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1967réf. 1936New York: George Braziller 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies of which this volume is numbered 224. "This facsimile edition comprises the two parts of the Lorsch Gospels from the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia Rumania and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome." Red cloth hardcover with cream colored leather spine. Near Fine condition in slpicase. George Braziller hardcover
réf. 110270London c. 1818. . Hand-coloured lithograph mounted; overall size: 38.1 x 45.7 cm. The print depicts a Synagogue scene with two rows of choirboys singing vigorously and a group of women sitting on the top left. A copy of the print is held in the collection of The British Museum. The British Museum 18781012.380. London, c. 1818. unknown
réf. 97711Constantinople Ashkenazi brothers 1754. . Folio modern blind-tooled burgundy-brown calf; occasional slight warming to leaves text in Hebrew; 1 66 71 ll. Tractates of Moed starting at Pesachim and Nezikin. With a commentary written by Rabbi Yehoshua Benbenashti called 'Sdei Yehoshua' the field of Joshua. Constantinople, Ashkenazi brothers, 1754. unknown
réf. 68208London: James S. Virtue 1857. History / Art / Architecture Small folio 34 x 25cm pp.250. Illustrated with twenty-one steel engraved plates and numerous wood-engravings throughout the text. Bound in contemporary half dark blue morocco titled in gilt. Some dampstaining mostly marginal a few light marks within. Binding worn joints starting or cracked in places. Very good. In 1853 the Crystal Palace building was moved from Hyde Park in London to suburban Sydenham. It was set up with a number of permanent fine arts courts Assyrian Egyptian Greek Roman Renaissance etc and industrial courts. Owen Jones and Digby Wyatt were responsible for the fine arts courts. It was until its destruction by fire in 1936 a great center of popular entertainment instruction and cultural activities. The present work describes in great detail the various courts and exhibits both fine arts and industrial. London: James S. Virtue, [1857] unknown
1891réf. 803R51London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1891. Cloth. Good. 13.5" by 9". None. A very scarce complete collection of the 1891 British Census bound in smart cloth by Nottingham Public Library and complete with folding maps. The United Kingdom Census 1891 recorded the total population of England Scotland and Wales as over thirty-three million; it was the first Census to ask about the number of rooms in a household as well as the first to allow women to undertake it and to ask Welsh inhabitants whether they spoke Welsh.Five volumes being: 'Preliminary Report and Tables of the Population and Houses Enumerated in England and Wales and in the Islands in the British Seas'.Volume I. 'Area Houses and Population. Administrative and Ancient Counties'.Volume II. 'Area Houses and Population. Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts' illustrated with eight folding maps in colour.Volume IV. 'General Report with Summary Tables and Appendices'.'Islands in the British Seas: Isle of Man Jersey Guernsey and Adjacent Islands'.A scarce original source for England's population at the close of the nineteenth century.From Nottingham Public Library; with their label to the front library binding and plates to the front pastedowns and endpapers. In a recent full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the extremities and the heads and tails of the spines. One volume is in a black cloth as opposed to blue; this volume has wear to the head where the backstrip is lifting and internally its pages are age-toned and worn at the edges. Internally generally firmly bound; 'Islands in the British Sea' is strained noticeably to both hinges. Pages are age-toned to the edges and occasionally rather delicate with some occasional repairs to leaves. Good Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1925réf. 011648Paris: A. Picard 1925. 39 volumes. From 1925-1966 lacking 194041424345. Books measures 22.5x14.5.cm last 12 volumes measure 23.5x19.cm. Bound in quarter cloth with marble boards leather title labels. Cloth faded. All bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally pages and plates in very good clean condition. A very nice collection of volumes. . Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. A. Picard Hardcover
1875réf. 61158London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. Each County is paginated separately Volume one runs from A to M excluding London and volume 2 from N to Z and includes all of the Welsh Countes It covers the owners of land in England and Wales and the estimated extent of the commons and waste lands; Folio . Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1787réf. 012626Schleswigue: Chez J. W. Serringhausen 1787. Book measures 16.5x111.cm. xiv223pp2pp errata. Bound in modern full panelled leather raised bands leather title label marble endpapers. Binding in fine condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. . First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Small 8 Vo. Chez J. W. Serringhausen Hardcover
1711réf. 012691London: Printed for A. Baldwin 1711. Book measures 18x11.cm. 444pp. Bound in modern full panelled leather raised bands blind stamped tooling leather label. Binding in fine condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy of a rare book. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Small Quarto. Printed for A. Baldwin Hardcover
