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Fine French In modern cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In French. 176 p., 1 folding map, many facsimile documents. Le sort de la Perse. La politique anglaise devoilee. First Edition.
540 p. Foxed. **Early autograph ownerships of Jeremiah Sullivan Black, Somerset Penn. on first fly leaf, title page and leather binding. XLib bookplate of the Historical Society of York County on front paste down. Small printed Bookseller's label, Conrad & Parsons, Philadelphia. 8vo. 220 mm. Original full leather binding, rubbed. Original leather spine label, rubbed and worn. Raised bands. Hardbound. Good. Pennsylvania Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810-1883) was an important statesman and lawyer. He served as Chief Justice of Pennsylvania (1851-1854), Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice (1851-1856), Attorney General (1857-1860) and the U.S. Secretary of State (1860-1861) under President James Buchanan. He denied the constitutionality of secession, and urged that Fort Sumter be properly reinforced and defended. However, he also argued that a state could not be legally coerced by the Federal government. Black was also briefly Counsel for President Johnson in his Impeachment trial before the United States Senate, and for William W. Belknap; United States Secretary of War from 1869 to 1876, who in 1876 was impeached on a charge of corruption; he also represented Samuel J. Tilden during the contest for the presidency between Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes.S&S/AI 26289. Hardbound. Good. PAIMP 22
pp. (8), lxiii, (1) [Blank], (65)-493, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. Brown and foxed. Bookplate of Corneille and Warren Rucker. Early manuscript ownerships of: Hon. S. Harris, September 2, 1835, Chapel Hill, NC; James O.L. Goggin, Lynchburg, VA, rear fly leaf. 8vo. 220 mm. Original full leather binding, rubbed. Original leather spine label. Small loss at tail of spine. Hardbound. Very Good. Title continues: 'Translated from the Fourth Edition of the French, by C.R. Prinsep. Sixth American Edition, containing a translation of the introduction, and additional notes, by Clement C. Biddle'. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favor of competition, free trade, and lifting restraints on business. e is best known for Say's Law, also known as the law of markets, which he popularized. Scholars disagree on the surprisingly subtle question of whether it was Say who first stated what we now call Say's Law: 'Supply creates its own demand'. First Biddle edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 26645. PAIMP 20
pp. 17, 184 + (1) Errata. Lacks first fly leaves. Age stained. 8vo. 205mm. Contemporary full roan binding. Detailed Quaker journal of travels in America and the West Indies. Includes a first-hand account of the Indian Treaty negotiations at Bethlehem. 1756-1759. Evans 12565, Sabin 90387. First American edition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59.
Fine English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (29 x 25 cm). In English and Turkish. 257 p., many color photos. A noble beauty: The Arabian horse breeding in Tigem.= Soylu bir güzellik: Tigem'de Arap ati yetistiriciligi. Producer: Haluk Yüksel.Photos by Halit Ömer Canci, Ibrahim Canci, Müjdat Arslan. Edited by Banu Kutun. Content: Acknowledgement, foreword, letter from the editor.; Magnificence on the stage of history.; Noble beauty in the world of art.; The mane of the wind and literature.; Horse, the wings of the Turk.; The long imperial run.; Al-Khamsa.; The Arabian horse breeding in TIGEM (The General Directorate of Turkish agricultural institutions).; Purebred.; TIGEM.; TIGEM's champion stallions.; Bibliography.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and 171 fine plates in monochrome; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-spotted as often and with minor loss (affecting lettering) at lower edge of front panel. A lovely copy of a standard reference.
1 vol. in-4 cartonnage éditeur, Printed for The Griffith Institute, At the University Press by Charles Batey, Oxford, 1956, XV-44 pp. et 25 planches Bon état. Good condition. Anglais
Mm 240x330 Volume rilegato in tela, sovraccoperta trasparente, 336 pagine con figure in nero e a colori. Libro pari al nuovo; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
First edition, 12mo (155 x 95 mm), ix, [1], [3]-241, [1]pp., frontis., 2 folding engraved maps, text illustrs., orig. publisher's printed boards, upper joint split but holding firm, uncut, a very nice copy.
Eight edition, with some additions, 8vo (205 x 125mm), [4], 43, [1]pp., title page with presentation inscription from the author to Sir Francis Freeling, cont. short note on the authorship of the book on front-free endpaper, some foxing and browning throughout, cont. blue full morocco, lightly rubbed but a very nice copy. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Freeling; small book label of Alan G. Thomas.
First edition, 3 vols., 8vo, [4], 324; [4], 344; [2], 346, [2, ads]pp., half-titles to vols., 1 & 2, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, smooth spines lettered in gilt, a nice set.
First Edition, 8vo (170 x 100 mm), [4], 183, [1] pp., "From the Editor" written in ink on fly-leaf, folding table, turn-ins offset, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine rubbed, label. Provenance: Frank Herbert Muir, CBE was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, with his signature in pencil on front paste-down. Kress, 6148; Goldsmith, 9909; Higgs, 2966; Roscoe, A624 (1).
First edition, volume one [all published], 4to (260 x 190 mm), [6], 256pp., 10 plates (of which 6 are actual photographs), 3 illustrs., in the text, orig. red calf calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed. This rare Lincolnshire periodical ran to just this single volume and is illustrated with 6 tipped-in Woodbury photographs, two additional early photographs of the 'Lincoln Imp' pasted on to front-free endpaper. Corns, p. 8.
4 Vols., 4to, 1752pp.,138 plates, orig. cloth. Very detailed; essential reference.
First Edition, 4 vols., with the bookplate of John Gretton, endpapers browned, orig. cloth, spines slightly faded, printed paper labels, uncut, a nice set. Reprinting some 54 rare English tracts each separately paginated with title page.
First edition, 2 vols., folio, xxxviii, [ii], 466; [iv], 467-1085pp., with coloured frontispiece, 76 photogravure plates and 1,500 other illustrations, cont. half green morocco, gilt, a very good set.
3 Vols., engraved frontispiece to vol. I (lightly offset), contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, orig. printed title label to spines, uncut, a nice set in original condition. Fleeman, II, p.1409, (79.4LP/21).
First edition, small 8vo, iv, 151, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece, rebound in later cloth, spine labels, uncut.
First edition, large 8vo, xii, 223 pages, 56 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded), maps, cont. full morocco binding, decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed, small label at base of spine, a nice copy.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 125 mm), viii, 246, [6]pp., frontispiece and 8 plates (one foxed), a very good ex-library copy with stamps, cont. half calf, marbled boards, joint cracked, red morocco spine label, uncut. A rare topographical work.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 140 mm), xiii, [1], 76, [2]pp., with the final errata leaf, folding lithographed map, new cloth-backed boards, old manuscript title label pasted onto upper cover. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.
First edition, 8vo (190 x 125 mm), viii, 178pp., title vignette, numerous engraved illustrs., within the text, orig. publisher's embossed green cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, a nice fresh copy.
4to, a good run of 60 issues of this rare privately printed parish magazine, including adverts for local business, printed on green tinted paper, each number consists of an average of 6 pages, orig. green cloth, a very good copy. Not listed in JISC.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 219, [1]pp., with list of subscribers, lithographed frontispiece, cont. half calf, marbled boards, calf spine label lettered in gilt.
4to, vol. II only, [4], 188pp., numerous plates and illustrs., orig. half calf, a nice copy. An extremely rare Northamptonshire periodical, JISC records a single copy at Nottingham University Library.