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68208London: James S. Virtue 1857. History / Art / Architecture Small folio 34 x 25cm pp.250. Illustrated with twenty-one steel engraved plates and numerous wood-engravings throughout the text. Bound in contemporary half dark blue morocco titled in gilt. Some dampstaining mostly marginal a few light marks within. Binding worn joints starting or cracked in places. Very good. In 1853 the Crystal Palace building was moved from Hyde Park in London to suburban Sydenham. It was set up with a number of permanent fine arts courts Assyrian Egyptian Greek Roman Renaissance etc and industrial courts. Owen Jones and Digby Wyatt were responsible for the fine arts courts. It was until its destruction by fire in 1936 a great center of popular entertainment instruction and cultural activities. The present work describes in great detail the various courts and exhibits both fine arts and industrial. London: James S. Virtue, [1857] unknown
1891803R51London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1891. Cloth. Good. 13.5" by 9". None. A very scarce complete collection of the 1891 British Census bound in smart cloth by Nottingham Public Library and complete with folding maps. The United Kingdom Census 1891 recorded the total population of England Scotland and Wales as over thirty-three million; it was the first Census to ask about the number of rooms in a household as well as the first to allow women to undertake it and to ask Welsh inhabitants whether they spoke Welsh.Five volumes being: 'Preliminary Report and Tables of the Population and Houses Enumerated in England and Wales and in the Islands in the British Seas'.Volume I. 'Area Houses and Population. Administrative and Ancient Counties'.Volume II. 'Area Houses and Population. Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts' illustrated with eight folding maps in colour.Volume IV. 'General Report with Summary Tables and Appendices'.'Islands in the British Seas: Isle of Man Jersey Guernsey and Adjacent Islands'.A scarce original source for England's population at the close of the nineteenth century.From Nottingham Public Library; with their label to the front library binding and plates to the front pastedowns and endpapers. In a recent full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the extremities and the heads and tails of the spines. One volume is in a black cloth as opposed to blue; this volume has wear to the head where the backstrip is lifting and internally its pages are age-toned and worn at the edges. Internally generally firmly bound; 'Islands in the British Sea' is strained noticeably to both hinges. Pages are age-toned to the edges and occasionally rather delicate with some occasional repairs to leaves. Good Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1925011648Paris: A. Picard 1925. 39 volumes. From 1925-1966 lacking 194041424345. Books measures 22.5x14.5.cm last 12 volumes measure 23.5x19.cm. Bound in quarter cloth with marble boards leather title labels. Cloth faded. All bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally pages and plates in very good clean condition. A very nice collection of volumes. . Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. A. Picard Hardcover
187561158London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. Each County is paginated separately Volume one runs from A to M excluding London and volume 2 from N to Z and includes all of the Welsh Countes It covers the owners of land in England and Wales and the estimated extent of the commons and waste lands; Folio . Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1787012626Schleswigue: Chez J. W. Serringhausen 1787. Book measures 16.5x111.cm. xiv223pp2pp errata. Bound in modern full panelled leather raised bands leather title label marble endpapers. Binding in fine condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy. . First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Small 8 Vo. Chez J. W. Serringhausen Hardcover
1711012691London: Printed for A. Baldwin 1711. Book measures 18x11.cm. 444pp. Bound in modern full panelled leather raised bands blind stamped tooling leather label. Binding in fine condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy of a rare book. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Small Quarto. Printed for A. Baldwin Hardcover
