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[8] 91 [3] Sixteenth century woodcuts after Hans Sebald Beham (1536) and Salomon Bernard (1558) extracted from a 1599 Bible by a Douai reader in the 1830's. The 87 woodcuts have been mounted by 'G D',...
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Privately printed collection of poems published after the death of its American writer Maria Gross Horwitz by her ex-patriate daughter Florence Horwitz; one institutional copy only located at Yale. No...
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[2] pp 558 Seventeenth century guide to the succession of the Kings of England, 'Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Bishops' extensively illustrated with woodcut coats of arms. Tidily bound in recent half t...
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[frontispiece, 6 plates] pp 274. Edinburgh edition signed and authenticated by Samuel Ancell on the verso of the title page: 'None are genuine but what are signed by my hand. [manuscript] Samuel Ancel...
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[8] pp 79 [1] Collated and complete Restoration play from the collection of the financier Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Nineteenth century half calf over reddish marbled boards, rubbed to corners, with fad...
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viii pp[1] pp4-354 First edition, a presentation copy from 1798, with the foldout map and frontispiece of Elgin Cathedral present. Contemporary tree calf with a red morocco spine label and some slight...
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xxiv, pp 354, [16] Life of the Flemish Saint Godelieve, who was strangled by servants in 1070 in a dispute over whether she should become a nun or be married. Modern half dark calf over marbled boards...
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[8] pp 500 [6] adverts. Fifth edition of Behn's works, including Oronooko. The book is bound in contemporary panelled calf with red speckled edges, rebacked most attractively with raised bands and a t...
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pp 80. No 184 of 200 copies with the prospectus laid in. Brown buckram, boards sunned in irregular patterns; book label of Rainforth Armitage Walker (an expert on Aubrey Beardsley) to the front pasted...
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[frontis] pp 108 Almost certainly spurious account of the 'shipwreck and sufferings' of Mrs Eliza Bradley, supposedly autobiographical, but borrowed in large part from Captain James Riley's 1816 accou...
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![Basil [with] Eugene Grandet [with] Balthazar](/img/products/basilwitheugene7142720-thumb.jpg) |
The first one-volume edition of Wilkie Collins's 'sensational' second novel bound with two very scarce first English translations of Balzac's novels. Half red morocco over marbled boards, all edges ma...
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[47 Double-page Maps] (Directions) pp 17 [1] Cary's 1787 English Atlas in a desirable contemporary wallet-style binding intended for use by Stage Coach Drivers. The binding is soft sheep over thick c...
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Eleven Parts of this Catalogue of the Holdings of the Yorkshire Herbarium - missing Part VII. The Catalogue is undated but appears to date from the turn of the twentieth century. The eleven sections a...
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Scarce seventeenth century Oxford student edition of Boethius' influential study of free will written while in prison awaiting execution. Tiny 16mo format (9.5x7cm) bound in recent full sheep binding ...
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A special 80 page supplement celebrating the opening of the Design Centre. Advert clipped from page 3/4. Two staples in front cover. An interesting period feel to the publication which comes from the ...
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![Electra: A Tragedy [Programme for English premier]](/img/products/electraatragedy74810066-thumb.jpg) |
pp [4] Programme for the British premiere of Arthur Symons' translation of Electra, starring Mrs Patrick Campbell who is pictured alongside 'Miss Stella Patrick Campbell' in half tone photographs tipp...
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[4] 33 engraved plates. The Atlas volume of Pouillet's account of physics and meteorology complete with the important fold-out Plate 33 backed onto linen: 'Configuration de L'Equateur Magnetique' from...
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Spectacularly rebacked by Yorkshire bookbinder Martin Thorpe who has complemented the original diced russia binding with his own imaginative tooling and onlays. Laid in a letter from Bryan Maggs of Ma...
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[8] [1] pp 2-126 (14 Full Page Photographic Plates) A lithographic reprint of the account first published in 1900 of the excavations at Enkomi, Curium and Amathus. The book is handsomely bound in red ...
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Diary issued to professional footballers complete with The Laws of the Game, fixture lists, league positions for the 1959-60 season and football field diagrams on the endpapers. Bound in brown rexine ...
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[2] iv, [1] errata, pp 7-132 An entirely unrecorded Coventry imprint from 1818. Bound in contemporary sheep the anonymous author whose introduction concludes with a cryptic allusion to his location: '...
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![Franklin's Way to Wealth [with 3 other titles]](/img/products/franklinswaytow351276252-thumb.jpg) |
[4 imprints] Small volume of children's books including an 1805 Darton edition of Franklin and an apparently unrecorded Darlington edition of William Law's Call to a Devout Life. Bound in half black r...
