- Category = Bibliography,Ephemera,Food & Drink,History,Military,Other Interesting Volumes,Politics,Science & Nature,Sport
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Rodeos de Cow-Boys et les Jeux du Lasso.
Croquis originaux et textes de Paul Coze.
Paris: Société Francaise de Librairie & d'Editions, 1934. Soft cover, limited edition of 1550 numbered copies - this copy unnumbered. Cream covers with an illustration of a rodeo cowboy. Clean and tidy covers. Illustrations by Coze, also four sheets of photographs of cowboys in action. Clean and tidy inside and out. Text in French. 190 pages. 270 x 210 mm (10¾ x 8¼ inches). Couverture souple, tirage limité à 1550 exemplaires numérotés - cet exemplaire non numéroté. Couvertures crème avec une illustration d'un cow-boy de rodéo. Couvertures propres et rangées. Illustrations de Coze, ainsi que quatre planches de photographies de cow-boys en action. Propre et bien rangé à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur. Texte en français. 190 pages. 270 x 210 mm chev
Book ID: 3140More details Price: £35.00 -
Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from His Works with Anecdotal Descriptions of His Famous Caricatures and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries
Book ID: 4077More details Price: £175.00
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Sea Road to the Indies.
An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira.
London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. First British edition. Hardback. In original unclipped dust jacket. Now in protective wrap. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. The map end papers have some age toning in line with the dust jacket. Inside is clean. The dust jacket has a little age-toning and some light rubbing / chips to the corners. Overall a good example. 296 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2889More details Price: £20.00 -
Secret Despatches from Arabia.
Published by Permission of the Foreign Office.
London: 1939. Nice copy of this numbered limited first edition from The Golden Cockerel Press. Cream boards with quarter Niger leather spine and gilt titles by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The black leather is in excellent condition, but the cream boards are a little rubbed on the corners, and slightly soiled. Still attractive though. The end papers have stains where tape has been used (it seems to hold a previous cover). Otherwise the book is in very good clean condition. #458 / 1000 copies. Printed on Arnold's mould made paper. Top edge gilt. Frontis photograph of Lawrence. 173, [2], pp. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3311More details Price: £300.00 -
Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications
London: J. Debrett, 1798. First edition. Two volumes, sympathetically rebound in half calf, with new leather spines, but retaining carefully restored original marbled boards. Original boards a little rubbed, but recent leather all very good. Some spots of foxing internally. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches). Volume I: viii, 526 pp. Volume II: viii, 528 pp.
William Tooke (1744–1820) was a British clergyman and an historian of Russia. This work gives a fascinating historical perspective, not only on his favoured Russia, but also on everything from the way ladies dressed in Peru, to the use of spices in 'the torrid zone'.Book ID: 2490More details Price: £260.00 -
Self - Portrait: U.S.A.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. 325 fascinating b/w photographs giving a unique and intimate insight in to the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968. In publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt, inside its dust jacket. Very good condition dust jacket, with lightly bumped corners (one has a very small closed tear shown in photographs). Book itself is in a fine condition. David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist renowned for his photographs of combat situations in the Vietnam War, during which he was an officer in the Marine Corps. His camera of choice was the Nikon F. This was Nikon's first SLR camera, and one of the most advanced cameras of its day. 240 pages. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches).
Book ID: 2560More details Price: £40.00 -
[Sermones de tempore et de Sanctis]
Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479. An attractive leaf, taken from Bonaventure's Sermons. Printed in black with red highlighting of capitals and key letters. Printed to both sides of the leaf, in two columns. Area of light staining to the bottom corner of the leaf (visible both sides) otherwise in excellent condition. The paper is chain laid paper, with a crude unicorn watermark. Although we have been unable to date / match precisely, the paper and watermark are very similar to some in the graphics arts collection at Princeton University, including one from Bruges dated to 1475 and another dated 1593. Very small damage to the edge where removed from a book. Slight marking to one side of the paper. 270 x190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3336More details Price: £100.00 -
Share certificate 005682
An original signed share certificate with 40 accompanying numbered shares
Seville: Islas del Guadalquivir, 1926. An original share certificate for this Spanish company. Signed in ink by the administrator to the certificate, and stamped with the validation / tax stamp. Now lightly mounted on mounting board, and covered in protective cellophane. Certificate measures 14" x 161/2" Mount is 171/2" x 201/2"
Condition: A little darkening to the paper, and the stamp / signature have faded a touch. light creasing, but nothing significant. A nice example of this certificate.
Book ID: 1704More details Price: £12.00 -
Short sketches of eminent men of the North of England.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1885. Scarce. First Edition. Previously published as articles in the 'Consett Guardian'. Copac lists only two holdings - Newcastle and Oxford. Disbound, but the text block is complete and holding well (Has more the appearance of a tract). Has some age toning, and spots of foxing. Concise biographies of characters such as the "Father of Railways" George Stephenson, former Prime Minister Earl Grey, engineer and industrialist William George Armstrong (1st Baron Armstrong), Victorian ironmaster Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, and others. 160 pages. 185 x 125 mm (7¼ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3029More details Price: £80.00 -
Signed. Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2014 Calendar.
London: Victor Gollancz / Orion Publishing Group, 2013. First Edition. Signed to the front by Terry Pratchett. In very good condition. Unmarked and clean. Signature is a little rubbed but still clear. 300 x 300 mm (11¾ x 11¾ inches). Première édition. Édition collector du calendrier 2014. Signée au recto par Terry Pratchett. En très bon état. Sans marque et propre. La signature est un peu frottée mais reste claire. 300 x 300 mm (11¾ x 11¾ pouces).
Book ID: 4374More details Price: £60.00 -
Silk Menu 1905
Book ID: 4386More details Price: £40.00
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Sino-Japanese Disturbances Souvenir Album.
Book ID: 2001More details Price: £350.00
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Sixteen scenes taken from the Miseries of Human Life by one of The Wretched.
Book ID: 4387More details Price: £325.00
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Slang Esculaap en Gaper,
Medisch-farmaceutische symbolen
Mijdrecht: Roche Nederland B.V, 1993. Fascinating book, dealing with the symbols and representations associated with chemists / apothecaries. Full of colour photographs. 174 pages. Clean and tidy full colour dust wrapper. Book itself is also clean throughout. It appears that a front end paper has been removed, so the book starts with the half title. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2681More details Price: £10.00 -
Soldados Virgenes.
Book ID: 3525More details Price: £28.00
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Some Historical Account of Guinea, its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of its Inhabitants.
With An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, its Nature, and Lamentable effects.
Book ID: 1625More details Price: £350.00
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Soviet Political Posters
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1973. First edition. Stiff card folding portfolio containing a booklet (Text In English, French and Russian) and an attractive set of 32 Soviet Political Posters. Each poster is 400 mm x 295 mm. The portfolio has design in Russian to the front cover. There is a little fading and marking to the predominantly white boards. The booklet is tipped onto the front board. Posters are in excellent condition. To the rear of each poster is the name of the artist and date.
Book ID: 2832More details Price: £125.00 -
Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral illusions showing Ghosts everywhere, and of any Colour.
Book ID: 3834More details Price: £450.00
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Sport in War.
Book ID: 3794More details Price: £35.00
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Spricht im Wormser Stadion der Führer der Nationalsozialisten.
Advertising ticket for Adolf Hitler speech in 1932.
Book ID: 4364More details Price: £120.00