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Au Coeur de L'Allemagne au Vingtième Siècle : La Frontière de La Zone
Cet opuscule a pour objectif de donner des informations sur la ligne de démarcation en tant qu'instrument et symbole de la division de l'Allemagne . Illustré de nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc , il donne un réel aperçu des barbelés qui jalonnent les routes et voies de communication , ainsi que des lieux de scènes de crimes où les soldats ont tués ceux qui tentaient d'entrer en contact avec l'autre côté . A certain endroit la ligne traverse des maisons , ce qui rend l'habitation de la partie soviétique impraticable . Cartes et schémas . - 96 p. , 350 gr.
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Belgium and Nassau - The continental tourist and pictorial companion : illustrated with sixty-two beautiful engravings on steel of the most interesting European scenery : commencing at Antwerp and proceeding through the placid garden-like scenery of the Netherlands; and by way of Cologne to the banks of that beautiful river, whose splendid and stupendous scenery delights the eye and enchants the mind : thence through the baths of Nassau and the Taunus range of mountains to Frankfort on the Main. Belgique et Nassau - Pour le touriste continental, Illustré de soixante-deux magnifiques gravures sur acier - Intéressant paysage européen, Commençant à Anvers, en passant par ... les Pays-Bas, et à travers Cologne ...puis les Bains de Nassau ... et la montagne de Taunus à Francfort sur le Main
LONDON, Parry & Co,The British Library - 1836 - Edition Originale - Petit in-4 -Cartonnage éditeur vert polychrome romantique, sali, coins émoussés - Dos orné - illustration au 1 er Plat -Toutes tranches dorées - 62 illustrations hors-texte protégées par serpente - 140 pages - 2 Ex-libris imagés "Perth Academy & Fernand de Ruyter" -Superbe exemplaire, très frais intrieurement - Envoi rapide et soigné
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London Historical & Picturesque
- The Photochrom Co. Ltd, Londres s.d. (1926), 31,5x22cm, cousu. - Edition originale de cette série de 24 photogravures représentant des vues de Londres. Ex-dono à la plume : "With very best wishes from Glady Christmas 1926" Couverture de papier brun comportant quelques déchirures marginales. Bel album témoignant du Londres de la naissance de la Reine Elisabeth II. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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Souvenirs de Lulworth, d'Holy-Rood et de Bath
- G.A. Dentu, Paris 1831, 10,5x15,5cm, relié. - Edition originale imprimée sur vergé. Reliure en plein cartonnage façon vélin, dos lisse très légèrement bruni, date dorée en queue, pièce de titre de chagrin marron comportant de petites éraflures, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, tête dorée, ex-libris encollé en tête d'un contreplat, couvertures conservées. Quelques petites rousseurs sans gravité, ex-donos en regard de la page de faux-titre. Provenance : de la bibliothèque d'Eugène de Forgues avec son ex-libris encollé sur un contreplat. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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Anonyme , Traduit Par T. DE WYZEWA
Souvenirs D'une Institutrice Anglaise A La Cour De Berlin ( 1909 -1914 )
Le " Jeu de guerre " du Comte Zeppelin - Le Kronprinz et sa femme - Les généraux Von Hindenburg , Von Kluck , Von Bernhardi - Herr Dernburg - La famille Krupp etc . Histoire , 1° guerre mondiale . Allemagne . - 270 p. , 450 gr.
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Anonyme - Vicomte de Martignac
Révolution d'Espagne - Examen critique - 1820 - 1856
A Paris, chez Päulin -1836 - In-8 - Reliure plein veau de l'époque - dos lisse orné - Ecoinçons dorés aux 1 er & 4 ème plats - Mention "Mémoria del Autor" au 1 er plat - Roulettes dorées sur les coupes - Tranches jaspées - trces de mouillures sèches en tête des dernières pages - 520 pages - Très rare L'Auteur (Anonyme) indique dans sa préface: "Cet ouvrage devait paraître en 1825; à cette époque il eut pu produire les bons résultats que se proposait l'auteur en l'écrivant.Quelques unes des nombreuses démarches alors prescrites pour le publier furent tentées; mais dès les premiers pas il fut fut facile de reconnaître l'impossibilité matérielle d'obtenir l'autorisation nécessaire. .................Il fut très malheureux pour cette partie de l'histoire contemporaine qu'une mort prématurée nous privât de la continuation de l'ouvrage que M le vicomte de Martignac avait entrepris de publier.............". En 1832, parût l'ouvrage "Essai historique sur les révolutions d'Espagne et l'intervention française de 1823" ( 1 seul tome édité) de Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gaye, vicomte de Martignac, Bordeaux,1778, Paris, 1832 , Poète, Avocat et homme d'État. En 1823 il accompagne le duc d'Angoulême lors de l'Expédition d'Espagne en qualité de commissaire civil.
