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Pope (Alexander).- Homer. The Odyssey, 5 vol., translated by Alexander Pope, 5 vol., half-titles with imprimatur verso, bookplates, contemporary i...

Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The History and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, 2 vol., translated by T. Smollett, engraved frontispiece an...

Book of Common Prayer (The) ... together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, title in red and black, marginal tears with neat old repairs, occas...

The Dumfries Weekly Magazine, vol. 1 only, first edition, title lower fore-edge corner defect (not affecting text), some toning and finger soiling...

Aeschylus. The Tragedies..., translated by R.Potter, half-title, list of subscribers and additional list of subscribers, with separately-issued No...

Miniature Bible.- Bible, English. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments, engraved general title and 12 plates o...

Provincial Imprints.- [Kershaw (James)] The Methodist: attempted in plain metre, title-A4 with short tear at gutter into text, tiny hole to H2 aff...

Chronicon Manniae, or A Chronicle of the Kings of Man, manuscript ink notes in contemporary hand, to margins, slip bound-in at p.46, and 11ff. at ...

Milton (John) Poems Upon Several Occasions, edited by Thomas Warton, occasional spotting, later half calf over marbled boards, gilt, t.e.g., sligh...

Woty (William) Poetical Amusements, title with neat tape repair to upper corner, heavy ink annotations and corrections to O3-Q2, ex-Nottingham lib...

Constitution of the United States.- Annual Register (The), or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1787, scattered stainin...

Robin Hood's Garland. being a Complete History of all the Notable and Merry Exploits performed by Him and His Men on Divers Occasions, woodcut ill...

Johnson (Samuel) The Works...with An Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy, 12 vol., half-titles in vol.4-7 only (?as called for), engrave...

Robin Hood; a Complete History of all the Notable Exploits, woodcut illustrations, one or two neat tissue repairs to gutter, small paper defect af...

Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, A New Edition, 3 vol., half-titles in vol.2 & 3 (not called for in vo...

Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, one with short te...

Southey (Robert) The Remains of Henry Kirke White, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, faint off-setting, ex-Nottingham libraries with remnant...

Sermons.- Bayley (Rev. John) A Sermon preached in the Parish Church Newark, second edition, half-title, small hole to half-title and title head, e...

British Essayists (The), 40 vol., some engraved frontispieces, bookplates of Helena and Charles McCann, contemporary plum straight-grain morocco s...

Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, 2 vol., fourth editi...

Houses of Parliament.- Reports from the Lords Committee Touching the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm, 6 vol., slight creasing, very occasional spot...

Cholera.- Webster (John) An Essay on the Cholera Epidemic, first edition, half-title, a few scattered spots, contemporary cloth-backed boards, pap...

Library Catalogues.- Catalogue of the Mansfield Subscription Library, Town Hall, scattered faint spotting, contemporary rexine-backed boards, loss...

Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, first issue with Bouverie St. address to additional title and...

Mill (John Stuart) On Liberty, fourth edition, 1869; A System of Logic, 2 vol.,1875; Utilitarianism, 1877; Autobiography, 1874; half-titles, faint...

Wine.- Tovey (Charles) Wine and Wine Countries: A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers, new edition, additional engraved title,...

Montrosier (Eugene) Les Peintres Militaires, one of 60 copies, 20 photogravure plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, some marginal foxin...

Grego (Joseph) A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the old days, number 85 of 111 large paper copies, extra illustrated, fo...

Whyte-Melville (George John) [The Novels], 27 vol., occasional faint spotting, uniform contemporary half-calf, 5 raised spine bands, brown and bla...

Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 100 copies, endpapers browned, bookplate, original buckram, a little spotted, spine ends frayed, 1891; N...

Bazaars.- Tree (Sir Herbert Beerbohm, editor) Souvenir of the Charing Cross Hospital Bazaar held at the Royal Albert Hall June 21 & 22, 1899, plat...

