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At first glance, the book appears in fine condition but some pages are highlighted in ink. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 130pp. An outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day, showing the respective influences of native French and Latin.
Blind stamped title on front cover, in green on spine. Fore and foot edge of pages uncut. Spine faded. Browning to pastedowns, endpapers and half-title page. Last free endpaper creased down the middle. Wear to joints and top/tail of spine
This is a very good hardcover copy of the first edition in red cloth with title printed in gilt on the spine. Very clean inside and out. Back hinge repaired, bump to top corner of text block, small moisture stain to top edge of text block. The standard work on the subject with extensive bibliographical listings, and hundreds of color plates (with captions printed on tissue guards) and black & white illustrations of playing cards. Illustrates the history of playing cards beginning with the earliest cards ever found, which come from Provence, France, and date to around 1440. Folio, 12" high X 9" wide, 468 pages. Foreign postage will be extra for this large heavy book. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
First edition, (180 x 105 mm), [3], 4-115, [1] pp., library stamp on title and one or two blank margins, corders a little dog-eared, original printed wrappers lightly chipped, stitched as issued.
First edition, 4to, [14], xii, 486, [6]pp., with 3pp., list of subscribers, large paper copy, frontispiece bound opposite page 37, 14 engraved plates, cont. calf, worn and rubbed, covers detached. Provenance: Three early engraved armorial bookplates to endpapers: Edward Harman, Clay Hill; George Gold; Archibald D. Dawnay.
7 vols., sm. folio, First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; in blue rexine binders, gilt backs, binders mildly bowed as usual else a very good, bright, clean set. In this set the outer series wrappers were discarded as intended; the bowing of the binders is due to sheer volume and weight of the contents. This major and profusely illustrated partwork was the result of several years of preparation, with numerous contributors working to the editorial board comprising Mortimer Wheeler, Hugh Trevor-Roper and A.J.P. Tayor - three of the most eminent historians of the period. The partwork was issued in 112 weekly parts intended to be housed in seven optional and separately issued branded binders. Consequently it required considerable time, effort and motivation to acquire and bind a complete set. UNSURPRISINGLY, COMPLETE SETS IN BINDERS ARE RELATIVELY UNCOMMON.
Very clean copy
G (no dj, red cloth lightly faded on spine, black titles an black flower design on front board,browning free endpapers and pencil signature front free endpaper, contents firm and sound, one or two small spots else no significant fault) 12mo 109pp. Fourth edition. Professor Meiklejohn's Series. Practical suggestions on how to write an essay, with outlines of suggested contents for 100 essays.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 21.5x14.5cm. 101 pages. Rebound Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed and slightly scratched. Cover corners slightly worn. Spine worn. Else in good condition.
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.
Edited with an introduction by L. Landa. Una tavola . 16mo. pp. 298. . Molto buono (Very Good). Fioriture ai tagli (Yellowing of edges). . .
Three Volumes. Inked ownership of W. Hingston, Jan. 1875 on title pages of volumes one and two. XLib stamps. Bookplates of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste downs of all volumes. 200mm. Original full green cloth bindings. Front boards decorated in gold with a swan and crown. Head and tail of spines slightly rubbed. Boards slightly soiled. Hardbound. Good. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 3
pp. lix, 679, (xxviii). Folio. Engraved bookplate of: John Glaisyer, Chymist & Druggist, Brighton" Engraved armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox. Contemporary full leather binding, joints cracked. A nice copy of an important and scarce Quaker work. George Fox (1624-1691), was the founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). By nature serious and contemplative, at the age of 19 he entered upon a wandering quest for spiritual enlightenment. In 1646 he underwent a mystical experience that convinced him that Christianity was not an outward profession but an inner light by which Christ directly illumines the believing soul. Revelation was for Fox not confined to the Scriptures. In 1647 he began to preach. Although often the victim of mob brutality and eight times imprisoned between 1649 and 1675, Fox won many followers, especially among groups of separatists. In 1668 he prepared the first pattern of organization, which was for some years to serve as the discipline of the Society of Friends. The London Yearly Meeting was started in 1671. To confirm his followers in their beliefs and to spread the truths, Fox went in 1671 to the West Indies and to America, where he made arduous journeys to various colonies scattered between New England and North Carolina. Later he twice visited Holland. His sincerity, serenity, fearlessness, and powerful preaching are attested to by a number of his contemporaries. This Journal, with a preface by William Penn, was first published in 1694. An early owner of this book was Francis Frederick Fox (1832-1915) the 2nd son of Francis Ker Fox of Brislington House. He was an oil and colour merchant, President of the Grateful Society in 1869. Sadly, his wife Alice died in childbirth in 1870 and he was left a widower with six children. He was Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers in 1878 & 79 and Sheriff in 1894. He was a J.P. for Bristol and for Gloucestershire and an Alderman for the city from 1865. He wrote extensively on local history. Perhaps he was a descendant of the great Quaker George Fox. Smith p. 690; Sabin 25352. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA62
Farrera de Pallars, s/f. Numerosas ilustraciones en color y negro. 37p. Folio. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Libro en inglés, catalán y francés. Book in English. Livre en français. Muy buen ejemplar. Rachel Brown. Micky Donnelly. Marie Foley. Alice Maher. Gabriel. Begoña Montalban. Montserrat Soto. Daniel Dejean. Rolino Gaspari. Philippe Hortala.
