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17378264<p>Printed for W. Webb. London. 1737. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.9 x 5.1 inches. 12 352 351-470 i.e. 472p. Pagination is irregular but the text is continuous and complete. Contemporary binding of full tan calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments double ruled in gilt. hand written paper title label probably 19th century with small area of loss to the top right corner. Boards with double gilt ruled borders. Hinges cracked but still firm. Edges rubbed and bit scuffed but still a tight and well bound copy of this interesting title which describes a Collection of protests made in the House of Lords.</p> Printed for W. Webb. London. 1737 hardcover
1911115318Newton Centre Improvement Assoc. 1911. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Newton Centre Improvement Assoc. 1911. First Edition. 1st Printing. 62 pages. Moderate general wear. Foxing on frontispiece. Previous owner name. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Printed by Stetson Press Boston. Contents: Indian Traditions. Colonial Period. Middle Ages. Modern Era. Judicial Notice. Geological Geographical Hydrographical Piscatorial and Miscellaneous Details. A Vision of the Future. History::Localities New England::History 6641 6641 Newton Centre Improvement Assoc. hardcover
NI-F5RL-XXL2Hardcover. Good. Externally worn and stained pages yellowed with occasional foxing minor blemishes. hardcover
180858922Birmingham: R Jabet. 1808. Hardback. Very Good. xviii 78pp folding map plus 2 plates complete as listed in the preface old waterstaining to bottom of plates and few ages bound in original boards covers overlaid with paper containing title and other details re-spined in fawn cloth covers marked and worn; 12 Mo . R Jabet hardcover
1791Q8BROWN0403Chester: Printed by J. Fletcher for J. Poole 1791. Hardback no dust-wrapper. Half-calf binding. 116pp plus 24pp of 'A Summary of the Life of St. Werburgh.' Complete with folding plan. Marbled boards. Spine edges splitting front board a little loose. Remains of owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Lacking front free end-paper. Private ownership. q8. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Printed by J. Fletcher, for J. Poole Hardcover
1827026822Longman & Co 1827. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's presentation copy with "Mrs Bell with all the Best Regards of the Publisher J. D" to front front blank endpaper. 8vo. pp. iv 6 367 5 addenda. Original early 19th century half calf with marbled boards. The boards are detatched and the spine is missing. The boards have wear to extremities. The textblock holds together well. Neat manuscript inscription to his sister on endpaper dated 1872. Some ususal occasional foxing to plates. All leaves present. Would make a very good candidate to bind usuing existing 19th century boards. . Longman & Co Hardcover
182936456T. Eaton 1829. Map present. Some wear externally period ink inscrip. to f-fep else pp sound. Leather. Fair. 16mo. T. Eaton Hardcover
48467London: Sold by Longman & Co 1827 . First edition. 9.0" x 5.75" x 1.0". 8vo. pp.4/6pp./pp.367/5pp. 26 leaves of plates. A very good half calf binding with later reback. Brown calf spine and corners over brown buckram boards. Spine with raised banding and brown leather title label: "Description Of Bury St. Edmunds And Environs.". Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "David Gurling Lavenham". Marbled endpapers. Title in red & black and lightly foxed. Light intermittent foxing to the text. Most engravings heavily foxed with light offsetting. Subscribers list inserted after Preface. "Names Of Lords Of Manors." appears after p.367 and before index. Colophon at end of index: "T. D. Dutton Printer Bury." London: Sold by Longman & Co, 1827 . hardcover
1406717355.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1680104584London. 1680. London. 1680. Two volumes bound in one. Full mottled calf boards contemporary to book which has been recased with a later spine. Joints visible but sound. Lacks top cm of leather at head of spine. Marbled endpapers. A Coppy. 215pp. Comtemporary notes by a Member of Parliament or a witness to the proceedings adding information to page opposite title and to page 215 His Majesty's Speech. Dec. 1678 A True Copy. 316pp with 3 extra pages numbered and wriiten in ink adding contemporary notes.Wing E2544.OCLC 20886562 An account of the Popish plot as discussed in Westminster and the contemporary political reaction which was later found to be totally fictitious.From 1678 a handful of perjurers Titus Oates William Bedloe et al claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. As a result of their disgraceful work between November 1678 and July 1681 at least 17 Catholics lay and clergy died as traitors on the scaffold and not in the easiest of circumstances. Many others died in prisons before they came to trial. This period of time had a lasting political effect with regards to the emerging Whig and Tory parties. hardcover
1680BS26BRWN0408London: Publisher not stated 1680. Hardback full-calf. 18.5cm x 11.5cm. 2 volumes bound together - A Coppy of the Journal-book of the House of Commons for the Sessions of Parliament Begun at Westminster the 21 day of october 1678 and continued until the 30 day of December next following being then Prorogued. In Which is Contained the first Discovery of the Popish Plot by the King to the Two Houses of Parliament. As Also The Accusation and Impreachment of the Earl of Danby with Many other Remarkable Transactions never before to fully and truely Published. Bound with A True Copy of the Journal-Book of the Last Parliament Begun at Westminster the Sixth Day of March 1678/9. Containing the Transactions from the first Day of their Sitting to the Day of their Prorogation and Dissolution. Wherein is comprised a Fuller and Further Discovery of the Popith Plot. With Several other Remarkable Passages which with the Preceeding Journal lately Printed declares the History of that Horrid Conspiracy. Marbled edges. 2 215pp; 4 316pp. Crack to spine binding slightly faded and worn. Bookplate from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield to front pastedown and blind-stamp to title page and two following leaves. A rather pleasing copy. bs26. Hard Cover. Good. Publisher not stated Hardcover
