[ Petitpierre, Charles ] [ Jenner, G C ]

L'Amour Glorifié, Ou Traité De La Vraie Sagesse Et Du Vrai Bonheur Selon La Triple Lumiere Divine, De La Grace De L'Ecriture Et Du Bonsens. Ouvrage D'Un Gout Nouveau, Très Curieux, Très Instructif & Très Important Pour Un Chacun

none stated, 1786, 1st edition. Half calf over marbled boards, G+. 100pp, binding somewhat scuffed & worn with slight loss to the head of the spine, tear to lower section of C2, thin marginal worm trace to the last few pp, title soiled, ownership inscription of G C Jenner dated 1818 to the pastedown, a fair copy. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Rather scarce work of esoteric Christian Mysticism. Institutional copies of this edition are at the British Library & the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris ( who also have one of only 2 copies held of the 1768 printing ). This copy bears the ownership signature, dated Stone 1818, of the Reverend George Charles Jenner [ 1767 - 1846 ], nephew of Edward Jenner. A copy of the same book was offered for sale in the Michaelmas 1796 catalogue of the booksellers Lackington, Allen, & Co as item #20528, in boards, 1s6d.

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Book number: 55320

Keywords: theology, religion, christianity, mysticism, esoterism

[ Mallet, David ]

Amyntor And Theodora : Or, The Hermit. A Poem. In Three Cantos

printed for Paul Vallant, in the Strand, 1747, 1st edition. Disbound, VG. ht+tp+viii+92pp, complete with the half title, in paper wrappers which are about 50 years old, a little dust soiling to the first & last pages and faint water tide mark to approx 20 pages which affects the bottom of the page at the gutter, otherwise a nice attractive copy. Disbound , no dustjacket.
¶ A narrative poem in blank verse set on the island of St Kilda off the west coast of the Hebrides. Mallet owes, and freeley credits in the footnotes, his description of the island to Martin Martin, who had published his 'A Late Voyage to St Kilda' in 1698. Mallet was able to sell the poem to Vallant for £120 - considerably more than he had got for his 1728 poem 'The Excursion'. David Mallet ( born Malloch ), Scottish poet & who tends to be remembered today for the harsh criticism leveled at him by Samuel Johnson in the 'Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets' (1779 - 81) and for being Viscount Bolingbroke's literary executor.

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Book number: 35981

Keywords: poetry, poems, st kilda, scotland, scottish literature

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Annales des Mines - Ou Recueil De Memoirs Sur l'Explotation Des Mines Et Sur Les Sciences Et Les Arts Qui S'Y Rapportment Redigees Par Les Ingenieurs des Mines Et Publiees Sous L'Autorisation Du Ministre Des Travaux Publics [ Quatrieme Serie - Tome XIV ]

Carilian Goeury Et Vor Dalmont, Quai des Augustines, Paris, 1848, 1st edition. Plain library cloth, VG. 689pp, 8 folding engraved plates [ one misbound ], index, one plate torn with slight loss to the leading edge, some plates re-folded awkwardly, Ex Library & rebound in plain brown library cloth, a nice copy. FRENCH text. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ A collection of papers & essays on Mining, Vulcanology, Geology, Mineralogy & similar sciences. There are articles on Chile & its geology, Volcanoes, Mining in Grande Combe etc etc.

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Book number: 22661

Keywords: mining, volcanoes, minerals, natural history, geology

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Annali Della Facoltà Di Economica E Commercio : Nuova Serie Volume VIII

Universita degli Studi di Bari, 1948, 1st edition. Large format paperback, G. 509pp, covers marked, partly unopened, a fair copy. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ Various papers from the Economics Faculty of Bari university. Contains - Menegazzi : Origine E Fondamento Della Mia Teoria Economics E Finanziaria - Robertis : La Produzione Agricola in Italia Dalla Crisi del III Secolo All'eta dei Carolingi - Mira : Contributo alla Storia Dell'Economia Agricola Nella Campagna Romana I Rendimenti Dei Terreni Nell'agro Romano e Distretto di Roma nel Settecento - Sokoloff : Il Problema Della Proprieta Terriera Nella Storia Del Contadino Russo - Masi : Aspetti Della Crisi Edilizia in Puglia nel XVII Secolo - Gamba : Robert Baden Powell e il suo Metodo Educativo

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Book number: 50028

Keywords: economics, roman history, italian history, agriculture, scouting

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Anodic Oxidation Of Aluminium And Its Alloys

The Aluminium Development Association, 1949, 2nd edition, revised. Stapled booklet, G. 64pp, 4 colour & 10 b/w illustrations, b/w tables, a good copy. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ Brief details on the anodising & dyeing of aluminium surfaces & the process of electro brightening.

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Book number: 53477

Keywords: aluminium, metals, metallurgy, roofing, architecture

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Anodic Oxidation Of Aluminium And Its Alloys

The Aluminium Development Association, 1949, 2nd edition, revised. Stapled booklet, G. 64pp, 4 colour & 10 b/w illustrations, b/w tables, a good copy. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ Brief details on the anodising & dyeing of aluminium surfaces and the process of electro brightening.

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Book number: 53478

Keywords: aluminium, metals, metallurgy, roofing, architecture

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The Apocrypha - The Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical Books Of The Old Testament

Cambridge University Press, 2005, reprint. Printed boards, F. xiv+247pp, a fine copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 0521507766
¶ New Revised Standard Version of the Apocrypha.

