[HAMILTON, John]

The Ms. in a Red Box. With an introduction by Derrick French, Editor of the Epworth Bells.

Epworth: J. & P. Hughes, 1974. 8vo. pp. [4], 209> map. Wrappers, Fine. Originally published anonymously in 1903 and believed to be the work of John Hamilton, this is a fictionalised account of the English Civil War on the Isle of Axholme.

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Book number: 32702

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Topography Midland Counties

[CARY, John]

The Names and Situations of the Constellations: to which is added the Names of the Principal Stars therein, as laid down by Cary's New Celestial Globes: also an explanation of the equation table given on his terrestrial globe.

printed by E. Spragg, 1806. 12mo. pp. 21, [3, adverts for Cary's globes and atlases.] Plain grey paper wrappers, top corner torn away. A little internal creasing, but Very Good. BL have an undated version, which they date to 1795, from the same printer. However, it is possible that this is the first edition and the undated version a later reprint. It was later reprinted in 1819 by Andrew Wilson and then numerous times by Hancock from the 1820s to the 1840s.

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Book number: 39897

[HORATIO NELSON]

Nelson's Flag Ship The "Foudroyant," 1789 - 1897.

Manchester: Goodall, Lamb & Heighway, Ltd., c. 1899. 4to. pp. 30> 51 illustrations. Wrappers, Very Good. Jisc lists the University of Leeds copy only. The Foudroyant had a distinguished career, serving as Nelson's flag ship in 1799/1800. After active service she became a guard ship for Plymouth Dock until around 1860 when she became a gunnery training ship. Sold out of service to German shipbreakers in 1891 and following a public outcry was bought by philanthropist G. Wheatley Cobb, who restored her and repurposed her as a boys' training vessel at a cost of £25,000. Following a visit to Blackpool she was wrecked in a violent storm and after vain efforts to refloat her was sold for £250. The timbers and copper were sold at least once more before local craftsmen Goodall, Lamb & Heighway entered into a deal with the owners to secure a monopoly on the salvage. They went on to produce a great many items of furniture and decoration from the material. All clearly marked with their origin these now fetch a premium when the appear in the antiques trade. This is the original catalogue and prospectus for over 60 individual items which could be ordered. "...any article illustrated in this book can be made in ordinary oak at 25% less than the prices quoted."

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Book number: 44542

B.B.

No. 1. Palace Gardens.

27 August, 1857. Fine pen and ink drawing of the house from the gardens. A pencil note on the mount suggests that this is on Bayswater Road, though I have been unable to positively identify which house is illustrated.

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Book number: 45770

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

J., J.C.

Notices of the Helstone Furry-Day.

Printed by W. Plank, 1831. 12mo. pp. 20. Bound in later cloth backed boards. Helston Furry, or Flower Day has been celebrated for hundreds of years to welcome in the Spring, taking place in early May. It is active to this day involving the whole of the town and is a major tourist attraction, though proceeding in a more seemly manner than that which is described in this little guide. Copac lists the BL copy only.

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Book number: 25826

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Topography Topography South West

[AFTER JOHN PIPER]

Original Watercolour of a Ruined Church or Abbey.

c. 1950. Large attractive watercolour, 320 x 450 mm. unsigned but in the manner of John Piper and probably from the same period.

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Book number: 44524

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

[EDWARD OXFORD]

Oxford's Attempt to Assassinate the Queen and Prince Albert on Constitution Hill, Wednesday Evening June 10, 1840.

H. Baker, 1840. Card, 104 x 145 mm. printed in gilt. The first of eight attempts on the Queen's life. Oxford was charged with treason but found not guilty by reason of insanity. After a spell in Bethlem and then Broadmoor, he was transported to Australia in 1868 where, under an assumed name John Freeman, he married a widow and became a churchwarden. He wrote articles under the name Liber for the Melbourne Argus on the city's slums, markets and racetracks which were published as Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life [1888]. He died in 1900. The identification of John Freeman as Edward Oxford was only made in 1987 in an article by F.B. Smith, Lights and Shadows in the Life of John Freeman, published in Victorian Studies.

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Book number: 44587

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera

[BAILEY, John Eglington, editor]

The Palatine Notebook for 1881 - 1885. For the Intercommunication of Antiquaries, Bibliophiles, and Other Investigators into the History and Literature of the Counties of Lancaster, Chester, &c. Volume 1 - 4, parts 1 - 48> and 5, part 49 [all published]

Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1881 - 1885. 4 volumes, plus one loose part. 8vo. pp. [6, 224, xviii, [1]> [4], 292> [4], 297> [4], 261> 16> illustrations. The four volumes bound in the publisher's cloth, the head of volume 3 chipped, the last odd part in original wrappers a little chipped. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor "W.D. Macrae from the Editor John Eglington Bailey (Dec 1888)." The last odd part is rarely found.

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Book number: 26951

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Topography Topography North West

[PIERRE JOUHAUD]

Paris dans le Dix-neuvième Siècle, ou Réflections d'un Observateur sue les nouvelles Institutions, les Embellissemens, ''Esprit public, la Societé, les Femmes, les Journaux, le Théâtre, la Littérature, etc.

Paris and London: Colburn, 1812. 2 volumes in one. Small 8vo. pp. x, 223, [1, publisher's catalogue]: 224. Contemporary calf, just starting to split at the top of the spine. A view of Paris during the short lived Napoleonic era. Originally published in France in 1809, this edition, printed by Schulze and Dean for the French exile market, is recorded in a single example [Newcastle Library].

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Book number: 41150

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel

[JOHN TOWNLEY]

Part I. A Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, Prints and Books of Prints of the Late John Townley... which will be sold by Auction by

Mr King, Wednesday, May then 1st, 1816. 8vo. pp. 46, [1]. Plain wrappers, with prices and purchasers in manuscript.

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Book number: 44781

[REPARATIONS]

Payement de l'Allemagne.

1923. Small 8vo. pp. 9. Wrappers. French text. An analysis of reparation payments by Germany, refuting their figures and drawn from the official reports. "L'Allemagne publiant sans cesse des chiffres inexacts en ce qui concernse les payement effectués par elle au titre des réparations..."

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Book number: 45536

[PHOTOGRAPHY]

Photography.

Abedare: Printed by Wm. Morris, Manufacturing Stationer, Post Office, 1867. Small 8v. pp. 7, [1, blank]. Unbound and self-wrappered as issued? A rare early Welsh printed pamphlet on the chemical processes involved in photography using the collodion process. No locations traced.

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Book number: 43194

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Photography

[COGGES CHARITIES?]

The Poor Man's Petition. [a poem]

[Oxford?]: C. Penny, c. 1820 Single sheet, 195 x 160 mm. Decorative border and woodcut of well-dressed mother and daughter giving alms to an old man. A little frayed and torn. Cogges is a village close to Witney in Oxfordshire. This would appear to be an appeal for the poor, possibly a ballad to be sold by the poor in the manner of an early 'Big Issue'.

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Book number: 39527

[SAMUEL ARNOLD]

Poor Robin, Juvenile Amusement. [song arrangement for voice and piano]

All the Juvenile Amusements to be had at Dr. Arnolds, Duke Street West, [1796?] Folio. pp. [1, blank], 2-3, [1, blank]. Disbound. "Who killed poor Robin..." Copies at the Bodleian and the National Library of Scotland only.

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Book number: 45408

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music

U.S.A.

Prescott's Garage, Wilton, Maine.

Wilton, Me: J.W. Nelson, printer, 1912. Poster, 560 x 215 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts.

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Book number: 41886

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Ephemera