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pp 191 Gerald Heywood's attractively produced account of Charles Cotton and his 'plot' on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border. The book is bound in the original green cloth with gilt lettering and...
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ff [i] xv [i] Carbon copy 1917 Army Medical Corps report with manuscript annotation and signed by its author, Lieutenant Colonel Green, on the 'collection of the wounded... in open fighting' by the Th...
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![A Christmas Carol [Brock illustrations]](/img/products/achristmascarol279745221-thumb.jpg) |
viii, pp 160 Charmingly bound Brock-illustrated edition of Dickens' greatest Christmas book. Decorative white cloth with embellishment, top edge gilt; browning to spine and edges of boards, slight wea...
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viii, pp 1-296 Brougham's Discourse on Natural Theology, inscribed by the author on the end paper: 'From Lord Brougham May 30th 1835 HB'. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Brougham co-founded the Edinbu...
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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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[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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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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[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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[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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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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Fifth and best edition of Bayle's dictionary in five huge folio volumes incorporating Des Maizeaux' biography of the author. Bound in dry and flaky but sound and usable French contemporary calf. six s...
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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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[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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[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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An uncommon memoir of the Quaker George Dillwyn which is distinguished by the presence of two albumen photographs. This is Gernsheim 81, illustrated by two photographic illustrations taken by Richard...
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pp 570 [6] Perhaps the earliest European historical novel in a copy owned by the English translator of Dante, Gibraltar-born Henry F Cary. Bound in limp vellum with a black morocco spine label, owners...
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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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pp 20 The birth certificate of modern India and Pakistan, which came into force a month after publication on 15th August 1947 with the creation of the two new Dominion states. Printed by the Stationer...
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![Le Theatre de La Mode [exhibition]](/img/products/letheatredelamo574596-thumb.jpg) |
Lavish exhibition catalogue for the first post-war exhibition of Parisian couture which relied on wire mannequins and miniature costumes in an effort to revive the French fashion industry. The French ...
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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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xii, pp 1-381 [2] Advertisement leaf. The last published work in his lifetime by Henry Home, a Scottish judge and Enlightenment figure. The book is bound in early nineteenth century half tan calf, lig...
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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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Four volume first edition of Eliot's masterpiece described by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'. Bound in handsome polished blue morocco with gilt decoratio...
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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] 108; *8 An elaborately illustrated Basel printing of the official handbook of the civil and military officials in the later Roman Empire with their insignia pictorially represented. Historiated ...
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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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Number 521 of 550 copies of this highly successful combination of William Russell Flint's lubricious skills as an illustrator with Robert Herrick's lush seventeenth century eroticism. Published by the...
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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 105 [3] Rare Latin grammar printed in Dublin with attractive Irish provenance to the Wynne family library at Hazelwood House in Sligo. Bound in contemporary sheep with a blind double fillet panel 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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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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![Sechs Propheten H. Schrifft, Nemlich: Daniel [etc]](/img/products/sechsprophetenh119147040-thumb.jpg) |
[56] pp568 [24] pp552 [16] pp 176 Lutheran homiletics in a superb blind-stamped pigskin binding with gauffered edges and original clasps from the early seventeenth century. About five inches across th...
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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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![The Bradfordian [illustrated by David Hockney]](/img/products/thebradfordiani250289608-thumb.jpg) |
Four rare issues of David Hockney's school magazine containing illustrations by the aspiring artist that include a harlequin (a motif that returned in his 1980 oil painting), sketches of Bradford wool...
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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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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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[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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An unrecorded chapbook imprint from the 1780s of the life of the 'King of the Beggars', bound together with a defective 1726 London edition of the story of a Massachusetts man castaway in the Gulf of ...
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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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ff 342 Chemical guide to penicillin production produced for use at Glaxo's - now Glaxo Smith Kline - pharmaceutical factory in Ulverston in Cumbria. Substantial oblong quarto (Twinlock Transfer Binder...
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Luxuriously produced large folio, white cloth with gilt decoration, slight discolouring, paper strengthening to inner hinges. The book contains four lithographs, four plates in colour, twelve 'Rembran...
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A distinguished volume which brings together one of the masterpieces of English verse, George Herbert's The Temple, with Christopher Harvey's book-length homage, The Synagogue. The 1709 edition of The...
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![The True Born English Man, A Satire [chapbook]](/img/products/thetruebornengl726570480-thumb.jpg) |
[3], vi, [1], 8-38 A chapbook redaction of Defoe's The true-born Englishman, in its original blue printed wrappers which contain interesting advertising material from the publisher. The text which als...
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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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![To be Sold by Auction... Holmfirth [Broadside]](/img/products/tobesoldbyaucti916051710-thumb.jpg) |
[25x37cm] Unrecorded auction broadside from 1814 for the sale of land and houses in Holmfirth, Hepworth and Kirkburton in Yorkshire to be held at the White-Hart Inn on May 18th under the auspices of '...
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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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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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Voyages and Travels £150
[Ellis] xvi, pp 1-128 [Dana] [6] pp 1-124 [Cleveland] xii, pp 1-124 [Pringle] xvi, pp 1-116. A scarce publisher's compilation volume containing the 1840 Moxon edition of Ellis's 'Late Embassy to China...
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