7781. Veitch, James (Royal Exotic Nursery).

A Manual of the Coniferae – Containing a General Review of the Order; a Synopsis of the Hardy Kinds Cultivated in Great Britain; Their Place and Use in Horticulture, Etc., Etc. With numerous woodcuts and illustrations.

First Edition. London (Chelsea), James Veitch & Sons (Royal Exotic Nursery), 1881. Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 350 pages. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s highly decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament. The Volume in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition of the binding with with only minor signs of external wear. Binding a little shaky.

7782. Velikovsky, Immanuel.

Worlds in Collision.

Fifth Printing of the First Abacus Edition. London, Sphere Books, 1974. 13 x 19,5 cm. 384 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Abacus]

7783. Veniard, John.

Fly Fishing. Sports Illustrated. Revised.

London, Adam & Charles Black, year of publication. 12 x 12 cm. Pages (IX, 613 pages.) Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Black’s Picture Sports.

7784. Veniard, John/ Downs, Donald.

Modern Fly-Tying Techniques.

Second Edition. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1979. 21.5cm x 14.8cm. 112 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7785. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Veniard, John.

Reservoir and Lake Flies/ Fly Dresser’s Guide/ Further Guide to Fly Dressing/ Fly Dressing Materials. Four Volumes. With drawings by Donald Downs. Volume Four with a foreword by Taff Price.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1977-1979. 12 x 12 cm. 184, 256, 266, 146 pages. Each volume includes colour and monochrame plates and many drawings. Original Hardcovers with original illustrated (price-clipped) dustjackets. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7786. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Veniard, John.

Trout Flies / Salmon Flies / Wet Flies. A collection of 7 pamphlets by John Veniard: No. 1. Trout and Salmon Flies [Dressings of 30 Dry Flies – 30 Wet Flies – 4 May Flies – 4 Fan Wing Flies – 8 Salmon Flies / [Possibly No. 2 (unnumbered): Fly Tying for the Beginner (Salmon) / No.3. Wet Flies – Dressings of Eighty-two useful Wet Fly Patterns / No.4: Salmon Flies – Dressings of Thirty-Two Salmon Fly Patterns (Supplementary to coloured Folder No.4 “Salmon Flies” / Possibly No. 5 (unnumbered): Trout Flies – Dressings of 140 Dry Fly and Wet Fly Patterns, 72 of them illustrated in colour / No. 6: One Hundred and one Fly Dressings – Trout – Sea-Trout – Lake Trout – Grayling / No.7: Fifty Salmon Fly Dressings /

Thornton Heath, E.Veniard, ca. 1965. 8°. Each pamphlet with ca. 20 pages. No. 5 with 43 pages. Original Softcover (printed wrappers). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some scribbling on a few of the pamphlets. Rare collection.

7787. Verdijk, Gerard.

Zeichnungen von Gerard Verdijk.

Bilingual (Deutsch/Nederlands). Solothurn, Galerie Medici, 1976. 21 cm x 29 cm. 24 seiten / pagina’s. Original Softcover. Katalog / Catalogus. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren / In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage.

7788. Verheyen, Philippe.

Corporis Humani Anatomiae [Two Volumes in One – Bound with: Supplementum anatomicum sive anatomiae corporis humani liber secundus]. With 46 plates / medical engravings.

Editio secunda. Two Volumes in One (complete). Bruxelles / Brussels, Fratres t’Serstevens, 1710. Quarto (17 cm x 20 cm). Volume I: Frontispice, [30], 400 pages / Volume II: XV, 428, [12] pages. Hardcover / Original, contemporary parchment. Plates complete and with some general browning. Besides a minor discoloration to the frontboard, in very good condition of one of the most important anatomical compendiums of the 17th and 18th century, effectively replacing Bartholinus. with only minor signs of external wear. Three signs of previous owners through the centuries (Bookplate of H C Lohmann / Manuscript entry by Joh. Caspar Metzger on the titlepage and manuscript ownership-entry from the 18th century by one Christopher Harden to pastedown.

7789. Walter-Verlag.

Seattle – Wir sind ein Teil der Erde. Die Rede des Häuptlings Seattle vor dem Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika im Jahre 1855.

Olten, Walter-Verlag, 1985. 12 cm x 20.5 cm. 37 pages. Some black and white photographs throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7790. Verne, Jules.

