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réf. 08989The Property of the late R. Sturgis Ingersoll of Philadelphia and other owners. 114pp. 46 plates 3 colour. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.L unknown
réf. 2067997pp. numerous illustrations. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.B unknown
réf. 1597052pp. 32 plates. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.B unknown
réf. 1115868pp. 38 plates price list A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.B unknown
réf. 1597646pp. 39 plates 1 in colour. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.B unknown
réf. B130296pp. 79 plates price list dw A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.O unknown
réf. 24000148pp. 52 plates. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa Oceania archaeology anthropology travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.B unknown
réf. 43367London: Printed By Whitehead Morris Limited Tower House Holland Street S.E.1. 1933 . For The Guidance Of The Lord Mayor The Aldermen The Sheriffs And The Corporation Officers &c." A very good full leather binding. 8vo. pp.8/pp.219/pp.42 - Index . Full maroon morocco covered boards. Spine with gilt title: "Ceremonial - 1933". Armorial bookplate to front endpaper: "Powell-Smith". Clean English text throughout. A very good copy of this scarce edition. London: Printed By Whitehead Morris Limited, Tower House, Holland Street, S.E.1., 1933 . hardcover
1758réf. W203Dublin: John Exshaw Dame Street 1758. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. 8vo. 131-192pp. A disbound copy of the Dublin version of the Gentleman's Magazine for the month of March 1758. Fine fresh paper with no foxing wear or marks. The title-page lists 19 articles on the title-page. Articles include The Natural History of Iceland part1; Parlimentary case of the woollen weavers; Improvements in Agriculture from the Irish Society. etc Please email for photos. John Exshaw, Dame Street unknown
1758réf. W201Dublin: John Exshaw Dame Street 1758. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. 8vo. 259-312pp. A disbound copy of the Dublin version of the Gentleman's Magazine for the month of May 1758. Fine fresh paper with no foxing wear or marks. The title-page lists 22 articles on the title-page. Articles include The Effects of Camphire on a 'lunatic'.; York rioters ordered for execution; Shipping lists; The conduct of Admiral Knowles. Please email for photos. John Exshaw, Dame Street unknown
1876réf. 67309London. 1876. A splendid view of two traditionally attired Chinese ladies of wealth sitting upon a one wheeled apparatus propelled by a local man. An interesting view of transport in China almost a century and a half ago. Size: 270 x 400 mm. Uncoloured woodcut. Fine condition. unknown
réf. 1902217 May 1935 Vol. 2. No. 14. The Social Credit Secretariat 8-9 Essex Street London W.C.2. Printed by The Blackfriars Press Ltd. 16pp. folio paginated 217-232. In fair condition on aged and lightly creased paper. The front page is devoted to the article National Dividends are Necessary Says The Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson Dean of Canterbury'. Pp.221-222 carry the article with photograph of author and graph 'The Causes of War Is Our Money System to Blame By Major C. H. Douglas; and the back page carries 'Kings and Kingship By Maurice Colbourne Author of "Economic Nationalism."'. There are several items of Scandinavian interest: 'A Norwegian Pioneer - By Eric S. de Mare' 'Norway's Welcome' 'Sverige du Gamla du Fria - By the Earl of Tankerville' 'Notes on My Journey to Denmark - By the Dean of Canterbury' 'A Norway Broadcast - By Robert Millar' 'Social Crediters . . . Willy-Nilly - By Brynjolf Bjorset' and correspondence from Dagfin Tollefsen O. T. Dalseg and Brynjolf Bjorset. 17 May 1935 (Vol. 2. No. 14.). The Social Credit Secretariat, 8-9 Essex Street, London, W.C.2. Printed by The Blackfriars Press, unknown
réf. 2287013 July 1871; 31 Onslow Square London. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition aged and worn but with slight water staining and damage to blank area at foot of second leaf. The male recipient is not named. The letter begins: 'My dear Sir If you present the enclosed to the porter of the Garrick Club I have no doubt all the Art Treasures of the Garrick will be open to your inspection. The Shakespeare bust of which Professor Owen spoke must I think be in the Entrance hall on the left hand side.' Were not Martin leaving for Wales the following morning he should have had great pleasure in 'acting as cicerone to the pictures of the old celebrities of the English stage.' In a postscript he suggests that there may be a 'rule as to showing the pictures only in the early part of the day' but thinks that there 'may be no prohibition' before three o'clock. 13 July 1871; 31 Onslow Square [London]. unknown
