The sportsman's dictionary: or, The country gentleman's companion, in all rural recreations : with full and particular instructions for hawking, ... Extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient and modern: with large Improvements

London: Printed For C. Hitch, At The Red Lion, And C. Davis, Both In Pater-Noster-Row; And S. Austen, At The Angel And Bible In St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1735. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: []4, B8-Z8, Aa8-Bb8; II: []2, Cc8-Zz8, Aaa8. First edition. No pagination. Contemporary calf, repaired. With music and 25 plates, some folding. Good.

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Book number: 1313

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Dictionaries/Language

Studies in Religion. By the Author of "Words in a Sunday School."

New York: C. Shephard, 1845. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. 230pp. Bound in polished light tan calf, with two sets of double fillet borders. In the corners, a design in a rectangle formed by the two sets of borders. In the larger rectangles, "Studies in Religion" on top, and the initials "E. C." in the bottom. Pattern repeated on lower cover, but without the title or the initials. Spine decorated in blind Good.

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Book number: 2404

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Fine Bindings

Sunday reading, part 1. On the religious advantages of the present inhabitants of Great Britain.

[Bath]: Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts,) at Bath; by J. Marshall, Printer to the Cheap Repository, No. 17, Queen-Street, CheapSide, & No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; & R. White, Piccadilly, [1795]. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 12pp. Dusbound. With a woodcut on the title-page. ESTC T48871. Some staining throughout, mostly marginal. A tear on the title-page, not affecting text. Good.

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Book number: 707

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Juvenilia

Supplement of the Alphabetical catalogue of the Library of Parliament: containing the books and pamphlets added to the library from March 1st, 1873, to 1st March, 1874. [WROTH'S COPY].

Ottawa: Printed by I.B. Taylor, 1874. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 33, [i]pp. Blue printed paper wrappers. 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: 002963

Supplement to the Alphabetical catalogue of the Library of Parliament: containing the books and pamphlets added to the library from March 1st, 1876, to 25th January, 1877. [WROTH'S COPY].

Ottawa: Printed by Maclean, Roger & Co. 1877. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 29, [iii]pp. Dark blue printed paper wrappers. 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: 002964

Tennyson Research Bulletin. [A.N.L. MUNBY'S COPY].

Lincoln: Published by The Tennyson Society at the Tennyson Research Centre, The City Library, Free School Lane, 1967-1970. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. Four volumes. 123, [i]pp. Number One (October 1967), Number Two (November 1968), Volume 1, Number 3 (November 1969), and Volume 1, Number 4 (November 1970). Printed paper wrappers. Illustrated. With corrections in Munby's hand to Number One. Very Good.

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Book number: 002831

Theodore Sizer: A Bibliography of his writings published on the occasion of his 70th birthday, 19 March 1962, by the Art Gallery Associates and the Department of the History of Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. [WROTH'S COPY (?)].

New Haven: Art Gallery Associates and the Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 1962. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 30pp. Marbled paper wrappers. Paper title label on upper cover. With a frontispiece portrait. Presentation from Sizer to John Carter Brown Library. 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: 002881

Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal, with an abstract of proceedings of annual meeting, 2nd December, 1878. [WROTH'S COPY].

Montreal: J. Starke & Co. Printers and Publishers, 1878. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 14, [ii]pp. Pink printed paper wrappers. No copy in OCLC. 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: 002960

Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal, with an abstract of proceedings of annual meeting, 3rd December, 1877. [WROTH'S COPY].

Montreal: Printed by John C. Becket, 1878. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 7, [v]pp. Greenish-blue printed paper wrappers. No copy in OCLC. 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: 002961

To the most Reverend Fathers in God, William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, and John Lord Archbishop of York Primate of England and Metropolitan.

[London: printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1685 [i.e. 1686]]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 14, [ii]pp. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. The first leaf bears royal arms on verso; the last leaf is blank. Quire B contains "Directions concerning preachers," formerly identified as Wing J235 ("Orders concerning preachers"). It is in two settings: p. 14 begins (1) "such days" or (2) "use any." In this copy, it starts with 'such days.' Disbound. Identified as Wing D1529A on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1548; Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), J389; ESTC R33451. Good.

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Book number: 862

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Religion

Traicté dv divorce par l'advltère, sçauoir, s'il est permis à l'homme ou à la femme en ce cas de se remarier.

A Paris: chez Nicolas Rousset, Libraire en la grand salle du Palais, du costé de la Cour des Aydes,1629. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 79, [i]pp. A4-K4. First edition. Blue paper wrappers. I have been able to trace only one copy of this 1629 edition; the one in the Bibliotheque Municipale de Lyon. There seem to be less than six copies of the 1655 edition, and none of them are in the US. Good.

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Book number: 2349

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Law

Trust Deed. Re: Property at Redbridge, Southampton.

Redbridge, Southampton: 30 January 1788. 0. Soft cover. An indenture (2 feet 1.5 inches X 2 feet 8.5 inches) regarding property at Redbridge, Southampton, between Jane Long of Redbridge, spinster, to Philip Payne of Millbrook, gent. and John Poore of Redbridge, timber merchant; trust for benefit of her nephew Richard Long of Redbridge, mariner, and his sons. Very Good.

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Book number: 003207

The tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg. For high-treason, for conspiring the death of the King, and raising a rebellion in this kingdom: at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, London, on a commission of oyer and terminer held there for the City of London, and county of Middlesex, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 12, 13, and 14. 1683.

London: printed for Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles Mearn, 1683. 0. Soft cover. Folio. [ii], 81, [i]pp. The words "Thomas Walcot. Russell," and "John Rous . Blagg." are bracketed together on title-page. Imprimatur on verso of title-page: I appoint Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles Mearn to print the Tryals . and that no other do presume to print the same. VVill. Prichard, Mayor. Two editions identified. Wing does not differentiate between the two editions. In this edition, the penultimate line of the title ends "and"; in another edition (ESTC R507693) that line ends "Friday." Disbound. ESTC R21861; Wing T2265. Good.

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Book number: 003066

Typographer: Dedicated to the Memory of Frederic W. Goudy 1865 - 1947.

Rochester, New York: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1960. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 52pp. Typographer Vol. XX, No. 1 (Spring 1960). Title-page in red and black. With some printing in color. Original printed wrappers. Good.

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Book number: 1866

Catalogue: Books about Books

A very lively portraytvre of the most reverend arch-bishops, the right reverend bs. of the Church of England: set forth in XX irrefragable positions, concerning their authority, power, and practise, as they onely are our diocesan lord bishops, ...

[London]: Printed in the Yeare [by Elizabeth Purslowe?], 1640. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [ii], 60, [ii]pp. A4-H4. Head-piece and initial. The last leaf verso contains "Twenty irrefragable positions," here placed before the title-page. Marbled-paper covered boards. Good.

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Book number: 2325

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Religion