Victorian News and Newspapers.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 303, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More about Victorian News and Newspapers
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The New English Letter-Writer; or, Whole Art of General Correspondence. Consisting of a Series of the most important, instructive, and interesting Entire New Letters, on every occurrence in Life... together with the Universal Petitioner...
London: Alex. Hogg, [c.1780]. 12mo, 240 [mis-numbered 340], 24 advertisement pp. Frontispiece, slight chipping and browning to fly leaf, later inscription. Contemporary sheep, worn, rebacked with a plain spine. One of a number of similarly titled works published by Brown and Hogg from around 1770 onwards. Alston III 349. More about The New English Letter-Writer; or, Whole Art of General Correspondence. Consisting of a Series of...
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of Lord Chancellor Thurlow... from 1778 to 1794... with an Appendix of contemporary cases.
London: E. and R. Brooke and J. Rider, 1801. Third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines marked, some light wear, a well preserved set. More about Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of Lord...
Story of the Campaign in Eastern Virginia, Including "Stonewall Jackson's" Operations in the Valley, April 1861 to May 1863.
London: Forster, Groom & Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo, xxii, 124 pp. 12 folding maps, one with a closed tear to a fold crease, endpapers browned, upper hinge cracked but sound. Original red cloth, marked and faded, slight loss to spine ends, top of lower joint worn. More about Story of the Campaign in Eastern Virginia, Including "Stonewall Jackson's" Operations...
The King's Grace. 1910-1935.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. Limited edition, no. 332 of 500 copies signed by the author, large 8vo, (ii), 285, (1) pp. Coloured portrait frontispiece plus black and white illustrations at the end. Original gilt titled white buckram, t.e.g., spine and edges browned, some soiling. More about The King's Grace. 1910-1935
Mechanical Appliances for Handling Railway Traffic.
London: The Railway Gazette, [1921]. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), 132 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. 94 illustrations including a folding diagram at the rear. A fine copy. More about Mechanical Appliances for Handling Railway Traffic
In Spite of Handicaps. Brief Biographical Sketches with discussion outlines of outstanding Negroes now living who are achieving distinction in various lines of endeavor.
New York: Association Press, 1927. First edition, 8vo, x, 140 pp. 18 black and white photographic portrait plates, newspaper clippings tipped to fly leaf and at two relevant places in the text, inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth, top of spine rubbed, d.w. with loss to the... More about In Spite of Handicaps. Brief Biographical Sketches with discussion outlines of outstanding...
Landing-Force Manual United States Navy. Revised by the... In the Revision Assistance was Furnished by the United States Naval Academy, the Bureau of Ordnance, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the Hydrographic Office, the U.S. Marine Corps, Division of Operations and Training.
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1927. 8vo. x, 703, (1) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, an early ownership inscription "R.E. Erbentraut, 2026" to the front pastedown. Illustrations in the text throughout. Spine dulled, some general rubbing, else a decent copy. More about Landing-Force Manual United States Navy. Revised by the... In the Revision Assistance was...
A Letter from... to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks made upon him and his pension, in The House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the present Sessions of Parliament.
London: Printed for J. Owen and F. and C. Rivington, 1796. First edition, sixth impression, 8vo, (iv), 80 pp. Some light browning and a few spots, large armorial bookplate. 20th century purple cloth, spine and top edges sunned. Todd 65f. More about A Letter from... to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks made upon him and his pension, in The House of...
Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a Letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition, third impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, title and subsequent leaf, faint damp stain to the top corner of some early leaves. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, some restoration and a new label to the spine. Stung into... More about Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London...
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, and Knightage. Edited by E.M. Swinhoe.
London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1937. 95th edition, large 8vo, (cxciv), 3057, (7) pp. 9 black and white photographic portraits of the Royal Family, upper hinge tender. Original gilt titled red buckram, a little rubbed and marked. More about A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, and...
Full Point. A Typographer Remembers.
Esher: Penmiel Press, 1976. Limited edition, no. 23 of 125 copies, being one of the first 25 copies reserved for the author, signed by him and with his presentation inscription on the first preliminary leaf plus a typed letter signed from him on headed paper loosely inserted. 8vo. xii, 33... More about Full Point. A Typographer Remembers
At the Sign of the Bible & Anchor. Being a short history of St. Martin's Lane.
London: The London Press Exchange, [c.1931]. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, 8vo, 37, (3) pp. 6 plates, compliments slip sent with the book loosely inserted. Original marbled cloth with some rubbing. More about At the Sign of the Bible & Anchor. Being a short history of St. Martin's Lane
A Genuine and True Journal of the Most Miraculous Escape of the Young Chevalier, From the Battle of Culloden, to his Landing in France. Edited by Edmund Goldsmid.
Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885. 8vo, 113, (1) pp, a few leaves with some foxing, booklabel, original vellum wrappers, marked. A reprint of a work first published in 1749. More about A Genuine and True Journal of the Most Miraculous Escape of the Young Chevalier, From the Battle...
The Book of the Sword.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition, large 8vo, (xl), 299, (1) pp. 293 illustrations in the text, some light marginal browning. Original grey cloth, recently rebacked in maroon morocco with leather corners also, covers a little marked, crossed swords design to upper cover. A pleasantly restored copy of one... More about The Book of the Sword
The Sotadic Zone.
New York: Privately Printed by the Panurge Press, [c.1935]. No. 458 of 2,010 copies, 8vo, 107 pp, original gilt titled purple cloth, slightly rubbed and sunned. Originally published in 1885. More about The Sotadic Zone
Fast Bleaching Colours 1927.
Bacup: Byrom Dyeing Co. Ltd., Flowers Mill, 1927. Folding colour sample chart, featuring 56 different coloured threads. Gilt titled blue boards, some mild marks otherwise excellent condition. The Byrom Dyeing Company went into liquidation in 1935. More about Fast Bleaching Colours 1927
The Stowe-Byron Controversy: a Complete Résumé of all that has been written and said upon the subject, re-printed from "The Times", "Saturday Review", "Daily News", "Pall Mall Gazette", "Daily Telegraph", etc. Together with an Impartial Review of the Merits of the Case by the Editor of "Once a Week".
London: Thomas Cooper & Co., [1869]. First edition, 8vo, 128, 11, (1) pp. Modern marbled boards, very good. Uncommon. Collecting the responses to an article by Harrier Beecher Stowe, published in the Atlantic Magazine in the US and Macmillan's Magazine in Britain, written as a result of her conversations with... More about The Stowe-Byron Controversy: a Complete Résumé of all that has been written and said upon the...
Play the Evans Gambit. A Study in Depth.
London Robert Hale & Company, 1976. First edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, original bookseller's label to the foot of the front free endpaper. Illustrations of table positions set in the text throughout. Some fading to the jacket spine, else very good. More about Play the Evans Gambit. A Study in Depth
From Friend to Friend. A Calendar for the Year 1911.
London: Ernest Nister. Small 8vo, (24) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout, contemporary inscription to front blank. Cloth backed paper boards, some light marking. A typical gift book of the period, including suitable quotes concerning friendship by various authors. More about From Friend to Friend. A Calendar for the Year 1911
Institutio Christianæ Religionis.
Genevæ [Geneva]: Jacobum Stoer, 1637. 8vo. (24), 518, (67) ff. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style, the original gilt lettered red spine label preserved, new endpapers. Some minor worming to the rear of the book, else very good. More about Institutio Christianæ Religionis
The Cambridge Modern History. The Renaissance. The Reformation. The Thirty Years' War. The Age of Louis XIV. The Eighteenth Century. The United States. The French Revolution. Napoleon. The Restoration. The Growth of Nationalities. The Latest Age. Genealogical Tables and List and General Index.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets with red printed text, top edges green. The spines of the jackets with uniform gentle tanning, a little general edge wear with occasional small losses plus a few small more central... More about The Cambridge Modern History. The Renaissance. The Reformation. The Thirty Years' War. The Age of...
The Cambridge Gownsman and Undergraduate. Vol. 10, no. 1 (16th October 1927) to Vol. 12, no. 8 (11th June 1928).
4to, containing in all 24 issues of this periodical, the May Week issue for 1927 with its upper wrapper bound in, ex-Library copy with cancelled stamps on paste down and fly leaf, Library buckram, some light marks. More about The Cambridge Gownsman and Undergraduate. Vol. 10, no. 1 (16th October 1927) to Vol. 12, no. 8...
Historical Record of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1777, and of its subsequent services to 1852.
London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode... Published by Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1852. Sole edition, 8vo, xix, (i), xvi, 196 [ie 169], (3) pp. Engraved general title and 3 lithographic plates, including two in colour showing flags and uniforms. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned, some... More about Historical Record of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry: Containing an Account...
Round About the Palace Green.
London: Methuen & Co., (1939). First edition, 8vo, (xii), 403, (1) pp. 16 plates, light foxing to endpapers and edges. Original blue cloth, very good. More about Round About the Palace Green