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A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE

£350.00

SIX VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATES. TIGHTLY BOUND IN MAROON PATTERNED LEATHER WITH LEATHER SPINES. MARBLED END PAGES AND EDGES. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT A VERY CLEAN SET. WEAR TO THE LEATHER SPINES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF SNELSTON HALL.

Author: OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Place, Publisher, Date: RICHARDSON AND CO. 1822
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A HISTORY OF THE GREGYNOG PRESS

£30.00

1ST EDITION. ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH. HISTORY OF THE WELSH PRESS. WELL ILLUSTRATED. NO DUSTWRAP. VERY GOOD. LIMITED EDITION.

Author: HARROP D.
Place, Publisher, Date: THE PRIVATE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION, 1980
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A HISTORY OF THE NONESUCH PRESS

£250.00

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY KEYNES AND A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE BY DAVID McKITTERICK SIMON RENDALL AND JOHN DREYFUS. EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES FOR SALE THIS BEING NUMBER 43. A FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER.

Author: DREYFUS
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON. THE NONESUCH PRESS. 1981
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE
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A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES

£170.00

RARE FIRST EDITION REBOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER RED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPGES. 379 PAGES AND 78 ILLUSTRATIONS. WEAKNESS TO FRONT HINGE BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY. SCARCE.

Author: REED TALBOT BAINES
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, ELLOT STOCK, 1887
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS – VOLUME 1

£48.00

FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP (CHIPPED AT THE TOP). ILLUSTRATED. A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. VOLUME 1 TO THE YEAR 1780 WITH AN APPENDIX LISTING THE TITLES 0F BOOKS PRINTED THERE 1690-1780.

Author: CARTER HARRY
Place, Publisher, Date: OXFORD; THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1975
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM

£150.00

SECOND EDITION VERY FINELY REBOUND IN HALF MOTTLED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS RAISED BANDS NEW END PAPERS. WITH 22 HAND-COLOURED PLATES AND MANY OTHERS ETCHINGS (ONE LAID DOWN). 720 PAGES. A VERY HANDSOME COPY.

Author: RHIND WILLIAM
Place, Publisher, Date: GLASGOW, BLACKIE, 1855
Binding: HALF LEATHER
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A HISTORY OF TOM JONES A FOUNDLING

£35.00

LIMITED EDITION FINE COPY IN GREEN LEATHER SILK ENDPAPERS AND BOOKMARK. A.E.G. RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION. A NEAR FINE COPY OF A HANDSOME BOOK. ILLUS. BY WILLIAM SMALL.

Author: FIELDING HENRY
Place, Publisher, Date: PENNSYLVANIA, FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1979
Binding: FULL LEATHER
Condition: FINE
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A HISTORY OF WRITING: FROM HIEROGLYPH TO MULTIMEDIA

£45.00

1ST ENGLISH EDITION. NEAR FINE COPY IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP.

Author: CHRISTIN ANNE-MARIE (EDITOR)
Place, Publisher, Date: FRANCE, FLAMMARION, 2002
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: NEAR FINE
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A HOME TOUR THROUGH THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF ENGLAND IN THE SUMMER OF 1835

£49.00

SECOND EDITION. VERY GOOD IN RED CLOTH GILT TITLES AND DECORATION TO THE FRONT BOARD. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1836. THE CASS LIBRARY OF INDUSTRIAL CLASSICS NO. 13. A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN TOWNS.

Author: HEAD SIR GEORGE
Place, Publisher, Date: 1968 FRANK CASS & CO., LTD.,
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A JOURNEY THROUGH BIRDS

£22.00

1ST EDITION. SIGNED.NEAR FINE COPY IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP.

Author: LOCKHART JAMES MACDONALD
ISBN: 9.78001E+12
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, FOURTH ESTATE, 2016
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: NEAR FINE
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A JOY FOREVER

£20.00

FULL RED SOFT LEATHER ALL EDGES GILT GILT EMBLEM OF ‘JR’ TO FRONT COVER. A VERY GOOD COPY.

Author: RUSKIN JOHN
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, GEORGE ALLEN, 1900
Binding: SOFT LEATHER
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A KEY TO BOYD’S MARRIAGE INDEX

£14.00

SECOND EDITION REVISED. BEING A LIST OF THE PARISHES COVERED BY THE INDEX TOGETHER WITH AN EXPLANATORY INTRODUCTION. A TYPED MANUSCRIPT CARD COVERS iii 37 pp.

Author: BOYD PERCIVAL
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS, 1963
Binding: CARD COVERS
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A LADY’S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

£15.00

NEAR FINE COPY IN FINE SLIPCASE. INTRODUCTION BY DERVLA MURPHY. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1879.

Author: BIRD ISABELLA
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, FOLIO SOCIETY, 1988
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: NEAR FINE
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A LATER PEPYS

£55.00

TWO VOLUMES IN RED CLOTH GILT TITLE ON SPINE GILT COAT OF ARMS FRONT BOARDS. SLIGHT FOXING. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR WILLIAM WELLER PEPYS BART. MASTER IN CHANCERY 1758-1825 WITH MRS CHAPONE MRS HARTLEY MRS MONTAGU HANNAH MORE WILLIAM FRANKS SIR JAMES MACDONALDMAJOR RENNELL SIR NATHANIEL WRAXALL AND OTHERS

Author: GAUSSEN C.C.
Place, Publisher, Date: JOHN LANE. THE BODLEY HEAD. LONDON. MDCCCCIV. 1904
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A LETTER FROM HUMPHRY HODY TO A FRIEND

£200.00

FIRST EDITION. 45 pp VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD NEW ENDPAPERS. HODY (1659-1707) WAS A PROFESSOR OF GREEK AT OXFORD AND THEOLOGIAN. THE LETTER CONCERNS HENRY DODWELL (1641-1711) WITH WHOM HODY WAS INVOLVED IN A CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE NON-JURING BISHOPS. VERY SCARCE.

Author: HODY HUMPHRY
Place, Publisher, Date: OXFORD, L. LICHFIELD, 1692
Binding: HALF LEATHER
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A LETTER FROM THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER

£300.00

TWO LETTERS – THE FIRST DATED 1688 20 PAGES. THE SECOND DATED 1689 64 PAGES. BOUND IN MODERN BLACK CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS AND GILT TITLE TO THE SPINE. VERY GOOD INTERIOR CLEAN AND BRIGHT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SOMERSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE THE LATE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. In 1669 Sprat became canon of Westminster Abbey and in 1670 rector of Uffington Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676 curate and lecturer at St. Margaret’s Westminster in 1679 canon of Windsor in 1681 dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II’s ecclesiastical commission and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren’s restoration of the abbey.

Author: SPRAT THOMAS
Place, Publisher, Date: E. D. W. JONES IN THE SAVOY. 1688
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD