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Grievances in Ireland
Dublin: James Duffy & Co. Ltd. A propaganda pamphlet issued against the Home Rule bill in 1913. Fifth Edition. Contains six Articles. 1. Dublin Bigotry; 2. The Scourge of Proselytism; 3. The Northern Babylon; 4. All Ireland v. North East Ulster; 5. Orange Justices and Juries. 6. Protestant Ascendancy. The rear cover has "some facts about Proselytism". A clean and tidy booklet. A touch of darkening to the wrappers only. 32 pages.
Book ID: 1836More details Price: £320.00 -
Grimm's Law: a study
or hints towards an explanation of the so-called "Lautverschiebung" to which are added some remarks on the primitive Indo-European K and several appendices.
London and Strassburg: Trübner & Co, 1876. Ex-library, in green cloth hardback binding. The cloth has split to the front hinge, for the entire length, but as this is a surface split, the binding is holding well. There are the usual library stamps inside, plus a bookplate to the front which says it was donated to the library by the executors of the late W. J. Ashdown Esq. Overall an interesting, in generally good condition, and scarce. xvi, 231 pp. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3973More details Price: £80.00 -
Grimm's Märchen
Mainz: Jos. Scholz, 1914. Scarce, early collection of fairy tales from the series "Scholz' artist picture books" - the publisher's number #137. Hardback illustrated boards, with cloth spine. Boards somewhat rubbed at corners. Contains: Sneewittchen, Rotkäppchen, Dornröschen, Hänsel und Gretel, Frau Holle, Aschenputtel, Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich, Brüderchen und Schwesterchen, Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Hase und Swinegel. Unpaginated, but 40 pages with numerous illustrations, some full-page and colour. Text in German. Book block a little loose, and has been previously reinforced at front. Small gift inscription to front blank. 260 x 185 mm (10¼ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3736More details Price: £80.00 -
Großer Zank
zwischen einem Mann und seiner Frau: wer von beiden die Hosen tragen und im Haus die Ober-Herrschaft haben soll. Die zwietracht
Book ID: 4305More details Price: £200.00
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Guerres et Propagande,
ou comment armer les esprits.
Le Crédit communal, 1983. Catalogue from an exhibition of the same name at Passage 44, Bruxelles, from 15 September to 30 October 1983. Large format, glossy soft back covers. In excellent condition, inside and out. 165 pages: illustrations; some in colour. Depicting propaganda posters etc. Text in French. Edited by André Miroir and Charles Picqué. 300 x 210 mm (11¾ x 8¼ inches).
. Catalogue de l'exposition du même nom au Passage 44, Bruxelles, du 15 septembre au 30 octobre 1983. Grand format, couverture souple et brillante. En excellent état, tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur. 165 pages : illustrations, certaines en couleur. Représentation d'affiches de propagande, etc. Texte en français. Édité par André Miroir et Charles Picqué. 300 x 210 mm.
Book ID: 4189More details Price: £30.00 -
Guide to Fountains Abbey
Plans and Illustrations from photographs by W. Wainwright.
Edition: Reprint
Ripon: W. Harrison & Son (C. Harker), 1922. Pale green paper covers with black titles. Advert for a similar book to the rear panel. This is the Third Edition, with the price One Shilling boldly printed to the front panel. Adverts to the inside covers. Stapled. A nice clean copy. Small stamp with "west lodge, Fountains Abbey" to the front cover - perhaps the then bookshop for the Abbey? Light rusting to the staples, otherwise clean and tidy inside and out. Not a first, but a very early edition of this guide to the Cistercian ruins. Black and white photographs throughout. [x], 48, [x], pp.
