Authors starting with N from The Bookpress, Ltd.

1955. Paperback. (THE GOLDEN HIND PRESS) NAAIJKENS, Jan. THREE WISE MEN FROM THE WEST. Madison: The Golden Hind Press, 1955. 8vo. Wrappers, dust jacket. viii, 23 pages. First edition. Very good. ... more information

1987. NADOLSKI, Dieter. OLD HOUSEHOLD PEWTERWARE. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1987. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 328 pages First English edition. With four hundred and one illustrations and six hundred and ninety-five pewte marks from many countries, Nadolski discusses the appearance and function of household pewterware over the course of six centuries. ... more information

1988. (HOFMANN) NAIFEH, Steven and Gregory White Smith. THE MORMON MURDERS. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). 8vo. Cloth spine, boards, dust jack xii, 458, (1) pages. First edition. An account of Mark Hofmann, his forgeries, his other crimes, and his life. ... more information

1935. (TRADE CATALOGUE) COMPAGNIE FRANCAISE DU LINOLEUM NAIRN. LINOLEUM IMPRIME QUALITE, No. 2. Paris: 1935. Oblong folio (9 x 16 1/4 inches). Cloth. (2) pages, (62) leaves linoleum samples, (5) plates. First edition. A large trade catalogue with sixty-two linoleum samples of varied styles including art deco. A typed sheet lists the availability and size for each product. A nice example of quality French floor coverings. ... more information

1677. NALSON, John. THE COMMON INTEREST OF KING AND PEOPLE: SHEWING THE ORIGINAL, ANTIQUITY AND EXCELLENCY OF MONARCHY. London: Jonathan Edwin, 1677. 8vo. Contemporary full-calf. (viii), 279, (1) pages. First edition. Nalson was an apologists for the monarchy and especially for King Charles I. wrote his many works during and following the English Civil War, and was a staunch advocate for the high church and the king. Common Interest was writte as a sequel to his Countermine, an attack on the low church Pre... more information

1683. NALSON, John. AN IMPARTIAL COLLECTION OF THE GREAT AFFAIRS OF STATE, FROM TH BEGINNING OF THE SCOTCH REBELLION IN THE YEAR 1639, TO THE MURDER OF KING CHARLES I. Two Volumes. London: S. Mearne, and others, 1682-1683. Folio. Contemporary full-calf. Frontispiece, (vi), lxxix, 817, (15) pages; Frontispiece, (vii), xii, 920, (2 pages, 1 plate. First editions. "Wherein the first occasions, and the whole series of the late troubles in England, Scotland, & Ireland are faithfully represented." ... more information

1969. NANAVATI, J.M., and M.A. Dhaky. THE MAITRAKA AND THE SAINDHAVA TEMPLES OF GUJARAT. Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1969. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket, protective slipcase. 8 (1) pages, 71 illustrations on plates. First edition. An examination of the architectural styles which developed in the Kathiawar peninsula of southwest Gujarat under two local dynasties, from the mid sixth century to the mid tenth; illustrated. Fine. ... more information

1897. NANSEN, Fridtjof. FARTHEST NORTH. Two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Frontispiece, x, (iv), 587 pages, 8 colored plates, 4 folding maps in pocket; frontispiece, x, (ii), 714, 4 pages, 8 colored plates. First American edition. Nance's account of his voyage to the polar region on the ship Fram from 1893 until 1896 and his fifteen months' sleigh journey to the pole with Lieutenant Johansen. With one hundred and twenty full-page and text illustration... more information

1917. NARASIMHACHAR, R. THE KESAVA TEMPLE AT SOMANATHAPUR. Bangalore: Mysore Government Press, 1917. 8vo. Half-cloth. ix, (i), 17 pages 22 plates. First edition. Illustrations include photographs, a few measured drawings, and one plan of t temple; a part of the Mysore Archaeological Series. Text foxed, both hinges internally cracked, binding worn. ... more information

1971. Paperback. NARDI, Piero. IL FENOMENO ``CITTA'' NELLA VITA E NELLA CULTURA D'OGGI. (Florence): Sansoni, (1971). 8vo. Wrappers. 522, (12) pages. First edition. A collection of essays on urban architecture, with contributions by Giorgio Galli, Ugo Spirito, Guiseppe Samona, and others. Covers slightly rubbed, els very good. ... more information

