Bible

[ NEW TESTAMENT in miniature]

London, not after 1853 by inscription . 91 x 54mm [16mo] black blindstamped leather with ribbed and oval and circular designes [small splits to head and foot of spine] All Edges Gilt Lacks titlepage begins "Names and order of all the books of the New Testament" the next leaf is Chapter One of the Gospel of St.Matthew. As per Names and orders it ends with the end of Revelations.There are no page numbers but the collation is correct from A to M in 16. Lacks Free endpapers and paper slightly tanned with final leaf edges browned due to staining inside edges of cover.

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Book number: A75738

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: miniature binding

Binns, Richard

FRENCH LEAVE 3 Completely revised and englarged

London, Corgi 1986 Maps throughout. . Narrow octavo pictorial laminated card covers (slight creasing) 320pp printed in red and black featuring the gastronomic specialities of each area. *600 hotel & restaurant recommendations including many more inexpensive locations, 2,000-plus menu terms translated. Index of wines and cheeses. Translation of road signs. Suggested itineraries for sightseeing tours in 22 regions.

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Book number: A73860

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: France tourist quide travel hotels restaurants

Blackman, Victor

NAFF OFF! CONFESSIONS OF A FLEET STREET PHOTOGRAPHER

London, BFP Books 1st edition first printing 1987 Photographs throughout by Press Photograph. . Large octavo boards in unclipped dust jacket 176pp. *Press photographer and his subjects including royalty behaving badly. Very Good condition in V.G dust jacket.

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Book number: A73007

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: press photographers

Blake,N.F.

CAXTON: ENGLAND'S FIRST PUBLISHER

London, Osprey 1st edition 1967 Illustrations (63) from pre Caxton & later books. . Octavo boards in dust jacket (vii) +220pp V.G in V.G jacket. *Covers some technical aspects of book production in 15th century complementary to his other title (Caxton and his World) which dealt with the literary aspects of Caxton's work.

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Book number: A53724

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: printing incunabula history publishing

Blake, William (critical essays on) edited by Margaret Bottrall

WILLIAM BLAKE SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE A Casebook edited by Margaet Bottrall

London, Macmillan 1971 . Paperback (tips rubbed/edges worn) 245pp name to half title, small ink spot to fore-edge affecting some dozen leaves else neat tight and clean. *Critical essays including by T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Charles Lamb and many others.

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Book number: A74117

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: poetry critical essays

Blishen,Edward

THE PENNY WORLD

London, Mandarin paperbacks /Reed Consumer Books 1993 . Paperback (very slight creasing to spine/tips bit rubbed) 258pp +[8]p book ads. *The humour of a package tour to India.

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Book number: A72837

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: tour India travel

Blundell,Nigel & Roger Boar

WORLD'S GREATEST GHOSTS

London, Octopus books reprint 1985 Illustrations of haunted places etc. . Paperback (faint creasing to corner) 192pp V.G.

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Book number: A61091

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ghosts history occult mystery poltergeist haunting

Blunt,Wilfrid

SEBASTIANO The Adventures of an Italian Priest Sebastiano Locatelli During his Journey from Bologna to Paris and Back 1664-1665

London, James Barrie 1956 Plates (29) + folding Map & endpaper maps. . Octavo red cloth, gilt lettered spine (gilt sl.dulled) 296pp. Journey made from Bologna to Paris by the Priest Locatelli.

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Book number: A71945

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: history 17th century

Blyton,Enid

A STORY BOOK OF JESUS illustrated by Elsie Walker

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1956 Colour plates [32] by Elsie Walker. . Octavo cream cloth boards pictorially gilt to cover (lower cover bit marked) x +158pp. Lower part of free endpaper torn away upper part foxed else paper clean and white. One 2" tear just into bottom of illustration but without loss, repaired with conservation tape.

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Book number: A74967

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Bible stories Blyton

Bodley, E.W. but no author given]

THE POWER OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. Sixth Edition. By the author of “Prayers and Responses for the Household” and "Short Readings for the Christian Year".

London, Skeffington & Son 6th edition 1894 . Small octavo (in 4's) gilt pale blue embossed boards (tips worn some dark spots, damage to head & foot of spine) 95p + book reviews. Some foxing and lacks front endpapers but clean and tight.

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Book number: A74144

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: religion Christianity God

Bondi,Hermann, Alan Bullock and others

EVOLUTION AND CHANGE The Development of Life [Biology learning System]

London, Marshall Cavendish 1969 Colour and black/white illustrations throughout. . Square duodecimo pictorial boards (tips rubbed an sl.bumped) 64pp. A clean crisp copy.

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Book number: A72724

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: evolution biology

Bonington,Chris

QUEST FOR ADVENTURE

London, Pan/Hodder & Stoughton 1st thus 1983 Color plates and many maps of climbing. . Paperback edition (tips slightly rubbed) 345pp small fore-edge iodine spot affecting some pages else V.G.

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Book number: A47713

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: mountain climbing polar sport

Bonnardot, Jeanne

LE CONQUERANT DU MISSISSIPI par Jeanne Bonnardot. 4 planches hors texte en couleurs et 50 compositions en noir par Henri de Nolhac.

Paris, Librairie Larousse 1937 Color plates (4) and 50 text illustrations by Henri de Nolhac. . Red gilt decorated buckram cover spine grey titled (slightly marked) 142pp paper edge browned. *History of the Mississippi in the 17th century.

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Book number: A73992

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American History French

Bonner,Edwin B.

THE OTHER BRANCH London Yearly Meeting and the Hicksites, 1827-1912 (Supplement 34 to the Journal of the Friends Historical Society)

London, Friends Historical Society 1975 . Octavo red cartridge paper printed covers (sl.sunned to edges) 67pp pencil name erased from margin else V.G.

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Book number: A72542

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Quakers Friends history

Miniature book (Francis J. Weber)

HERSHEY The Man The Company The Candy

Sebastopol California, El Camino Real Press 2007 Postage stamp as frontispiece + tipped in choc wrapper + "Love" postage stamp to p[15]. . LIMITED TO 150 copies 70x50mm (2.75" x 2.1") chocolate colored boards with silver title to spine and cover. Bound by Mariana Blau, Printed by Patrick Reagh. Half-title +32cent stamp issued in 1995 tipped in + Titlepage +5-16pp +[2]pp blank +[1]p colophon. Includes Hershey's portrait on the first stamp and large Hershey Kisses on red background with heart 39cent stamp issued in 2007 on unumbered p15. Endpapers with Hershey's Kisses. As New.

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Book number: A72462

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: miniature biography Hershey chocolate stamps