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1835Best.-Nr. 1847Derby: Thomas Richardson. c.1835. 12mo. Nineteenth-century quarter roan over grey paper-covered boards the spine with titles in gilt. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with a folding hand-coloured frontispiece. 24pp. A good copy the binding secure albeit with a 4cm crack to the head of the upper joint a little chipping to the spine ends a splash mark to the upper board and a touch of wear to the corners. The contents with a little offsetting to the title page from the frontispiece and toning to page edges are otherwise in good order. An uncommon early nineteenth-century 'seduction narrative' concerning a fictional young woman named Fanny Bilson who leaves her modest country life to find employment in the fast-paced morally-corrupting surroundings of London. Though besieged by the dubious advances of numerous men Fanny manages to maintain her honour and ultimately escapes back to the safety of her parental home "delivered from the most dangerous temptations to which a woman can be exposed" now in the company of a respectable suitor. There was also a London edition of this title published by Dean & Munday however we have not been able to establish priority. Derby: Thomas Richardson. hardcover
1813Best.-Nr. 690L8Birmingham: J Belcher 1813. First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 4.5". None. A very scarce pamphlet regarding the condensed rules on hallmarking in the context of the Birmingham silversmiths and plate-workers. The first edition of this work. This work looks at the acts of parliament regarding hallmarking so as to protect the public against fraud and to protect the trader against unfair competition. There are explanations to this work of how these acts relate to Birmingham or within twenty miles thereof. This pamphlet is aimed at the silversmiths and plate workers for their better understanding of the rules and regulations. A scarce work with only one on jisc held at the University of Birmingham. In marbled wraps. Externally generally smart with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. Light creasing to the corners. Internally firmly bound. Minor offsetting to the endpapers. Pages are generally bright with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed J Belcher paperback
1842Best.-Nr. 120356Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 1842. Paperback. Please see Images re this item as I am unable to read Armenian but from my research this appears to be a small single sewn light card covered small almanac. Size 4" x 2. 3" 10cm x 6cm Internal tables and saints’/feast-day listings etc etc. Illustration and decorations in b/w. The line beneath the title on the cover likely specifies the ecclesiastical or liturgical context rather than an author The imprint below the date appears consistent with a Venetian Armenian press probably the Mekhitarists in Venice who produced enormous quantities of small Armenian devotional and educational printing in the 18th–19th centuries. However I can say not of this with 100% certainty. Beige/black printed covers with border decoration front and back cover and on the spine. A scuff to the rear cover removing part of the border decoration but otherwise Very Clean. Internally AS NEW! This little booklet was hidden away and has survived remarkably!. Anyone who doen't wish to buy this but could enlighten me further- please get in touch. Assuming it is as described - pretty scarce. See Images; Thin 32mo 4" tall . paperback
1737Best.-Nr. 012885London: Printed By John Baskett 1737. Book measures 31x20.5.cm. 33pp. Bound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on top board. Binding in fine condition. Internally some light dust/dirt marking. Pages in good clean condition. A nice copy. F. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Quarto. Printed By John Baskett Hardcover
1737Best.-Nr. 012882London: Printed By John Baskett 1737. Book measures 31x20.5.cm. 12pp. Bound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on top board. Binding in fine condition. Internally light tanning small hole on margin of one page without loss of text. Pages in good clean condition. A very nice copy. F. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Printed By John Baskett Hardcover
1737Best.-Nr. 012884London: Printed By John Baskett 1737. Book measures 31x20.5.cm. 28pp. Bound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on top board. Binding in fine condition. Internally a few pages dust/dirt marked. Pages in good clean condition. A nice copy. F. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Printed By John Baskett Hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. GEN22-G-1London : W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. c1880. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". None. A scarce short story for children about cats and dogs. Illustrated throughout. With Cadbury's Cocoa advert to rear board and adverts to the pastedowns and endpapers. In paper-covered boards. Externally sound with some light shelfwear to the extremities. Some spotting to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Ink signature to title page. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. hardcover
1845Best.-Nr. 016520London: Charles Evans 1845. Book measures 27.5x22.cm. 438pp 16 full page plates page 38 with a near full page illustration. Bound in later red cloth. Cloth rubbed worn. Internally endpaper joints split but content holding minor spot marking. Pages and illustrations in good clean condition. A good copy. F. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus. Quarto. Charles Evans Hardcover
