Lavenham: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited edition, one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 186 copies. Folio. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's wine red half calf over black moiré silk, gilt lettered to the spine with a matching gilt lettered label to the upper board, slipcase in.....

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Londini [London]: Thomæ Roycroft, 1669. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 259, (4, 1 blank) pp. Tables in the text. Contemporary calf, a little rubbed with mild wear to three corners, neatly rebacked. A well respected clergyman who became Bishop of St. Asaph towards the end of his life and was a......

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69 postcards relating to Palestine, including multiples: 141. General Sir Edmund Allenby & General Baillout at Ismailia - x 4 142. The Imperial Camel Corps entering Beersheba - x 3 143. One of the 5 Wells of Beersheba as left by the Turks - x 4 145. El Arish redoubt.....

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London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), xi, (i), 23, (1), 23, (1), 13, (3), 93, (15), 81, (3) pp. Some occasional foxing, marbled endpapers. Later gilt decorated black morocco, a.e.g., some faint rubbing, a very good copy. Including "The Wife" by John Overbury and.....

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London: Putnam, (1937). First edition, 8vo, (x), 416 pp. Recent red full morocco, a lovely copy. The true first edition, the book being written in English and only later translated into the author's native Danish. The American first edition appeared under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.

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London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, 1803. Second edition, "with additions". (viii), xxiv, 240 pp. 19th century maroon half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and richly decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait and 32.....

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Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes [heirs of Andreas Wechelus], Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium, 1596. 8vo. (16), 1137, 54, 1138-1193, (1) pp. Early full vellum with yapp edges, lacking ties, spine with gilt ruled bands, contemporary hand written title to upper panel, a gilt device with the motto "Rinasce.....

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London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving.....

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London: Macmillan, (1988). Limited edition, no. 76 of 201 copies, (viii), 309, (1) pp. Maroon cloth, slipcase with a colour illustration to one side, faint rubbing to the slipcase otherwise an excellent copy.

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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1976-94. Thirteen volumes, 8vo. Contemporary signature to the fly leaf in volumes I, II, VI and IX. Gilt titled cloth, an excellent complete set.

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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press... London: Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson [et al], 1776. First edition. 4to. (iv), xiv, (ii), 304 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, retaining one of the original gilt lettered red labels, early ownership inscription, "Somerset Bridge Club," to the front free endpaper. 7 plates -.....

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London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7.....

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