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A Complete Collection Of All The Protests Made In The House Of Lords, From Their Original In The Year 1641 To The Present Year 1745
London: Information of the People, 1745. A nice copy of this first edition. Bound in (probably) 1960's half brown leather with gilt titles and with light brown buckram boards. A touch of rubbing only, otherwise in excellent condition. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of darkening only. To the inside board is the bookplate of the Writers Library in London. Despite its name, this library belonged to the Jesuit Mission in London and the bookplate bears their insignia. No other library marks. [xiv], 466 pages. 180 by 105mm (7 by 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3510More details Price: £125.00 -
A finely drawn and hand-coloured original caricature - 'The Electors after the Close of the Poll, May 13th 1807'
Condition: Some marking to the edges. Lower lettering has at some time had a paper slip pasted over it, now detached but with some paste marks. A touch of marking / handling. Overall in very good condition.
Book ID: 1772More details Price: £220.00 -
A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed.
Book ID: 3529More details Price: £1,850.00 -
A View of the Art of Colonization with Present Reference to the British Empire in Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist
London: John W. Parker, 1849. A very nice rebound copy of this work. First edition. Bound in half brown leather with marbled boards. Clean and tidy with very slight rubbing only. The text block is clean, if fractionally darkened. Errata slip present. 230 by 150mm (9 by 6 inches). xxiv, 1-514, 6 (ads). pp. A classic work in the theory of colonization. Wakefield proposes among other things the creation of a colony in New Zealand to be administered by the Church of England, thus disarming missionary opposition. In fact, the first emigrant ships left for the Canterbury settlement in 1850, and Wakefield himself left for New Zealand in 1853, eventually settling in Wellington.
Book ID: 2448More details Price: £180.00 -
Aanwysing der heilsame politike gronden en maximen van de Republike van Holland en West-Vriesland.
Book ID: 3380More details Price: £600.00 -
Alastair Campbell New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class
Edition: First Edition
London: Aurum Press Ltd, 1999. Pictorial dust wrapper, over red boards. First edition, signed dedication by author to a political correspondent. Several b/w photos. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches).x, 230 pp.
Condition: Very good. Both the book and the wrapper are in a very good condition. It has signs of previous use but overall is in tight condition. Although hidden, there is a small damp stain to the inside of the wrapper and corner of front board.
Book ID: 2028More details Price: £28.00 -
An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power
London: Free Press, 2004. Nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy dust wrapper. No significant flaws. Very slight lean to the book. An account of the Iraq war from Short, who resigned from Blair's cabinet over his Iraq war policy.
294 pages
245 by 170mm (9¾ by 6¾ inches).Book ID: 2304More details Price: £8.00 -
An Oration, Pronounced July 4 1808, at the Request of the Selectmen of the Town of Boston In Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: There is an owner's inscription on the title leaf. (Isaac Porter from Wm. Porter). There is some browning and foxing throughout (heavier towards the end); the first and last leaf are detached, the rest of the pamphlet loosely bound together.
Book ID: 1402More details Price: £40.00 -
Autopsy on the A.M.A An Analysis of Health-Care Delivery Systems in America
Berkeley: Student Research Facility, Circa 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Stapled pictorial wraps. 63 pp. 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼ inches). The contents include: professional incomes and the cost of medical care, the insanity of Mental Health Care, the history of the A.M.A.'s Social Attitude, Justice is sick, and the future of health care.
Condition: Very good condition. Slight darkening to edges.
Book ID: 2287More details Price: £12.00 -
Beware Of The English! German Propaganda Exposes England
Hamish Hamilton, 1939. First edition. Hardback in original dust jacket. Published in the year WW2 started, this book takes a look at propaganda in the German Press at the time. It consists of articles on English decadence, perfidy, tyranny, and other aspects of national character. Plus attacks on Churchill, Chamberlain and Eden. Illustrated with 120 examples of ingenious and ingenuous cartoons. Dust jacket is not in great shape as it's been crudely taped together in places. However, contents are in great shape. 304 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3668More details Price: £40.00 -
Candidatus rhetoricae seu Aphthonii Progymnasmata in meliorem formam redacta usumque redacta
Antverpiae: Iuxta Exemplar Lugdūnī editum, 1668. Scarce early Antwerp edition. Full vellum binding. Lack final leaf / leaves. No listing in WORLDCAT or elsewhere, so uncertain how many pages are missing. Boards are rubbed and worn. Contents tight, a few page corners folded in. Manuscript notes to inside and back in Latin - dated 1698. Latin text throughout. Overall good. 398 pages present. 155 x 85 mm (6 x 3¼ inches).
