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Anecdotes sur la cour et l'interieur de la famille de Napoleon Bonaparte.

Paris et Londres: chez Colburn, 1818. First edition. 8vo, viii, 325pp. This copy lacks both boards. The text block is generally in good condition. Suitable as a working or binding copy.

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Book number: 10877

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Animal stories for my darling.

London: Griffith Farran Browne & co, nd [c. 1890]. No edition stated. 8vo, c. 200pp. 3 colour plates, plus numerous b&w plates and text illustrations. Original laminated boards, colour illustrations to front and rear boards, titling printed in brown on the spine. Head and foot of spine chipped, endpapers foxed, colour plates detached from the binding. Overall just about a good copy.

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Book number: 12247

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Animals at home and abroad.

London: S W Partridge & co, nd [c. 1900]. No edition stated (softcover). Oblong 4to (26cm x 31cm), [16pp]. Full-page colour illustrations throughout. Original card wrappers. The backstrip is somewhat chipped, the rear wrapper is creased and has several tape repairs, the contents are good. Overall, this book is in fair condition.

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Book number: 16561

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Anno Regni Georgii Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo, 1722-1723.

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1755. No edition stated (hardback). A collection of Acts passed during the Parliament held at Westminster between 9 October 1722 and 9 January 1723. 12mo (17cm by 10cm), 166pp. The binding is scruffy (lacks the paper covering of the boards, and most of the backstrip is chipped away), lacks leaf A1 (a half-title?), and there is an ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition. The Acts included in this volume cover the repair of roads in Essex and Cambridgeshire (specifically, the road running from Stump Cross, near Great Chesterford, to Cambridge).

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Book number: 43355

Catalogue: 4

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Architecture and sculpture of India; sixteen photographs.

Calcutta: Government of India Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Braodcasting, nd [c. 1930] A portfolio of 16 plates (31cm by 25cm) in a white card folder. Plates in very good condition, the folder is good plus (rubbed, lightly frayed and lightly spotted).

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Book number: 16410

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Archives du Musee Teyler, volume I, fascicule premier.

Harlem: Les Heritiers Loosjers, 1868. First edition (hardback), volume 1. 8vo, [xvi], 381pp, 53pp (premier supplement au catalogue de la bibliotech, par D Lubach). 24 folding plates and charts. Rebound in green cloth, with gilt titling to the spine. Bookplate to the front pastedown, a couple of library stamps, but overall this copy is in good to very good condition. The original front wrapper is bound in at the back of the book (curiously, the wrapper is dated 1866).

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Book number: 19947

[Thomas Erskine]:

Armata; a fragment.

London: John Murray, 1817. Fourth edition (hardback). 8vo, title, 210pp. Half brown calf. The binding is only in fair condition, as the spine is chipped. There is occasional foxing of the contents, and an ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition.

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Book number: 22396

Catalogue: 4

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The Army List for April 1876, May 1876 & June 1876, containing the names of officers of the Army, Royal Marines, Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteers, and Colonial Militia and Volunteers, with an index.

London: John Murray, 1876. The Army Lists for April, May and June 1876, bound together in one hardback volume. 12mo (17cm by 11cm), xcvii, 913pp; xcvii, 897pp; xcvii, 913pp + adverts for all three issues. Recently bound in burgundy cloth, gilt titling to the spine, with the original printed wrappers bound in. Chipping and ownership stamp to the front cover of the April issue, else this copy is in very good condition.

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Book number: 35501

Catalogue: 2

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Around the Coast with Rod and Line; Sea Water Angling.

[London: Great Western Railway Company, 1925]. No edition stated (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 99pp. Plates, folding railway map. Original printed card wrappers with yapped edges. Some chipping of the covers, gift inscription (dated 1936), lacks the title page, contents VG. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 40887

Catalogue: 4

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Arrowsmith's Guide to the City and County of Bristol, 1939.

Bristol: J W Arrowsmith, 1939. No edition stated (softcover). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 127pp. Text illustrations. Original printed grey card wrappers with yapped edges. Minor creasing and spotting of the covers, else this book is in very good condition.

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Book number: 68158

Catalogue: 3

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Ars Typographica, being a selection of the types, borders and initials of the printing house of Balding & Mansell.

Wisbech: Park Works [Balding & Mansell]. no date [c. 1930]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 20cm), 112pp. Original decorated white boards, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is good to very good (some rubbing).

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Book number: 60943

Catalogue: 3

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The art of painting in miniature : teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. By rules so easy, and in a method so natural as to render this charming accomplishment universally attainable.

London: Printed for J Hodges and M Cooper, 1752. The sixth edition, translated from the original French (hardback). 12mo (17cm by 10cm), title, 4pp dedication, 4pp preface, 150pp, 6pp table of contents. Engraved frontispiece, one plate and one text illustration. Contemporary full brown calf, spine unlettered. The binding is heavily rubbed, there is an ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, and one signature is proud. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

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Book number: 43354

Catalogue: 3

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Arte y Poesia : El amor y la guerra en al Renacimiento.

Madrid: Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2002. First edition (softcover). 4to (28cm x 24cm), 495pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana in Madrid in 2002-3. Text in Spanish. ISBN 9788495486561

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Book number: 59273

Catalogue: 2

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L'Artisan Pratique apprend a tous : L'Art de Decorer son Foyer, annee / volume XXI [1929].

Paris: Rene Leclerc er Cie Editeurs, [1929]. Volume 21 (hardback), including issues 235 to 246 inclusive. Folio (38cm by 25cm), 192pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in b&w but including several double-page colour illustrations. Publisher's binding of illustrated grey cloth. There is some tanning of the contents, a light mark to the front board, and a handful of pages have repaired tears. Overall, the book is in good condition. Loosely inserted in the rear pocket are 14 folding supplements; please note that these supplements are in fair condition only, as they are somewhat creased. The text is in French; each issue includes a 2pp translation into English.

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Book number: 67172

Catalogue: 3

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Ashleworth, West Gloucestershire: a Severnside Village.

Ashleworth History Group, no date [1995]. First edition (softcover). 8vo (21cm by 15cm), 123pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition.

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Book number: 64457

Catalogue: 2