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Baedeker's Autoguides - Benelux - Belgium Holland Luxembourg
Stuttgart: Baedeker 1958. A Fine unmarked copy vinyl bound with VG dustjacket. 256 pages. 22 maps and plans including a large fold out Benelux road map. 52 sketches. The volume is divided into four parts - Part A contains a general survey including articles on geography history and art and all the essential practical notes for the journey and one's stay. Part B contains detailed descriptions compiled from personal experience of all roads that are of importance for tourists with everything they shoul know about road conditions the character of the scenery and the places of interest on or near the road. Part C is a gazetteer with descriptions of the larger towns and tourist resorts and their environs. Part D is devoted to a list of hotels inns and restaurants their localities being arranged in alphabetical order. 50. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Baedeker Hardcover
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HANDBOOK OF DALMATIA Abbazia Lussin Etc. Including the Albanian Coast the Jonian Islands Corfu Patras Athens
Vienna: A. Hartleben. Very Good. 1913. Hardcover. A handsome copy with a bit of shelfwear. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded. One small corner of an ad is missing. One fold-out has a bit of marginal wear. ; This Baedeker-lookalike comes with 87 illustrations from photographs 20 maps and 12 plans as well as some ads. ; Illustrated Guide Hartleben; Vol. 65; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xvi 192 pages . A. Hartleben hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21310
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HANDBOOK OF DALMATIA
Vienna: A. Hartleben. Very Good. 1913. Hardcover. Small closed tear to pp. 65 and 67. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Library stamp to title page. Endpapers browned; With 87 illustrations 20 maps and 12 plans ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 192 pages . A. Hartleben hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 20663
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M?moires et voyages du Prince PUCKLER MUSKAU - Lettres posthumes sur l''Angleterre, l'Irlande, la France, la Hollande et l'Allemagne Lettres posthumes sur l'Angleterre, l'Irlande, la France, la La Hollande et l'allemagne- traduites de l'?dition allemande par J. COHEN
Lettre premi?re-Lettre XI; Lettre XII-Lettre XX; Pr?face, Quelques notes sur le Prince de Puckler Muskau,Lettre XXI-Lettre XXX; Avis pour le Tome IV, Lettre XXXI-LettreXLIV; Lettre XLV-Lettre LX; Lettre LXI-Lettre LXXXIII. 6 15x9,5 cm., legatura in mezza pelle, piatti cartonati, fregi e titoli in oro su tassello al dorso, pp. 319; 331; XJ, 304; VIIJ, 322; 315; 304, in lingua francese; opera ben conservata, in buone condizioni, piccole fioriture su poche pagine, su alcune pagine dei primi 3 tomi piccoli segni di evidenziazione in matita ai margini e pochi altri segni d'uso e tempo. Bell'esemplare.
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Manuscript - Vellum Land Deed - Burnham Market - Text in Latin - Wax Seal
Burnham Market [in the district of King's Lynn, Norfolk], 1589. Manuscript indenture on vellum, outlining a conveyance of land in the environs of Burnham Market, from Edward Clarke of Stanhoe to John Barrett of Barwick, with a monogram magenta red wax seal. Text is in Latin. Document measures approximately 47 x 9 cm, with wax seal affixed to vellum pendant. Some age-toning, otherwise in very good condition. Latin indenture made in the thirty-first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1589] concerning land in the area of Burnham Market, very near to Stanhoe, with which John Barrett of Barwicke acquires land from Edward Clarke of Stanhowe. A William Baxter is also mentioned in this document. The wax seal features imagery of a sword or staff within monogram letters, suggesting a notable status of service to the king. This is an exceptionally scarce and consequently significant concerning property rights in the sixteenth century feudal era of England, dated only thirty years from the earliest parish record held in Norfolk registry archives, and featuring a most interesting wax seal. Stanhoe is a village and civil parish in the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk, only 19 miles from the seaside village of King's Lynn which would later be the birthplace of Captain George Vancouver the great navigator of Pacific Northwest America fame. Manuscript
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Manuscript Book - Reading Rifle Club
Reading (Berkshire, England), 1901-1923. Manuscript minute book for the Reading Rifle Club, established in 1900, containing all particulars of its growing membership, annual shooting programs and competitions, rules and regulations, financial statements, and the like, recorded in various hands over the years and containing several original signatures. A few of the club's printed documents, some manuscript letters from members, and newspaper clippings are tipped in. Together with a printed pocketsize 9 page handbook of the club's rules. 8vo. 218 pages on watermarked lined paper. Half calf over dark teal cloth boards titled in gilt to spine, original marbled endpapers, bookbinder's label to front pastedown. Endpapers reinforced at seam, otherwise in very good condition, a most interesting volume dealing with shooting as a sanctioned pastime. A fine example of a pre-war shooting club, nineteenth century firearms etiquette, and freedom to enjoy skilled gunnery competition. Gaining popularity and new members every year from its opening season, the Reading Rifle Club appears to have been most diligently managed, every one of its meetings being recorded in this manuscript minute book. Entries are wide-ranging in subject matter, some topics up for discussion being entrance fees and prizes, monthly competitions, an annual challenge cup, subscriptions, nominations and elections for leadership and administrative posts, expenses and receipts, ammunition purchases, firearms kept onsite, new members, annual