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1901 |
Carpzovii, J G [ Carpzovius - ( Carpzov ) , J Gottlob ] [introduction] E Palaia Diatheke Kata Tous Ebdomekonta - Vetus Testamentum Ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum, Secundum Exemplar Vaticanum Romae Editum Accedunt Variae Lectiones E Codice Alexandrino
Oxonii - E Typographeo Clarendoniano [ Oxford University Press ] 1817 1st edition thus.
Cloth spined boards, F. 6 Volumes. [2]+cviii+563pp, [2]+535pp, [2]+461pp, [2]+382pp, [2]+424pp, [4]+416pp, a fine set in the original printers boards, paper labels to the spines all intact save some slight loss at the edges, pages uncut, some spotting to the preliminary pages, a nice set. No ownership details save for the booksellers ticket of Hannaford's, Exeter. The text is printed in a single column, not divided into verses but with verse numbers in the margin, and variant readings at the foot of the page. GREEK text. A fine copy of a scarce edition. Septuagint Bible which is a new edition of the Sixtine text [originally published Rome, 1587]. The editor has added at the foot of each page the textual variants of Codex A [Codex Alexandrinus], which have been taken from the second edition of Grabe's text of 1720. He has also prefixed an introduction which is extracted from chapters. ii and iii of part 2 of J.G. Carpzov's Critica sacra Veteris Testamenti. This edition also contains book 4 Maccabees [which is not in the Sixtine edition] 'ad fidem MS. Alexandrini exhibetur' . The Bible contains - vol. 1, introduction [ headed D. Joh. Gottlob. Carpzovius de versione Græca LXX virali ], and the text of Genesis - Deuteronomy; vol. 2, Joshua - 2 Kings; vol. 3, 1 Chronicles - Job; vol. 4, Psalms - Ecclesiasticus; vol. 5, Hosea - Epistle of Jeremiah; vol. 6, note 'Lectori' and text of Ezekiel - 4 Maccabees. Carpzov [ 1679 - 1767 ] was an influential Bible Scholar whos introduction was an important text which is still relevant today. - Darlow & Moule 4790
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1903 |
Carr, Francis Ivan The Terrible
David & Charles - Barnes & Noble 1981 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, F/VG. 220pp, 16pp b/w plates, text figs, index, fine copy in a near fine spine sunned & edge bumped dustjacket. Biography of the Russian ruler Ivan IV - who became known as Ivan the Terrible due to his absolute power & unflinching resolve. War was a constant factor in his long reign & through it he expanded Russia to the East, making it the large nation it is today. His notoriety for cruelty somewhat unjustified.
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1905 |
Carra, Carlo [ Giotto ] Affreschi Italiani - Giotto - La Cappella Degli Scrovegni
Collezione Silzana / Amilcare Pizzi, Milan 1946 1st edition.
Cloth, F. 18pp 24 colour & b/w plates, a nice fine copy in the original card slipcase. Folio. The upper board features a cartouche in bas relief. Copy 1094 of an unspecified limited edition. ITALIAN text. Produced to record the painted frescos of Giotto at Scrovengi. The introduction states that the photography was carried out in particularly difficult conditions. Oversized book, will require extra shipping
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1906 |
Carrel, Armand Histoire De La Contre-Revolution En Angleterre Sous Charles II Et Jaques II
Louis Hauman, Bruxelles 1836 reprint.
Full gilt calf, G. 374pp b/w frontis, facimile letter from Carrel at rear, binding 6 compartments with raised bands & gilt tooling, leather worn to boards, book has a rather musty smell. History of the events leading to the overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel [ 1800 - 1836 ]. His early death was the result of a would to the groin, recieved whilst fighting a duel with the editor of a rival Journal.
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1907 |
Carrel, Armand Histoire De La Contre-Revolution En Angleterre Sous Charles II Et Jaques II
A Sautelet Et Cie, Paris 1827 1st edition.
