Burchell,Charles

THE BUD

Portsmouth, Henry Lewis 1873 . Duodecimo pretty blindstamped red pebbled cloth with fancy gilt title to cover (tips rubbed) 63p Preface says that he is testing the response of this first book of his poems as he is in "reduced circumstances and partly blind" this small work is all he can afford. This is a scarce Provincial Imprint being a naval port there are several poems on naval themes but the first in the book and longest by far is "The Runaway Slave".

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Book number: A69837

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: slavery provincial imprint navy

Burdett,Alice

NATURE'S SAVAGE CATS a pop-up exploration

London, Electric Paper 1993 Pop-ups (6 elaborate) + 2 tab operated mechanicals . Large octavo pictorial boards (12pg) with fold out flaps

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Book number: J62623

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up wild life cats

Burgundia, Antonius a (Antoine de Bourgogne 1593/4-1657)

MUNDI LAPIS LYDIUS sive VANITAS per VERITATEM FALSI accusata & convicta. OPERA D. ANTONII A BURGUNDIA Archi-diaconi Brugensis.

Antwerp, Typis Viduae Ioan. Cnobbari 1st edition 1639 Emblem copperplates (50) by Andries (signed in emblem p84 as Pauli ie) Pauwels + an Engraved titlepage by Theodore van Merlen all engraved by Abraham van Diepenbeeck who was a pupil of Rubens. . Quarto newer full levant morocco blindtooled on 4 raised bands spine compartments gilt and gilt titled spine. Engraved titlepage +[xxvi] +249pp +[27]pp with Errata list at end of index. The preliminary leaves are misbound within gathering ** & *** but all the preliminaries are present. The title is a bit cropped just into the printed frame-line and the top margin is a bit short in the rest of the book but not touching any headlines or page numbers etc. The other margins are all well clear of printed side notes, text & illustrations. A few early neat ink underlinings & Latin comments. Two leaves are remargined affecting only blank areas (1cm of margin affected) and 4 blank corners restored not affecting any print. A few tears all without loss & professionally repaired. In all this is a nice clean copy with the text in handsome typography enhanced by large tailpiece decorations, with the copperplates in strong impressions. *A very collectable EMBLEM BOOK (Praz 292 Landwehr 72 Brunet I,1405).

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Book number: E74004

Catalogue: Fable and Emblem Books

Keywords: emblem book emblemata fine 17th century illustrations

Burn,Elizabeth A.H.

THE SPIRITUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS An Address delivered at the Meeting of Overseers, London Yearly Meeting, May 23, 1940.

London, Friends' Quaterly Examiner 1940 . Octavo offprint [8]pp including titlepage slight foxing else V.G.

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Book number: A72544

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: religion Quaker Society Friends

Burne, F.S.J. & H.J.A. Miles

TILES FROM DAME MARJORIE'S CHIMNEY-CORNER and China From her Cupboard.

London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. 1886 according to British Library Two tone lithographs and blue engraved illustrations of china from museums & private collections. . Oblong octavo (in 4's except first gathering in 2's) cloth spined pictorial boards (edges rubbed/sl.fraying to head & foot of spine) unnumbered pages (30 leaves) a bit shaken but no tears or marks. China tiles to recto of each leaf in lithography and short verses with vases & bottles beside each verse. The facing page has a plate on a stand picturing Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Italian, German, French, Hispano-Moorish, Dutch, Swedish, and English Pottery and Porcelain designs. The poems recount the days of the week, the seasons, holidays and pastimes.

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Book number: J73996

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: tiles china designs

Burnett,Frances Hodgson (1849-1924)

THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST, PICCINO and other Child Stories.

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1898 Plates (25) by Birch. . Square octavo blue pictorial cloth with gilt (tips worn ink marks on lower cover) half title +frontis +Titlepage +Contents leaf +list of illustrations leaf +183pp. Inner hinge split, one page with small hole to blank area. *Contains 4 stories including "How Fauntleroy occured", "Little Betty's Kitten" etc.

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Book number: J72612

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens stories Fauntleroy

Burnett,Frances Hodgson

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1887 illustrated by Reginald Birch . 8vo blue gilt and pictorial cloth + gilt lettered spine and cover. [edges rubbed/corner tips & head and foot of spine worn/gilt slightly rubbed] xi + {1=blank] + 269pp +publisher's pictorial catalogue. Inscription to free endpaper and pages ix to page 17 with one inch of brown stain in the top margin of thesee pages but never touching text. Otherwise the book is a nice clean crisp copy.

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Book number: P75780

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: juv

Burnett,Frances Hodgson

LOUISIANA + THAT LASS O'LOWRIE'S two stories

London, Macmillan 1887 . 185x113mm pictorial cloth (worn, spine damaged but tight) advert EPs xii;322pgs name on TP (neat) inner hinges pulled paper slightly browned 2 vols in one.

