Bossuet

DISCOURS SUR L'HISTOIRER UNIVERSELLE nouvelle edition augmentee de notes necessaires et plus correcte que les editions precedentes

Paris, Plon freres + Plancy [chez] Societe de Saint-Victor 1847 Engraved Frontispiece . 8vo Handsome Purple full leather with blindstamped and gilt covers Spine extra gilt gilt dentelles [sl. Chipping to gilt line around the covers/corners sl.worn] All edges marbled 468pp includes all preliminaries and contents list as the end. Minor pale foxing to the first and last 4 leaves else lovely clean bright and tight book. *In three parts from the creation to Charlemagne with the second part Abraham and the patriarches, the prophets, the corrumption and idolatries and reflections on tn religion. The third part deals with Egypian and middle eastern religions ending with the Romans

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Book number: A75458

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: BINDING history of religion

Boswell,James (1740-1795)

JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON...

London, Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 2nd edition same year as first 1785 Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men . Octavo contemporary marbled calf spine elaborately gilt with red lettered spine label (top hinge loose/spine split midspine) bound with half title and final blank. Shelf number to foot of TP and Coat of arms bookplate of John Tolhurst F.S.A. & Bookplate of Monastery of St.Mary the Virgin at Worth. Laid in cutting from 1909 about Boswell. * Contains an authentic account of the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from Scotland in 1746 following the Battle of Culloden. Boswell`s biography of Dr Johnson has been descibed as the best biography ever writen in the English language.

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Book number: V64590

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Johnson johnsoniana Boswell tour Hebrides

Boswell,Hilda

MY FIRST FAIRY TALES

London, Collins 1950 approx) Color illustrations (59) by Hilda Boswell . Large octavo cloth spined pictorial boards (lacks some paper to covers along edges/tips worn) (56pgs) name to REP & blank area of Frontis. A previous owner has numbered the pages by hand and a few other stray marks *7 Fairy Tales but BOWDLERIZED so that all the witches etc promise to become good!

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Book number: J60911

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens illustrated fairy tales

Botham,Ian and Kenneth Gregory

BOTHAM's BEDSIDE CRICKET BOOK Illustrations by Haro

London, Fontana Collins 1983 approx) Amusing drawings by Haro. . Square paperback 124pp no signs of having been read. *Cricketer's anecdotes and unbelievable happenings.

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Book number: A71805

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: cricket anecdotes sport

Botto,Antonio translated by Alice Lawrence Oram

THE CHILDREN's BOOK … Illustrated by Carlos Botelho

Portugal] [?Lisbon], no publisher given First English Edition n.d. {1935?] color illustrated to the cover + line illustrations to each story by Carlos Botelho . 8vo yellow cloth spined boards with silver paper cover with yellow central square with two boys,one dressed as a sailor carrying a banner reading "hurrah! For Prince George" and the other a black boy with a rifle.At the foot of the picture it is signed "Botelho" [yellow spine soiled/1" split to head of spine/corners worn/lower cover silver bit scratched] Lacks a leaf before the first leaf which is the half title + titlepage in green and black + page 7-12 [= Short Biography of Botto] +13-60pp +[2p =publisher's extracts from My Little Beloved by Botto] Newer end papers. Two leaves with strip torn off the lower margin without any loss of text as both are one pages with only one side printed to only half the page and the other side blank.