1737Best.-Nr. 012883London: Printed By John Baskett 1737. Book measures 31x21.5.cm. 47pp. Bound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on top board. Binding in fine condition. Internally pages in very good clean condition. A very nice copy. F. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Printed By John Baskett Hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 016218London: London County Council 1947. Book measures 25x19.5.cm. Plus 9 folding maps in slipcase. 274pp. Bound in original publisher red cloth with gilt crest and lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed dust dirt marking crease on back board. Binding in good condition. Maps housed in publishers slipcase. Case worn. Maps near fine. A very good 2 volume set. F. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good. Large 8vo. London County Council Hardcover
1859Best.-Nr. 013389London: T. Nelson and Sons 1859. Book measues 15x10.cm. 48pp including 5 text illustrations twelve colour printed wood eng. views including Gibraltar Malta Alexandria Suez Aden Bombay Ceylon Madras Calcutta Singapore and Hong Kong. Bound in later cloth backed marble boards. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally pages and plates clean. A nice clean copy. A rare travel guidebook by sea - not as the title states by land - from England to China with stops and short descriptions of Gibraltar Malta Egypt India Ceylon Hong Kong Singapore and Shanghai. . Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8 Vo. T. Nelson and Sons Hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. 011888Queenslan 1889. Book measures 34x21.5.cm. 129pp 59 single page charts 7 folding charts 14 folding maps. Bound in half calf calf corners cloth boards raised bands gilt lettering coloured endpapers. Calf rubbed scuffed worn on edges. Library label and stamp. Binding in good condition. Internally occasional library mark or stamp about 10 in all 1 page torn creased. Pages and illustrations in good clean condition. A good copy. . Half Calf. Good Plus. Quarto. Hardcover
1875Best.-Nr. 014884London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1875. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 36x27.cm. Pages bound in sections. Bound in period half calf calf corners cloth boards raised bands gilt lines title label coloured endpapers. Bindings rubbed. scuffed with abrasion wear on edges corners. Generally both bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners bookplate. Pages in good clean condition. A nice set. . Half Calf. Very Good. Small Folio. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode Hardcover
1794Best.-Nr. 129713London: J. Good 1794. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Approx 26cm tall by approx 17cm wide original full black leather hardcover ruled in gilt board edges and inner dentelles decorated in gilt original marbled endpapers all page edges gilt tissue guarded plates xxx 1-684pp plus 106pp Psalms plates foxed covers rubbed otherwise a very good attractive solidly bound copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. J. Good hardcover
1875Best.-Nr. 014609Washington: Government Printed Office 1875. Book measures 29.5x23.cm. xii 1801pp 19 folding maps. Bound in original publishers cloth. Cloth worn lacking part of spine library label on top board. Internally occasional library stamp about 10 in all maps free of stamps. Light tanning to maps a few with minor splits or tears. Pages and maps in good clean condition. Cloth. Good Plus. Quarto. Government Printed Office Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 22830Routledge London 1870 . 23 chromolitho coloured plates as called for 1 being a double-page. 4to 10 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and colours. Headbands rubbed inner joints cracked. Two blank leaves torn and with early repai with cloth tape. 1877 gift inscription on front free endpaper. A very nice copy indeed. Very rare. Routledge, London [ 1870 ]. hardcover
1959Best.-Nr. 3554907223081959. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: D C Thomason 1959. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue orange green and ochre pictorial boards. A near fine copy with really clean and bright boards and with just the merest hint of rubbing to the spine tips and with a tiny abrasion to the top/middle of the back board. Internally very clean. "This book belongs to." NOT completed. A very nice copy indeed of an early 1960s Beano Dandy that would grace any Beano collection. Looks very smart in its custom-made acetate cover. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
1960Best.-Nr. 3554907223101960. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: D C Thomason 1960. First UK Edition. Publisher's red pictorial boards. A fine copy with really clean and bright boards and NO RUBBING. Internally very clean. "This book belongs to." NOT completed. A beautiful copy of an early 1960s Beano Dandy that would grace any Beano collection. Looks very smart in its custom-made acetate cover. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
1870Best.-Nr. 5067Ingolstadt & Esslingen Krüll and J.F. Schreiber 1870 Traduction en anglais : "De la guerre de libération de 1870. Portrait d'un Turko ! L'avant-garde de l'armée française de civilisation ! Muhamedans destinés à l'invasion de l'Allemagne du Sud !" Feuille unique imprimée en lithographie originale à l'encre et à l'aquarelle. 40,5 cm x 33 cm. Affiche ancienne en couleur sur la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870/71, exceptionnellement rare, que Schreiber a produite pour Krüll'sche Buchhandlung à Ingolstadt. Dans la marge supérieure gauche, un gros dégât de papier avec perte de la lettre "A" de la barre de titre. Sinon, l'affiche est en bon état, à l'exception d'un léger pli et d'un dommage dans le coin inférieur gauche. Nous n'avons trouvé aucun exemplaire de cette affiche en vente à l'heure actuelle. Il s'agit d'une affiche curieuse. Bien que la France et l'Empire ottoman aient une longue histoire d'alliance et de coopération remontant au XVIe siècle, au moment de la guerre franco-prussienne, ce partenariat était largement symbolique et ne s'est pas traduit par un soutien ou une intervention de l'Empire ottoman pendant le conflit. Nous ne pouvons que supposer qu'il s'agissait d'une pure propagande, en termes modernes, d'un "sifflet à chien" destiné aux éléments racistes de la population allemande.
