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Folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous fine coloured double-page maps and smaller coloured maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 164. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Book in mint condition. 56pp.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and photographic endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of a Home Front classic.
8vo., Second Impression, with a portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition.
8vo., Eleventh Edition, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved full-page illustrations in the text, fore-edge very lightly spotted; attractively bound in twentieth century tan calf, back with gilt rules, second compartment with nineteenth-century red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, boards unevenly sunned else a very good, remarkably bright, crisp copy. First published in 1783, Farley's work was a popular and continuing success, reaching its twelfth edition in 1811. Principal Cook at the London Tavern, Farley claims that his work 'unlike so many which are without method or order, is marked by perspicuity and regularity'. However Cagle reveals that Fiona Lucraft provides a detailed account of the author's plagiarism from Raffald and Glasse. Farley's name appears below the portrait from the ninth edition (?) onwards. Bitting 152; Cagle, 675; Maclean, pp.50-52; Oxford, p.114; Wheaton & Kelly 2066 (all recording the first edition). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
505p. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., Sole Edition, with frontispiece, 85 plates on 42 and 2 full-page maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Ottley, 7226.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
Sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrations and map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy.
208 pages including index and bibliography. Virtual slaves, these children were uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors. "This extremely, unusual study, enlivened by photographs, throws a floodlight on ethnic prejudice, cultural constructs of childhood, Tammany Hall politics and 19th-century immigration and working conditions." - Publishers Weekly. Very light wear. Glossy laminated covers. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 26 fine photographic plates, endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial cloth blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, corners bruised, case a little shaken else a bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS FADED (BUT ENTIRELY LEGIBLE) SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Uncommon standard reference. Designed and built by the Adam brothers in the late eighteenth century, London's elegant Adelphi quarter was popular with major literary figures including Johnson, Dickens, Voltaire and many others. A representative section remains near Charing Cross station, but the majority was demolished in the 1930s to make way for the broadening of the Thames Embankment. A second edition was issued by Unwin in the following year.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 560 pages.
Six volumes (called Divisions). Illustrated with 34 bold and crisp steel engraved plates of eminent public figures; and a steel engraved title vignette of Palmerston's country residence, Broadlands. Text partially unopened. Tall 8vo. 270mm x 190mm. Original full green cloth bindings, lettered in gold. XLib. Very good. Henry John Temple (1784-1865) was the elder son of Henry Temple, second Viscount Palmerston. He succeeded to the peerage in 1802 and became a Tory MP in 1807, eventually becoming Foreign Secretary in 1830,a post which he held for many years, being active in all the great international of the early Victorian era. events and upheavals. He became prime minister in 1855. During his political career, he was elected to sit in 17 parliaments and served four monarchs: George III, George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. Though XLib, this set is still clean and tight. It would make a wonderful gift for anyone interested in England and her once vast Empire. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W64
164 pages. The 912 lots in this sale represent "A remarkable collection of diverse material on Middle Eastern and Arabic culture, language, archaeology, history, exploration, texts, art, bibliography, current affairs and economics. It is the rare product of the combined passions of the bibliophile and the academic, representing 40 years of diligent and tenacious collecting. It could hardley be more wide-ranging (the books are dated 1488 to 1998), and the number of books (over 8,000) is in our experience without parallel." - from page 6. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Creasing to front cover. Book
148 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Half-inch crease to top corner of back cover. Book
48 p. Illustrated. Double column. Oblong 12mo. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Very good. Good study of the important photographic careers of Henry and T.J. Dixon. W100
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
Two volumes. pp. 514; 523 + Engraved plates. 8vo. 220mm. Original full cloth bindings. Corner of one volume slightly mouse chewed. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) English author, noted primarily for these highly descriptive letters. She was the daughter of the first Duke of Kingston. In 1712 she married Edward Wortley Montagu, who became ambassador to Turkey in 1716. On her return to England in 1718 she worked to educate the public in the use of inoculation against smallpox. In 1739 she left her husband and went to live on the Continent. She is also remembered for her quarrel with Pope, who had once been her ardent admirer and who attacked her viciously in his poetry. Horace Walpole disliked her also and depicted her as a greedy, heartless eccentric. However, recent studies have defended her as a brilliant woman struggling for emancipation. Her letters were first published in 1763. Interesting and scarce. W141
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 106 sepia-toned plates on 46 and pictorial endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous plates and maps, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
8vo., Eighth Impression, with frontispiece, very numerous plates toned in sepia, full-page map in the text and endpaper maps; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, red top (mildly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937, providing a complete record of London before the bombing. EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine run. The run comprises No. 438 (Autumn 1999) to No. 443 (Spring 2002).
Pages 91-154. Reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The design competitions for Swords of Honour presented by the corporation of the City of London between 168 and 1901; Warner Pin - A Question of Attribution; nice ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
pp. vi, [7]-66, [lxvii]-lxxiv, [75]-134, [cxxxv]-cxxxix, [141]-202, [cciii]-ccv. Early manuscript ownership of Mrs. Van Dyke on title page. Early printed booksellers' label of H. & P. Rice, Philadelphia on front paste down. Small insect damage on paste down and first fly leaves. Foxed. Mild damp stain. 8vo. 210 mm. Original leather binding worn. Loss on spine. Front board fragile. Hardbound. Charles Pigott (died 1794) was an ardent champion of the French Revolution. This was the first of his "two scurrilous pamphlets on London society, with which he seems to have been well acquainted. The other was 'The Female Jockey Club (1794). "To hold the mirror up to Nature, to shew Vice its own image, is the design of this publication; it will be styled severe, but there are cases, where severity is justice, and it is much to be feared that the persons in question are too incorrigible to be chastened by any lecture either of gentle or harsh reproof - Preface. The skewerees include the Prince of Wales, Hon. Thomas Erskine, The Dukes of York & Norfolk, Lord Cavendish, Lord Kelvyn, Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, assorted British princesses, the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis de Lafayette, Hon. Edmund Burke, etc., etc. Evans/Shipton & Mooney 26001; Kress 15355; Sabin. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 3