Quarter brown morocco over brown pebble grain cloth, G. 439pp, leather a little rubbed, paper rather foxed & spotted throughout, a good copy. FRENCH text. History of the events leading to the overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel [ 1800 - 1836 ]. His early death was the result of a would to the groin, recieved whilst fighting a duel with the editor of a rival Journal.
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1909 |
Carroll, Lewis [ Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ] - Folkard, Charles [illustrations] & Broadwood, Lucy E [music] Songs From Alice In Woderland And Through The Looking Glass
A & C Black 1921 1st edition.
Decorated cloth, VG+. 48pp, decorated endpapers, tipped in colour frontis & 10 tipped in colour plates by Folkard, cloth a little rubbed at the edges, neat childs name & address on the endpaper [ from Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire ] a near fine example of a nice book, much reprinted. The songs from Alice, set to music & finely illustrated.
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1910 |
Carroll, Lewis [ Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ] & Cohen, Morton N & Wakeling, Edward [editors] Lewis Carroll And His Illustrators - Collaborations And Correspondence, 1865 - 1898
Cornell University Press 2003 1st US edition.
Cloth, dj, VG/VG. xxxviii+349pp, 36 b/w illustrations, text vignettes, index, bottom R corner bumped, dustjacket a little worn, otherwise a fine copy. A collection of letters which Carroll wrote to the illustrators of his works which give an insight into the creative thinking of this complex man.
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1911 |
Carroll, Patrick Eamonn Engineering Ireland - The Material Constitution Of The Technoscientific State
UMI - University Of San Diego 1999 reprint.
Cloth, F. xiii+463pp, a fine copy. UMI Dissertation 9935447. A digital printout from a microfische source. SIGNED by the author. Study of the way in which the Irish state in the late 17th to early 19th century embraced science in new ways in an attempt to use science to better govern. The move from the ladn & people to becoming, in they eyes of Governemnt Territory & Population. The author looks at the work of Robert Boyle, William Petty, cartographic surveys, government regualtion of food & water, regulation of the medical profession & other sciences as well as new ideas in agriculture & farming.
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1912 |
Carroll, Sydney W Some Dramatic Opinions
F V White & Co nd c 1924 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. 316pp, a nice near fine copy, SIGNED presentation copy, signed to the Shakespearian actor Baliol Holloway. Head of spine frayed a little. The author has signed the book twice, once in 1924, & again in 1948, when he has added a longer inscription. A collection of theatre reviews & essays.
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1916 |
Carter, Ernest F Trams And Tramways
W & G Foyle 1961 1st edition.
Laminated boards, G. 95pp, 4pp b/w plates, b/w illustrations, index, base of spine bumped, a good copy. Brief history and guide to the operating mechanism of Trams
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1917 |
Carter, John Eccles Notes Historical And Architectural On The Church Of Saint John The Evangelist Slymbridge Gloucestershire With Some Remarks On Decorative Colouring
William Strong, Bristol 1845 1st edition.
Card wrappers, VG. 67pp, b/w plan, 4 tinted plates, 3 plates, text illustrations, spine splitting, covers marked, but not too bad. comprehensivehistory & guide to the parish church at Slimbridge. The tinted plates are numbered 2 - 5, so the book may be missing a plate, but ther are also 4 un-numbered plates, so ther might not be. uncommon.
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1918 |
Carter, Miranda Anthony Blunt - His Lives
Macmillan 2001 3rd impression.
Cloth, dj, F/F. xviii+590pp, 16pp mainly b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Biography of the renowned art historian Anthony Blunt [ 1907 - 1983 ] who was late in his life exposed as a KGB spy, one of the notorious Cambridge Five. His treason saw him stripped of his knighthood & subject to universal hatred in the circles he had up until his exposure as a spy moved with ease. His fall leading to much speculation & rumour about his life, making accurate biography difficult.
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1920 |
Carter, Thomas Rose Harvey - Friend Of The Leper
Zenana Press nd c 1920 1st edition.
