Robert ridgeway (39 risultati)
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Published by the Authority of the State Legislature / H. W. Rokker Printer, Springfield, IL 1889
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Hardcover. Condizione: VG-. See photos for condition details. Tall hardcover, original binding of beveled green cloth boards with gilt on front and spine. The exterior shows some scuffing spotting along with edge and corner bumps/wear. There's a small chip on the bottom edge of the front board and the rear board shows soiling al…ong the bottom third section. The internal binding is overall good except for a few spots. The text pages are tight but there is some pulling at the front hinge and there is a closed tear at the gutter of the title page, where it looks like glue from the original binding caused the edge of the page to stick to the frontis. There are no signatures or bookplates, no library markings etc. The only evidence of handwriting is on the front end page where a price was written in the top center and then later erased. Pages are toned due to age and there is some scattered smudge marks and foxing present. Please note: this is volume 1 ONLY.
Ramparts: Volume 10, Number 11, May 1972
Collier, Peter, Sheila Dear, Robert Fitch, David Horowitz, David Kolodney, [and] James Ridgeway, eds
Editore: Ramparts Magazine, San Francisco 1972
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Magazine. 68p., stapled wraps, illus., wraps lightly worn and beginning to split at fold, address label on front wrap, pages evenly toned, else good condition. Articles on Nixon's foreign policy in China, Indochina, African American policemen, the "food-industrial complex", an article on Vietnam by Noam Chomsky, and more.
Club (Vintage adult magazine, 1977)
Raymond, Paul (publisher); Tony Power, Susan Freeman, David Jones, Marvin Bevans, Steve Ridgeway, Roger Watt, Alan Walton (eds.); Fred Enke (photo. dir.); Robert Amsel, Olivia, Rache Cavendish, Karl Steiner, Noel Kilgen, Chet Bernard, Paul Gleason, Michae
Editore: Paul Raymond Publications / Fiona Press 1977
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Condizione: Very Good. V3 N4, May 1977; distributed by Kable News, $1.95 cover price, full-color, 98pp, 8.5 x 11.75 inches, saddle-stapled. Vintage adult magazine featuring nude women, glamour & pornographic photography, sex news, cartoons, fiction/nonfiction, forum, ads. Began February 1975 as American edition of "Club Internat…ional" with ties to "Men Only" magazine. To date only March 1975 sold out from publisher.Dee cover/layout (Olivia), Newport cigarette ad rear cover. Georgina, "tubular belles" lesbians, Brigitte outside, food, shaming, apartment dungeon, hairy women, Robert Duvall interview, vagina lore, female sexuality survey, troilism, cold fetish, fiction (Greenwich Village cult). Very Good, pp 73-80 excised. For mature, consenting audiences.
Club (Vintage adult magazine, 1977)
Raymond, Paul (publisher); Tony Power, Susan Freeman, David Jones, Marvin Bevans, Steve Ridgeway, Roger Watt, Alan Walton (eds.); Fred Enke (exec. photog. dir.); Dwight Fox, Jay Myrdal, Peter Hurd, Alan Sass (photogs.); T. Christopher Siklos, Robert, Clif
Editore: Paul Raymond Publications / Fiona Press 1977
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Condizione: Very Good. V3 N3, April 1977; distributed by Kable News, $1.95 cover price, full-color, 98pp, 8.5 x 11.75 inches, saddle-stapled. Vintage adult magazine featuring nude women, glamour & pornographic photography, sex news/reviews, cartoons, fiction/nonfiction, forum, ads, centerfold art. Began February 1975 as American… edition of "Club International" with ties to "Men Only" magazine. To date only March 1975 sold out from publisher.Cover (Olivia), Kool cigarette ad rear cover. Asian Corina, softcore in garden, blonde Jamie, lesbians in letter sweaters, tan Christina, BDSM in NY, laxatives, "water sports," Nixon "interview," Pepys diary, cactus fetish, augmentation, ads (Roxy Brewer, Valentine Products "legal highs").Good, 1pp cut, lacking pp 43-58. For mature, consenting audiences.
Editore: GPO, Wash D. C. 1876
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Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Pages 451-473 of text; 5 plates; wrappers; removed from a larger volume; nice condition; original and not a modern reprint.
Monarch Mahiscan 1980: A year in the life of Manning High School (Monarch newspaper)
Johnson, Brian K./ Thompson III, William Robert/ King, Marianne R./ Ridgeway, Robin
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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 168 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.40 inches. In Stock.
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Altre immaginiEditore: Carlton 2010
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Flexi-binding. Illustrations by John Ridgeway. Near Fine British edition, likely attractive, unmarked and innaculate inside and out. The Flexi-binding does show some sign of 10 years of handling, slight curve to cover corners, a ding or two, but overall a gorgeous, gi. John Ridgeway (illustratore).
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Condizione: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.
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a descriptive catalog, etc., Part IX; the cranes, rails, coots, gallinules, sun-grebes and sun-bitterns. Smithsonian, Washington, 1941. Illustrated with drawings. 6" x 9.5". 254 pp. Paperbound. "The most noteworthy of all the systematic works.and by far the most complete treatise in the literature of the subject" (Wood). Very go…od.
