ALLEN Joseph

Life of Nelson. IN FULL MOROCCO

Routledge,, [1875]. 8vo., with fine engraved portrait frontispiece, some light textual age-staining; handsomely bound in full blue crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, leather label, hand-made endpapes, ribbon marker, decorative cloth gilt from front cover and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate preliminary leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated August 1875) bound in at end. First published in 1852, Allen's well-known life of Nelson is notable in that he was the last biographer to claim personal acquaintance with some who had known Nelson personally. NMM II/1, 962 (recording the first edition).

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Book number: 15130

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, nelson, horatio nelson, joseph allen

ALLEN Peter

One More River. The Rhine Crossings of 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Dent,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser p.239.

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Book number: 27454

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, rhine crossings, p. allen,military, wwii, north west europe, one, more, river

ALLEN Michael

Pursuit through Darkened Skies. An Ace Night-Fighter Crew in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 40126

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, raf, bomber command, fighter command, night fighters, michael allen

ALLEN Louis

Sittang: The Last Battle. The End of the Japanese in Burma, July-August 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macdonald,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8 and 4 full-page maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard reference. Graham & Cole E1 (recording the book club edition of the same year); Enser p.87.

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Book number: 29599

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, far east, burma, fourteenth army, sittang, louis allen

ALLEN Gordon

The Smaller House of To-day.

Batsford,, [1926]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 219 photographs and plans in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original decorative blue cloth upper board blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, backstrip faded (but all lettering wholly legible), a very good, clean, tight copy. Designs for commuter-belt housing in the style of the Twenties. Architects include Basil Oliver, Quennell and the author, with a well-organised text. Uncommon in this condition.

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Book number: 19212

Catalogue: Fine Art0

Keywords: architecture, houses, commuters, commuter-belt, gordon allen, basil oliver, peter quennell, gordon allen, fine art, architecture, the, smaller, house, to-day

ALLEN Grant

Strange Stories. A New Impression. [Illustrated by George Du Maurier]. IN FULL MOROCCO

Chatto & Windus,, 1908. 8vo., with frontispiece [by Du Maurier]; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled else a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. This classic collection of sixteen short stories was first published in 1884. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Bleiler 13; Tymn 3-2 (both recording the first edition).

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Book number: 31036

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, allen, grant allen, ghost stories, ghosts, supernatural, fantasy, horror

ALLEN R.C. Stafford

Theory of Flight for Glider Pilots. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; red tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 23369

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, gliding, gliders, stafford allen

ALLEN Cecil J.

Titled Trains of Great Britain.

Ian Allan,, 1946. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text, small neat signature on title, free endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a little shaken but a good, sound copy. Ottley 2778.

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Book number: 13844

Catalogue: Transport0

Keywords: railways, rail trains, locomotives, titled trains, cecil j. allen, transport, railways, titled, trains, great, britain

ALLESTREE] [Richard

The New Whole Duty of Man. Containing the Faith as well as Practice of a Christian: made easy for the Practice of the Present Age, as the Old Whole Duty of Man was design'd for those unhappy Times in which it was written. CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

W. Bent,, [1816]. Roy. 8vo., with a fine engraved frontispiece, very neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; contemporary full calf, back with eight double rules in gilt, second compartment with original red leather label lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound) else a remarkably crisp, clean copy. The frontispiece depicts Jesus Christ holding a scroll headed 'The Christian Faith' accompanied by Moses with the Tablets, above these two figures a number of cherubs disport themselves in the sky. The Royalist divine Richard Allestree is generally regarded as the primary, if not sole, author, an attribution first given in Nichols' Anecdotes, ii. 603.

