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MURPHY (Gwendolen)
A Bibliography of English Character-Books 1608-1700. Supplement to The Bibliographical Society's Transactions No. 4.
First Edition, 179pp., disbound.
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SAWYER (Charles J.) & DARTON (F.J. Harvey)
English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors.
First edition, 2 vols., xvi, 368; viii, 423pp., limited edition, bookplates, frontispiece, folding plate, 98 full-page illustrs., and facsimiles, orig. cloth, uncut, a very good set. Discusses the works of each writer in turn from a selling and book-collecting point of view; the authors were a bookseller and a collector.
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HOLMES (Sir Maurice)
Captain James Cook: A Bibliographical Excursion.
103pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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GAMBA DI BASSANO (Bartolommeo)
Serie dei Testi Di Lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX.
4to, 794pp., orig. boards.
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JAMES (M. R.)
Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Peterborough Abbey Library. Supplement to The Bibliographical Society's Transactions No. 5.
First edition, 104pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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ROCHAMBEAU (Le Comte de)
Bibliographie des Oeuvres de la Fontaine.
xvi, 670pp., frontis., orig. cloth.
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THIBOUST (Claude Louis)
Typographiae excellentia [L'excellence de l'imprimerie. Po?me latin]. Paris: 1754. Second edition of the Latin poem, first edition of the French translation, 28, [2]pp., half-title, double titles in Latin and French, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Daulle, 2 etched plates (one folding) of a typefoundry and a printing shop, foremargin shaved with slight loss of image on folding plate, text closely cropped effecting imprint and a few letters and words to several foremargins. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Scalptura Carmen [La Gravure Po?me]. Paris: Le Mercier, 1753. Second edition in Latin, first edition of the French translation, xii, 76, xii, [1]-90, [2]pp. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Sculptura Carmen [La Sculpture Po?me].
viii, 94, [2], [1]-120, [4]pp., with half-title. 3 works bound in one (the first named bound last), cont. mottled sheep, worn. The second edition of this poem on the different technical processes involved in printing. This edition was published by Claude Charles Thiboust, his father, Cluade Louis Thiboust, was the author of the poem, and had originally printed it in 1718. The family of Thilboust occupies a distinguished place in the list of French typographers, having started printing in Paris in the middle of the sixteenth century, with successive members of the family being appointed to be Printers to the University. This is followed by two editions of Doissen's poem on engraving. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p. 8; I, p. 183
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MAGGS BROS.
Books Printed in Spain and Spanish Books Printed in Other Countries. Catalogue No. 495.
Frontis., small 4to, 869pp., 48 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers, 1,358 items. Compiled by Sarah de Laredo. It includes a copy of the first edition of Don Quixote (priced at ?3,800).
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COOKERY BOOKS. WESTBURY COLLECTION.
Catalogue of the Westbury Collection of Cookery Books...
100pp., facsimiles, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 507 lots.
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FOOD AND WINE. SCHRAEMLI (Harry)
Catalogue of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts of the 15th to 20th Century on Food and Wine from the Well Known Library of Harry Schraemli.
144pp., prices and buyers names loosely inserted, facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, 513 lots.
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COOKERY BOOKS. LAMBERT (M. Leon)
Catalogue of the Collection of Books on Cookery and Gastronomy. The Property of M. Leon Lambert.
79pp., illustrs., in the text, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 447 lots.
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NORTH (Michael)
Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions and Sales by Private Treaty 1643-1850 in the Library of the Grolier Club.
4to, 256pp., limited to 450 copies, 16 illustrs., orig. cloth-backed boards. A catalogue of an extensive collection of these works. The 616 entries comprise a full title-page transcription, detailed collation, and, often, a description of the circumstances of the sale and the history and subsequent fate of the collection. Many of the examples are rich in contemporary annotation and in bindings of the period and all of this is described in detail. A most valuable work of scholarship in this field of bibliography.
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BOSANQUET (Eustace F.)
English Printed Almanacks and Prognostications. A Bibliographical History to the Year 1600.
First edition, 4to, xi, [1], 204pp., 35 facsimiles on 28 plates (some double-page), title in red and black, orig. buckram backed-boards, uncut, t.e.g.
