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A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
Edition: Reprint
London: Longman and Co: 1870. Blue paper covers. Decorative border and titles in black. Adverts to rear cover. 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The pale blue covers are sound but have some foxing spots to them. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and are held on to each other with tape (non-archival). Inside, there is some foxing to the inside covers. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1338More details Price: £10.00 -
A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
London: Longman and Co: 1869. Disbound. (Originally Blue paper covers - the front cover has now gone). Adverts to the rear blue cover 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The rear pale blue cover has some foxing spots to it. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and only the rear has survived. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1339More details Price: £5.00 -
Acts of Defiance
London: Reindhardt Books in Association with Viking, 1992. 1st edition. Black cloth with pictorial dust wrapper. Now in clear protective wrap. Xiii, 370 pp. 240 x 150 mm (9½ x 6 inches).
Condition: Slight handling to the wrapper. Fractional fading to the spine edge. Overall an excellent example.
Book ID: 2328More details Price: £14.00 -
An Authentic Copy of the Charter and Bye-Laws of the City of Rochester, With an Abstract of the Customal
London: 1809. 86 pp. with annotations, from Rochester Museum
Book ID: 2077More details Price: £125.00 -
Artsy Fartsy Funnies.
Laren: Paranoia, 1974. A magazine in the tradition of the anarchic comics of the 1970's. This is a guide to this sort of comic, and includes examples and illustrations from many of them. Good clean condition with slight marking to the covers only. Remnant of price sticker to the top edge. 80 pages. Owner's name stamp to the front end paper. 260 by 210mm (10¼ by 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3685More details Price: £35.00 -
Bilder zur Zauberflote in der Loggia des K. K. Opernhauses zu Wien 12 photographien nach den original-cartons
Munchen / Munich: Friedr. Bruckmann's Verlag, 1890. A scarce collection of albumen photographs of the Magic Flute in the loggia of the Imperial and Royal Opera House in Vienna. C1890. held in a folding cover. Cover is ornately decorated to the front and blind embossed to the rear. Clean and tidy with fractional darkening. Inside, the flaps are a pale grey and also blind stamped. Slight marking where a paper clip (now gone) has been holding something. Inside are a title and 12 cards. The title has the the list of photographs to the rear. Albumen photographs are pasted onto the card, printed to recto only. All in excellent condition with just a slight darkening and few minor marks to the title card.
Book ID: 3877More details Price: £280.00 -
C. Plinii Secundi Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII Two volumes of three (Books I-XXIV only).
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1153More details Price: £300.00 -
D'un Age à l'Autre.
Book ID: 3160More details Price: £40.00 -
Eruditae Pronuntiationis Catholici Indices Opus Omnibus, qui vel ex scripto vel memoriter; ex plano vei suggestu; in choro, scholis, triclinio; publicis privatisve congressibus, latine logui, recitare, ac perorare debent, omnino necessarium
Edition: Reprint
London: F & C Rivington: 1796. Original full tan leather binding. Six raised panels to the spine - but no label. Owner's bookplate to the inside board. Overall a decent copy of this bibliographical work. The leather boards are clean and tidy, with a little rubbing and bumping to them. Very slight cracking to the edges, but no loss. Internally, the book is generally clean and tidy. The end paper has a large tear, with loss of about a third of the end paper. The rest of the book is in excellent condition. Neat owner's contemporary bookplate and inscription to the inside board. [viii], 1-192 pp.
Book ID: 1163More details Price: £30.00 -
Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor; Containing the Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of All the Diseases incident to Oxen, Cows and Sheep. The Sixth edition with numerous Additions and Corrections, by His Sons Samuel and John Clater. Including a Short Treatise on the Anatomy and Physiology of Neat Cattle
London: Baldwin, Cradock and Son, 1825. Original paper covered boards with title and design to the front board and catalogue of publications to the rear panel. Recent sympathetic spine. xx. 1-348 pp.
Condition: The boards are somewhat darkened and foxed, but still tidy. The spine has recently been repaired, with a new label, and is clean and tidy. Internally sound, with a family tree to the front end paper. Light foxing and a little darkening to the pages. Overall a sound copy.