shooting programs and competitions, rules and protocol, scoring, handicapping, dividing competitors into classes, the daily pay rate for the range warden, special use of the firing range, and so forth. Meetings were very regular from the turn of the century until 1914, then reduced rather abruptly owing to the Great War, during which time most of the members would have been in service, putting their shooting skills to practical use. Many captains are named as members, being of the British Army or the Royal Navy, many surely being attached to the pre-First World War Berkshire Yeomanry. Further research may find some notable persons. Being a legitimate and accredited pastime promoting honest and skilful competition, the member roll also included reverends. [In 2009 the National Rifle Association of the United Kingdom celebrated its 150th Anniversary. Today the association is primarily concerned with civilian full-bore target rifle shooting, although retaining its military heritage and close links with the British Armed Forces. Similarly, the Reading Rifle Club would have attracted Captains and Colonels of the Royal Armed Forces.] Incidences of special interest include experimentation with a patent target machine, a disconcerting matter of irregular entries on a score card, possible embezzlement of subscription money, a shooter having an epileptic seizure, and a proposal for establishing a summer camp at Clacton-on-Sea together with the Colchester Rifle Club. We also find occasional mention of Churn Camp, which was at the time in Berkshire, and another popular place for men of the Berkshire Yeomanry. Indeed a pastime requiring fastidious safety monitoring and honorable sportsmanship, frequent mention is made of the governing body of full bore rifle and pistol shooting sports, the National Rifle Association (NRA), which had been founded only forty years earlier in 1859. The Reading Rifle Club was affiliated to it. [The National Rifle Association was based at Putney Heath & Wimbledon Common, in south-west London, 12 years before its better known American cousin.] Manuscript
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Manuscript Journal - Swiss Mountaineering
Switzerland, 5-27 August, 1899. Manuscript fair journal recording a three week alpine adventure of mountain climbing, trekking, and exploring remote villages in the Pennine Alps, which features one ascent made to the summit of the Sasseneire with British reverend and mountaineer James Outram whom is best known for his pioneering ascents in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Also with mention of the fatal climbing expedition of Owen Glynne Jones which took place only days after the writer was climbing in the same mountain range in Valais. 8vo. 122 pages. Original black morocco binding and marbled endpapers, recent spine. Wear to extremities of boards, otherwise in very good condition, a pleasing and entertaining volume. A splendidly descriptive mountaineer's account of his adventures and explorations in the Pennine Alps and Saas Valley of the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, through majestic passes and quaint villages seldom visited by foreigners, and reaching at least two summits. The mountaineer is unidentified, although he is from England, possibly a reverend like Outram, and certainly a skilled writer. Text reveals that he had made a journey to Lake Geneva in 1897 and to Moutier in 1896. Some of the places visited include Évolène, Valais, Rhone Valley, Brig, Martigny, St. Maurice, Montreux, Glion, Vevey, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Bâle, Saint Bernard (Mont Blanc), Trient, Visp, Sasseneire (mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps), Villeneuve, Lake Geneva, Chillon, and Arolla, where he observes the nuances of local custom including dress and festivities. Of particular interest is the detailed account of summiting the Sasseneire with Reverend James Outram (1864-1925), a British clergyman, renowned mountaineer who made the first ascents of the Canadian Rockies. [Outram began climbing in the Swiss Alps, and went to Canada in 1900 with his brother, also a reverend, William Outram, only shortly after this journal was penned.] Whilst reflecting on his climb with Outram on the 19th of August 1899, amidst the peaks of Valais, he reflects on the fatal mountain climbing accident of famous Welsh mountaineer Owen Glynne Jones, who died on the 28th of August on the Ferpècle arête of the Dent Blanche. [Jones' guides Elias Furrer, Clemenz Zurbriggen and Jean Vuignier were also killed. The four men fell about 1,650 feet (500 m). Mr. F. W. Hill was the party's only survivor.] The diary begins with the adventurer's departure from London 5 August 1899, and provides captivating detail of the journey from urban centers, to vast open regions, first through the Italian Alps, then through the Lepontine Alps, where in the valley of the Wasenhorn crews were busy excavating for railway construction in the Simplon Pass. By 12 August the writer is climbing and trekking in the Saas Valley. He includes pleasing descriptions of the villages Saas-Gund, Saas-Fee and others, the Rossbodenhorn and a "little cabaret on the very edge of the rocky cliff" to which the party climbed up, interesting historical events, ruins, magnificent scenes, and so forth. Ending rather abruptly on 27 August, his final entry is made at Bâle. Excerpts from the manuscript: August 9. "Brig the terminus of the Jura-Simplon Railway at present is a busy little town of 1200 inhabitants situated on the Rhone... Being the starting point of the Simplon route to Italy gives it some importance. The town has a somewhat Italian element in it... has an old castle... Berisal, the 3º refuge 500 y’ we took however... Berisal is very beautifully situated high on a promontory rock, with a fine view. It is a good health resort. There we had lunch and while we were at it the diligences came in and changed horses..." August 10. "...Iselle. Here is the Italian custom house, they seem to be most particular about tobacco in Italy... Just beyond Iselle is the south entrance of the great Simplon Tunnel now in course of construction... commenced in 1898, and will be the largest in the world, 12 1/2 miles... It is to be completed in 1903, and the estimated cost will be £2.780.000..." August 12. "... The whole upper part of Monte Moro is a snowfield... the scene at the top of the pass is unsurpassed... absolute perfection. The amphitheatre of mountains consists of the majestic Monte Rosa group, flanked by the Punta delle Loecie, Pizzo Blanco, and Fallarkuppe.... the Saas Valley with the Bietsthorn of the Bernese Apls in the distance... The descent... also on snow for some distance but we glissaded a good deal to get down quickly... the descent is by the way of the Thalliboden glacier over huge masses of rock and boulder... 