CAPGRAVE John

The Book of the Illustrious Henries. Translated from the Latin by the Rev. Francis Charles Hingeston. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts,, 1858. Roy. 8vo., SOLE PUBLISHED TRANSLATION, with an engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, endpapers marked; ORIGINAL BOARDS, worn and age-marked, neatly rebacked in cloth gilt, and generally a sound working copy. With an engraved armorial bookplate. The frontispiece depicts the seals of the Austin Friary at King's Lynn. Capgrave (1393-1464), theologian and historian, is noted by his biographers as the most learned Augustinian friar. This curious work, the 'Liber de Illustribus Henricis', is dedicated somewhat self-consciously to Henry VI of England. It includes individual accounts of the six German emperors, first six English kings, and a round dozen of European and Scandinavian notables bearing the name. The present work is published in the 'Rolls Series' which also includes the present editor's translation (as 'The Chronicle of England') of Capgrave's 'Nova Legenda Angliae' originally published by de Worde in 1516

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CARPENTER George H.

Insect Transformation. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Methuen,, [1921]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a remarkably well-preserved bright, crisp copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end.

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CARSON Rachel

Silent Spring. Introduction by Lord Shackleton. Preface by Sir Julian Huxley. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION

Hamish Hamilton,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition; brown tweeb cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately sunned (as often) at backstrip (but all lettering legible). The US edition of this seminal work was published in the preceding year. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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CARTER G.S.

A General Zoology of the Invertebrates. Foreword by Julian S Huxley. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Sidgwick & Jackson,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; small neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned and with loss at tail of backstrip.

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CARTWRIGHT Dr. Thomas

The Diary of Dr. Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester. Commencing at the Time of his Elevation to that See, August MDCLXXXVI; and terminating with the Visitation of St. Mary Magdalene College, Oxford, October MDCLXXXVII. From the original MS in the Possession of Rev. Joseph Hunter. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Camden Society,, 1843. 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of dark green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in blind, gilt back, primrose endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright,clean copy. With the nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Charles F. Bamford on front paste-down. Camden Society, vol. XXII. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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CARUS-WILSON E.M.

England's Export Trade 1275-1547.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1963. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous tables in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat numbers on front free endpaper only. SCARCE.

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CASS Caroline

Joy Adamson. Behind the Mask. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; sand cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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CHAMBERLAIN Rt. Hon. Sir Austen

Twenty-Five Years a King. The Book of the Pathe Film. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

A & C Black,, 1935. 8vo. First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs toned in sepia throughout; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip.

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CHARLESWORTH M. P.

Documents illustrating the Reigns of Claudius & Nero. Collected by M. P. Charlesworth. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY

University Press, Cambridge,, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, text in Greek and Latin, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original printed wrappers printed in black, yapped edges, a near fine copy. Part I: Claudius, including Pronouncements, 'Building' Inscriptions, Legislation, Miscellaneous. Part II: Nero. VERY SCARCE.

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CHAVCHAVADZE David

The Grand Dukes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Atlantic International Publications, New York NY],, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.

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CHRYSTAL R. Neil

Insects of the British Woodlands. Foreword by Sir Roy Robinson.

Warne,, [1937]. 8vo., First Edition, with 205 plates and illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly browned, small neat signature on front free endpaper; pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.

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CLEGG John

The Freshwater Life of the British Isles. [Third Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Warne,, [1965]. 8vo., Third Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1952. This third edition, in large format, contains a revised text. Marren pp.177-179.

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CLEMENCEAU Georges

In the Evening of My Thought. Translated by Charles Miner Thompson and John Heard. [First US Edition]. FIRST US EDITION

Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA,, 1929. 2 vols., 8vo., First US Edition, with portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, uncut, backstrip gilt faded virtually to blind else a very good, crisp, clean copy.

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CLEMENTS Harry

Alfred Russel Wallace. Biologist and Social Reformer. Foreword by Richard Clements. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hutchinson,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at fold-ins. SCARCE.

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CLERY M.

A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. By M. Clery, the King's Valet-de-Chambre. Translated from the original Manuscript by R.C. Dallas. ['The Journal of the Terror']. ATTRACTIVE COPY

Printed by Baylis [of] Greville-Street and sold by the Author,, 1798. 8vo., First English Edition, with an engraved plate (moderately spotted), 2 engraved plans on one plate, and two engraved facsimiles on one plate, rear free endpaper and one rear blank preliminary lightly spotted; attractively bound in nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, back gilt extra with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral design, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, corners lightly bruised else a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in elegant binding. With the 16pp list of subscribers, which includes virtually every member of the Royal family extended to Prince William of Gloucester. This is the early issue with 'Bookselllers' in the publisher's imprint (see ESTCT110766). The plates depict the Temple tower, plans of the second and third floors and two facsimiles of Marie Antoinette's handwriting. Clery's family had been in the service of the French Royal Family since the time of Louis XIV. Together with his brother, he began his career with the Princesse de Guenenee, governess to the royal children, and became valet-de-chambre to the Duke of Normandy (later the Dauphin) in 1785. From 1789, he acted as valet to King Louis XVI and was permitted by Petion to continue to wait on the Royal Family during their imprisonment in the Temple. After the King's execution, Clery accompanied the Madame Royale (Marie-Therese de Bourbon) on her exile to Vienna where he continued to serve until his death. LOVELY COPY OF A KEY DOCUMENTARY RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, THE REVOLUTION AND THE TERROR, AND THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF LOUIS XVI.

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