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Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals. Introduction by John Loftis. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1960. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 85-86. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 19438

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, theatre, eighteenth century, eighteenth century theatre, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

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The Female Wits (1704). Introduction by Lucyle Hook. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1967. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 124. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 19458

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, female wits, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

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French Domestic Cookery. Combining Elegance with Economy; describing new cilunary Implements and Processes; the Management of the Table; Instructions for Carving; French, German, Polish, Spanish and Italian Cookery IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH

David Bogue, Fleet Street,, 1846. 12mo., First Edition thus, with several woodcut illustrations in the text, neat nineteenth century signature on front free endpaper, title and first page of text; original publisher's brown grained cloth, boards with double frame border enclosing an elaborate an elaborate lozenge all in blind, very neatly recased with new cloth backstrip to style, original gilt lettering laid down, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled else a very good, crisp copy in sympathetically restored publisher's binding. According to the English editor's Preface this scarce work is 'an adapted translation of one of the most popular treatises on French Cookery, entitled La Cuisiniere de la Campagne et de la Ville ou Nouvelle Cuisine Economique, Paris, Audot, 1846'. The success and stature of the French original is compared to that of Mrs. Rundell. It has been suggested that this is in fact a second edition of a work with a similar title published by Thomas Boys in 1825 [Bitting, p. 554; Oxford, p. 157; Wellcome III, 67]; however this would contradict the Preface, and there is no mention of such a kinship in Oxford who lists both volumes. A very nice copy of an extremely scarce work. Oxford, p.177 (recording the publisher as 'David Boyne'). Not in Cagle.

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Book number: 16963

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, cooking, french cuisine, recipes, french domestic cookery, anon, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, french, domestic, cookery

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Helped and Hindered. A Story for Boys.

Religious Tract Society,, [1888]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and several illustrations (2 ful-page) in the text; original pictorial cloth, gilt back, a good, firm copy. With trade stamps on front free endpaper and front free endpaper verso, and 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.

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Book number: 9374

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: literature, novels, rts, religious tract society, childrens, juvenilia, anon, children's, juvenilia, helped, hindered

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The Herefordshire Pomona. 980 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Folio Society,, 2014. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous fine coloured plates; green cloth, boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, plates volume with green morocco back, a fine copy in publisher's solander case. EDITION LIMITED TO 980 COPIES. A splendid edition of this masterpiece of botanical art, the most comprehensive study of apples and pears grown in Britain ever published.

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Book number: 39360

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: mstock, folio society, apples, pears, pomona, herefordshire pomona

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Hints on Archery. By a Well Known Archer. A RARE SURVIVAL

F H Ayres,, 1925. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, wire-stiched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 45929

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, pastimes, archery, toxophily

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Hong Kong Directory. NEAR FINE COPY

[Universal Publications, Hong Kong],, [1998]. 8vo., Fourth Edition, indexes and captions in English and Chinese, with very numerous details coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 22022

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, far east, hong kong, hongkong

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The Hun Hunters. Cautionary Tales from the Trenches. THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Grant Richards,, 1916. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with cartoons throughout, some light age-soiling as usual; original pictorial boards, ivory cloth backstrip lettered in black, very neatly recased with lower board reinforced, a very good, bright, firm copy. Featuring 'Sergeant Tombs, whose Passion for Experiment led him to Destruction'. A wonderful example of sardonic 'Tommy' humour from the trenches, somewhere between Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales' and Graham's 'Ruthless Rhymes'. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 23257

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww1, great war, grenadier guards, anon, military, wwi, command memoirs, the, hun, hunters

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Knitting & Crocheting for Antique Dolls. [Reprinted from Old Books and Periodicals]. COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Hobby House Press, Cumberland MD,, 1981]. 3 vols, roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers printed in sepia, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set. The set comprises Vol. I: 1874-1896; Vol. II: 1898-1913; Vol. III: 1914-1928. Complete sets are very scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 20894

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: needlework, knitting, crocheting, dolls, antique dolls, anon, sports, pastimes, needlework, knitting, crocheting, antique, dolls

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Lewes Remembers the Second World War (1939-1945). FINE COPY

U3A Publications, Lewes,, 1993. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The words of the people of Lewes recorded and edited by members of the U3A oral history group.