1846015900London: by B. D. Cousins 1846. Rare journal. From April 30th 1846 to April 13th 1848 104 issues in all circa 16pp per issue vignette illustrations mainly to title pages. In 2 volumes. Books measure 28.5x22.cm. Bound in period half calf calf corners marble boards flat gilt bands and tooling leather title labels. Volume 1 has been rebacked retaining most of the original spine. The binding is in very good clean firm condition. Volume 2 the hinge joints have short splits the boards are still attached. Binding in good clean condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A good clean work.F. Half Calf. Very Good. Quarto. by B. D. Cousins Hardcover
1815016040London: printed for the booksellers; and for J. Kendrew Collier-gate York 1815. 1 The Hermit of Warkworth : a Northumberland tale. : In three parts. / By Dr. Thomas Percy Bishop of Dromore. ; With an account of Warkworth Hermitage and Warkworth Castle. Alnwick : W. Davison . Sold by all booksellers. VI 1 8-72pp engraved frontis 2 full page plates vignette illustrations. No printed date circa 1850. 2. The Gentle Shepherd. By Allan Ramsay. Alnwick. W. Davison. Frontis36-60pp. 1836. 3. Familiar Fables in Verse: A few of those Fables of Aesop. Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd. No printed date circa 1829. Engraved frontis 34-47 illustrated. The last page page 47 the text is printed on verso of original publishers paper cover. 4. The New Hieroglyphick Bible. London . printed for the booksellers; and for J. Kendrew Collier-gate York. 59pp bound with original covers engraved frontis vignette illustrations throughout. 25-59pp. 12mo. Book measures 14x9.cm. Bound in modern half calf calf corners marble boards flat gilt bands and lettering. Leather rubbed scuffed wear on hinge joints. Binding in good condition. Internally bound with 3 original paper cover. Pages in good clean condition. A nice collection of rare works. . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. printed for the booksellers; and for J. Kendrew, Collier-gate, York Hardcover
193164426YHA Rucksack. 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. A run from 1931 to 1987 Volume 7 Number 1 to Volume 20 Number 2 issue 77. 1931 to 1952 bound in 5 volumes in brwn cloth 1952 to 1987 in paper covers as issued. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . YHA Rucksack hardcover
169653345Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield for John Howell Bookseller 1696. 12mo. iv 127 12 pp. Original sewn leaves. Advertisement leaf title page errata on verso of tp followed by 127 text pages and 11 index pages. Leaves quite stained but not affecting legibility. Good condition. Copac records only: BL; Lambeth Palace. ESTC R221530 Wing S4357. . Good. Wraps. 1696. Printed by L. Lichfield, for John Howell Bookseller 1696 paperback
1875LTH20-C-15London: Privately Published c1875. Leather. Good. 10" by 7.5". Not Stated. A mounted collection of plates taken from a work by Gottfried Ehrenberg. With a letter explaining the origin of this volume. Consisting of 30 photographic plates believed to be photographs of the original plates in the work by Ehrenberg. The letter explains that the negatives have been scrapped and that this mounted copy is the only one remaining to the original compiler. Fortsetzung der mikrogeologischen Studien from which the plates originate is a work by German naturalist and microscopist Christian Gottfriend Ehrenberg. It is considered to a continuation of Ehrenbergs great work Mikrogeologie focusing particularly on the Radiolarian collections from Barbados. For nearly 30 years Ehrenberg examined samples of water soil sediment and rocks and described thousands of new species. He was particularly interested in diatoms but also studied and named many species of Radiolaria foraminifera and dinoflagellates. After his death in 1876 Ehrenberg's collections of microscopic organisms were deposited in the Museum fur Naturkunde at the University of Berlin. The Ehrenburg collection includes 40000 microscope preparations 5000 raw samples 3000 pencil and ink drawings and nearly 1000 letters of correspondence. In a half morocco binding. Externally sound with some rubbing and bumping. Spine sunned with personalised spine label. Letter affixed to front pastedown explaining origin of the work. Internally firmly bound. Plates generally clean with shading from original photos Good Privately Published hardcover
