Item 310117Varia.
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London: Ward & Downey, Limited 12 York Street Covent Garden, 1894. First edition. Read More Item Details for Varia Add to Wish List
Item #310117
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London: Ward & Downey, Limited 12 York Street Covent Garden, 1894. First edition. Read More Item Details for Varia Add to Wish List
Item #310117
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London: 44, Bedford Square, 13 June 1922. Read More Item Details for ALS. To Mr Freeman. He has considered the matter talked about and will write the article for 200 guineas Add to Wish List
Item #305032
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Last of the Giant Killers or the Exploits of Sir Jack of Danby Dale Add to Wish List
Item #232471
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Munich: published by the Academy, nd [ca 1773]. First German Edition. The First English Edition of this work was published in 1772. It contains a great deal on agricultural machinery and makes mention of machinery and practices in America as well as in England and the Continent. Read More Item Details for The Advancment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: or Descriptions of the Useful Machines and Models contained in the Repository of the Society for the Encouragement of arts , manufactures and commerce Add to Wish List
Item #514
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Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell). Read More Item Details for The Fly Fisher's Guide Add to Wish List
Item #311469
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Ferntower [Scotland]: July 14 1819. A brief letter with instructions to settle two outstanding accounts. Having served with distinction against Napoleon's forces at Seringpatam in 1798, Baird was later instructed to lead an expedition to the Red Sea from India in tandem with forces coming from the Mediterranean. The success..... Read More Item Details for ALS to A. Macdonald Add to Wish List
Item #304873
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Malta: January 7, 1804. Ball had been more or less constantly involved in Maltese affairs since 1798. At the time of this document he was "the island's civil commissioner and de facto governor from 1803 until his death.... Ball's period of rule witnessed the establishment of a civil service and..... Read More Item Details for Treasury document signed remitting £250 to Messrs. George and Edward Noble Add to Wish List
Item #304979
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London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian Add to Wish List
Item #242216
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London: J. M. Richardson ... and J. Ridgeway, 1808. Third edition. A plea for the repeal of a policy of systematic hostility toward American commerce from this financier and statesman who married the eldest daughter of Senator William Bingham of the United States - an alliance to which, according to..... Read More Item Details for An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council; an an Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain toward the Neutral Commerce of America Add to Wish List
Item #25555
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London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1823. First edition. India Paper Proof Copy. Read More Item Details for Welsh Scenery. From Drawings by Captain Batty Add to Wish List
Item #257930
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Waldorf-Astoria, New York: 6 June 1951. Beaverbrook to Eisie. Canadian-born Beaverbrook (1879-1964) made his fortune from Canadian cement mills. He moved to England and became a Conservative MP the following year. During WWI he was Minister of Information and bought a controlling interest in the Daily Mail. He was raised..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, Signed (“Beaverbrook”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, acknowledging a “beautiful book of photographs” Add to Wish List
Item #263159
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Basileae [i.e., Basle]: Per Joannem Hervagium, 1563. First collected edition. The Father of English History. This is the first of three continental editions of the works of Bede, the others being from Cologne in 1612 and 1688. Johann Herwage, a printer originally from Strassburg, married the widow of the great..... Read More Item Details for Opera Bedae Venerabilis … Omnia in octo tomos distincta prout statim post praefationen suo elencho enumerantur. Addito rarum & verbarum indice copiosissimo Add to Wish List
Item #254015
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London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842. First edition. Read More Item Details for Correspondence of The Fourth Duke of Bedford selected from the Originals at Woburn Abbeu with an Introduction by Sir John Ruseell Add to Wish List
Item #320749
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8 January 1778. The letter reads in part: "Having a sufficient number of men at the Division to relieve them, I have to request that your Lordship will be pleased to order such of the Detachment on Board the Thetis as have served upwards of Twelve months to be discharged..... Read More Item Details for Letter signed to Vice Admiral Shuldham Add to Wish List
Item #304981
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London: T. J. Wooler, 1818. Second edition with notes and alterations. Bentham's plan for Parliamentary Reform was first written in 1809 but Cobbett's refusal to publish it delayed its appearance until 1817. Bentham maintained that the only solution and remedy for the country's problems was reform of Parliament, including annual..... Read More Item Details for Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with Reasons for Each ARticle. With an Introduction, shewing the Necessity of Radical and the Inadequacy of Moderate Reform Add to Wish List
Item #25678
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London: Printed and Published by R. Carlisle, 1823. First edition, second issue. This was actually preceded by a printing for circulation among friends in the same year. The pamphlet was one a series Bentham published betwee 1815-25 on radical law reform. Read More Item Details for Truth versus Ashhurst; or Law as it is, contrasted with what it is said to be. Written in December, 1792. And now first published Add to Wish List
Item #216604
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London: The Dropmore Press, 1954. Printed on hand made paper by Oxford University Press, was originally intended for publication by the Roxburghe Club with the patronage of the Earl of Leicester. Complete facsimile of a c. 1325 "Bible En Image" with 235 picture stories were prepared for a 14th Century..... Read More Item Details for The Holkam Bible Picture Book. Introduction and Commentary by W.O. Hassall. [Foreword by the Earl of Leicester] Add to Wish List
Item #52483
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1899. First edition. An attractive example of a modern embroidered binding, on the definitive work on the subject. Read More Item Details for English Embroidered Bookbindings Add to Wish List
Item #306772
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London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition, number 64 of 100 signed copies. Read More Item Details for Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch - with a small selection from letters addressed to him and bibliographical notes on a few of the books formerly in the Rowfant library Add to Wish List
Item #215643
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1759. First Blackstone edition, large paper copy. Blackstone’s Monumental Edition of the Magna Carta. An outstanding large-paper copy of one of the finest products of the Clarendon Press, the monumental edition of the Magna Carta under the editorship of the eminent jurist Sir William Blackstone. “It contains..... Read More Item Details for The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with other Authentic Instruments: to which is prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters Add to Wish List
Item #310736
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1759. Fourth edition. Read More Item Details for An Analysis of the Laws of England Add to Wish List
Item #220891
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1773. Fifth edition and first Oxford octavo edition. One of the cornerstones of our legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave as the first..... Read More Item Details for Commentaries on the Laws of England Add to Wish List
Item #246885
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Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771 [vols. 1-2] - 1772 [vols. 3-4] - 1773 [Appendix]. First American Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, with the second issue of the Appendix (with the general title dated 1773). First American Blackstone. Blackstone's Commentaries, a comprehensive overview of English common law first published between 1765 and 1769..... Read More Item Details for Commentaries on the Laws of England. In four books. Re-printed from the British copy, page for page with the last edition ... [With:] An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England Add to Wish List
Item #338962
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Amsterdam: Handelsblad Office, Christmas 1899. Offprint from the “Algemeen Hendelsblad” No. 22500. A letter addressed to the Duke of Devonshire following his speech and comments on the cause or reasons behind the Anglo-Boer War and the British interventions in the Transvaal in 1899. Boissevain blamed the politicians, Cecil Rhodes and..... Read More Item Details for Open letter to the Duke of Devonshire Add to Wish List
Item #34244
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[London: Of A. H. Blackburn, Stationer, Also of H. Roberts (Harrison & Sons Typ.)], 1899. To be sold for the Boer War Fund at a cost of 1d. Read More Item Details for Hymn for Our Soldiers (By the Sister of an Officer) To the Tune of “Onward! Christian Soldiers” Add to Wish List
Item #18471