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[Maramures County] Rozman, Shelomoh.
SEFER ZIKHRON KEDOSHIM LI-YEHUDE KARPATOROS-MARAMURESH: LE-HANTSAHAT ZEKHER HA-KEHILOT ... HA-HAYIM HA-YEHUDIYIM BA- AYAROT UVA-KEFARIM, TE'UR MAKIF 'AL TEKUFAT HA-SHO'AH.
1st edition. Original Embossed hardcover, 8vo. , 12, 32-543 pages. Photographs throughout. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Jews -- Ukraine -- Zakarpats'ka oblast' -- History. Jews -- Romania -- Maramures-- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Zakarpats'ka oblast'. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Maramures. ; Zakarpats'ka oblast' (Ukraine) Maramures (Romania) ; Crisana (Romania) . OCLC lists 48 copies worldwide. Covers worn. Very good condition. (YIZ-12-7)
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(xt) [Orlovah] Meirovitch, Aaron
SEFER Z'ELUDOK VE-ORLOVAH : GAL' ED LE-ZIKARON
Cloth, 8vo. , 329 pages. With Photographs. In Yiddish and Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) Jews -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Jews -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Zheludok (Belarus) Orlovo (Belarus) . Added title page: The book of Zoludek and Orlowa; a living memorial. Ex-library with minimal markings, very good condition. (YIZ-1-18A)
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[Tshentochov] Mahler, Raphael
TSHENSTOKHOVER YIDN
(FT) xii, 404, cxliv pages. With photographs. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Jews -- Poland -- Czestochowa. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- History. General Info: Responsibility: unter der redaktsye fun Rafa'el Mahler. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Title page in facsimile, stains on spine, otherwise Very Good condition. (YIZ-4-5A)
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(xt) [Ukraine] Osherowitch, Mendl
SHTET UN SHTETLEKH IN UKRAYINE UN IN ANDERE TEYLN FUN RUSLAND: FORSHUNGEN IN YIDISHER GESHIKHTE UN YIDISHN LEBNSSHTEYGER (COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES)
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo. 2 volumes. Vol. 1 306 pages; Vol. 2 305 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Soviet Union -- History. Jews -- Ukraine -- History. Title on added title page: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. Responsibility: fun M. Osherovitsh. OCLC: 38718164. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Ex-library with bookplate, marking on spine, and stamp on title page. Light wear to cover and spine. Text in very good condition. (YIZ-6-5)
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FELIX S.J.
Le progrès par le christianisme. Conférences de Notre-Dame de Paris: Année 1860 + Année 1861 [2 années en 1 tome]
2 années en 1 tome: 330 + 369pp., 22cm., année 1860: 3e éd., année 1861: 4e éd., relié en couverture cart. (plats marbrés, dos en cuir avec titre, nerfs et fleurons dorés, feuilles de garde marbrées, peu passée), qqs.rousseurs, bon état, [année 1860 contient 6 conférences: "Le progrès de la société par la famille", "Le progrès de la famille par Jésus-Christ", "Décadence de la famille dans notre siècle", "Le progrès de la famille par le mariage chrétien", "Le progrès de la famille par la paternité chrétienne", "Le progrès dans la famille par la maternité chrétienne". Année 1861 contient 7 conférences: "Le progrès par l'éducation chrétienne", "Le progrès dans l'éducation par la foi chrétienne", "Le progrès dans l'éducation par l'amour chrétien", "Le progrès dans l'éducation par l'obéissance chrétienne", "Le progrès dans l'éducation par le respect chrétien", "Le progrès dans l'éducation par la pureté chrétienne", "Le progrès dans l'éducation par la pureté chrétienne (suite)"], R74181
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NN
Der Lebensgarten - Ein buntes Gemisch an Darstellungen einer Gemeinschaft
169pp. with ills., softcover, very good, Q31362
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ARNOLD-FORSTER Mary
Basset Down. An Old Country House. Foreword by Charles Morgan.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 37 plates on 32 and 2 pedigrees (one folding), endpapers very faintly spotted; cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, backstrip faded (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy. This classic account provides considerable detail of the Booth and Maskelyne families.