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REICHLING (Dietericus) [HAIN & COPINGER]
Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorivm Bibliographicvm...
First Edition, 8 parts, orig. printed wrappers, uncut. Important appendix to Hain & Copinger.
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REICHLING (Dietericus) [HAIN & COPINGER]
Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorivm Bibliographicvm...
First Edition, 8 parts, orig. printed wrappers (final part in sheets), uncut. Important appendix to Hain & Copinger.
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[JACKSON (William A.)]
An Annotated List of the Publications of the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. Based mainly on those in the Harvard College Library with Notes of others.
First Edition, small folio, 64, [1]pp., limited to 500 copies, ex-library, portrait and 6 plates, orig. cloth, printed paper labels. 106 items with full descriptions.
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HALKETT (Samuel) & LAING (John)
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. Including the Works of Foreigners Written in, or Translated into the English Language.
First edition, 4 vols., 4to, large paper copy, cont. half calf, extremities rubbed, uncut.
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ALSTON (R. C.)
Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of Books Sold by Retail or Auction 1676-1800. An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada, and India.
2 Vols., large 4to, 624; 625-1192pp., orig. cloth, printed title label to upper covers.
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ALSTON (R. C.)
Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of Books Sold by Retail or Auction 1676-1800. An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada, and India.
2 Vols., large 4to, 624; 625-1192pp., orig. cloth, printed title label to upper covers.
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HEBER (Richard)
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq... Removed from his House in York-Street, Westminster, Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby and Son [Evans; Wheatley]...
13 Volumes bound in five, large 8vo printed on good wove paper, [iv], 388; xii, 363, [1]; [iv], 295, [1]; vii, [iii], 355, [1]; [iv], 257; [iv], 314; [iv], 306; [iv], 170; [iv], 195, [1]; [iv], 117, [1]; [iv], 189, [1]; [iv], 83, [1]; [iv], 82, [2]pp., parts 1-3 in orig. boards, spines chipped, covers loose, orig. printed label on upper covers, uncut, parts 4-7 cont. half calf, rubbed, spine stained and spotted, parts-8-13 cont. quarter morocco, rubbed, foot of spine torn, faint stamp of 'Mercantile Library, Philada.', front hinge shaken, title page to part 8 loose, prices and buyers' names supplied in a cont. hand, a made-up set of the complete English sale catalogues of the library of Richard Heber (the 13th volume is notoriously rare). Heber was a book collector on a monumental scale, De Ricci estimated his library between two and three hundred thousand volumes. The sales took place at a time when the market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no buyers. The total realised was ?65,774, for books which had cost their late owner a good deal over ?100,000. "The Dibdinian age may be aptly said to terminate with the dispersal of the gigantic library accumulated by Richard Heber, a bibliomaniac if there ever was one... From 1800 to 1830, he purchased at every London sale... He thought nothing of securing whole libraries... When he died, his books filled two houses in London, one at Hodnet, one at Oxford, one at Ghent and one at Paris, not to speak of smaller stores at... other Continental cities. The total number of volumes in his library must have been between two and three hundred thousand, and it is doubtful whether any private individual has ever owned so large a library... The London sales produced ?56,744, for books which had cost their late owner over ?100,000. The market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no new buyers... The Heber catalogues, although... arranged in the most inconvenient manner, are daily consulted by every bibliographer... His series of Continental books, early Italian and Spanish works, later Latin poetry, humanistic treatises... were unrivalled... The real strength... was, however, in the field of early English literature... For thirty years he... purchased nearly every item which came on the market".?De Ricci, p.102. Organised according to the residences where Heber kept his libraries, the present catalogues number 1 - 13 and were held in 1834, 1835, 1836 & 1837. Sotheby's managed the sale for parts 1- 3 and 9 - 10; R. H. Evans, for parts 4 and 6 - 8 and 11; B. Wheatley, parts 5 and 12-13.
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ANDERS (H. R. D.)
Shakespeare's Books. A Dissertation on Shakespeare's Reading and the Immediate Source of His Works.
First edition, large 8vo (238 x 155mm), xx, 316pp., orig. cloth.
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PLESCH (Arpad)
The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein Collected by the late Arpad Plesch.
