Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations - Part IV - Colonies - Foreign States, Division I

Spicer Brothers, Wholesale Stationers / W Clowes & Sons, Printers, London. 1851. Hardcover. Pages 857-1354 as intended. A robust copy. Half-leather, jade boards. The spine has been repaired with a leather patch. The leathered corners and spine seams are worn, Nonetheless, the leather areas are benign - even a little baleful. The boards have scuffing, handling and storage marks, wear about the edges from shelving and storage. They are steady and sure. Within, there is a previous owner label and stamp (English Rooms, Funchal). The pages have blots, flurries, smears of foxing here and there throughout from age. Nonetheless, the pages are proudly certain. They are assiduous, carefully ordered, confidently diligent, clean and clear of annotation and handmade blemish. The book is suitable for resource, reference, dipping into. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 94pi

Catalogue: Britain - History - Reference

ADAMS, W H DAVENPORT

Before the Conquest or, English Worthies in the Old English Period

William P Nimmo, Edinburgh. 1870, First Edition. Hardcover. 383 pages plus index and advertising pages (complete). An amiable, comfortable copy. The boards are prettily decorated which, although scuffed and a little marked and worn, are steady and sound. The front pastedown has a press clipping about a lecture at the Birmingham Midland Institute in 1897. The page trims are gilded (beaming benignly). The pages have some flushes and freckles of aging and foxing. In general, and by far, are clean, clear, congenial, certain, generous. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: camm

Catalogue: History - Britain

BONNER, HYPATIA BRADLAUGH / READ, F W

Penalties Upon Opinion ; or Some Records of the Laws of Heresy and Blasphemy

Watts & Co. London. 1934, 3rd edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 143 pages (complete). No 39 of The Thinker's Library. A handy copy. The dustjacket has wear and scuffing all about. It is secure. The boards are benign. They have some wear about the edges. The contents are agreeably clean and clear. They are assured and amenably confident. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/Poor.

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Book number: bwuc

Catalogue: Britain - History

BURKE (ULSTER KING OF ARMS), SIR BERNARD

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry (Reproduced from the Original Edition 1891-5) - 2 Volumes Bound in One

Heraldry Today, London. 1970. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 862 pages plus index (complete). A pleasing copy. The dustjacket has a clear cellophane cover. The dj is much worn, creased and marked. It is comfortable and sure. The boards are elegant and serene. They have some mild shelving marks to the edges. The page trims have some shelving marks. The contents (fascinating and engrossing and needle-sharp diligent) are clean, clear, assured, very confident, neat. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 14hr

Catalogue: Britain - Empire / Imperial History - Reference

JERVIS, JOHN (AN OLD COACHMAN) ; KITCHINER, WILLIAM (REVISED BY AND &C)

The Traveller's Oracle ; or, Maxims for Locomotion : Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures, and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers : Part II. Comprising the Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle; Rules for Purchasing and Keeping or Jobbing Horses and Carriages; Estimates of Expenses Occasioned Thereby; and an Easy Plan for Ascertaining Every Hackney-Coach Fare - Vol. 2

Henry Colburn, London. 1827, First Edition. Hardcover. 336 pages (complete). A handy, happy copy of this fascinating book. Not only is there much advice about horses and carriages, owning them, maintaining them, using them, there is also etiquette, working practice tips and instruction for the coachman. There is also a most engaging section on an employer's social responsibilities toward the coachman: "Merciful Masters, who use their Carriage in Wet Weather, provide the Coachman Two Box Coats: - a Second-hand Coat may be bought for about 2. 10s. - a slight increase to their Expense, a great addition to his Comfort: for when a Box Coat gets thoroughly Wet, it will take forty-eight hours before it becomes thoroughly Dry; for it must not be dried otherwise than gradually and in the Air. Mr Jarvis says, that "the best way of drying a Box Coat on these occasions, is to put it round a a Truss of Straw.". Whatever Olympic Wits or Whips might think, there are few modern Jockies who will agree with Pindarus, that Water is the best thing, at least for the lining of the Inner or the Outer Coat of the Stomach." The boards are smart. They are a little scuffed here and there but also steady (bound by Columbian Press in Calcutta). The early pages and later pages have aging and storage marks. The contents between are healthy, very assured, clean (for their age), clear, contented. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: ccgm

Catalogue: Britain - Social History

CONSTANTINE, STEPHEN [EDITOR]

Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions between the Wars (Studies in Imperialism)

Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0719030110). Hardcover, with dust jacket. 208 pages (complete). From the library of Edna and Frank Bradlow, the esteemed Africana specialists and collectors. This copy has somewhat languished in storage. The dustjacket has some shelving wear, some flecks of foxing, some mild scuffing and marking. It is secure and comfortable. The boards are simple and sure. The contents are tanned due to paper quality and storage conditions. The frontis pages are very mildly foxed and waved. The contents in general are clean, clear, tidy, neat, amenable, comfortable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/Fair.

