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).

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

London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First edition, with 19 b/w illustrations and a table showing the number of vagrants apprehended, convicted and discharged from 1831-85. Including an index of statutes, an index of beggars and a general index. In publisher's deep mauve boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt depiction of stocks to upper board. xxi, 720 pp.
230 x 160 mm (9 x 6¼ inches). A highly comprehensive treatment of the subject, beginning in 368 in Britain, and including chapters such as 'the Secret Jargon of the Vagrant and Mendicant', as well as reports on other countries in Europe.

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).

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).

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).

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).

London: James Bettenham, for George Hawkins, 1742. First edition. Hardback in full brown calf with raised band and gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Sarah Churchill Dowager Duchess of Marlborough was a close friend of Anne the first Queen of the newly formed sovereign state of Great Britain. Boards in very good condition, with just some light rubbing to spine. Inside the pages are lightly age toned, and some minor soiling / finger marking to the title page. Overall in very good shape. 213 x 137 mm (8½ x 5½ inches).

Oxford University Press, 1807. First edition. Original stiff card boards. Ex-library copy with label to front paste down and a couple of discrete library stamps. viii, 1-112 pp. With engraved map of two voyages to the Baltic. Some copies include an additional folding map, but Copac states that this is dated 1808 and suggests that this was in subsequent editions. 290 by 230mm (11½ by 9 inches). Copac ref. 19331769
"The geography of Europe; extracted from King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Orosius" (p. [57]-90). "Notes on the first chapter of the first book of Ælfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Orosius. By Mr. J. R. Forster" (p. [91]-112)

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1907. First Edition. The author's story of early Britain and its inhabitants, Julius Cæsar's two invasions, and their results. Hardback in red cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Contains 44 b/w illustrations and three folding maps. Previous owner's ex libris to front pastedown. Some foxing to prelims, light bumping / rubbing to boards, and spineis slightly sun faded. xi, 764 pages. 230 x 155 mm (9 x 6 inches). Hardback in red cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Contains 44 b/w illustrations and three folding maps. Previous owner's ex libris to front pastedown. Some foxing to prelims, light bumping / rubbing to boards, and spineis slightly sun faded.

Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1966. Nice copy of this first edition thus - A Facsimile of the 1886 edition. Correspondence from Beatus Rhenanus. Collected and edited by Adalbert Horawitz and Karl Hartfelder. Red cloth with black label to spine. Gilt titles. Very good clean condition. Frontis portrait of Rhenanus. Very slight cracking to the top edge of the spine to the title page. Very small stamp to ffep showing this was a publisher's archive example. XXIV, 700 pages. 240 by 170mm (9½ by 6¾ inches).

New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition. Signed dedication from Sell on the half-title page to Bill Fine (former president and general manager of WCVB-TV Channel 5 in the USA): Dear Bill Fine - never underestimate the Cody-Billings bloodlines - Henry Blackman Sell, Cody, Wyoming 1965. Linen boards in yellow illustrated dust jacket; Illustrated throughout. 278 pages. 260 x 200 mm (10¼ x 7¾ inches). Sell was an ancestor of "Buffalo Bill", real name William Frederick Cody (1846 – 1917), a frontiersman who has been portrayed in many ways over the years.

Bill Fine (until 2020) worked for WCVB Channel 5, Hearst Television's flagship station, and in 1965 Sell was editor for Hearst's Harper's Bazaar, so they would have been colleagues.

Oxford University Press / Ashmolean Museum, 1935. Scarce! First Edition. With 16 b/w plates. Bound in Reading Public Library's own embossed buckram hardback binding. With library plate to front pastedown. Pages are age toned, one or two have a small ink 'tick mark' to them - but overall in good shape. A great gift for the numismatist in your life! 48 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).

London: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth, 1804. First edition. Ex-reference library copy, now in hardback green binding, with gilt title to spine. Original inside, complete with two plates of runes and a chart of "primitive articulations". lxxiii (list of subscribers), 561 pp. Edward Davies (1756 – 1831) was a Welsh writer and clergyman. His fascination with the origins of Celtic languages and the meaning of Celtic mythology led him to become part of the 19th century reinvention of Druidic tradition.

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 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