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190642471New York NY: Fred Defau & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. 15 volume set. Edition Lausanne. Number 590 of 1000 registered sets. Edited by J. B. Bury with an introduction by The Rt. Hon. W. D. H. Lecky. Magnificent leather work on both sides of front and back boards. Lettered in gilt on spines raised bands. Front and rear free silk endsheets face the internally decorated front and back boards. Personal bookplate of famed California industrialist and bibliophile Leonard Buck in each volume. Please call us to further discuss intricate binding. Due to number of volumes and insurance additional postage will be required. ; 6" x 8 3/4" . Fred Defau & Company hardcover
1357185758.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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190698478New York: Fred Defau & Company 1906. The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon one of numbered 73 sets this is number 7. Octavo 15 volumes bound in full dark blue levant morocco inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of each spine raised bands gilt titles to the spine brown morocco doublures and watered silk flyleaves binding by MacDonald plates in three states: photogravure colored on India paper and printed on velin. In fine condition. An exceptional set most rare and desirable. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose" PMM 222. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature 146-7. Fred Defau & Company hardcover
1800005946London: Printed & Published for the Author at M. Kelly's Opera Saloon Pall Mall 1800 Circa 1800. 2 letterpress leaves SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER on the title page in a protective archival sleeve. For Voice and Piano Forte. Pages show wear/tear along the lower edge pencil notation on page three. SHEET MUSIC. Printed & Published for the Author at M. Kelly's Opera Saloon Pall Mall unknown
1930346H5276New York: The International News Company 1930. Book. Illus. by Tresilian S.; Robinson T.H.; Wenban R.; Bestall A.E.; Holloway Cyril; Cleaver Reginald; Peddie T.H.; Goss G.W.; Inns Kenneth; Prater Ernest; Abbey S.;. Very Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II of II of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield Berger and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. The International News Company Paperback
1013942221.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
140628Ottawa: Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada 1947. Hardcover 124pp. Very good no dust jacket. Photograph endpapers photographs maps tables. From a nurse of the order based in Winnipeg. Included with the book: bronze nurse's pin a presentation card from the V.O.N. clippings in a V.O.N. Envelope from Winnipeg 3 letters from the Order regarding employment dated 1914 1921 1923 a monthly time book with entries dated Mar. 1915 to Nov. 1915 a V.O.N. Envelope containing blank patient record forms and a V.O.N. Envelope containing 4 'bedside notes' forms with entries dated 1949-50. Canada Nursing Victorian Order of Nurses--Canada. Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada Hardcover
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1019892293.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19013141<p>A scarce 1st edition copy in the original pictorial cloth binding with colour frontispiece and title and numerous black and white and part coloured by the publisher illustrations by Charles Robinson. John Murray Gibbon 1875-1952 was a Scot who spent much of his life in Canada. He was fascinated by folklore and different cultures and was a promoter of cultural events. He was also a prolific author and founded the Canadian Authors Association. True Annals looks to be his first published book. This copy is inscribed by his father - William Duff Gibbon - who was a Tea Planter in Ceylon. The book has decorative endpapers with a box on the front free endpaper for children to put their names in. The inscription is in the box and says 'Miss Carruthey - Christmas remembrance from the Author's Father 1907'. The binding has decorative titles and designs to the front board and spine and designs on the back board. It has been rebacked preserving the original spine and repairing the edges and corners. There is general surface and edge scuffing. Page edges are gilted. The decorative endpapers have professional repair at the joints and are quite browned with some spotting. Contents: colour frontispiece colour title dated 1901 preface contents and illustration list pp xvii; title in black and red; text 338 pp with numerous illustrations and designs. The book is sound and tight and the contents are very clean with the occasional spot or mark. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.</p> J M Dent & Co hardcover
0331745240.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1958UGIBTRI00AFHarper Torchbooks 1958. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire. NY: Harper Torchbooks 1958. 411pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with faded and rubbed wraps. Harper Torchbooks paperback books
1827684591827. London 1827. London 1827. Contemporary Account of a Famous English Case of Forced Marriage Trial. Wakefield Edward Gibbon Defendant. Wakefield William Defendant. Wakefield Frances Mrs. Defendant. The Trial of Edward Gibbon Wakefield William Wakefield And Frances Wakefield: Indicted with One Edward Thevenot A Servant For a Conspiracy and For the Abduction of Miss Ellen Turner The Only Child and Heiress of William Turner Esq. of Shrigley Park in the County of Chester. London: John Murray 1827. xv 303 pp. Interleaved with de-acidifying paper. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/4". Recent library buckram white-stamped title shelf number and library name to spine. Text notably fresh some browning to final leaf and title page which has library marks and stamps. $300. Only edition. The first account of the Shrigley Abduction an 1826 British case of forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner. The couple was married in Scotland and travelled to France before Turner's father was able to notify the authorities and intervene. The marriage was annulled by Parliament. Wakefield and his brother William were convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:1217. unknown books
1827140266London: John Murray 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1827. Octavo xvi 304 pages. Original moiré cloth with paper title-label to the spine expertly recased with new endpapers; edges lightly speckled red; covers a little bumped and bubbled with a lacquer or similar treatment applied; spine a little sunned with the label slightly discoloured and chipped; scattered foxing; a very good copy. Wakefield's subsequent imprisonment led to his critical study of penal reform emigration and to his remedy systematic colonization starting with South Australia. <p>Bagnall 5815; Ferguson 1159c not noting that this issue precedes his 1159 which includes an additional appendix extending the volume to 350 pages. John Murray hardcover
1926WRCLIT70816Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. Some foxing to cloth but a very good copy in slightly sunned dust jacket with internally mended edge tear. First edition of the poet's first book. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
1926WRCLIT46885Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. Boards irregularly darkened some offset on endsheets tiny nick in top-edge of three leaves but a good sound copy. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
190614325London; J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. 1906. Hard Cover. First edition octavo pp. 259. Photographic frontispiece and nine further photographic full page plates two maps including one large fold out to rear. Bevelled bottle green cloth boards with gilt titles and decorative detail to spine and upper board. A near fine copy. Major Spilsbury's account of his attempts to smuggle and run guns to southern Moroccan tribes outside of the control and authority of the Sultan in 1897 in breach of international and British domestic laws. Spilsbury argues that if the Sultan could not guarantee a foreigner's safely in the lands south of the Atlas mountains he should not claim to control them and he took it upon himself to negotiate directly with local leaders agreeing to supply them with arms. When Spilsbury tried to land his arms cargo in Mogador now Essaouria his men were met with hostile Moorish troops and he was forced to move away from the harbour leaving several of his crew on shore. In March 1898 Spilsbury left the Tourmaline and returned to London where The War Office suspended him from duty discharged him from the Army and charged him with illegally landing arms in Morocco. Subsequently acquitted by a jury of his peers he evaded arrest on a further charge by remaining outside of the jurisdiction. Spilsbury appears baffled in his conclusion that Morocco should be so resistant to colonisation. The appendix treats colonisation as inevitable and unashamedly motivated by access to Morocco's natural resources including gold. London; J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. hardcover
116646542X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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190652660259 pages 9 black & white plates and a folding map at the rear appendix on South-West barbary as a field for colonisation by W. B. Stewart Published by J. M. Dent & Co. unknown
19812403121Paul Harris 1981. 1st UK thus. Hardback. Very good. A little dusty to top edge but suits this rare reprint of Leslie Mitchell's most well known non-Grassic Gibbon 1931 book. Appears to have used the same printing plates. Paul Harris unknown
