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- The Journal Of Strategic Studies - Volume 19 Number 1, March 1996
Frank Cass 1996 1st edition.
Paperback, F. vi+162pp, covers a little marked, internally fine. Contains 5 articles - Liddell Hart's Theory Of Armoured Warfare : Revising The Revisionists by Azar Gat - War And Peace In A Multipolar World : A Critique Of Quincy Wright's Institutional Analysis Of The Interwar International System by Christopher Mark Davis - North Atlantic Chemical And Biological Research Collaboration 1916 - 1995 by Gradon Carter & Graham S Pearson - The Geneva Naval Conference Of 1927 : The British Preparation For The Conference December 1926 To June 1927 by Tadasji Kuramatsu - Figuring Out Fighting Organisations by Theo Farrell
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309 |
- Guide To The Gallery Of Birds In The Department Of Zoology Of The British Museum ( Natural History )
British Museum - by order of the Trustees 1905 1st edition.
Cloth spined boards, G+. vi+228pp, 24 b/w plates, 7 b/w illustrations, scattered foxing, edge of the boards worn & the upper hinge split ( but holding ) at the gutter, a reading copy. Presentation bookplate from the Trustees, Ex Public School library with a single ink stamp to the upper cover & the pastedown. Full descriptive catalogue of the ornithological holdings & displays of the Natural History Museum at the turn of the last century.
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- Annales des Mines - Ou Recueil De Memoirs Sur l'Explotation Des Mines Et Sur Les Sciences Et Les Arts Qui S'Y Rapportment Redigees Par Les Ingenieurs des Mines Et Publiees Sous L'Autorisation Du Ministre Des Travaux Publics [ Quatrieme Serie - Tome XIV ]
Carilian Goeury Et Vor Dalmont, Quai des Augustines, Paris 1848 1st edition.
Plain library cloth, VG. 689pp, 8 folding engraved plates [ one misbound ], index, one plate torn with slight loss to the leading edge, some plates re-folded awkwardly, Ex Library & rebound in plain brown library cloth, a nice copy. FRENCH text. A collection of papers & essays on Mining, Vulcanology, Geology, Mineralogy & similar sciences. There are articles on Chile & its geology, Volcanoes, Mining in Grande Combe etc etc.
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325 |
- Mountain Bike Rides In The Peak District
Vertebrate Publishing 2007 1st edition.
Laminated foled colour map, F. folded sheet, in a plastic wallet. New. Single sheet which contains details on 8 mountain bike routes from 12 - 27 km. Covers Ladybower, Stanage, Ashover Singletrack, Mam Tor, Bakewell, Middleton & High Peak Circuit.
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327 |
- Pictures From Punch Volumes I - IV [ 1 - 4 ]
Bradbury, Agnew & Co 1904 reprint.
Half red morocco over red cloth boards, G+. 4 volumes, 476pp, to each volume, each volume with 2 portraits plus approx 1000 cartoons, leather a little rubbed along the edges & spines of volumes a little rubbed, fading to the extremities of the cloth, bindings generally strong & in good order, internally fine. A collection of 4000 or so of the famous cartoons which made Punch an institution in the late Victorian era. The 8 portraits show the illustrators who drew the pictures and the editors who ran Punch - John Leech, Mark Lemon, John Tenniel, Shirley Brooks, Charles Keene, Tom Taylor, George Du Maurier & Francis C Burnand
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334 |
- Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis
Oxonii [ Oxford ] Clarendon Press 1892 1st thus.
Cloth, VG. xvi+416pp+8pp publishers adverts, cloth frayed at the head & tail of the spine, edges rubbed. Rules & regulations for Students at Oxford, partly in Latin. Ink Stamp for the booksellers W E Howells, Chelsea.
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336 |
- The Multum In Parvo Atlas Of The World
Ward, LOck & Co 1925 a new edition
Cloth, G. [iv]+72+44pp 72 pages of coloured maps with 44 page index. Hinges a little weak & cloth rubbed, maps unmarked, index pages a little yellowed. Small format atlas, showing the World as it was in the early 1920s.
