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A Mortal Flower
Book ID: 3740More details Price: £28.00
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A Natural History of British Moths - 4 volumes.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. Four Volumes. Third Edition. Complete with 132 plates.Containing nearly two thousand specimens all coloured by hand. Original dark green decorated buckram. Slight fading / rubbing to the gilt. Handling to top and base of spine. Bump / crease to the front of Vol III (see images). Internally clean and tidy with slight foxing to the end papers. Morris is "best known by his works on natural history, which, although popular rather than scientific, had much literary value" (DNB). xvi, 253., iv, 180., iv, 233., iv, 5-322. pp. 260 x 160 mm (10¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2171More details Price: £350.00 -
A Newly Discovered Treatise on Classic Letter Design printed at Parma by Damianus Moyllus circa 1480
reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Stanley Morison
Paris: At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1927. First Edition. White spine with gilt titles. Blue/grey boards with gilt design. Internally clean and tidy throughout. An very nice copy. This edition of the Alphabet of Damianus Moyllus of Parma, consisting of 350 copies, of which 300 are for sale, all on Arches paper, with text in Poliphilus and Blado types has been printed by the Officina Bodoni, Montagnola Switzerland 1927. Unpaginated. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 3432More details Price: £225.00 -
A Noisy Book!
Aylesbury: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1971. First edition. Hardback blue cloth boards, inside the original unclipped dust jacket. Pre-school book that's simple and funny. 32 unnumbered pages. 235 x 205 mm (9¼ x 8 inches).
Book ID: 3659More details Price: £60.00 -
A Nude Study in Pastel
Book ID: 2751More details Price: £275.00
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A pair of Victorian miniatures of Pixies
Book ID: 3439More details Price: £480.00
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À Paris sous la botte des Nazis.
Book ID: 3615More details Price: £75.00
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A Paris sous la botte des nazis - Un an - Victoire des Français en Italie; Huit mois de campagne vus par les correspondant de guerre.
Book ID: 4097More details Price: £150.00
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A Pastor's Farewell.
Twelve Sermons, Including the Last Eight Preached in Trinity Church, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1150More details Price: £30.00 -
A Philosophical Investigation.
The Mind of a Killer - the Heart of Murder.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Clean and tidy dust wrapper. White is still bright! Book itself is clean and tidy. A little darkening to the pages only. Neatly signed. 330 pages.
240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).Book ID: 2306More details Price: £25.00 -
A Photo-Album of a World Tour.
A German family travel around the world.
Book ID: 3445More details Price: £680.00
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A photograph album featuring Egypt, Ireland and France.
55 silver gelatin tourist photographs.
Book ID: 3836More details Price: £125.00
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A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism
Edition: Reprint
Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc, 1991. Reprint of the single volume edition. Part 1: On the Spheres of the Tree of Life. Part II: On the Paths and the Tarot Dustwrapper has a few closed tears and consequent creasing. A tiny amount of loss. Still presentable. Book itself is hardback in red cloth. Clean and tidy throughout. Loosely tipped into the front end paper is the prospectus for an evening course of study on Knight's work. 321 pages.
Book ID: 1960More details Price: £60.00 -
A Practical Introduction to the Study of Japanese Writing.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1669More details Price: £350.00 -
A Princess Comes to Our Town.
With 12 illustrations by Gertrude Lindsay.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. First edition. Gold blocked cloth case hardback binding. Lovely illustrations, including frontis. Boards have a little bumping and are slightly grubby / handled. Inside very clean. vii, 119 pp. 175 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).
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Book ID: 4195More details Price: £25.00 -
A private collection of photographs recording the Royal visits to the ideal home exhibition at Olympia in 1954
Book ID: 4031More details Price: £750.00
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A Relation of Several Circumstances Which Occurred in Lower Normandy, During the Revolution,
and Under the Governments of Robespierre and the Directory, Commencing in the year 1789, down to the year 1800, with a detail of the confinement and sufferings of the author; together with an account of the Manners and Rural Customs of the inhabitants of that part of the country called the Bocage, in Lower Normandy, with the treatment of their cattle, nature of soil, cultivation and harvesting of their crops, domestic management, &c.
London: J. Hatchard, 1802. First Edition. Ex library edition with library marks and stamps. Half leather with marbled boards. Boards in heavily rubbed condition with spine almost completely missing (small section saved inside book). Crudely repaired with tape. Inside medium to heavy foxing. Overall fair condition - hence low price. Very scarce. vii, 306, 2pp. 220 x 135 mm (8¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3356More details Price: £125.00 -
A Series of Views Illustrative of Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture:
Sketched from nature and drawn on stone by Joseph Nash, pupil to Augustus Pugin. With letter-press descriptions by W.H. Leeds.
London: A. Pugin at his office, 1830. First Edition. Original buckram boards with leather spine and gilt titles. A touch of rubbing to the boards and the spine edges, but still an attractive copy. Slight fading to the edges of the boards.
Engraved title, title and a further 21 plates (so 22 plates including title), plus 20 pages of Leed's text. Some foxing /darkening to the plates. [iv], 20, [22] pp. 350 x 265 mm (13¾ x 10½ inches).Book ID: 2826More details Price: £400.00 -
A Sermon at the Funeral of Sr Edmund-Berry Godfrey
One of his Majesties Justices of the Peace, Who was Barbarously Murthered. Preached on Thursday the 1st day of October 1678. In the Parish Church of St. Martin in the Fields.
Book ID: 1813More details Price: £220.00
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A Sermon on the anniversary of the Great Fire of London
London: Robert Sollers, 1682. The title of the tract is: A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at Bow Church, September the 2d 1682. Being the day of their Publick Humiliation for the late dreadful Fire.
The fire started on 2nd September 1666. After the event King Charles ordered that there should be a day of fasting and public humiliation on the anniversary each day. This sermon was given on the 16th anniversary.
Recent faux leather binding with gilt title. very good condition. The sermon itself is in very good, clean condition, with just a touch of darkening. 28 pages. 200 x 150 mm (7¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3034More details Price: £120.00