1924. NARDO, Antonio di. FARM HOUSES, SMALL CHATEAUX AND COUNTRY CHURCHES IN FRANCE. Cleveland: J.H. Jansen, 1924. Folio. Cloth. 173, (2) pages. First edition. With measured drawings and hundreds of photographs by C.D. Arnold and Di Nard Very good. ... more information

1990. NASH, Alec. STRUCTURAL DESIGNS FOR ARCHITECTS. New York: Nichols, (1990). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 231 pages. First edition. A guide to the basic principles and natural laws governing structure starting with the basic mathematics and physics principles. Very good. ... more information

1856. NASH, Frederick. A SERIES OF VIEWS...OF THE COLLEGIATE CHAPEL OF ST. GEORGE, WINDSOR. London: The Author, 1805. Folio. Publisher's half- morocco. 10 pages, 9 plate First edition. [Abbey, Scenery, 354]. Frederick Nash's (1782-1856) first book. Illustrated with nine sepia aquatin Nash was a pupil of Thomas Malton, the younger, before entering the Royal Academy. Publisher's prospective laid-in. Scarce. OCLC cites five copies o in American libraries. Very good. ... more information

1964. NASH, Ray, editor. CALLIGRAPHY AND PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum, (1964). 12mo. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. 120 pages, plates. Second edition, thus. One of 500 copies. First reprinted in 1940, this enlarged edition includes 39 pages of facsimile of the original French and Flemish parallel text of 1567. Very good. ... more information

1871. NASSE, E. ON THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND INCLOSURES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND. London: Macmillan, 1871. 8vo. Cloth. (iv), 100 pages, errata slip. First edition. This monograph was translated into English by H.A. Ouvry and was published un the auspices of the Cobden Club, an organization advocating free-trade, peace and goodwill among nations. Light sporadic foxing, else very good. ... more information

1842. (NEALE, John Mason, [editor]). ILLUSTRATIONS OF MONUMENTAL BRASSES. Cambridge: T. Stevenson, and others, 1840-1842. Folio. Cloth, original wrapp bound-in. 192 pages, 33 plates, of which 13 double-page. First edition. A bound copy of the first five of six original parts of this beautifully prin and scholarly book on English brasses. The book was published for the Cambri Camden Society and is rare, with only two copies of the first edition cited b OCLC. With a four inch tear on the front hinge and li... more information

1910. NEALE, John Mason. LETTERS OF JOHN MASON NEALE. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece portrait, xvii, 379 pages. First edition. Neale was an Anglican priest who was instrumental in the Oxford Movement -- bringing back into the Anglican church many of the catholic elements of worsh abandoned for many years within the church. While a student at Cambridge he a founder of the Cambridge Camden Society which was instrumental in promoting the mediaeval church heritage in England ... more information

1843. Paperback. (NEALE, John Mason.) CHURCH ENLARGEMENT AND CHURCH ARRANGEMENT. Cambridge: University Press, 1843. 8vo. Printed wrappers. 19 pages. Scarce pamphlet with only two copies recorded in American libraries on OCLC. Published by the Cambridge Camden Society and is attributed to John Mason Nea "The present tract may, it is hoped, be useful to such clergymen as find themselves, without any previous knowledge of church architecture, compelled, the increase of population, to increase the size of... more information

1981. NEBEHAY, Ingo, and Robert Wagner. BIBLIOGRAPHIE ALTOSTERREICHISCHER ANSICHTENWERKE AUS FUNF JAHRHUNDERTEN. Six volumes. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck, 1981. 4to. Cloth, dust jackets. First edition. A bibliography of architecture in Eastern Europe over the last 500 years. Volume IV contains an index; Volumes V and VI a supplement. Illustrated, som plates in color. Surprisingly uncommon for a twentieth century book. Very good. ... more information

1975. NEBENZAHL, Kenneth. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED BATTLE PLANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1795. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1975). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xiv. pages. First edition. The definitive bibliography of maps of American Revolutionary War battles, wi full bibliographical descriptions. Fine. ... more information