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Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies. Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools. Ornamented with Thirty-Four Engravings, Beautifully Cut on Wood.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood in the Poultry; and sold by E. Newbery, 1798. [Historical Female Biography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 226 [6]. Including a leaf of advertisements at rear. With an engraved frontispiece and many head and tail pieces in the style of Bewick..... More
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