Illustrated boards, dj, VG/P+. ix+159pp, b/w frontis, 16 b/w plates, top portion of dustjacket missing, otherwise a nice copy. Biography of missionary & medic Rose Harvey who spent much of her life caring for the poor & ill of India.
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1921 |
Cartwright, Julia The Early Work Of Raphael [With] Raphael In Rome
Seeley & Co 1895 1st edition.
Cloth, G++. 80+80pp, 2 frontis', 6 b/w plates, 44 b/w text illustrations, original covers bound in, Ex Tate Library Brixton with rather enthusiastic stamping throughout, Library binding, a nice copy though. Part of the "Portfolio Monograph" series, issues number 13 & 20 for January & August 1895. Originally published in card wrappers.
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1922 |
Carver, Thomas Nixon The Distribution Of Wealth
Macmillan 1916 5th impression.
Cloth, VG. xvii+290pp, index, cloth very slightly rubbed, a near fine copy. Detailed study of wealth & they ways in which it is distributed. The book covers value, diminishing returns, wages, rent, interest etc etc. The author Thomas Nixon Carver [ 1865 - 1961 ] was professor of political economy at Harvard at the time of writing the book.
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1923 |
Cary, Joyce Memoir Of The Bobotes
Phoenix Press 2000 1st edition thus.
Paperback, F. 170pp, b/w illustrations, a nice fine copy. New. Account of the Balkan war of 1912 - 1913 during which the author was a strecher bearer for the Red Cross. A forgotton war the book paints a vivid picture of war fought by peasants in primitive conditions.
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1924 |
Cary, Joyce Memoir Of The Bobotes
Phoenix Press 2000 1st edition thus.
Paperback, F. 170pp, b/w illustrations, a nice fine copy. New. Account of the Balkan war of 1912 - 1913 during which the author was a strecher bearer for the Red Cross. A forgotton war the book paints a vivid picture of war fought by peasants and in awful primitive conditions.
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1925 |
Casanova, Gaston Mathématiques Et Matérialisme Dialectique
Éditions Sociales, Paris 1947 1st edition.
Paperback, dj, VG/VG. 196pp, covers & pages a little yellowed, otherwise a fine copy. Glassine dustjacket a little worn along the eges. Mathematical study of Dialectic Materialism by the French mathematician Gaston Casanova [ 1913 - 2009 ]. This is his first published work. His later career was spent in the field of Clifford Algebra. Uncommon.
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1926 |
Cascardi, Anthony J Ideologies Of History In The Spanish Golden Age
Pennsylvania State University Press 1997 1st edition.
Paperback, F. viii+327pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age, when traditional literary values - honour, lineage & purity - and new influences arising from a modernization of Spain due in part from the trade with the New World, were at odds with each other. Works examined include Don Quixote.
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1927 |
Case, James T X-Ray Examination Of The Alimentary Tract
the Southworth Company 1922 revised edition.
Cloth, VG. 4 volumes, loose card pages with stereoscopic views mounted on some sheets, in nice condition, views mainly of Barium stained intestines & procedures. Uncommon Stereoscopic work showing the correct 1920's way to have your stomach X-Rayed.
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51.00 GBP
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1929 |
Cassady, Richard E The Norman Achievement
Sidgwick & Jackson 1986 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, F/VG. 480pp, 32pp colour plates, b/w illustrations & maps, index, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket that is a little rubbed. History of the Normans in Europe, from the beginnings of the Dynasty in Italy to its eventual takeover in the late 12th century.
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1930 |
Casserley, H C & Dorman C C Midland Album
Ian Allen 1974 3rd impression.
lg8vo cloth, dj, F/VG.112pp, many b/w photo illus, dustjacket clumsily price clipped, rubbed & creased. A mini pictorial history of the Midland railway, with many interesting pictures from around the country.
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1932 |
Cassius ( Foot, Michael ) Brendan And Beverley - An Extravaganza
Gollancz 1944 1st edition.
