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1978ref. 15707Penguin Books 1978 768 pages 10 414x4 064x17 78cm. 1978. Broché. 768 pages.
1909With frontispiece picture of Sarath Kumar Ghosh. Small, 25mm diameter round embossed stamp "Presentation Copy" on title page. Spine bumped and worn top/base and spine faded. General soiling to covers. Page edges greyed and a little foxed, several marks on top page edges.
1969304 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., map, ports. (part col.) 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1982No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 156pp. This book sets out to depict the great age of railways in terms of the way it affected the whole community.
1635ref. 741511635. The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers Great Britain. Commissioners of Customs. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty And Sealed with the Great Seale of England And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities Either Brought into the Realme Or Carried Out of the Same According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1635. ii 13 111 pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo 5-1/2" x 3-1/4". Recent straight-grained morocco gilt title and date to spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light rubbing a few small scuffs to front board some fading to spine somewhat lighter fading to extremities recent pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places trimming to fore-edge of leaf H6 pp. 108-109 just touching right edge of text with loss to catch-word but not legibility of main text. $1250. Final edition one of two 1635 issues the other in quarto. A guide to customs administration for private revenue farmers who paid an annual rent to the Crown in return for the privilege of collecting and retaining customs duties. These rents effectively became an intricate system of short-term loans to the Crown and a way to raise funds without Parliament. This was the last such guide before the revenue farming system was abandoned as a concession to the Long Parliament in 1641. OCLC locates 6 copies of this issue 1 in North America Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S105551. Ashton "Revenue Farming under the Early Stuarts" The Economic History Review 8.3 pp. 310-322. unknown
1635ref. 741511635. The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers Great Britain. Commissioners of Customs. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty And Sealed with the Great Seale of England And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities Either Brought into the Realme Or Carried Out of the Same According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1635. ii 13 111 pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo 5-1/2" x 3-1/4". Recent straight-grained morocco gilt title and date to spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light rubbing a few small scuffs to front board some fading to spine somewhat lighter fading to extremities recent pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places trimming to fore-edge of leaf H6 pp. 108-109 just touching right edge of text with loss to catch-word but not legibility of main text. $1250. Final edition one of two 1635 issues the other in quarto. A guide to customs administration for private revenue farmers who paid an annual rent to the Crown in return for the privilege of collecting and retaining customs duties. These rents effectively became an intricate system of short-term loans to the Crown and a way to raise funds without Parliament. This was the last such guide before the revenue farming system was abandoned as a concession to the Long Parliament in 1641. OCLC locates 6 copies of this issue 1 in North America Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S105551. Ashton "Revenue Farming under the Early Stuarts" The Economic History Review 8.3 pp. 310-322. unknown books
1985267pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1969[ALL VOLUMES]: 170X110 mm. [74]+[80]+[111]+[95]+[69]+[83]+[74]. Gilt Hardcover. [MINOR FESTIVALS & FASTS]: Cover corner slightly bumped. Spine corner slightly worn.[SHAVOUTH]: Cover edges slightly worn. [PASSOVER]: Cover slightly stained. [SUCCOTH]: Cover slightly scratched. [ROSH HA-SHANAH]: Cover slightly stained. Few pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: Else in good condition.
Limited Edition for subscribers.This is no. 58 of 600 copies. 8vo. 444 pp. Bound in half green cloth over decorative boards, title in gilt on spine. Black and white frontispiece and numerous plates., Sexual life, Syria, Hungary, Gypsy, Hindu, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Mediterrranean, Mid-East, India, Islam, the Koran, harems, marriage.
199156 pages. Features: Mimicking a leaf's ability to trap the energy of light; The evolutiionary benefits of psychic pain; The role of fashion in ancient burial customs; The tangled history of nuclear missile guidance - a review of 'Inventing Accuracy' by Donald MacKenzie; What fate awaits Chernobyl in the New World Order?; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1964pp. xx, 374. Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. 8vo. Paperback. Very nice copy. Volume 72 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. LOC W17
19232 v. illus. Hardcover Very good ex lib.
1957222 pages. "The entertaining life-history of a schooner, from her first appearance on the designing-board, through her gradual growth in the builder's yard and trials in the North Atlantic, to her cruel death indirectly at the hands of the U.S. Customs during the prohibition period." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy. Book
1994209 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Illuminates the underside of the Civil War." - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
1917ref. 2080502106500924Publisher: Nippon Shoin 1917. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Publisher: Nippon Shoin paperback
1827870p. + Frontis. Numerous text engravings. Text ruled in black throughout. Double column. All edges marbled. Large 8vo. Original quarter leather binding. Gilt decorated raised bands. Extremities rubbed with slight loss. Front board detached. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 3
1984ref. 2092902138201391Tairiku shobo 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 229 pages Size: New book format Number of copies: 1 volume Tairiku shobo paperback
1986No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with pristine bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight sunning to rear. 346pp. This study looks at the 'dark ages' and gives us an intimate view of everyday life in medieval England, suggesting that the way that 14th and 15th century peasants coped with their problems was not as different as we would expect from our 20th century solutions.
1937ref. 002608Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1937. China. The Maritime Customs I - Statistical Series: No. 1 A detailed tabulation of all exports of China to foreign trading partners in the years 1934 1935 and 1936. For each commodity trading partner quantity where appropriate and value of export is provided. Each commodity is identified in both Chinese and English and listed under its related tariff code. Some loss of wrapper to head and tail of spine binding otherwise strong; faint stamp handwritten date and remains of small sticker on front wrapper. Interior pages clean and unmarked - overall a very good copy of this rare item. vi 318 pp. index. First Edition. Softbound. Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs
1962253 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1846504p. + Plus engraved frontis and full page plates showing scenes and costumes of different races and nations. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Text age stained. Large 12mo. Original full leather binding, embossed and decorated in blind. Spine gold lettered with raised bands. Binding worn and stained. Front cover weak and almost detached. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/1
1989214 pages. "Portrays the Vanderbilts in the witty engaging manner of his (author's) best fiction." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
1997240 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliograpy. Sumptuous colour photography throughout. "Richard Diran's task of recording the tribes, many of them suspicious and frightened of foreigners, was arduous and also dangerous, in the face of almost constant guerilla warfare, and it took many years. The resulting photographs are a testimony not only to his skill and determination but to the survival of the tribes themselves in the face of an alien and politically unstable world." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Four inch opening at bottom of back hinge. Reading copy only. Book
1993Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B. C.; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 11.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 Inches; 153 pages
1967Sm. 4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
