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My Market Table. Showing the value of any article at per pound and ounce, from 6d. to 1s. 6d.
Book ID: 4704More details Price: £200.00 -
New Illustrated Manual of the current gold and silver coins of all civilized nations of the globe: giving their weight, standard, & value, together with the systems of money, weights, & measures, and statistics, commercial geography, & industry of the different countries. Two volumes.
Book ID: 4176More details Price: £170.00 -
Nightingale: The Story Since 1840.
Tymsder Publishing, 2001. First edition in dust jacket. In the 1820's and '30s the London Jewish community was distressed by the number of destitute Jews living on the streets or in the workhouses. To deal with the problem groups of Jewish East Enders established three charities that later merged and became 'Nightingale'. Marcus Roberts is a researcher in to Anglo-Jewish history, and has been widely published. 112 pp. 250 x 180 mm (9¾ x 7 inches).
Fine dust jacket and fine book. This copy bears the following dedication to the FFEP: Presented to Ms Fay Weldon CBE by Nightingale at the Guildhall Dinner 22nd October 2001.
Book ID: 2324More details Price: £12.00 -
Ninon de Lanclos
Book ID: 4412More details Price: £250.00 -
Now a Stranger
Book ID: 4227More details Price: £35.00 -
Old-World Questions and New-World Answers.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884. First edition, hardback. Bound in three quarter leather, with marbled boards, and gilt stamped title to spine. 369 pages + colour folding map to rear. Leather on boards is heavily rubbed, but the contents are quite clean, without markings or damage. Colour map is slightly foxed (see photos). 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
This late nineteenth century work gives a fascinating glimpse in to the European view of the "American" as a social alchemist, and a glance at "evolution of the American people".Book ID: 3597More details Price: £35.00 -
On Photography.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. Early printing (6th impression) of this "philosophy of photography" in which Sontag "examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today". Grey illustrated dust wrapper. Clean and tidy with a touch of nicking to the edges of the wrapper. Fading to the spine. Grey boards and silver writing to the spine. Clean and tidy. Internally clean and tidy with owner's bookplate to the inside front board. [10] 208 pages. 220 by 150mm (8¾ by 6 inches).
Book ID: 2797More details Price: £30.00 -
Opstellen over vakbeweging. Jeugd Biblioteek - Deel 2. Omslag Jugendstil van Fré Cohen.
Amsterdam: Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen, 1923. First edition. Softback, with cover design and header by Fré Cohen. Cohen was a Dutch graphic artist and illustrator who famously illustrated all the works for the Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen - later known as the AJC. Covers and contents are delicate and age toned. There is a neat previous owner's name to the front, but overall this is a good example. 83 pages. 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3074More details Price: £12.00 -
Ordonnance de Louis XIV, sur le fait des Cinq Grosses Fermes. Du mois de Février 1688. Registrée au Parlement de Bretagne le 7 Octobre 1688.
Rennes: François Vatar, imprimeur du Roi & du Parlement, 1782. Rare. Prémiere edition. Couverture souple. Etat : Très bon. Édition originale. 50 pages. 215 x 165 mm (8½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3655More details Price: £50.00 -
Our Veterans of 1854: In Camp, and Before the Enemy.
Book ID: 3430More details Price: £300.00 -
Pagan Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. A very good hardback - 433 pp. Original gilt and bronze lettered brown cloth, top edge brown, dust jacket in good condition (now in clear protective cover). Internally without inscriptions or other marks. Slight spine lean.255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
A substantial work, which includes over 200 line drawings, 96 monochrome photographs, maps, appendix, list of abbreviations and a good sized index.
Dr. Anne Ross has wide experience of living in Celtic-speaking communities where she has traced vernacular tradition. Using archaeological and anthropoligical evidence, as well as folklore, Dr. Ross provides broad insight into the early Celtic world.
Book ID: 2290More details Price: £30.00 -
Panoramique du Cinéma illustré de 80 Photographies
Book ID: 3241More details Price: £30.00 -
Partners in Diplomacy
Ferring, Sussex: The Harley Press, 1990. Signed by the author to title page. First edition hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. With many b/w photos. The author, Lady Smedley (herself the wife of a British diplomat) tells the stories of nearly 300 years' worth of women who supported their diplomatic husbands - and some who didn't! 214 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3670More details Price: £40.00 -
Paul Robeson. The Life and Times of a Free Black Man.
Book ID: 4321More details Price: £30.00 -
Political Communications: The general election campaign of 1987
Book ID: 4333More details Price: £50.00 -
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Oliver Cromwell - portrait and biography abstracted from Lodge.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. An engraved portrait of Oliver Cromwell. Engraved by Walker, taken from the collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp. There is also an 18 page biography of Cromwell by Lodge - taken from his Portraits of Illustrious Personages - volume V. portrait & 75-92 pp
Condition: Although disbound, both the portrait and the biography are clean and tidy. There is a touch of darkening to the pages only. Now held in a protective cellophane packet. The biography largely has uncut pages. Overall a nice little piece.
Book ID: 1381More details Price: £12.00 -
Precis de L'Histoire de France, en vers, Avec des notes pour l'intelligence du Texte par M. Pelozi
Book ID: 4948More details Price: £250.00 -
Precis des Anciennes et Nouvelles Ordonnances; Edits et déclarations les plus en usage avec quelques observations sur le commentaire de Bornier [Relié avec] une généalogie des rois de France
Book ID: 4557More details Price: £1,150.00 -
Précis historique de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature, de Gand, 1808-1845
Book ID: 4893More details Price: £250.00 -
Rapprochemens historiques sur l'hospitalité des Anciens; sur la formation de nos hôpitaux, la nature de leurs revenus, et les divers systèmes qui se sont succédés dans leur administration
Book ID: 4608More details Price: £250.00