Cloth, VG. 78pp, cloth a little faded to the spine, otherwise a nice copy. Satirical essay describing the possible outcome of a pact between two MPs, one who had supported Chamberlain & appeasement & one who had opposed it. Based around the wartime role's of Sir Arthur Beverley Baxter & Brendan Bracken.
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1933 |
Casson, John Lewis And Sybil - A Memoir
Collins 1972 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, VG/G+. 352pp, b/w frontis, 22pp b/w plates, index, dustjacket sunned unevenly to the upper panel & spine, cloth a little rubbed, ortherwise a good reading copy. Biographical memoir of the theatrical husband & wife Lewis Casson & Sybil Thorndyke.
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1935 |
Castelane, Jeanne Michéle And Marc
Frederick Muller 1961 1st English edition.
Cloth, dj, F/F. 190pp, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket, a superb copy. A story of love between two people utterly unfit for each other set in Paris. The novel was called 'Le Leopard' when originally published in France in 1959.
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1938 |
Castro, Fidel Education In Revolution
Institutio Cubano Del Libro, Havana 1975 1st edition.
Laminated boards, dj, VG/G+. 235pp, b/w & colour illustrations, dustjacket a little sunned & the lamination lifting across the front, a nice copy. A series of esssays & speeches by Castro on Education & what Education will mean for a modern Cuba. The text is taken from 'History Will Absolve Me' which contained speeches written between 1959 & 1973. Uncommon.
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1939 |
Catlow, Agnes & Reeve, Lovell The Conchologists Nomenclator. A Catalogue Of All The Recent Species Of Shells, Included Under The Subkingdon Mollusca, With Their Authorities, Synonymes And references To Works Where Figured Or Described
Reeve, Brothers, King William Street, Strand 1845 1st edition.
Full calf, G. 326+11pp, interleaved copy, upper board missing along with all pp before title, occasional ink entry on interleaved pages, text block tight & in good condition, spine a little rubbed. Dictionary listing of all the then known Mollusc species, and the works where they are described in detail.
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75.00 GBP
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1940 |
Cattaneo, Carlo & Galasso, Giuseppe [editor] Antologia Delgi Scritti Politici
Il Mulino 1978 2nd edition.
Paperback, VG. 223pp, paper a little yellowed, as is the spine, otherwise fine. Political writings of the Italian philosopher & patriot Carlo Cattaneo [ 1801 - 1869 ]. Active in the revolution against the Austrians of 1848 he hoped to bring Italy forward by concentrating on the practical sciences. A fervent Republican, Garibaldi wanted him for a Government seat, but Cattaneo's refusal to pledge allegiance to the Monarchy meant he could not accept.
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1941 |
Cattell, Raymond B General Psychology
Sci-Art Publishers, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1947 2nd edition.
Cloth, VG. 624pp, 182 text figs, index, spine faded & pages yellowed, otherwise a near fine copy. Good general overview, aimed at graduate students, of the scientific study of what people think and do as it was understood in the late 1940s.
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1942 |
Cattell, Raymond B Psychology And Social Progress - Mankind And Destiny From The Standpoint Of A Scientist
The C W Daniel Company 1933 1st edition.
Cloth, G. 418pp, index, spine faded & with a 1 inch nick in the hinge, rear endpapers rather grubby & dusty, pages foxed at the margins, a good copy. Early work by the British psychologist Raymond Cattell [ 1905 - 1998 ] in which he outlines his `evolutionary ethic' based on natural selection & his belief that the solution of social, economic, and moral problems of mankind was to be found in the greater understanding of human behaviour. The book contains many references to Eugenics & Race, which were to haunt him in later life.
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1944 |
Catulli Veronensis [ Gaius Valerius Catullus ] & Palmer, Arthur [editor] Catulli Veronensis Liber
Macmillan & Co 1896 reprint.
Full brown morocco, VG. lvi+97+2pp, errata sheet tipped in, attractively bound with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, 5 raised bands, initial blanks & margins of the pages rather foxed, occasional pencil marginalia, a nice copy. Macmillan's Parnassus Library. The 116 love poems of the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus [ 84 BC - 54 BC ] in an attractive binding.