1839035649Leeds: Printed for G. Lazenby by J. Swallow 1839. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fair. Scarce. Publishers pale pink paper cover worn and dog-eared as is it all. Slightly foxed and toned. 8pp. 'This letter was found under a stone at the foot of the cross. Upon the stone was engraved: Blessed is he that shall turn me over.' 'This letter was printed by the request of several Christian friends in 1839.' <br/> <br/> Printed for G. Lazenby, by J. Swallow paperback
3733864<p>Harrisburgh Harrisburg Pennsylvania: John Wyeth 1798. Signed in fours. Half-title with errata on verso1–3 4–163 1 blankpp. Removed from a nonce volume. half-title with two areas of paper loss neither affecting text; early owner’s name trimmed off by binder; a number of leaves are trimmed tight along the right edge costing portions of some letters but not affecting overall sense; early 19th-century autograph of F.H. Davis on various page; a good sound copy.</p> <p>A rare account of the murder of Francis Shitz the publishers proclaiming: “Among the many dreadful murders and assasinations with the history and trial of which a considerable portion of the work just spoken of is taken up there are few if any which appear to have been more cruelly and deliberately contrived than the bloody deed which will be detailed in the following sheets.†p3 McDade writes that the “will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter but if they died without children part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth and he hired four Irishmen newly arrived in the country to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax but Peter escaped. M’Manus and Hauer were hanged.†McDade</p> <p>Sabin 43564. Evans 34040. ESTC W11939. McDade 663.</p> unknown
1446086097.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1769936060Newbery and Carnan London 1769. 1769. Hardcover. hardback 12mo 287pp 34 plates edges browning some light foxing closed tears on 2 page corners otherwise clean and tight no inscriptions marbled endpapers full leather binding gilt-decorated spine rubbed Good condition . Newbery and Carnan, London, 1769, hardcover
58476Author. 1111. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 204pp 2 folding plans of Manchester 2 plates furtehr illustration stuck to front endpaper. Bound in half leather/spine underlaid marbled boards. chip to top of rear board. boards sl rubbed; 12mo . Author hardcover
176959935London: Newbery and Carnan. 1769. Hardcover. Very Good. 286pp Cumberland probably continued in Vol III 8 plates other text illustrations bound in half green leather/marbled boards sl rubbed on corners; Small Octavo . Newbery and Carnan hardcover
181161823For J and G Todd. 1811. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition corrected and enlarged 91pp folding maps BOUND WITH the 8th edition 1822 120pp folding map 2 illustrations in the text bound in half leather/marbled boards. Sl rubbed sl spotting of prelims. Ex ref lib; Octavo . For J and G Todd hardcover
183317173Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Slightly rubbed. XVI516 pp. and more than 300 wood-cuts in the text. Upper margin throughout with a brownspot. unknown
176410454J. Newbery. London. 1764. Second edition corrected. Published two years after the first edition. 8vo. 6.9 x 4.4 inches. Engraved frontis showing two men viewing Millenium Hall through several trees engraved by A. Walker. iv 264pp 2pp of publishers adverts. <br /><br /><br />Some light spotting to several pages but overall a very good copy in a recent period style binding of half tan calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Red and green labels gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Two neat previous owner names on front blank endpaper; 'Mary Fl avel her book. : 1769. and Maria Gresley August 18th 1840'. <br /><br /><br />An important early feminist utopian novel. The most famous work of Sarah Scott 1720-1795 'Millenium Hall' describes a female utopia free from male violence where property is held in common and a community of women conduct lives devoted to artistic pursuits and education Christian virtues and philanthropy. Through its focus on female equality education and friendship and with the Hall forming a model of mid-century reform ideas it provided a fictional embodiment of the ideals of the Blue Stockings Society of which Scott was a member and of which her sister Elizabeth Montagu was leader. A successful work in its time it went through four editions by 1778 and in recent years has undergone a resurgence of scholarly and public interest with a renewed focus on its early feminist meaning. ESTC: T107679. J. Newbery. London. 1764 hardcover
177810543T. Carnan and F. Newbery. London. 1778. Fourth edition. 8vo. 6.9 x 4.4 inches. Engraved frontis showing two men viewing Millenium Hall through several trees engraved by A. Walker. ii 262pp. Some very light spotting to a few pages but overall a very good copy in a recent period style binding of half tan calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled lettered and decorated in gilt. Red and green labels gilt. Marbled paper on boards. ---- An important early feminist utopian novel. The most famous work of Sarah Scott 1720-1795 'Millenium Hall' describes a female utopia free from male violence where property is held in common and a community of women conduct lives devoted to artistic pursuits and education Christian virtues and philanthropy. Through its focus on female equality education and friendship and with the Hall forming a model of mid-century reform ideas it provided a fictional embodiment of the ideals of the Blue Stockings Society of which Scott was a member and of which her sister Elizabeth Montagu was leader. A successful work in its time it went through four editions by 1778 and in recent years has undergone a resurgence of scholarly and public interest with a renewed focus on its early feminist meaning. ESTC: T107679. T. Carnan, and F. Newbery. London. 1778 hardcover
183317173Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Slightly rubbed. XVI,516 pp. and more than 300 wood-cuts in the text. Upper margin throughout with a brownspot.
1992mon0000085217BCA 1992-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. BCA EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post BCA hardcover
1824123964London: Sainsbury and Co. 1824. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volume set later half leather with marbled boards by William Taunton original gilt lettered black leather spine labels lettered in gilt spines ruled in gilt with five raised bands 402 & 562 pages minor internal foxing otherwise a complete very good attractive set. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. <br/> <br/> Sainsbury and Co. hardcover
1446519201.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback