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Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications
London: J. Debrett, 1798. First edition. Two volumes, sympathetically rebound in half calf, with new leather spines, but retaining carefully restored original marbled boards. Original boards a little rubbed, but recent leather all very good. Some spots of foxing internally. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches). Volume I: viii, 526 pp. Volume II: viii, 528 pp.
William Tooke (1744–1820) was a British clergyman and an historian of Russia. This work gives a fascinating historical perspective, not only on his favoured Russia, but also on everything from the way ladies dressed in Peru, to the use of spices in 'the torrid zone'.Book ID: 2490More details Price: £260.00 -
[Sermones de tempore et de Sanctis]
Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479. An attractive leaf, taken from Bonaventure's Sermons. Printed in black with red highlighting of capitals and key letters. Printed to both sides of the leaf, in two columns. Area of light staining to the bottom corner of the leaf (visible both sides) otherwise in excellent condition. The paper is chain laid paper, with a crude unicorn watermark. Although we have been unable to date / match precisely, the paper and watermark are very similar to some in the graphics arts collection at Princeton University, including one from Bruges dated to 1475 and another dated 1593. Very small damage to the edge where removed from a book. Slight marking to one side of the paper. 270 x190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3336More details Price: £100.00 -
Setting out in Life
Book ID: 4996More details Price: £100.00 -
Short sketches of eminent men of the North of England.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1885. Scarce. First Edition. Previously published as articles in the 'Consett Guardian'. Copac lists only two holdings - Newcastle and Oxford. Disbound, but the text block is complete and holding well (Has more the appearance of a tract). Has some age toning, and spots of foxing. Concise biographies of characters such as the "Father of Railways" George Stephenson, former Prime Minister Earl Grey, engineer and industrialist William George Armstrong (1st Baron Armstrong), Victorian ironmaster Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, and others. 160 pages. 185 x 125 mm (7¼ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3029More details Price: £60.00 -
Sparks from the Anvil
London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1864. Small brown embossed boards, with gilt titles to front. Inside, clean and with engraved frontispiece. Always a temperance supporter, during the mid 19th century Elihu Burritt toured New England speaking against war and promoting brotherhood. In 1844 he founded 'The Advocate of Peace' in Worcester, Massachusetts, as the head of a group of radical pacifists. [2], xii, 2-106 pp. 180 x 110 mm (7 x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 4680More details Price: £60.00 -
Stage Coach Travelling
Book ID: 4912More details Price: £30.00 -
Testament Politique du Marquis de Louvois Premier ministre d'etat sous le regne de Louis XIV
Book ID: 4460More details Price: £275.00 -
The Antiquities of Furness; Or, an Account of the Royal Abbey of St. Mary, in the Vale of Nightshade, Near Dalton in Furness, Belonging to the Right Honorable Lord George Cavendish
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1121More details Price: £125.00 -
The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg: A Collection of Original Documents, Illustrative of the Theology Wisdom, and Usages of the Bardo-Druidic Systems of the Isle of Britain. Introduction by John Matthews
Book ID: 2297More details Price: £50.00 -
The Baronage of England or An Historical Account of the Lives and most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility.
Book ID: 4791More details Price: £475.00 -
The Battle for the Labour Party.
London: Kogan Page Ltd, 1982. Signed First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. The Labour Party in turmoil. Drawing on hitherto unpublished interview material and documents. An original and fascinating account of The Labour Party in the early 1980s. Signed dedication to front by David Kogan. Book and jacket in very good condition. 160 pages. 225 x 140 mm.
David Kogan OBE is a British media executive, historian and journalist, who is an expert on the history of the Labour Party.
Book ID: 3697More details Price: £80.00 -
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry 1853-1953; A Centenary Survey.
Calcutta: D. K. Lakin, 1953. First edition. Prepared to mark the centenary of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce. It attempts to compress in to just over 200 pages the important contribution made by the Chamber in those 100 years to the growth of India's trade and industry. Original hardback in blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to front and spine. The illustrations and photographs include a b/w fold out photograph of the Chamber Office Staff of 1952. Boards show signs of handling, neat previous owner's name to FFEP. Otherwise clean and tidy. Very good. 203, xii pages - appendices and index. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3981More details Price: £200.00 -
The Diary Kept by T. E. Lawrence While Travelling in Arabia During 1911; [together with] An Essay on Flecker.
Book ID: 4916More details Price: £60.00 -
The Drury Lane Concert. A Choice collection of Songs, now singing at all the Public Places of Amusement.
Book ID: 5138More details Price: £75.00 -
The First Annual Report of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain: With an Appendix; Containing an Abstract of Cash Account, ending 3rd June 1839, List of Auxiliary Branches, List of Publications and particulars of distribution.
Edition: First Edition
London: C. Richards: 1839. A thin volume, not bound up (as issued) Titles and monogram of the institute to the front cover. Sewn. The list of patrons and the committee, led by the Earl of Shrewsbury, includes Lord Clifford as one of the (many) Vice Presidents. The Catholic Institute grew out of the Metropolitan Catholic Tract Society. The organisation was formed "To protect the rights of Conscience of the Poorer classes of Catholics and to promote the interests of Religion and charity." Irish M.P. Daniel O'Connell was also involved in the establishment of the Institute. Led initially by the Hon. Charles Langdale M.P. 16pp.
Condition: Clean and tidy copy of this work. The pages are almost without mark, and the printing has made a clean, deep impression.
Book ID: 1300More details Price: £12.00 -
The Free-Holder [Freeholder] or Political Essays.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1921More details Price: £325.00 -
The French Economy and State A Rand Corporation research study.
Book ID: 4224More details Price: £30.00 -
The History of the City and State of Geneva, From Its First Foundation to This Present Time. Faithfully Collected From Several Manuscripts of Jacobus Gothofredus, Monsieur Chorier, and Others.
London: Bernard White, 1687. A lovely copy of this first edition. Original boards with restored spine (sympathetically re-backed with original label). Complete with 5 engraved illustrations - frontis, folding map, plan, plate and engraved plate in text. small ink annotations to end papers. A touch of darkening to the edges, and a touch of very light foxing but overall in excellent condition. (vi); 250; (vi) pp. 330 by 200mm (13 by 7¾ inches). See Wing S5017
Book ID: 3405More details Price: £500.00 -
The Illustrated London Almanack 1865-1876. 12 volumes bound as one.
Book ID: 2918More details Price: £300.00 -
The Imperial Presidency
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Very nice copy of thir first edition with a warm gift inscription from the author to the politician and journalist Woodrow Wyatt. Clean, slightly darkened dust wrapper, now protected with a mylar cover. Clean, slightly rubbed grey boards. Internally clean and tidy. Inscription in red ink to the front end paper, and Wyatt's bookplate to the inside front board. X, 505 pages. 235 by 160mm (9¼ by 6¼ inches).
Wyatt was initially a Labour politician and MP from 1945-1970 Afterwards he became a broadcaster and journalist. Over time he moved away from the Labour party, and on becoming friends with Margaret Thatcher, moved significantly to the right. His memoirs were described as "Mischievously indiscreet diaries" (Andrew Neill).
Book ID: 3620More details Price: £65.00