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A set of 12 Pharmaceutical advertising cards.
Book ID: 3446More details Price: £70.00
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A Short Account of the Origin and Progress of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain:
With an Appendix of Documents, intended as An Introduction to the First Annual Report.
Edition: First Edition
London: C. Richards: 1839. A thin volume, not bound up (as issued) Titles and monogram of the institute to the front cover. Sewn. The list of patrons and the committee, led by the Earl of Shrewsbury, includes Lord Clifford as one of the (many) Vice Presidents. The Catholic Institute grew out of the Metropolitan Catholic Tract Society. The organisation was formed "To protect the rights of Conscience of the Poorer classes of Catholics and to promote the interests of Religion and charity." Irish M.P. Daniel O'Connell was also involved in the establishment of the Institute. Led initially by the Hon. Charles Langdale M.P. 16pp.
Condition: Clean and tidy copy of this work. The pages are almost without mark, and the printing has made a clean, deep impression.
Book ID: 1299More details Price: £5.00 -
A sketchbook containing original pencil, ink and charcoal sketches
Book ID: 3289More details Price: £200.00
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A Soggarth's Last Verses
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1201More details Price: £20.00 -
A Song of the English
Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. A nice copy of this edition, with Heath Robinson's illustrations. 12 full page colour plates, Clean blue cloth with gilt titles & illustrations. There seem to be two variant bindings of the ordinary edition. This one, and another with a different gilt illustration and titles to the front board. This seems to be a cheaper edition, with 12, rather than 30 tipped in plates. A little rubbing to the boards. Very slight cracking to the rear hinge. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of foxing only. Two gift inscriptions - one 1913 and one 1921. Overall a very nice copy. Unpaginated. 205 by 155mm (8 by 6 inches).
Book ID: 3499More details Price: £60.00 -
A Tolkien Bestiary.
London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers Limited, 1979. First Edition. In original unclipped colour illustrated dust jacket. Here, David day lucidly has identified, analysed and described 129 separate imaginary beasts from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy worlds. Cream cloth covered boards in good clean state. Dust jacket clean, but has closed tear to spine. There is no loss, and now the book is under a clear protective cover it is almost imperceptible. Book inside is clean and full of colour and b/w illustrations and explanatory text. 287 pages. 285 x 215 mm (11¼ x 8½ inches).
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A Travel Photograph Album Of England, Germany, South Tyrol And Austria.
Book ID: 2911More details Price: £475.00
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A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed.
Book ID: 3529More details Price: £1,850.00
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A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls,
In Which Their Importance Is Considered: And Plain Rules Are Exhibited for Ascertaining the Value of Both; And the True Method of Manufacturing Diamonds.
London: W. L. Molyneux, 1871. Fourth edition (first 1750) in blue cloth hardback. Gilt decoration to front board and gilt title to spine. Boards bumped, and faded to spine edge. Spine has a horizontal split in the centre of the cloth. Ex Libris to front pastedown. Old newspaper clipping to the front free endpaper. This has transferred toning to the title page. Otherwise very clean and tidy inside. Pagination: xxiii, 96, 30 (tables). 180 x 110 mm (7 x 4¼ inches).
Famous handbook for jewellers and antique dealers, or those with gemology collections.Book ID: 2960More details Price: £50.00 -
A Treatise on Prayer:
Designed to assist in the Devout Discharge of that Duty.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1346More details Price: £30.00 -
A Vanished World.
London: Allen Lane, 1984. Second printing of this fascinating photo-book. In hardback in brown boards, under original unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Elie Wiesel, himself a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. This book is illustrated with a comprehensive selection (180) of Vishniac's celebrated photographs of the Jews of Eastern Europe in the lead up to World War Two. Many of the photos are are full-page. The images were taken secretly, under difficult circumstances, between 1934 and 1939, and the negatives smuggled out sewn in to clothing etc. It is not an over statement to say that these photographs remain important to preserve for posterity unforgettable images of pre-war Jewish life. Unpaginated [96 pages]. 315 x 315 mm
Book ID: 3618More details Price: £40.00 -
A View of the Art of Colonization with Present Reference to the British Empire in Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist.
London: John W. Parker, 1849. A very nice rebound copy of this work. First edition. Bound in half brown leather with marbled boards. Clean and tidy with very slight rubbing only. The text block is clean, if fractionally darkened. Errata slip present. A classic work in the theory of colonization. Wakefield proposes among other things the creation of a colony in New Zealand to be administered by the Church of England, thus disarming missionary opposition. In fact, the first emigrant ships left for the Canterbury settlement in 1850, and Wakefield himself left for New Zealand in 1853, eventually settling in Wellington. 230 by 150mm (9 by 6 inches). xxiv, 1-514, 6 (ads). pp.
Book ID: 2448More details Price: £180.00 -
A View of the R-G-T's Bomb.
Book ID: 4343More details Price: £125.00
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A Village Tragedy.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. Second edition. In original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. 'The story is set between the deadly slums of London and the threatening fields, ponds and railway lines of the Oxfordshire countryside.' (Times Literary Supplement). Has a slight lean. Some moderate foxing throughout. 229 pp. 175 x 125 mm (7 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 2099More details Price: £20.00 -
A Vindication of the Answer to the Popish Address Presented to the Ministers of the Church of England.
In Reply to a Pamphlet abusively Intituled, A Clear Proof of the Certainty and Usefulness of the Protestant Rule of Faith &C.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1444More details Price: £75.00 -
A Voyage to Senegal;
Or, Historical, Philosophical, and Political Memoirs, Relative To The Discoveries, Establishments, and Commerce of Europeans In The Atlantic Ocean, From Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone. To Which Is Added An Account Of A Journey From Isle St. Louis To Galam.
London: Richard Phillips, 1806. First English edition. Recent half leather binding with marbled boards and matching endpapers. Translated from the French. Fold out frontis map entitled: 'Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone with the courses of the Rivers Senegal and Gambia, Shewing the Journey of M. Durand from Senegal to Galam', plus seven aquatint plates. Contents have foxing throughout. Two plates are in facsimile. 181 + (3) pp. 215 x 135 mm (8½ x 5¼ inches).
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Book ID: 2620More details Price: £240.00 -
A Water Colour of Mary in the Style of Raphaël.
Une aquarelle de Marie dans le style de Raphaël.
Book ID: 3821More details Price: £275.00
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A Window in Thrums.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. By the creator of Peter Pan. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
This copy was owned by Mrs Van der Poorten Schwartz - the wife of Dutch author Maarten Maartens. Almost certainly given to her by William Robertson Nicoll, who wrote anecdotes of 19th Century Literary history with T.J. Wise, and edited 'The Expositor' for Hodder & Stoughton.
Book ID: 2380More details Price: £120.00 -
A Wonderful Likeness
Book ID: 2987More details Price: £150.00
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ABC de Sportsman.
Robes et Marques / Conformations, Tares, Vices, Redhibitoires / Les Races.
Book ID: 2191More details Price: £300.00