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Paris. Dix siecles d'histoire.
72 Illustrations dont 21 eaux-fortes originale, de Andre de Szekely. Preface de Paul Fort.
Book ID: 5084More details Price: £125.00 -
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 -
Photograph of Rococo style furniture
Book ID: 5134More details Price: £50.00 -
Political Communications: The general election campaign of 1987
Book ID: 4333More details Price: £50.00 -
Portrait de Catherine de Médicis.
Portraits des plus célèbres personnalités françaises du XVIe siècle
Book ID: 5151More details Price: £70.00 -
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 -
Queen Margaret in derision crowning the Head of the Duke of York with a Paper Crown A hand coloured engraving from Ashburton's History of England
Book ID: 5160More details Price: £75.00 -
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 -
Remains of Pagan Saxondom.
Book ID: 2218More details Price: £150.00 -
Reparationsfibel
Book ID: 4756More details Price: £45.00 -
Richelieu
Book ID: 5221More details Price: £125.00 -
Robert Baillie and the Second Scots Reformation
Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1974. First Edition, hardback in dust jacket. Clean and fresh, with just slight sun fading to spine of dust jacket. 244 pages. 235 x 160 mm (9¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3453More details Price: £20.00 -
Sea Road to the Indies. An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira.
London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. First British edition. Hardback. In original unclipped dust jacket. Now in protective wrap. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. The map end papers have some age toning in line with the dust jacket. Inside is clean. The dust jacket has a little age-toning and some light rubbing / chips to the corners. Overall a good example. 296 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2889More details Price: £20.00 -
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 -
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 -
Sous le manteau.
Illustrations de Badert, Devil, Dratz, Max Moreau et Wel
Book ID: 5331More details Price: £150.00



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