- Category = Bibliography,Ephemera,Food & Drink,History,Military,Other Interesting Volumes,Politics,Science & Nature,Sport
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A loyal tear dropt on the vault of the high and mighty Prince Charles II. Of glorious and happy memory...
Book ID: 2822More details Price: £300.00
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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 -
À Paris sous la botte des Nazis.
Book ID: 3615More details Price: £75.00
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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 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 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 -
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 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 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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ABC de Sportsman.
Robes et Marques / Conformations, Tares, Vices, Redhibitoires / Les Races.
Book ID: 2191More details Price: £300.00
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Acts of Defiance.
London: Reindhardt Books in Association with Viking, 1992. First edition. Black cloth with pictorial dust wrapper. Slight handling to the wrapper. Fractional fading to the spine edge. Overall an excellent example. Now in clear protective wrap. Xiii, 370 pp. 240 x 150 mm (9½ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2328More details Price: £14.00 -
Adam's Rib. A defence of woman's sexuality
Book ID: 4253More details Price: £50.00
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Alastair Campbell.
New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class.
Edition: First Edition
London: Aurum Press Ltd, 1999. Pictorial dust wrapper, over red boards. First edition, signed dedication by author to a political correspondent. Several b/w photos. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches).x, 230 pp. Very good. Both the book and the wrapper are in a very good condition. It has signs of previous use but overall is in tight condition. Although hidden, there is a small damp stain to the inside of the wrapper and corner of front board.
Book ID: 2028More details Price: £28.00 -
Album de L'internat 1933 - 1934.
Book ID: 3286More details Price: £85.00