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1828ref. 55274Providence: H. H. Brown printer 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 12; self-wrappers stitched as issued; uncut; a few spots on the title; very good. Warns of the dangers of the "monied aristocracy" and urges voters "to give your undivided support to.the Landowner's Prox by whatever name it may be called" and to support the State's current system of indirect taxation on imported goods luxury items profits levying license fees &c. as a way to lessen the direct tax upon land. American Imprints 31893; Bartlett p. 8; Sabin 70529. H. H. Brown, printer unknown books
1780ref. 12276Edinburgh: David Paterson 1780 Subtitled 'A collection of all the declarations and resolutions published by the different counties cities towns parishes incorporations and societies throughout Scotland against a proposed repeal of the statutes enacted and forever ratified by the Revolution and Union Parliament for preventing the growth of popery . . .'. Original full leather worn and much chipped decorative spine black leather title label a little chipped marbled end-papers armorial ownership plate to front paste-down foxing throughout good. David Paterson hardcover
1927ref. FGN11-B-3Paris: Georges Petit 1927 . Paperback. Very Good. 12.5" by 9.5". None. A scarce auction catalogue for the collection of Madame de Poles A nice clean copy. Madame de Polès was a French collector. Bound in paper covered boards. The front hinge is starting. There is some mild wear to the extremities including bumping and some stains. Internally the pages are clean and bright with some pencil marginalia. Very Good Georges Petit paperback
ref. 61050c.1870. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition; Dimensions: 235 x 135mm. 10 x 7 inches. [c.1870]. unknown
ref. 61049c.1870. . Albumen print. Good tonal range with slight foxing otherwise captivating image of this famous mausoleum; Dimensions: 235 x 135mm. 10 x 7 inches. [c.1870]. unknown
1774ref. R26GLTGN1112Paris: Chez Vincent 1774. Hardback green morocco with gilt decoration to spine and borders of boards. Edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. 16.5cm x 11cm. Text in French. Pp. 2 422 234 52 32. Spine faded slight wear to extremities. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few spots to bottom edge. Scarce. r26. Hard Cover. Very Good. Chez Vincent Hardcover
1851ref. 9935London: Messrs. Puttick and Simpson 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Dark green cloth with gilt titles to front surrounded by blind stamped borders. Bookplate to front paste down Arthur Bentley Connor. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners and edges. Tears to rear spine edge with thinning and minor tears to front edge. Faded fore edges of front and rear boards. Cracked endpapers with hinges remaining firm. Toned and lightly spotted endpapers and pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 166. Size: 29.5cm by 23cm. PROVENANCE: BOOKPLATE: Arthur Bentley Connor. Arthur Bentley Connor was a portrait painter from London who exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Academy from 1903-18. Born in Battersea the son of a Surgeon. Messrs. Puttick and Simpson hardcover
ref. 9747London: Profile Publications Ltd. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: 36 paper issues of aircraft profiles by Profile Publications bound red cloth spine with cream cloth boards. Issue No's 25-60. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to corners edges and spine ends. Rear endpaper cracked. All issues are sharp and unmarked. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: cm by cm. Profile Publications Ltd hardcover
1856ref. 001585London: Groombridge and Sons 1856. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo containing cultivation of Arable Land pp25 Rearing of Poultry pp24 with 2 pages of plans Flower Garden pp24 The Horse pp26 with one b/w plate Fruit Trees pp16 Cattle pp24 The Garden Frame pp38 and The Greenhouse pp32. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and blind stamped decorative borders to both boards in good condition with some shelf wear to tail of spine tear to top of spine some bumping to tips and a little discolouration. Inside previous owners name to ffe paper dated 1859 pages have a little toning otherwise all pages with full edge marbling in very good condition. Scarce Groombridge and Sons hardcover