Bridge (Sir Frederick, editor) The Form and Order of ... the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, title in red and b...

Cunningham (Peter, editor) The Letters of Horace Walpole, 9 vol., plates, contemporary mottled half morocco, red and green morocco spine labels, s...

Cokayne (George Edward) The Complete Peerage, of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and The United Kingdom, 14 vol., some loosely inserted ...

Kipling (Rudyard) The Works, 26 vol. only (of 31), Bombay Edition limited to 1050 copies, vol. 1 signed by the author on half-title, printed label...

Yeats (William Butler) The Bounty of Sweden, first edition, one of 400 copies, printed in red and black, hawk attacking small bird device by T. St...

[Smollett (Tobias)] The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, one of 500 copies, illustrations by Véra Willoughby, endpapers toned, original boards, dust-...

Lethaby (W. R.) Westminster Abbey Re-Examined, first edition, specially-bound presentation copy to Frederic Stuttig, with manuscript presentation ...

Chronicles.- Thomas (A. H.) & I. D. Thornley The Great Chronicle of London, one of 500 copies, half-title, title in red and black, plates, light m...

R.A.F.- No. 1 Group Operational Summaries: 1/2 May - 31 July 1944, reproduced photographs of bombing targets, blue and black type, corrections by ...

Palestine.- Castle (Edgar B., Quaker, Headmaster of Leighton Park, Professor of Education at Hull & Visiting Professor at Makerere, b. 1897) A Mis...

Windsor (Edward, Duke of) A King's Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H the Duke of Windsor, number 67 of 250 copies from an edition of 270 signed by autho...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, light rubbing o...

Rolt (L. T. C.) George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution half-title browned, 1960; James Watt, 1962; The Clouded Mirror, 1955; Landsca...

Invasion of Czechoslovakia.- Historical Institute of the Czechslovak Academy of Sciences. Sedm pražských dnů. [Seven days in Prague], first editio...

Victorian County Histories.- Allison (K. J.) A History of the County of Yorkshire, 9 vol., library stamps to front pastedowns, dust-jackets except...

Steinbeck (Elaine) Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, one of 1000 copies, original cloth, spine faded, slip-case, 1975 § Rara Arithmetica. A Catalogue ...

Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever, very faint foxing marks to first few pages, facsimile dust-jacket, 1956; Thunderball, light spotting and parti...

Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, first English edition, previous owner's pencil note to front free endpaper, bookplate, original boards, fract...

Incline Press.- Marx (Enid) A Book of Nursery Rhymes, one of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, from an edition of 310, hand-coloured wood-engra...

Olson (Charles) & Robert Creeley. The Complete Correspondence, vol.1-7 only (of 10), with 7 vol. of duplicates, each signed by Creeley on front fr...

Pinter (Harold) Landscape, first edition, one of 1,000 copies, original cloth-backed boards, light toning to spine and cover margins, tears to spi...

Proctor (Edna Dean) Songs of America and Other Poems, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, bookp...

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first printing, usual light marginal toning, neat ink ownership inscription...

Sitwell (Sir Osbert) Wrack at Tidesend, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Alice, to whom page 65 is dedicated, from Osbert" on ...

Alken (Henry) Illustrations for Landscape Scenery, first edition, letterpress title, 24 hand-coloured soft-ground etchings by Alken, all with mult...

Mucha & others. Verneuil (Maurice Pillard), George Auriol and Alphonse Mucha. Combinaisons Ornementales. . . , 51 colour plates only (of 60, lacki...

Blake (William).- Blair (Robert) The Grave. A Poem, first Blake edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti aft...

Blake (William) The Writings..., 3 vol., edited by Geoffrey Keynes, photogravure frontispiece, library stamps to first few leaves, library blind s...

Bookbinding.- Zaehnsdorf (Joseph W.) The Art of Bookbinding, first edition, inscribed by Anthony Gardner to Roger Powell "To Roger: in honour of t...

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