1200 ft takes about 3/4 hour... this valley is a rough and barren, desolate place... shows the effect of recession of the glaciers during recent times... There are 3 which have shrunk..." August 15. "Descended the Saas-Thal to Visp... Stalden is very picturesquely situated at the junction of 2 valleys... Sion the chief town of the Valais... ruined castle of Tourbillon" August 17. "... Vex is seen ahead... views behind of Sion & the Rhone are good... with the Dents de Veisivi & Pic d'Arzinol... Tête Blanche, the Dent Blanche & the Dent d'Hérens. The growth of vines, walnuts, chestnuts & maize extends as far as Vex." August 18. "Went to Arolla. Day most glorious. The Val d’Herens in which Evolene lies divides at Haudères 1 hour to the south of the village into two branches... Between them forming the projecting mass of mountains are the Grande & Petite Dents de Veisivi - the former 11.237’ is memorable as the mountain from which the Hopkinson fell in 1898. The father, eminent electrician, the son and 2 daughters, they fell and went dashed to pieces. They had no guide but were roped together... in the morning we saw the funeral procession of this poor woman who was killed by the land slip. The body was placed on one of the village carts and covered with a cloth, no coffin..." August 19. "Started at 5.45 am with Mr Outram & Mr Gall for the Sasseneire, 10,693, the mountain lying to the East of Evolena. The route early in the morning lies in shade for the first half. At first the path to Villa is taken. It then ascends the Alp Cotter in long zigzags & taking a wind bend to the N. We however did not keep to this but took a straight line up the mountain side, very steep in places... whether we saved time was doubtful, but Mr O had a large map with all the contour lines down & a compass and struck this way. After having got over the Alp with its grassy surface we had nothing but rough slatey debris to traverse till we got to the Col de Sarrent 9563... nothing but a narrow ridge all the way not wide enough for two persons... In 2 or 3 places it is broken... at the foot of one was a hole or chasm over which we had to jump. The actual peak was reached in this way... we rested some time till we got somewhat cold... The ascent took 5 1/2 hours. We then descended to the Col where we again waited... Mr. O. went along the opposite ridge towards the Pointe de Preylet like a goat and we saw him climbing a small rocky peak... Mr. Outram, the elder brother was English Chaplain at Evolena for the month of August. He is a great climber and experienced. Thursday he ascended the Dent Blanche - with a friend and 2 guides... The evening of following day I saw him arrive, he was very tired... very well however... It was only a few days after this that the fatal accident occurred when Mr. Jones & 3 guides were killed, and Mr. Hill his companion returned alone to Zermatt after hours... a very dreadful occurrence." [Also in the Arolla district, six days later, August 25, brothers James and William Outram accompanied by Jean Maitre, reached the summit of the Grande Dent de Veisivi by way of the unclimbed south ridge.] August 20. "Sunday is a good day for studying the natives - who are very distinctive in the Val d'Herens... more intelligent that the peasants in other parts of the Canton de Valais... " August 25. "...Another fine day, after breakfast we looked at Villeneuve, a small walled town dating from Roman times... as it is not a place for visitors we had equally good accommodation & food at much lower charge... The castle of Chillon dates from at latest the 9th century & was much added in the 13th century. It was the residence of the Counts of Savoy and then a state prison - now it is being restored... It is unnecessary to describe it further now, as I did so in 1897 except that its renovation.... There is an electric tram from Chillon..." August 27. "... Lausanne... took the 2 pm train for Bâle [Basel] via Yverdon & Neuchâtel... "The large Cocoa Factory of Suchard is near the station..." End Excerpts. Manuscript
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Manuscript Plan - Wadenhoe and Bearshank Wood
Northamptonshire, circa 1827-1828. Manuscript plan of Wadenhoe Wood, Bearshank Wood, showing a single building, perhaps an estate or farmhouse in the making. Drawn on gilt-edged paper watermarked 'Brocklesbey & Iorbey 1827.' Small 8vo. 4+ pages. Original ink drawings on 3 double-leafs, string-tied into paper wrappers inversely titled in manuscript, and placed into marbled paper covers. Item measuring approximately 20 x 33 cm, string-tied to margin, Fold at center, otherwise in Very Good condition. These charming hand drawn maps of Wadenhoe Wood, Bearshank Wood, and the grassy regions in between, show roads, the River Nene and some tributaries, and even foot bridges. Roughly within 5 miles of Little Wadenhoe Wood, on the map which shows the broadest scope of the region, is drawn a square indicative of an estate or farmhouse. The chart of Bearshank Wood draws a country road from Pilton to Benefield (which today connects Pilton Road to Harley Way), near which the home would be situated. A partial road also begins at Pilton and terminates between the forest and field regions. Wadenhoe is a village and civil parish in East Northamptonshire. It is best known for Wadenhoe House, a magnificent Jacobean manor built circa 1617, whose early residents include the Delacy family who were actively involved in the Gunpowder Plot, and George Ward Hunt - Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first Disraeli government later First Lord of the Admiralty (1874). The latter made some renovations to create a classical House of the period. Bearshank Wood was once a famous butterfly site; in the 1920s butterfly collectors would descend from far and wide to capture rarities such as chequered skippers and Duke of Burgundy fritillaries. Closed, dense woodland and conifer plantations are poor habitats for fussy butterflies, thus these and other remarkable butterflies disappeared from here decades ago. Manuscript
