London: Printed by the Grolier Society. Édition Magnifique. One of 26, Letter "R" . " This copy has... Read More about Days of the Dandies. Including: Peg Woffington written by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (2 Volumes);...
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Manchester: Richard Johnson, Printer, Brook Strreet, 1894. First edition. Read More about A, B, & C's Little Trip: Pleasant Recollections of a Holiday in Holland and Belgium. Narrated...
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Brunswick, Maine: Nov., 2, 1858. "Your favor of Nov. 6 I have just rec'd. I regret very much that I have no autograph of the Emperor and have never had any. While in Europe I received some notes from distinguished men but they have long since passed into the hands..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("John S.C. Abbot") to Mr. Edward Brown Houghton
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London: John Murray, 1845. First Edition. Signed by the authoress. Read More about Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, during the First Three Years of His Captivity on the...
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Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More about Bibliographica Aberdonensis: Being an Account of Books Relating to or Printed in the Shires of...
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London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1815. First Edition. A classic book justly famous for its magnificent plates. The plates in this copy are good strong impressions, with intense color. 1,000 copies were printed and issued in 20 monthly parts, appearing first in May 1814. The portraits of Founders were printed separately to..... Read More about A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings
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London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and..... Read More about A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings
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London: Ackermann, 1816. First Edition, First Issue (paper watermarked 1816). This folio forms part of one of Ackermann’s larger, though not so successful projects, his History of the Colleges. Ford in his book on Ackermann notes that William Combe wrote the text for this, as well as five other schools..... Read More about History of the Merchant Taylors' School
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Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. First edition, a regular paper issue? Said to have been issued in thin, regular and thick paper issue, the first two from same setting imposed on 8vo and thick paper issue imposed as 4to. Type on title slightly larger than other copies that..... Read More about Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette delivered at the Request of Both...
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N. P: [1963]. Contributor's Copy–Honoring Adenauer. From the library of Henry Cabot Lodge who was one on the contributors to this collection. The magazine “Der Spiegel” produced a special issue to honor Chancelor Adenauer on his retirement. This notebook contains facsimiles of the contributions. The contributors are Harold Macmillan, Dwight..... Read More about Abschied Von Konrad Adenauer. 42 Briefe
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London: Methuen, 1898. "The Matablele Rebellion which broke out in March 1896 had spread by June to Mashonaland. While the Matabele Relief under Col. Plumer went into action a force of Mounted Infantry originally sent from Britain to serve in Matabeleland arrived in Mashonaland for a five-month campaign to subdue..... Read More about With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896
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London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More about Memoirs of the Court of James the First
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London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819. Fourth Edition. Read More about Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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London: KPI, [1986]. Second edition. Read More about Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union
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Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860. Early edition (Title pages dated 1859 have been seen but the text includes events of 1860). Author and playwright de Alarcon had enlisted in the Spanish army following a failed production in 1857; he wrote this important account of the Spanish..... Read More about Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de Africa ... Con Vistas de Batallas, de Ciudades y Paisajes,...
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Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. One of 50 Copies. “A very interesting journal with..... Read More about Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923
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Osborne: 11August 1855. As Secretary for Prince Albert. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for..... Read More about ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson
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1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More about “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
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Westminster: St Clement Dane, September 15, 1772. ALEHOUSE LICENSE 1772 IN WESTMINSTER. Alehouse license for The Crooked Bill in the parish of St. Clement Danes. The fee for the one-year license was £. 10 each to the proprietors Ambrose Pennington and John Waite. Read More about Alehouse license for Ambrose Pennington and John Waite of The Crooked Bill
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London: James Cochrane and Co, 1835. First edition. "War of the Two-Brothers," with a contemporary letter of Admiral Sartorius. First edition of this lively first-hand account of events in Portugal in 1834 during the so-called "War of the Two-Brothers." The author James Alexander is perhaps best known nowadays as having..... Read More about Sketches in Portugal, during the Civil War of 1834 ... with Observations on the Present and...
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The Log of the North Shore Club. Paddle and Portage on the Hundred Trout Rivers of Lake Superior
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Paris: Plon, nd. Inscribed. Inscribed "Pour M. Emile Rossignol/ cordialement/ Massu/7.4.73." Read More about Le Torrent et la Digue. Alger du 13 Mai aux Barricades
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. Seventh Edition. Read More about History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of...
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Hampshire: 27 May 1887. Alison writes explaining that while he is always "most willing to do what I can to assist you", the week he had chosen coincided with H.R.H. and Gerneal Nicholson coming down to inspect the Engineers. Having served at Lucknow (where he lost his left arm), Ashantee..... Read More about ALS to Goodenough
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London: Rudolph Ackermann & Paris: Galignani & Co. 18, rue Vivienne, [1853]. First edition. Gretna-Green is a village in Scotland famous for elopements, the first village in southern Scotland following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh. Read More about The Gretna-Green Bolt-A, Or, Young Ladies' Man-Ual
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