A List of Wills, Administrations, Etc. In the Public Record Office, London, England 12th-19th Century.

Baltimore, Maryland, Magna Carta Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Drawn from a typewritten copy in the Public Record Office. Published by Magna Carta Book Company, Baltimore, 1968. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Very slight bowing to front board. Bound in buckram cloth and with silver lettering to spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix + 158 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 348470

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Keywords: administrative rolls|chancery rolls|England

Photographic View Album of London

, , . . Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Undated (but probably early 1900s), anonymous little tome of sweet little black-and-white photograph of stereotypic London and environmens. Bound in oblong pebbly red cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover, decorated endpapers to both front and rear. photography London, including House of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, London Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, The Royal Exchange, Ludgate Circus, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Square, Thames River, Thames Embankment, National Gallery, Albert Hall, GuildhallLaw Courts, Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner, The Row, Hyde Park, The Horse Guards, Whitehall, Home Office, Natural History Museum and Chrystal Palace.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 347914

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Keywords: photography London|House of Parliament|Westminster Abbey|London Bridge|St. Paul's Cathedral|Tower of London|Tower Bridge|The Royal Exchange|Ludgate Circus|Trafalgar Square|Piccadilly Square|Thames River|Thames Embankment|National Gallery|Albert Hall|Guild

Punch and Judy, with Cruikshank's Etchings

London, George Routledge and Co., . . Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Punch: "Ladies and Gentlemen, pray how you do? If you all happy, me all happy too. Stop and hear my merry littel play; If me make you laugh, me need not make you pay." No date of publication, but appears to be roughly early 1900s, a cute little Broadway Book pamphlet. Bound in simple, light-brown paper wraps, neatly tape-repaired spine, having nearly separated, repaired front upper tip, light chipping to bottom edge, else neat and unmarked of interior. Printed at the Edinburgh Press for George Routledge and Co., 58 pp. and with plentiful etchings by George Cruikshank, including a delightful publisher's device at title page.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Deloney, Thomas; Charles Roberts Aldrich and Lucian Swift Aldrich, eds.

Thomas of Reading, and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada

New York, J.F. Taylor & Co., 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned interior, moderately toned endpapers, page edges. Limited Edition of 150 copies, this being Copy #24. Bound in small quarto format, light blue pastel paper over boards, blocked gilt title lettering thereat, rubbed, scuffed and a bit soiled, oatmeal-colored Japan vellum-backed, with chipping at spine head, cracking to spine bottom front joint. Printed for J.F. Taylor & Co. at The Westminster Press, on Ruisdael hand-made paper. The Wikipedia entry about Thomas Deloney notes that he (born in the middle 16th century, died near 1600) "was an English novelist and balladist. He appears to have worked as a silk-weaver in Norwich, but was in London by 1586, and in the course of the next ten years is known to have written about fifty ballads, some of which got him into trouble, and caused him to keep a low profile for a time." His major work, a novel, Thomas of Reading, pays due homage to clothiers. Thomas of Reading or the Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West was originally published before 1600 and first recorded in Stationers' Register on 19 April 1602, says the Wikipedia entry; it survives only in 17th-century editions. There some quite arresting black-and-white engravings including at frontis, a skirted man carrying fruits in a basket, publisher device at title page, and then The Lamentation of Mr. Pages Wife," at Introduction, with notes at end. The story of Thomas of Reading is quite bizarre. xvi [2], 2-231 pp. all in.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 356038

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Allen, Robert A., ed.