1846réf. 015900London: by B. D. Cousins 1846. Rare journal. From April 30th 1846 to April 13th 1848 104 issues in all circa 16pp per issue vignette illustrations mainly to title pages. In 2 volumes. Books measure 28.5x22.cm. Bound in period half calf calf corners marble boards flat gilt bands and tooling leather title labels. Volume 1 has been rebacked retaining most of the original spine. The binding is in very good clean firm condition. Volume 2 the hinge joints have short splits the boards are still attached. Binding in good clean condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A good clean work.F. Half Calf. Very Good. Quarto. by B. D. Cousins Hardcover
1815réf. 016040London: printed for the booksellers; and for J. Kendrew Collier-gate York 1815. 1 The Hermit of Warkworth : a Northumberland tale. : In three parts. / By Dr. Thomas Percy Bishop of Dromore. ; With an account of Warkworth Hermitage and Warkworth Castle. Alnwick : W. Davison . Sold by all booksellers. VI 1 8-72pp engraved frontis 2 full page plates vignette illustrations. No printed date circa 1850. 2. The Gentle Shepherd. By Allan Ramsay. Alnwick. W. Davison. Frontis36-60pp. 1836. 3. Familiar Fables in Verse: A few of those Fables of Aesop. Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd. No printed date circa 1829. Engraved frontis 34-47 illustrated. The last page page 47 the text is printed on verso of original publishers paper cover. 4. The New Hieroglyphick Bible. London . printed for the booksellers; and for J. Kendrew Collier-gate York. 59pp bound with original covers engraved frontis vignette illustrations throughout. 25-59pp. 12mo. Book measures 14x9.cm. Bound in modern half calf calf corners marble boards flat gilt bands and lettering. Leather rubbed scuffed wear on hinge joints. Binding in good condition. Internally bound with 3 original paper cover. Pages in good clean condition. A nice collection of rare works. . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. printed for the booksellers; and for J. Kendrew, Collier-gate, York Hardcover
1931réf. 64426YHA Rucksack. 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. A run from 1931 to 1987 Volume 7 Number 1 to Volume 20 Number 2 issue 77. 1931 to 1952 bound in 5 volumes in brwn cloth 1952 to 1987 in paper covers as issued. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . YHA Rucksack hardcover
1696réf. 53345Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield for John Howell Bookseller 1696. 12mo. iv 127 12 pp. Original sewn leaves. Advertisement leaf title page errata on verso of tp followed by 127 text pages and 11 index pages. Leaves quite stained but not affecting legibility. Good condition. Copac records only: BL; Lambeth Palace. ESTC R221530 Wing S4357. . Good. Wraps. 1696. Printed by L. Lichfield, for John Howell Bookseller 1696 paperback
1875réf. LTH20-C-15London: Privately Published c1875. Leather. Good. 10" by 7.5". Not Stated. A mounted collection of plates taken from a work by Gottfried Ehrenberg. With a letter explaining the origin of this volume. Consisting of 30 photographic plates believed to be photographs of the original plates in the work by Ehrenberg. The letter explains that the negatives have been scrapped and that this mounted copy is the only one remaining to the original compiler. Fortsetzung der mikrogeologischen Studien from which the plates originate is a work by German naturalist and microscopist Christian Gottfriend Ehrenberg. It is considered to a continuation of Ehrenbergs great work Mikrogeologie focusing particularly on the Radiolarian collections from Barbados. For nearly 30 years Ehrenberg examined samples of water soil sediment and rocks and described thousands of new species. He was particularly interested in diatoms but also studied and named many species of Radiolaria foraminifera and dinoflagellates. After his death in 1876 Ehrenberg's collections of microscopic organisms were deposited in the Museum fur Naturkunde at the University of Berlin. The Ehrenburg collection includes 40000 microscope preparations 5000 raw samples 3000 pencil and ink drawings and nearly 1000 letters of correspondence. In a half morocco binding. Externally sound with some rubbing and bumping. Spine sunned with personalised spine label. Letter affixed to front pastedown explaining origin of the work. Internally firmly bound. Plates generally clean with shading from original photos Good Privately Published hardcover
1996réf. 10975Crewe: Bentley Motors Limited 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. DESCRIPTION: Bound in fine green leather with Bentley device to front. Housed in similar green leather case with "Azure" to top left corner. Language: English. Book Condition: Fine DJ Condition: Near Fine: Minor rubbing to a few edges Size: 16cm by 22cm. Bentley Motors Limited hardcover
1879réf. mon0000081106House of Lords 1879-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges due to age. House of Lords paperback