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COOKE Family
Genealogical Memoirs relating to the Family of Cooke of Kingsthorpe, etc. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with pedigrees in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, wrappers and margins a little frayed and dusty else a very good, bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. Privately printed. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Not recorded by Thomson
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RIACH C.C.
A Brief Chronicle of Douglas and the Douglas Family. Brief Chronicle of Douglas and the Douglas Family.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; boards, cloth back, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean copy. Scarce. Thomson, p.52
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HARRISON H.G.
A select Bibliography of English Genealogy, with brief Lists for Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
8vo., original cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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HUGHES M.V.
London at Home. Illustrated by G. . Chambers.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and endpaper maps in green, neat signatures on front free endpaper; cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, green top, backstrip mildly faded else a very good copy. Hugely entertaining account of the byways of London by the author of the famous 'London Family' trilogy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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BOSWORTH George F.
Original Documents relating to the Monoux Family. Notes by Constance Demain Saunders. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plate; original wrappers as issued, uncut, a near fine copy of a scarce work. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society Official Publications, No.19. Thomson (1976), p.119
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MORLEY C.
Catalogue of the British Hymenoptera of the Family Chalcididae. [Preface by Sidney Harmer]. FORMERLY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY
8vo., First Edition; original burgundy boards, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing BM(NH) crest in gilt, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from the library of the British Museum (Natural History) with its small neat cancelled stamps on title verso and last leaf of text. With 28pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.
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PERCY Henry
The Household Papers of Henry Percy, Ninth Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632). Edited for the Royal Historical Society by G. . Batho.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with 4 plates; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt with Camden Society monogram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Camden Society, Third Series, Vol. XCIII. Non-institutional copies are very scarce in this condition.
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BRENAN Gerald
A History of the House of Percy from the Earliest Times down to the Present Century. Edited by W. A. Lindsay (Windsor Herald). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BUCKRAM
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present), titles and half-titles in red and black, 39 plates (all original tissue guards present), 7 large folding pedigrees on japon, 3 pedigrees in the text and armorial endpapers in silver and burgundy, neat signatue on front free endpaper, some mild spotting throughout as usual; original burgundy buckram armorial gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly faded, upper hinge of first volume starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Thornton of Oxford on front paste-downs. VERY SCARCE. Thomson, p.133..
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LONGH A.M. de
Mossdale; or, the English Family in Alsace.
8vo., with a frontispiece and 2 plates, some very light occasional age-marking; decorative cloth blocked in red and black, decorative back gilt, a very good, bright copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.
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FRENCH G.R.
The Royal Descent of Nelson and Wellington from Edward the First, King of England, with Tables of Pedigree and Genealogical Memoirs. Compiled by George Russell French. AUTHOR'S FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with 10 genealogical tables in the text; original decorative ribbed dark green cloth BY BONE & SON, boards elaborately tooled at corners to an arabesque design in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, primrose endpapers, very neatly recased, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, and particularly clean copy. A FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS COUSIN THE REV. GEORGE CHILTON WITH THE FORMER'S UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The author's second genealogical work, following his study of Victoria and Albert (1841) and preceding his notable 'Shakepeareana Genealogica' in 1869. George Robert Comyn Chilton, b.1825, was educated at Christ Church Oxford where he gained his BA in 1848 and MA in 1852. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the Bar in 1850. In 1861 he was appointed Vicar of Wanborough (Surrey) where he served until at least 1876. THIS WORK IS EXTREMELY SCARCE; PRESENTATION COPIES ARE THE MORE SO
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POWER Eileen
The Paycockes of Coggeshall.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 3 plates and 2 full-page pedigrees in the text, top and fore-edges a little dusty, neat inscription on front paste-down and front free endpapers, free endpapers mildly browned; original blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt just legible), upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end. Scarce. Thomson, p.131.
