lowden publishing co (35 risultati)

Hardcover. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. xii, 80 pages. Illustrated. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Top front corner lightly bumped, with a touch of very light shelf wear to DJ, otherwise fine. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. Not a remainder. Not Ex-library. The book appears unread. Protected in a new Brodart cover. VF/F.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine+. Stiff wraps with flaps. Reprint of 1839 work. Claxton, born 1790, was a "Pioneer of the Mechanic's Institute Movement". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1972 hardcover with dust jacket, published in Australia. Clean, UNREAD copy shows edge wear with sealed edge tears and a couple of corner bumps.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 80 pages; Description: 80 p. Plates 23 cm. Subjects: Castlemaine (Vic. ) --History. Series: Historical Briefs series. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 80 pages; Description: 80 p. Plates 23 cm. Subjects: Castlemaine (Vic. ) --History. Series: Historical Briefs series. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good or Better. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good or Better. First. This is withdrawn, ex-library from The National Geographic Society, so it has markings and a card pocket. Jacket has been covered in plastic and taped to the book. Tape has yellowed, and probably with a little care, you could separate it from the book, but I am leaving that up to the buyer. A good working copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Ocr; 98 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Oversized Cloth Hard Cover with dust jacket, 281 pages with color and b/w illustrations; 31.0 x 24.0cms, book and jacket are Very Good; light bumping to corners and spine ends; light wear to jacket, else clean, tight and square.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Book in fair condition. Binding and pages firm and intact. Stain on edge of several pages towards back of book. Front cover has some fading/marks at top and bottom. Dust jacket has wear at edges and tears at top and bottom on the front. Includes B&W illustrations. Inscription signed by author (dated 7.8.77) at bottom of half title page. The author, at the time of writing, was the President of the Castlemaine Historical Society. Here he presents a history of the golden era of this important gold-mining center, located in the rich Forest Creek field. 16 total illustrations, offering a look back into the early 1900's of a unique place in Australian history. The chapters are: ''the Major''s line''; first settlement; off to the diggings; gold discovered; more gold; the camp versus the town; local government; the churches; public utilities; the industries; banks other businesses & hotels; Castlemanine''s Chinese; some immediate localities. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. viii, 95pp index, appendices, bw ills. Or green boards in jacket. A study of events in two Victorian centres during the 1940s and 1950s when stresses in Victorian life were polarizing political opinion. Size: 8vo.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. 335 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. xx, 335pp, b/w photos, text-ills, bibliography, index. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket. The history was published to commemorate the centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales. Size: 8vo.

82+viiipp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Small tear to top edge of lower dustwrapper. Map endpapers and black and white photographic plates. A fine copy. First edition.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. xx, 335pp, b/w photos, text-ills, bibliography, index. Or black cloth boards in dust-jacket. Small crease to front flap, light foxing to page egdes.The history was published to commemorate the centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Canberra, although generally considered a new city, was first settled in 1823 by Lieutenant Joshua John Moore. He took up land in what is now the suburb of Acton. In fact the Canberra Post Office was established in 1863! This volume, which is superbly illustrated with twenty-four pages of black and white plates, holds something of interest for everyone. ** The book has foxing at the edges**.

Hard Cover. Condizione: F-. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original brown cloth gilt (ptrev. owner's name, offsetting to endpapers, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed and nicked); pp. xii, 96 (last blank), with 16 illustrations. A near fine copy.

Paperback, 14x21.5cm, 141pp. Good condition. General light wear. Foxed, yellowed page edges. Owner's name penned at title page. ISBN: 0909706646.

1st Ed. No. 5 in the Historical Briefs series. VIII, 82 PP plus 16 pages with 20 b/w plates. Half title page: vignette with tall ship. FEP: Shires: South Western Victoria. REP: Counties and coastal parishes South Western Victoria. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. Pioneer seamen of the Western Ports, early days at Port Fairy, Portland.

First Edition. A collection of modern verse by Australian children. Pp. 88(last blank), index; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, lightly browned; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, Victoria, 1969. First edition.

Hardcover, spine titles, maps, appendices, index, 22.2x14cm, 63 pages, illustrated, general wear. Nice local school history located in Victoria.

4to, pp. 281; brown heavy card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus. eps, frontis., photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; sl cracking to front gutters; light to moderate cracking to frotn & rear hinges, bsg sl sloppy); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & foxing).

8vo; pp. 24; list of councillors, index; stiff stapled illustrated wrapper, a very good copy. . First edition. Scarce.

Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. Clean brown cloth on boards with gilt title Bendigo Pottery Australia 1858. Tiny touches of rubbing to boards bottom edge. Light foxing to top-edges. Frontis: colour painting of George Duncan Guthrie. Clean contents. Generous colour & b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 281p Dj: clean jacket. Mild rubbing, light scratches. Sunning to spine. Heavy book: 1 kg.

8vo. pp.xv + 271. profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. map end papers. green faux leather hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy.

Med. 8vo; pp. xii, 213; endpaper maps, 64 illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index, original red cloth, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket, a near fine copy. . First Edition.

. Or, where men are made. Pp. xii+168(last blank), 8 plates, appendix; post 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, the laminate a trifle creased; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, tiny surface chip to fore-edge of upper free endpaper verso, title page, edges of leaves slightly damp stained; Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, 1974. No. 5, Historical Reprints Series. *Originally published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1907.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

82 pp including index, map on coloured end-papers, b&w photographic and illustrated plates, edges lightly foxed, else near fine copy in like, illustrated d/j. Historical Briefs Series, No 5. Reproduces original works held in the LaTrobe Collection at the State Library of Victoria.

First Edition. Pp. [ii]+vii+[7](brief biography by Jim Lowden, plus Claxton's will)+160+10(advertisements), text figures; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; Lowden Publishing Co., Melbourne, 2006. First edition. The Mechanics Series: No. 1. *Timothy Claxton (1790-1848) founded the London Mechanical Institution in 1817. In 1823, after 3 years in Russia, he sailed to America, where he established the Boston Mechanics' Institute in 1826, before finally returning to England in 1836 and establishing the Bungay Mechanics' Institute. Based on his self-improvement experiences in the United States and England, His autobiography was originally published in 1839.