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1679Best.-Nr. CC2931679. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. small 4to. 36pp. Rare original book/pamphlet. Last page a 'Postscript'.Some wear and evidence of aging. the pamphlet refers to 'the last Parliament' being the collapse of the Cavalier Parliament in January1679 amid a Popish Plot hysteria 19cms.nb The Huntington Library records a copy Wing/ T1349 unknown
1701Best.-Nr. TS196London: Thomas Speed Over Against Jonathan's Coffe-House in Exchange-Ally in Corhill 1701. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Vg. small 4to. With an estimate of the prizes of all the medicines now in use. In a letter from a merchant in . physician with the physicians Answer.vi 30 pp. List of subscribers 'to the dispensary' to the verso of the title-page. A disbound nonce copy of a now rare book. 20x16cms Thomas Speed Over Against Jonathan's Coffe-House in Exchange-Ally in Corhill paperback
Best.-Nr. 39914The designs depict the characters Knowledge Angel and Confession with colored fabric swatches attached to each Executed on quality watercolor paper. Sheet size 510 x 380 mm. Some browning. "Everyman an English morality play of the 15th century probably a version of a Dutch play Elckerlyc. It achieves a beautiful simple solemnity in treating allegorically the theme of death and the fate of the human soul-of Everyman's soul as he tries to justify his time on earth. Though morality plays on the whole failed to achieve the vigorous realism of the Middle Ages' scriptural drama this short play about 900 lines is more than an allegorical sermon because vivid characterization gives it dramatic energy. It is generally regarded as the finest of the morality plays." Britannica Online revised and updated by J.E. Luebering. Perdziola an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater opera and ballet has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera San Francisco Opera Santa Fe Opera Lyric Theatre of Chicago American Ballet Theater Shakespeare Theater in Washington Boston Ballet and Miami Ballet as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom the Finnish National Ballet the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards. unknown
Best.-Nr. 39914The designs depict the characters Knowledge Angel and Confession with colored fabric swatches attached to each Executed on quality watercolor paper. Sheet size 510 x 380 mm. Some browning. "Everyman an English morality play of the 15th century probably a version of a Dutch play Elckerlyc. It achieves a beautiful simple solemnity in treating allegorically the theme of death and the fate of the human soul-of Everyman's soul as he tries to justify his time on earth. Though morality plays on the whole failed to achieve the vigorous realism of the Middle Ages' scriptural drama this short play about 900 lines is more than an allegorical sermon because vivid characterization gives it dramatic energy. It is generally regarded as the finest of the morality plays." Britannica Online revised and updated by J.E. Luebering. Perdziola an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater opera and ballet has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera San Francisco Opera Santa Fe Opera Lyric Theatre of Chicago American Ballet Theater Shakespeare Theater in Washington Boston Ballet and Miami Ballet as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom the Finnish National Ballet the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards. unknown books
1401Best.-Nr. mon0000080217House of Commons. 1914-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback without dust cover. Clean text sound binding. House of Commons. paperback
Best.-Nr. 41036Mahogany with Macassar ebony inlaid decoration on a splay quatrefoil pedestal base recent felt baize lightly stained measuring 72cm high 91cm wide and 46 cm deep a few light scratches. A handsome Regency practically useful closed or open for a number of purposes  unknown
Best.-Nr. 34377Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a horse and rider and pair of scales 200 x 148 mm sheet; captioned in ink 'Nouvelle Hollande' at bottom left and with a foliation number '184' in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted verso blank and the drawing has survived in fine condition - virtually in its original state; removal from a sketchbook at some point is confirmed by the slightly roughened top edge of the sheet which also shows evidence of the original stitch holes. This watercolour sketch was made by an anonymous French artist probably around 1835. It appears to be a conflation of several images by the voyage artist Louis Auguste de Sainson 1800-1887 which depict Indigenous people at King George's Sound Albany Western Australia. Sainson made his sketches in situ in 1826 during the Astrolabe's scientific round-the-world voyage under the command of Dumont d'Urville. His drawings were reproduced as engraved plates in Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe Paris: J. Tastu1830-35 and elsewhere. The male figure wears a short animal-skin cloak characteristic of the type worn by the men in Sainson's King George's Sound drawings. His arms are outstretched with the wrists limp and hands downturned a highly distinctive gesture that appears to have been copied directly from the identical body language of several of the subjects in Sainson's famous drawing titled Port du Roi Georges. Nouvelle-Hollande. Un naturel montre à ses Compagnons les Cadeaux qu'il a reçus à bord de L'Astrolabe which depicts an Indigenous man showing his companions the trinkets given to him by the Astrolabe's crew. Furthermore the way in which the man is shown in full profile with knees slightly bent his straggly beard and hair accentuated is strikingly similar to the manner in which the left-hand figure in Sainson's Nlle. Hollande. Naturels du port du Roi Georges is posed. Finally the native grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis is placed at the bottom right of the image just as it is in Sainson's Vue d'un Étang près la Baie du Roi Georges. unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 0134281975. 