1934réf. 1026N24London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1934. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A very scarce memoir celebrating the life of William Bouverie Trevelyan a vicar famed for his tolerance including a folding map of Westminster parish to the rear. The very scarce Memoir of the Rev. W.B. Trevelyan Sometime Vicar of St. Matthew's Westminster Warden of Liddon House and Warden of the Retreat House at Beaconsfield written by a collection of friends who knew the Anglo-Catholic priest. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Contains all eight photographic plates from Trevelyan's life and a folding map of Westminster parish to the rear. Collated complete. Praised for his tolerance and willingness to surpass arguments between Anglo-Catholics and evangelicals it was fitting that William Bouverie Trevelyan was the vicar at St. Matthew's a church famed for welcoming everyone no matter their backgrounds or beliefs. Trevelyan also published Anglican works inlcuding the collection of religious fables Apples for Gold. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally mostly smart with a couple of faint handling marks and fading patches to boards. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Minor rubbing to joints. Faint spotting to end papers. Internally mostly firmly bound with plate adjoining p.43 loose. Pages are mostly bright and clean with faint spotting to the odd leaf. Good Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge hardcover
réf. 24976'Royal Institution of Great Britain. / Weekly Evening Meeting / Friday April 25 1856.' London. The present item differs from the version published on pp.248-254 of the ‘Notices of the Proceedings’ vol.2 1854-1858 and no other copy has been traced. Drophead title: ‘Royal Institution of Great Britain. / Weekly Evening Meeting / Friday April 25 1856. / Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie Bart. D.C.L. F.R.S. Vice-President in the Chair. / W. B. Donne Esq. / On the Works of Chaucer considered as Historical Illustrations of England in the 14th Century.’ 10pp 16mo paginated 1-10. In very good condition lightly aged. Stabbed as issued with no wraps and unopened. Begins: ‘MR. DONNE commenced his discourse with some remarks on the changes which the language and literature of England had undergone since the age of Edward III.’ At end of text in square brackets: ‘W. B. D.’ 'Royal Institution of Great Britain. / Weekly Evening Meeting, / Friday, April 25, 1856.' [London.] paperback
réf. 21021On letterhead of 10 Bolton Row Mayfair W. London 12 September 1879. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition lightly aged. Begins: 'Prof. Corfield presents his compliments to Miss Armstrong and begs to inform her that his Course of Lectures on Hygiene to Ladies will commence on Thursday Octr. 2nd at University College London and will be illustrated by specimens &c from the Parkes Museum.' He would forward a syllabus if he had one and suggests that she apply to the college secretary 'for a copy of the Prospectus of the Faculties of Science'. In 1891 From the family papers of George Frederick Armstrong Regius Professor of Egineering University of Edinburgh who himself published several works on sanitation. Florence Nightingale wrote to Douglas Galton that 'Professor Corfield is the man whose ''simple practical teaching'' in his ''Hygiene Lectures'' is recommended by good women.' On letterhead of 10 Bolton Row, Mayfair, W. [London] 12 September 1879. unknown
réf. 5589Stamped 11 Nov. 1929. Printed postcard with manuscript additions minor defects. The printed heading describes him as ""The Autograph King. Unchallenged. Owner of the largest collection of Modern Autographs in the World" lists the Exhibitions at which he has displayed his stock and adds his address and a request to the recipient to write their autograph "Request Register No. 17861". The recipient of this was Philip Yale Drew who added "Young Buffalo" to his full clear signature on the reverse. In this same year 1929 Drew had been arrested as a suspect in the the murder of tobacconist Alfred Oliver. With the original envelope in which the card was returned addressed to Bray in Drew's hand. Note: I don't yet know the connection of Bonar Law with the Company. Stamped 11 Nov. 1929. unknown