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Book number: 8870

Catalogue: Theology0

Keywords: theology, religion, christianity, christ, moses, allestree, divinity, whole duty of man, r. allestree, theology, new, whole, duty, man

ALLESTREE] [Richard

The Whole Duty of Man, laid down in a plain and familiar Way, for the Use of All, but especially the meanest Reader. Divided into Chapters: One whereof being read every Lord's Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the Year. A New Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

C & J Rivington,, 1824. Sm. 8vo., contemporary full tree calf, SPCK roundel blocked in blind on upper board, back with six bands ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, an unusually bright, clean copy. Complete with half-title, and with the contemporary trade stamp of John Bird, bookbinder of Hatton Garden, on front paste-down. The Rivingtons were at this stage booksellers to SPCK. The Royalist divine Richard Allestree is generally regarded as the primary, if not sole, author, an attribution first given in Nichols' Anecdotes, ii. 603. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 14663

Catalogue: Theology0

Keywords: theology, allestree, whole duty of man, richard allestree

ALLESTREE] [Richard

The Whole Duty of Man. laid down in a plain and familiar Way, for the Use of All, but especially the meanest Reader. Divided into XVII Chapters. Necessary for all Families. With Private Devotions for several Occasions. IN CONTEMPORARY PANELLED CALF

Printed for John Eyres, William Mount and Thomas Page,, 1735. 8vo., [?Second Edition], on laid paper, with fine woodcut frontispiece, and woodcut and printed titles, lengthy eighteenth century family succession on front and rear blank preliminaries, pencilled note on woodcut title; strongly bound in contemporary panelled calf, boards framed and blocked in blind, red sprinkled edges, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, boards moderately age-worn but newly furbished, a very good,crisp, clean copy in elegantly restored period binding. With the 'Moses' frontispiece and 'Cherubim' title, and complete with final advertisement leaf (often missing). 'Eyres' in imprint should read 'Eyre'. Title of 'Private Devotions' dated 1764 but with continuous pagination. Crisp copy of one of the leading Anglican devotional works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author [by popular consensus] was a tutor to Milton and author of several other devotional works. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. ESTC T26177 (recording the first edition of 1658).

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Book number: 32282

Catalogue: Theology0

Keywords: theology, allestree, richard allestree, whole duty of man

ALLESTREE] [Richard

The Whole Duty of Man. laid down in a plain and familiar Way, for the Use of All, but especially the meanest Reader, divided into XVII Chapters: one whereof being read every Lord's Day, the Whole may be read over thrice in the Year. Necessary for all Families. New Edition. THE SPCK ALLESTREE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

SPCK,, 1838. 8vo., neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original publisher's binding of full black roan, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, back with flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. The SPCK edition is (unaccountably) far scarcer that the usual 1838 edition revised by Bent. Includes Private Devotions for several Occasions. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 39929

Catalogue: Theology0

Keywords: theology, allestree, richard allestree, spck

ALLEY Hugh

Hugh Alley's Caveat. The Markets of London in 1598. Folger Ms V.a.318. Edited by Ian Archer, Caroline Barron and Vanessa Harding. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

London Topographical Society,, 1988. 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome facsimiles throughout; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 137.

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Book number: 40039

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, london, london topographical society, lts, hugh alley, london markets, elizabethan london

ALLEYNE Margaret

The Story of Mr. Prettimouse. Illustrated by Mary B. Robinson.

Warne,, n.d.. Sm. 4to., with a coloured frontispiece, illustrated title, numerous charming coloured illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 2205

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: juvenilia, childrens, beatrix potter, margaret alleyne, children's, juvenilia, the, story, mr., prettimouse

ALLIED MILITARY MISSIONS IN BERLIN.

The Allied Military Missions in Berlin 1945-1948. 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Allied Liaison and Protocol, Berlin,, [1948]. Folio, First Edition, text in English, French and Russian, with numerous full-page portraits throughout; publisher's full green roan, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in blind, back with five raised bands, covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO.150). With the separately printed publication and errata slips loosely inserted. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COLONEL ALEXANDER PHELPS HODGES, WHO SERVED AS CHIEF OF ALLIED LIAISON AND PROTOCOL FROM FEBRUARY 1947. Hodges's portrait appears at p.41. He was formerly leader of the British Military Mission to Siberia, 1918-1922, his personal account of which was published as 'BRITMIS' in 1931.

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Book number: 36870

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, berlin, allied military missions to berlin, phelps hodges, alexander phelps hodges