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1945 |
Catullus The Poems Of Catullus
Penguin 1977 reprint.
Paperback, VG. 246pp, a nice near fine copy, paper a little yellowed.. Poems of one of the most lyrical & passionate poets of any age. Catullus [ 84 - 54 BC ] wrote poems about the fine living & love to be found in Roman Society of the late Republic.
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1946 |
Catullus - Tibullus - Propertius - Hauptio, Mauricio [ Haput, Maurice ] Catullus, Tibullus Propertius ( Catulli - Tibulli - Propertii ) - Carmina
S Hirzelium, Lipsiae 1868 1st edition thus.
Full red morocco, F. 372pp, engraved title, letterpress title, all edges gilt, a near fine copy, leather just a trifle rubbed, along the edges, paper a little yellowed, Nicely, if plainly bound by J B Hawes of Cambridge. A nicely bound printing of the roman poetry of Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius.
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1950 |
Cavallo, Guglielmo [editor] L'Uomo Bizantino
Editori Laterza 1992 1st Italian edition.
Cloth, dj, G/G. xxii+434pp, dustjacket stained & grubby, one chapter 'Il Donna' underlined in red ink, stain on the fore edges, a good reading copy. A collection of essays by various historians on the Byzantine people, with chapters on the Poor, the Farmers, the Soldiers, the Bishops etc etc etc.
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1951 |
Cave, Roderick The Private Press
Faber & Faber 1971 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, F/VG. 376pp, b/w frontis, 60pp b/w plates showing 72 illustrations, 83 text figs, index, dustjacket a little rubbed & grubby, internally a fine copy. A history of the amateur printer & publisher who , with their own printing press have been fascinated by producing their own books & broadsides. From the early days of moveable type when scholars such as Tycho Brae printed their own theories to the modern private press which produces finely printed works.
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1952 |
Cave, Roderick Fine Printing And Private Presses
The British Library 2001 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+267pp, 73 b/w illustrations, index, edges bumped, otherwise a fine copy. A collection of 29 essays on the art of typography & fine printing. The Essays look at individual presses from around the world & the fine books they have produced.
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1953 |
Caven, Brian Dionysius I - War Lord Of Sicily
Yale University Press 1990 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, F/VG+. xii+272pp, b/w frontis, 15 b/w illustrations, 6 maps, index, boards show signs of having had a weak glue applied to hold the dustjacket in place, but the glue must have dried before the jacket was replaced as it has not stuck, otherwise a fine copy in a spine sunned dustjacket. Biography of Dionysius I [ 430 BC - 367 BC ] who through his military exploits became ruler of Sicily. This study marks him as a man engaged in a fight to free Sicily from rule by Carthage as opossed to the military tyrant he is usually portrayed as.
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1954 |
Cavendish, George The Life And Death Of Thomas Wolsey The Great Cardinal Of England
The Alcuin Press, Chipping Campden 1930 1st edition.
Buckram, G. 193pp, title page in red & black, LIMITED to 325 copies with this being copy 152, ex Public School Library with their bookplate & ink stamps, accession number to the spine, cloth a little marked, a good copy. Private press edition of George Cavendish's 'Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe' with the text for this edition taken from Egerton MS 2402 in the British Museum. George Cavendish [ 1494 - 1562 ] was in the service of Cardinal Wolsey as an usher & Cavendish's biography of his master offers not only the most detailed account of Wolsey's life but also of the English Court in the 1520s & of the divorce from Catherine of Aragon of King Henry VIII.
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1956 |
Cavendish, William & Johnson, Anthony [editor] The Country Captain - Malone Society Reprints Volume 162
Oxford University Press - The Malone Society 1999 1st edition.
Cloth, F. xxxviii+80pp, b/w illustrations, a fine copy. A play by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle [ 1592 - 1676 ]. The play was published in 1649 & originally was attributed to James Shirley. It has survived in two forms, an untitled MS & a printed version. The play concerns the attempt of an adulterous wife & her suitor to consumate their realtionship by tricking the wife's aged husband. The play owes a nod to Ben Jonson to whom Cavendish was a patron.
