Book of the Hand an Illustrated History

fred-gettings

Hamlyn Publ Group Ltd

Book of the Horse

HAMLYN

1st Edition-141 pages. Dust Jacket Worn considering age and pages light yellow ageing, but binding good for 1967.

The World of Cats

Montgomery, John

Chinese Mythology by Christie, Anthony

Chinese Mythology

CHRISTIE, ANTHONY

***COURTESY OF TWOBEARS BOOKS*** One of man's earliest scientific achievements was the measurement of time by an instrument - from the shadow of a tall palm tree or stone obelisk timekeeping has evolved through sundials, water clocks, sand glasses and fire clocks to the quartz and atomic clocks which make space travel possible today. Carriage, grandfather, shelf, bracket - these are some of the clocks described. Watches, which evolved from table clocks and were first worn around the neck, are discussed and many fine, elaborate, jewelled examples are illustrated. The author, Eric Bruton, has traced the eventful history of this progress, and discusses many interesting side developments: that clocks and watches were the first technical products to be traded by Europe with the East; that the mastery of timekeeping at sea in the 18th and 19th centuries brought accurate navigation and the charting of the world's coastlines. There is a chapter devoted to clocks and watches in North America. Certain early American clockmakers gained great eminence, and the finest development of the shelf clock was a purely American design. The continual striving after accuracy has taxed the clockmakers' ingenuity through the centuries, as is clearly shown in the drawing of escapements from the 13th to 19th century. CLOCKS AND WATCHES is liberally illustrated with over two hundred pictures, many in full colour. They portray clocks and watches both weird and wonderful, including an uncommon one of Bilston Boxes - many of which were sham watches of varying degrees of realism.

Clocks and Watches

Engineering & Transportation

Bruton, Eric

Engineering

1972, oversize hardcover edition, Hamlyn (published simultaneously in the UK and US), 152 pages. Black and white / full-color photos throughout.

Caribbean Cooking for Pleasure

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

SLATER, MARY

Regional & International

You don't need to remember a word of French to enjoy using this book. Neither will you need to waste time referring to glossaries of technical terms. All the recipes are given in plain English and methods have been described in detail without resort to chef-haute-cuisine culinary jargon. For this is intended as a first book for keen but busy people who love to cook.

French Cooking for Pleasure

REYNOLDS, Mary

Fruit and Vegetable Cookery

PATTEN, MARGUERITE

Margaret Fulton Cookbook

Hamlyn, Paul

A collection of Love Stories drawn from the literature of many nations. Authors featured are: 
ENGLISH: Sir Thomas Malory, George Pettie, William Corbett, Dickens, George Meredith, Alice Meynell, Gissing, Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, A.E. Coppard, Forster, Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield; 
SCOTTISH: Scott; 
WELSH: Richard Hughes, "The Mabinogion"; 
IRISH: Moore, Yeats, Joyce; 
AMERICAN: Hawthorne, Poe, Bret Harte, Henry James, Willa Cather; 
FRENCH: Prosper Merimee, Maupassant; 
GERMAN: La Motte Fouque, Jacob Wassermann; 
AUSTRIAN: Arther Schnitzler; 
SWISS: Gottfried Keller 
SPANISH: Cervantes 
GEORGIAN: Alexander Kazbek; 
POLISH: Monica Gardner 
RUSSIAN: Turgenev, Dostoevsky,Chekhov 
ESTONIAN: Aino Kallas 
NORWEGIAN: A.L. Kielland 
SWEDISH: Per Hallstrom 
ICELANDIC: Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris 
DUTCH: "Multatuli" 
DANISH: Hans Andersen, M.A. Nexo 
YIDDISH: Shalom Aleichem 
ITALIAN: Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Matteo Bandello, Giovanni Verga 
CHINESE: P'u Sung-Ling 
JAPANESE: Lafcadio Hearn 
HINDU: Nivedita and Coomaraswamy 
PERSIAN: Nizami 
ARABIAN: Arabian Nights 
HEBREW: " Authorized version" of Isaac and Rebekah and The Tragedy of Samson 
GREEK: Homer, Sir George W. Cox, Xenophon, Plutarch 
LATIN: Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Lucius Apeleius

Great Love Stories of All Nations

Robert Lynd

Literature & Fiction

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