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pp 1-123 A signed copy of this important checklist of Philippine Birds. Dean C Worcester has signed the printed wrapper to the book, 'with the compliments of Dean C Worcester.' Worcester was an Americ...
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A Previously Unknown Imprint+ Boscobel: or, the compleat history of His Sacred Majesty?s most miraculous preservation after the battle of Worcester, which was fought Sept. 3, 1651. Illustrated with a ...
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[40], pp 1-688, [16] An incomplete copy of Robert Parsons' Quiet and Sober Reckoning which was printed in 1609 at the English College that he had founded in St Omer. Eighteen leaves have been replac...
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A Winter's Tale £225
[Frontispiece showing the statue scene] [887-889] pp 890-973 A single play from the large-paper issue of Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's drama which has been rebound in elegant marble p...
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[Frontispiece] [741-743] pp 744-718 A single play from the large-paper issue of Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's drama which has been rebound in elegant marble papered wrappers. The fro...
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An original full page engraving of Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford Upon Avon taken from the Boydell Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. The image is 17 cm x 21 cm and is a fine impression worthy of Boy...
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As You Like It £225
[Frontispiece showing Rosalind disguised in the Forest of Arden] [595-597] pp 598-667 [1] A single play from the large-paper issue of Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's drama which has bee...
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Business Letters £125
A collection of two dozen letters dating from the 1860s written to the company of Samuel Cunliffe Lister. Lister was a leading British industrialist based in the Yorkshire town of Bradford. Thanks to ...
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pp 1-244 A comprehensive photographic survey of Cheshire which dates from the beginning of the twentieth century. This folio-sized book is particularly valuable for its focus on shops, trade and every...
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[Frontispiece] [3] pp 4-96 [Chetwood's piracy warning at the foot of the last page] The first separate publication of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The play does not exist in any printed form before the Fi...
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[4] pp 1-129 [1] A signed First Edition of W Frederick Edwards pioneering Ethnological study of racial types in Europe. Edwards was born in Jamaica but trained and worked in Paris where he published h...
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[6] pp 1-200 An inscribed First Edition of this account of England's relationship with the British colonies. Inscribed at the top of the title page is: 'W Millar Esq With the Author's Respects'. The b...
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A remarkable collection of Winston Churchill's original Boer War newspaper reports filed to the Morning Post in 1899-1900. These were the reports that were subsequently worked up into two of his earli...
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[2] 3-4; [3] 4; [2] [General Title Page] pp 3-925, pp 3-4 A rare bound volume of votes and proceedings of the House of Commons for the year 1789. The late eighteenth century saw a running battle over...
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[1] pp 2-8 [3 large folding engraved machine diagrams] A patent for machinery invented by the Bradford industrialist and silk magnate Samuel Cunliffe Lister. It appears that this copy passed through C...
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[14], 78, [2] pp 1-97 pp 96-140 [4] pp 141-218 [4] pp 219-723 [11] A complete fifth edition of Burton's classic account of Renaissance melancholy. This 1638 edition has been collated and is complete b...
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[Bible begins with Genesis and has numbered leaves not pages] 1-435, [4], 441-554; Two Concordances [184] Psalmes [page numbers], [8] pp 1-98, [8] A superbly rebound Geneva Bible from 1582 with the ac...
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viii, pp 1-500 An inscribed copy of the first popular edition of Warren's Diary of a Late Physician. At the top of the title page the author has written: 'Richard Wallis Esq - With the Author's kind r...
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[5] pp 6-46; 32 Autotype Plates. The magnificent two volume edition of Flaxman's drawings illustrated with original photographs. Sidney Colvin's monograph precedes thirty two large format autotype pho...
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pp 302-325 with illustrations. An offprint of this study of glaciated surfaces in South Africa which has been signed and dedicated by the author George Slater on the title page: 'Prof. W. T. Gordon M...
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iv, pp 1-94, [2] adverts. A rare imprint of this much republished medical work. Bound in a decorative blue morocco with embellishments in blind and gilt, and blue silk endpapers, this 1817 edition doe...
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The Rape of Lucrece £750
xii, pp 1-468 The first eighteenth century edition of Shakespeare's long poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. This appearance precedes both of the editions released by Lintott and Curll l...
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[Frontispiece showing Petruchio striking the table] [669-671] pp 672-739 [1] A single play from the large-paper issue of Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's drama which has been rebound in ...
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[Tempest - 1710] [2] pp 3-112; [Jew of Venice - 1711][9] pp 10-67 [1]. A scarce volume containing two plays from the first ever small format printings of Shakespeare's dramas. These printings by Thoma...
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[ii] [977-979] pp 980-1535 [1536] 7 Plates & Gucht Frontispiece; [ii] [1537-1539] 1540-2072, 6 Plates & Gucht Frontispiece. Two volumes of Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's plays ...
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[Vol I] [portrait frontispiece] [xiv] lxviii, [18] pp 1-487 [Vol II] [vi] pp 1-536 [Vol III] [iv] pp 1-542 [Vol IV] [iv] pp 1-512 [Vol V] [iv] pp 1-472 [Vol VI] [iv] pp 1-464 [Vol VII] [iv] pp 1-494 [...
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Wessex Tales £95
[6] [3] pp 4-276 [4] Adverts. The first reprint of Hardy's Wessex Tales originally published a year earlier in 1888. This collection brings together tales drawing upon the folklore and superstitions o...
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