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1957 |
Cavendish, William & Johnson, Anthony [editor] The Country Captain - Malone Society Reprints Volume 162
Oxford University Press - The Malone Society 1999 1st edition.
Cloth, F. xxxviii+80pp, b/w illustrations, a fine copy. A play by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle [ 1592 - 1676 ]. The play was published in 1649 and originally was attributed to James Shirley. The play concerns the attempt of an adulterous wife and her suitor to consumate their realtionship by tricking the wife's aged husband. The play owes a nod to Ben Jonson to whom Cavendish was a patron.
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1959 |
Caxton, William & Leach, MacEdward [editor] Paris And Vienne - Translated From The French
Oxford University Press - Early English Text Society 1957 1st edition.
Cloth, VG. xxxii+120pp, b/w frontis, index, Ex-Library with bookplate & a few stamps, reserve stock so a clean copy internally. EETS OS 234. Originally published by Caxton in 1485, Paris & Vienne marked a change in the style of Literature being written in Europe at the time. Instead of tales of Knightly Romance & Chivalry a move was made towards more realistic down to Earth tales, closer to actual life. Paris & Vienne is one of the most charming.
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1960 |
Caxton, William [translator] - Le Fevre, Raoul & Munro, John [editor] The History Of Jason Translated From The French Of Raoul Le Fevre
Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co - Early English Text Society 1913 1st edition.
Library Cloth, G. viii+199pp, b/w frontis, plain library rebind, Ex-Library [Hampstead Public] with stamps & bookplates, text unmarked, a good copy. EETS volume 111. Caxton's translation into Middle English of the story of Jason & The Golden Fleece. The text is in middle English in the book.
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1961 |
Cecil, Henry Sober As A Judge
Penguin 1962 1st edition.
Paperback, VG. 190pp, small split at the base of the spine, otherwise a fine copy. Comical court room fiction, the books of Cecil the basis for several films & a television series in the late 1950's.
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1962 |
Cecil, Lord David William Cowper
The English Association 1932 1st edition.
paper wrappers, VG. 19pp, stain to upper cover, otherwise a nice copy. The English Association pamphlet no 81, the transcript of a lecture given in April 1932
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1963 |
Cecil, Lord David The English Poets
Collins - Britain In Pictures 1941 1st edition.
Illustrated boards, dj, G/G. 48pp, 12pp colour plates, 13 b/w illustrations, ink inscription, reading copy only, dustjacket now attached to the boards with sticky back plastic, dustjaket & pages a little foxed, Ex school library. Britain in Pictures vol 1. Another volume in the popular Britain in Pictures series.
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1964 |
Cecil, Lord David The English Poets
Collins - Britain In Pictures 1945 2nd impression.
Illustrated boards, G. 48pp, 8 colour plates, 13 b/w illustrations, corners worn, a fair copy. Britain in Pictures vol 1. Part of the Britain in Pictures Series.
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3.20 GBP
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1965 |
Cecil, Lord David The English Poets
Collins - Britain In Pictures 1945 2nd impression.
Illustrated boards, G. 48pp, 8 colour plates, 13 b/w illustrations, edges worn, a fair copy. Britain in Pictures vol 1. Part of the Britain in Pictures Series.
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1966 |
Cecil, Lord David The English Poets
Collins - Britain In Pictures 1945 2nd impression.
Illustrated boards, G+. 48pp, 8 colour plates, 13 b/w illustrations, edges slightly worn, a fair copy. Britain in Pictures vol 1. Part of the Britain in Pictures Series.
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3.20 GBP
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1967 |
Cecil, Lord David The English Poets
Collins - Britain In Pictures 1943 2nd impression.
Illustrated boards, dj, VG/G+. 48pp, 8 colour plates, 13 b/w illustrations, edges slightly worn & rubbed, a nice copy. Britain in Pictures vol 1. Part of the Britain in Pictures Series.
