ABBOT (Charles)

Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of Bedford, Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus, with Occasional Remarks.

Bedford: Printed by W. Smith, 1798. First edition, xii, 351, [9]pp., presentation inscription from the author, 6 cont. hand-coloured engraved plates, cont. half, 2 contrasting gilt lettered morocco labels, paper shelf label to spine, a nice copy. This is the third English local flora, after Ray (Cambridge) and Sibthorp (Oxford), and the first in English. Although the BM (NH) copy has coloured plates, and Henry calls for them, this book is usually found with uncoloured plates, coloured copies an extremely rare in commerce. "A work described by one authority as 'almost a model as a county flora'... Abbot's carefully prepared Flora bedfordiensis is written entirely in English, except for the first two words of the title and the Linnaean botanical names of the plants. It lists 1325 flowering plants and cryptogams. A brief description of each species is followed by the general place of growth, and in the case of some rare plants, the precise locality". (Henry). Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature. II, p. 73.

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Book number: 26829

Keywords: BOTANY BEDFORDSHIRE FLORA, BEDFORD, BOTANICAL BOOKS

ABBOTT (Wilbur Cortez)

A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell. A List of Printed Materials Relating to Oliver Cromwell, Together with a List of Portraits and Caricatures.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 1929. First Edition, xxviii,540pp., frontis., 1 plate, orig. cloth, slightly faded otherwise a nice copy. 3,520 Items described.

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Book number: 21412

Keywords: ENGLISH LITERATURE

ABBOTT (Wilbur Cortez)

A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell. A List of Printed Materials Relating to Oliver Cromwell, Together with a List of Portraits and Caricatures.

Kraus Reprint Co. New York. (Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1969. xxvii, 551pp., frontis., orig. cloth.

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Book number: 31617

ABBOTT (Wilbur Cortez)

A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell. A List of Printed Materials Relating to Oliver Cromwell, Together with a List of Portraits and Caricatures.

Kraus Reprint Co. New York. (Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1969. xxvii, 551pp., frontis., orig. cloth.

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Book number: 9193

ABERCROMBIE (John)

Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord.

Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes, 1829. Second edition, enlarged, 8vo (225 x 140mm), half-title, xix, [1], 476pp., original boards, uncut, spine chipped, covers detached. Abercrombie was one of the chief consulting physicians and medical teachers in Scotland and showed an early interest in the mental aspects of medicine. He kept careful notes of all patients seen in his extensive practice among the rich and poor, and these formed the basis of this book. Hunter and MacAlpine, p. 801.

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Book number: 37660

Keywords: MEDICINE INSANITY MADNESS THE BRIAN NEUROLOGY

THE LAKE DISTRICT. ABRAHAM (George D.)

Motor Ways in Lakeland.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1913. Second edition, 8vo, 24 plates and map to endpapers, orig. light blue publishers cloth, lettered in gilt.

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Book number: 40476

Keywords: LAKE DISTRICT CUMBRIA

BOOKBINDING. ABRAMI (Léon)

Bibliothèque Léon Abrami. Livres illustrés du XVIIIe Siècle reliés en maroquin la plupart armoriés ou ornés de dentelles.

Paris: Léopold Carteret, 1926. 4to, [iv], 86, [2]pp., numerous plates of bookbindings throughout, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. quarter cloth, marbled boards, uncut.

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Book number: 27033

Keywords: BOOKBINDING BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE

ABRAMS (George)

The George Abrams Collection [Fifteenth-Century Books].

Sotheby's. 1989. 4to, coloured frontis., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), prices and buyers, orig. cloth, 236 lots.

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Book number: 23539

Keywords: INCUNABULA INCUNABLES BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE

ACCUM (Fredrick)

A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light: exhibiting a summary description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal=Gas: with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and general Nature of this new ranch of Civil Economy.

London: Stereotyped and Printed by Davies and Michael, for R. Ackermann, 1815. Second Edition, folding hand-coloured frontispiece and 6 hand-coloured plates (one folding), 6pp. publisher's catalogue at end, x, [2], [xi] - xvii, [1], 194 pp., contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, spine ruled in gilt, morocco label, a nice clean copy. Accum collaborated with Rudolph Ackermann, "in order to introduce into England the lighting of towns by gas; and in 1810, when the London Chartered Gaslight and Coke Company was formed, Accum was nominated one of its engineers. It is said that the prompt adoption of this mode of lighting in London and other large cities was greatly due to his 'Practical Treatise on Gas Light'. The first two editions were printed in 1815," - DNB, the fourth and last edition was published in 1818. Partington, 111, 827; cf. Abbey Life, 436.

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Book number: 30658

Keywords: Science ANTIQUARIAN TECHNOLOGY COLOURED PLATE BOOKS APPLIED ARTS

ACLAND (Sir Henry Wentworth)

Faith and Knowledge.

Oxford: [s.n.,] 1873. 11, [1]pp., caption-title, orig. printed wrappers, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

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Book number: 34426

Keywords: MEDICINE RELIGION MEDICAL PAMPHLETS Philosophy of religion

ACLAND (Henry W.)

The Influence of Social and Sanitary Conditions of Religion: A paper read by desire at the church congress at Brighton, Oct. 9, 1874.

Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1874. 22pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

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Book number: 34422

Keywords: MEDICINE RELIGION MEDICAL PAMPHLETS CHURCH OF ENGLAND NATIONAL HEALTH

ISLE OF ELY ACT.

An Act of making a new Road, and for repairing and amending the antient Road, between the Town of Wisbech and March, in the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge.

London: Printed by the Assigns of His Majesty's Printer, 1730. 4to (290 x 195 mm), [2], 495-51400., recent cloth-backed boards.

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Book number: 40392

Keywords: CAMBRIDGESHIRE ISLE OF ELY MARCH WISBECH

TRIENNIAL ACT.

A Letter to a Friend in Suffolk, Occasion'd by a Report of Repealing the Triennial Act.

Printed [for W. Wilkins] in the Year 1716. 22pp., with half-title, disbound. Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe but not in Moore. The Triennial Act, reluctantly agreed to by Charles I (who said it reduced his sovereign powers), which stated that there had to be a parliament of at least 50 days duration every three years. It was designed to prevent a repetition of the long absences of parliament seen in the '11 Year Tyranny' of 1629-1640.

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Book number: 26532

Keywords: POLITICS ENGLISH CIVIL WAR ANTIQUARIAN HISTORY

WISBECH ACTS.

The Magistrates of the Hundred of Wisbech [A volume of 7 Acts as follows] Wisbech Town Act. 1810: Wisbech and Chatteris Turnpike Act. 1828: Wisbech and Lynn Turnpike Act. 1823: Wisbech and Thorney Turnpike Act. 1831: Wisbech Canal Act. 1794: Cross Keys Bridge Act. 1826. Wisbech Chapel Act. 1827.

folio, 7 items bound in one, 68; 38; 30; 14; 78,10; 56; 38pp., half cloth, marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover.

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Book number: 40646

Keywords: CAMBRIDGESHIRE WISBECH

ADAIR (James)

Observations on the Power of Alienation in the Crown before the first of Queen Anne, Supported by Precedents and The Opinions of many learned Judges. Together with some remarks on the conduct of administration respecting the case of the Duke of Portland.

London: Printed for J. Almon, 1768. First edition, [2], 5-52pp., disbound.

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Book number: 33103

Keywords: POLITICS ECONOMICS PAMPHLETS