The Friends of the Dallas Public Library present Words that changed the World: Dallas Public Library, November 18-December 31, 1963.

n.p. [Dallas]: Friends of the Dallas Public Library, n.d. [1963]. 0. Soft cover. Folio. 86pp. Embossed paper wrappers. Illustrated. Wroth's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Very Good.

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Book number: 002809

Friends of the National Libraries. Anniversary Exhibition, 1931-1951, in the King's Library of the British Museum. [A.N.L. MUNBY'S COPY].

Oxford: University Press, 1951. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. iv, 45, [i]pp. Printed paper wrappers. Munby's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Very Good.

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Book number: 002821

Friendship's Offering: a Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, for MDCCCLIII.

Philadelphia: Published by E. H. Butler & Co. 1852. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue morocco with gilt strapwork all over the covers and spine. Good.

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Book number: 2380

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Fine Bindings

Galerie du Palais Royal: graveìe d'apreÌs les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent: avec un abreìgeì de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau.

A Paris: Chez J. Coucheì, graveur .: J. Bouillard, graveur . 1786-1808. 0. Hardcover. Large folio. Three volumes. Incomplete, volume three only. Contemporary green calf, rebacked. With 352 engravings; 130 in volume I, 143 in volume II, and 82 in volume III. The engraved plates are after paintings by various French, Dutch, Flemish and Italian masters by Couché and Bouilliard. Although the plate count total in the index is 355, only 352 plates are listed. Approximately 80 plates present. Good.

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Book number: 1390

Catalogue: Artbooks

Geraldina: a novel founded on a recent event: in two volumes.

London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson . 1798. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: [ii], 275, [i]pp.; II: [ii], 300pp. I: [A]1, B12-M12, N6; II: [A]1, B12-N12, O6. Contemporary calf, repaired. Black, F.G. Epistolary novel 134; ESTC N7149; Garside, P. English novel, 1770-1829, 1798:3; Block, A. English novel, p. 83. There are three known copies of Geraldina, located at the New York Society Library, the University of Pennsylvania, and Forstliche Bibliothek zu Corvey, with none known in British libraries. The set was recently repaired; and one leaf (Volume II, page 115/116) was restored. Good.

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Book number: 1496

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books

Les grands maîtres de la Renaissance. Les arts en Italie. Iconographie des chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture, la sculpture, et l'architecture italienne par ... le Marquis de Baldassini, C. J. Cavallucci, G. Lafenestre, ... P. Mantz ... Avec 45 eaux-fortes, 2

Paris: J. Rothschild, 1888. 0. Hardcover. Large folio. Edition limited to 225 copies; this is No. 93. In a library buckram binding. Illustrated with 45 etchings, 2 copperplates, and 325 textual illustrations. Shipping for this item, due to the weight and size of the book, will be at cost. Good.

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Book number: 1595

Catalogue: Artbooks, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Handlist of Books in the Library of the Bibliographical Society.

Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 1935. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, 67pp. Half-title. In the original quarter linen binding over boards. Good.

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Book number: 184

Catalogue: Books about Books

Keywords: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES

His Maiesties declaration to all his louing subiects, of the causes which moued him to dissolue the last Parliament. Published by his Maiesties speciall command.

Imprinted at London: by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1628 [i.e. 1629]. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [iv], 45, [iii]pp. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A" in a mortised ornament; the last leaf is blank. Another setting of the title-page has "declaration" mispelled "dclaration." Disbound. ESTC S122629; Not in STC. Very Good.

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Book number: 003142

An historical dictionary of England and Wales. In three parts.

London: printed for Abel Roper at the Mitre in Fleet-street near Temple-Bar, 1692. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [292]pp. A6-I6, Aa6-Mm6, Aaa6-Ccc6, Ddd2. First leaf is blank. With final advertisement leaf. Contemporary calf. With a folding map. Wing H2103A; ESTC R7803. Good.

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Book number: 567

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

The Holy Bible.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1855. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 856, 259, 77pp. Contemporary blindstamped brown calf, elaborately tooled on both covers. All edges gilt. With a clasp. With a frontispiece. Hill 1589 (?). Not in Darlow & Moule, Herbert, nor Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855. Good.

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Book number: 2357

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Fine Bindings

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

New York: American Bible Society, 1853. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 984pp. Bound in black embossed morocco in blind by A.C. Morin, with his name stamped in blind on both covers. Flat spine, decorated in blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855, 153; Darlow & Moule I, 1188 (pagination differs). Good.

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Book number: 2358

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Fine Bindings

The Ian Fleming Collection of 19th-20th century source material concerning Western civilization: together with the originals of the James Bond-007 tales. [A.N.L. MUNBY'S COPY].

n.p. [Bloomington, Indiana]: Indiana University Office of Publications, n.d. [1970]. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. 53, [i]pp. Decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. A.N.L. Munby's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Fine.

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Book number: 002780

An illustrated souvenir of the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library, Watertown, New York. [WROTH'S COPY].

Watertown, N.Y.: Issued by Hungerford-Holbrook Co. n.d. [1904?]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 30pp. Decorated paper wrappers; within protective boards. Illustrated. Wroth's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Fine.

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Book number: 002782

An important crisis, in the Callico and Muslin Manufactory in Great Britain, explained.

n.p. [London]: n.p. n.d. [1788]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 28pp. Drop-head title. Dated 9th April, 1788. Disbound. Goldsmiths' 13559; ESTC T148250. Six copies in the UK, one in Ireland, one in the US, and one in Canada. Good.

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Book number: 2444

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books

Imprisonment for debt considered. With respect to the bad policy, inhumanity, and evil tendency of that practice. Translated from the Italian.

London: printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1772. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xvi], 40pp. With the half-title, in excellent facsimile. Drab boards. Roscoe, A246; ESTC T37075. Ex-library copy; deaccessioned with all the appropriate marks. ESTC records three copies: one at the British Library, one at Queen's University at Belfast, and one at Yale. It is conceivable that this was originally written by Beccaria; but there is no evidence to support this assumption. Good.

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Book number: 2339

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books