For Sale First Edition

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Good Hard Cover First Edition John Christie who was best known as the founder of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera House.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition The book is about the use of a pen in forming letters for calligrahy etc. Rebound in strong library binding.

8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall Nice Tight Clean copy ! Front blank page tip clipped. 258 pages. 8132

pp 258, illustrated

Reprint 304 pp, illustrated with 47 colour plates. Old damp stain to one corner of the front panel of the jacket, where the book has previously stuck down, a couple of small tears, otherwise it is very good.

Reprint 304 pp, illustrated with 47 colour plates some minor scuffs to cloth

Condition: Good - in Poor DJ. DJ rubbed at the edges and frayed at head of spine with a small closed tear to foot of lower panel. Text bright and tight. :: Further Information: One of the world's greatest naturalists, Carl Linnaeus, though a household word in the nineteenth century, is now undeservedly forgotten outside Sweden. He is presented anew in this beautifully illustrated biography, with its thirty-two pages of colour plates, including reproductions of exquisite eighteenth-century flower drawings and oil-paintings by such artists as Redoute, Ehret and van Huysum, and more than a hundred and fifty monochrome pictures. First Edition. 256pp. Index. Bibliography. Weighs 1.100 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

Condition: Very Good. Cover slightly rubbed at extremities. Discreet prior owners sticker on title page. :: Further Information: Tall, handsome, romantic, with a pronounced taste for Schiller and Wagner, 'Mad' Ludwig II of Bavaria appeared in 1846 to his people like an eighteen year old Lohengrin. In June 1886, corpulent and toothless, he was declared insane by his ministers and imprisoned.Illustrated with B&W and Colour photographs. Out of Print. 264pp. Index. Size: 4to Crown (25 x 19mm Approx.) First Edition. Weighs 0.700 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

Condition: Good. Somewhat rubbed at extremities. Wraps creased in places. Text bright and clean. :: Further Information: No synopsis available.Please note that the 216pp. Weighs 0.700 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::