3 large volumes.A complete run from 1975 to 1978 issue 1 to issue 156. Books measure 41.5x32.cm circa 30 pages per issue extensively illustrated. Boubnd in modern red clothwith gilt title letteering. Some scratch marking to cloth. All 3 volumes in very good clean solid condition. Internally pages in near fine condition. A very clean collection of magazines in very good clean firm bindings. . Cloth. Very Good Plus. Folio. Hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 016277Great Britain: Simpson Publishers Limited 1935. Complete run from June 1935 to April 1939 46 issues with front covers bound in. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt lettering. Lean on spines. Bindings in very good clean condition. Internally some covers repaired mainly along inner margin. Pages and illustrations in very good clean condition. A very nice clean well bound set. F. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo. Simpson Publishers Limited Hardcover
1886Best.-Nr. 014654New York: International Bank Note Co 1886. Book measures 34x26.cm. Circa 816 pages 14 full page coloured plates 98 images of coaches 2 per plate. 12 issues from April 1st 1886 to March 1st 1887. Bound in cloth with flat gilt bands gilt lettering. Cloth rubbed faded staning. Generally in good condition. Internally a few pages plates working loose one plate torn. Pages and plates in very good clean condition. A good copy of a rare work. F. Cloth. Near Very Good. Folio. International Bank Note Co Hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 012644Manchester: The Official Organ of the Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Company Ltd 1904. 7 volumes. Books measure 32.5x24.cm. A run from July 1904 to June 1908 then from July 1909 to June 1912 first issue no 1 last issue no 96 each issue circa 20 pages 84 issues in all illustrated. Bound in original publishers half calf cloth boards gilt lettering on spines and top board. Calf rubbed mainly on spines some abrasion wear some wear on hinge joints but all boards holding firm. Generally bindings in good clean condition. Internally one section of text has light browning. Pages in very good clean condition. Overall the volumes are in very good clean condition. Rare journal. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. Quarto. The Official Organ of the Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Company Ltd Hardcover
1694Best.-Nr. 788L9London: Henry Rhodes; Luke Meredith; John Harris; Thomas Newborough; Louis Moreri 1694 . Leather. Good. 15" by 9.5". None. A smart copy of this comprehensive reference work. A highly specialised work as nearly all the entries are on geographical and historical subjects. The sixth edition.Retaining the license leaf dated January 1691/2. With both volumes bound in one. With the title page to volume II bound after quire 3N as called for. Collated complete. Both title pages are in red and black. ESTC reference number: R30084. This work is an English translation of Louis Moreri's 'Le Grand dictionnaire Historique' and the title page notes that it has been enlarged by Edmond Bohun. Morei's dictionary was early in a European trend of subject specific dictionaries and encyclopaedias. It was also a springboard for Pierre Bayle's 'Dictionnaire Historique et Critique'. In a full diced calf binding. With a small loss to the head of spine. Patches of rubbing to the joints and extremities. Several marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots to pages. Good Henry Rhodes; Luke Meredith; John Harris; Thomas Newborough; Louis Moreri hardcover
1732Best.-Nr. 59824Printed for J Wilcox . 1732. Hardcover. Very Good. 128pp 20pp folding map and six plates bound in full leather spine underlaid with new leather raised bands minor wear to cover edges tiny repair to fly leaf; Quarto . Printed for J Wilcox hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. 18335Gregynog Press 1933. Hardback original dark blue calf. No slipcase. 38.5 x 26cm. 22pp. Printed in blue and black wood-engraved title initials and illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton including 5 full-page chapter titles. Number 49 of 250 copies on Japanese vellum. Binding rubbed. Inside some light spotting and soiling mostly marginal. Blank leaves following colophon with some pen marking. Good only. . Hard Cover. Good. Gregynog Press Hardcover
1796Best.-Nr. 1503170063London: J. Bateson Richard White 1796-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Bound in later leather over marbled boards. Shelf wear to extremities. Some foxing. 4 ii 179 1 p. Unmarked except there is a long contemporary analytic inscription on the title page. An interesting argument for natural law that attacks the civil contract of Locke and his ilk. London: J. Bateson, Richard White hardcover
Best.-Nr. 74493N.p. London: Elstree Studios/ABPC 1951. Literary and cinematic critique Elstree Studios' report on the first stage adaptation of the Hercule Poirot detective novel The Hollow. 3pp. typed report on rectos only reader's delivery stamp to first page. Together with a first edition of the play/acting edition Samuel French 1952. Perforations down left edge from office binding. Very well preserved. Book shows some handling and use; very good. Agatha Christie's The Hollow was published in 1946 and the play on which it is based produced by Peter Saunders opened at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge on 10 February 1951. After an eight-week tour the play opened at the Fortune Theatre in London on 7 June 1951 to an enthusiastic press response and was attended by Queen Mary. The report states 'this is quite an effective and amusing play of the usual Agatha Christie ingenuity. . The play does not exactly invite filming - there is too little action and too much talk.' It transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre on 8 October 1951 and ran for 376 performances. Christie was so pleased with Saunders' production that she took him to lunch just after Christmas 1951 and gave him a brown paper package. Inside it was the script for a new play she had just written based on a 1947 radio play broadcast for Queen Mary's birthday entitled The Mousetrap. This became the longest running play in the world reaching its 30000th performance on 19 March 2025. Saunders was knighted in 1982. N.p. [London: Elstree Studios/ABPC], 1951 unknown