3 Vols., 4to, coloured frontispieces, plates throughout, prices and buyer's names loosely inserted, orig. boards, 863 lots.
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SMITH (Harold F.) Compiler.
American Travellers Abroad. A Bibliography of Accounts Published Before 1900.
4to, 166pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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HAMILTON COLLECTION.
Catalogue of Ninety-One Manuscripts on Vellum, Illuminated by English (Anglo-Saxon), Byzantine, French, Flemish, Dutch, Burgundian, German, Italian and Spanish Artists, of the VIIth to the XVIIth Century, Chiefly from the Famous Hamilton Collection, and till Lately in the Possession of the Royal Museum of Berlin. Which will be Sold by Auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, on Thursday, the 23rd day of May, 1889.
4to (270 x 175 mm), viii, 79pp., orig. printed wrappers spotted, spine chipped, 91 lots. The Duke of Hamilton had collected a remarkable series of mediaeval manuscripts, mainly illuminated, at an early age. This collection was purchased, for ?70,000, by the Prussian government. Because of the high cost of the collection, it was decided to sell a portion of it, hence this memorable sale which included the purple vellum codex of the Gospels presented by Henry VIII to Pope Leo X; it was bought by Quaritch for ?1500, sold to Theodore Irwin, of Oswego, and re-sold, in 1900, to Mr Pierpont Morgan.
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BURTON (Sir Richard)
Catalogue of a Large Collection of Miscellanouse Books, Including a Selection from the Library of the late Sir Richard Burton, of Sackett's Hill House, near Margate, Etc. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Tuesday, November 6th, 1855.
8vo (225 x 140 mm), 78, [2]pp., stitched as issued, 1578 lots.
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COCKERELL (Sydney Carlyle)
A Psalter and Hours Executed Before 1270 for a Lady Connected with St. Louis, Probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, Now in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson... with Photographs of all the Miniatures by Emery Walker.
Large oblong 4to, 36pp., double-column text, 25 plates, each with a reproduction of 2 MS pages, title printed in red and black, free endpapers browned, occasional foxing, orig. green roan-backed printed boards lightly stained. The text considers the MS in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in the Biblioth?que Nationale in Paris. Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmsott Press 1891-6, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1908-37, partner with Sir Emery Walker in process engraving business.
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[CLARKE (William)]
Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries. London: William Clarke, 1819. First edition, xlviii, [2], 138, 133*-138*, 139-454, 449*-454*, 455-672, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved portraits (foxed and offset, the portrait of Towneley is inserted and stands proud), small ink splash to title, 2 woodcuts in the text. [Bound with:] A Dialogue in the Shades; between William Caxton, a Bibliomaniac, and William Wynken, Clerk. Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall. A Ballad. The Diary of Roger Payne, with a Lithographic sketch on the Monument to be Erected to his memory by the Bibliographical Club.
Second edition, [2 ads], [36]pp., with printed title-page and half-title, engraved headpiece, the advert leaf includes two editions of Beckford's Vathek and A Description of Fonthill Abbey. Small 4to (235 x 145 mm), 2 works in one, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. A survey of the principal public and private libraries in England, listing highlights of the collections and concluding with brief accounts of 30 important English book auctions from the 17th century onwards. William Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. The Dialogue in the Shades is a two-part pamphlet of satirical verse is a response to Dibdin's Lincolne Nosegay and the Bibliographical Decameron. The attribution varies from William Beckford to the Clarke brothers. This second edition is issued with an additional half-title, title-page with note from 'Mr. Wynkem' on the verso, and with the addition of The Diary of Roger Payne, a work in the same vein. A rare anti-Dibdinia item. Windle & Pippin, D9.
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GIARD (Ren?) & LEMA?TRE (Henri)
Les origines de l'imprimerie ? Valenciennes. Jehan de Li?ge.
Large 8vo (240 x 150 mm), [4], 14, [2]pp., with half-title, one of 50 copies, with the bookplate of Ren? Giard to front paste-down, "Extrait du Bulletin du bibliophile", marbled endpapers, cont. half hard grained morocco, decorated paper boards, uncut.
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HONEYMAN COLLECTION.
The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts. The Property of Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., which will be sold by auction...