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Condizione: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
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Gebunden. Condizione: New.
Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
Carmichael, Stephen; Stoddard, Susan; Ridgeway, Rick; Shulman, Neville; Moore, Robert M.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright referen…ces, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: George Brumder, Milwaukee 1890
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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. This is a 12" tall soft cover book with 36 full page bird lithographs, c 1890. Plates are high quality and on heavy stock. The covers are soiled with a cloth repair to the spine.The first plate, #36 has modest finger soil to the margins, plates 33 and 34 have pulled loose from the staple binding wit…h 34 having some curling and small tears at the outer margin. Plates are bound with 36 first then in sequence to 35. Apparently quite a scarce book. Robert Ridgeway, A Goering, Gustav Muetzel (illustratore).
Editore: London, Seeley Jackson & Halliday 1865
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First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : Subjects : Evangelical. Theological. Hebrew ; Ritual. Religion. Ritual and Religion. Gospel. The Art of the Covenant. The Israel of God…. 3 Kg.
Great Stories of Crime and Detection. Complete in Four Volumes
Heald, Time & Priscilla Ridgeway (editors); H. R. F. Keating; Robert Barnard, Priscilla Ridgeway (Introductions)
Editore: Folio Society 2002
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Four volumes still stiff to open and about new; in printed slipcase, nearly new. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. (illustratore).
Editore: London, Seeley Jackson & Halliday 1865
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First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : Subjects : Evangelical. Theological. Hebrew ; Ritual. Religion. Ritual and Religion. Gospel. The Art of the Covenant. The Israel of God…. 1 Kg.
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Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 122.
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Report upon the Natural History Collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881.
Nelson, Edward W.; Henry W. Henshaw; Robert and John Ridgeway.
Editore: Government Printing Office, Washington 1887
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Condizione: Poor. First edition. 31 cm; 337 pages, and 12 chromolithograph plates of birds, ten of them by the Ridgeway brothers, and 9 b/w plates of fish. Original green cloth. Spine broken, one gathering loose. A possible breaker or for rebinding. Plates and text are clean and unblemished. All pages and plates are present.
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Ramparts Magazine, December 1972, Vol. 11, No. 6 - The Victor Marchetti Story
Otis, J.; Ridgeway, J.; Shearer, D.; Daar, S.; Hart, S.; Lynd, S.; Parker, R.; Kozol, J.; Gray, F. Du Plessix; Oakes, R.; Collier, P.; Schey, P. Et al
Editore: Noah's Ark Incorporated, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. 1972
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 62 pages. Features: Archie Bunker cover illustration by Robert Grossman; Spooking the Spooks - The Victor Marchetti Story; Women; The Good Fortune of the Franklin Mint (critical article); Poor Derek's Almanac; Bankamerilib - Can Lynda Bird by Liberated?; Marcos and the Philippines; Con…versations with Steel Mill Rebels; Who Goes Begging in America; Racism in the Counterculture; Kissinger - the Swinging Sphinx; Alcatraz is not an Island; The Only Good Indian.; Gerald Hanley - An Irishman in Africa; Consciousness as a Commodity; Munich on $40 Million a day; back cover ad for Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914". Average wear. Unmarked. Covers beginning to pull from staples. A worthy vintage copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Ramparts Magazine, December 1972, Vol. 11, No. 6 - The Victor Marchetti Story CIA Cuba Richard Oakes Mohawk Indian Archie Bunker cover illustration by Robert Grossman; Spooking the Spooks - The Victor Marchetti Story; Women; The Good Fortune of the Fra. Illustrated by Grossman, Robert (cover); Graves, Ken; Shames, Stephen;Schley, Van (illustratore).
[Londonderry] Autograph Signature ('London=Derry:') on fragment of document.
Robert Ridgeway, 4th Earl of Londonderry (d.1714), Irish aristocrat
Editore: Docketed '' on reverse 1711
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On piece of paper roughly 1.5 x 7.5 cm. Closely cropped underlined signature 'London=Derry:'.