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Book number: 11750

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: topography, sussex, lewes, ww2, home front, oral history, anon, military, wwii, home front, lewes, remembers, second, world, war, (1939-1945)

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The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass. Newly Collected, Chronicled and Set Forth, in our English Tongue. And Adorned with many most diverting and cunning devices. Second Edition. [Illustrated by A. Crowquill, pseud. A.H. Forrester].

Trubner & Co.,, 1860. 8vo., Second Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, illustrated title in red and black, 6 fine wood-engraved plates FINELY COLOURED BY HAND and 26 engraved illustrations in the text, wanting front free endpaper, frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original pictorial red coarse-grain cloth, upper board elaborately blocked with multiple frame border in gilt and blind enclosing jester and title all in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, bevelled boards, yellow endpapers, covers moderately age-soiled, corners scuffed, joints somewhat rubbed with one short tear, gathering cracked at F6-7 (but binding wholly sound) else a firm, tight copy. With Westley's binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Mackenzie's version of the German mediaeval classic was first published in 1860 as a Christmas volume, but stocks were swiftly exhausted and a second edition prepared to meet continuing demand. Mackenzie produced a lengthy additional preface to this second edition, attributing the success of the venture partly to 'the generous and unanimous verdict of the press' but also, surely, to the wonderful illustrations by 'Alfred Crowquill' (A.H. Forrester). Many would-be Christmas readers must have been disappointed for Mazkenzie dates his preface Christmas Eve, but scholars of mediaeval romance and fantasy will find this a most useful edition replete with extensive historical preface and bibliographical and other scholarly appendices. The US edition (T&F of Boston) of the same year is the first American edition of the tale in English. Scarce.

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Book number: 15819

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, folklore, romance, fantasy, tyl ulenspiegel, ulenspiegel, anon, literature, the, marvellous, adventures, rare, conceits, master, tyll, owlglass

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Metamorfose van een Stad. Arnhem. [1934-1964]. FINE COPY

[Gelders Archief, Arnhem,, 2004]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, title in black and yellow, with numerous photographs in the text on coloured stock, and photographic endpapers; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. With the separately printed supplement loosely inserted. Dedicated to all who fought for the freedom of Arnhem. Scarce.

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Book number: 20782

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, holland, arnhem, oosterbeek, airborne, market garden, anon, military, wwii, arnhem, metamorfose, van, een, stad

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Official Souvenir Coronation Tattoo Aldershot June 10-12th and 15-19th, 1937. NEAR FINE COPY

[Gale & Polden, Aldershot],, 1937. 4to., First Edition , with numerous coloured and sepia-toned photographs and illustrations throughout; original blue wrappers, colour illustrations mounted on front wrapper, wire-stitched as issued, decorative wove ribbon, yapped edges, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.

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Book number: 24825

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, british army, coronation tattoo, aldershot, anon, military, general, official, souvenir, coronation, tattoo, aldershot, june, 10-12th, 15-19th, 1937

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Our Queen's Year 1977. A Unique Souvenir of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS

Favcrest,, 1977. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 14500

Catalogue: History0

Keywords: history, royalty, queen elizabeth, silver jubilee, anon, history, our, queen's, year, 1977

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Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo. [12 illustrated Post-cards explaining the Panorama].

Nels, [Brussels,, n.d.] [c.1925]. Sm. oblong booklet containing two pages of introductory English text, and 12 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in English; original wrappers printed in blue, yapped edges, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The front wrapper carries the well-known circular ink stamp of 'Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo', enclosing the lion memorial. The photographs show details from the Dumoulin panorama erected in 1912 at the foot of Lion's Hill. Nice example.

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Book number: 9138

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, napoleon, napoleonic wars, waterloo, wellington, postcards, anon, military, napoleonic wars, panorama, the, battle, waterloo