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Houses and Gardens £325
pp 284 [12 colour plates; 77 pages photographs] Second revised edition from 1933 containing a wealth of half-tone black and white photographs and colour plates of arts and crafts style houses across s...
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Very uncommon collection of Day and Haghe lithographs from drawings by Robert William Buss (held at Harvard) of Oxford and Cambridge libraries, colleges and their founders, collected by the university...
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![Instructio pro superioribus ad augendum [...]](/img/products/instructioprosu73443132-thumb.jpg) |
A8-D4 Spiritual guidance from the man regarded as the second founder of the Jesuits. Paper wrappers, probably nineteenth century, slight browning to text and scattered staining, a little dog-earring t...
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![Les Cris de Paris [Painted Binding]](/img/products/lescrisdeparisp18126048-thumb.jpg) |
Lightly extra-illustrated edition with bespoke binding, half pigskin over marbled boards with penned decoration by or on behalf of the French owner of the bookplate on the front pastedown, Maurice Nal...
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Colin Davis' conductor's score of London Pastoral for tenor and chamber orchestra, a facsimile of the manuscript score, bound in card wrappers, from the conductor's collection. This work was a commiss...
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[pp] 16. Order of service for the Royal Wedding of 1947 (a union shortly to be 70 years old on November 20th) which would have been issued to someone who attended the event at Westminster Abbey. Print...
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Second edition from 1907 of this finely produced collection of collotype and chromozylograph images of Japanese art. An excellent copy in decorative cloth covered boards with string ties. The book is ...
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(2.5x4cm) [pp] 48. Miniature almanac bound in midnight blue printed wrappers, illustrated throughout with minute engravings of Canton, Boston etc; all edges gilt. Very good condition. A charming and s...
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[4 volumes] An attractive set of Stephen's commentaries which has been recently rebound in tan coloured cloth with paper spine labels. The text is clean and complete, with untrimmed edges to the text ...
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xii, pp 232 [4] Unusually vibrant example of Yorkshire topography. Excellent binding of pebbled cloth with gilt decoration (binder's ticket of Leighton, Son and Hodge) brown endpapers. Staining to pre...
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[ff] 33. Rare Nazi propaganda album reproducing drawings of a Prisoner of War camp by captured French soldiers at Officers' Camp 5, Weisberg near Heilbronn in Germany. Oblong quarto bound in textured ...
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Second edition in pictorial cloth with gilt decoration and brown coated end papers. An A - Z of Victorian nursery rhymes elaborately illustrated with line drawings reminiscent of Tenniel, and humorous...
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Golden Cockerel Press: number 521/ 550 copies of this highly successful combination of William Russell Flint's illustrative skills with Robert Herrick's lush seventeenth century eroticism. Published b...
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Our Old Home £150
viii, pp 312 The 1864 Smith Elder edition of Our Old Home with a fine albumen photographic frontispiece of the author and his facsimile signature below, with tissue guard. The book is bound in very go...
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pp 64; pp 40 Scarce mid-century illustrated guide to designing and building non-conformist chapels, a second edition. Sound binding of pebbled half roan over marbled boards, red speckled edges to text...
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Richard Bentley's 1856 edition of Jane Austen's best loved novel, bound in Westley's original purple bead-grain cloth, decorated in blind and gilt. The spine has been relaid with reinforcement along t...
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![Rain-Charm for the Duchy by Ted Hughes [Ltd ed]](/img/products/raincharmforthe491322297-thumb.jpg) |
[4] One of a 'handful' of copies commissioned by the 'Westcountry Rivers Trust to mark the grand opening of Rain-Charm House by His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester'. 'Hand-set and printed' by ...
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[4] pp 31 [1] Stab-sewn uncommon architectural pamphlet in near fine condition in original blue paper wrappers. The pages are untrimmed with a few foxing spots. The pamphlet presents the findings of '...
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Forty five restoration play quartos, 1671-1717, representing most of the leading dramatists of the second half of the seventeenth century and including three plays by the first professional female pla...
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(51x38cm) Large broadside to mark the opening of London Bridge, giving details of the royal procession, banquet and the spectacular entertainments of 1st August, 1831. The woodcut is mounted on Japan ...
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pp 40 The second edition of this uncommon work in publisher's green sand grain cloth, with embossed decoration and gilt titles to upper cover, all edges gilt, brown coated end papers, portrait frontis...
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pp 226 [6] adverts. Fine copy owned by the author's brother with the ownership inscription of 'Frederic R Eaton' (Vicar of Swardeston, Norfolk) on the first yellow endpaper. Immaculate brown embossed ...
