George Buchanan:

Rose Forbes; a novel.

London: Faber, 1950. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 246pp. Original orange cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. This copy was formerly in the library of the Athenaeum Club, with occasional stamps and labels, and the spine is a little frayed and dulled. Overall, the book is just about in good condition. This copy was presented to the Athenaeum Club by the author; this fact is noted on a bookplate to the front pastedown.

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Book number: 34642

Catalogue: 4

W H Bullock:

Across Mexico in 1864-5.

[London: Macmillan, 1866]. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 396pp. 8 tinted lithographic plates, but this copy does not contain the map. Bound in plain green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. This is a printer's proof copy, bound without the preliminary pages, and with several amendments to the text in ink. The book is only in fair condition - the spine is chipped and torn, and the plates have moderate paraffin staining. Suitable as a reading or working copy.

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Book number: 23385

Catalogue: 4

John Bullock:

The Rudiments of Architecture and Building, for the use of Architects, Builders, Draughtsmen, Machinists, Engineers and Mechanics.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1869. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), 468pp, 24pp catalogue. Frontispiece, plates, text illustrations. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The binding is waterstained, and there is some foxing of the plates. Only a fair copy overall, but the text pages are generally clean and tightly bound, and this is suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 53893

Catalogue: 4

John Thackray Bunce:

The History of King Edward's Foundation in Birmingham.

Birmingham: Geo Jones and son, no date [c. 1895]. First edition (softcover). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), 29pp. Original printed grey card wrappers. The front cover is foxed, and there is a chip to the rear cover; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 66598

Catalogue: 4

D H Burger:

Structural Changes in Javanese Society : the Supra-Village Sphere.

Ithaca: Cornell University, 1956. First edition in English (softcover). 4to (28cm by 21cm), [iv], 38pp. Original printed card covers, stapled to the contents. This copy is in good minus condition (the corners of the pages are dog-eared). Gift inscription from the translator (Leslie H Palmier) to the front cover.

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Book number: 48298

Catalogue: 4

Adrian Bury:

Two Centuries of British Water-colour painting.

London: George Newnes, 1950. First edition (hardback). 4to, 227pp. Full-page illustrations throughout (mainly in b&w, a few in colour). Original yellow cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. This copy was formerly in a reference library, with occasional stamps, the binding is rubbed and dusty, and the contents are lightly thumbed. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition.

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Book number: 23023

Catalogue: 4

Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell:

Number Thirteen : being the autobiography of Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell VC DSO MP.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), 352pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is heavy foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 55838

Catalogue: 4

Canon Henry Scott Holland, edited by J Howard Whitehouse:

An Apology for St Paul's Cathedral.

Oxford University Press, 1930. First edition (hardback). Thin 8vo, 26pp. Original green cloth spine, green boards, title labels to the front board and the spine. Lower joint split (and repaired), preliminary pages foxed. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 25948

Catalogue: 4

Edmund Capon:

Chinese Painting.

Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979. First edition (softcover). Folio (41cm by 29cm), 8pp text, 64pp colour illustrations. Original laminated card wrappers. The covers are rubbed and lightly chafed, and the front endpapers are foxed; overall, this book is just about in good condition. ISBN 0714819508

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Book number: 67442

Catalogue: 4

Donald de Carle:

Watchmakers' & Clockmakers' Encyclopaedic Dictionary.

London: N.A.G. Press, 1950. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxxii, 252pp. Numerous text figures by E A Ayres. Original blue cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. The binding is stained, the spine is sunned, and there is an ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Only a good minus copy overall, but the contents are in sound condition, and this is suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 69544

Catalogue: 4

FitzRoy Carrington [editor]:

A Print-Lover's Hundred.

New York: M Knoedler & company, 1934. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), 148pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original blue cloth spine, grey boards. Binding rubbed, lower corners bumped; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Limited to 350 copies, of which this is copy number 37.

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Book number: 58752

Catalogue: 4

R A G Carson:

Coins : Ancient, Mediaeval & Modern.

London: Hutchinson, 1962. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 17cm), xiii, 642pp. 64pp plates. Original green cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. This copy was formerly in a reference library, with occasional stamps and labels, the front board is stained, and the preliminary pages are foxed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 51347

Catalogue: 4

Rev Stephen Hyde Cassan:

Lives and Memoirs of the Bishops of Sherborne and Salisbury.

Salisbury: Brodie and Dowding, 1824. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 15cm), xxvi, 292pp, 142pp, 366pp, 10pp addenda. One plate (in the addenda section). This copy is in the original grey boards, but the binding is in tatty condition, with the backstrip deatched and incomplete. Suitable as a binding copy.

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Book number: 44189

Catalogue: 4

E Pierre Chanover:

The Marquis de Sade: a bibliography.

Metuchen [NJ]: The Scarecrow Press, 1973. First edition (hardback). 8vo, xvii, 124pp. Original red cloth. This copy was formerly in a reference library, with a label to the front free endpaper and a shelfmark to the spine, and the boards are dusty, but the contents are very good, and this copy is in good condition overall. ISBN 0810805618

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Book number: 22547

Catalogue: 4

Harold Chapin:

Soldier and Dramatist : being the letters of Harold Chapin, American Citizen who died for England at Loos on September 26th, 1915.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1916. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 288pp. Two portrait plates. Original green cloth. This book was formerly in a reference library, with occasional stamps and labels, the binding is rather rubbed, the titling is dulled on the spine, and there is light foxing to the title page. Overall, this book is in good minus condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 66690

Catalogue: 4