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réf. 80649N.p. n.d. s.i. Octavo 23cm. Printed buff wrappers; 32pp all halftone photographic reproductions. Mild external creasing and soil; pencil note to front cover "from Leslie / Sept 11th 1932"; another faint pencil annotation to rear wrapper indecipherable; else clean and unmarked Very Good. Reproduces thirty official U.S. War Department and Signal Corps photographs all being battlefield photos of atrocities from the European theatre in WW1. Most are extremely graphic images of dead and mutilated soldiers the only text being brief captions providing sardonic commentary: "Abandoned;" "Decapitated;" "Asphyxiated;" "Where Children Played;" "The Price They Paid" etc. Issued without date or attribution nor has our research uncovered any definitive bibliographical data but the pamphlet was clearly intended to generate anti-war sentiment. Date uncertain; most OCLC records suggest a 1920s date but we suspect the pamphlet was issued later probably around the penciled date on front cover to discourage further American entanglements in the European conflict then just predictable on the far horizon. unknown books
1821réf. 50627Dublin Ireland: P.D. Hardy 1821. A rare illustrated account of Anson's voyage for children. Hill notes . Dublin Ireland: P.D. Hardy n.d. 1821. A rare illustrated account of Anson's voyage for children. Hill notes "this account is likely abridged from the official account Richard Walter's "A Voyage Round the World". The first edition of the condensed version was published in Dublin in 1821." See Hill 1783 citing a later reprint. Sabin 101191 also citing later appearances. Neither Sabin nor Hill mention the five plates. Rare. Sabin cites a copy in the British Museum. Worldcat shows only Tulane University holding a copy. Bound in full sheep. Front board detached but present. With the bookplate of noted philanthropist Bobst Library at NYU etc. and notorious antisemite Elmer Holmes Bobst. 14 cm. 180 pp. b/w wood-engraved frontispiece and five plates . P.D. Hardy unknown books
1839réf. 88235London UK: Henry Smith 44 Drury Lane 1839-1840. First Thus. 12mo. 14.5cm. Disbound retaining buff rear wrap stitched possibly at some point removed from a sammelband. 36pp. Clean and bright with a 1" closed tear to the lower spine edge of the title page; internally fresh lacking the frontispiece plate depicting "The Marquis and His Molls at The Union and Mother Emerson's". A very good clean copy indeed of a vanishingly scarce publication. Published under two identifiable imprints; one by "John Wilson" of Long Acre actually the rather shady Edward Duncombe and this volume by "Henry Smith" who was actually notorious smut peddler William Dugdale. Wilson's imprint is the one from the Madeline Kripke Collection currently residing at the Lilly Library in Bloomington Indiana and was long thought to be the only surviving copy. Another copy of the Wilson/Duncombe surfaced in trade in a catalog from the luminous and erudite Karen Thomson in the mid 20-teens and presumably disappeared into a private collection. This copy is the only traceable copy of the Henry Smith imprint with no visibility in OCLC at all. Precedence is undeniably difficult to establish; Dugdale was trading at 94 Drury Lane in 1837-1838 and was next door or more likely downstairs at 94 ½ Drury Lane in late 1839 after a brief few months over on Wych Street. He was verifiably printing and publishing work under the "Henry Smith" shingle in 1838 and was presumably still using it in 1839 but in 1840 he was over on Holywell St. off The Strand. Duncombe on the other hand can be placed at 78 Long Acre having taken a rental on a shop in what was most likely late 1839 it is recorded that in 1841 he hung the name "John Wilson" over the door apparently to the surprise of his landlord who testified in court that there was no such person at that address although there is scant evidence to suggest he wasn't publishing under Wilson prior to that. Purely for amusement purposes it should be noted that during the time this work was printed neither of these two piratical gentlemen was further than 4 minutes walk from each other. Ms. Kripke stuck to a date of 1840 for her "Wilson" copy and a date of 1840 can be applied to the Smith imprint via a periodical advertisement discovered by the publisher of "The Penny Bibliography"; Mr. John Adcock https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2009/03/penny-bibliography.html. The fact that it bears the 94 Drury Lane address suggests a printing date of late 1839 although seeing as both Dugdale and Duncombe were perpetually in and out of court and jail for various crimes against decency throughout their entire careers any accuracy in the timeline can be ascribed to accident