideration of The Board of Agriculture and internal improvement: Vol. 1
London, B. McMillan, 1811. Hardback, original cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pp. xlvii, 532, [ii] - adverts., pls. 5 - comprising coloured maps; 1. coloured map of ridges of hills, 2. Map of Strata and Soils, 3. Coloured folding Sections of Stratified Masses, 1st Sheet, 4. Coloured folding Sections of Stratified Masses, 2nd Sheet, 5. Coloured vertical Section of Strata at Matlock High Tor, 8vo., edges opened but uncut, with some slight marginal soiling and at upper fore-edge of first 100 pages, otherwise a fine copy of a much sought-after work. Very Scarce. (Book ref. 2792) £850.00
Harvey, P. D. A. The History of Topographical Maps: Symbols, Pictures and Surveys
Thames and Hudson, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated in b/w & 10 in colour. Tightly bound and gently read. Both book & jacket are in excellent clean and sound condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Inner flap of the jacket is price clipped. (Book ref. 022164) £18.00
Gray (Todd), Edited and Introduction EARLY STUART MARINERS AND SHIPPING. The Maritime Surveys of Devon and Cornwall.
Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 33. Torquay: 1990. Frontis, sketch maps, xxvii + 171pp, original card covers, dustwrapper. Gives names of mariners from the various ports. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK72-3240) £16.00
Griffiths (S.Y), Printer GRIFFITH'S NEW HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF CHELTENHAM. And Its Vicinity. Embellished with nearly 100 Highly finished Engravings from Drawings by the first Masters, Maps of the Town & County, From the latest Surveys.
First edition. Printed and Published by S.Y. Griffith & Co. Chronicle Office, Cheltenham: 1826. Numerous engraved views, bound without the view of Montpellier Baths, as usual, though with 21 engraved trade plates which are not called for in the list of plates bound in at rear, 4to, recent full morocco, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled endpapers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK72-1895) £325.00