160764Dick & Fitzgerald 1881. Small octavo heavy card boards with 'lone hand' illustration to front board dark blue cloth spine with gilt or yellow lettering five yellow advert pages to prelims & terminals vii 149pp 30pp book adverts VG- heavy rubbing & fraying to board edges corners & spine extrems fading to spine so unclear whether lettering was gilt or just yellow some staining to rear board some rubbing & chaffing to front board owner's name in pencil to fep moderate browning to page edges sporadic foxing A reasonble copy better than the description suggests ask for photos Dick & Fitzgerald 1881 hardcover
19761962Lexington: Anvil Press 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Red hardcover quarter linen in Very Good condition LIMITED EDITION of 58 copies. Eight tipped in illustrations from drawings by Fritz Kredel hand-colored. Several small spots on boards front and back. This is a rare book to find. Anvil Press hardcover
1760000556London: Printed for J.W. J.K. D.M. A.B. E.R. M.R. T.L. B.M. and A.W. ca. 1760. Twenty-seventh. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 3.5 x 6 156 pages. Full title continues: "with other astronomers astrologers physicians and philosophers wherein is contained divers questions and answers touching the state of man's body together with the reasons of divers wonders in the creation: the generations of birds beasts fishes and insects; and many other problems on the most weighty matters by way of question and answer. Tightly bound full calf or sheep skin with minor scuffing two or three holes and small tears at each end of the spine. Pages foxed but supple. Printed for J.W. J.K. D.M. A.B. E.R. M.R. T.L. B.M. and A.W. hardcover
1937Munich: Franz Hanfstaengl. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine hardcover with 54 portraits Franz Hanfstaengl hardcover
192946741Editions Albert Levy Paris 1929. hardback. about very good condition- 40 colored plates in a cardboard folder. There is a bit of foxing to the folder. There is also some foxing to the inside of the folder to the first page of the text and to the edges of many of the plates. The plates are all clean and bright. Editions Albert Levy, Paris hardcover
19671936New York: George Braziller 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies of which this volume is numbered 224. "This facsimile edition comprises the two parts of the Lorsch Gospels from the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia Rumania and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome." Red cloth hardcover with cream colored leather spine. Near Fine condition in slpicase. George Braziller hardcover
1824BS7BRWN20FLondon: W. H. Reid 1824. Hardback full-calf. 162pp. Engraved pictorial title and contents. Complete with coloured map of England and Wales and 52 county maps. Marbled end-papers. Reading creases to spine binding a little rubbed. A splendid copy. bs7. Hard Cover. Good. W. H. Reid Hardcover
18728961872. Wood - engraving and chromolithograph. 360mm by 460mm image. Title below image with following text above the image "Supplement presented gratis with Christmas number of the Town & country journal Decr. 21st 1872".<br /> Centre fold as issued.Acid free mount. unknown
50089Calcutta : The Cyclopedia Publishing Company 1907 - 1909. Three volumes complete quarto publisher's half leather over buckram edges rubbed and a little marked gilt emblems to upper boards gilt lettered on spine marbled endpapers colour frontispieces; pp. 400; 5; 390; 5; 502; 3 extensively illustrated with black and white photographs a very good set. A scarce complete set of this monumental history of British India from pre-colonial days to the present focussing chiefly on key figures of the British Raj including civil servants administrators traders and business people the clergy and the army. It incorporates chapters on the history and commerce of Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Rangoon Chittagong the states of Mysore and Hyderabad and discussion of the tea cotton jute industries amongst others. Chapters are dedicated to the Roman Catholic Church Scottish Church Church of England and Armenian Churches in India. The invaluable biographical entries are illustrated with several hundred portrait photographs. Rare in the trade no copies traced on Rare Book Hub. hardcover
29058Published under the patronage of His Excellence the Governor of Fiji the Administrative and Legislature of the Colony and the Wardens and Town Councils of Suva and Levuka. A complete historical and commercial review of Fiji. An epitome of progress. A compendium of statistics and data concerning the group never yet compiled or brought together in a single publication. Descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations. Sydney : The Cyclopedia Company of Fiji 1907. Quarto pp. iv; 332; 2 - folding plate of early colonists. Together with : The cyclopedia of Samoa Tonga Tahiti and the Cook Islands illustrated. Published under the patronage of His Excellence Dr. Solf the Governor of German Samoa His Majesty King George 11 of Tonga His Brittanic Majesty's Consul at Tonga Hamilton Hunter Esq. C. M. G. &c. &c. A complete review of the history and traditions and the commercial development of the islands with statistics and data never before compiled in a single publication. Descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations. Sydney : McCarron Stewart & Co. 1907. Quarto pp. ii; 112; iv; 66; 20; 6. Bound in maroon cloth over boards discoloured split to head of spine lettered in gilt The cyclopedia of Fiji Samoa Tonga Tahiti and the Cook Islands internally clean a good copy. The definitive references for the Pacific Islands in the early twentieth century originally published under separate imprints combined by the publisher into a single volume. Rare with no copies recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub. hardcover
1805BTETM0002356London: John Murray 1805. 5th Edition or Later Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm . Various. Isambard Brunel's Son. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Bookplate of Isambard Brunel Son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I. Brunel's signature on FEP. Also note of FEP "Isambard Brunel Left him by Sarah Fox Wilder October 31st 1871". Letter attached to FEP addressed to Mrs Wilder Isambard Kingdom Brunel's niece. Boards embossed with cross rubbed and scuffed some loose pages copius colour illustrations. Gilt title on spine 6 raised bands. Collation: pp. 484 Please see Photos as part of condition report. 1805 Reprint BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1 and Administration of The Sacraments and other Rites and Cereminies of The Church according to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland. With Notes and Illustrations By Anon Illustrated By: Various Illustrator Bio: Format: Hardcover Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Language: English Published By: John Murray London Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Good - Bookplate of Isambard Brunel Son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I. Brunel's signature on FEP. Also note of FEP "Isambard Brunel Left him by Sarah Fox Wilder October 31st 1871". Letter attached to FEP addressed to Mrs Wilder Isambard Kingdom Brunel's niece. Boards embossed with cross rubbed and scuffed some loose pages copius colour illustrations. Gilt title on spine 6 raised bands. Collation: pp. 484 Please see Photos as part of condition report. SKU: BTETM0002356 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request John Murray hardcover
1663mon0000161583London: for G. Bedell & T. Colli 1663. 1 vol. folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2" viii416 i.e. 428 x pp. with the license leaf complete title-page printed in red and black clean and bright throughout. Bound in fine early 18th C. tree calf over cords spine gilt with Greek key design gilt lettered red morocco spine label covers ruled in gilt hinges fine head and foot of spine fine A FINE COPY ex-Easton Neston Library with the shelf label on the front pastedown. Wing; C185 London: for G. Bedell & T. Colli unknown
3733009<p>New York 1859. 16pp. 8vo. First edition and “Printed by Order of the Society.†Original printed wraps are darkened; general creases and soft fold lines from mailing and handling. bjcb 352231</p> <p>Entirely in verse West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society… “details the intense social life at West Point on the eve of the Civil War with amusing accounts of balls and dances and courtships as well as learning soldiering.†Jenkins Authorship has been attributed to Horace C. Porter Class of 1860.</p> <p>The copy at hand gives this penciled inscription on its title-page: “To Miss Constant. With the compliments of Cadet Kilpatrick U.S.M.A.†In a later hand beneath: “Gen. Judson Kilpatrick.