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Les Clous de L'Exposition - A series of Political Postcards.
12 cartes postales politiques pour accompagner l'exposition universelle de 1889 à Paris
Book ID: 3431More details Price: £150.00
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Lloyd George.
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1940. First edition. Hardback in blue cloth. In original dust jacket. Fascinating biography of the famous Welsh Liberal Party politician, David Lloyd George - 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. Book and contents are clean. The dust jacket is somewhat rubbed and has been strengthened inside (imperceptibly from outside). 207 pages. Including several b/w photos. 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3947More details Price: £25.00 -
Local Government in Scotland: With Complete Statutory References
Edinburgh & Glasgow: William Hodge & Co, Limited, 1925. First Edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright inside with no marks. 692 pages. Text in English. 225 x 155 mm (8¾ x 6 inches). Première édition. Planches de toilé bordeaux de l'éditeur avec titre doré au dos. Intérieur propre et lumineux sans traces. 692 pages. Texte en anglais. 225 × 155 mm
Book ID: 3456More details Price: £38.00 -
Memoirs of Lewis the Fourteenth.
Written by himself and addressed to his son. Translated from the French.
Book ID: 3949More details Price: £350.00
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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. Leather boards in a very good condition with minimal sign of handling. Light sporadic foxing. Pages rough edged. 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.
Book ID: 2165More details Price: £30.00 -
Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie, by their Daughter.
Book ID: 2259More details Price: £125.00
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Miscellanea Pictica: Containing The History of the Picts.
Sir Robert Sibbald's Account of the Picts From the History of Fife and Kinross and a Description of Pictish Antiquities Remaining in Scotland & Northern Islands.
Edinburgh: D. Webster, 1818. In recent green buckram with gilt title to spine. Advertisement after title page is a message from D. Webster (the printer) starts "The first of these Tracts, generally known by the title of Maule's History of the Picts, is printed from the edition of Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh, 1706..." 116 pages. 225 x 130 mm (8¾ x 5 inches). Book and contents in a very good condition. Two neat ex libris to front pastedown. One is from the author J. L. Weir, and the other more modern is an attractive stamped version. This tract has also been ascribed to Sir James Balfour.
Book ID: 2586More details Price: £150.00 -
Mobilizing Social Services in Wartime. A Symposium.
Book ID: 4192More details Price: £100.00
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New Illustrated Manual of the current gold and silver coins of all civilized nations of the globe:
giving their weight, standard, & value, together with the systems of money, weights, & measures, and statistics, commercial geography, & industry of the different countries. Two volumes.
Book ID: 4176More details Price: £170.00
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Nightingale: The Story Since 1840.
Tymsder Publishing, 2001. First edition in dust jacket. In the 1820's and '30s the London Jewish community was distressed by the number of destitute Jews living on the streets or in the workhouses. To deal with the problem groups of Jewish East Enders established three charities that later merged and became 'Nightingale'. Marcus Roberts is a researcher in to Anglo-Jewish history, and has been widely published. 112 pp. 250 x 180 mm (9¾ x 7 inches).
Fine dust jacket and fine book. This copy bears the following dedication to the FFEP: Presented to Ms Fay Weldon CBE by Nightingale at the Guildhall Dinner 22nd October 2001.
Book ID: 2324More details Price: £12.00 -
Notice historique des descentes qui ont été faites dans les Isles Britanniques,
Depuis Guillaume-le-Conquérant jusqu'à l'an VI de la République française; avec une carte enluminée gravée par P.F. Tardieu.
Book ID: 2825More details Price: £500.00
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Now a Stranger
Book ID: 4227More details Price: £35.00
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Old-World Questions and New-World Answers.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884. First edition, hardback. Bound in three quarter leather, with marbled boards, and gilt stamped title to spine. 369 pages + colour folding map to rear. Leather on boards is heavily rubbed, but the contents are quite clean, without markings or damage. Colour map is slightly foxed (see photos). 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
This late nineteenth century work gives a fascinating glimpse in to the European view of the "American" as a social alchemist, and a glance at "evolution of the American people".Book ID: 3597More details Price: £35.00 -
On Photography.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. Early printing (6th impression) of this "philosophy of photography" in which Sontag "examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today". Grey illustrated dust wrapper. Clean and tidy with a touch of nicking to the edges of the wrapper. Fading to the spine. Grey boards and silver writing to the spine. Clean and tidy. Internally clean and tidy with owner's bookplate to the inside front board. [10] 208 pages. 220 by 150mm (8¾ by 6 inches).
Book ID: 2797More details Price: £25.00 -
Opstellen over vakbeweging. Jeugd Biblioteek - Deel 2.
Omslag Jugendstil van Fré Cohen.
Amsterdam: Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen, 1923. First edition. Softback, with cover design and header by Fré Cohen. Cohen was a Dutch graphic artist and illustrator who famously illustrated all the works for the Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen - later known as the AJC. Covers and contents are delicate and age toned. There is a neat previous owner's name to the front, but overall this is a good example. 83 pages. 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3074More details Price: £8.00 -
Ordonnance de Louis XIV, sur le fait des Cinq Grosses Fermes.
Du mois de Février 1688. Registrée au Parlement de Bretagne le 7 Octobre 1688.
Rennes: François Vatar, imprimeur du Roi & du Parlement, 1782. Rare. Prémiere edition. Couverture souple. Etat : Très bon. Édition originale. 50 pages. 215 x 165 mm (8½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3655More details Price: £50.00 -
Our Veterans of 1854: In Camp, and Before the Enemy.
Book ID: 3430More details Price: £300.00
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Pagan Celtic Britain:
Studies in Iconography and Tradition.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. A very good hardback - 433 pp. Original gilt and bronze lettered brown cloth, top edge brown, dust jacket in good condition (now in clear protective cover). Internally without inscriptions or other marks. Slight spine lean.255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
A substantial work, which includes over 200 line drawings, 96 monochrome photographs, maps, appendix, list of abbreviations and a good sized index.
Dr. Anne Ross has wide experience of living in Celtic-speaking communities where she has traced vernacular tradition. Using archaeological and anthropoligical evidence, as well as folklore, Dr. Ross provides broad insight into the early Celtic world.
Book ID: 2290More details Price: £30.00 -
Panoramique du Cinéma illustré de 80 Photographies
Book ID: 3241More details Price: £25.00
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Parliament for Europe.
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1979. First edition hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. David Marquand is an academic and former Member of Parliament. Marquand resigned his seat to work as Chief Advisor (1977 to 1978) to his mentor Roy Jenkins who had been appointed President of the European Commission. This is one of several books of this type that were published in the late 1970s on direct elections and the European Parliament. Adopting a pro-community position, Marquand picks up on a number of themes, and, in a highly readable, talkative manner, gives his point of view on accepted myths concerning the Community and direct elections. Both dust jacket and book are in a very good condition. 147 pages (including index). 225 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3583More details Price: £25.00