7 Vols., 4to, 6 coloured frontispieces, numerous plates and illustrs., throughout (some in colour, some folding), orig. printed wrappers, 3,309 lots. Perhaps the finest collection on the history of science brought together this century.
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LINCOLN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION LIBRARY.
Catalogue of the Lincoln and Lincolnshire Mechanics' Institution Library, Established October 31st, 1833.
8vo (213 x 132 mm), 34pp., some minor spotting, later quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco title label. The Lincoln Mechanics' Institute was established in 1833 at Sheep market, Lincoln. George Boole (1815?1864), mathematician and logician, was an original member and the institution provided him with a source for reading and the stimuli of lectures and classes. Boole had the opportunity to mix with such prominent men in Lincoln as Dr Edward Parker Charlesworth, the physician, and Thomas Cooper, the radical thinker and Chartist. Corns, p. 85; Short, 3666; Not listed on Copac or OCLC.
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SHAW (Graham) Compiler.
The South Asia and Burma Retrospective Bibliography (SABREB). Stage 1: 1556-1800 [All Published].
First edition, 4to, x, 554pp., orig. cloth. Covering almost two-and-a-half centuries of South Asian imprints from the beginnings at Goa in 1556 to 1800. 1,515 items fully described. This book was printed in a limited number and is rarely found on the open market.
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PHOTOGRAPHY.
Old Books / A Collection of Early Photographs and Books Commemorating the Centenary of Fox Talbot and Daguerre 1839-1939. Catalogue 52.
Small 4to, 80pp., 12 plates, facsimiles in the text, staples rusted, orig. printed wrappers, 294 items. The earliest bookseller's catalogue offering for sale not only early original photographs but the first books so illustrated.
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TENSCHERT (Heribert)
F?nfzig Unica. 50 Unique Books. 50 Livres Uniques. 1472-1949. Katalog XL.
Folio, 462pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. decorated boards, slip-case.
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QUARITCH (Bernard)
Catalogue of the Monuments of the Early Printers in all Countries. I. Germany and the Low Countries. II. Italy. III. France. IV. Spain, Portugal; North and East Europe; America, and the East. V. England.
8vo (218 x 145 mm), vi, [2527]-4066, xli, [1]pp., inscribed with Bernard Quaritch's compliments, front hinge a little shaken, orig. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small nick to head of spine. Valuable reference covering 2,609 items, Quaritch's General Catalogue Part XV.
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N?E DE LA ROCHELLE (Jean-Fran?ois)
?loge Historique de Jean Gensfleisch dit Guttenberg, Oremier Inventeur de l'Art Typographique.
First edition, 8vo (205 x 130 mm), [4], vi, 158pp., portrait frontispiece, some light water-staining to a few margins, recent marbled boards, morocco title label to spine. "A sketch of the life of Gutenberg, with a eulogium of his invention."?Bigmore & Wyman. Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 70.
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YVE-PLESSIS (R.)
Essai d'une bibliographie Francaise methodique & raisonnee de la sorcellerie et de la possession Demoniaque.
254pp., orig. cloth. An extensive bibliography covering works on witchcraft and the occult.
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SPARFVENFELDT (Johann Gabriel) - BENZELIUS (Erik, the Younger) & CELSIUS (Olof, the Younger) Compilers.
Catalogus Centuriae Librorum Rarissimorum Manuscript. & partim Impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c...
4to (193 x 150 mm), [6], 74pp., woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, some text in Arabic type, disbound. This is the earliest catalogue of the Uppsala University Library collections, perhaps the greatest in Sweden. A full catalogue of the collections was not published until 1814. Under the leadership of Erik Benzelius (1675-1743), the Library of the University of Upsala grew, benefiting from many important gifts. These included the 100 books and manuscripts described here which were collected and donated by Sparfvenfeldt. He was a diplomat and amateur linguist who collected many precious books and manuscripts on his travels in Russia, Europe, and northern Africa. Here he carefully describes the 41 Arabic, 8 Greek, and 7 Latin MSS including an eighth-century Greek text and an Italian Bible of 1474. The 41 printed books included five Chinese block-printed volumes, and also a famous world map (1674) by Ferdinand Verbiest.
