- Category = Bibliography,Ephemera,Food & Drink,History,Military,Other Interesting Volumes,Politics,Science & Nature,Sport
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Church Wealth in Mexico;
A Study of the 'Juzgado de Capellanías' in the Archbishopric of Mexico 1800-1856.
Cambridge University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardback in red cloth with gilt and burgundy title to spine. Inside original unclipped dust jacket. In a near fine condition. 139 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2893More details Price: £20.00 -
Cold Steel: A Practical Treatise on the Sabre.
Based on the Old English Backsword Play of the Eighteenth Century Combined with the Method of the Modern Italian School also Various Other Weapons of the Present Day.
London: William Clowes and Sons Limited, 1889. First edition. Original burgundy boards with titles and decoration of a sabre to the front board. Slight fading to the spine. chipping to the top edge. The front and rear hinges are loose to the boards, and the end papers cracking. Still holding though. Internally in very good condition with a touch of darkening only. Alfred Hutton FSA (10 March 1839 – 18 December 1910) was a Victorian officer of the King's Dragoon Guards, writer, antiquarian and swordsman. He originated the first English revival of historical fencing, and after retiring from the army, went on to teach stage fencing.
Book ID: 2172More details Price: £300.00 -
Commentarium de Urethrae Corporis Glandisque Structura
Book ID: 3041More details Price: £700.00
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Communism: Why Prolong its Death-Throes?
Occasional Paper 46. Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies.
London: Alliance Publishers, 1990. Booklet with glossy soft covers. This work's preface states: "Charting the course of Soviet imperial expansion, from 1945 to its high point at the end of the 1970s, he [Crozier] dissents from President Gorbachev's view that the Brezhnev years were an 'age of stagnation', affirming that, on the contrary, they saw a rapid increase in Soviet naval and military power, at a time of demoralisation and uncertainty in the West". In excellent clean condition. 59 pages. 210 x 150 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).
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Book ID: 3948More details Price: £50.00 -
Cool Orchids and How to Grow Them.
With a Descriptive list of all the Best Species in Cultivation
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1874. A lovely copy of this first edition. green cloth with gilt titles and border to the front board. Frontis engraving of an Orchid House (complete with waterfall). Four beautifully hand coloured plates and black and white engraved vignettes and illustrations throughout. The cloth is in very nice clean condition, with just a little bumping to the top of the spine. Internally clean, but very slightly darkened. iv. 160 pages. 180 by 120mm (7 by 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 3081More details Price: £90.00 -
Costume du Moyen Âge d'après les manuscrits, peintures et monuments contemporains
Book ID: 4118More details Price: £350.00
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
London: Longman, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1868. Full leather binding decorated in gilt, spine panelled with raised bands. Endpapers and all page edges marbled. There is light rubbing to boards, but the spine is in excellent condition. This is two volumes bound as one: 412 pp. + 434 pp. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3054More details Price: £40.00 -
Croquis de guerre faits à Bruxelles
Book ID: 4400More details Price: £400.00
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Crossman. The Pursuit of Power.
London: Jonathon Cape, 1990. First edition. Original black cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. Both clean and tidy. Now in clear protective wrap. A little darkening to the page edges only. Tiny nick to head of wrapper. xiv, 370 pp. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches)
Book ID: 2326More details Price: £10.00 -
CUBA
Book ID: 4108More details Price: £30.00
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D'un Age à l'Autre.
Book ID: 3160More details Price: £40.00
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Das Dritte Reich im Spiegel der Weltpresse: Historische Documente über Den Kampf des Nationalsozialismus Gegen die Ausländische Lügenhetze
Leipzig: Armanen, 1934. 1st Editions. Soft covers (No dust wrapper). The wrapper looks as if it was once integral but has been removed - presumably to make anonymous an undesirable publication. This act is perhaps as interesting as the books itself. Details in pencil to the front cover. A little foxing to the paper edges. Library discard stamp to the title page - otherwise clean and tidy glossy pages throughout. An analysis of foreign press reports about the Nazi Party, its policies and its leaders. Numerous political cartoons. Published on behalf of the NSDAP. Bomer was the head of the Press department of the Foreign policy department of the Nazi party. 173, [i] pp. 230 by 160mm (9 by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3641More details Price: £120.00 -
De Bononiensi Scientiarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia.
Book ID: 3382More details Price: £2,200.00
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De Cabbalisticis Inventis Libri Duo
avec une introduction et des notes de François Secret
Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1978. First Edition. Nice copy of this bibliography of Cabbalistic works. Part of the Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica series (vol. XXV). Green cloth with gilt titles. Clean and tidy inside and out with no significant marks. 79 pages. 250 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches). Federico Borromeo was an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan.
Book ID: 3384More details Price: £30.00 -
de L'Irlande et des Irlandais griefs contre L'angleterre
traduit de L'anglais par Ortaire Fournier.
Edition: First Thus
Paris: Chez J. Delahaye, 1845. Probably a French pirated edition (even his name was spelt incorrectly). Cloth with buckram spine and corners. A little battered, but holding well. Internally clean and tidy, but with moderate foxing to the pages. Location markings, but no indication that this was a library book. 406. pp. 190 x 135 mm (7½ x 5¼ inches). Probablement une édition française piratée (même son nom était mal orthographié). Toile avec dos et coins en bougran. Un peu abîmé, mais tient bien. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé, mais avec des rousseurs modérées sur les pages. Marques de localisation, mais aucune indication qu'il s'agissait d'un livre de bibliothèque. 406 pages. 190 by 135 mm.
Book ID: 1874More details Price: £75.00 -
De opmaat tot de Opstand: Zeeland en het centraal gezag (1566-1572)
Hilversum: Verloren BV, 2009. Hardcover eerste druk. Auteur gesigneerde opdracht aan het lokaal historisch genootschap te Tholen, op de titelpagina. In prima staat. Er is een kleine inktstempel van de plaatselijke geschiedenisvereniging bij de opdracht van de auteur op de titelpagina. Verder smetteloos exemplaar. 266 pagina's. 245 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inch).
Book ID: 2666More details Price: £35.00 -
Den boeck van het stervende leven der menschen
bevattende hunne toe-vallen in korte neep-dichten oft epigrammata met schoone zedige aen-merckingen, verdeelt in dry deelen
Book ID: 4234More details Price: £400.00
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Der königshügel ze Pressburg
Wien: L. Burmann, 1830. First edition. An attractive epinal style engraving showing the king inspecting his dignitaries. Attractive hand colouring. This has two numbers printed upon it - so seems to have been used in at least two collections (No 447 and No 459). The engraving is circa 1830. Good clean impression and colouring. A little darkening / mustiness. 220 by 320mm (8¾ by 12½ inches)
. Première édition. Une belle gravure d'Épinal montrant le roi inspectant ses dignitaires. Jolie mise en couleur à la main. Deux numéros sont imprimés sur cette gravure, qui semble donc avoir été utilisée dans au moins deux collections (n° 447 et n° 459). La gravure date d'environ 1830. Bonne impression et coloration propres. Un peu de noircissement / de moisissure. 220 x 320 mm (8¾ x 12½ pouces)
Book ID: 4297More details Price: £50.00 -
Des Ronds Dans L'Air.
Souvenirs illustrés.
Book ID: 3682More details Price: £35.00
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Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier:
et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu: suivie de recherches sur la hauteur à laquelle est parvenu le ballon du Champ-de-Mars
Book ID: 1849More details Price: £600.00