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Book number: F60630

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: American childrens 19th century

Burnett, Yelva, Harold Avery and others

THRILLING STORIES FOR GIRLS

London, Edinburgh, New York etc., Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. 1930 approx but undated Black & white illustrations in text throughout by Ruth Cobb and H. Cownam. . Quarto 20x26cm colour illustration to front cover by W. Bryce Hamilton (tips very rubbed, spine paper lacking) neat inscription to pastedown, lacks colour frontis 192pp. Includes A Princess from Kensington by Yelva Burnett, The Ghost of the Camp by Ethel Talbot and Dreamy Dorothy by Alic Sophia Jackson. Book in poor condition but delightful period stories and illustrations for girls.

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Book number: J76267

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: children's illustrated stories

Burnett,Frances Hodgson (R.W. Macbeth illustrator)

TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS' PROGRESS

London, Warne 15th thousand 1896 Plates (4) + illustrated by R.W. Macbeth . Small quarto olive gilt & pictorial cloth (tips sl. rubbed and small mark to lower cover) All Edges Gilt 215pgs inscription on FEP first few pages have a small marginal mark, empty verso of last page is soiled. Contents else clean and covers very pretty and bright.

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Book number: J53090

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens classic 1st

Burns, Robert ("Midget" Classics)

POEMS BY ROBERT BURNS with Glossary

London, Burgess & Bowes Ltd. first edition, printed in Belgium. 1964 according to Miniature Book News #3 . 77x53mm (3" x 2.2") cream embossed paper-covered boards, gilt cover title "POEMS CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT by Robert Burns", in slightly chipped dust jacket with Nasmyth portrait & proposals for his Scotch poems 1786 in yellow on cream paper over-printed Robert Burns (slight wear to edges of dust jacket). Ownership inscription Kenneth Lamin, Nottingham & with love from D.M. Wakeling. All Edges Gilt edges sl.rounded as issued 256pp includes Titlepage & glossary. *A neat copy with the rare dust jacket. According to the Miniature Book News #3, March 1966, the 12 volume "Midget Classics" series was published in 1964 (reference from Commandant's Cottage Antiques and Books who list another book in the series).

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Book number: F72459

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: miniature Burns

Burrows, Edmund H.

A HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTH AFRICA up to the end of the nineteenth Century

Cape Town & Amsterdam, Medical Association of South Africa 1958 Plates (32) + line illustrations and Maps (16). . Octavo boards with gilt arms of the society to cover [spine gilt dulled/tips & lower edges bumped/small dent to spine] 389pp + inside rear cover a multifolding xerox manuscript of the "Bickersteth Family Pedigree from 1687" + note to rear free endpaper. Bookplate of Stan Robinson to pastedown. *Early hospitals, folk medicine, epidemics, books written by the early practioners etc and all well referenced.

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Book number: A75250

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Medicine hospitals doctors South Africa

Burrows, Mrs. E.] here by the Author of "Triumphs of Steam", "Our Eastern Empire", "Tiny Stories" etc.

TUPPY; or, the Autobiography of a Donkey

London, Griffith & Farran 3rd edition 1868 Plates (4) by Harrison Weir engraved by John Greenaway. . Octavo green gilt pictorial cloth with donkey's head + thistles to top cover (rebacked with old spine relaid) 100pp +32pp catalogue (Osb.329 has h/c plates).

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Book number: J50394

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Victorian animal story

Burton,Maurice

THE FAMILY OF ANIMALS

London, Artus 1st edition 1978 Colour illustrations including full page. . Octavo boards no dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 120pp inscription to endpapers. *Fine animal photographs.

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Book number: A72941

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: natural history animals

Busaeus, Johannes [1547-1611]

VIRIDARIUM CHRISTIANARUM VIRTUTUM

Moguntiae [Mainz Germany], Joannem Albinus 1st edition 1610 Engraved pictorial TP + a few head- & tail-pieces and some decorative capitals. . Small folio (in 6's) Blindstamped Pig on wooden covers with rolls and central embossed image of Isaac preparing to sacrifice Jacob but for the angel's intervention + Lower cover with a angels climbing a ladder to heaven. Canted corners and 1 of two clasps present + 1 part of 2nd clasp present. [some rubbing to covers /edges worn /some marks] All edges red dyed. Engraved Titlepage with seven women dieties including Faith,justice etc. + (10pp=Dedication, laudatory poems + contens) + 709pp + (1p= errata) + (4pp = index) Some worming thrtuout & Endpapers have 2 purple Monestary stamps + one in lower margin of Dedication page and same on first text page.There is an old ownership inscription on the pastedown and three names on the titlepage. One is dated 1636 the second with single lines crossing out the name and third is so faded it is hardly readable. The paper is in very good, supple and clean ,supple and without tears as it is of a strong thick quality. There are 57 virtues such as humility, contemplation, fortitude ,wisdom etc given in alphabetical order. Each is asessed, and its properties listed, and the means of obtaining it, are discussed. There are side notes throughout and the text is in two founts,italic and ordinary. Bound in a highly decorative binding with the hinges good condition this is a handsome item.

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Book number: V75864

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Virtues VD17 12:105493K + de Backer/Sommervogel II, 438 f.