Tours [Francd], Ad. Mame & cie 1845 Engraved plates [4 including engraved pictorial extra titlepage] . Cartonage Romantique

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Book number: A75474

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

ALMANACH DE GOTHA POUR l'Annee 1835

Gotha, Justus Perthes 1835 engraved plates [6] includes Francois I + President Andrew Jackson &Lord Viscount Palmerston . 16mo Pretty yellow embossed covers with coat of arms and flower designs in original slip-case with original title label [damaged but partly readable] All Edges gilt [sl.rubbed/foot of spine repaired] VIII [=titlepage + Additions & changements] + Calendrier with plates interspersed + 272pp [of Genealogie Premiere Partie + deuxieme Partie + Epoques + Annuaire Diplomatique] + [102pp =Tables Chronologiques + tableaux Statistiques] + [1p=tables des Matieres ]+[1p =Avis] Minor foxing mostly mamrginal + a few leaves creased. Mineature booksellers blue label & ink ownership to pastedown dated 1835.

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Book number: A75965

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Almanack

AMERICAN HERITAGE February 1958 Volume IX No.2

USA, American Heritage 1958 Colored and b/w illustrations throughout. . Large octavo pictorial boards (edges rubbed/slightly marked) 111pp lacks outer half of front endpaper else V.G.

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Book number: A58298

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American history monthly

AMERICAN HERITAGE June 1958 Volume IX No.4

USA, American Heritage 1958 Colored and b/w illustrations throughout. . Large octavo pictorial boards (edges rubbed/sl.marked) 112pp V.G.

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Book number: A58300

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American history monthly

AMERICAN HERITAGE August 1958 Volume IX No.5

USA, American Heritage 1958 Colored and b/w illustrations throughout . Large octavo pictorial boards (edges rubbed/slightly marked) 111pp bookplate removed from front endpaper else V.G.

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Book number: A58301

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American history monthly

AMERICAN HERITAGE October 1958 Volume IX No.6

USA, American Heritage 1958 Colored and b/w illustrations throughout. . Large octavo pictorial boards (edges rubbed/sl.marked) 120pp V.G.

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Book number: A58304

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American history monthly

AMERICAN HERITAGE December 1958 Volume X No.1

USA, American Heritage 1958 Colored and b/w illustrations throughout . Large octavo pictorial boards (1" damage to foot of spine/edges rubbed/slightly marked) 127pp else V.G.

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Book number: A58305

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American history monthly

The child's Bible : being a consecutive arrangement of the narrative and other portions of Holy Scripture, in the words of the Authorised Version. With upwards of two hundred original illustrations

London, Paris & Melbourne, Cassell &Company Limited circa 1890-1895 approximately 220 illustrations of which at least 115 are full page plates printed one side only . 270 x 190mm brown cloth gilt to cover and spine with blindstamped cloth to lower cover {1cm tear to hinges /corners bumped /tips worn & some rubbing/ one figure has lost part of its gilt] VIII [=Frontisplate + titleapge + contents & introduction] + 566pp [OLD TESTAMENT] + 256pp for NEW TESTAMENT. Front free endpaper has ownership "Daphne Innes" but also 7 larger lettering which has been erased but still visible as indentations still showing. Hinge paper a bit cracked but the cloth hinge is entireoly sound and complete. A heavy book thus porobably extra postage required.

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Book number: A76251

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Illustrated bible for children

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG Official Guidebook & Map price fifty cents Containing a brief History of the City and Descriptions of more than One Hundred Dwelling-Houses, Shops & publick Buildings, fully illustrated. Also a large Guide-Map.

Williamsburg Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg Inc 6th edition 1968 Text illustrations throughout + large folding colored Map. . Octavo orange pictorial paperback (tips sl.rubbed) xix +108pp multi folding colored map (loose as issued).

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Book number: A74467

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: guidebook illustrated history historic America

G.,J.

FRENCH GEMS: With English Reflections in Verse. A French-English Souvenir.

London, Elliot Stock 1895 . Duodecimo cream, blue & red cloth gilt lettered to cover on bevelled boards (tips worn/edges dusty/lower red board bit marked). Titlepage +Dedication +[4]pp Preface & contents +9-79pp. Lacks rear end paper. Most facing pages in French with English opposite but not all pages are translated. *Dedication says "This Little BooK is respectfully dedicated to the Friends of the French Mission which is conducted by the Rev. J.M.H. du Pontet de la Harpe, of the French Reformed Church in Bayswater". Some few of these offerings have appeared in a magazine but most are here printed for the first time. Scarce.

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Book number: A72923

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: devotional poetry French English translations

GAINSBOROUGH & REYNOLDS Contrasts in Royal Patronage

London, Queen's Gallery 1994 Color illustrations (69) and 12 monochrome by Reynolds and Gainsborough. . Square octavo pictorial card covers (slightly skewed) 96pp V.G.

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Book number: A67151

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: art portrait painting 18th century

GALERIE DES FEMMES Quarante portraits graves sur acier accompagnés chacun d'un portrait littéraire

Paris, Marchant 1842 steel engraved plates [40 as listed] byMulready, Mulready,Chalon, Faulkner,Kneller etc . Sm.4to Green blindstamped cloth spine gilt [edges rubbed,sl.marked /lower hinge with 2" split] All Edges Gilt text paper uniformly tanned. Plates on thicker paler paper but some plates have narrow edge browning and a few have pale foxing but not near to any of the images. These plates are each illustrations for characters in literature and the text accompanying each plate by authors. The verso of the half title and the title [on the recto only] have a damp tide mark. A nice gift inscription dated 1873 to a Sub-Lt. in the llth Chasseur regiment given to him by a fellow officer.Text in French

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Book number: A75469

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Female Literary characters from English Books

C.C.

A GOLDEN CANDLESTICK or Methodism in Eastbourne

Eastbourne UK, W.H. Christian 1913 Full-page photographs (15) + folding maps + text photographs. . Octavo green blindstamped cloth with gilt titling to cover (tips rubbed) 56pp. Endpaper with ownership in pencil (B.H. Brown Ocklynge Manor Eastbourne) and printed address label. Very scarce.

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Book number: A72081

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Methodists parish history

HISTORY OF ROCK VOLUME ONE (being issues 1-12 inclusive)

London, Orbis N D Color and b/w illustrations throughout. . Large octavo blindstamped boards gilt lettered spine binder 12 issues with 280pp + one lose leaf index leaf for these 12 issues.

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Book number: A64777

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: music rock roll social history

JUST THE WORD WANTED a handbook of English Synonyms giving a list of words expressing every shade of meaning,from which an appropriate selection can be made.

London, Walker 1890s) . Duodecimo limp decorated cloth (spine with 2 small holes but quite sound/bit marked and dusty) 126pp +publisher's pictorial advert leaf. Endpapers and TP a bit dusty and with name & 3 words in pencil on FEP. Corners rounded, as issued, but have ink mark to fore-edge not affecting pages.

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Book number: A67886

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: dictionary synonyms