1820Best.-Nr. 88903London: J. Bailey 116 Chancery Lane 1820. First Edition. Slim Twelvemo. 18cm. Late 19th century half mottled calf over marbled paper covered boards by Bayntun of Bath with a red title label to the spine titled in gilt very much in the style of an older binding. 24pp. with 24pp binder's blanks to rear to stabilize the binding. Light scuffing to corners and spine ends darkening to spine label and a little dulling of the gilt strong tight and handsome; internally clean all edges gilt marbled endpapers later ex libris to front pastedown with traces showing removal of an older one visible beneath hand colored frontispiece illustration with later tissue guard and a small archival tissue repair to a small tear on the fore-edge offsetting of the color and some light soiling to title page the work would originally have been issued as a chapbook in paper wraps. A very good attractive copy of an obscure piece of early 19th century pop culture. John Bailey was one of those highly-energetic and slightly scurrilous printer-publishers of the early 1800's running alongside Stockdale Dugdale Duncombe and the like in a frenetic race to recognise the current zeitgeist and mine it for pamphlets chapbooks and on occasional multi-volume exposés until the vein ran out and they moved on to the next thing. It could be the sporting Fancy the murky doings of the Ton memoirs of ladies of negotiable virtue the scandalous habits of the French or the diabolical behavior of home grown rakes; if it could be illustrated with a lurid cut and sold to popular acclaim but no legal outcry then it was prime for publication. This is an indicative offering; a tale of a lady maligned a wandering-handed husband and some untrustworthy foreign types Italians in this case portrayed as being of a nation of bandits promoting the popular and rather thrilling idea that nobody really knows what the aristocracy gets up to but slim little volumes like this can give you a fair idea. Unusually studded with relatively competent verse commentary and enough arch detail for the suggestive reader to wonder whether it is entirely fictional. It isn't in case you were wondering; it forms part of the Caroline Scandal blizzard of pamphlets and cartoons directed at the indiscretions and marital strife of Caroline of Brunswick the oft estranged wife of King George IV. George despised his wife even after the birth of their daughter and Queen Caroline retired to Italy where her chief advisor and confidante was a gentleman named Bartolomeo Pergami - in short order Caroline and Pergami were rumored to be lovers accusations of adultery and possible treason flew in all directions and a legal deadlock began with both parties George and Caroline whose middle name was of course Amelia denying infidelity whilst pointing the finger at each other. The "Green Ridicule" is a reference to the bags presented at the reading of the bill intended to grant the King a divorce; large green sacks of "evidence" collected by the Milanese authorities much of which was rather hilarious and involved a lot of innkeepers and coachmen testifying to having seen Pergami in flagrante whilst within 20 feet of the noble lady. The resulting legal wrangling and backstabbing had the opposite effect from the one desired by George and rendered Caroline something of a public and political heroine misused by her abusive husband and adopted by reformist political figures seeking to gain ground on an increasingly eccentric and damaging monarchy. The tone of the tale is therefore rather sympathetic to Lady Amelia in keeping with public sentiment. It is also stated to hopefully be the first part of a series of exposures of the travails of "Lady Amelia" and her somewhat ungallant spouse which suggests it was rushed out mid-trial and may have had subsequent installments as the proceedings continued through 1820. The title itself is possibly a riff on Mary Charlton's work; she published a substantial and popular work with a similar title a few years earlier. Scarce and a little obscure with three holdings in US institutions. J. Bailey, 116 Chancery Lane unknown books
Best.-Nr. 3558BOSTON DUTTON 1856. WINSLOW HOMER ILLUSTRATIONS FIRST EDITION GOOD-VERY GOOD. F. BOSTON, DUTTON, 1856 unknown books