1778Best.-Nr. 791L1London: J Dodsley 1778. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. A smart first edition copy of this very scarce satire on Dr Robert Bragge. ESTC reference no: T64087. This work is a satire on Dr Robert Bragge who is given the titular character's name 'Dr Robert Bonhout'. Dr Bragge was an important figure in the art market during the eighteenth century and has been regarded as one of the first examples in England of the gentleman-connoisseur-dealer. He became a popular figure in society and held numerous auctions throughout the mid 1700s. This publication was issued the year after his death and focuses on Bragge's gluttony and his wife's parsimony. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.Collated complete. In a contemporary full calf binding. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing to the joints and extremities. A few light spots to boards. Light offsetting to the title page. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots to pages. Very Good Indeed J Dodsley hardcover
Best.-Nr. GOR004835529Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1925Best.-Nr. 1904Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1925. Hardcover. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies of which this volume is numbered 463. Fine hardcover.Beautiful color illustrations facsimile of 1470 book in Germany. No signs of wear to corners or edges. Insel-Verlag hardcover
1922Best.-Nr. 1949Potsdam: Müller 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 235 copies of which this volume is numbered 200. Faksimile der ersten deutschen Prosaübersetzung der Aesopischen Fabeln. = Die Inkunabel in ihren Hauptwerken. Leather on spine with raised bands and lather corners with paper boards. Near Fine condition Müller hardcover
1780Best.-Nr. 21038ca1780. Full contemporary vellum. Good; some toning. 4to appx. 320 pp. including index. In at least three distinct hands. Written in German gothic script. A comprehensive record of all kinds of recipes accompanied by considerable mis-spellings e.g. "Gereugert" sic Fleisch in 48 Stunden zu machen or "Hinbern Saff" sic zu machen. What appears to be an anonymous household recipe record that carries on through several owners and centers around traditional German foods - at least in the first 140 or so pages. Also somewhat exotic fare e.g. almond jelly. hardcover books
1790Best.-Nr. 24081Berlin: Friedrich Maurer 1790. "New Edition" so stated BUT the First Edition. Somewhat later three-quarter leather. Very good; some rumpling to the plates. 12mo 6 3 - 171 1 - blank pp. 8 numbered folding plates on seven sheets. A detailed manual for the preparation of tobacco for smoking or as snuff. The author provides numerous recipes. But Arents points out the value of the book is in the illustrations. These display the tobacco mixing-churns racks moulders and presses for roll-tobacco kilns cutting machines and implements for manufacture. There is no earlier edition than 1790 recorded. The edition statement on the title page is most likely an advertising ploy. The 1802 printing is listed as the second edition. Absent from Engelmann and preceding anything in the handlist by 20 years; Arents #972 with an illustration; Immensack 39; VD18 - 90009053. Friedrich Maurer hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 76599Newcastle on Tyne: Andrew Reid Sons & Co. N.D. Hardcover. Very Good. published 1893 to 1930 ilustrated spines sl sunned not affecting lettering v sl bumped top/ base spines top spines of 3 vols sl chipped covers nice and bright. loosely inserted 1930s prospectus covering the 13 volumes and other relevant correspondence; Quarto . Andrew Reid Sons & Co hardcover
1830Best.-Nr. 784R11London: William Pickering 1830. Cloth. Near Fine. 8" by 5". Hans Holbein. An uncommon collection of Hans Holbein's illustrations of the Old Testament engraved on wood. Interestingly each text contained within is translated into English Latin Italian French and Spanish.From illustrations by Hans Holbein the Younger c1497-1543 a German painter and printmaker. Holbein was King's Painter to Henry VIII after enjoying the patronage of Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn. He is remembered as one of the most realist and precise artists of his day with many important figures of his time remembered through his depictions of them.Engraved by John and Mary Byfield wood engravers active in the nineteenth century hailing from a family of engravers. They produced many works for the Chiswick Press.With an introduction by Thomas Frognall Dibdin.Bound by George Winstanley of Manchester.Containing the ownership bookplate of K. K. Wood.An uncommon and sought-after work. In a full cloth binding. Externally very smart with just a little bumping to the extremities. Ownership bookplate to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are just a little spotted. Near Fine William Pickering hardcover
Best.-Nr. 66356David Steel. London. 1797. 8vo. pp. iv 188. Engraved frontispiece and 108 text figures with added hand-colouring. Contemporary marbled boards with later leather spine and corners a very good copy with the early signature on the title of CAPTAIN C. CAMPBELL R. N. David Steel. London. 1797. 8vo. hardcover