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6.00 GBP
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1968 |
Cecil, Lord David The English Poets
Collins - Britain In Pictures 1947 5nd impression.
Illustrated boards, dj, VG/G+. 48pp, 8 colour plates, 13 b/w illustrations, edges slightly worn, small tear in the dustjacket. a nice copy. Britain in Pictures vol 1. Part of the Britain in Pictures Series.
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1969 |
Celt [editor] [ Farquarson, John ] The Cynic's Autograph Book
Gay & Hancock 1913 7th edition.
Cloth, VG. 97pp, b/w frontis & 5 b/w illustrations, cloth a little grubby, spaces for autographs unused, a nice copy. A collection of cynical & pessimistic epithets, with space underneath each to record the signature of someone to whom the quote applies. A random selection - 'Love is the wine of Life; Marriage the morning after', 'The Most changeable thing in the world is woman. The next is luck'.
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20.00 GBP
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1970 |
Ceram, C W The First American, A Story Of North American Archaeology
Cape 1971 1st UK edition.
cloth, dj, F/VG+. xxi+357pp, 28pp b/w plates, 8pp cold plates, many text illus, bibliography, notes, index, spine faded a little. A history of the archaeology of North America and the people who carried out the digs. The book charts the history of the native peoples of America.
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1972 |
Cernohorsky, Walter O Marine Shells Of The Pacific - An Authoritative Handbook For Collectors - Volume 1 [with] Volume 2
Pacific Publications 1967 - 1972 1st editions.
Cloth, dj, F/VG. 2 volumes, 248pp, 410pp, endpaper maps, 3 text figs, 60pp b/w plates & folding chart to volume 1, 28 text figs, 68pp b/w plates to volume 2. dustjacket a little worn & chipped along the edges, traces of sellotape to the endpapers, but internally a nice clean set. Standard reference to the Shells & molluscs of the Pacific Ocean. Volume 1 covers 440 species, volume 2 a further 600. The books also include details on shell collectors in the region and methods of storing & cataloguing a collection.
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50.00 GBP
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1973 |
Chadwick, Nora The Celts
Penguin 1997 4th impression of 2nd edition.
Paperback, VG+. 306pp, 8pp b/w plates, small crease to the rear cover, otherwise a fine copy. A well recived & popular history of the Celts in Europe. This second edition has a new introdcution by Barry Cunliffe.
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1974 |
Chadwick, W [ William ] Edward Ethel Hardman - A Story Of Self Discipline
Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge - SPCK 1901 1st edition.
Decorated cloth, VG. 319pp, b/w frontis, 3 b/w plates one detached, prize label on the endpaper ( awarded to Lizzie Whittaker for regular attendanec at St mary the Virgin sunday school, Stafford ), an attractive copy, cloth & decoration bright. Children's fiction, with moral Christian overtones
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14.00 GBP
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1979 |
Chalmers, Patrick R & Austen, Winifred [illustrator] Birds Ashore And A-Foreshore
Collins 1935 1st edition.
Cloth, G+. 180pp, 16 colour plates, cloth a little faded & sunnd along the edges, head of the spine snagged, internally a nice copy, Ink stamp of a Natural History Society on the pastedowns, bookplate. A celebration, in verse, prose & watercolour of birds and their historical & cultural significance.
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1980 |
Chambaud, Lewis A Grammar Of The French Tongue. With A Preface, Containing An Essay On The Proper Method For Teaching And Learning That Language
printed by A Strahan, Printers Street for J Johnson et al 1801 13th edition.
Full contemporary calf, G+. xxxii+463+[i]pp, single folding chart, leather rubbed & worn with several small nicks & chips, corners rubbed & bumped, the upper hinge begining to crack but holding well, the binder has trimmed the top edge close occasionally shaving part of the running title, pages grubby through use & yellowed, the folding chart ( of verb conjugation ) has been miss-folded but is free from tears, overall a well used but complete & solid copy. A much reprinted & comprehensive guide to speaking French the correct way, with much given over to pronunciation & the French idiom. The first edition appearing in 1750. The author, a prolific writer of books on learning French & French pronunciation died in 1776.