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Book number: J75798

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Bouchot,Henri edited H. Grevel

THE BOOK its Printers, Illustrators and Binders from Gutenberg to the Present time

New York, Scribner 2nd (and best) edition 1890 Facsimile illustratioms (172) . Large octavo cream gilt pictorial cloth (rebacked |& edged with old spine relaid/some marking due to light color but better than most) Top Edge Gilt xv+383pp newer EPs else V.G

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Book number: C56302

Catalogue: Antiques, Art & Collecting

Keywords: bibliography printing history bookbinding

Bourliere, Francois

MAMMALS OF THE WORLD Their Life and Habits

London, George Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1955 Colour plates (15 of 16 lacks elephants in a river) + 100s of photos of animals in natural surroundings. . Quarto rose cloth in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed dust jacket lacks spine many tears/creases) 223pp ex Pates Gammar school for Girls with stamp to titlepage & bookplate to pastedown. *This book claims to be a first in comprehensive photographs of animals in their natural habitat and remarks that advances of miniature cameras, telephoto lenses and electronic flash have made this possible. Text includes principles of anatomy, systematics & species geography concluding with adaptations to aerial & aquatic life.

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Book number: A73660

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: mammals habitat comprehensive survey animals zoology

Bourne, John (editor)

TWENTY-FIVE MODERN ONE-ACT PLAYS

London, Victor Gollanz Ltd First edition 1st printing 1938 . Small octavo dark navy cloth with red titling to spine (spine sun-faded/tips sl.rubbed) 670pp inscribed "to Nan Xmas 1938" else V.G. *Plays by Stephen Vincent Benet, Laurence Housman, Clifford Bax et al.

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Book number: F73834

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: plays drama

Boursier-Mougenot,A.

DOUDOU S'ENVOLE [Doudou Flies Away].

Tours France, Maison Mame 1st edition 1934 Colour illustrations to every page. . Folio (32x257mm) cloth spined pictorial boards (edges and board rubbed tips worn, bit marked) [24]pp printed on one side only. A rubbed binding but original spine and bright clean contents. *L'histoire d'une petite fille qui gagne le coeur des hommes et des betes par sa douceur. Beautiful crisp colour no tears no inscriptions.

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Book number: J72428

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: French children's illustrated

Bouverie,Fred W.B.

SIX SHORT STORIES FOR SHORT PEOPLE

London, Hogg & Sons Rose-bud Series No.15 1863 approx) Hand colored plates(4) by Dalziels . 158x100mm brown gilt cloth blindstamped (tips sl. worn/bit marked) 123pgs+catal. Inscription & slight pencilling on FEP, binder's ticket on REP else V.G with clean bright coloring.

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Book number: J53744

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens stories hand colored illustrations

Bowden,Joan concept

JUST BEN

Read Around Pop-up bks, Carnival 1st edition 1989 Pop-ups (5)+tab operated mechanical engineered by Dick Dudley illustrated by Pat Paris . Square duodecimo pictorial boards (12pp) a few minor creases but all pop-ups and moveables work. *Ben dreams of doing great deeds and exciting things and cleverly the story is circular and begins again, and again. MONTANARO 148

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Book number: J67814

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up movable

Bowen,Franck C.

FROM CARRACK TO CLIPPER a book of Sailing-Ship Models

London, Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd 1st edition 1927 Color plates (4) + 67 plates of ship models + line illus. by R. Morton Nance & Cecil King. . Large octavo blue cloth (worn & soiled and corner of board cracked) 64pp +plates 1 plate torn without loss. *Good details incl. American Clipper ships, men o' war, 17th and 18th century models etc.

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Book number: A50588

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: antiques ship models collecting

Bowness,Alan

MODERN EUROPEAN ART with 207 illustrations

London, Thames & Hudson 1980 Colour and black/white illustrations (207). . Octavo pictorial card covers (tips a bit rubbed) 224pp. *From Manet to Francis Bacon + sculpture and architecture.

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Book number: A72786

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: modern art Europe

Boycott,(Geoffrey)

BOYCOTT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

London, Macmillan 1st edition 1987 Plates . Large square octavo boards in price clipped dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 287pp slight uniform paper toning else V.G in V.G jacket.

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Book number: A59512

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: cricket sport

Boycott,[Geoffrey]

BOYCOTT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

London, Corgi Books 1988 Plates (36). . Paperback (minor creases/tips rubbed) 376pp.

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Book number: A71793

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: cricket sport