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1962pp. 190 + Numerous photographic illustrations. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Dust Jacket. A look at "the aristocrats of the road" by one who has traveled with them. First Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1948280p. 8vo. Decorated paper board binding. Dust Jacket. The story revolves around the tinkers and gypsies of England. First American Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1907pp. xl, 480, Frontis + illustrations. Marbled edges. 8vo. Gilt decorated half leather binding. Quentin Durward is a historical novel by Walter Scott, first published in 1823. The story concerns a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI (14231483). For his gipsy material Scott relied largely on two works: 'Dissertation on the Gipseys from the German of H. M. G. Grellmann (1807), and A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland (1816). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1866575p. 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding. Slight foxing on first few leaves. Text on four pages stained by newspaper clippings. Includes chapters on Continental, English, Scottish, Linlithgowshire , Fife and Stirlingshire, Tweed-dale and Clydesdale, and Border Gypsies; as well as chapters on Marriage and Divorce Ceremonies, Language, and the Present Condition and Number of the Gipsies in Scotland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 2
1965pp. xii, 449. Illustrated with over fifty text drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original worn dust jacket with some tears. Text beginning to brown. First published in 1889. WHISKEY 3
1991256p. Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice copy. WHISKEY 3
1860Two Parts. pp. 56: 48. Illustrated with top margin woodcuts. 4to. Original full purple cloth binding. Edges sun faded. Owned by Judge Mayer Sulzberger (1843-1923). XLib. [Dropsie College]. Scarce reprint of the rare original 1700's edition. Interesting poems describing public houses (Pubs) in London and Westminister during the 1700's. Describes the kinds of beers they served and the sorts of people that frequented them. Wood cut images accompany each verse. Ward (1667-1731), was a humourist, of `low extraction' and with little education. In early life he visited the West Indies, and afterwards he began business as a publican in Moorfields. By 1699 he had moved to Fulwood's Rents, where he kept a punch-shop and tavern (probably the King's Head), next door to Gray's Inn, until his death. Giles Jacob (Poetical Register, 1723) says: `Of late years he has kept a public-house in the city (but in a genteel way), and with his wit, humour, and good liquor, has afforded his guests a pleasurable entertainment; especially the high-church party. A man of considerable natural parts and with a gift of humour, `Ned Ward,' as he is frequently called, imitated Butler's `Hudibras' both in his style and in his attacks on the Whigs and low-church party. Though vulgar and often grossly coarse, his writings throw considerable light on the social life of the time of Queen Anne, and especially on the habits of various classes in London; but much allowance has to be made for exaggeration" - DNB. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WHISKEY 4
1875pp. vi, 457 + Plus frontis and full page photographs (from Heliotypes). AEG. 8vo. Original full worn brown cloth binding. Front hinge loose. Penciled underlinings. XLib. First Edition. NH 2
1831pp. iv, 362, (2) [Publisher's listing of the Works of the author] + Plus engraved frontis and three plates. Two plates showing cloud formations. Woodcut text vignettes. 8vo. Original full embossed green cloth binding. Small loss bottom of spine. Front joint cracked. Plates browned. Slight foxing. First Edition. Scarce and unusual gift book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NH 4
1966Facsimile of five rare 1670's pamphlets on the Indian Wars in New England. Tall thin 8vo. Original leather grained cloth binding. . Fine condition. These facsimiles are the most affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NW29
1958192p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. First Edition? HUMOR 6
1935Three volumes in one. pp. xiv, 371; xvii, 381; ix, 376. Thick 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Includes volumes on: Captain Singleton; The King of Pirates, Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, With Lives of other Pirates and Robbers (John Sheppard, Johnathan Wild, Capt. John Gow, Cartoucheans in France); and A New Voyage Around the World by a Course never Sailed Before. A wonderful collection of realistic sea tales. W145.
1768pp. xv, 134, [ii] + Two nice engraved plates. 4to. Worn contemporary full leather binding; boards detached. Should be rebacked. With the engraved armorial bookplate Sir Edmund Antrobus, an uncle of Walpole's friend, the poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). Antrobus is famous as the owner of Stonehenge. Walpole's splendidly written and much celebrated defence of King Richard, influenced most later historians and commentators. Though Walpole was no great historian, he nevertheless well understood that all `history is written by the victors' and records from the past should be reviewed with some scepticism. This is one of the earliest attempts to rehabilitate a character previously stamped with infamy. These doubts provoked several answers, which are criticized in a supplement edited by Dr E. C. Hawtrey for the Philobiblon Society (1854). First Edition. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151.
