J R Aspelin:

Muinaisjaannoksia Suomen suvun asumus-aloilta. IV Rauta-Aika Suomenmaan Muinaiskaluja. Antiquites du Nord Finno-Ougrien IV, L'Age du Fer, Antiquites de la Finlande.

Helsinki: G W Edlund, 1880. First edition of volume 4 (hardback). 4to (34cm x 25cm), pp249-317. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original burgundy cloth spine, printed boards. The backstrip is chipped, the boards are rubbed, and there is some spotting and browning of the contents. Only a fair to good copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. Please note that this is volume 4 only. Text in Finnish and French.

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Book number: 66212

Catalogue: 4

J R Aspelin:

Muinaisjaannoksia Suomen suvun asumus-aloilta. I Kiviaika Ja Pronssiaika. Antiquites du Nord Finno-Ougrien I, Ages de la Pierre et du Bronze.

Helsinki: G W Edlund, 1877. First edition of volume 1 (hardback). 4to (34cm x 25cm), x, 94pp. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original burgundy cloth spine, printed boards. The backstrip is chipped, the boards are rubbed, and there is some spotting and browning of the contents. Only a fair to good copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. Please note that this is volume 1 only. Text in Finnish and French.

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Book number: 66213

Catalogue: 4

J R Aspelin:

Muinaisjaannoksia Suomen suvun asumus-aloilta. V Rauta-Aika Itameren Maakuntien Muinaiskaluja. Antiquites du Nord Finno-Ougrien V, L'Age du Fer, Antiquites des Provinces Baltiques.

Helsinki: G W Edlund, 1884. First edition of volume 5 (hardback). 4to (34cm x 25cm), pp319-399. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original burgundy cloth spine, printed boards. The boards are rubbed, scuffed and dusty, and there is some spotting and browning of the contents. Only a fair to good copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. Please note that this is volume 5 only. Text in Finnish and French.

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Book number: 66214

Catalogue: 4

George Ashdown Audsley:

Guide to the Art of Illuminating on Vellum and Paper.

London: George Rowney, 1911. Fifth edition (softcover). 8vo (21cm by 13cm), viii, 87pp. 16 plates, text illustrations. Original limp brown cloth wrappers. Some creasing of the covers, loss to the head and foot of the backstrip, light dogearing of the corners, endpapers foxed. Only a fair copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 51039

Catalogue: 4

Natalie Bruck-Auffenberg:

Dalmatien und seine Volkskunst.

Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll, no date [c. 1912]. First edition (hardback). Folio (36cm x 29cm), 72pp. 68pp plates (tafeln), including several in colour. Half black morocco, blue cloth board, gilt titling to the spine. This book was formerly in a reference library, with labels to the front endpapers and a discreet stamp to the margins of each plate, there is some scuffing of the boards, lacks pp 49/50, and pp 65/66 is torn with loss. Overall, this book is in good condition.

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Book number: 62215

Catalogue: 4

Peter Townsend Austen:

Kurze Einleitung zu den aromatischen Nitroverbindungen - Untersuchungen uber aromatische Nitroverbindungen, Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwurde.

Berlin: J Draeger, 1876. German-language edition (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), 72pp, 1pp errata. Half brown morocco, marbled boards. The binding is in tatty condition - the spine is missing and the front board is detached. There is some light foxing, and a library stamp to the verso of the title page, but the contents are otherwise clean and are tightly bound. Suitable for rebinding. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown, which reads "Ex Libris Thomas Mann", but there is no provenance to suggest that this is the novelist.

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Book number: 42144

Catalogue: 4

William E A Axon:

Lancashire Gleanings.

Manchester: Tubbs, Brook & Chrystal, 1883. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xi, 390pp. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is some staining of the boards, the inner hinges are repaired, and there is light foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good minus condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 60565

Catalogue: 4

Nicholas Babble:

The Prater.

London: printed by T Lownds, 1757. The second edition, corrected and improved by the author (hardback). 12mo, ix, 289pp. Full brown calf. Binding worn with the upper board detached, heraldic bookplate, ownership inscription, small piece cut away from the upper corner of the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is in fair condition only.

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Book number: 22479

Catalogue: 4

J T Herbert Baily:

Emma, Lady Hamilton : a biographical essay with a catalogue of her published portraits.

London: W G Menzies, 1905. First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 23cm), 127pp. 23 plates. Original printed boards, rebacked with a white cloth spine. The binding is somewhat dusty, and the endpapers are foxed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 63532

Catalogue: 4

J T Herbert Baily:

Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A; a Biographical Essay with a catalogue of the principal prints, and a six years' record of auction prices.

London: Otto Limited, 1907. First edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), xlix, 82pp. Numerous plates (in colour and b&w). Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. The binding is scuffed and dusty, and there is some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, the book is in good minus condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 71919

Catalogue: 4

P P Balsara:

Highlights of Parsi History.

Bombay [Mumbai]: published by the author, 1963. First edition (softcover). 12mo (18cm by 12cm), [iv], 73pp. Original printed card wrappers. Covders rather rubbed, gift inscription to the half-title page, and there are several pencil annotations within the text. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 51042

Catalogue: 4

Maurice Baring:

The Coat without Seam.

London: William Heinemann, 1929. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (20cm by 13cm), vii, 321pp. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt motif to the front board. There is heavy foxing to the preliminary pages; lighter foxing to the edges of the text block, and a short ownership inscription. Apart from the foxing, this book is in sound condition.

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Book number: 70843

Catalogue: 4

Barnacle:

Steps to the Second Class Badge.

London: The Offices of The Scout, 1935. First edition (softcover). 12mo (18cm by 12cm), 48pp. Text illustrations. Original printed brown card wrappers. Some staining of the covers, some staining to the lower margin of the first four leaves. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 40555

Catalogue: 4

Gervee Baronte:

You have lived before!

London: C Arthur Pearson, 1936. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 186pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original light blue cloth, dustwrapper. Please note that the book is only in fair condition, as there is a significant amount of annotation of the contents in red and blue ink (about 40 pages have been annotated). The dustwrapper is in fair condition (torn with some loss to the front panel).

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Book number: 28698

Catalogue: 4

C R B Barrett:

Essex : Highways, Byways and Waterways, second series [limited edition].

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. First edition of the second series (hardback). 8vo (27cm by 20cm), xvi, 232pp. 13 etched plates, numerous text illustrations. Publisher's binding of light brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt design to the front board. Boards rubbed and spotted, repaired split to the top part of the lower joint, endpapers foxed, small bookplate to the front free endpaper, gift inscription, contents clean and tightly bound. Only a good minus copy overall, but the interior is somewhat better than the exterior. This is the limited edition of 120 copies (of which this is copy number 40), printed on fine paper, and with 4 additional plates (the trade edition only had 9 etchings).

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Book number: 47437

Catalogue: 4