Salagnac, Rene.

La Saone / Le Rhone.

Two Volumes. Lyon, Rene Salagnac, 1958 & 1960. 29 x 20 cm (oblong). 21 and 15 folding Plates. Original stiff cardboard covers. Stapled. Very good condition.

Salagnac, Rene.

La Saone de Lyon A Corre. (Jonction au Canal de l’Est). Carte Pour La Navigation. Echelle: 1/20000 e.

2nd Edition. Lyon, Rene Salagnac, 1958. 20 x 29 cm (oblong). 21 Folding Plates (Feuillet). Original stiff cardboard covers. Stapled. Title on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Internally bright and clean.

Sandwith, Francis.

Camera and Chianti [Signed].

First Edition. London, Nicholas Kaye, 1955. 21 x 14 cm. 187 pages. Illustrated with colour and B&W photographs. Original black cloth hard cover. Inside original decorated dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Jacket with some edgewear and a light stain on the back cover. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Inscribed and signed by the Author on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean.

Scott, Richard J.

The Galway Hookers. Sailing work boats of Galway Bay.

Fourth Edition. With a dedication by the author, signed Dick Scott. Limerick, A.K.Ilen Company, 2004. 17 x 24 cm, 160 pages. Richly illustrated with Colour and B&W photographs, illustrations, maps, plans etc. Includes a 52 minute TG4 documentary on DVD. Original illustrated paperback with foldout flap holding DVD. Excellent condition with only minor shelf wear. DVD present.

Smiles, Samuel.

Lives of the Engineers. Early Engineering: Vermuyden – Myddelton – Perry – James Brindley / The Locomotive: George and Robert Stephenson / History of Roads: Metcalfe: Telford / Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges: Smeaton and Rennie.

A New and Revised Edition. Four Volumes. London, John Murray, 1874. 18 x 12 cm. xxxiii, 320 pages / xl, 388 pages / ix, 331 pages / ix, 389 pages. Illustrated. All volumes bound uniform in 2019. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. New end papers. Original marbled edges. Very good condition. New bindings. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean with many illustrations in B&W. A nice set.

Sotheby & Co.

The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose Esq FSA FRGS. Removed from Barbados Hill Devon, Pennsylvania. The First Portion: Travel & Exploration, Navigation & Trade. A – L.

First Edition. London, Sotheby & Co., 1971. 107 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Losely inserted list of Prices and Buyers’ Names. Original paper covered boards. Hard cover.

Stevenson, David, David Alan & Charles Alexander.

The Principles and Practice of Canal and River Engineering.

Third Edition. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1886. 25 x 16 cm. xiv, 406 pages. With 18 plates (including several fold-outs) and text illustrations. Original dark cloth with gilt title on spine. Dark end papers. Good condition. Binding shaky, but holding. Front hinge fully cracked. Rear hinge starting to crack. Binding rubbed and bumped. Spine ends slightly frayed. Edges and end papers age darkened. Ex Library. A few stamps (ink and blind) on title page (crossed out). Several pages with neat pencil underlinings and a few annotations. Otherwise internally bright and clean with interesting fold out maps.

Stoddard, John L.

Portfolio de Photographies. Des Villes, Paysages et Peintures Celebres Rassemblees sous la Direction du Distingue Conferencier at Voyageur John L. Stoddard.

Chicago, The Werner Co. Not dated [1890 – 1900]. 27 x 34 cm. 260 unnumbered pages with photographs in B&W. Oblong half leather over marbled boards. Decorated end papers. Very good condition. Corners, boards and spine slightly rubbed and bumped. Some age darkening. A few minor closed tears. Minor foxing on some pages.

Stuck, Hudson.

A Winter Circuit of our Arctic Coast. A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-Sleds around the entire Arctic Coast of Alaska.

First Edition. New York, Charles Sribner’s Sons, 1920. 23 x 15 cm. x, (4), 347 pages. Illustrated. With two folding maps and 33 Images. One plate (page 302: ‘Cooking Dog-Feed’ missing). Original cloth binding. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Binding faded (see images). Binding a little shaky with some pages towards the back of the book lose). One plate missing. Overall a nice copy.

Various.

The Times of India. Illustrated Weekly. Christmas Number 1910.

Bombay, The Times of India, 1910. 37 x 28 cm. 112 pages. Illustrated throughout in Colour and B&W. Original heavy paper covers bound in dark cloth boards. Very good condition. Binding severely rubbed, bumped and stained. Internally clean with a few stains, some tears etc. Some pages tape repaired.