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography for 1974

Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. First Edition, edited by the Altadena, California-based bookseller and appraiser, Robert Allen. Publisher's original purple cloth bindings, [6], 711-1107 pp., and the first appearance of a volume as an issue of the Philological Quarterly, this comprising Volume 54, No. 4, Fall, 1975.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 356012

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Keywords: Robert A. Allen The Eighteenth Century The 18th century literature English history prose poetry literary criticism literary biography

Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 1 - for 1975

Philadelphia and Los Angeles, Published for the Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, just a bit dusty of page edges, bumping to spine head and foot. First Edition, edited by the Altadena, California-based bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen. Publisher's original red cloth bindings, sharp and distinct lettering to front cover and spine. [8], 2-438 pp. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 2 - for 1976

Published for the AMS Press, for the American Soci, Published for the Eighteenth-Century Studies, New York. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound cover in printed, illustrated softcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, lightly soiled and sunned along edges, just a bit dusty. First Edition, edited by the Altadena, California-based bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen. Publisher's original red cloth bindings, sharp and distinct lettering to front cover and spine. [8], 2-448 pp. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356014

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NIMROD [Charles James Apperley]

The Chace

New York, William Farquhar Payson, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Presume First Edition Thus, with "1931" on both copyright and title pages, reprinted from the original, true First Edition of 1832. Introduction by Owen Culbertson, and with five black-and-white illustrations by Edward P. Buyck, including at frontis, full-page. xi, 64 pp. and with several illustrated plates. Rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges. Sans sut jacket, as issued. Several racing chapters on early fox-hunting and fox-hunters, famous and infamous. Bound in light blue illustrated paper over boards, brick-red cloth backed. Mildly soiled and sunned along top edge, else quite clean of interior, unmarked.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Keywords: Owen Culbertson Edward P. Buyck Charles James Apperley hunting fox-hunting

Baines, Anthony

Bagpipes

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1973. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, moderate wear of covers, slight damp-staining to bottom of first few pages of text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting elsewhere, and faint stain not affecting text. Perfectly readable, usable copy. â€oeRevised Editionâ€� of an original essay, published here as Occasional Papers on Technology, 9, T. K. Penniman and B.M. Blackwood, eds. Original publisher’s beige wrappers. 7 1/4â€� x 10.â€� 142 pp. Ninety-two black-and-white illustrations. Sixteen half-tone plates in the back. Covers have extensive smudges but they do not affect readability of the text. A solidly Good copy, but the interior is quite nice. Contents: â€oePreface,â€� â€oeList of Illustrations,â€� â€oeIntroduction,â€� â€oeThe Bagpipe and Its Components,â€� â€oePrimitive Bagpipers and Hornpipes,â€� â€oeBagpipes of Eastern Europe,â€� â€oeThe Zampogna,â€� â€oeBagpipes of Western Europe,â€� â€oeMusette and Small-Pipe,â€� and â€oeAddenda and Corrigenda (1973).â€� Protected in stiff Mylar. Thomas Penniman and Beatrice Blackwood were well known English ethnologists and ethnographers. Their warm Preface recounts that Anthony Baines was one of the founding members of the Galpin Society, and for several decades (born in 1812 and died in 1997) produced a wide variety of definitive works on the history of musical instruments, becoming in the process an â€oeorganologist.â€� This work was published originally in 1960.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 344858

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Barber, Richard

Samuel Pepys, Esquire

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Four essays inscribe Samuel Pepys, Esquire, the man, as depicted in 1970 at an exhibition of the same name. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in lovely decorated cloth over boards, in oblong format. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Replete with fine reproductions of art pieces, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Bardwell, Horaito

Memoir of Rev. Gordon Hall, A.M. , One of the First Missionaries of the Amer. Board of Comm. For for. Missions, at Bombay