1952ref. 9961London: Francis Edwards 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Collection of 12 editions from 1952 bound in brown cloth with title plate to spine. Includes no. 719-729 plus the Christmas edition. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners edges and spine ends. Light soiling to spine. Tightly bound. Lightly toned pages. Toned and spotted text block edges. Embossed circular ex libris mark of 'Derek Gibson Cairo'. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 21cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: Ex libris: Derek Gibson Cairo. BOOK RESUME: 1 719 - Bibliography Books On Binding Illuminated Manuscripts Printing etc 2 720 - Voyages and Travels relating to the Balkans Africa Australia and the Pacific and Asia with special sections devoted to the Bounty Cooks voyages Siberia and the North Pacific 3 721 - Maps of the North 4 722 - English Books Printed Before 1640 5 723 - Ships and the Sea 6 724 - South America Central America Mexico The West Indies and Bermuda 7 725 - English Books 1641-1700 8 736 - Ancient and Modern Books relating to Balkans Asia Africa etc 9 Maps of America 10 728 - Military History 11 729 - General Literature Botany Mountaineering etc 13 Books and Decorative Maps. Francis Edwards hardcover
1966ref. 238823Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Government 1966. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. N/a. I am selling a book and a booklet. The book is predominantly in Malaysian and pertains to the installation of His Majesty Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah in Kuala Lumpur in 1966. 36pp. Bound in original publisher's yellow hardboards - stamped in gilt and blue to the front board. The text supported by a number of photographic reproductions in colour of the Shah and his wife the crown jewels ceremonial swords/daggers etc. Also some other photographic reproductions in b/w of three other dignatories. No inscriptions. Light or slight spotting to the front endpaper and very slight insect damage to the extreme tail of this page. Some spotting to the upper fore-edge too. Notable spotting to the spine and mostly to the board edges - inside and out with some age toning to the spine too. Slight bowing of the boards too. The accompanying booklet is predominantly in English and is in lovely fresh clean bright condition bound in yellow card covers with both a ribbon and staple as binders. It gives a precise chronology of events and was presumably handed out to those perhaps English speakers only who attended the ceremony. Both items very scarce. Malaysian Government hardcover
ref. 94201st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Two bound volumes containing editions of 'The Servant' between 1 July 14th 9121 and January 5th 1922 2 Feb 6th 1919 to Nov 20th 1919. Language: English. Book Condition: Poor: Heavy wear to corners edges and spine. Bookwork damage to spineand son=me board margins. Worm damage repeated to endpaper gutter of one volume and some page margins. Cracked gutter to one volume between second and third pages. Toned pages with occasional tears to page edges. DJ Condition: No DJ hardcover
1716ref. DR6BRWN3003Oxford: John Baskett 1716. Hardback full-calf spine relaid gilt borders to boards. 19.5cm x 12.5cm. Marbled end-papers inner hinges crudely re-inforced. Bound with 1762 edition of Book of Psalm. Unpaginated. Complete with 53 plates. Ruled in red. Binding somewhat worn. Fore-edges trimmed very tightly with slight marginal losses to last few pages of Psalm. Some occasional repairs chipping with small losses a couple of stitched repairs. Scarce. dr6. Hard Cover. Fair. John Baskett Hardcover
1900ref. 10818London: Robert Boyle & Sons c1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Trade catalogue bound in original brown cloth with art nouveau style gilt blocked title plate to front board. Art nouveau style illustrations and fonts throught with double page illustrations of of architectural design for the installation of the ventilation systems in hospitals schools theatres churches and offices. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners edges and spine ends. Lightly rubbed cloth with minor marks. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 160 8. Size: 30cm by 23cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. BOOK RESUME: Trade catalogue providing full details and drawings of The Boyle system. Supplement at rear has colour printed illustrations of the 'Plenum' system for hospitals and schools. Robert Boyle & Sons hardcover