4to, paperback, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, n°52, Chicago, Illinois, 1992, 217 pp. and plates Good. Bon état (qq. traces d'usage, très bon état par ailleurs). Anglais
First Edition, lacks half-title, [2], 5-23, [1] pp., disbound.
First edition,48pp., small stain on title, slight browning of the text, uncut, disbound. "This Letter is an attack on John Woodward, Professor of Physic at Gresham College, who repeatedly came into conflict, on scientific subjects, with members of Tory circles. It is the only one of the pieces printed in Wagstaffe's 'Miscellaneous Works', 1725, of which the authorship is undisputed." - Rothschild. ***** Some of Dr. Wagstaffe's writings have such literary merit, that Charles Wentworth Dilke conjectures that this work was written by Swift, whilst Sir Henry Craik in his 'Life of Swift' said the hypothesis was almost irresistible. Wagstaffe was a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whether he was also an original satirist influenced by Swift is open to question, but he certainly must have met him quite frequently at the house of his father-in-law, Charles Bernard. Rothschild, 2473 (second edition).
22pp., with half-title, disbound. Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe but not in Moore. The Triennial Act, reluctantly agreed to by Charles I (who said it reduced his sovereign powers), which stated that there had to be a parliament of at least 50 days duration every three years. It was designed to prevent a repetition of the long absences of parliament seen in the '11 Year Tyranny' of 1629-1640.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, fore-edge lightly spotted; brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
New York. Edit. Random House, 1991. Numerosas ilustraciones en b/n. 548 p. 4º. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Book in english. Muy buen ejemplar. 1a edición. Primera edición. 1st edition. First edition
1 vol. in-12 br., b.&w. ill., Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd., London, 1923, 236 pp. A very good copy (cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a clean and nice copy) of this biography of Sister Marie-Céline de la Présentation (1878-1897), born Jeanne Germaine Castang. She was admitted into the Community of the Poor Clares at Talence, near Bordeaux, on June 12th, 1896 and died of turbeculosis a few monthes later. An aura of holiness surrounded her durign the end of her life. After her death, her burial place in Talence became a pilgrimage destination. Since 2006, her remains rest in the Parish Church of Nojals, near Bergerac (Perigord). Her beatification was celebrated in Bordeaux, in 2007. Anglais
pp. iv, 236. Double column. Foxed. Printed in English and Hebrew. Penciled ownership of Thos. Douglass, Yale College, New Haven. Small Quarto. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Original cloth spine over paper boards. Original paper spine label, worn with some loss. Spine hinges and extremities worn with some loss. Hardbound. Rosenbach # 345. AI #12600. In 1848 the early owner of this book, Thomas Douglass, opened in San Francisco "the first American school on the Pacific coast south of Oregon" - but six weeks later, caught up in Gold Rush fever, he dropped his books and headed for the mines. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUDAICA BOX 1
Hard cover Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Cover swaying and tear inside bet ween cover and spine (front/back). Pages yellowing but complete a nd no torn pages. 478 p. Audience: General/trade.
Former copies of Peter H. Salus with his signature on ffeps. Writing on ffep in pen in blue ink of Middle english Reader (1 line by Peter Salus). Minor shelfwear. ; 2 Volume Set. Volumes 7 & 7a. ; Bibliotheca Anglicana (Texts and Studies) ; Vol. 7, 7A; 101 pages