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Book number: 93hq

Catalogue: Britain - Empire / Imperial History

Keywords: 0719030110

CRITCHETT, B

The Post Office London Directory for 1835, Being a List of the Merchants, Traders, &C of London, and Parts Adjacent: Lost of the Lord Mayor, & Court of Aldermen, List of the Bankers in London, List of the Country Bankers with the Bankers They Draw on in London, List of Public Notaries, List of London and Country Newspapers with the Places and Days of Publication, Lists of Army and Navy Agents, Directors of Fire and Life Insurance Officers, Lists of of the London, West India & East India Dock Companies, Foreign Ministers, &C &C - List of the Country Bankers, Alphabetically Arranged, General Information Relating to the Post-Office, Including the Last Rates of Postage; Regulations of the Twopenny Post-Office, &C ; a New Guide to Stagecoaches,

Vacher & Son, under patronage of His Majesty's Post-Master General. 1835, 36th Edition. Hardcover. 724 pages plus 163 pages of the thirty-third edition of the Stagecoach guide (complete). An amiable copy. At some stage the book has been rebound in three-quarter leather. The book has a clear cellophane protective cover. The leather boards have wear about the edges, corners, scuffing, rubbing, handling and storage marks. The spine has been more recently recovered and is also in leather. The spine is comfortable and certain. The boards and spine are steady and sound. The front pastedown has a florid, illegible previous owner signature. The contents are suitably aged. They have evidence of repeated use throughout. There are occasional, small annotations. The early and later pages have wear, foxing, age-related marks. The contents are more than competent, clean, clear, most conscientious, tirelessly confident, gratifying. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 39pg

Catalogue: Britain - History - Reference

HUGHES, PHILIP

The Reformation in England - Revised Edition Three Volumes in One

Burns & Oates, London. 1963, 5th Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Complete. A stead, sound copy. The dust jacket of this huge history is placid. It has some tanning, some light wear, some light marking, some rubbing. It is comfortable and secure. The Anglican red boards are healthy and sure. The trims have shelving and handling marks. Within, the contents are mildly aging, there are splashes of foxing about. However, in general, and by far, the pages are certain, confident, clean, clear, authoritative, amenable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Good/Fair.

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Book number: caki

Catalogue: History - Britain

MARTIN, R MONTGOMERY

History of the Possessions of the Honourable East India Company - Vol 1

Whittaker & Co. London. 1837, First Edition. Hardcover. 367 pages (complete). Volume 1. The book has very recently been rebound in full leather. New end papers. A pleasingly assured copy. Folded map of British possessions at the front (in excellent condition). The front pages have a little wear and marks. The pages are very fresh, clean and clear, very confident. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 70se

Catalogue: Britain - Imperial History

NOBLE, MARK

Memoirs of the Protectorate-House of Cromwell; Deduced from an Early Period, and Continued Down to the Present Time: Collected Chiefly from Original Papers and Records: With Proofs and Illustrations; Together with an Appendix: And Embellished with Elegant Engravings - Volume I

Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham for R Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row; B White, Fleet-Street; J Robson, New-Bond-Street; and S Hayes, Oxford-Road, London. 1784, First Edition. Hardcover. 480 pages plus armorial chart (complete). A pleasing copy of this eager biography of the protectorate Cromwell's. However, the book, written by Rev Noble in his extensive leisure hours, was (according to his obituary in "The Gentleman's Magazine") "So unfortunately numerous were the errors of this compilation, that Mr Gough, whose attentions was soon after directed to the same subject, occupies fourteen quarto pages of Preface to his 'Short Genealogical View of the Family of Oliver Cromwell .) in little more than exposing Mr Noble's errors. The latter, however, was not discouraged from the work to which he was certainly unequal .". This copy then, is the infamous edition! Half leather. Marbled boards. The leathered corners and spine are considerably worn all over and about. The marbled boards too, are worn, scuffed, marked from age, storage and handling. The boards and spine are heroically certain. The contents are most pleasing. The first free page has a previous owner signature. Apart from expected age marks here and there (few in number and shallow in impact), the pages are clean, clear, congenial, neat, agreeably generous, hearteningly hale. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 4lc

Catalogue: Britain - History