1731réf. 600P21London: W Pepper 1731. First edition. Disbound. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. An extremely scarce political pamphlet from 1731 written anonymously and regarded as attacking the Prime Minister Robert Walpole. The first and only edition of this work. Written anonymously and purtporting to be a speech given by 'The Grand Seignior to his Janizaries'. This work uses many forms of rhetoric to discuss war and the role of a 'Sovereign Judge' in a satirical manner. Walpole's own foreign policy was to avoid wars so that he could lower taxes. With a frontispiece of a Turkish infantryman. Walpole was the first British Prime Minister and held the position for twenty years. This pamphlet was published in 1731 and has been regarded by critics to be an attack on Walpole with the ESTC notes on this work support this view. Walpole had many enemies who were prominent in the literary scene such as John Gay Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson. With only one entry of this work in the ESTC. no. T106325. Pamphlets became a powerful source of strife in the seventeenth and eighteenth century with dozens being published about each any every political moral or social situation. They were often printed anonymously providing a sense of protecting for the person writing it. Disbound without both boards but with evidence of having been previously bound. Externally generally smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Small contemporary ink inscription to the head of first page. Internally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to the edges. Blind stamp to the title page. Chip to the head of pages five and nine not affecting text. Otherwise just the odd spot. Very Good W Pepper unknown
1980réf. 014923Great Britain: Rampant Lions Press. 1980. Limited to 80 copies.This copy not numbered. Book measures 39x28.cm. 50pp. From an edition limited to 80 copies signed by Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh at end of Foreword. Bound in full blue leather raised bands gilt lines leather label blind dentells. Binding in near fine condition. Colopone/number page states bound by Morrell this copy bound later in a none issue binding. Internally pages clean and bright throughout. A very nice attractive copy.F. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus Near Fine. Folio. Rampant Lions Press.
1762réf. 778L26Cambridge: J Baskerville 1762. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. The beautiful Baskerville printing of this mid-eighteenth century 'Book of Common Prayer'. Baskerville was an innovative type designer and printer. His typefaces were greatly admired by Benjamin Franklin. The Baskerville type is regarded as a transitional serif typeface intended as a refinement of the old-style typefaces of the period such as Calson. With 'Price Five Shillings unbound' to the title page. ESTC citation number T87220. Collated complete.A mid-eighteenth century edition of the common prayer and psalms published after a long period of taunt religious turmoil in England.'The Whole Book of Psalms' collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others. Sternhold was an English courtier and was the principal author of this first English metrical rendition of the Psalms.With a table of a calendar containing table of lessons throughout the year guiding the reading on which prayers to read at morning and evening.Bookplate of R. H. S. Truell to the front pastedown. In a full straight grained morocco binding. Externally sound. Rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Loss to the head of spine. Former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown Sir Charles E Kent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spot. Good J Baskerville hardcover
1918réf. 89-1556None C. 1918 1918. German World War One German Imperial Military Postcards. 37 leaves: 4 per page. Doublesided. Not pasted in. Large blue wraps. Oversize Near Fine copy. Paperback. Near Fine. Book. None, C. 1918? Paperback
1826réf. SET37-B-3Edinburgh: Neill & Co. 1826-1833. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". None. A scarce three volume set of catalogues. Three of four volumes. Lacking volume four which was published later. The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted. The society is now an independent non regulatory association of solicitors however it still maintains the Category A listed Signet Library part of the Parliament house complex in Edinburgh. This is a private library which was opened in begun in 1810. In cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally sound with some bumping. Slightly rubbed. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting throughout. Very Good Neill & Co. hardcover
réf. 75906Denbighshire Historical Society. 1111. Hardcover. Very Good. A complete run from volume 1 to volume 51 nicely bound in maroon cloth in 15 books illustrated and with original card covers bound in; Octavo . Denbighshire Historical Society hardcover
réf. 62346Flintshire Historical Society. 1111. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 1911 to Volume 35 1999 earlier volumes entitle 'Record Series' nicely bound in 11 books in dark blue cloth with original card covers. First 5 book 8.5"x5.5" later books 9.5"x7"; Octavo . Flintshire Historical Society hardcover
réf. 147135London 1778. 12 vols in 10. 12mo 6½ x 4¼ ins. Contemporary uniform tree calf spines gilt diced in six compartments with contrasting labels boards gilt tooled at edges blue sprinkled edges some light marks on boards - otherwise a VG set. Pp. various illus with 3 engraved plates 1 vol I and 2 vol X some toning on prelims; previous owner's engraved card on front paste-down of each vol; no inscriptions. London, 1778 unknown
1634réf. 621894 pages text in Spanish pamphlet is about the betrayal and death of throughout Duchy of Friedland and the state of things in Germany as of 1634 Published by Francisco de Ocampo paperback