â€</p> <p>Later nicknamed “Kill-Cavalry†the Irish-American Hugh Judson Kilpatrick 1836–1881 was a fellow member of the Dialectic Society who acted in numerous club performances. Martin p17 Kilpatrick graduated with the Class of 1861 as did Custer and it has been claimed that he was the first regular army officer to be wounded during the Civil War. </p> <p>Kilpatrick’s exploits during the War were numerous if not at times controversial or amusing. Surprised by Confederate forces while taking his bath purportedly sprang naked into his boots and onto his horse and then led a charge against the enemy. He served under Sherman as cavalry chief on the March to the Sea and as a “cavalry commander he was a brilliant leader having originated the saying that ‘cavalry can fight anywhere except at sea.’†DAB</p> <p>In 1874 Kilpatrick co-authored Allatoona: an historical and military drama in five acts and described by Benet’s as being “one of the earliest plays to deal with the Civil War . a tale in which two classmates at West Point fight on opposite sides in the great struggle.†The play was re-interpreted in 1930 by Christopher Morley and published as The Blue and the Gray: Or War is Hell.</p> <p>Kilpatrick’s inscription here as a twenty-three year old West Point cadet is one of the earliest examples one could hope to find for this colorful Union General.</p> <p>Ref. Farley West Point in the Early Sixties. With Incidents of the War. 1902. Martin Kill-Cavalry : The Life of Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick… 2000.</p> unknown
3731482<p>Tamworth England: Cotton Printer n.d. ca. 1780s; pre-1783. 12½ x 7½ inches. Woodcut two ornamental chain lines. Printed in four columns. Three old manuscript corrections in last column; two lines of text are mostly worn off at the top one partly legible. Archival mat window mylar sheet.</p> <p>An unrecorded 18th century broadside commemorating Sir Lancelot du Lake and Sir Tarquin’s hand-to-hand combat battle.</p> <p>The sheet was sold to tourists at Tamworth Castle in Tamworth Staffordshire where a 16th century mural on the castle’s Great Wall depicted the fight. The mural was whitewashed over in 1783. Friends of Tamworth Castle and Museum</p> <p>The broadside states: “If Travellers who pass that way Tamworth Castle On Serjeant Willcox call He to this Day can shew these Knights Fighting against a Wall.†Prefatory text wraps around a woodcut of Sir Tarquin falling to the ground mortally wounded by Lancelot. </p> <p>Based on Thomas Deloney’s The Noble Acts newly found Of Arthur of the Table Round the verse has has 144 lines consisting of 36 hymnal stanza quatrains.</p> <p>A lesser-known character in Arthurian lore Tarquin had imprisoned 44 knights of King Arthur’s court. When Lancelot confronts him Tarquin at first does not recognize him as the slayer of his brother:</p> <p>"“If thou be of the Table Round Quoth Tarquin furiously Both thee and all thy Fellowship I utterly defy. / Tarquin that’s over bold reply’d Du Lake courageously; Then clapping Spurs unto their Steeds They at each other fly. /. Both wounded were and bled full sore For breath they both did stand. Leaning upon their Swords awhile Quoth Tarquin Hold thy hand /. Why that’s well said quoth Lancelot then Thy motion likes me well; But who’s this Knight thou so do’st hate. His name I pray thee tell / His name quoth Tarquin is Du Lake He slew my Brother dear… / Strait at each other like two Boars They both enraged fly; And two long Hours by Tamworth They fought most furiously. / The Ground besprinkled was with gore Long Time was hard to say Which of these knights the bravest was Or which would win the day; / Till Lancelot with one mighty Stroke His foe did so assail That Tarquin stagger’d and his strength Therewith began to fail; / With loss of blood he then grew faint Which when Sir Lancelot found With all his Force a blow he gave Which brought him to the Ground. / Then forthwith taking off his Helm Smiting his Neck in twain His Body and his Bason threw Into the River Tame. /. God bless our King and may his Knights When put upon the Trial Approve themselves as Lancelot did As Valiant and as Loyal.â€"</p> <p>We find no 18th century items with this imprint in OCLC or ESTC.</p> <p>Not in ESTC or OCLC and no entries in either of any items having this imprint. Not to be mistaken for ESTC N8306 i.e. A famous battle fought between Sir Lancelot du Lake and the famous giant Tarquinwhich begins: “Within this ancient British land…â€</p> unknown
