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The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
[Contribute to] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume VI. - Part I.
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. [Americana] IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.xx; [4] contents; 190. Original grey paper covered boards, cream paper spine, with title label, edges untrimmed and some leaves unopened. Four engraved plates and numerous tables throughout. Small circle clipped from title page, perhaps removing an ownership..... More
Magdalen College Oxford: A History.
Oxford: Magdalen College, 2008. [English University History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xlviii; 1005 [3]. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and maroon endpapers. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Carefully read once with a lean. Light handling, including..... More
[Simla Accord] The Boundary Question between China and Tibet: A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference between China, Britain and Tibet in India, 1913-1914.
Peking, 1940. [Far East Diplomacy] GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] ii; 150 [2]. Publisher's plain paper covers with titles to spine and front cover. Quite heavily browned, as expected. Only mild spotting to covers, and very light edge wear. Near fine. Published while Beijing was occupied by Japanese..... More
Displaced Scholars [in] The Times Literary Supplement. No. 1728.
London: The Times Publishing Company, 14th March 1935. [Literary Newspaper] ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER. Broadsheet (47 x 32cm), pp.149-164. Folded sheets, not bound. Heavily browned, as expected, with a few minor marks and chips to edges. Near fine. Including a letter signed by various members of the Conservative party, including Winston Churchill..... More
The Mahavamsa, or, The Great Chronicle of Ceylon. Pali Text Society.
London: Published for the Pali Text Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Sri Lankan History] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxiv; 300 [4]. With a large introduction and two maps. Publisher's cream quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and orange cloth over boards. Black..... More
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
The Regimental Roll of Honour and War Record of the Artists' Rifles (1/28th, 2/28th and 3/28th Battalions The London Regiment T.F.). Commissions, Promotions, Appointments and Rewards for Service in the Field Obtained by Members of the Corps since 4th August, 1914.
London: Howlett & Son, 1922. [First World War] INSCRIBED THIRD EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.xliv; 596. With 33 black and white illustrations including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the Colonel of the Regiment between 1912 and 1921, and author of the foreword, H.A.R. May (1863-1930), in black ink to the..... More
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its History, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1910-1911. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.792. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. A large gilt motif showing four national..... More
King Albert's Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.
London: The Daily Telegraph, in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. [Wartime Illustrated Miscellany] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.188. With 28 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of King Albert, and numerous colour plates by artists including Rackham, Nielsen and Dulac. Contents..... More
News Cuttings: [Campaign to errect a Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson].
London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, circa 1896-1904. [News Cuttings Album] ORIGINAL CUTTINGS AND LETTERS. Quarto (30 x 24cm), with 70 numbered pages of news clippings, 111 blank numbered pages, and 12 pages of official typed letters from the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Committee at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with..... More
[The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband], The Mystery of Marie Lafarge.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1840 and 1951. [Original news clippings scrapbook] First Use of Forensic Evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, with a first edition of the 1951 biography by Edith Saunders. Quarto (29 x 24cm), and octavo (22 x 15cm), 31 leaves with newspaper clippings pasted to recto only in two..... More
Ancient Britain. South Sheet.
Chessington: Ordnance Survey, 1951. [Map of Ancient Britain] FIRST EDITION. A folding map on canvas backing with accompanying booklet, bound together. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.36. Map scale 1:625,000 (10 miles to 1 inch). Green cloth library binding, with gilt titles to spine and blind stamp to upper board. Some..... More
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, comprising A Large Fund of Biography of Actual Residents, and an Interesting Historical Sketch of Thirteen Counties.
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, 1890. [Louisiana Biographies] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 24cm), pp.703; [3]. With 14 lithographic portraits of notable residents. Publisher's deluxe red straight-grained morocco boards with gilt titles stamped to upper board and blind to lower, with further blind decoration. Recently re-backed and re-cornered..... More
[Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, reviewed in] The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal. By Several Hands. Vol, XII.
London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1755. [Book Reviews] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 516 [10]. With an unpaginated index at rear. Contemporary speckled calf boards, re-backed in the nineteenth century in straight-grained red morocco with gilt titles. Not a happy marriage of binding styles..... More
Memorial Topographique et Militaire, redige au Depot General de la Guerre; Imprime par Ordre du Ministre. No. 6 Historique. IV.e Trimestre de L'an XI [1803].