rather than intention. This copy rather sadly lacks the frontispiece which presumably would have looked much like the one Duncombe/Wilson used in his publication although his has a rather proprietorial publisher's imprint across it depicting a virile young rake cavorting through a number of the establishments mentioned within. A significant link in a long chain of bawdy guides rake's progressions and "Gentlemen's Kalendars" that owes much to Harris's Lists of half a century earlier; "Larks of London" occupies a clearly rather cramped space alongside "The Swell's Night Guide Through The Metropolis" by "F.L.G." and the "Man of Pleasure's Illustrated Pocket Book" and their ilk. Stopping short of active descriptions of sexual acts but making no bones about their availability and the addresses where they could or should be purchased it also expands into discussions of the relative quality of food drink and gaming facilities whether the company can be construed to be "Low" or of a more elevated nature and a certain strategic interest in how to get the very best from a night on the most irredeemably vice-ridden town in the Empire. Henry Smith, 44 Drury Lane unknown books
1820réf. 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
1837réf. 86896Boston: Whipple & Damrell 1837. Stated First Edition. Small Octavo. 15cm. Stab bound with no evidence of ever having been in wraps or a binding. 144pp. The title page and last leaf form the covers for this volume so there is some light soiling and spotting to both leaves with some old flattened creasing and discoloration to the final leaf; internally clean and fresh ownership signature to title page strong and solid with a little dogearing to the lower front corner. A very good copy of a volume that really had nothing to assist in its survival thus far. The sequel to Hannah Lee's bestselling "Three Experiments of Living" which by the time of the anonymous publication of this work was well into its 18th printing or more. "Elinor Fulton" also ran to multiple editions following on from the earlier works gentle and woman-oriented 'guide to navigating married life' theme which was pushed into public focus by the financial collapses of 1837 and the bubbling and roilings of the women's emancipation that was to come. The book dealt with a fictionalized demonstration of a married couple living within and beyond their means and how careful domestic financial management was actually the key to happiness in marriage and life. Actually Lee's fourth published work but her first novel in 1830 "Grace Seymour" seems to have disappeared without contemporary notice. A contemporary signature to the title page appears to all evidence to be that of Elizabeth Ropes Orne of the enormously influential New England Orne family who married and allied themselves closely with the Ropes the Baldwins the Tappan family and the Cushings - which effectively made them little less than New England wealthy aristocracy on a par with European great houses. Elizabeth died of consumption at the age of 24 in the Ropes mansion now part of the Peabody Essex Museum where her room is preserved in its contemporary state. She was a correspondent of William P. Upham the Salem Witch Trials authority which makes sense for a woman born in Salem and is memorialised as an intelligent imaginative and creative young woman. Whipple & Damrell unknown books
2000réf. 83050San Francisco: S.i. n.d. but 2000s. Original illustrated poster with text and pictorial elements silkscreened in black and red on white posterboard measuring 66.5cm x 51cm 26 1/8" x 20 1/8". Faint foxing around upper right corner some trivial dustiness on verso; Near Fine. Bay Area poster designed by an anonymous artist featuring a simple message above the corpse of the Monopoly Man who is clutching a bag of money in one hand and a fist full of cash in the other with a knife protruding from his back. A response to the increasing gentrification of Bay Area communities in the wake of the Dot Com boom. 83050. S.i. unknown books
1914réf. 83910London: W.H. Smith & Son N.d. ca 1914. Lithograph in colors 77cm x 50cm ca. 30" x 20". Mild toning in margins with subtle repair to closed tears; Near Fine. Professionally mounted on archival linen. An anti-Progressive satirical image using a crash-landed bi-plane to symbolize the recklessness of Asquith's Liberal government; the unfortunate banged-up chap at center appears to be a caricature of David Lloyd George Asquith's Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Prime Minister. The artist is unidentified but possibly Edward Huskinson long-time editor of The Tattler and a popular Conservative cartoonist of the period. W.H. Smith & Son unknown books
1923réf. 49290Gloucester MA: Cape ann Scientific and Literary Association 1923. Many of the sites in this charming little book still exist. if one looks hard enough. Very good condition in publisher's cloth . Gloucester MA: Cape ann Scientific and Literary Association 1923. Many of the sites in this charming little book still exist. if one looks hard enough. Very good condition in publisher's cloth over illustrated boards. 19.5 cm. 106 pp. . Cape ann Scientific and Literary Association hardcover books
1896réf. 49291Gloucester MA: Cape Ann Advertiser 1896. This turn-of-the-Century tour reveals long forgotten sights. Names are named and specific sites described. Also a good collectio . Gloucester MA: Cape Ann Advertiser 1896. This turn-of-the-Century tour reveals long forgotten sights. Names are named and specific sites described. Also a good collection of early photos. Scarce. Bound in publisher's pebbled cloth with gold cover lettering. Very good condition. . 20 cm. 100 pp. b/w plates . Cape Ann Advertiser hardcover books
1890réf. 84528London: Longmans Green and Co 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark blue bevelled boards titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. 289pp.16pp. ads to rear. Light bumping to spine ends a little scuffing to extremities strong and handsome; internally clean with some marginal toning to page edges top-edge untrimmed. A very good strong copy with only light wear. Published anonymously and one of only three "romance" titles written by Professor Nicholson presumably in spare moments of release from his day job which was being a very notable and respected British economist. His output more normally consisted of works on tariff reform and influential titles like "Effects of Machinery on Wages" and "Tenant's Gain Not Landlord's Loss" his works also include "A Revival of Marxism" in 1920 his last published work. When he wasn't writing studious treatises on the finer aspects of international economics and trade relations he was immersing himself into the creation of complex bits of Ancient Greek weirdness involving torrid rivalries doomed love cursed gemstones and mysterious oracular types holding forth on the wisdom of the gods. Found in Bleiler but not easily found in acceptable condition. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
1810réf. 48491London: A. Strahan 1810. These papers relate primarily to the sea battle between the British warship . London: A. Strahan 1810. These papers relate primarily to the sea battle between the British warship "HMS Leopard" and the American frigate "USS Chesapeake" that took place in 1807 off the coast of Virginia. "Leopard" attacked and boarded the American ship searching for British deserters. "Chesapeake" was unprepared for battle and her commander James Barron surrendered her to the Brits. The uproar surrounding this event led to Jefferson's embargo of 1807. Manuscript inscription on title page reads "The Earl of Liverpool." and the complete title corrected in manuscript reads "Papers not laid before the Lords Relating to America." Robert Banks Jenkinson was the Earl of Liverpool and the Secretary of State for the Colonies at this time."Contents - Papers relating to the encounter between His Majesty's ship Leopard and the American frigate Chesapeake. Correspondence between Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Pinkney from September 23 to November 28 1808. Instructions to the Honourable D.M. Erskine by Mr. Secretary Canning; and the correspondence between the Honourable D.M. Erskine and the Honourable Robert Smith." See Howes P-60 who points out that this collection "Relates largely to the Leopard and Chesapeake affair." That section occupies 106 pages. Bound in cloth over marbled boards with paper spine label. Endpapers renewed. Very good condition. 21 cm. viii 178 4 index pp. . A. Strahan hardcover books
1832réf. 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
réf. 48139One of several volumes in a popular series published circa 1865 shortly after the opening of Yokohama as a Treaty Port showing . One of several volumes in a popular series published circa 1865 shortly after the opening of Yokohama as a Treaty Port showing Westerners as the Japanese perceived them. They feature such subjects as English translations supplied in pencil above each image "American Whalers Taking Whales" "After a Walrus in the Northern Seas" and the intriguing "When American women drop their hair they manage to see both sides of the head by means of two glasses." Bound in blue wraps with printed label sewing broken. Images clean and pencil captions legible. A thorough description of this item and Sadahide's career are available here https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1529132. 24.5 cm. Twenty-one double-page leaves containing sixteen woodblock prints and eleven pages of text. paperback books
