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Etiquette for Ladies. A Guide to the Observances of Good Society.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [1930s]. [Social guide] ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.176; [16] publisher's catalogue. Publisher's red cloth, with black titling and decoration to spine and upper board. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ellen Edwards, priced at 2/- net. Toning to half title page, light spotting... More
The Edinburgh Book of Scottish Verse.
London: Meiklejohn and Holden, 1910. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[xxiv]; 939; [4] blank. Dark blue polished calf with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, extra gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Internally clean and bright, binding lightly rubbed to extremities... More
Researches on Light. An Examination of All the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes Produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays; Embracing All the Known Photographic Processes, and New Discoveries in the Art.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 303; [32], catalogue dated April 1844. With folding chart as frontispiece, highlighted in colour, errata slip on p.v. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine, coated yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Light and occasional... More
Line Upon Line. An Epigraphical Anthology.
Cambridge: Printed by Brooke Crutchley at the University Printing House, 1967. [Epigraphy]. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.24 (followed by 46 inscriptions with captions), pocket to rear pastedown containing Latin, Italian and French translations. Publisher's blue quarter cloth titled in gilt to spine, grey paper covered boards, white titles... More
A Dictionary of the English Language. In which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language and An English Grammar.
London: Printed for Longman and others, 1818. FIRST TODD EDITION. 4 volumes. Quarto (29 x 22 x 26cm), with additions and numerous corrections by Rev. Todd. Frontispiece portrait of S. Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Elegantly bound in original full polished calf, gilt, with gilt labels to spine, gilt crest... More
Jesse Ramsden. (1735-1800) London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. [Scientific biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv; [8]; 318. Publisher's blue cloth, titled in dark blue, dust-jacket featuring a portrait of Ramsden. Illustrated with plates in black and white and in colour. Lightly handled with a small bump to tail of spine. Near fine. More
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