Cuaird an domhain i gceithre fichid lá – Le Tour du Monde en Quatre Vingt Jours. Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (Torna) d’aistrigh.

[First gaelic edition of “Around the World in Eighty Days”]. Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1938. (8º). 408 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket Design by M.A.Keane. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

7791. Verne, Jules.

Mathias Sandorf [Part I: “The Conspirators of Trieste” / Part II: The Captives of Antekirtta”. Complete set in the very rare Non-Pears’ editions in Light Green and Teal, with Grey Banner and no Pear’s Advertising to the rear of both Volumes]. With Illustrations [by Léon Benett].

Two Volumes (complete set). London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. Small Octavo (13 cm wide x 18,6 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, 192 pages including six illustrations (the Frontispiece included) / Volume II: Frontispiece, 204 pages including six illustrations (the Frontispiece included). Hardcover / Original 19th century publisher’s binding with illustrated front-cover. Both bindings very shaky but holding. Name of preowner J.or F. Crawford on titlepages. Some writing on endpaper of Part I (all writing in pencil !). Overall absolutely in Very good- condition.

7792. Verne, Jules / [Austin, Henry].

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Illustrated [with two Frontispieces] by Henry Austin.

Two Volumes in One (complete). London, Ward, Lock & Co., no year (c. 1902). Octavo (14 cm x 18,5 cm). Part I: Frontispiece (with Nautilus Submarine), VII, 146 pages / Part II: Frontispiece, 185 pages plus 6 pages of advertising. Hardcover / Original, very decorative, illustrated publisher’s binding with a stunning design after Henry Austin. The notoriously fragile publication was professionally rectored and strengthened with new endpapers. Tight and firm. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by a private owner: “″James Ernest Howell, with love from his father”.

7793. Verney, Frances Parthenope.

Memoirs of the Verney family during the seventeenth century.

Second edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Longmans, 1904. 14 cm x 20cm. Volume I: XXI, 582 pages / Volume II: X, 574 pages. Original Hardcover (red cloth) with spinelabels. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spines of both volumes slightly rubbed. Spine-labels slightly detached.

7794. Vernon, Tom.

Fat Man On A Bicycle.

London, Michael Joseph Limited, 1981. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 288 Pages with Several Illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription to previous owner on endpaper.

7795. Vertot, Abbe René-Aubert de. / Mitchel, J. / [Provenance: George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery]

The History of the Revolution in Sweden – Occasion’d by the Changes of Religion, and Alteration of the Government, in that Kingdom. Written Originally in French, by the Abbot Vertot: Printed at Paris. And Done into English, by J. Mitchel, M. D.

The Sixth Edition. London, Printed for James and John Knapton, 1729. Octavo. [24], 312 pages. Hardcover / Original full calf, recently rebacked in beautiful style of the 18th century by an english master-bindery. With gilt lettering and ornament to the new spine. Original boards preserved. Excellent condition after the restoration with Exlibris / Bookplates of three previous owners: William Bartlett / Erik Haugaard / and most importantly with the anonymous armorial bookplate (″Libertas”) of George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery (died 1783) [The titlepage signed by George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery]. Wonderfully clean and on excellent paper.

7796. [English History Collection] – Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian.

The British Countryside in Pictures. In four illustrated sections, each introduced by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.

First Edition. London, Odhams Press Ltd, 1946. 18 x 25 cm. 320 pages including numerous photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor traces of foxing only.

7797. Vespa, Amleto.

Secret Agent of Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism. With an Introductory Note By H.J. Timperley, China Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1938. 14 cm x 22 cm. XIV, 287 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight rubbing to the spine and frontcover.

7798. Vicchio, Stephen J.

The Voice from the Whirlwind, the Problem of Evil and the Modern World.

Westminster, Christian Classics, Inc., 1989. 22.8cm x 15.2cm. 326 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7799. Vico, Giambattista.

Principi di una Scienza Nuova Intorno Alla Natura Delle Nazioni. Ristampa anastatica dell’edizione Napoli 1725, sequita da concordanze e indici di frequenza. Volume I: Ristampa anastatica a cura T.Gregory.

Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo & Bizzarri. 1979. 20.8cm x 15.4cm. 15, 270, (12) pages. Original illustrated softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Lessico Intellettuale Europeo – XVIII].

7800. Victoria and Albert Museum.

English Cabinets.

London, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1972. 21 x 30 cm. Approximately 60 pages – with illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.