Bernard,Mme Laure

CONTES MATERNELS Scenes de L'education

Paris, Librairie de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse P.C. Lehuby / Rouen Fleury fils [ 1842 ] Engraved plates [4 . 12mo green gilt and blindstamped Cartonnage Romantique [rubbed but with no dulling of gilt/corners sl.bumped but no fraying] half title and approbation leaves in the count of 285pp + [1p=tables des matieres] Some pale foxing but all pages clean and crisp though paper is sl.off white. Name-stamp to front endpaper otherwise no tears or signs of use. FRENCH TEXT

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Book number: A75464

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: French moral stories

Berquin, M. [Arnaud Berquin (1747-1791)]

L'AMI DES ENFANS Par M. Berquin. Novembre 1783 No. XI.

London, Elsmley 1st First London edition 1783 November and December of the second year. . Two Volumes in One (the volumes appeared monthly and this is the volume for November & December of the second year) 103x64mm tan roan spined boards with red gilt titling label tips vellum covered (hinges cracked head of spine chipped edges & corners worn but covers secure) 144pp + 144pp (incl. subscriber list). Lacks half title but with bookplate of Louie de Vere Loder (later The Hon. Mrs. Grey with note saying this is my Grandmother Louise Beauclerk). The 2nd volume half title explains that this appears by subscription and will be published on the same day in France and London. Translated into English in 1786.

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Book number: J66598

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens short stories French

Berquin, Campe et Pierre Blanchard

L'AMI DES PETITS ENFANS ou les Contes les plus Simples. Tomes Premier + Tome second, IVe Edit.

Paris, Blanchard a la Libraire D'education 4th edition. 1820's but before 1827 Frontispieces (2) + engraved illustrated titlepages (2 each different) + plates (4). . Two Volumes in One cloth with black spine label gilt titled (binding worn especially to edges/corners but holding entirely firm) viii +[9]-214pp +214pp. Coat of arms bookplate George Jacob Bosanquet of Broxbournbury [1791-1866] with name of his wife, formerly Mrs. Gaussen [widow of S. R. Gaussen of Brookmans Park] on blank side of second volume frontis. Last leaf has 1cm ink spot which shows through to previous page and to opposite page of index. It makes the word "fille" hard to read else all is legible.

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Book number: J74707

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: stories dialogues young children French Bosanquet Gaussen

Berquin,M. (Arnaud)

SELECT STORIES for the instruction and entertainment of children from the French of M.Berquin

London, Stockdale, Johnson etc. 1802 Plates (4) by M. Brown/Skelton . Duodecimo brown roan (front hinge weak held by cords,head and foot of spine chipped/tips worn) xii+300p followed by (4p) catalogue of books.

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Book number: J66854

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: moral tales stories illustrated childrens

Berry,W. Grinton

FRANCE SINCE WATERLOO

London, Methuen 1st edition 1908 Plates (16 including maps and as listed). . Octavo half tan calf with raised bands gilt rules with maroon label marbled boards (tips sl.worn but neat nice binding) x +382pp ex Ferguson bequest Fund Library with stamps on titlepage & back of some plates label & inscription on endpaper some fingering and signs of use but tight copy.

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Book number: A51382

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: French history

Berry,Flora E.

LETTICE MARTYN'S CRUSADE

London, Pickering & Inglis Red Cord Series 1931 by Prize bookplate Color frontis. + 4 b/w plates. . Octavo tan pictorial cloth with a red cord coming out of the castle window to both cover and spine (tips rubbed) 255pp +[1]p book list. Publisher's "Boys and Girls Almanac" Prize label awarded to Joyce Chamberlain for Bible Searching Oct.31. on front endpaper. First and last two leaves a bit foxed else V.G crisp and bright.

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Book number: J71531

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: moral fiction

Berry,Flora E.

NETA LYALL

London, Pickering & Inglis Red Cord Series 1929 according to British Library Color frontis. + 4 b/w plates by George A. Neilson first issued in 1903 but without these illustrations. . Octavo blue pictorial cloth with a red cord coming out of the castle window to both cover and spine (tips & spine rubbed) half title present +255pp +[1]p book list. First and last two leaves sl.foxed else V.G crisp and bright. *Story of two cousins one who works for a Philanthropist the other who takes over as governess of three children, the eldest of whom is a troublesome child and also a troublemaker the youngest a suffering cripple. In teaching them about Christ the governess brings the children to love her. Meanwhile she has rejected the young doctor who scoffs at religion, inherits money from an Uncle, founds a misson for orphans and marries her now converted doctor. And all are leading the life they belief the Lord meant them to pursue. Victorian morality leads to happiness, and wealth.