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![Statutes of the Garter [with] Garter Box](/img/products/statutesofthega178705996-thumb.jpg) |
Order of the Garter Statutes and blue velvet-covered presentation box surmounted by the arms of the Order, a cross of St. George surrounded by a garter with the motto 'Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense'. Thes...
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[2] 4;iv; pp 78;78 pages [1] colophon. Independent Burma's first democratic constitution printed in Rangoon in 1947, bound in blue printed wrappers with a parallel transliterated text in Burmese and E...
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Andrew Carnegie's copy, 1 of 30 printed, with the bookplate on the front pastedown of the industrialist bearing his motto 'Let there be light'. Half brown morocco over marbled boards with light rubbin...
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A two volume documentary account of the court and times of James I compiled by Robert Folkestone Williams from sources discovered by Thomas Birch nearly a century earlier. The books are bound in attra...
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pp 264 Number 364 of of this fine, limited edition in tree calf; a crisp copy in the card slipcase which has been repaired; signed by Printer, Illustrator and Editor. Bookplate of Vilas Victor Johnson...
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[lithographic frontispiece] [2] pp 3-69 [lacking pp 5-8] A presentation copy of this humorous, illustrated volume tentatively ascribed to 1853 from evidence in the text. Ackermann's unknown editor has...
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3 volumes of engraved music bound in contemporary half black morocco with gilt lines and decorative spines. Internally fresh in sound bindings; the volume numbers and price (8/6) have been added to th...
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pp 18 [manuscript] pp 39-1562, lacking preliminaries, title page, pp1-38, pp355-6, pp1563-1630 and index. Incomplete 1636 third edition of Gerard's Herball which contains the vast bulk of Thomas Johns...
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Four volume translation by Peter Motteux, the eighth edition of 1749 in speckled calf, gilt panel to boards and lines to spine with volume numbers in gilt and title in blind. The bindings are scuffed ...
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[12] pp 130, 135-136, 149-720 [104] [38] plates. Splendidly bound and inscribed presentation copy given by the author Elias Ashmole to another founder member of the Royal Society: 'For the deservedly ...
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[Frontispiece Portrait] [4] pp pp 158 [2]The second edition of a collection of Thomas Dibdin's poetry with a verse squib in his hand tipped in. The half sheet of paper has been tipped onto the first ...
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2 Volumes Clarkes two volume life of James II, complete as called for. Printed in a handsome quarto, this copy is bound in half calf over green cloth. Both bindings are sound but the bindings are scuf...
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pp 48. Bound in original printed wrappers advertising 'a Catalogue of Reward Books, Catechisms, Tracts, &c.' a very uncommon religious tract with a prize book plate on the first paste-down awardin...
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![The Schole Master [with] Practical Geometry](/img/products/thescholemaster271170520-thumb.jpg) |
Third edition of the most important Tudor teaching guide, written by Elizabeth I's tutor, and bound with Practical Geometry by Charles I's 'Chief engineer of all castles, forts, and fortifications wit...
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The eight volume edition of Byron's works produced by John Murray between 1817 and 1820 in an unusual half calf over vellum binding with unusual square calf corners, soft blue end-papers and speckled ...
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pp 12 Early eighteenth century study of the vacuum published with the approval of Ezechiel Gallatin at the University of Geneva. Original marbled wrappers, stained affecting most leaves to some extent...
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![Thomas's Burlesque Drama [6 titles]](/img/products/thomassburlesqu17277060-thumb.jpg) |
(The Beggar's Opera, Tom Thumb, The Tailors, Midas, Bombastes Furioso, The Mayor of Garratt) Six plays issued together as Thomas's Burlesque Drama by the London publisher Joseph Thomas in 1837. Bound ...
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[2] pp118. Naturalist Gilbert White's brother Thomas Holt White's copy of Burke's pamphlet on George III's nepotism. Bound in smart modern full calf with new endpapers, 'T. Holt White' on the title pa...
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pp1-15; pp1-38; pp1-12. The far-reaching Treaty of Vienna of 1725 by which the Austrian empire relinquished all claims to the Spanish throne - three texts printed in Latin and English in parallel. Sta...
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![Two Letters [bound in original wrappers]](/img/products/twolettersbound276608880-thumb.jpg) |
[4] pp 188 In original blue-green wrapper and stab-sewn as issued, complete with half-title. The wrappers are bright and without fading, nicked and chipped to edges; the text is partly unopened and th...
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Under-Currents £35
pp 377 [3] Uncommon novel by the Irish romantic novelist, Margaret Hungerford. Rubbed and worn boards, blind W H Smith stamp to first blank. ...
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