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400 Famous Cartoons from the Daily Mail, The Evening News, Sunday Dispatch
London: Associated Newspaper Ltd, 1944. Special autographed limited edition, in green buckram hardback with gilt titles. All page edges green. This is one of a limited run of 500. Caricatures and cartoons indicate published circa 1944 / 1945. Unpaginated approximately 186 pages. In a very good condition, appears almost unread. Signed to the title page by 5 of the illustrators - Illingworth, Neb, Harold Gittins, Moon & Lee. 160 x 230 mm (6¼ x 9 inches).
Book ID: 3025More details Price: £75.00 -
5-i vypusk inshenerow-komandirow protiwoposharnoi oborony 5th graduation year of the "engineers-commanders" of the fire brigade`
Book ID: 3000More details Price: £250.00 -
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 Brief Outline of the History of Old Hall. A Paper Written on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebration at St. Edmund's College, in 1869
Edition: First Edition
Standon: Edmundian Association, 1891. First edition. Original cloth gilt now a bit dulled, all edges gilt, some foxing at the front, else a very good copy. Owner's name to the front (Syon Abbey). vi, 80 pp. Frontispiece and seven Illustrations.
COPAC gives copies at Oxford and Cambridge only.
St Edmund's Hall was established in 1795 for the education of the children of Roman Catholic nobility.Book ID: 1077More details Price: £25.00 -
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 collections. to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools.
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 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).
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 Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art. With illustrations from various sources drawn and engraved by F.W. Fairholt.
London: Virtue Brothers, 1865. First edition. Original plum embossed and blind stamped buckram with gilt vignette to the front board and tigl titles to spine. Top edge of spine a little bumped, but in very presentable condition. Closed page edges are an orange red. brown end papers, with a little cracking to the paper hinge but holding well. Hotel library stamp to the front end paper (no other library marks). A touch of marking and the odd foxing spot, but in surprisingly bright condition. Two pages are slightly protruding from the rest of the text block. With a 32 page Virtue brothers catalogue to the rear dated January 1865. xvi, 494 [ii], 32. pages. 230 x 160 mm (9 by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3337More details Price: £50.00 -
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 Mortal Flower
Book ID: 3740More details Price: £28.00 -
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 (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