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339 |
- The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Ward, Lock & Co 1939 1st edition thus.
Cloth spined illustrated boards, G+. 128pp, colour frontis, 15 colour plates, 100 b/w text illustrations, corners of the boards rather worn, gift inscription on the endpaper, naive childs pencil drawings on the pastedowns, internally a nice copy. Well illustrated with stills taken from the 1938 film staring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains, which is still regarded as one of the best movie adaptations of the Robin Hood story.
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- The Boys Of The Empire An Up To Date Boys Journal Number 160 [containing] English Bob In Chicago
The Boys Of The Empire 1903 1st edition.
Magazine, VG. 162-192pp, b/w engraved illustrations, spine a little worn, a nice copy. Contains the first part of teh English Bob serial as well as parts of Bob And Billy Nibs, Paul The Pearl Diver, Tom Tearaway's Schooldays, Salt Sea Yarns, Frank The Foundling, Hal And Rue's Schooldays and After, The Myster of The Old Bell Tower
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360 |
- The Riveting Of Wrought Aluminium Alloys
The Aluminium Development Association 1944 1st edition.
Stapled pamphlet, G. 48pp, 42 b/w illustrations, b/w tables, a good copy. Brief details on the methods of Riveting of Aluminium, the types of Rivets, & design factors of the various techniques which can be employed.
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366 |
- The Restoration Of Colonial Williamsburg In Virginia
The Architectural Record 1935 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. 356-458pp, b/w illustrations throughout, spine a little yellowed, otherwise a fine copy. Cloth bound offprint from the AR. Well illustrated photographic survey of the restored buildings of Williamsburg. The old area of the town was restored to who is would have looked in 1780 with all traces of later buildings removed. Some buildings were rebuilt & the whole was intended as a living museum. The project was funded by J D Rockefeller.
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367 |
- Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series Volume 18
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1968 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+270pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains 9 papers along with the annual reports. Losing of the Initiative by the House of Common 1780 to 1917 - Papacy, Patarenes & Church of Milan - Mongols, Turks & Muslim Polity - Royal Independents in the English Civil War - Imitation Of Christ in Medieval Times - Social Causes of the Industrial Revolution - Common Lawyers in Pre Reformation England - Anglo American Rivalries In Central America
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368 |
- Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series Volume 7
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1957 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+217pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains papers along with the annual reports. Foundation of Norwich Cathedral - Political Objectives of Gustavus Adolphus - Earl of Shaftesbury's Colonial Policy - Ivan The Terrible & Russian Historiography - Investment of Sir John Fastof's Profits Of War - The Folvilles of Ashby Folville, Leicestershire & their Associates in Crime - Organization of the Cabinet In the Reign of Queen Anne - Literature of the Last Half Century on the Constitutional History of the United States.
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369 |
- Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series Volume 17
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1967 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+224pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains papers along with the annual reports. Problems in the Interpretaion of 18th Century Irish Economic History - St Dominic & his First Biography - Mental World of Hernán Cortés - Franchis of the Return of Writs - Was There A Tudor Despotism After All? - The Norman Conquest - Anglo American Rivalries & The Venezuala Crisis of 1895
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370 |
- Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series Volume 15
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1965 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+243pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains papers along with the annual reports. War & Propaganda Histriography in 15th Century France & England - Land & Politisc in 19th Century England - Place Bills & The Separation Of Power, Some 17th Century Origins of the Non Political Civil Service - Communes & Despots; the City State in Late Medieval Italy - The Submission of the Clergy - British Policy Towards The Construction of the Suez Canal 1859 to 1865 - The Wealth of England in The 11th Century - The Emergence Of Majority Rule In The Procedure Of The House Of Commons
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371 |
- Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series Volume 26
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1976 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+293pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains papers along with the annual reports. Francois Chabot & his Plot - Catholics & the Poor In Early Modern Europe - Why Did The Duch Revolt Last 8 Years? - Renaissance Influences In English Colonization - Scandanavia Settlement In The North & West Of the British Isels - Colonialism in Africa & The Understanding of Alien Societies - The French Colonialist Movement During The Third Republic - Colonies, An Attempt at a Typology - The 18th Century Debate on the Sovereignty of Parliament - Tudor Government The Points of Contact
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372 |
- Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series Volume 25
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1975 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+276pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains papers along with the annual reports. Elie Halévy & the Birth of Methodism - Social History Of Confession In The Age Of The reformation - Observations on English Government From the 10th to 12th Centuries - Examination of the Ordnance Office 1660 to 1714 - Engand Scotland & Europe, The Problem of the Frontier - Skills & The Diffusion of Innovations from Britain in the 18th century - England & Europe; Utopia & its Aftermath - British Views of Germany 1864 to 1939 - War & Peace in the Early Middle Ages - Domesday Book & Anglo Norman Governance - The Tudor Government
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374 |
- Camden Miscellany Volume XXVI [26] Camden Fourth Series Volume 14
Offices of the Royal Historical Society 1975 1st edition.
