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21 USA - The Gift of Life
Part of Operation Magic Kingdom.
Book ID: 1818More details Price: £250.00
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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
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81 USA - War Can Be Fun
Part of Operation Magic Kingdom.
Book ID: 1817More details Price: £150.00
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99 USA - Believe the Magic.
Part of Operation Magic Kingdom.
Book ID: 1816More details Price: £150.00
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A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.
With a foreword by Graham Greene.
Boston, London, New York: Hudson House, 2000. First Revised Edition of Lancelyn Green and Gibson's comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Conan Doyle. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Book boards and dust jacket all near fine. Inside the book is in an almost unread condition. This bibliography is divided into five sections covering fiction, plays, and belles-lettres; miscellaneous writings (histories, political pamphlets, speeches, wartime propaganda, autobiographies, and his works on spiritualism); prefaces and minor contributions; uncollected stories, letters, and articles; and a selective list of biographical sources (the major biographies, reminiscences, magazine and newspaper reports, and articles). 726 pages. 235 x 160 mm (9¼ x 6¼ inches).
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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 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
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A collection of four deeds and legal documents connected with the Paddington Estate, London.
Book ID: 3011More details Price: £60.00
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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: £150.00 -
A Dictionary of The Battle of Britain
Book ID: 2293More details Price: £120.00
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A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar.
In Two Volumes. The Tenth Edition, Corrected and Revised.
Book ID: 4068More details Price: £400.00
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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
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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 Gentleman in Prison.
The Story of Tokichi Ishii. Written in Tokyo Prison. Translated by Caroline Macdonald.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardback. Blue cloth, with paper labels to front board and spine. No dust jacket. Six b/w photographs. Light bumping to boards. Previous owner's signature to FFEP, otherwise very clean. 164 pages. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
An autobiographical study with excellent insight in to Japanese prison conditions of the time. Caroline Macdonald carried out missionary work in Tokyo prisons, and this is the true story of the convicted murderer Tokichi Ishii who spent 27 years incarcerated for his crime. Mrs Macdonald befriended Ishii and enjoyed many discussions about Christianity and Buddhism with him prior to his death. .
Condition: Light bumping to boards. Previous owner's signature to FFEP, otherwise very clean.
Book ID: 2834More details Price: £15.00 -
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. 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. 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
Book ID: 1407More details Price: £80.00 -
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 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