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Book number: 57577

Keywords: ISBN 0521507766, bible, christianity, catholicism 0521507766

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Archaeologia, Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating To Antiquity Published By The Society Of Antiquaries Of London Volume CIX [ 109 ]

printed by the Devonshire Press for The Society Of Antiquaries Of London , 1991, 1st edition. Cloth, F. xii+244pp, 55pp b/w plates, many text figs including a few folding, index, a fine copy. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Contains - Giants' Hills 2 Long Barrow, Skendleby - The Pre Flavian Military Belt - Abbot Berkyng's Tapestries & Matthew Paris's Life of St Edward the Confessor - The Discoveries of the Westminster Retable - le Jeu de la Hache, A 15th C Treatise on the Technique of Chivalric Axe Combat - The Pilgrims Hall, Winchester, Hammer beams, Base Crucks & Aisle Derivative Roof Structures - The Papal Palace & Other 14th C buildings at Sorgues Near Avignon - Anne of Denmark's Jewellery Inventory.

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Book number: 46612

Keywords: archaeology, medieval history

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The Archaeological Journal, Published Under The Direction Of The Council Of The Royal Archaeological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland March 1876 [bound with] September 1876 [bound with] June 1882

The Royal Archaeological Institute , 1876, 1st edition. Half calf over pebble cloth boards, VG. x+8+103+207-474+97-214pp, 29 b/w plates, 3 coloured plates, 3 folding plans, two small tears at the corner of the folding plans, leather rubbed along the edges, binding repaired at the hinge at some time, a reading copy - 1876 is incomplete as June 1882 has been bound in in error. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Collection of articles upon Architectural, Archaeological & Historical subjects. Topics include - Westminster Abbey, Kent at the time of the Roman Invasion, Baalbeck, Norham Castle, Wantage, Constantinople & Armour.

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Book number: 29466

Keywords: archaeology, history, architecture, topography, castles, cathedrals

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L'Architecture Ancienne Et Moderne En Allemagne, En Belgique, En Holland, Et En Suisse [Architecture, Ancient & Modern In Germany, Belgium, Holland & Switzerland]

Armand Guerinet, Paris, nd c 1920, 1st edition. Card portfolio, VG. 96 b/w plates + 1 index sheet, loose in a card portfolio. Complete as called for. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ An interesting collection of views of buildings, from cathedrals to timber framed houses. The photos would seem to date from c 1900 and show many buildings now lost.

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Book number: 6402

Keywords: architecture, germany, holland, belgium, switzerland

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Archives De Sociologie Des Religions Volume 4, Juillet - Décembre 1957

Editions Du Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, 1957, 1st edition. Paperback, VG. 208pp, spine yellowed, internally a fine copy. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ Collection of papers on the Sociology of Religion , covering contries as far apart as Japan & South Africa.

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Book number: 29075

Keywords: religion, sociology

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The Art Of Ticket Writing

Published at the Office of the 'Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade Journal', 1887, 1st edition. Cloth, G. 62pp+9pp publishers adverts, covers with a crease down the middle of the board, endpaper & title detached, several old sellotape repairs which have yellowed, contents a little grubby & rubbed through use. A worn, but complete copy. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Interesting graphical arts manual intended to show retailers how to make large advertising announcements for display outside their shops. The book gives advice on the correct writing impliments, how to chose & mount the board, inks - and how to mix & varnish, gilding, block lettering, design of the layout, holland blinds, paper lettering and lithographic work. The book shows several specimin alphabets as well as completed designs. Uncommon, only the Oxford & BL copies of the first edition recoreded on COPAC.

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Book number: 28602

Keywords: graphics, graphic art, alphabets, lettering, art, design, ink, graphic design

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The Art Of Drawn Work

The Butterick Publishing Co, 1898, reprint. Large fomat paperback, G. 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout, edges worn, with the title & first pages with tears to the margins, pp7/8 torn just into the text with no loss of lettering, the last page of the text ( an illustration of a towel border ) detached with the margin trimmed to the edge of the image, paper yellowed a little. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ Well illustrated mannual of Drawn thread work ( also known as pulled thread work ) which is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on removing threads from the warp and/or the weft of a piece of even-weave fabric. The remaining threads are then grouped or bundled together into a variety of patterns.

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Book number: 41288

Keywords: textiles, lace, thread work, craft, fabric

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Arts And Artists - Will To Power In Art

Academy Of Art Ltd, nd c 1960, 1st edition. Card wrappers, VG. 15pp, b/w illustrations, covers a little bumped at the edges, a nice copy. Paperback , no dustjacket.
¶ Short paper of the future of Art & what it will mean for both viewer & artist. Art as an extension of pure thoughh, as oposed to simply representing the World in paint.

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Book number: 21716

Keywords: art, painting , fine art

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The Autocar Map For Motorists

Edward Stanford Ltd, nd c 1926, 1st edition. Cloth, folded map comprising 72 panels folded so that 12 are viewable at one time giving a N to S view of England & wales, with coloured arrows showing the correct conjoined sheets. Sclae of 8 miles to an inch. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Curiously mounted ( the Stanford Bridges Patent Mount ) road map of England & Wales, circa mid 1920s as the map has the roads following the classification system which was introduced in 1922. Wen opened the user of the map could view 4 panels of the map at a time & then fold upwards to reveal the next 4 panels of the map - alternatively, the user could open out the 3 parallel sections to view 12 at a time.

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Book number: 58331

Keywords: map, atlas, cartography