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MINTO Countess
India Minto and Morley 1905-1910. Compiled from the Correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. By Mary, Countess of Minto. With Extracts from her Indian Journal. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates and folding coloured map; blue buckram, Elliot family crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, blue top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION CPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. 'With affectionate and heartfelt gratitude to Eva Bell whose expert knowledge, so ungrudgingly given, has been of invaluable assistance in compiling this record of five eventful years of Indian history'. A scarce and important presentation copy.
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ROGERS C.
Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Knox Family.
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), page edges very lightly browning; original blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, black endpapers, one gathering a little loose, backstrip lightly chafed (without material loss) at head and tail, corners rubbed (but not bruised) else a very good, clean copy. Rare. Thomson, p.96.
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MONTGOMERY Brian
A Field-Marshal in the Family. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with a frontispiece, 21 plates on 16, and a full-page pedigree and several maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Complete with plates which is unusual in many proofs. Proof copies are scarce.
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HUGHES M.V.
A London Family 1870-1900. A Trilogy by M. Vivian Hughes. [Second Impression thus].
8vo., Second Impression thus, with a frontispiece and 32 plates on 25; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Nice copy of Hughes' classic trilogy comprising A London Child of the Seventies (1934), A London Girl of the Eighties (1936) and A London Home in the Nineties (1937). First published as a single volume in the previous year.
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TURNER Tony
The Story of Swallowfield. A Short History of the Bigg Family in West Sussex and Australia. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and pedigrees, in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. Scarce
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TITTLER (ed.) R.
Accounts of the Roberts Family of Boarzell, Sussex c.1569-1582.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy.
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ARMITAGE D.M.
The Taylors of Ongar. Portrait of an English Family of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations (20 full-page) and a full-page pedigree in the text, small signature on front paste-down; original patterned cloth, buckram back gilt, boards mildly age-soiled, old tape marks on corners else a good, bright copy. Drawn from family records by the Great-great Niece of Ann and Jane Taylor. Thomson, p.163.
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MONTGOMERY Brian
A Field-Marshal in the Family. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 20 plates on 14 and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Baxter, 272.
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COWLES Virginia
The Astors. The Story of a Transatlantic Family.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, and pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at extremities.
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HISCOCK W.G.
John Evelyn and his Family Circle.
8vo., First Edition, with a facsimile as frontispiece, 2 plates, a double-page plan and a full-page pedigree in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Henry Sotheran front paste-down.
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ANGIER] [C.B.
'Some Genealogical memoranda of the Angier Family' [in] The East Anglian or, Notes and Queries on Subjects connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk. New Series. Vol. VI. UNIQUE COPY WITH EXTENSIVE MS ADDITIONS
8vo., First Edition, partially interleaved copy; blue-green cloth, decorative endpapers, upper board blocked in gilt, neatly rebacked with new endpapers to style, a very good, clean copy. With a nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Extensively and substantially enhanced by the addition of some twenty interleaves, heavily and neatly annotated in MS in a neat, scholarly and skilful hand, and including numerous full-page pedigrees, armorials and bearings, together with similarly extensive marginal and textual annotations of many printed pages. To the best of our knowledge there exists no dedicated published history of the Angier family. A UNIQUE RESOURCE AND A RARE SURVIVAL.
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PASTON FAMILY
The Paston Letters 1422-1509 AD. A Reprint of the Edition of 1872-5, which contained upwards of Five Hundred Letters, etc. till then unpublished, to which are now added Others in a Supplement. COMPLETE SET IN BUCKRAM
4 vols., 8vo., on laid paper, with four engraved frontispieces (all original tissue guards present), some light and occasional spotting; original green buckram, neatly rebacked in buckram to style, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, a most attractive set in sympathetically restored publisher's binding. With neat blind stamp on titles. The set comprises Introduction and Supplement; Vol. I: Henry VI 1422-1461; Vol. II: Edward IV 1461-1471; Vol.III: Edward IV-Henry VII 1471-1509. NCBEL I: p.683; Read 272.
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FRENCH Maurice
The Frenchs of French Park. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., Sole Edition, with numerous illustrations, maps, facsimiles and pedigrees in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
The Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. IN CONTEMPORARY PANELLED CALF
8vo., on laid paper, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some very light and occasional age-browning; most attractively bound in contemporary panelled calf, back with five raised bands, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, covers mildly age-worn else a very good, clean copy with broad margins. With nineteenth century record in MS of members of the Crowther family on rear endpaper.
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BEETON Mrs. [Isabella]
Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery with nearly 3000 practical Recipes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF AN EARLY POST-WAR ISSUE
8vo., with coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, numerous plates in monochrome and illustrations and diagrams in the text, small neat contemporary inscription on half-title; yellow boards, burgundy cloth back blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt faded (but entirely legible) else a remarkably bright, well-preserved copy. With numerous advertisements printed in sepia at front and rear. Very nice copy of an early post-war issue of the 'family' derivative of Beeton's Household Management.
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VERNEY F.P.
Memoirs of the Verney Family during the Seventeenth Century. Compiled from the Papers and illustrated by the Portraits at Claydon House. Third Edition. SPLENDID SET IN FULL MOROCCO
2 vols., 8vo., Third Edition, with 2 portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title-vignettes, titles in red and black, 41 plates and illustrations in the text, and a large folding pedigree on japon; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamps on titles. Thomson, p.171 (recording the first edition).
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ANDREWS H.C.
The Benstede Family and its Predecessors in Hertfordshire and Essex, the De Valoignes and Balliols. FINE COPY
Roy. 4to., Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 2 plates on1, a full-page map and 2 full-pge pedigrees in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, a fine copy. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, Official Publication No. 35. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. Thomson, p.19.
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KING Norah
The Grimstons of Gorhambury. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, pedigrees in the text and endpaper pedigrees; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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MACFARLANE, ed. John
The Practical and Devotional Family Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by John M'Farlane. FIRST MACFARLANE IN PERIOD BINDING WITH CLASP
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with 2 engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 24 fine engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), 5 engraved maps coloured in outline and an engraved plan, 4pp Family Register engraved in red and black, some light and inoffensive age-staining (mainly marginal); handsomely bound in original full pebble-grain pigskin, upper board with debossed decorative multiple frame border enclosing stylised floral lozenge, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in blind, all edges gilt, boards set in brass frame with ornate clasp, very neatly rebacked, a remarkably bright, clean and most attractive copy. The Family Register, placed between the Testaments as usual, is completed in manuscript for the Wilson family; John and Maria Wilson were married at Trinity Church, Lambeth, Surrey in 1847. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST FAMOUS MID-VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLES.
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BIBLE
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. IN FULL PERIOD ROAN
8vo., text in double-column; original early nineteenth century full roan, sides with multiple frame border in gilt and blind, back with five flat bands elaborately tooled in gilt, all compartments tooled in gilt to a floral design, all edges, gilt, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a bright, firm copy in wholly unrestored period binding. Pica 8vo.
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BIBLE
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's Special Command. IN PUBLISHER'S MAILING CASE
8vo., on India paper, with text in red and black, coloured and monochrome plates, and 6pp of coloured maps, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; black faux-leather, upper cover blocked in gilt, back with five flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, yapped edges, red edges, black endpapers, purple silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's original labelled board mailing case (worn).
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HOLWORTHY R.
Discoveries in the Diocesan Registry, Wells, Somerset. A Paper read before the Society of Genealogists 10th March 1926.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, some light spotting; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers a little scuffed and faded else a very good, firm copy.
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NEWDIGATE-NEWDEGATE Lady A. E.
The Cheverels of Cheverel Manor. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black, with a frontispiece in photogravure and photogravure plates, endpapers lightly spotted; ivory cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-marked, corners lightly bruised else a sound, clean copy of a very scarce work. Not recorded by Thomson.
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RENDEL Guy
An English Tapestry. Two English Families: Rendel and Rylands. How they worked in Peace and how they went to War 1750-2001. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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EUSTACE G. W.