réf. 2588318 November 1882. On letterhead of the Savile Club 107 Piccadilly W. London. See his father’s entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 16mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded for postage. The recipient’s full name is not give. Signed ‘Walter H Pollock’. The ‘Ajax business’ referred to in the letter is the performance of the first of the Cambridge Greek plays organised by the archaeologist Sir Charles Walston formerly Waldstein 1856-1927. Begins: ‘My dear Thomas / My friend Dr Waldstein who has got up the whole Ajax business asks me to send you the enclosed admission and programme.’ He ends by offering to get him ‘any details as to the archaeological part of the business’. 18 November 1882. On letterhead of the Savile Club, 107 Piccadilly, W. [London] unknown
1836réf. 126284LONDON: PRIVATELY PUBLISHED 1836 Contemporary Half Calf Leather with gilt tooled titles and marbled paper boards. Vol I viii 498 pp Fold Out list of the charters and grants numerous unspecified steel engravings. 1837 Vol II xii 683 list of additions and corrections. 1836.The author was Librarian to the Corporation of London and the work has continued to be of interest resulting in it being re printed by David and Charles. Please see our images of the actual books offered for sale for further details and condition. Good Books -Heavy Shelf wear/rubbing to leather and paper covered boards. Restoration carried out by us:- New leather head caps to both vols and new leather tail cap to Vol I - both vols have been hand re- lettered in gold leaf. NB The leather had clearly not been treated/ handled for many years resulting in it becoming dry and powdery. We have given it a proprietary dressing and waxed which has significantly improved the condition. Sewing cords and binding generally sound. Armorial book plates Same to both front paste downs. A few light foxing spots to prelims. and paper of book blocks evenly tanned. PRIVATELY PUBLISHED hardcover
réf. 13032On letterhead of Hedingham 21 Maresfield Gardens South Hampstead London. 28 April 1888. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Barrett writes: 'Dear Hall Caine/ The scheme promises well. I have made an arrangement for eight weeks at the Princess's. I thought it better to fight for the play there. Will certainly have a fair chance although there can be no <>.' According to Barrett's entry in the Oxford DNB he returned from the Globe Theatre 'to the Princess's where he began work with Hall Caine on adapting The Deemster renamed Ben-my-chree 17 May 1888. It was his only real success and he added it to his repertory on his second American tour which began in Boston on 14 October 1889 and this time took in St Louis and San Francisco.' On letterhead of Hedingham, 21 Maresfield Gardens, South Hampstead, London. 28 April 1888. unknown
réf. 22224'11th. 7bre. 11 September 1912. Lyric i.e. The Lyric Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue London. 2pp 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. At the time of writing Arnaud was delighting audiences at the Lyric in her first leading role that of 'Suzanne' in the musical 'The Girl in the Taxi'. Good firm signature. She writes: 'Cher Monsieur Thanks sic you very much for your nice letter. Certainly I will go to Mess. Foulsham and Banfield for a picture perhaps next week and then when they will be ready I give you one with great pleasure. Mes bien sincères salutations. Yvonne Arnaud.' The photographic studio of Frank Foulsham 1873-1930 and Arthur Clive Banfield 1875-1965 was active from the Edwardian period into the 1920s. '11th. 7bre. [11 September] 1912. Lyric [i.e. The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London]. unknown
2003réf. B14NS1045Bonhams London 2003. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Quarto size 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers 62pp 309 lots all or most illustrated in colour __CONDITION : Almost AS NEW slight crease to top corner tip of front cover. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Bonhams, London paperback
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