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viii, pp 1-400 John Henry Newman's first academic publication which was printed in May 1821 when he broke down during his final exams at Trinity College, Oxford, in the journal, The Christian Observer...
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pp 237-245. The first appearance of Planck's Quantum Theory in which he stated that 'energy is not continuous but is released in small, discrete, indivisible units which he called quanta'. Planck's pa...
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Beautifully bound collection of a dozen almanacs with vellum markers protruding from the foreedge in a red goatskin binding with George I's initials to the corners of the boards, all edges gilt. The h...
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Album of 1866 albumen photographs in a presentation album with a mock-medieval illuminated title page inscribed 'Photographs EMHA from MN 1866'. Octavo sized album, half roan over cloth, binding rubbe...
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George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, London, 1807. Full-Leather. Book Condition: Very Good. pp 578 A bound folio of 78 Acts of Parliament from the second session of the 1807 Parliament, including an Act 'p...
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pp 64 [2] adverts. Priestley pamphlet including the final advertisement leaf which promises still further publications by this prolific writer to include his Chart of Biography. Small Dutch institutio...
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![A List of the Flag Officers [1837] N](/img/products/alistoftheflago429687584-thumb.jpg) |
pp 389 [1] The 1837 edition of this reference work in original publisher's binding with an inserted note at page 17 on the notepaper of the Commander in Chief's Office, Mediterranean, blind stamped wi...
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[4] [64 full page engravings] The uncommon 1828 edition of Sarah Trimmer's sequence of instructive juvenile engravings from English history. The book is bound in full grain roan, flat backed with 'Tri...
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[6] xviii, pp 396 [12] index [8] book adverts. Panelled calf, Cambridge-style binding, rebacked to style with new red morocco spine label, paper reinforcement to inner hinges, speckled edges, internal...
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pp 124 Finely rebound example of this landmark bookseller's catalogue with the illustrated wrappers bound in, featuring Beardsley's pen and ink drawing for the Catalogue of Leonard Smithers (offered f...
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pp 82 Treaty on the African slave trade signed at Brussels, July 2, 1890 printed in French and English (Treaty Series No 7) and presented to Parliament as an Act with the 'intention of putting to an e...
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![Cahiers de la Quinzaine [Doves Bindery]](/img/products/cahiersdelaquin91024937-thumb.jpg) |
pp 72 Doves bindery expertise applied to a French periodical with excellent provenance recorded on the first blank: 'This is bound at the Doves Bindery. Hammersmith, bought from A. Cooper. Bookseller ...
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Finely produced collection of woodblock images printed by Tamura for the Kokka Company. An excellent copy in decorative cloth covered boards with string ties and a Japanese title, bright and attractiv...
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Presentation copy from Balduinus de Gaule of this Paris printing of the work of the Spanish Jesuit, Nieremberg. Deaccessioned from the library of Ampleforth Abbey this seventeenth century Jesuitical w...
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Situationist pamphlet from the heart of Parisian radical politics considering the misery of students in 'ses aspects economique, politique, pyschologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuel'. Produced a...
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pp [2] iv; xi [13] pp173; lxvii. 1729 edition bound in beautiful mottled calf with speckled edges to the text block, ownership signature of 'H Whitmore' to the final pastedown. A very little wear at t...
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[8x5cm] Collection of 1950s vintage photos of Operation Jubilee, the disastrous Dieppe raid in August 1942. 14 photographs of the raid are housed in a small '50s style photo album with a Gent booksell...
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![Diotimas Liebeslider [inscribed]](/img/products/diotimasliebesl35502660-thumb.jpg) |
'A Sir Colin Davis cordialement Norbert Moret, Londres 20 Octobre 1990', presentation copy of this very large spiral bound score from the composer Norbert Moret. This composition for the fiftieth anni...
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![Edinburgh Star [Newspaper - 64 issues & 10 Others]](/img/products/edinburghstarne274154275-thumb.jpg) |
1816 Edinburgh newspaper collection of 64 issues of the Edinburgh Star newspaper together with single 1816 issues of the Edinburgh Evening Courant, Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle, Edinburgh Correspondent ...
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![Field Paths and Green Lanes [autograph letter]](/img/products/fieldpathsandgr77692794-thumb.jpg) |
pp 494; pp 32 adverts. A most interesting copy of Jennings' memoir of walking in Surrey and Sussex which has been annotated by the owner in the light of a letter, laid into the book, from 1881 sent by...
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A collection of five beautifully illustrated William Morris & Company catalogues requested by and sent to Arthur Edward Harvey, architect and industrial designer in 1920. All are pre-war printings...
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![Geographia, Emendata et Locupletata [with maps]](/img/products/geographiaemend343566484-thumb.jpg) |
[8] pp 120,113-116 [8] pages; 16 maps. Edward Wells' 1704 Periegetes complete with 16 maps including 'America Septentrionalis Tabula' and 'America Australis Tabula'. Contemporary panelled calf with pr...
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pp 244 [4] adverts. Handsomely produced late imperial propaganda found here in unusually fresh condition. A pair of valiant red coats adorn the cover, one of them fallen in combat; bevelled boards, de...
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The 1868 'One Guinea' edition of Francis Frith's illustrated version of Hyperion, complete with twelve original photographs. Publisher's bevel edged boards with faded gilt decoration; all edges gilt; ...
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[12] pp 639 [45] The Cambridge 1686 edition of Isocrates in an unusually pleasing contemporary English calf binding. The spine is divided into six richly gilt compartments with raised bands and entire...
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xvi] pp 670, [30] index. The first Leiden edition of Lactantius from 1652. Presumably a late seventeenth century import from Leiden into England the book is bound in contemporary English sheep which a...