Book ID: 1519More details Price: £40.00 -
Histoire D'O. Avec un préface de Jean Paulhan.
Book ID: 3173More details Price: £40.00 -
Invitation for the talk / dinner by Gaston Louis-Vuitton
Lyon: Le Vieux Papier Société Archéologique, Historique et Artistique, 1936. Invitation for the talk / dinner hosted by Gaston Louis-Vuitton to the sellers of caskets and trunks, organised by 'Le Vieux Papier Société' in Lyon on May 11, 1936. Invitation pour le dîner-causerie offert par Gaston Louis-Vuitton aux vendeurs de malles, organisé par 'Le Vieux Papier Société' à Lyon le 11 mai 1936.
Book ID: 2150More details Price: £40.00 -
Jazz My Love
Paris: Éditions Vade Retro, 2003. First French edition. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. Full of b/w and colour images - most full-page - of jazz musicians. Text in French. Captions / quotes in English. Boards, dust jacket and inside of book all in very good condition. 310 x 310 mm (12¼ x 12¼ inches).
Book ID: 3722More details Price: £30.00 -
Kamp Tussen School en Leven
Amsterdam: (AJC) Arbeiders-Jeugd-Centrale. First edition. Record and information book for attendance at the 1934 AJC socialist youth movement camp De Paasheuvel in Vierhouten. It tells attendees what to bring, what to wear, how to act and what to do once they go home again! This is the year that Koos Vorrink, the outgoing chairman of the AJC, gave his farewell speech at the week long camp. The AJC promoted traditional good manners, no alcohol or tobacco, lots of exercise, folk dancing, drama and music. Front cover green woodcut design by Fré Cohen. In good clean condition. 10 pages. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).
The AJC (1918 - 1959) was a socialist youth movement.
Book ID: 3700More details Price: £30.00 -
La Loterie dévoilée ou l'Astrologue fortuné devin contenant une liste générale de tous les songes et visions nocturnes...traduit de l'italien...Nouvelle édition.
Venise: 1822. Scarce. French translation of an Italian work. Soft cover. A combination of mathematics and astrology, well known to mathematicians, and various more esoteric methods for winning at games of chance; including the Lottery. Covers creased. Overall in a very good condition. 179 pages. 160 x 110 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches). Rare. Couverture souple. Une combinaison de mathématiques et d'astrologie, bien connue des mathématiciens, et de diverses méthodes plus ésotériques pour gagner aux jeux de hasard ; y compris la loterie. Couvertures froissées. Dans l'ensemble en très bon état. 179 pages. 160 x 110 mm
Book ID: 3733More details Price: £150.00 -
La Nouvelle Maison Rustique, ou economie rurale, pratique et générale de tous biens de campagne
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1927More details Price: £980.00 -
Manuels-Roret. Nouveau manuel pour le Naturaliste Préparatoire. l'art d'empailler les animaux, de conserve les vegetaux et les mineraux, de preparer les pieces d'anatomie normale et pathologique; suivud un tratie des embaumens.
Book ID: 3134More details Price: £120.00 -
Memoirs of the Count De Grammont
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, printed in USA. Rebound in full tan leather, with gilt title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. Text descriptions on tissue guards. 230 pp. 245 x 175 mm (9¾ x 7 inches). Memoirs written by Antoine [Anthony] Hamilton, who was the French nobleman's brother-in-law. Translated by Horace Walpole.
Condition: Leather boards in a very good condition with minimal sign of handling. Light sporadic foxing. Pages rough edged.
Book ID: 2165More details Price: £30.00 -
Mexico and the Americans
Condition: Dust jacket has some light bumping and a very small nick to the top edge on the front. Inside the book is in a very good / fine condition.
Book ID: 2075More details Price: £40.00 -
Scriptores Rei Rusticae veteres latini Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius, quibus acc. Vegetius De mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum. Adj.notae vir.clar.integrae tum editae tum ineditae et lexicon rei rusticae.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1866More details Price: £375.00