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A Bibliography of American Children's Books. Printed Prior to 1821.
American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1972. First edition. Hardback in green cloth, with gilt title to spine. Both book and contents in fine condition. lxvi, 495 pp. + index. 260 x 190 mm (10¼ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3693More details Price: £30.00 -
A Catalogue raisonné of the Works of the most eminent dutch, flemish, and french painters. with a copious description of their principal pictures. a reference to the galleries and private collecions. to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools.
London: 1908. Limited edition (1250 copies) of Smith's seminal work by Sands & Co. 9 volumes (complete) in burgundy buckram with paper labels to spine. Ex library copy with the usual stamps and marks. Fading to the spines of each volume and some marking / nicking to the spine edges (particularly vol. 9). still useful reference guide for the history of the origins and developments of European painting and painters. It provides an extensive listing of the more celebrated Dutch, Flemish and French painters of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Attractive black and white plates with tissue protection. A heavy set (12kg packed) additional shipping will be required at cost, outside of Europe.
Book ID: 3427More details Price: £150.00 -
A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
Edition: Reprint
London: Longman and Co: 1870. Blue paper covers. Decorative border and titles in black. Adverts to rear cover. 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The pale blue covers are sound but have some foxing spots to them. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and are held on to each other with tape (non-archival). Inside, there is some foxing to the inside covers. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1338More details Price: £10.00 -
A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
London: Longman and Co: 1869. Disbound. (Originally Blue paper covers - the front cover has now gone). Adverts to the rear blue cover 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The rear pale blue cover has some foxing spots to it. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and only the rear has survived. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1339More details Price: £5.00 -
A collection of four deeds and legal documents connected with the Paddington Estate, London
Book ID: 3011More details Price: £60.00 -
A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin LL-D. With a list of the most important Ruskiniana. Volumes I & II
London: Printed for subscribers only, 1893. Two volumes. Limited to 250 copies. Ex-library hardback in dark blue half morocco binding, with library logo embossed to front and back. The boards and spine are bumped and rubbed. Blue marbled endpapers have library label to front pastedown of each volume. Parts 1 - 18 included, part 19 was issued at a later date so is not present. Volume one has tissue guarded frontis portrait of Ruskin. Top edge gilt. Page edges darkened. Usual signature and stamp to front and sporadic small stamps throughout. Overall good. Volume I: xxvii, 329 pp. Volume II: xi, 263 pp. 260 x 210 mm (10¼ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3554More details Price: £190.00 -
A Complete Collection Of All The Protests Made In The House Of Lords, From Their Original In The Year 1641 To The Present Year 1745
London: Information of the People, 1745. A nice copy of this first edition. Bound in (probably) 1960's half brown leather with gilt titles and with light brown buckram boards. A touch of rubbing only, otherwise in excellent condition. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of darkening only. To the inside board is the bookplate of the Writers Library in London. Despite its name, this library belonged to the Jesuit Mission in London and the bookplate bears their insignia. No other library marks. [xiv], 466 pages. 180 by 105mm (7 by 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3510More details Price: £125.00 -
A Dictionary of The Battle of Britain
Wellington: Halsgrove, 2009. First Edition copy of this very limited signed book (exact limitation is unknown). With the signatures of the author and ten surviving pilots who flew in The Battle of Britain. This book was originally created to raise funds for 'The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust'. Hardback.
160 pp. 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾ inches).'The Few' were 2,353 young men from Great Britain and 574 from overseas (pilots and other aircrew) who were officially recognised as having taken part in The Battle of Britain. 544 lost their lives during the battle.
Condition: In a very good unclipped dust jacket; internally in an as new condition.
Book ID: 2293More details Price: £120.00 -
A Display of Heraldry: Manifesting a more easie access for the Knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method; Whereunto it is now reduced by the study and Industry of John Guillim; Late Pursuivant at Arms. Bound with Analogia Honorum
Book ID: 1859More details Price: £480.00 -
A Dissertation on the Antiquity and Use of Seals in England. Collected by **** 1736.
