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Cloth. Condizione: Good Only. First edition. Illustrated throughout, this is the scarce first edition of Howard Warburton Elphinstone's manual on the production of decorative and ornamental patterns with a lathe. A scarce first edition. Illustrated with seventy plates, and with nine tables in a pocket to the rear pastedown. Collated, complete. A practical manual on producing complex geometric patterns on the lathe using standard turning equipment rather than specialised ornamental chucks. An important contribution to the nineteenth-century literature of ornamental turning. Inscription to half title. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Fading to back strip head and rear board head. Mark to centre of front board. Rear hinge strained, with board tender. Front hinge strained and very tenderly held. Inscription to half title. First gathering detached and loosely inserted, otherwise firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good Only. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

First edition of this large work: a very good copy, complete with the 3 volumes of text and all maps, plans and views of Sevastopol - despite the slipcase label showing a somewhat inattentive collation by the H.M. Stationery Office stating "Note.-This Volume is incomplete, no perfect copies are available for issue." Sir Elphinstone (1829-90) was born in Livonia (now Latvia) and was awarded the Victoria Cross in June 1855 for fearless conduct during the Crimean War. At the final assault on Sebastopol on 8 September he was wounded by a splinter on the left side of the head and lost an eye. He later became major-general. Three parts in 4 volumes 4to (29.5 x 23.5 cm) including a slipcase. Folding lithograph frontispiece by J. Ferguson after Cowell, Biddulph and a photograph by Robertson, lithographic title by Ferguson after Elphinstone, title, vi, 299, [1] pp., 6 lithographed tables by H. James and 6 numbered plates on 5 folding sheets of stronger paper; repeated lithographic title, title, table of contents, 638 pp., [1] l.; vii including title, 273 pp., [1] l.; atlas of 16 plates on 12 folding sheets of stronger paper, one on thiner -- in all 22 plates plates lithographed by H. James under the direction of Cameron, numbered I-XX with XVIa and including a rarer 'Sheet III' on thiner paper, some with outline hand-colour; light spotting to text, maps with occasional soiling, some folds with short tears. Contemporary red cloth, covers with blind-stamped panel decoration, flat spines lettered in gilt; spines rubbed and faded with shelfmark labels to foot, slipcase strengthened. Provenance: York Public Library (booklabel to upper pastedowns and slipcase, embossed stamped to a few leaves).…

8.5" x 7" Cloth Very Good Brown cloth, bevelled boards, black borders and decoration to both boards, gilt decoration to front board and spine, brown eps, frontis diagram, pp. i-xii, 1- 216 incl Index & 70 plates and 9 tables in sleeve at rear, outer corners lightly worn, binding sound & tight.

Condizione: Good. Siege of Sebastopol. 1854-5, 3 volume set + 2 boxes of maps/plans, 1859, scarce. Author: W. Edmund M. Reilly, Capt. H. C. Elphinstone & Maj. Gen. Sir Harry D. Jones. Publisher: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London. Illustrated: yes. Description / Condition: Some rebinding to boards with replacement endpapers added. Some edge wear/marks present along with some tears to spine of one volume. Light foxing to pages with some minor folds, marks to all and some notes to one volume. Wear, tears and browning to some of the maps/plans. Blindstamp ownership marks/labels in places of the 'Army and Navy Club.' First edition of this large work: a lovely copy, complete with the 3 volumes of text and all maps, plans and views of Sevastopol - despite the slipcase label showing a somewhat inattentive collation by the H.M. Stationery Office stating "Note.-This Volume is incomplete, no perfect copies are available for issue." Sir Elphinstone (1829-90) was born in Livonia (now Latvia) and.…