W Niven:

Illustrations of old Warwickshire houses.

London: printed for the author, 1878. First edition (hardback), large paper edition. 4to (39 x 28 cm), [viii], 37pp. 31 copper-etched plates with descriptive notes. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to front board and spine. This is only a fair copy - the binding is a little rubbed and scuffed, and the gutta percha binding is drying out (with the first few pages detached from the binding). On the plus side, the contents are generally clean.

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Book number: 20862

Catalogue: 4

Hermann Norden:

White and Black in East Africa : a record of travel and observation in two African Crown Colonies.

London: H F & G Witherby, 1924. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 304pp. 32 illustrations (of 34 - lacks the plate at page 60), 2 maps. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Please note that this book is in fair condition only 0 the binding is somewhat rubbed and scuffed, the preliminary pages are foxed, and a few plates have been re-glued amateurishly into the book (sometimes not at the right place). Only a fair copy overall, but suitable as a cheap reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 69561

Catalogue: 4

Charles Oberleitner:

Album de fac-simile des regents, capitaines et hommes d'etat depuis l'an 1500 jusqu' en 1576.

Vienne: Imprimerie de L C Zamarski & C Dittmarsch, 1862. First edition (softcover). Folio (33cm by 26cm), 25pp, 19 plates. Original printed card wrappers. This copy is in fair condition only (covers rubbed and chipped, contents foxed). Suitable as a cheap reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 33557

Catalogue: 4

E A St Obyn:

Sowing and Reaping.

London: T Nelson and Sons, 1873. No edition stated (hardback). 16mo (15cm by 10cm), 64pp. Colour frontispiece. Bound in plain blue cloth. Binding rubbed and stained, endpapers foxed, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 40877

Catalogue: 4

Cedric Oldacre:

The Last of the Old Squires : a sketch by Cedric Oldacre esq of Sax-Normanbury.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 14cm), viii, 229pp, 2pp adverts. Publisher's binding of brown cloth, title label to the spine. The title label is rubbed and chipped, the contents are foxed, there is an ownership to the front free endpaper, and some scuffing to the final text page. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition.

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Book number: 44117

Catalogue: 4

Captain S Pasfield Oliver:

The True Story of the French Dispute in Madagscar.

London: T Fisher Unwin, 1885. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), viii, 279pp, 32pp catalogue. Folding map. Original blue cloth. This copy is marred by severe waterstaining to the spine. The text block is tightly bound and generally clean (light foxing of the preliminary pages). Suitable as a reading, working, reference or binding copy.

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Book number: 46307

Catalogue: 4

Omar Khayyam, translated by Edard Fitzgerald:

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-poet of Persia.

London: Ernest Nister, no date [c. 1910]. No edition stated (softcover). 12mo (18cm by 11cm), 148pp. Colour frontispiece, colour title and colour text illustrations by T Heath Robinson. Publisher's binding of limp purple suede, gilt titling to the front cover. Binding somewhat rubbed and a little shaken; short ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 50235

Catalogue: 4

George Paget [preface]:

Standing Orders of the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars.

Meerut: printed at Pathak Machine Printing Press, 1925. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 12cm), 92pp. Original two-tone (blue and yellow) cloth binding. The boards are stained, ad the contents are tanned; overall, this book is in fair condition. Bound with interleaved blank leaves.

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Book number: 69490

Catalogue: 4

Thomas Paine:

The Age of Reason, with an original life of the author [with Shelley on Blasphemy, being his letter to Lord Ellenborough].

London: J A Brook & co, no date [c. 1890]. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (17cm by 11cm), xxvi, 162pp. Original black cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The upper joint is cracked (and repaired); overall, this copy is in fair condition. Tipped in at the back of the book is the pamphlet "Shelley on Blasphemy, being his letter to Lord Ellenborough", published by the Progressive Publishing Company in 1883. The pamphlet is in worn condition - it it larger than the book, and as a consquence the margins are creased and chipped.

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Book number: 43779

Catalogue: 4

The Rev J D Parry [editor]:

The Anthology : an Annual Reward Book for Youth.

London: printed for Whittaker, Treacher & co, 1829. First edition (hardback). 16mo (16cm by 10cm), xii, 275pp. Colour frontispiece. Contemporary full brown calf. Binding worn (rubbed, spine chipped, upper joint cracked), light foxing of the preliminary pages. Only a fair to good copy overall, but suitable as a reading, reference or binding copy.

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Book number: 56420

Catalogue: 4

Rev Robert Parsons:

The Christian Directory, guiding men to their eternal salvation in two parts.

Dublin: James Duffy, 1861. Revised edition, corrected and enlarged (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 558pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine. There is a chip to the upper joint, and the front inner hinge has been repaired. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 63627

Catalogue: 4

Virginia Tatnall Peacock:

Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century.

Philadelphia & London: J B Lippincott Company, 1901. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), xv, 297pp. Colour frontispiece, b&w plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt titling and design to the front board, top edge gilt. There is some scuffing and staining of the binding, and the front inner hinge is repaired; overall, this book is in fair condition.

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Book number: 62937

Catalogue: 4

Lucy Peacock:

The Visit for a Week.

[c. 1806]. Hardback. 12mo (18cm by 11cm), 2pp adverts, 283pp. Half brown calf, marbled boards, title label to the spine. Boards heavily rubbed, some scuffing of the spine, lacks the title page and the front free endpaper, inkstains to the endpapers. Overall, this copy is in fair condition only. The exact edition is difficult to pin down owing to the lack of a title page, but this copy collates as the sixth edition of 1806 (published in London by J Johnson).

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Book number: 40396

Catalogue: 4

B Martin Pedersen [editor]:

42 Years of Graphis Covers.

Zurich: Graphis Press, 1987. First edition (hardback). 4to (30cm by 24cm), 237pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Original black cloth. The book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is present, but is in tatty condition (chipped and torn with loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. Text in English, German and French. Suitable as a readng, working or reference copy. ISBN 3857094222

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Book number: 68744

Catalogue: 4

C V A Peel:

Sport in the Outer Hebrides.

London: F E Robinson & co, 1901. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xvi, 133pp, 3pp adverts. text illustrations, but lacks the frontispiece. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt titling and design to the front board, top edge gilt. Light rubbing to the edges of the binding, some scuffing of the spine, endpapers browned, bookplate and length gift inscription to the front endpapers. Overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 66217

Catalogue: 4

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