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28.50 GBP
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1981 |
Chamber, David [editor] & Smith, John R - Ladizesky, Kathleen [contributors] The Private Library, Third Series Volume 8:3, Autumn 1985 - The Rocket Press - Letters Of Stanley Morison To William McCance At Gregynog
The Private Libraries Association 1985 1st edition.
Paperback, VG. 95-144pp, 13 b/w illustrations 1 folding, spine a little faded, otherwise a fine copy. TLS from one of the contributors laid in. Two articles, one on the Rocket Press at Blewberry in the years 1981 - 84 & one on the correspondence of a typographer & fine printer on the finer points of book production.
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1986 |
Chambers, Anne Eleanor Countess Of Desmond
Wolfhound 2000 1st edition.
Paperback, F. 256pp, b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. New. Biography of the wife of the 15th Earl of Desmond who was involved in the Desmond Rebellions and was being pursued across the hills of Munster by the English.
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1987 |
Chambers, David - Franklin, Colin - Tucker, Alan Gogmagog - Morris Cox And The Gogmagog Press
Private Libraries Association, Pinner 1991 1st edition.
Cloth, F. 184pp, b/w frontis, 16pp colour plates, b/w illustrations, a nice fine copy. Limited to 1650 copies, of which 500 were for sale. A bibliography & history of the Gogmagog Press, one of the most inventive & avante guard private presses of the 20th century.
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36.00 GBP
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1994 |
Chambers, Richard & Caruthers, Robert Cyclopaedia Of English Literature A History, Critical And Biographical Of British Authors With Specimens Of Their Writings [Volume II only - 1780 - 1880 ]
W R Chambers 1889 4th edition.
Plain blue cloth, VG. xvi+816pp, engraved frontis, 4 engraved plates, index, professionally rebound in plain blue cloth preserving the original leather lettering pieces, a nice copy. Volume II Only A good & comprehensive dictionary of Literature, this second volume covers just over 100 years of literature. Extensive notes on all the leading figures in English poetry, drama & fiction.
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1995 |
Chambers, Robert Cyclopaedia Of English Literature A History, Critical And Biographical Of British Authors From The Earliest To The Present Times
W R Chambers 1844 1st edition.
Half calf, P. 2 volumes, xvi+672pp, xvi+717pp, many b/w illustrations, a working set only, leather very worn to both volumes, sporadic foxing & browning. A good & comprehensive dictionary of Literature, the second volume covers just over 100 years of literature. Extensive notes on all the leading figures in English poetry, drama & fiction.
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25.00 GBP
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1997 |
Chambers, William & Chambers, Robert Chambers's Information For The People [ 2 volumes complete ]
W & R Chambers 1883 5th edition.
Cloth, G. 2 volumes, [vi]+824pp, [iv]+824pp, b/w illustrations, index in each volume, volume I has had the spine repaired somewhat crudely where the cloth has split along the hinges, gutters at the pastedown of volume I also repaired, cloth snagged at the head of both spines, cloth a little damp marked, paper a little yellowed, old Library bookplate to each volume but no other library evidence, a fair set. The complete 104 issues of the encyclopaedic 'Information For The People' which was originally published weekly in the 1850s with each issues covering a different topic, from Astronomy to Arboriculture, from The Horse to Political Economy.
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2000 |
Champney, Elizabeth W Romance Of The Feudal Châteaux
G P Putnam's, New York 1908 7th impression.
Decorated cloth gilt, VG+. xii+436pp, b/w frontis, & 7 b/w plates in photogravure each with tissue guard, 3 b/w plates, b/w illustrations, a nice near fine copy, decoration on the upper board a little rubbed. Interesting tour of some of the more famous castles built during the Medieval period in France. The author wrote several books on the Romantic architecture of France.
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28.00 GBP
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