The Fly Fisher's Guide
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books... Read More
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A, B, & C's Little Trip: Pleasant Recollections of a Holiday in Holland and Belgium. Narrated by "C." With "A's"...
Manchester: Richard Johnson, Printer, Brook Strreet, 1894. Read More
Price: $200
Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
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
Price: $6,000
History of the Merchant Taylors' School.
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
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![[An Act for advancing the Sale of Fee-Farm Rents, and other Rents … An Act to enable the Kings Majesty to make Leases, Grants, and Copies of Offices, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same] Anno Regni Caroli II Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ & Hiberniæ Vicesimo Secundo At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1661](/pictures/thumb/300139.jpg?v=1458666722)
[An Act for advancing the Sale of Fee-Farm Rents, and other Rents … An Act to enable the Kings Majesty...
[London] in the Savoy: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1670. Read More
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As Essay Concerning Self-Murther. Wherein in endeavour'd to prove, that it is unlawful According to Natural Principles.
London: for Tho. Bennet, 1700. A reply to Donne's Biathanatos. Read More
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Memoirs of the Court of James the First.
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth.
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819. Fourth Edition. Read More
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“A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More
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![A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those whose desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author [With:] [Large Notes, and many Curious Observations. By W. Derham]. Eleazar Albin.](/pictures/thumb/32863.jpg?v=1438724395)
A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those...
London: William and John Innys, 1720-24. With preliminaries and titles of both first and second editions. Read More
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ALEHOUSE LICENSE 1772 IN WESTMINSTER
Alehouse license for Ambrose Pennington and John Waite of The Crooked Bill.
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
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ALS to Goodenough.
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, Egypt... Read More
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Battles of the British Navy.
London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852. Revised edition. Read More
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Lady Sackville: a Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1978. First American edition. Signed by the author on the flyleaf. Read More
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The Speech of Mr. Ames in the House of Representatives of the United States, when in Committee of the Whole...
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796. First edition, with half-title. Ames's speech was one of the most important regarding Jay's Treaty with England, effectively saving it. Read More
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Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...
Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits... Read More
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The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire.
London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1856. Second Edition. Read More
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Rare and Early British Bibliography
Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis.
n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. Rare and Early British Bibliography. Rare, anonymously published bibliography of approximately 350 works on British history. Attributed by the British Library to James Anderson, writer to the Signet and noted Scottish genealogist and antiquarian. Divided into fifteen sections, it lists works printed between 1480 (Caxton's... Read More
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LAW
Anno septimo Georgii Regis I. An Act to preserve and encourage the Woollen and Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom; and...
Edinburgh: John Mosman and William Brown, 1728. Public General Acts. 1721. 7 Geo.I.c.7. LAW. The 1728 Edinburgh printing of a 1722 act to promote the manufacture of wool by prohibiting the wearing of printed or dyed cotton or its use in upholstery and window curtains. The penalty for noncompliance was... Read More
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The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family in a series of Poetical Epistles.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1767. Fourth edition. Read More
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![Collection of 12 pamphlets published anonymously and primarily against‘ Popery’, including EDWARD STILLINGFLEET's "The Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome Truly Represented" (Third edition, 1686); WILLIAM SHERLOCK's "A Papist Not Misrepresented by Protestants " (1686); SAMUEL FREEMAN's "A Discourse concerning Invocation of Saints " (1684); MICHAEL ALTHAM's "A Vindication of the Church of England from the foul Aspersions of Schism and heresie unjustly cast upon her by the Church of Rome. In Two Parts" (1687); SAMUEL FREEMAN's "A Plain and Familiar Discourse by Way of Dialogue … concerning the Catholick Church" (1687); ANONYMOUS. "An Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled the Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy … concerning … dispensing with the Penal-Laws…in a Letter to a Friend" (1687); JOHN WILLIAMS' "A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an Unknown Tongue" (1685); JOHN GOODMAN's "A Discourse concerning Auricular Confession as it is prescribed by the Council of Trent" (1648 i.e. 1684); EDWARD STILLINGFLEET's "The Doctrine of the Trinity and Transubstantiation Compared as to Scripture, Reason and Tradition" (Two parts-1687); WILLIAM SHERLOCK's "The Protestant Resolution of Faith" (1687); JEAN LA PLACETTE's "Of the Incuraable Scepticism of the Church of Rome " [translated by Thomas Tennison] (1588 i.e. 1688); THOMAS BROWNE's "Concio ad Clerum Habita coram Academia Cantabrigiensi " (2 parts 1688). Anti-Catholic Pamphlets.](/pictures/thumb/39550.jpg?v=1438724453)
Collection of 12 pamphlets published anonymously and primarily against‘ Popery’, including EDWARD STILLINGFLEET's "The Doctrines and Practices of the Church...
Primarily London: 1686-8. Third edition of Stillingfleet's "Doctrines" and later edition of Sherlock's "Protestant Resolution," else first editions or first edition of the translation in the case of LaPlacette. Read More
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![A Brief Account of the designs which the Papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, occasioned by his commitment, July 2. 1681 [Drop-title]. Anti-Popery.](/pictures/thumb/6425.jpg?v=1441513201)
A Brief Account of the designs which the Papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, occasioned by his commitment...
[London]: [Printed for R. Baldwin], [1681]. Read More
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An Impartial Account of the Doctrines of the Church of Rome ... Shewing What Rome was in its Pristine Purity;...
London: Printed by H.L, 1679. First edition. Rather rare anti-popery title challenging the Pope's powers, the concept of infallibility, power of indulgence and excommunication. Read More
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq....by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The "Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of 'Handley Cross'"[Surtees]. Read More
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The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod.
London: John Murray, 1837. With an “Extract from The Road” for September 1st, 1892, laid in the back containing a notice on the spread of Glanders (some spotting). Read More
Price: $500