Andover / New York, Flagg, Gould and Newman / J. Leavittoratio BardwellPublished by Flagg, Gould and Newman, Andover, 1834, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a title exceedingly scarce in the trade; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in a short 12mo format, bound in publisher's pebbly brown cloth over board, mildly soiled, moderately rubbed, abraded paper title label to spine. xii, 2-260 pp. Fine black-and-white engraving of the denouement of the Good Reverend "At the End of His Labors" in India, tissue-protected. Moderately toned endpapers, else clean and unmarked, mild foxing throughout. Contains a full page frontis with tissue guard, a signature or two very slightly protruding. A fair + copy of a scarce title. David M. Stowe's biography of him says that Gordon Hall (1784-1826), Pioneer Missionary in India, was born in Tolland, Massachusetts, and graduated with highest honors from Williams College in 1808. "Entering Andover Theological Seminary in 1810, he joined the group of students whose enthusiasm for missionary service led to the formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" that same year (A.B.C.F.M.). Hall, Adoniram Judson, Samuel Newell, Samuel Nott, and Luther Rice "sailed from Philadelphia on February 18, reaching Calcutta on August 8" but were refused entry by the authorities of the British East India Company, ended up in Bombay and thus began the first American missionary station overseas. He mastered a local language, married, evangelized, and then provided medical services. After two of their children died, his wife and remaining two sons returned to America in 1825; he then died the following year of cholera (Stowe).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 356447

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Keywords: christianity christian missions missionization Indian Horatio Bardwell Gordon Hall Reverend Gordon British Empire colonialism

Max Beerbohm

Mainly on the Air

London, England, William Heinemann, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny, printed dust jacket, not much wear to panels but with some chipping along the top edge, rubbing of lettering to spine, further chipping, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Collection of essays and radio addresses from 1922 to 1935, including about Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Typical post-war economy paper is a bit friable. Some bracing reports of war-torn England and the resilience of especially London against German incursions. 132 pp. .Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 353519

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Bentham, Jeremy; W. Star, ed.

Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three

London, The Royal Economic Society, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in three volumes, published in First Edition, First Printing states in 1952, 1952, and 1954, respectively, Volume One, Two and Three. A perfectly serviceable set of three reference copies; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spines, rubbing to extremities. Ex-library copies with usual markings to spines, bookplates, endpapers, ink-stamps, etc. This is the Critical Edition, based on his printed works and unprinted manuscripts, edited by W. Stark, and with lengthy Introductions by him to each volume. Volume One: [6], 7-412 pp.; Volume Two: [6], 7-458 pp.; Volume Three: [6], 7-600 [1] pp. including a Note of Errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 353474

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Blunt, Wilfred Scawen

Satan Absolved: A Victorian Mystery

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior beyond heavily toned endpapers, minimal rubbing to extremities, but moderately rubbed gilt title to spine, sunning along edges. Frontispiece portrait by Frederick W. Watt. Original brown cloth covers Toning to blank endpapers and last page, a few unopened edges, but rough-cut bottom and fore-edges.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Lord Viscount

A Letter to Sir William Windham II. Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation. III a Letter to Mr Pope.

London, Printed for the Editor, and sold by A. Millar, 1753. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A reissue of the 1753 edition in octavo hardcover format. Frontis, plate and half-title present. A remarkably good-looking, structurally sound copy of the apparent First Edition, bound in marbled paper over boards, leather over tips and spine, with five raised bands over spine, fine though rubbed gilt lettering and ruling to spine, title over burgundy leather label over spine. Some moderate rubbing to and chipping of joints, backstrip, scuffing to tips, extremities, cracking to front pastedown, else sturdy and clean of interior. Red-stained page edges all around, mildly toned of interior, but paper quite fine, and with a sharp and distinct black-and-white engraving of "H.S.L.B., Nil Admirari" at frontis. William Windham (14 May [O.S. 3 May] 1750 – 4 June 1810) "was a British Whig statesman. Elected to Parliament in 1784, Windham was attached to the remnants of the Rockinghamite faction of Whigs, whose members included his friends Charles James Fox and Edmund Burke," according to his Wikipedia entry. He first sympathized with the French Revolution then opposed it. The author of the letter to him, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751), his ideas were influential on the work of Voltaire and the American supporters of colonial Independence such as Thomas Jefferson and William Adams. Bolingbroke was a close friend of Alexander Pope and was said to have been present at his death. Bolingbroke "was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology," according to his Wikipedia entry. frontis matter, 10-531 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357092

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Keywords: Henry St. John Bolinbroke Sir William Windham Alexander Pope