Book ID: 1252More details Price: £8.00 -
Hand Painted Mother of Pearl fan
Book ID: 4382More details Price: £325.00
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Hand-coloured Copper Engraving of Sheep from 'Historia Naturalis'
Amsterdam: Johann Jacob Schipper. Single sheet from 'Historia Naturalis' published 1657 and engraved by Matthaus [Matthew] Merian. Beautifully hand-coloured, in excellent condition, under cream passe partout. This would look great framed. 295 x 180 mm (11½ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2932More details Price: £50.00 -
Handbook of Engraved Gems.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. Second edition. A sound copy of this edition. Ex-library copy. Rebound in brown library cloth with gilt titles to spine. Complete, including neatly folded frontispiece, and all woodcut plates, including one other folding. A little bumping to binding. Internally clean, with just a little darkening to some page edges. Usual library stamps - including to title page. Overall an good copy. ix [iii] 288 LXXXVII plates pp. 250 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3980More details Price: £40.00 -
Handbuch der Original-Graphik - Register Band.
in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen (HDO)
Düsseldorf: Editions GS, 1994. First edition of this index / Register of the six volumes of this handbook. Limited to 600 (unnumbered) copies. Clean grey linen with black titles. No wrapper. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Glossy paper. 42pp with a handful of black and white illustrations to the final pages. 285 by 215mm (11¼ by 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3629More details Price: £125.00 -
Happy England.
as painted by Helen Allingham R.W.S. With memoir and descriptions by Marcus B. Huish LL.B.
London: Adam and Charles Black: 1903. First Edition. In hardback publisher's blue binding with flower design. Gilt title to front board and spine.Complete with 81 fine colour plates, each with captioned tissue guard. B/w frontis portrait of Allingham. Top page edges gilt. Boards lightly bumped to corners. Foxing to front and rear endpapers, otherwise a very clean and tidy book. xi., 204 pp. 230 x 175 mm (9 x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2948More details Price: £50.00 -
Happy Playmates.
A volume of original pictures, stories and verses.
Book ID: 4342More details Price: £30.00
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Hard To Believe Too Old At Sixteen.
Durham: The Memoir Club, 1999. Hardback in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed to the title page, and inscribed by the author to 'My Mentor Douglas' to the front endpaper. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust jacket.
The author's own telling of his thirty four years in the Coldstream Guards, (retiring as Major Quartermaster). Later he became Staff Superintendent at the House of Lords. Full of anecdotes - including some involving Margaret Thatcher, and members of the British Royal Family. With b/w and colour photos, and cartoons by Bill Tidy. 240 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).Book ID: 3296More details Price: £30.00 -
Harvey S. Firestone 1868 - 1938
Book ID: 4326More details Price: £70.00
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Heath's Book of Beauty for 1842
with Beautifully Finished Engravings, from Drawings by the First Artists.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842. An attractive Victorian plate book. Full brown leather with gilt decoration to the front and rear boards and gilt titles to the spine. Some rubbing to the spine edges. All edges gilt. Yellow end papers with more recent owner's name to the end paper. Half title, Frontis portrait of a very young looking Queen Victoria with tissue guard. Engraved title page with vignette. Second title page. An additional 12 engraved plates. Full of poetry, stories etc. An attractive copy. viii, 280 pp. 245 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3324More details Price: £50.00 -
Hello Camel.
Berlin: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. First edition. Christoph Bangert, is a German photojournalist who documents crises for international publications. This photo book is a response to being embedded with the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a documentary of human striving to create something approximating 'normality' in the face of violence and chaos. Decorated cloth. Signed and numbered to the title page. 225 of an unspecified limitation. Unpaginated. 320 by 245 mm (12½ by 9¾ inches). Comes wrapped in a proof page / printer's page from the production, with a camel printed upon it. Excellent condition.
Book ID: 2481More details Price: £50.00 -
Henry Moore
Dutch language edition
Edition: First Edition
Den Haag: W. Gaade N.V: 1968. First edition. Somewhat darkened pictorial dust wrapper, with a touch of nicking / edgewear to it. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Full of black and white photographs of Moore's work 240pp
Book ID: 1982More details Price: £38.00 -
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
Book ID: 2828More details Price: £150.00
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Het luthersche Weeshuis, te zien van de Binnenplaats
Book ID: 4289More details Price: £100.00
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Het Toppunt der Beschaving prenten naar teekeningen van Louis Raemaekers uit de jaren van den wereld
Portfolio met 7 uitgaven
Book ID: 3940More details Price: £60.00