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WRIGHT (Cyril Ernest)
Fontes Harleiani. A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.
4to, xxxv,480pp., 16 plates, orig. cloth, a fine copy. An inquiry into the origins of the manuscripts in the Harleian Collection. The introduction provides a short history of the collection, but the bulk of the work consists of two lists: the first arranged alphabetically by previous owner, place of production, etc.; the second giving the same information in bridged form, but arranged numerically.
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MUIR (Percy H.)
Points: Second Series 1866-1934. Bibliographia Series, Edited by Michael Sadleir, no. VIII.
First edition, limited to 750 copies, 156pp., frontis., 6 plates, 6 facsimiles in the text, orig. quarter vellum with marbled sides, uncut.
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TISSANDIER (Gaston)
Bibliographie A?ronautique. Catalogue de Livres d'Histoire, de Science, de Voyages et de Fantaisie, Traitant de la Navigation A?rienne ou des A?rostats.
First edition, 4to, 64pp., limited edition printed on Japon paper, orig. printed wrappers, upper cover defective (torn in half). The Bibligraphie A?ronautique features works on both science and history, as well as works of fantasy and imagination that were inspired by flight.
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ASHER (G. M.)
Prospectus of a Bibliographical and Historical Essay on the Dutch Books and Pamphlets Relating to New-Netherland, and to the Dutch West-India Company, as also on the Maps / Charts / etc. of New-Netherland, accompanied by an historical map of the country. Compiled from the Dutch public and private libraries, and chiefly from the collection of Mr. Frederik Muller in Amsterdam. [Amsterdam: Frederik Muller, 1854.] [Bound with:] A List of the Maps and Charts of New-Netherland, and of the views of new-Amsterdam.
First edition, 2 works in one, small 4to (210 x 170 mm), 3, [1], 120, [4]; 22, 23, [1]pp., old faint unobtrusive stamp to title page, orig. patterned-paper boards, a nice copy.
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COLLIE (Michael)
George Gissing: A Bibliographical Study.
Limited to 500 copies, 6 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY.
A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Volume III. Books Printed from 1641 to 1850 F-L. Compiled by H.R. Denham.
4to, xvi,565pp., orig. cloth.
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OTTLEY (George) Compiler.
A Bibliography of British Railway History.
First edition, large 8vo, 683pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Ottley is well established as the primary work of reference for books and pamphlets on British railway (and tramway) history.
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WILLIAMS (Iolo A.)
Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies. John Armstrong, William Shenstone, Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Churchill, Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan.
First edition, 244pp., SIGNED WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY THE AUTHOR, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. torn and defective. Chronological descriptions of first editions for each author, with bibliographical notes.
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DARTT (Captain Robert L.) Compiler.
G. A. Henty: A Bibliography.
First edition, 184pp., portrait, 12 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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JAMES (Montague Rhodes)
A Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library Aberdeen.
First Edition, 4to, xvi,148pp., some light foxing to first and last few leaves, frontis., portrait, 27 illustrs., orig. buckram, gilt. Pfaff, pp.288-91. The last of MRJ's catalogues of medieval MSS to be published.
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MALTA GARRISON LIBRARY.
Malta Garrison Library. (Extract from Laws and Regulations). [Single sheet with library regulations (17th law, 18th law, 19th law etc.,) detailing organisation of this lending library (subscriber's library)].
220 x 130mm, single sheet, printed on both sides, lists replacement fees for lost, torn or defaced books, fines, includes special provision for subscribers in the outlying villages, residents of Gozo have the privilege of taking twice the number of books, law 18 pertains to quarantine.
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SWEENEY (Tony)
Ireland and the Printed Word. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Pamphlets, Newsletters and Broadsides Relating to Ireland. Printed: 1475-1700.
First edition, 4to (310 x 210mm), 1,000pp., one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and publisher, former owners name in ink to front-free endpaper, numerous plates, orig. cloth, light wear, label on upper cover. Ireland and the Printed Word A Short Descrptive Catalogue
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JONES (E. Gwynne)
A Bibliography of the Dog. Books Published in the English Language 1570-1965.
First Edition, small 4to, 431pp., ex-library, orig. decorated cloth. The standard work.
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