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OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE BATTLEFIELD OF BANNOCKBURN
Stirling: Eneas Mackay. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 32pp folding map at rear; numerous b/w photographs advertisements etc. No date but circa 1900. Small piece lacking from top right corner of the front cover otherwise good.Reduced postage may apply on this item due to its light weight. <br/> <br/> Eneas Mackay paperback
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POCKET GUIDE TO EUROPEAN CITIES
Washington: War Department. Very Good. Hardcover. Endpapers browned. Light wear to extremities; Unpaginated and undated; ca. WWII. Prepared for the G. I. In Europe and Scandinavia this guide features tabbed sections on various cities alerting military personnel as to what they might expect once there. The name 'Gutlohn' is stamped to front cover. The volume is labeled "Around the World IV" with gilt spine lettering. Destinations include Northern France with Paris Southern France Denmark Belgium & Luxembourg Norway Italy Netherlands ; Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall . War Department hardcover
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Prospectus - First General List of African Names
Title: First General List of African Names. Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1921. Notes & Condition: Issued Society's Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, this is the first glossary of its kind, a foremost register of placenames in Africa as spelled and pronounced in English, also providing alternatively applied names, former names, and corrections to popular but erroneous names often used and even printed on maps of the day. In several instances, the traditional names are printed in the region's language - Arabic, Egyptian or Amharic script, for example. Also including French, Italian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, and other variations, this remains an excellent primary reference work for today's geographers, historians, and collectors alike. 8vo. 8 pages, string-tied. Complete and in very good condition.
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Rare Victorian Vellum Manuscript - Firearms Patent with Large Wax Seal Issued to American Inventor
"For Improvements in Fire-Arms" [England], 25 July 1872. Manuscript Victorian patent document on vellum, folded and docketed, a rare and excellent example of a patent of invention for a guns, granted to William Edward Blake of New York City. Large printed document completed in manuscript and measuring approximately 76 x 51 cm, with original blue paper revenue stamp for five pounds, and a double-sided yellow wax seal measuring 16 cm in diameter. Small perforation at fold, age-toning to verso, otherwise in very good and original condition, a lovely and bright document, as issued, with a scarce large Victorian wax seal in its original round tin case. A round black tin container houses the massive double-sided yellow wax seal, diameter 16 cm (6.25 inches), attached to the document by original red plaited cords, one side being the Great Seal of the Realm, the other being Queen Victoria seated on a fully caparisoned royal horse. Diminutive fissures to sides of seal, otherwise in very good original condition, with vivid and crisp wax impression. The Commissioners of Patents' Journal, September 1872 issue, records this patent, no. 2224, being granted provisional protection for six months, as also stated in the document itself. Rare official patent document for an invention for "improvements in fire-arms" valid for fourteen years and issued to William Edward Blake, an inventor from New York City. Patent number 2224 was valid in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Wight, with the condition that the specified stamp duty payments were remitted at the times specified, one hundred pounds being payable in the seventh year after the initial patent issue date, for example. Excerpt from the patent: "... Whereas William Edward Blake of the City of New York, United States of America, hath by his petition humbly represented to Us that he is in possession of an Invention for Improvements in Firearms, which the inventor believes will be of great public utility, that he is the first and true inventor thereof... that the same is not in use by any other..." End Excerpt In the following year, 1873 William Edward Blake would receive at least one patent from the United States Patent Office, "for improvements to gun-stocks and spades, patent number 135,624." Blake described this dual-purposed instrument to be especially useful to American soldiers, in particular the Corps of Royal Sappers, Miners, and Engineers, by reducing the weight and number of tools carried over long distances. In essence he devised a two-in-one gun and spade by affixing a small shovel to the gun-stock which served dually as the shoulder rest when firing. It is conceivable that the present patent, valid in the United Kingdom, was for the same apparatus. Little is revealed about Mr. Blake in the present document, apart from his American citizenship and skill in manufacturing firearms for improved efficiency. Further research, however, may find the inventor to be a relation or even a partner of other Blake family gun makers. For example, John Henry Blake, was the manufacturer of a bolt action 7-shot revolving magazine sporting rifle, which was similar to a military type tested by an Ordnance Board of Governor's Island, New York, in