1777Best.-Nr. 127Dublin: James Williams 1777. First Edition. full 18th cent. calf; rebacked. A very good copy; some occ. dustiness. 12mo. Engraved title page. 6 12 - 244 pp. An unusual descriptive low life ramble set out in a series of numbered descriptions and vignettes of life characters appear in some of the vignettes. There is hardly a topic the author does not consider and ridicule. At times this appears a jest book. There is no London edition as the Dublin imprint may lead one to suspect and the ESTC and NUC cite only this printing. The book is well done and quite funny in parts. Greenough p. 224. James Williams unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. 24033Unknown place ca1900. Very good with two small spots; some loss to border tassle decoration; two small repairs to the stitching. Stitched "table scarf" made up by joining four cotton panels of equal size that are decorated with dense copper thread embroidery designs each design is different. The whole meas. appx. 17 x 16 3/8 inches An unusual "table scarf" in the Arts & Crafts style. The design applied to plain cotton is made up of four equal size individual panels with elaborate embroidered designs - each in a distinct pattern - made with copper thread as are the tassles. Most likely a unique individual effort. Well crafted. unknown books
1873Best.-Nr. 25031Washington DC: College of OB-GYN. 1873. Unknown edition. As issued. Very good; lower blank margin dust soiled and rumpled. 4to sheet printed recto only; meas. appx. 260 x 200 mm. The college was first incorporated in 1873. The proposed courses listed were to be offered April through June at the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum. Staff is listed; objectives outlined - to gain practical experience in the hospital in order to supplement a formal medical college degree. Fees ranged from $20. to $40. Absent from OCLC. College of OB-GYN. unknown books
1870Best.-Nr. 5067Ingolstadt & Esslingen: Krüll and J.F. Schreiber 1870. English translation: "From the War of Liberation 1870. Portrait of a Turko! The avant-garde of the French "army of civilisation" ! Muhamedans destined for the invasion of Southern Germany!" Single sheet printed in original water colour and ink lithograph. 40.5cm x 33 cm. Exceptionally rare old coloured poster on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 which Schreiber produced for Krüll'sche Buchhandlung in Ingolstadt. In the upper left margin a larger paper damage with loss of the letter "A" of the title bar. Otherwise in good condition apart from a slight crease and damage to the lower left corner. We can find no copies of this poster on sale at the present time. This is a curious poster. While France and the Ottoman Empire had a long history of alliance and co-operation dating back to the 16th century by the time of the Franco-Prussian War this partnership was largely symbolic and did not translate into Ottoman support or intervention during the conflict. We can only assume that this was purely propaganda in modern terms a "dog whistle" to the racist elements of the German population. . Traduction en anglais : "De la guerre de libération de 1870. Portrait d'un Turko ! L'avant-garde de l'armée française de civilisation ! Muhamedans destinés à l'invasion de l'Allemagne du Sud !" Feuille unique imprimée en lithographie originale à l'encre et à l'aquarelle. 405 cm x 33 cm. Affiche ancienne en couleur sur la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870/71 exceptionnellement rare que Schreiber a produite pour Krüll'sche Buchhandlung à Ingolstadt. Dans la marge supérieure gauche un gros dégât de papier avec perte de la lettre "A" de la barre de titre. Sinon l'affiche est en bon état à l'exception d'un léger pli et d'un dommage dans le coin inférieur gauche. Nous n'avons trouvé aucun exemplaire de cette affiche en vente à l'heure actuelle. Il s'agit d'une affiche curieuse. Bien que la France et l'Empire ottoman aient une longue histoire d'alliance et de coopération remontant au XVIe siècle au moment de la guerre franco-prussienne ce partenariat était largement symbolique et ne s'est pas traduit par un soutien ou une intervention de l'Empire ottoman pendant le conflit. Nous ne pouvons que supposer qu'il s'agissait d'une pure propagande en termes modernes d'un "sifflet à chien" destiné aux éléments racistes de la population allemande. Krüll and J.F. Schreiber unknown