1858pp. 389, (2)[Publisher's Advertisement]. Small 8vo. Some age stain. Worn original full cloth binding by Edmunds and Remnants, with their ticket. First edition of the classic work on Court fools and jesters. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W148
1794pp. [42], 406, [1] + Two folding engraved plates showing Solar and Lunar Diagrams for 1786. Old damp stain. Name clipped from title page without loss. 8vo. Lacks front board. This series of scientific, philosophical, historical, and scriptural letters from Francis Penrose to John Heaviside was first published in 1788. All editions of this interesting work are now quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
1864pp. xii, 452. Small 8vo. Modern library binding. XLib. Manuscript ownership of (Captain:) H. Evans, Ship Light Brigade, 1871. The Ship Light Brigade was famous for it's sailings to India, Australia, and New Zealand. "In addition to the great beauty of her model and rig, the Light Brigade was interesting from the fact that she brought out a large number of troops during the Maori War. Of 1214 tons burden, she was built in 1855 at Boston, USA by that celebrated builder Donald McKay and when she left the launching ways her name was Ocean Telegraph." Competition Wallah: A hybrid of English and Hindustani, applied in modern Anglo-Indian colloquial to members of the Civil Service who have entered it by the competitive system first introduced in 1856. The phrase was probably the invention of one of the older or Haileybury members of the same service. These latter, whose nominations were due to interest, and who were bound together by the intimacies and esprit de corps of a common college, looked with some disfavor upon the children of Innovation. The name was readily taken up in India, but its familiarity in England is probably due in great part to the "Letters of a Competition-Wallah", written by Sir G.O. Trevelyan. First Edition in book form. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140 RtStk
1828348 p. Folding colored map of Massachusetts. The map could use some minor repairs at folds, etc. 12mo. Contemporary full leather binding. American Imprints 35374; Howes S-839; Sabin 89563. Atlas Case. QUITE SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1933pp. xviii, 296, Plus frontis and full page portraits of Mrs. Siddons. 8vo. Original faded pink full cloth binding with portrait illustration on front cover. Original very worn dust jacket. First Edition. WOMEN 1
1784Two volumes. pp. 194; 211 + Plus Ninety-six (96) engraved plates. Thick paper. Foxed. 4to. Later library style binding. An excellent French language history of Great Britain, illustrated by a remarkable suite of Eighteenth century French historical engravings. In 1800 there was a third volume issued, but illustrated by only 14 plates. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR2
1953pp. ix, 133 + Plus Frontis and numerous full page drawings by Muirhead Bone. Text illustrations. Bookseller's label. Endpapers foxed. Text clean. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Second printing. TRAVEL/7
1972pp. 322 + Plus portrait frontis and numerous plates. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Book Club edition. FRENG 4
1968pp. viii, 239 + Plus decorated half title. Illustrated with numerous paintings and maps, some in color. Paste downs and endpapers decorated with battlefield map. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Book Club Edition. FRENG 1
1791378p. Page edges slightly browned. Bookplate of Earl of Carysfort, Elton Hall 1894, with his paper shelf label. 8vo. Original full leather binding, front joint fragile. "'Vindiciae Gallicae' was published in April 1791 in answer to Burke's 'Reflections' Three editions were speedily sold, and the publisher liberally gave Mackintosh 'several times' the sum of L30, originally stipulated. Burke had been answered with much power by Thomas Paine. Mackintosh's reply, however, taking a less radical ground, and showing much literary and philosophical culture, was the most effective defense of the position of the Whig sympathizers with the revolution. It was partly translated into French by the Duke of Orleans". [DNB]. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! FRENG 2
1774Three volumes in one. pp. vi, 128; [8], 205, [1]; v, [1], 187, [1]. Uncut. Deckle edged. Some foxing, but a very very nice copy in a recent binding of quarter calf over marbled boards. Henry Taylor (1711-1785) was "among the last of the divines of the Clarkean school; but he outran his master, openly espousing the Apollinarian heresy, this he did in (this) series of letters. [The work] abounds in learning and in argument, but is very discursive. The seventh letter, On Miracles, was separately reprinted by his son William" - DNB. It is this discursive quality that most attracts our attention today. Roth, Magna Anglo-Judaica, 287: 70. ESTC T101250-2. Quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W144
1820pp. 322, (2) + Engraved plate with two views + Folding engraved map. 24mo. Contemporary half leather binding, with the spine nicely tooled in gold and blind. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140 FarRt