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pp 36 Unrecorded imprint of this French manual for lovers, particularly addressing 'la Méthode et Adresse pour bien entretenir une Maîtresse'. Chapbook-style publication without imprint, dogearred...
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![Le Triomphe de la Croix [dedication copy]](/img/products/letriomphedelac283473375-thumb.jpg) |
The dedication copy bound and dedicated to the Queen of France, Marie-Therese d'Autriche the wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Sumptuous full red morocco, all edges gilt, with inner dentelles and marbl...
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xxiv, [1] pp 2-503 [1] [28] Index [folding table opposite page 115] The first English edition of Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany comprising eight translated letters by the philosopher fol...
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[frontispiece] viii, pp 103 [1] advert. Scarce third edition of this mid eighteenth century piece of low-life literature with a conscious nod to Hogarth. Good looking half tan sheep binding over marbl...
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pp 18 A curative response to the outbreak of dysentery in Berne in the 1760s with a suggestion for a drug regimen and 'Regime de vie des malades'. Printed papers wrappers with marbled paper reinforcem...
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Leather cased set of maps of France at a scale of 1/200,000 dating from the early 1970s. Numbered with leather tabs from 51-86 (complete) with additional maps for Corsica (90) and Environs de Lyons (9...
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![Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy at Large [Sammelband]](/img/products/nixonscheshirep488862150-thumb.jpg) |
[4 Manchester pamphlets & Map] [4] pp 5-32; pp xii; pp 66; pp 74, viii. A collection of Manchester pamphlets, concluding with an early printing of Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy from 1719. The collecti...
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Bound volume containing around 30 printed particulars and conditions of sale for a variety of properties, land and homes in Essex from the first decade of the twentieth century. Locations include Chel...
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![Poems by Mrs. Opie [Charles R Bignold's Copy]](/img/products/poemsbymrsopiec224251520-thumb.jpg) |
[frontispiece] iv, pp 188. Excellent Norwich association copy owned by Charles Robert Bignold with his armorial bookplate on the marbled endpaper and on the paste-down opposite the book label of 'Mr J...
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![Portraits and Memoirs [Collection Engravings]](/img/products/portraitsandmem183158171-thumb.jpg) |
95 engraved portraits originally issued in fascicules by Edmund Lodge, found here bound in Victorian half cloth over marbled boards. The original title of the magazine has been laid down on the upper ...
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Sämmtliche Werke £80
34 volumes in 12 handsomely bound sturdy blue buckram volumes with gilt spine lettering and speckled edges. The bindings are about very good with a little wear to extremities; internally the text is n...
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pp 440 'Standard Textbook for Merchant Tailors, Clothing Manufacturers, Pattern-cutters, Designers...' bound in half burgundy pebbled roan over red buckram, rubbing to edges and staining to cloth. Wit...
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![Symphony No. 1 [Colin Davis' Score]](/img/products/symphonyno1coli21318374-thumb.jpg) |
Colin Davis' full score of Knussen's first symphony written when the composer was just 15 and ‘Commissioned by Rediffusion Television Limited’. The title page notes that the work was composed betw...
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![The Annals of Yorkshire [serial publication]](/img/products/heannalsofyorks211053216-thumb.jpg) |
Nos 10-20 Eleven individual volumes from the Leeds periodical publication of Mayhall's Yorkshire Annals, comprising the last issue of what would become volume I of the book and all ten issues which ma...
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A prettily bound octavo Book of Common Prayer in contemporary crimson sheep with gilt decoration, marbled endpapers and gilt, if faded, edges. The 1775 ownership signature of 'Eliz. Wharton Old Park' ...
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pp 330 A very respectable copy of the Burnley collection of hymn tunes, chants, kyries and glorias, with an introduction dated 1875 explaining that the book was published as a response to 'the rapid s...
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An original full-size wooden newspaper hoarding with the Heckmondwike Herald poster from Friday May 24th 1940 still present. The hoarding which was handed down by the family which owned the newspaper...
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[frontispiece] pp 144 Rare Regency period collection of 'Enigmas, Charades, Rebusses, Logographs, Anagrams, Conundrums &c. &c.' dated to 1832 in the sole institutional copy at the British Libr...
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pp 305-320 (Qq1-Rr4) Number 36 of Roger L'Estrange's news sheet from May 11, 1665, much preoccupied with the second Anglo-Dutch war. Comprising two quarto quires, this is a single issue of L'Estrange'...
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viii, pp 1-191 [1] Adverts. A sequel to The Pilgrim's Progress which has been inscribed on the endpaper by the author to her friend: 'A Elliott from the Author'. Mary Ann Burges and Anne Elliot were p...
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The two volume edition of Jewitt and Hall's Stately Homes of England in a very attractive green gilt cloth binding. The books are very good with bright cloth and decorations and all edges gilt. There ...
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A signed offprint by the mining and petroleum expert Henry B Milner. The author has dedicated the pamphlet in the top corner of the front cover: 'A H Wells Esq BSc. With the Author's Compliments'. I...
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pp 158 [19 plates] A study of Brussels' lightning conductors dating from 1877 with 19 plates. The book is in stiff, printed covers with old tape reinforcement to the edges. An additional article by Me...
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14x20cm White satin-silk playbill with crimson silk border for a benefit performance given in Lincoln at the behest of the city's MP the Earl of Mexborough, John Savile, for the actors 'Mr Waldegrave ...
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![Works of Fancy & Imagination [10 Volumes]](/img/products/worksoffancyima718170600-thumb.jpg) |
Ten volume first 1871 edition prettily bound in bright green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges of the text block also gilt. A bright set, toning to spine and a few marks to spines and b...
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