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Altre immaginiArboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-Hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described, with Their Propagation, Culture, Management and Uses in the Arts, in Useful and Ornamental Plantations, and in Landscape Gardening; Preceded by a Historical and Geographical Outline of the Trees and Shrubs of Temperate Climates Throughout the World. (In Eight Volumes)
Loudon, J.C. [John Claudius]; Ferguson of Raith, Robert (his copy)
Editore: Printed For the Author. Sold by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London 1838
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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, association copy rebound in three-quarter green calf over marbled paper-covered boards, edged in blind with a shark tooth roll, the spine with five raised bands gilt, title and volume numbers upon red and black onlaid labels. Tree-shaped roll at foot of spine in…blind. All edges marbled, with matching endpapers. 2500 black and white illustrations from engravings by botanical artists, with "tree portraits," herbal-type plant illustrations, landscape layouts, leaf shape details, trees in various stages of growth, sorted by overall shape etc. V.1: ccxxx, [4]1-494[4]pp. V.2: x, 495-1256pp. V.3: vi, 2030pp. V.4. viii, 2031-2694pp. Plates: V.5: viii, and (variously) Plates 1- 84, including 3 larger (4to) fold-out plates. V.6: viii, Plates 85-167a, incl. 3 fold-out plates. V.7: viii, Plates 169-280a, including 10 fold-out plates. V.8: viii, 1-6 (index to plates), Plates 253-352, including 4 fold-out plates. First edition. NOTE: ENTIRE listing is on website. CONDITION: Near Fine. Some marks and scuffs externally to the paper covered boards and wear to leather at corners. Minor oxidation to spines. Inside, pristine, with the very occasional single spots of foxing. Square, tight, clean, pages bright. Hinges and joints in order. Top edge a little dusty. Engraved bookplate to endpaper each volume: see below. Really a lovely set.** "ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM" was the magnum opus of the prolific, influential Scottish botanic polymath, JOHN CLAUDIUS (J.C.) LOUDON, F.L.S., H.S., &c. (1783-1843). Author, agriculturist, architect, town planner, natural historian, gardening magazine publisher and --most significantly--inventor of the arboretum. He was born near Glasgow, later educated at Univ. Edinburgh in agriculture and botany among other subjects, while apprenticing at the nursery of a Mr. Scot in the nearby Edinburgh district of Easter Dalry. A year of botanic travels followed. His later career was made more difficult because of several severe disabilities, including the loss of an arm. He famously planned and established the Derby Arboretum in 1840, directly influencing the Americans Frederick Law Olmsted, and later corresponded with some of the most notable British, American and European nurserymen, botanists and estate owners of the day. Patronage of the Duke of Northumberland included provision of the artist G.R. Lewis to record a number of the numerous engraved "tree portraits" from Syon House. Loddiges, catalogue-nurserymen near London and importers of newly discovered plant materials, were among the many who also supplied Louden with his exemplars and illustrations. A history of foreign plant introductions traces "plant hunters" from Tradescant to Staunton, and more. Loudon's arboretum," founded at Derby in 1840, gave real form to the "paper arboretum" of this book. Trees, shrubs and other plants of both native and imported varieties, were displayed for educational and scientific study, beautification, and free public access in a purpose-designed landscape. Boston's Arnold Arboretum and New York's Botanical Garden followed in Loudon's footsteps. Frederick Law Olmstead's Green Belt constructions at Boston and New York's Central Park were specifically influenced by Loudon's work. Dendrological varieties suitable for the (sometimes heated) walled gardens, advice on the propagation of non-native semi-hardy fruiting trees hailing from warmer climes were included; appendices include fruiting trees of Italy. Other Loudon publications discussed plans for glasshouses, and heated conservatories. **PROVENANCE: Engraved bookplate "Ferguson of Raith" to endpaper of each volume; "ROBERT FERGUSON, MP, FHS &ct."(1769-1840) is listed among both Contributors and Subscribers to "Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum," thus making this an association copy. The Fergusons were in possession of Raith House, on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy, Fife from 1725. As laird, Ferguson oversaw parklands laid out in the18th century by Scottish landscape designer THOMAS WHITE (1736-1811), once a student of "Capability" Brown. The Raith C. Lucitanica Lois, (Portugal Laurel,) and Corylaceæ Quercus (Holly Oak) are mentioned in Loudon. Later additions of Sequoia were added after their introduction to Britain in the 1840's. Playfair's home farm, and a monastic walled garden, Abbotshall, also then formed part of the estate. A tower folly and artificial lake were added in the early 19th century. Architects of the Palladian manor house included JAMES SMITH (1645-1731), a student of Sir William Bruce, who did the Holyrood Palace rehab of the1660's. Beginning in 1785, architect JAMES PLAYFAIR (1755-1794) extended and remodeled Raith House. The hilly elevation of the Fife coast allowed panoramic views from Raith across the Firth of Forth, toward North Berwick Law, and away to Arthur's Seat, the extinct volcano looming over the Holyrood parklands. Otherwise, Robert Ferguson was known for two reasons. As a Fellow of the Royal Society of both Edinburgh and London, Ferguson was an amateur mineralogist. Several forms of the rare earth mineral Fergusonite, discovered in Greenland in 1825, were named after him, a mildly radioactive and a semi-precious gemstone. Ferguson was also named in a famous divorce case of 1807 in which his near-neighbor, the Earl of Elgin (purveyor of the infamous Parthenon "Elgin Marbles"), sued him for the alienation of the affections of his wife, Mary Bruce, (neé Nisbet,) winning 10,000 pounds sterling in damages. The scandal put a temporary boot to Ferguson's career as an MP, although his political fortunes recovered; he was Lord Lieutenant of Fife from 1837. Books later through descendants, including Agnes and Mary Berry, heirs and literary executors of the English novelist Horace Walpole, and nieces to the Fergusons of Raith. REFS: Hist. of Parliam'nt online. Bioheritage Libr., Hist. Environment Scotland, Raith Estate. M. Brown, "Scotland's Lost Gardens"(2012). Blunt & Stearn (1994)et al. James Ridgeway, G.R. Lewis, Lawrence Studley, W.H. Jukes et al. (illustratore). Book.