Cloth, VG+. iv+213pp, a nice near fine copy. Contains - Ordinances Of The Duchy of Lancaster - A Breviat Of The Effectes Devised For Wales - The Muster Master - A Book Of All The Several Officers Of The Court Of The Exchequer - The Letters Of Henry St John to the Earl of Orrery 1709 to 1711
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375 |
- A Glossary Of Terms Used In Grecian, Roman, Italian, And Gothic Architecture. The Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Volume I Text [only]
John Henry Parker, Oxford - David Bogue, Fleet Street, London 1840 5th edition.
Cloth, G. xii+528pp, engraved frontis, many woodcut illustrations, rebacked preserving the original spine, ex Public School Library with bookplate to the pastedown, occasional foxing, one gather lose, a working copy. Useful dictionary, with woodcut illustrations, of the constituent features of classical, medieval & renaissance architecture.
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- The Camden Miscellany Volume The First - Register Of The Abbey Of Aberconway - Chronicle Of The Rebellion In Lincolnshire 1470 - Bull Of Pope Innocent VIII On Marriage Of Henry VII With Elizabeth Of York - Journal Of The Siege Of Rouen 1591 - Letter Of George Fleetwood, Describing The Battle of Lutzen And Death of Gustavus Adolphus - Diary Of Dr Edward Lake, Chaplain And Tutor To The Princesses Mary And Anne, 1677 - 1678
for the Camden Society by J B Nichols 1847 1st edition.
Red cloth, VG. 23+28+7+84+12+32+16pp, Ex Library & rebound in a plain red library cloth. Occasional ink stamp & large bookplate, reference stock so in nice condition. Camden Society Old Series Volume XXXIX [39]. A mix of papers - The first is gives a short history of the Abbey, the second rather useful in it detail of the rebellion & containing information not found elsewhere, the third is from a broadside attributed to the press of Caxton & discovered being used as the fly leaf of an old book, the fourth is by Thomas Coningsby who was an officer in the Army of the Earl of Essex which was sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid Henri IV, the fifth is a letter by George Fleetwood who was in the service of Adolphus in Sweeden & the last contains revealing anecdotes of Charles II & of his court.
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388 |
- The Far East And Australasia 1981 - 82. A Survey And Directory Of Asia And The Pacific
Europe Publications Ltd 1982 1st edition.
Cloth, dj, VG/VG. xxiv+1393pp, tables, Ex Reference Library with 3 ink stamps & related withdrawn stamps, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Comprehensive economic, geographic & political survey of the countries of the Far East. Covers Afghanistan just after the Soviet Invasion. Also covers counties such as China, India, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Oceania, USSR in Asia, Vietnam etc etc.
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389 |
- The South American Handbook 1941
Trade & Travel Publications Ltd 1941 1st edition.
Cloth, VG. lviii+[ii]+678pp, folding colour map, b/w illustrations [ adverts ] a nice copy, spine & upper board a little sunned, internally unmarked. Practical [ as oposed to Touristic ] guidebook to South & Central America which goes as far north as Mexico & also covers the Island of Cuba. Gives much information on Transport, infrastructure, economics etc etc.
