1959réf. 000014636n.p.: n.p. 1959. Photo Album. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. 28 cm x 38 cm. The album cover is red faux leather with gold lettering and two gold flourishes on the front cover bound with a red tie. Photographs and postcards are mounted with four corner tabs each on black paper. Photographs measure 9 cm x 9 cm to 9 cm x 14.5 cm. There are 23 leaves 46 pages of content. Most of the photographs are in black and white but a handful are in color. With a few postcards pasted in all in color some measure 9 cm x 14 cm and some measure 15 cm x 10.5 cm. Almost every photograph and postcard is accompanied by a typewritten caption of what is depicted captions printed on white paper. The photographs depict landmarks like Stonehenge Tintagel Glastonbury the abbey the Roman Baths Canterbury Cathedral Winchester Cathedral Jane Austen's home Salisbury Cathedral York Minster the Isle of Skye Inverness Grasmere Lake Thomas Hardy's birthplace in Dorset landmarks from his novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles Westminster Abbey Samuel Johnson's home in London an orator speaking in Hyde Park Dickens' residence the Tower of London Kensington Gardens and the exterior of the British Museum. The album was put together by an English literature professor who took the trip and let his love of the subject inform his itinerary. The postcards at the end of the album depict the Brontë sisters Byron Wordsworth Dickens and others. Most of the photographs are of just the landmarks but there are a few photographs of people scattered throughout: the crowd listening to the speaker at Hyde Park a women playing with a shetland pony on the side of the highway a man standing in the circle at Stonehenge possibly the compiler of this album and women shopping at the Shambles in York. A visual smorgasbord of English and Scottish highlights. Very light wear to the leaves' bottom edges overall a sharp example. n.p. unknown
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1914réf. 14802LITBoston MA: Small Maynard & Company 1914. 672 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on binding. Very bright and clean. Corners slightly bumped. Light soiling to foredge of text block. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Small, Maynard & Company Hardcover
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1910réf. 1550Oxford: Printed at the University Press 1910. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 1 7/8 x 2 3/16 inches. 702 pages. All pages edges gilt. Black endpapers. Pages clean and free from marking soiling or staining. Very clean. No marks or ownership inscriptions. Gilt lightly worn in places but still bright. Bound in full dark green pebble grained morocco with gilt "Common Prayer" to spine and hallmarked silver front cover with unusual variant cherub design. Hallmark .925 sterling "G & C Ltd Birmingham dated 1910 likely mark of Green & Cadbury manufacturers of silver fancy goods. First Georgian printing of this miniature edition. See Griffiths 1905/5. A very good Georgian first miniature printing of the Book of Common Prayer which replaced the "Finger Prayer Book" with a hallmarked sterling silver cover. Printed at the University Press unknown
1725réf. 70London: Printed by John Baskett and Assigns of Henry Hills 1725. Leather Bound. Very Good. 3 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 3 ffep 1 marbled A 8 page quire B - O 12 page quires P 4 page quire. Griffiths 1725/2 with variant printer listed on title page. Bound with: Edmund Parker A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation in order to our Worthy Receiving the Holy Communion London: Printed for Edmund Parker 1725. 10th edition. 74 numbered pages with engraving and separate title page. ESTCT230779. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre London: Printed by Thomas Wood 1726. 96 unnumbered pages. Collates as A - D 12 page quires 3 rfep 1 marbled. ESTCT88842 with variant date on title page. Bound in full black morocco with gilt Georgian style paneling to boards and extensive gilt decorations to spine which is in six compartments with raised bands wear and crack to spine and wear to edges which have been professionally conserved. All page edges gilt. A nicely bound and very clean combination of Georgian liturgical and devotional texts. Printed by John Baskett and Assigns of Henry Hills unknown
1970réf. 470652London : HMSO 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrappers. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-clipped. Physical description; 4 v. : ill. ; plans maps ; 28cm. Contents; v.2 in 3 pts.: South-east -- v.3 part 2 . Subjects; Historic buildings England Dorset. Architecture England Dorset. Dorset England Antiquities. London : HMSO hardcover
1851réf. 200140AG1851. London The London Printing and Publishing Company 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Illustrated and Engraved by D. Pound. Plate Size: 32 cm x 24 cm. Sheet Size: 37.3 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map / city-plan in very good condition. Published in the Illustrated Atlas And Modern History Of The World Geographical Political Commercial & Statistical Edited By R. Montgomery Martin. Handsome town-plan of Sheffield in South Yorkshire England. The River Don can be seen running through the city near the top of the map. Railway street and district areas of the city are also included. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the map. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much-anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
1851réf. 200131AG1851. London & New York John Tallis & Company 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Illustrated and Engraved by H. Winkles. Plate Size: 24 cm x 35 cm. Sheet Size: 27 cm x 37.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Published in the Illustrated Atlas And Modern History Of The World Geographical Political Commercial & Statistical Edited By R. Montgomery Martin. Handsome town-plan of Southampton in Hampshire South East England where the River Itchen meets Southampton Water the tidal estuary north of the Solent and the Isle of Wight. The important docks railway street and district areas of the city are also included. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the image. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much-anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
1851réf. 200132AG1851. London & New York The London Printing and Publishing Company 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Illustrated and Engraved by H. Winkles. Plate Size: 32 cm x 25 cm. Sheet Size: 37.3 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Published in the Illustrated Atlas And Modern History Of The World Geographical Political Commercial & Statistical Edited By R. Montgomery Martin. Handsome town-plan of York in North Yorkshire England. The River Ouse can be seen running through the city. Railway street and district areas of the city are also included. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the image. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much-anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
2013réf. DADAX0754645517Routledge 2013-04-24. 1. hardcover. New. 8.70x1.10x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
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réf. 4c6178Stern Lüneburg 1753. Ein Titelblatt und 66 S. in neu angefertigter Kassette quart Titel am oberen Rand mit restaurierten Läsuren/Titel und Folgeblatt sowie die letzte Seite randfleckig. - Behandelt: Alkohol Essig Getreide Schlachtvieh - unknown
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1811réf. 25444Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press by Bensley Cooke and Collingwood 1811. 4to unpaginated portions except for the title-p. lacking all before I4 2D1-4F4 and 2H1-3G4 2B and 2B2 with tears mended; bound in a dated binding of full black straight-grain morocco elaborately decorated in blind the central panel with "Nevedon Vincent Edwards A.M. Rector William Sparrow Church-Warden 1816" in gilt central on upper cover paneled spine also elaborately tooled in blind lettered in gilt a.e.g.; very good. printed at the Clarendon Press, by Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood unknown
réf. Bloomsbury-9780275924515Praeger. Hardback. New. 334 pages Praeger hardcover
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2012réf. DADAX0415894506Routledge 2012-06-18. 1. hardcover. New. 6.00x0.75x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