July 1891. Blake, P. & E. W. of New Haven, Connecticut, manufactured Model 1821 muskets; the two partners are believed to have been the nephews of Eli Whitney Sr., and also to have been the trustees of the Whitney Armory from 1823 until Eli Whitney Jr. came of age in 1842. And earlier, the firm French, Blake and Kinsley, musket makers, secured a contract for 4,000 stand of arms on 20 October 1808, having delivered at least 2,175 units by 7 October 1812. The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom (prior to the Treaty of Union the Great Seal of England, then until the Union of 1801 the Great Seal of Great Britain) is a seal that is used to symbolize the Sovereign's approval of important state documents. Sealing wax is melted in a metal mould or matrix and impressed into a wax figure that is attached by cord or ribbon to documents that the monarch wishes to make official. Queen Victoria had to select four different Great Seal designs during the sixty-three years of her reign. England's patent law began to be criticized in the 1850s, for obstructing research and benefiting the few at the expense of public good. According to historian Adrian Johns, the campaign "remains to this day the strongest ever undertaken against intellectual property", coming close to abolishing patents altogether. Despite much public debate, the system wasn't abolished, though it was reformed with the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852. This simplified the procedure for obtaining patents, reduced fees and created one office for the entire United Kingdom, instead of different systems for England and Wales and Scotland. Around the same time, however, an anti-patent movement began to take shape, and would continue until the early 1870s, spirred by inventors, entrepreneurs, and radical laissez-faire economists. Prominent activists included Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Robert Grove, William Armstrong and Robert A. MacFie. A new sequence for numbering patents also began in October 1852. Patents applied for between October and December 1852 were numbered from 1-1211. For each subsequent year patents were numbered in annual sequences beginning with the number 1. This system was in place until 1915. Manuscript
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RICORDO DI ROMA 100 Color Photographs
Rome: Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche. Very Good. N.D. Fourth Edition. Softcover. String bound softcover wraps show some slight wear. Crease to rear cover. Unpaginated ; 100 color photographs in and around Rome including many landmarks and artworks. No date circa 1930s ; Color Photographs; 8vo . Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche paperback
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THE LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO - The Great French Poet
London: Ward Lock and Bowden 1895. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. Wear along the spine with some darkening on the covers. Ward Lock's penny books for the people the story of Victor Hugo author of Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame and many others. Ward Lock and Bowden Paperback
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Anonymous
The Near East From Within
NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company No date of publication indicated in this copy but a book review dated August 25 1918 is glued to the half-title page; Originally published by E.P. Dutton; Front and rear gutters have separated at the end papers and securely reglued; pages 78-79 are very brown-stained from a previous item laid-in; Previous owner's ink signature atop the title page; Age staining on few of pages else the textblock is clean and tight with several pages uncut at the fore edge; binding worn and lightly frayed at the corners and spine extremities; All photogravures in excellent condition; 256p. including index. Blue Cloth. Good. Illus. by 13 Photogravures. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Funk & Wagnalls Company Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : SJ9472
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Anonymous
TRAVEL GUIDE OF THE 'NEDERLAND' ROYAL MAIL LINE
Amsterdam. Very Good. N.D. Softcover. Rear cover is creased; Several color maps enliven this publication of the Royal Mail Line which shows the various routes and ports of call which include Southampton the Isle of Wight Genoa Algiers the Suez Canal and more; 8vo; 58 pages . paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 12175
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Anonymous
TRAVEL GUIDE OF THE 'NEDERLAND' ROYAL MAIL LINE
Rear cover is creased; Several color maps enliven this publication of the Royal Mail Line which shows the various routes and ports of call, which include Southampton, the Isle of Wight, Genoa, Algiers, the Suez Canal, and more; 8vo; 58 pages
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Anonymous (Gustav Graf von Schlabrendorf)
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE UND DAS FRANZOSISCHE VOLK UNTER SEINEM CONSULATE
Germanien Hamburg: Germanien Hamburg: 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches high. viii 447 pages. Marbled boards & spine with leather label on spine. Looks like a late 19th C. binding with replaced endpapers. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to corners & edges binding is tight front endpapers lightly foxed text is very clean book was printed on light blue paper with deckle edges. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown. Text in German STK. Germanien (Hamburg): hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6053
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Anonymous (Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. (ed))
The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden: Being all the Gospels Epistles and Other Pieces now Extant Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ his Apostles and their Companions not included by its Compilers in the Authorized New Testament; and the recently discovered Syriac Mss. of Pilate's Letter to Tiberius etc.