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390 |
- Nowy Pana Naszego Jezusa Chrystusa Testament. Na Jezyk Polski Przelozony Przez Ks. Jakoba Wujka
Lipsk - Nakladem J Baumgaertnera 1844 reprint.
Later Cloth, G. 458+2pp, engraved frontis, letterpress title within architectural frame, 2nd title, steel engraved plate, 166 woocut illustrations, later plain cloth, paper yellowed & spotted with occasional marginal wormholing, a nice copy. Polish New testament, with many attractive woodcut illustrations,
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- Svenska Linne -Sällskapets Årsskrift - Årgång XXXI 1948
Almqvist & Wiksells, Uppsala 1949 1st edition.
Large format paperback, VG. 131pp, b/w illustrations, partly un-opened, a near fine copy. Text in SWEDISH. Volume 31 of the Swedish Linnaeus Society Year Book containing 12 articles including - Spencer Savage the Society's new Honorary - Linnaeus, author & personality - Linnaeus' species concept & early translators - Lorenz Heister & Linnaeus - Hesperedies Apples & the potus polopuntia etc etc
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395 |
- Svenska Linne -Sällskapets Årsskrift - Årgång XXXII 1949
Almqvist & Wiksells, Uppsala 1950 1st edition.
Large format paperback, VG. 130pp, b/w illustrations, a near fine copy. Text in SWEDISH. Volumes 32 of the Swedish Linnaeus Society Year Book containing 10 articles including - Linnaeus' connection with the Norwegian naturalists - Forest and the landscape of Linnaeus' Skåne - Linnaeus and four legged & two headed birds etc etc
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397 |
- Forming Of Aluminium And Its Alloys By The Drop Stamp
The Aluminium Development Association 1946 1st edition.
Stapled pamphlet, G. 24pp, 21 b/w illustrations, b/w tables, a good copy. Brief details on the methods of fabricating metal parts by the use of pressure & drop stamps. The book covers patternmaking & design factors of the various techniques which can be employed.
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398 |
- A Pictorial And Descriptive Guide To Stratford Upon Avon, The Home Of Shakespere. With Excursions In The Neighbourhood
Ward Lock & Co 1923 5th edition, revised.
Cloth, VG. xvi+4+128+78pp, 2 folding maps, 3 plans, 32pp b/w plates, index, spine & boards faded to pink, slight yellowing of the pages internally, maps in nice condition, text unmarked. A nice copy. Ward Lock Red Guide. Earlier edition of the perenially popular Ward Lock Illustrated guide books. Contains many period adverts.
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399 |
- The Art Of Ticket Writing
Published at the Office of the 'Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade Journal' 1887 1st edition.
Cloth, G. 62pp+9pp publishers adverts, covers with a crease down the middle of the board, endpaper & title detached, several old sellotape repairs which have yellowed, contents a little grubby & rubbed through use. A worn, but complete copy. Interesting graphical arts manual intended to show retailers how to make large advertising announcements for display outside their shops. The book gives advice on the correct writing impliments, how to chose & mount the board, inks - and how to mix & varnish, gilding, block lettering, design of the layout, holland blinds, paper lettering and lithographic work. The book shows several specimin alphabets as well as completed designs. Uncommon, only the Oxford & BL copies of the first edition recoreded on COPAC.
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- These Eventful Years - The Twentieth Century In The Making As Told By Many Of Its Makers, Being The Dramatic Story Of All That Has Happened Throughout The World During The Most Momentus Period In All History.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Company 1924 1st edition.
Full calf gilt, G. 2 volumes, xxi+692pp, xii+695pp, many b/w illustrtations & maps some folding, LIMITED to 1500 copies these being copy 1321, hinge of volume 1 repaired with heavy tape at the pastedown, leather rubbed along the spines, a good set. Two volume history of the 1st quarter of the 20th century, with the emphasis on WW1 and politics
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