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Imperiale, Prairial an XIII [May 1805]. [Napoleonic Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] civ; 246 [2]. All text in French. With a large folding map of the Black Forest at rear. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and..... More
Supplement to The London Gazette. [Second World War Despatches]. Numbers 35305; 37573; 37594; 37609; 37655; 37685; 37695; 37703; 37711; 37719; 37729; 37779; 37786; 37838; 38005; 38011; 38017; 38023; 38031; 38086; 38098; 38111; 38149; 38183; 38196; 38204; 38205; 38214; 38215; 38216; 38225; 38228; 38229; 38266; 38269; 38273; 38274; 38281; 38287; 38293; 38296; 38300; 38308; 38331; 38342; 38346; 38349; 38377; 38404; 38423; 38426; 38432; 38437; 38937.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, Friday 17th October 1941 to Tuesday 6th June 1950. [Second World War] ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENTS. Folio (31 x 19cm), with intermittent pagination. 55 individual supplements to The London Gazette, including a duplication of the first number, all publishing despatches from various theatres of conflict during the..... More
The Victoria Cross Centenary Exhibition, 15th June — 7th July 1956.
London: Marlborough House, 1956. [Medal Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream card wraps printed in brown to upper, stapled three times to spine. Light handling and bumping edges. Near fine. A catalogue of 199 Victoria Cross medals won between 1856 and the end of..... More
Kings of England: Characters of the Kings and Queens of England; Selected from the Best Historians. To which is added, a Table of the Succession of each, from Alfred to the present Time. With Heads, by T. Bewick, Newcastle.
London: Printed for E. Newbury, 1795. [English Royalty] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.viii; 204 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and a vignette bust portrait for each Monarch, all by Thomas Bewick. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and the original brown..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
[A collection of articles injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances, and constitutions ecclesiastical, with other publick records of the Church of England; chiefly in the times of K. Edward. VIth. Q. Elizabeth. and K. James. Published to vindicate the Church of England and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. And humbly presented to the Convocation]. Injunctions given by the most excellent Prince, Edward the Sixt; The Order of the Communion; Articles to be enquired of in the Visitation of the Dioces of London, By the reverend Father in God, Nicolas Bishop of London; Articles agreed upon by the Bishops and other Learned and Godly men, In the Last Convocation at London, In the year of our Lord 1552. to root out the discord of Opinions, and establish the Agreement of true Religion; Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi Anno Dom. MDLII; Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty concerning both the Clergy and Laity of this Realm. Published Anno Dom. 1559; Articles Agreed Upon By the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergie; In the Convocation holden at London, in the Year, 1562; Advertisments partly for due order in the publick administration of the Holy Sacraments; The Form and Manner of Making & Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons: According to the Appointment of the Church of England; Articles to be enquired in the Visitation, in the First Year of the reign of our most dread Sovereign Lady Elizabeth; Articuli per Archiepiscopum, Episcopos & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae in Synodo inchoata Londini vicesimo 1584; Celebratio Coenae Domini in Funerbribus, Si Amici & Vicini defuncti Communicare velint etc.; Articuli De quibus convenit inter Archiepiscopos, et Episcopos Utriusque Provinciae, et Clerum Universum In Synodo, Londini; Liber Quorundam Cononum Disciplinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae; Capitula sive Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae, per Archepiscopum, Episcopos, & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae, In Synodo inchorata Londini XXV die mensis Oct. Anno Domini MDXCVII; Constitutiones sive canones ecclesiastici, Per Episcopum Londinensem.
London: printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait at the little north-doore of St. Pauls Church, 1661. [English Church History] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Small quarto (20 x 16cm), pp.[16] 31; [3] 33-92; 63-85; [9] 87-99; 200-247 [3]; 6 [2]; 54 [2] 303-372 [2]. Collates as per the ESTC, except..... More
Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Pamphlet.
London: the friends of T. E. Lawrence, no date [circa 1936]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Single page folded (19 x 11cm), with title to front cover and text inside. A couple of tiny marks to rear else fine. A pamphlet describing the actions required to ensure a memorial to Lawrence be erected..... More
Reports from the Commissioners, appointed by His Majesty to execute the measures recommended in an address of the House of Commons, respecting the Public Records of Ireland: with Supplements and Appendixes. 1810-1815.
London: [Hansard], ordered to be printed 13th July 1819. ORIGINAL REPORT. Large Folio (47 x 30cm), pp.[2]; 571; [5]. With 21 plates featuring facsimile reproductions of Irish charters, some coloured, as well as a number of large folding engraved illustrations of buildings in Dublin, all with tissue guards. In recent..... More
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