NY: New American Library. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1974. First Edition. Eighth Printing. Soft Cover. 0452006406 . Publisher's glossy card wraps. Introduction by Frank Crane. Former owner's name neatly stamped on fep else as new; unmarked unread tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 269 3-adverts pp . New American Library paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30102 ISBN : 0452006406 9780452006409
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Anouilh Jean
La culotte Prefazione e versione italiana di Renato Prinzhofer (stampa 1979)
in 16°, bross. edit. ill., sigla di appartenenza, piccole macchie all'interno
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ANQUETIL
PRECIS DE L'HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE ou tableau historique présentant les vicissitudes des nations, leurs agrandissement, leur décadence et leurs catastrophes, depuis le temps où elles ont commencé à être connues jusqu'au moment actuel. TOME XI.
Paris, Louis Tenré, 1823, in-12 demi-reliure cuir, dos lisse, 379 pp. Coiffes un peu frottées, mors légèrement fendus, sinon bon état.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5890
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ANSELME, Père, Augustin déchaussé, (continué par) du FOURNY, (revue, corrigée & augmentée parle Père ANGE & le Père SIMPLICIEN, Augustins déchaussés
Rois du Portugal (Tiré de Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France)
PARIIS, Claude Robustel - 1726 - In-Folio - Complet, Tiré de Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France - Pagination 569 à 696 - Nombreuses Armoiries en texte - Bandeaux, culs-de-lampe, lettrine - bon état
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Anselmo Vaccari
Crepuscolo d'Europa
Anselmo Vaccari Crepuscolo d'Europa. Roma, Politica Nuova 1935, Copertina: flessibile in brossura, ingiallita e sporca, molto rovinata soprattutto lungo i bordi anche in quarta di copertina con piccoli strappi e piccole parti mancanti, margini stanchi. Dorso: ingiallito e sporco con piccoli strappi e margini stanchi. Taglio: molto ingiallito, sporco e irregolare. Sguardi: ingialliti. Frontespizio: ingiallito e brunito ai margini della pagina. Pagine testo: ingiallite e brunite ai margini, rovinate con parti mancanti e strappi. Margini delle pagine: ingialliti e rovinate con strappi. Mediocre (Poor) . <br> <br> <br> 123<br>
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ANSLO,R.- KNIPPENBERG,HH. H. H.
Reyer Anslo. Zijn leven en letterkundig werk.
Amst. Van der Vecht 1913. VII348 p. Stiff wrappers 23 cm Diss. UvA unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 116835
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Ansorge, Dirk (Herausgeber)
Antisemitismus in Europa und in der arabischen Welt. Ursachen und Wechselbeziehungen eines komplexen Phänomens.
Paderborn, Bonifatius 2006. 318 Seiten. Softcover/Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 103968
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Antonin Charles
L'ain
Braun 1969 111 pages 27x21. 1969. Broché. 111 pages.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 135656
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ANTUNA, José G.
Le régime fédéral des Etats européens et l'opinion américaine
1930 PARIS, Revue de l'Amérique Latine - 1930 - Tiré à part de la Revue de l'Amérique Latine du 1er décembre 1930 - Tome XX, n° 108 - In-8 - Broché - 22 pages - Bon exemplaire
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8336
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Antoine RAMO
Recherche sur les premières manifestations de l'esprit critique en Espagne. 1651-1742. La censura de Historias fabulosa de Nicolas Antonio
Université de Paris-Sorbonne | Paris 1987 | 21.50 x 29.50 cm | relié
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 39379
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Antoine FONTANEY
Scènes d'une course de taureaux à Aranjuez. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] s. d. [1831] | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 14205
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Antoine SALLES
Voyage au pays des fjords
Plon, Nourrit & Cie | Paris 1898 | 11.50 x 18 cm | relié
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 47976
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Antoine Claude Pasquin VALERY
Voyages historiques, littéraires et artistiques en Italie. Guide raisonné complet du voyageur et de l'artiste
Baudry Aimé André | Paris 1831 - 1833 | 13 x 21.50 cm | 5 tomes en 3 volumes reliés
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 66803
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Antoine-Marie CHENAVARD - Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
Vues d'Italie, de Sicile et d'Istrie
Imprimerie de Louis Perrin | Lyon 1861 | 35.5 x 27.2 cm | Relié
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 89114
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Anthea Jones
A Thousand Years of the English Parish Medieval Patterns and Modern Interpretations
The Windrush Press Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographs by Glyn Jones. Crisp clean unclipped dust-jacket fresh covers with silver lettering on spine tight binding clean pages and end-papers . Illustrator: Photographs by Glyn Jones. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70713040008. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional shipping charges. The Windrush Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 70713040008
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Anthias,Floya & Lazaridis,Gabriella
Gender and Migration in Southern Europe : Women on the Move
Oxford: Berg 2000 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed. The important role women play in the process of migration to the Western bloc and in particular to Southern Europe where they often find jobs in the domestic service tourist or sex industries has been increasingly recognized. This timely book provides essential new insights into the forms of migration and the impact of gender relations on the migration and accommodation process and also raises general conceptual issues about ways of understanding migration in a global context. At a time when all the member states of the European Union have called for a reduction in immigration in response to its steady growth the urgency of the topic is apparent. Contributors examine the possible legal social and economic problems that increased immigration may produce including: female migration and its relation to changing gender relations in the country of migration; different forms of exclusion faced by male and female migrants; working conditions and status; migrant networks; and women's role in reproducing and maintaining ethnic culture.This book will be essential reading for courses in migration nationalism Mediterranean and area studies gender studies and a range of social science courses. It will also be of use to policy makers and those interested in European developments. INCLUDES Introduction: Women on the Move in Southern Europe Floya Anthias and Gabriella Lazaridis /Metaphors of Home: Gendering New Migrations to southern Europe Floya Anthias /Filipino and Albanian Women Migrant Workers in Greece: Multiple Layers of Oppression Gabriella Lazaridis /The Making of Periphractic Spaces: The Case of Albanian Undocumented Female Migrants in the Sex Industry of Athens Iordannis Psimmenos /Female Migrants in Italy: Coping in a Country of New Migration Victoria Chell /Migrant Women in Italy: National Trends and Local Perspectives Marina Orsini-Jones and Francesca Gattullo /Organizing Domestic Workers in Italy: The Challenge of Gender Class and Ethnicity Jacqueline Andall /Female Birds of Passage: Leaving and Settling in Spain Natalia Ribas-Mateos /The Position and Status of Migrant Women in Spain Angeles Escrivyy /Trading Intimacy for Liberty: British Women on the Costa del Sol Karen O'Reilly .Index. Berg hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 31946 ISBN : 1859732313 9781859732311
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Anthony Bailey
England First & Last
New York: Viking 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal shelfwear clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minor wear. A memoir about a young boy's return to England following WWII after four years in the safety of the US. Sequel to "America Lost & Found". <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005800
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Anthony Beeson
Monumental Brasses Within 30 Miles of Bristol
Bristol: Avon County Library 1979 Book condition: Good/VG with faint wrinkles to spine; very faint snudges. 12 pages. A bright copy. Avon County Library paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 007945
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Anthony Burgess
Coaching Days of England
Paul Elek 1966. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Good. First edition large format oblong folio hardback 1966 with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition - dj is edgeworn with a couple of closed tears original red cloth boards and blue cloth spine with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to front are clean with some rubbing to edges spine head slightly bumped. Binding tight no annotations or inscriptions text and plates clean and clear throughout. This item is very large and heavy and our price includes p&p in the UK; overseas purchasers please contact us for an estimate of shipping charges. Paul Elek hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 121106
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Anthony C. West
The Native Moment
London: Macgibbon & Kee 1961 Book condition: VG with dusty top page edges. Jacket: Good/VG with damp stain to reverse; light edge-wear; rubbing to corners; chip to one corner. U.K. First Edition. A bright copy. Macgibbon & Kee hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000263
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Anthony Clayton
The Wars of French Decolonization Modern Wars In Perspective
London: Longman 1994. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.234. Previous owner's name on verso of front cover. Longman paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 334226 ISBN : 0582098017 9780582098015
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Anthony Cronin
The End of the Modern World
Dublin: Raven Arts Press 1989 Book condition: VG with nudges to corners; four line inscription to title page. Irish First Edition. A bright copy. Raven Arts Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003770 ISBN : 1851860398 9781851860395
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Anthony Denning and Ranger, Paul
Theatre in the Cotswolds: The Boles Watson Family and the Cirencester Theatre
London: Society for Theatre Research 1993. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 254pp. The story of the theatre in Cirencester which began in the 18th century under the management of John Boles Watson and continued well into the 19th century. This study also gives brief descriptions and histories of a futher forty-four regional theatres which were established by John Boles Watson across the southern half of Britain some of which are still in use today. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Society for Theatre Research Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 021914 ISBN : 0854300546 9780854300549
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Anthony Grafton
Rome reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana 1993. Excellent copy with just light shelf wear. Gift quality. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. . Paperback. Fine. Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 232129 ISBN : 0844407674 9780844407678
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Anthony Hamilton
Hamilton’s Campaign With Moore And Wellington During The Peninsular War
Staplehurst: Spellmount 1998. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Hardback edition in the Spellmount Library Of Military History series 1998 with unclipped jacket. In overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions - small name and address label to front endpaper. Text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Spellmount hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 231481 ISBN : 1862270171 9781862270176
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Anthony Light, Gerald Ponting
Fordingbridge and District: A Pictorial History Pictorial History Series
Phillimore & Co. 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Firmly bound and carefully read. Both book & jacket are in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss but there is somesmall bumps to the corners of the hardcover corner of the jacket is price clipped. Illustrated in b/w. Phillimore & Co. Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 032224 ISBN : 0850338972 9780850338973
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