Book ID: 3698More details Price: £120.00 -
Church Wealth in Mexico; A Study of the 'Juzgado de Capellanías' in the Archbishopric of Mexico 1800-1856
Cambridge University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardback in red cloth with gilt and burgundy title to spine. Inside original unclipped dust jacket. 139 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Condition: In a near fine condition.
Book ID: 2893More details Price: £20.00 -
Das Dritte Reich im Spiegel der Weltpresse: Historische Documente über Den Kampf des Nationalsozialismus Gegen die Ausländische Lügenhetze
Leipzig: Armanen, 1934. 1st Editions. Soft covers (No dust wrapper). The wrapper looks as if it was once integral but has been removed - presumably to make anonymous an undesirable publication. This act is perhaps as interesting as the books itself. Details in pencil to the front cover. A little foxing to the paper edges. Library discard stamp to the title page - otherwise clean and tidy glossy pages throughout. An analysis of foreign press reports about the Nazi Party, its policies and its leaders. Numerous political cartoons. Published on behalf of the NSDAP. Bomer was the head of the Press department of the Foreign policy department of the Nazi party. 173, [i] pp. 230 by 160mm (9 by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3641More details Price: £120.00 -
De Toekomst van Nederland, redevoeringen van den leider der N.S.B. Mussert en Hauptdienstleiter Schmidt.
Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, 1942. First edition. Stiff cardboard covers. In very good condition. 42 pages. 220 x 147 mm
NSB was a Dutch fascist political party founded in 1931 by Anton Adriaan Mussert.Book ID: 3653More details Price: £30.00 -
Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica: Or, A Select Collection of State Papers; [Two Volumes]
Book ID: 3028More details Price: £500.00 -
Eikōn basilikē, vel, Imago Regis Caroli, in illis suis aerumnis et solitudine [Bound With] Defension Regia Pro Carolo I [Bound With] Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio
Book ID: 3504More details Price: £750.00 -
Elections Abroad
London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1959. First edition. Blue cloth hardback in original dust jacket. Studies of four elections: France 1958, Poland 1957, Ireland 1957, and South Africa 1958. 280 pages - including index. Book and jacket in good condition. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3588More details Price: £20.00 -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero
Oxford: University Press, 2005. The story of probably one of the most controversial Irishmen of all time, who was a friend and ally of Michael Collins. First edition in original dust jacket. Twelve pages of fascinating photographs. xvi, 442 pp. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches). O'Duffy was an Irish nationalist military leader and popular conservative head of Fine Gael ("Irish Race"), who played a significant role in the development of the Irish armed forces and police. His support of fascism during the 1930s, however, cost him much of his popular support.
The author Fearghal Mcgarry is an Historian of Modern Ireland, based at Queen's University Belfast.
Condition: Fine in fine, unclipped dust jacket. Now in removable clear protective wrapping.
Book ID: 2346More details Price: £60.00 -
First Among Equals. Prime Ministers in Westminster Systems
Sydney, London, Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. First edition, in original dust jacket. Hardback in black cloth with gilt title to spine. Inside and out both in very good / fine condition. 228 pages. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Patrick Weller examines how prime ministers exercise power, and the factors that assist or constrain them.
Book ID: 3596More details Price: £35.00 -
Gordon Brown
London: Harper Collins, 2004. 1st edition. Black cloth with pictorial dust wrapper. Now in clear protective wrap. Overall an excellent example. xx, 492 pp. 240 x 155 mm (9½ x 6 inches).
Condition: Slight handling to the wrapper.
Book ID: 2327More details Price: £9.00