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Book number: J71521

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Victorian moral fiction

BERRY,Jean Duke of (textes Henri Malo)

TRES RICHES HEURES Le Calendrier

London, Verve (1st edition March) 1940 Tipped in colorplates (12) by Pol de Limbourg & completed by Colombe in about 1485 . Small folio, boards in self-wrappers (lacks top and bottom of spine/rubbed but secure) 8pp of text rest taken up by the finely printed plates.

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Book number: C59257

Catalogue: Antiques, Art & Collecting

Keywords: illumination art illuminated manuscripts

Besant, Walter (1836-1901)

THE BELL OF ST PAUL'S A New Edition

London, Chatto & Windus New Edition 1890 . Octavo blue decorated cloth (spine rubbed/tips worn) vi +328pp +32pp catalogue dated Oct.1890. Names to half title Lilian Gregson and (crossed out) Captain George Phillips. Blindstamp to corner of flyleaf. Very clean bright and tight.

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Book number: F73693

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction

Besant, Walter and James Rice

THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET A New Edition

London, Chatto & Windus New Edition 1882 . Octavo grey decorated coth (spine browned/wear to head and foot of spine/tips worn) vi +314pp +32pp catalogue dated Nov. 1881. Name to pastedown. A very few spots of foxing but remarkably clean throughout.

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Book number: F73692

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction

Besant,Sir Walter

LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

London, Adam & Charles Black 1902 Frontispiece of the Author + 21 plates not within pagination many after Hogarth's pictures + more than 80 text illustrations . 4to Red embossed cloth on bevelled boards, with gilt titles and gilt heraldic designs to spine [head and foot of spine chipped/corners worn/spine gilt dull/hinges rubbed/a few spots to covers but neat and tight] Top edge gilt others rough cut as issued xvii [includes half title + title +Preface + contents/illustration list] + half title to first part + 667pp + multifolding Map [a fold tear has been repaired on the verso with archival tape.

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Book number: V75623

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Social History London

Beshlie

SNAILSLEAP LANE

London, Hart-Davis/Gallery Five 1st UK edition 1977 Color illustrations (12 near full page) + line illustrations by Beshlie . Octavo boards in dust jacket 59pp Inscription on FEP else V.G in sl.sunned to spine jacket *Story of animals (similar to Wind in the Willow) who are travelling itinerant traders and travellers, by a Romany traveller artist.

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Book number: J61913

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: gypsies, travelling sellers animal story

Best, Charles Herbert & Norman B. Taylor

THE LIVING BODY A Text in Human Physiology. Third Edition.

London, Chapam & Hall Ltd 3rd edition 1954 Colour plates (16) + text illustrations & diagrams. . Octavo navy cloth gilt titled spine & cover in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed jacket tape repaired but almost complete) viii +792pp name to fly leaf else clean, unmarked & tight.

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Book number: A73580

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: biology textbook physiology science

Betts,David

WITH INTEREST the story of space travellers who visit the earth and of a growing fortune waiting to be claimed. Dedicated to Kit Williams and Adrian Baxter

Peterborough, Treasure Books 1982 full page color plates [10] by Lindsay M. Masters . lg.8vo pictorial covers [corners sl.rubbed/slight indentations to cover where a short 6 or 7 word note was written using the book as a desk ] unpaginated but [32pp] includes title and including unused claim form at the end. With text and illustration clues.

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Book number: J75807

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: treasure hunt

Beveridge, Henry (1799-1863)

A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF INDIA, civil, military, and social, from the first landing of the English, to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt; including an outline of the early history of Hindoostan.

London, Blackie and Son, Paternoster Row, E.C.; and Glasgow and Edinburgh., 1862 [i.e. 1858-1862]; Glasgow; Edinburgh. Glasgow: W.G. Blackie and Co., Printers, Villafield. 1862 500 + engravings, colour maps. . Quarto, Volumes I and II of III, several maps with colour (including a fine one of Indian subcontinent); tissue guard on frontis; 10" tall; heavy wear to edges and spine. Decolouration on covers of both volumes, particular wear to edges of Vol I. Pagination excellent in both volumes however, despite some minor wear to edges. *Vol I and II chart the history of India from the first landings by European Merchants to the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Vol I ends with Clive of India's conquest of the subcontinent. Henry Beveridge was a prominent Scottish Calvinist who made a career translating the works of Calvin, he published this history of India without ever visiting. His son however was a notable figure in the Indian Civil Service, and his grandson was the prominent Liberal MP William Beveridge.

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Book number: V75240

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: British Rule of India/History of India.