1858ref. 056858Tenby: The Cambrian Institute. Very Good with no dust jacket. Paperback. 80pp bound in original blue card covers sl chipped around edges; Book; Octavo . 1858. The Cambrian Institute paperback
1826ref. 61423Glasgow: Printed By W Lang. 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. 22nd edition The text is incomplete there are six leaves missing from the appendix at rear our collation reading: 232 44pp with 6 pages of engraved advertisments with one folding plate. 2 pps of index repired bound in new red cloth spine paper title/orginal marbled boards. Scarce; Small Octavo . Printed By W Lang hardcover
1789ref. 61836Halifax: J Milner. 1789. Hardcover. Very Good. 648pp 70pp old sellotape mark on title page 1 corner of title page missing not affecting text sm chip in margin of 2pps bound in full leather nicely re-spined new front endpaper; Small Octavo . J Milner hardcover
ref. 35872RIPON FARRER 1806. SECOND EDITION WITH ENGRAVING BY BEWICK. BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND EDGES. DECORATIVE GILT SPINE. SOME WEAR TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE. SOME AGE-TONING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT VERY GOOD. 314 PAGES. RIPON, FARRER, 1806 hardcover
1986ref. x-0313254788Greenwood Press 1986. Hardcover. New. 252 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Greenwood Press hardcover
ref. 3495Boston: The Gorham Press 1901. . 4to tan printed paper-covered boards Two holdings only in OCLC Yale and Harvard -- Harvard copy has been filmed by Google Books. A most extraordinary and amusing compilation of puns double entendres homophones and absolute idiocy. We have not been able to find anything on the author or the two illustrators--one with the initials "GR" and the other who signed as "Billy". There is a colophon at the end: "Malum nunc et olim. Done at the Cider Press" Boston: The Gorham Press, 1901. hardcover
ref. 3495Boston: The Gorham Press 1901. . 4to tan printed paper-covered boards Two holdings only in OCLC Yale and Harvard -- Harvard copy has been filmed by Google Books. A most extraordinary and amusing compilation of puns double entendres homophones and absolute idiocy. We have not been able to find anything on the author or the two illustrators--one with the initials "GR" and the other who signed as "Billy". There is a colophon at the end: "Malum nunc et olim. Done at the Cider Press" Boston: The Gorham Press, 1901. hardcover books
1859ref. 1262761859. New York: Harper and Brothers 1859. Sm. 8vo 8 9-381 2 adspp. With a frontispiece and 7 plates by Frank Bellew. Original pebbled brown cloth covers blind-stamped with oval design within a rectangle. A little faded and worn generally a very good copy of a fragile book printed on cheap paper in a cheap cloth binding. § First and only edition excluding modern reprints of a rare and moving plea on behalf of unhoused children in New York echoing Dickens and others of the period. 1859 is often referred to as the golden year of the 19th century book -- Darwin's Origin Dickens's Tale of Two Cities Eliot's Adam Bede Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mill's On Liberty Smiles's Self Help Goncharov's Oblamov etc. This book almost unknown and held in only 6 libraries per OCLC deserves to be better known. Not in Blanck or anywhere else we can cite except for Hamilton Early American Book Illustrators # 1491. unknown
1859ref. 1262761859. New York: Harper and Brothers 1859. Sm. 8vo 8 9-381 2 adspp. With a frontispiece and 7 plates by Frank Bellew. Original pebbled brown cloth covers blind-stamped with oval design within a rectangle. A little faded and worn generally a very good copy of a fragile book printed on cheap paper in a cheap cloth binding. § First and only edition excluding modern reprints of a rare and moving plea on behalf of unhoused children in New York echoing Dickens and others of the period. 1859 is often referred to as the golden year of the 19th century book -- Darwin's Origin Dickens's Tale of Two Cities Eliot's Adam Bede Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mill's On Liberty Smiles's Self Help Goncharov's Oblamov etc. This book almost unknown and held in only 6 libraries per OCLC deserves to be better known. Not in Blanck or anywhere else we can cite except for Hamilton Early American Book Illustrators # 1491. unknown books
1832ref. 84913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work. A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown
1832ref. 84913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work. A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown books