London: William Mount and Thomas Page, 1740. Scarce first edition. In hard back neat burgundy coloured library cloth. Ex-library copy. With one full-page engraved plate showing seals, plus other engravings in text. Lovely deep impressions. [2],31,[1]pp. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Condition: Has expected library stamps, new endpapers. Tipped-in handwritten note to back of plate reads: This Tract is written by John Lewis author of the History of the Abbey of Faversham etc. Another small insert tipped-in to title page states: Purchased out of a donation of £250 given by George William Palmer Esq. to the Reading Free Public Library. One or two pages have been reinforced towards the spine edge. Light foxing, but overall in very good shape.
Book ID: 2929More details Price: £175.00 -
A finely drawn and hand-coloured original caricature - 'The Electors after the Close of the Poll, May 13th 1807'
Condition: Some marking to the edges. Lower lettering has at some time had a paper slip pasted over it, now detached but with some paste marks. A touch of marking / handling. Overall in very good condition.
Book ID: 1772More details Price: £220.00 -
A History of English Councils and Convocations And of the Clergy's sitting in Parliament. In which is also Comprehended the History of Parliaments, With an Account of our Ancient Laws.
Edition: First Edition
London: Rob. Clavell, 1701. 1st Edition, complete in three parts. Contemporary full leather binding with a recent leather spine / corners and labels. The binding is amateur binding. Law Library label to the inside front board. Humphrey Hody (1659 – 20 January 1707). Born in Somerset. Was chaplain to Stillingfleet, and later to John tillotson & Thomas Tenison (Archbishop's of Canterbury). He was an author of several works, including bible interpretation. He supported the ruling party again non-jurors. [xviii], 2, 1-431, [i], 1-294. pp
Condition: Apart from the amateur binding (where the spine is not a great match to the boards), the book is in very nice condition. Paper cracked at hinge to the front board, but binding is holding well. Slight darkening to the pages, consistent with age.
Book ID: 1407More details Price: £80.00 -
A Key to the Skulls of North American Mammals
Stillwater: Oklahoma State University, 1965. Signed dedication by Bryan P. Glass to the front in ink. Illustrated pale green paperback covers, with green cloth spine. Front cover is age toned to the very edges. Copyright 1951, but this is stated as the seventh printing from 1965. Illustrated with over 100 b/w fascinating anatomical drawings. Clean inside. 53 pages. 280 x 215 mm (11 x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3049More details Price: £20.00 -
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 (not as bad as it sounds!). Internally clean and tidy with slight foxing to the end papers. A Very nice copy.
xvi, 253., iv, 180., iv, 233., iv, 5-322. pp.
260 by 160mm (10¼ by 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 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 Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress. Volume III.
London: William Mackenzie, 1880. First Edition Thus. Hardback, bound in publisher's russet coloured percaline, with black and gilt titles and embossed design to boards and spine. Letterpress and engraved title page. Beautifully illustrated with 40 colour chromolithograph plates, complete with tissue guards. The boards are a little rubbed. All edges gilt. There is some foxing and definite offsetting, but overall good.
Published originally in parts between 1864 and 1880 by Longman, under title: The county seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland; then by D. Banks in Leeds, but ultimately was sold as a subscription work in six volumes in 1880 by William Mackenzie. 82 pages + plates. 280 x 225 mm (11 x 8¾ inches).Book ID: 3544More details Price: £60.00 -
A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress. Volume V.
London: William Mackenzie, 1864. First Edition Thus. Hardback, bound in publisher's russet coloured percaline, with black and gilt titles and embossed design to boards and spine. Letterpress and engraved title page. Beautifully illustrated with 40 colour chromolithograph plates, complete with tissue guards. The boards are a little rubbed. All edges gilt. There is some foxing and definite offsetting, but overall good.
Published originally in parts between 1864 and 1880 by Longman, under title: The county seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland; then by D. Banks in Leeds, but ultimately was sold as a subscription work in six volumes in 1880 by William Mackenzie. 80 pages + plates. 280 x 225 mm (11 x 8¾ inches).Book ID: 3545More details Price: £60.00 -
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 Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed.
Book ID: 3529More details Price: £1,850.00