ANON

The Persecution of the Roman Catholic Church in the Third Reich. Facts and Documents translated from the German. [First English Edition.] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH

Burns Oates,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 16 plates; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Not recorded by Enser.

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Book number: 49076

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, catholic church, third reich

ANON

Perspective View of Gibraltar with the the Disposition of the Spanish Attack, and Relief of the Garrison by the English Fleet under the command of Admiral Darby, 12 April 1781. AQUATINT COLOURED BY HAND

European Magazine,, 1782. Engraved aquatint measuring approx. 6.75 x 9.00 ins (17.25 x 22.75 cms), tastefully coloured in wash by hand, in mulberry bevel-cut mount, some very light age-marking, a bright, clean copy. This engraving was prepared by Lodge, published on 1 October 1782 by J. Fielding of Paternoster Row, J. Sewell of Cornhill and J. Debrett of Piccadilly, and issued with the September 1782 number of the 'European Magazine'. It depicts the Rock from the Spanish town of La Linea with the Spanish troops encamped and deployed in the foreground. The English fleet appears in the middle distance with Gibraltar and its fortifications in the backgound. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 6215

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, to 1914, gibraltar, spain, la linea, royal navy, sieges

ANON

Poeta de Tristibus: or, The Poet's Complaint (1682). Introduction by Harold Love. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1971. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 149. 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: 19424

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, poeta de tristibus, poets complaint, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

ANON

Political Justice. A Poem (1736). Introduction by Burton R. Pollin and John W. Wilkes. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1965. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 111. 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: 19455

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, political justice, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

ANON

The Reading Mercury or Weekly Entertainer. Vol. I. Numb. 1 Monday July 8 1723. [Facsimile reissue].

W. Parks and D. Kinnier, next Door to the Saracen's Head, in High-Street, Reading,, 1723. Sm. 4to., 12pp., black-letter throughout, with a large woodcut illustrations and woodcut initial in the text; a near fine copy. Good quality facsimile of the original edition. The Reading Mercury was the town's first newspaper, one of the first in the UK and older than The Times. See Horrocks, p.157.

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Book number: 16341

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, berkshire, berks, reading, newspapers, reading mercury, anon, topography, berkshire, reading, mercury, weekly, entertainer

ANON.

Rump. Vol. II [this volume only]. Or an exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the Late Times. By the most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661. Vol. II [of 2]. [Facsimile reissue]. THE RUMP IN FACSIMILE

Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane [and another],, 1662 [1874]. 8vo., Facsimile Reissue, fore-edges mildly age-browned, small signature on title; original grey paper boards, expertly rebacked in paper to style, backstrip with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Second volume of the well-known nineteenth-century facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1662.

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Book number: 31857

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, rump, henry brome

ANON

Scotch Modesty Displayed, in a Series of Conversations that lately passed between an Englishman and a Scotchman. Addressed to the Worthy Patriots of England.

Printed for John Bew, No. 28 Pater Noster Row,, 1778. 16mo., First Edition, on laid paper; attractively bound in twentieth century grey boards, paper label lettered and ruled in black on upper board, small marginal chip in D4 (not affecting text), a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Most attractive copy of a none-too-subtle satire on the supposed power of the Scots in the English establishment and society. The barb was evidently a popular one, for it reissued in the same year with a third printing in 1780. Rare.

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Book number: 9378

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, political economy, politics, pamphlets, satire, scotland, george iii, anon, literature, scotch, modesty, displayed, series, conversations, that, lately, passed, between, an, englishman, scotchman

[ANON]

The Scribleriad (1742) [with] The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue (1742). Introduction by A.J. Sambrook. [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. 125. 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: 19450

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, hervery, scribleriad, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library, scribleriad

ANON

Souvenir d'une Visite a la Colonne de la Grande Armee, Boulogne-sur-Mer. [Booklet of 10 postcards].

Levy, Paris,, n.d.] [c.1920]. Sm. oblong booklet containing two pages on introductory text in French and English, and 10 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original wrappers printed in gilt and black, yapped edges, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean copy.

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Book number: 9140

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, napoleon, napoleonic wars, boulogne, grande armee, postcards, anon, military, napoleonic wars, souvenir, d'une, visite, la, colonne, de, la, grande, armee, boulogne-sur-mer

ANON

The Story of Waterloo; or, the Fall of Napoleon.

William Nimmo, Edinburgh,, 1873. Sm. 8vo., First [and Sole?] Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces (several neatly coloured by hand), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, ornate presentation inscription in red and black on front free endpaper verso; original decorative cloth blocked in black, coloured illustration mounted in arches frame on upper board, gilt back, green endpapers, a remarkably bright, well-preserved copy. Extremely scarce, and a rare survival in this condition.

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Book number: 9090

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, napoleon, napoleonic wars, waterloo, wellington, anon, military, napoleonic wars, the, story, waterloo, the, fall, napoleon

ANON

Waterloo 1815. [Exhibition catalogue of] Estampes, Dessins, Documents. Exposition organisee a l'Occasion du Cent Cinquantieme Anniversaire de la Bataille. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Bibliotheque Albert 1, Brussels,, 1965. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 24 fine photographic plates; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogues lists 158 notable items, with bibliography, and indexes by subject and artist.

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Book number: 9100

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: napoleon, napoleonic wars, waterloo, exhibition catalogues

ANON

Waterloo. Principaux Monuments. Chief Monuments. Cartes-Vues detachables. Unbindable illustrated Cards.

Nels, [Brussels,, n.d.] [c.1920]. Sm. oblong booklet containing 9 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original printed wrappers in red and green, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. Published in the series 'The Historical Belgium Artistic Collection of the Belgian Sites and Monuments'. The front wrapper carries the well-known circular ink stamp of 'Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo', enclosing the lion memorial. The photographs are by Thill of Brussels and include The Lion and the Panorama, the Three Monuments, French Monument, La Haye Saint, Belgian Monument, the Lion, Papelotte Farm, Belle-Alliance, and Mont- Saint-Jean. Nice example.

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Book number: 9134

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, napoleon, napoleonic wars, waterloo, wellington, postcards, anon, military, napoleonic wars, waterloo

ANON

Waterloo. Cartes Vues detachables.

Nels, [Brussels,, n.d.] [c.1920]. Sm. oblong booklet containing 10 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original printed wrappers in black, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The photographs are by Thill of Brussels and include The Lion and the Panorama, Waterloo and Mont-St-Jean, the Three Monuments, French Monument, La Haye Saint, Prussian Monument, Hougoumont, the Lion, Belle-Alliance, and Mont- Saint-Jean. Nice example.

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Book number: 9139

Catalogue: Military0

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ANOUILH Jean

The Collected Plays. Volume I. The Ermine. Thieves' Carnival. Restless Heart. Traveller without Luggage. Dinner with the Family. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Methuen,, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.

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Book number: 29037

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: mstock, modern firsts, anouilh, jean anouilh, modern first editions, the, collected, plays

ANSCOMB Charles

Submariner. Foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Raw.

Kimber,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates on 6, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Arguably the scarcest of British WWII submarine memoirs. The author began the war in Parthian before moving with her to the Mediterranean. In 1941 he transferred to Tempest which was lost on her maiden patrol in 1942. The last section deals with his escape from captivity in Italy. Includes excellent plates of the interior of Parthian. Particularly elusive in good dustwrapper. Enser, p.416; Law, 1108.

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Book number: 10860

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, submarines, mediteranean, parthian, tempest, pow, charles anscomb, naval, wwii, submariner