Arundel: Borough and Castle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontspiece, 56 plates on 31 and illustrations in the text; original red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, small slight tears in covers else a very good, clean copy. Still the best all-round history, detailed and comprehensive.
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MACFARLANE (ed.) J.
Collins's Pictorial Family Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John M'Farlane. And a Compact Biblical Dictionary, with a Scripture Atlas .
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with an engrave coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrated title in red, blue and sepia, printed title, 30 full-page chromo-lithographed plates (all original tissue guards present), 7 engraved and coloured maps, and 4pp Family Register (partially completed by hand) engraved in red and black, some moderate damp-staining to lower half of first few leaves, some generally light and inoffensive age-staining (mainly marginal); handsomely bound in original full pebble-grain leather, boards with debossed decorative multiple frame border enclosing stylised floral lozenge, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, gilt edges primrose endpapers, a very good, crisp, firm copy of a most attractive edition. The Family Register, placed between the Testaments as usual, is completed in manuscript for the Phillips family; James and Agnes Phillips were married at Salisbury Street, Glasgow in August 1863. With separate printed titles for the New Testament and Psalms. A SOLID COPY OF ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST FAMOUS MID-VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLES.
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ROBERTS FAMILY
Accounts of the Roberts Family of Boarzell, Sussex c. 1568-1582. Edited by Robert Tittler. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition, inked scribble on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sussex Record Society Vol. 71.
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BOHEEMEN Christine van
The Novel as Family Romance. Language, Gender and Authority from Fielding to Joyce. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with frontispiece; terracotta cloth gilt back terracotta endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BROWN, ed. John
The Illustrated Family Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the self-interpreting and explanatory Notes, and marginal References, of John Brown, to which is prefixed an Introduction to the right Understanding of the Oracles of God. FULLARTON BIBLE IN FULL CALF
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, text in broad double column with marginal references, with 20 fine steel engraved plates, maps and plans (plates with mild tide-mark at outer edge not affecting engraved surface), and very numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces, illustrations and decorations in the text, the title and a few leaves are lightly spotted but the majority of the text is remarkably crisp and clean; impressively bound in contemporary full niger calf, boards with elaborate gilt frame border enclosing decorative border and large floral panel all in blind, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, hinges neatly strengthened with maroon passe-partout, boards minimally age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. As often the Family Register, usually placed before title, has been neatly removed. With separate printed titles for the Testaments and illustrated titles to each Book. The maps depict the Journeyings of the Israelites and the World as known to the Ancients. The plans include Noah's Ark and Rome, together with a detailed chrono-genealogical table of the lineal descent of Christ as given by Mark and Matthew. A SPLENDID COPY OF ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST FAMOUS MID-VICTORIAN FAMILY BIBLES.
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CROSSLEY (ed.) D.W.
Sidney Ironworks Accounts 1541-1573. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by D.W. Crossley. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a very good, clean copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 15.
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SEALE (ed.) Arthur
Barrington Family Letters 1628-1632. Edited by Arthur Seale. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly scuffed else a near fine copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 28.
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COOKSON James
The Royal Family Prayer-Book. containing the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, together with the Psalms, Companion to the Altar and all the Service complete. Illustrated with explanatory Notes and Observations on a new and edifying Plan. The Third Edition. THE THIRD COOKSON IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
8vo., Third Edition, with engraved frontispiece (closely trimmed at outer edge without loss of image)and 10 fine engraved plates, frontispiece, title and 3 following leaves lightly wormed in blank margin, Psalms in double column, some light and generally inoffensive marginal age-staining; contemporary full calf, sides with decorative frame border in gilt, back with flat gilt bads, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, experly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, boards moderately age-marked else a very good, remarkably crisp, clean copy. The plates are engraved by Dodd after Goldar. The Companion and Psalms have separate titles dated 1884. A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY OF AN ELEGANT EDITION IN LARGE, READILY LEGIBLE TYPE. Scarce in this condition.
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