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473 pages including bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. Details the parallel lives of a foreign-born aesthete-prince and a down-to-earth country squire. The passions they aroused and the conflict they unleashed would forever change the face of a nation. Book virtually as new. Lightest wear to dust jacket. Gift quality. Book
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unc;lipped dustwrapper. Surprisingly, the first dedicated biography of the man most likely to have been Cromwell's true successor.
Prima edizione milanese della famosa opera. Esemplare totalmente coevo, perfetto e freschissimo. Mezza pelle, titoli e fregi in oro, pp. 412, in 8°
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 7 plates and 2 maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean crisp copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Albion AX-5 (238); NMM II/1, 306.Albion AX-5 (238); NMM II/1, 306.
8vo., First Edition, Large Paper, with engraved and printed titles, and 41 fine engraved plates as called for; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red sprinkled edges, back gilt with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt, joints tender but sound, small crack in backstrip else an unusually crisp, clean copy. The complement of plates matches the binder's directions bound in. Anderson p.262; Steward 363.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper plans; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition, last few leaves lightly spotted at margins; original navy coarse-grain cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of T.B. Cornish on front paste-down, and 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 209.
12mo, [2], 166pp., ownership inscription on front fly-leaf, "E. Libris J: Dunston. 1768. pre: 8d.", outer blank margins of title and a few leaves at end browned from the binding, contemporary sheep, hinges cracked, head and tail of spine chipped, paper label.
Features: Pirate's Cove, California - Drake's Golden Hinde; Bugler, Sound the Advance! - the Cavalry; Breezy Cox - Champion all-round cowboy; Best of the Pockethunters - Pike Bell; N.C. Wyeth - Painter of men in action!; The Bitter Trip Back - Nathaniel Wyeth and the Green River Rendezvous; Treasure in a Syrup Can - a metal detecting success story; Revenge - Montenegrin style - Taft, Montana; Cache of the Thundering Horses - the Organ Mountains, New Mexico; How a Great Lawman Died - Bill Tilghman, Cromwell, Oklahoma; Lost Gold of the Lavas, Idaho; Old Sharpy of Buzzard Roost Ranch - W.T. (Tom) Sharp of Malahite in the Huerfano Valley, Colorado; Bulldoggers!; Wild Old Days!; Terlingua Flapdoodle. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Armorial Bearings - Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Heraldry in the Netherlands; An Heraldic Monstrosity - the many 'quartered' arms of Capt. T.L. Jones-Parry; The Annual Meeting; A Recent Grant of Arms; Book Plate Collecting; Heraldic Book Plate; Une Quebecoise Duchesse de Bassano; Ottawa Honours Foot Guards; 'Cromwell' Good on Heraldry; Un Cardinal Italien Cure au Canada; Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (including one-page photo of him); A Very Special Grant; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with 7 colour illustrations; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in yellow, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition thus, with colour frontispiece, 11 monochrome illustrations (one double-page) framed in gilt, and 2 pedigrees; pictorial cloth, gilt back, gilt edges, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
LA HAYE, chez Jacob de Jongh - M. DCC. XXV (1725) - Reliure plein veau marbré de l'époque - Dos à 5 nerfs, orné de caisons fleuronnés - Pièce de titre cerise - titre doré - Toutes tranches rouges - Gardes ornées - 2 Tomes en 1 volume : T. I) Préface & Table (10) pages + 327 - T. II) Table (2) & 254 pages + 32 de table des Matières - 1 mors fragile, Sinon très bel Exemplaire - Très Propre
Volume in 12° legato in pergamena con alette, titolo calligrafico al dorso, sguardie, frontespizio con bella marca silografica, 320 pp.. Un accurato e dettagliato resoconto degli ultimi giorni trascorsi nella Torre di Londra da Carlo Primo d'Inghilterra e dai suoi fedeli, in attesa dell'esecuzione, narrato attraverso le lettere di essi e gli atti d'accusa e di difesa nel processo a loro intentato. MANCANO I RITRATTI E L'ANTIPORTA INCISA, probabilmente mai legati nel volume.Di grande interesse e di buona rarità, in ottimo stato (solo difetto, la cerniera interna del piatto anteriore da rinforzare).
76 pages. Features: Cover art of girl being thrown from saddle; Editorial entitled "If Germany Wins" in the wake of US Ambassador to Canada, James H.R. Cromwell being rebuked by his superiors for telling a Canadian audience that the future of world democracy depends upon victory over Germany; Nice full-page Fargo truck ad shows a Kraft cheese vehicle in service; The Passport (fiction); Your Mind and Your Car - safe driving is an attitude of mind; Political comments on the absence and return of U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy; Tux Luck (fiction); James H.R. Cromwell - U.S. Ambassador to Canada - photo and article; How many civic, home and health problems in Australia and New Zealand have been solved through direct land taxation; Red Drops Falling (fiction); Wonderful article and photos of Canada's Library of Parliament; Wakeville, Awake! (Part 3) (fiction); Full-page ad for the 1940 Dodge car; Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 8 - Coast Defense - article with photos; Gordon Dunstan's Thirteenth Quiz; Nice Chevrolet Truck ad; Full-page colour photo ad features the beautiful Dionne Quintuplets!; Colour full-page ad for the Ford V-8 engine; Photos of Miss Diana Blythe Barrymore in Woodbury soap ad; Nice 1940 DeSoto car ad; The Winnipeg Volunteer Signal Training School; College for Indian Youth at Ohsweken, Ontario; Half-page two-colour ad for Alka-Seltzer features photo of hockey game between the Maple Leafs and New York Rangers with Syl Apps and Gordie Drillon on the ice; Nice colour photo ad for the 1940 Studebaker Champion inside back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A nice vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 32 plates and 7 maps (one folding on japon); handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy of the original edition of the best life of Cromwell. Davies 870.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, and maps in the text; original brown cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, black endpapers, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails, hinges of first volume tender (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp set. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM LORD ABERCONWAY TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER ROSALIND NORMAN WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ABERCONWAY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE AND SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY LORD ABERCONWAY. The set comprises Vol. I: 1649-1651 (1894); Vol. II: 1651-1654 (1897); Vol. III: 1654-1656 (1901). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 220.
2 voll. in 16, pp. (48) + 544; 592 + (16) con 51 tavv. f. t. inc. all'acquaf. tra cui molti ritratti, monete, una carta dell'Inghilterra e alcune vedute di citta'. P. pg. ottocentesca con fr. e tasselli al d. Edizione originale di questa corposa opera del Leti dedicata a Massimiliano II Duca di Baviera. Il Leti, divenuto protestante a Ginevra, passo' , in seguito in Francia e poi, a causa delle persecuzioni verso i protestanti, si trasferi' in Inghilterra. Scrisse il Teatro Britannico per ordine di Carlo II, ma proprio a causa di questa pubblicazione dovette riparare in Olanda (1682). Qui pubblico' la vita di Cromwell. Graesse, IV, 183.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 11 illustrations in monochrome (one double-page); pictorial cloth, gilt back, gilt edges, blue ribbon marker, a fine copy in publisher's gilt board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with full-page pedigrees in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth (black/black/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012) and The Mirror and the Light (2020). Bright set of Mantel's prize-winning trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell; the first and second volumes were awarded the Man Booker Prize. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.