1810réf. 48093London: A. Strahan 1810. Contents - Papers relating to the encounter between His Majesty's ship Leopard and the American frigate Chesapeake. Correspon . London: A. Strahan 1810. "Contents - Papers relating to the encounter between His Majesty's ship Leopard and the American frigate Chesapeake. Correspondence between Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Pinkney from September 23 to November 28 1808. Instructions to the Honourable D.M. Erskine by Mr. Secretary Canning; and the correspondence between the Honourable D.M. Erskine and the Honourable Robert Smith." Howes P-60 who points out that this collection "Relates largely to the Leopard and Chesapeake affair." That section occupies 106 pages. Bound in blue paper over marbled boards with paper spine label. Manuscript inscription on title page reads "The Earl of Liverpool. Papers not laid before the Lords. Endpapers renewed. Very good condition. 13 x 21 cm. viii 178 4 index pp. A. Strahan hardcover books
1888réf. 82711London: James Hogg and Sons 1888. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's original grey cloth covered boards titled and decorated in polychrome; 63pp. A handsome copy lightly rubbed on covers and with a touch of foxing to pastedowns but still quite bright and clean in the lovely polychrome cloth bidning; Very Good to Near Fine and most unusual thus. The author's rare first book a rollicking bit of railway-based melodrama of a type much beloved of the Victorians published in the year of the London Matchgirls Strike and the reign of Jack the Ripper. Far and away the finest copy we've handled of this early Queen's Quorum title uncommon in any condition. The binding has been recorded in a variety of cloth colours and colour variations with no known priority. QUEENS QUORUM 13. James Hogg and Sons unknown books
1916réf. 83564Chicago: Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara 1916. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's pale red staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Minor wear and toning to wrappers; mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Slovak translation of an anonymous Russian Marxist theoretical work issued as Narodna Knjižnica Folk Library no. 9. Includes a chapter on the lumpenproletariat and anarchism. The source is possibly Pavel Rosenthal's "Люмпенпролетариат и революциÑ" "Lumpenproletariat & Revolution." St. Petersburg 1906. One copy located in OCLC Michigan as of 2024. Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara unknown books
1825réf. 48222Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes 1825. Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes 1825. "Third Edition with Additions." The "Kent "was a 1350-ton troop ship bound for China with soldiers and civilian families aboard. She caught fire during a storm in the Bay of Biscay. "Apparently 568 out of 637 people were saved." - Huntress 227C. The original narrative was taken from a published letter attributed to Sir Duncan McGregor a major in the regiment aboard the ship. The "Additions" mentioned on the title page constitute a 36-page Appendix which deals with the fate of the 14 men left aboard the burning ship - a graphic account and not a happy one. The account ends ".we can only hope that in such a state of utter despair the sufferings of those wretched beings were not long protracted." Bound in publisher's plain boards with paper spine label. Front hinge weak backstrip cracked and chipped. Text immaculate. 19.5 cm. 113 6 publisher's ads pp. . Waugh and Innes hardcover books
1866réf. 48225London: S.W. Partridge 1866. London: S.W. Partridge n.d. circa 1866. "SS London was a British steamship that sank in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1866. The ship was travelling from Gravesend England to Melbourne Australia when she began taking in water on 10 January with 239 persons aboard. The ship was overloaded with cargo and thus unseaworthy and only 19 survivors were able to escape the foundering ship by lifeboat leaving a death toll of 220." - Wikipedia. Worldcat identifies the date of publication as 1866. This is obviously a contemporary account. On the verso of the title page "The Publisher will be glad to receive any additional information from those who had friends or relatives onboard." Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped cloth with gold cover and spine decoration. 18 cm. vi 106 16 publisher's ads pp. b/w plates and illustrations in text. . S.W. Partridge hardcover books
1859réf. 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
1879réf. 47041Paris: Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies 1879. A collection of blueprints of Parisian naval vessels ordered by the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies. A nice copy with loos . Paris: Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies 1879. A collection of blueprints of Parisian naval vessels ordered by the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies. A nice copy with loose binding but otherwise VG. . 38.5 x 47.5 cm. b/w diagrams. . Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies unknown books
1790réf. 46953London 1790. Highly detailed description of the ranks and duties of all naval personnel from commanders in chief to the lowest seamen schoo . London 1790. Highly detailed description of the ranks and duties of all naval personnel from commanders in chief to the lowest seamen schoolmasters cooks and marines. The large folding table is a sample chart of Observations of the Qualities of His Majestys Ship the. intended for assessing sailing qualities of a particular vessel. Also included in the book are tables of pay and manning rates samples of forms and laws regulating pay labor and stores which amount to a treatise on how ships of this era were provisioned. The level of detail is amazing The beef provided for His Majestys ships is to be cut into four pound pieces and the pork into two pound pieces; and no unusual pieces are to be put up such as leg bones shins of oxen cheeks of hogs ox hearts &c. A closeup look at the workings of the Royal Navy in a vitally important era in its history. Thirteenth edition of this work which was first published in 1731. All editions have become scarce. See Adams & Waters p. 366. Bound in original calf which is scuffed at edges and corners. Leather spine label chipped. Front hinge cracked but holding. Text complete and in good condition. A servicable copy of a scarce book. 19 x 25 cm. 232 pp. b/w engravings. . hardcover books
1840réf. 46883Providence: H.H. Brown and A.H. Stillwell 1840. Scarce first edition. A rapidly-spreading fire broke out on the . Providence: H.H. Brown and A.H. Stillwell 1840. Scarce first edition. A rapidly-spreading fire broke out on the "Lexington" as she steamed from New York to Stonington. The engines could not be stopped and life boats could not be launched. "Only four survived of the 126 on board; they had floated on cotton bales and wreckage. One account claimed that a sloop could have saved many of those in the water but that the captain feared to lose the tide and made his home port."See Huntress 305C. Occassional tanning and foxing throughout. Handsomely rebound in modern black calf over marbled boards with leather title panel inset into front board. Original wrappers which show some paper repairs are bound in. 13 x 22.5 cm. 32 pp. b/w wood engraved frontispiece. . H.H. Brown and A.H. Stillwell hardcover books
1840réf. 46891Providence Boston Boston: H.H. Brown John H. Eastburn Perkins & Marvin 1840. The famous . Providence Boston Boston: H.H. Brown John H. Eastburn Perkins & Marvin 1840. The famous "Lexington" pamphlet see item #7 is bound with two contemporary sermons also dealing with the tragedy. The loss of life was heavy and there were rumors that many more could have been saved by a passing vessel so there was plenty to sermonize about. See Huntress 306C. for a descritpion of the incident. Also Sabin 40895 for the first title Sabin 42148 for the Lothrop sermon and Sabin 92082 for the Stone pamphlet. Second title has wrappers bound in. Third title ex-libris Boston Public Library with their circular blindstamp on title page. All three pamphlets in very good condition bound in rather worn red cloth. Front free endpapers detached but present. Three pamphlets. 13 x 21 cm. 32 and 24 and 20 pp. b/w engraving of burning Lexington as frontispiece to first title. . H.H. Brown, John H. Eastburn, Perkins & Marvin hardcover books
1960réf. 47341Brighton UK: Allen West & Co 1960. The scintillating saga of . Brighton UK: Allen West & Co. 1960. The scintillating saga of "Fifty years of electric control development." Switches fuses starter motors. Interesting actually to see how primitive this 20th century technology looks today. Fine condition in publisher's full leather with gold decoration. 14 x 20.5 cm. 60 pp. b/w plates throughout. . Allen West & Co hardcover books
1824réf. 47187Philadelphia: Robert Desilver 1824. Pirates John Gow Baker Brous and Peterson and Edward Jordan and wife Margaret are featured here along with 25 other highwayme . Philadelphia: Robert Desilver 1824. Pirates John Gow Baker Brous and Peterson and Edward Jordan and wife Margaret are featured here along with 25 other highwaymen pickpockets sharpers and murderers assembled for us by an anonymous "Friend of Man." Bound in full tree calf. Rebacked to match with original spine label. 10 x 17.5 cm. vi 280 pp. Six b/w engraved plates. . Robert Desilver unknown books
