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Histoire D'Angleterre a L'usage de la Jeunesse depuis l'invasion de Jules-César dans cette ile jusqu'en Décembre 1808.
Book ID: 3172More details Price: £180.00
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Histoire du Cardinal de Richelieu - 3 volumes. Complet.
Book ID: 4198More details Price: £200.00
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History of the Adventures and Sufferings of Moses Smith during five years of his life;
From the Beginning of the year 1806, when he was Betrayed into the Miranda Expedition, until June 1811 when he was Nonsuited in an Action at Law which lasted three years and a half. To which is added a Biographical Sketch of Gen. Miranda
Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen for the author, 1814. Second edition. Hardback full leather binding. Two engraved plates. Contemporary calf. "one of the few contemporary narratives relating to the Miranda expedition." General Francesco Miranda enjoyed a successful military career before he decided to revolutionize South America. The crusade was a disaster. Smith and tow comrades escaped from prison in Carthagena and were rescued at sea. Moses Smith was a native of Huntington (born 1785). First edition was published in Brooklyn in 1812. Pages 19/20 have damage to the outside margin, affecting text. Foxed and a little darkened. Owner's name to the first blank and rear end paper. Slight rubbing / splitting to the top edge of the spine. iv, 13-146, [6]. pp. 175 by 115mm (7 by 4½ inches). Sabuin 83640. Howes S-644.
Book ID: 2234More details Price: £225.00 -
History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Massachusetts: Horticultural Society, 1929. First edition. Original navy blue buckram with gilt title to front board and spine. ix, 553 pp. (including index). Frontispiece of Horticultural Hall, several portraits, details of exhibitions. 235 x 165 mm (9¼ x 6½ inches). In a good condition. Lightly bumped to edges. Neat owner's name to front pastedown.
Book ID: 2051More details Price: £15.00 -
In "Vanity Fair".
London: Quiller Press, 2000. A nice copy of this First Edition Thus. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, with very slight bruising only. Now covered in archival protective film. Clean brown hardback. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 275 pages. 310 by 220mm (12¼ by 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3676More details Price: £25.00 -
Industry and Idleness.
Plate 4. The Industrious 'Prentice. A Favourite and Entrusted by his Master.
London: 1840. A reprint of this work by Hogarth. This engraving by S. Davenport. Goodchild's industry and piety are paying off. He's now no longer working a loom, but rather keeping his master's business: He holds the "Day Book", keys to the house and a pouch of money. A mid Victorian print. Beautiful colouring. Off white mounting board with lines around. Now in protective cellophane cover. Overall, this print is in lovely clean condition. A touch of darkening only. The only flaw is a little white discolouring to the top edge. Engraving 6" x 71/4" Mount 11" x 121/2"
Book ID: 1662More details Price: £18.00 -
Inquietudes - 19 Julio. Numero extraordinario.
Revista de las Juventudes Libertarias.
Book ID: 3931More details Price: £75.00
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It Was Wartime Then.
Salisbury: Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd, 1986. Memoir. Owners bookplate to the front end paper, signed by the author on the title page, some fading to the spine, illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. 111. pp
220 by 140mm (8¾ by 5½ inches).Book ID: 2039More details Price: £15.00 -
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 -
Khwab O Khayal or "Visions of the Past".
Official Text-Book for the Examination of Civil and Military Officers by the Higher Standard Hindustani
Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press, 1911. First Edition. Hardback. Colonial British officers and civil servants who lived in India during this period were expected to learn to speak the Indian languages in order to communicate directly with their staff and men. Hindustani was the considered 'lingua franca', spoken as it was over much of the area which, at that time, constituted British India. Higher Standard Hindustani examinations remained, virtually unchanged, until 1947.
Binding is tight and square. The paper covering the spine is split at the bottom. Boards are soiled but somewhat stained. The book has definitely been used as there are small / light pencil annotations to some pages. 220 x 135 mm (8¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2337More details Price: £80.00 -
King Leopold's Ghost. A Story of Greed,Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Book ID: 4225More details Price: £40.00
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King Monmouth.
Being A History of The Career of James Scott "The Protestant Duke" 1649-1685.
Book ID: 4348More details Price: £40.00
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L'Aiglon en images et dans la fiction poetique et dramatique.
Book ID: 4345More details Price: £40.00
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L'Ambassadeur du grand-duc de Toscane et les proscrits florentins, épisode inédit du règne de Henri III
Book ID: 4048More details Price: £75.00
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La Femme En France.
Photos de Daniel Frasnay.
Book ID: 3683More details Price: £30.00
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Le 1er Mystérieux.
Souvenirs de Guerre d'un légionnaire Suisse.
Book ID: 2899More details Price: £80.00
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Le "Cahier Rouge" de Benjamin Constant
Book ID: 2771More details Price: £60.00
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Le Chic Cheval
Book ID: 4099More details Price: £380.00
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Le Pas d'Armes de la Bergère, maintenu au tournoi de Tarascon...
Book ID: 3395More details Price: £125.00
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Les Antiquitez histoires et choses plus remarquables de la ville D'Amiens.
Troisiesme édition dédiée au Roy.
Book ID: 3328More details Price: £1,000.00