Dorsetshire: its Vestiges, Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish. The Whole Carefully Classified, and the Finest Examples of Each Pointed Out. Also Adapted as an Index to the Illustrated Map, on which the Several Sites are Indicated, from the Personal Researches And Investigations Of Charles Warne.
WARNE, Charles. FIRST EDITON. 8vo., bound in blind-stamped decorative purple cloth gilt, with gilt lettering to upper cover; [vii] + 56pp plus 1pp publisher's list at end, and with small key colour map as frontispiece. One previous owner's neat ink name to front pastedown, above another's attractive bookplate. Creasing and handling wear to a few pages, a few small marks to prelims, boards a little worn at edges and spine ends, spine sunned. A Good,Sound copy overall. (Shelf 101) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $51
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Letters of the Right Honorable Lady M–y W–y M–e; Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks.
Lady M--y W---y M---e; [Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. 1689-1762] A New Edition, complete in one volume. Small 8vo., bound in full calf, red label with gilt letters and gilt rules to spine, [vii] + 224pp. Ink owner name and date to front pastedown, lacking ffep, inner hinges stretched, front board detached but attached by old tape strips around top and bottom of spine, darkening and handling wear to boards, corners scuffed (one repaired), spine lettering rubbed. Overall a Sound Copy. (SHELF 101) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $66
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The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses Containing Portraits of all the Winners of the Derby, Oaks and St Leger Stakes during the Last Twenty Years, and a History of the Principal Operations of the Turf.
TATTERSALL, George FIRST EDITION Large 8vo., bound in half red calf gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g. 386pp., illustrated with 92 engravings although title page reads: "profusely illustrated by 90 engravings, chiefly on steel, after paintings by Cooper, Herring, Hancock, Alken, Hall and others". Occasional light foxing. Light wear to edges and very small tear to leather on lower board. Overall a Very Good Copy. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $433
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THE TRAVELLERS ORACLE; Or, Maxims for Locomotion: containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers. Part I. Comprising Estimates of the Expenses of Travelling on Foot – on Horseback – in Stages – in Post Chaises – and in Private Carriages, with Seven Songs for one, two and three voices.
KITCHINER, William Volume I only. Second Edition. Small 8vo., recently rebound in brown cloth, with paper title label to spine; 264pp. with 7 musical scores. Previous owner's attractive bookplate to inside front cover. Some browning to musical scores, light fading to spine, overall a VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 9/11) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $74
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WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG: With Decorations by E. H. SHEPARD.
MILNE, A. A. OUT OF SERIES from LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies meant to be signed by Christopher Milne and hand bound by Zaehnsdorf. This copy is unsigned and possibly bound privately by someone who worked for Zaehnsdorf. 8vo. hardback in red morocco with raised bands and decorative gilt to spine and gilt vignette of John and his great big waterproof mackintosh from "Happiness" p.4 stamped to red cloth boards. t.e.g. Endpapers illustrated in red. 100pp. illustrated with line drawings by E. H. Shepard throughout. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Very slight browning to page edges. A VERY GOOD COPY in HANDSOME BINDING. (Shelf 2) ISBN: 0416819303 Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $514
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ST. IVES
4to softback exhibition catalogue in colour pictorial card covers. Text in Japanese and English, 176pp, with illustrations throughout in both colour and black and white. No previous owner inscriptions or annotation. Light handling wear to the card covers, spine a little faded, overall a VG copy. (Shelf 130) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1kg +) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $29
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MISSION WORK AMONG THE HOP-PICKERS IN THE WEALD OF KENT (Conducted by the Rev. J. J. Kendon) (Signed, Presentation Copy) With Notices of Past Times and Former Men.
SHINDLER, Rev. R. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM SAMUEL KENDON (presumably a descendant of J. J. Kendon) with loose cardboard-framed hand-tinted photo of J. J. Kendon. 8vo. bright blue clothbound hardback, gilt, with bevelled edges. 211pp., illustrated with many b/w plates. Ink inscription to ffep reads "Sister Hollis, as a reminder of very happy times, Samuel Kendon 3/11/43". No other markings or inscriptions. Rear endpapers rather browned. Light edgewear to boards. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 9) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $117
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EXTRAITS DE TACITE et Remarques sur Plusieurs Passages du Texte; par N. S. Anquetil (“Taken out of the Empress Josephine’s Library at Malmaison when the Allied armies entered Paris in 1815”)
TACITE [Publius Cornelius TACITUS] 12mo. (approx. 17.3 x 9.5cm) in full contemporary red morocco with ornate gilt decoration to spine and boards and beautiful hand-painted coat of arms to upper and lower boards. a.e.g. Gilt dentelles over dark green silk endpapers. xxiv, 458pp. plus Errata at end. TEXT IN FRENCH. Old hand-written inscription in ink stating "Taken out of the Empress Josephine's Library at Malmaison when the Allied armies entered Paris in 1815" to verso of ffep. There are no Malmaison Library stamps and the hand-painted crests do not appear to have any particular relevance to the Empress Josephine or Malmaison but are certainly very elegant. There is also an apparently unrelated note written in pencil to the blank facing the title page. Occasional light foxing, mainly to prelims. Slight rubbing to spine edges and lower board. Some black marks to upper board (please see photos). Overall a VERY GOOD, HANDSOME COPY. (Shelf 4) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $514
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![Rapport sur le fait de l'inoculation de la petite vérole: Lu en Presence de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris [Report on the Inoculation of Smallpox: Read in the Presence of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris] Plus SUPPLEMENT AU RAPPORT DES SIX COMMISSAIRES](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/31646442245-600x570.jpg)
Rapport sur le fait de l’inoculation de la petite vérole: Lu en Presence de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris [Report on the Inoculation of Smallpox: Read in the Presence of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris] Plus SUPPLEMENT AU RAPPORT DES SIX COMMISSAIRES, 1767 (2 Volumes bound as 1) Et imprime par son ordre, pour etre communique a tous ses Docteurs, avant qu’elle donne, sur cette question, l’avis que le Parlement lui a demande par son Arret du 8 Juin 1763.
FIRST EDITIONS 4to. hardback in modern 18c. style half brown calf, red title label, gilt, and marbled boards. TEXT IN FRENCH. 125pp. and 164pp. Contemporary ink signature to early blank. Untrimmed edges a little dusty. First and last few pages of Supplement have been professionally repaired. Light occasional foxing to Supplement. A VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 4) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $176
- $176
SAPPHO’S IMMORTAL DAUGHTERS
WILLIAMSON, Margaret 8vo., quarterbound in cream cloth with blue paper-covered boards, with pictorial dust jacket; [xi] + 196pp, indexed. No previous owner inscriptions or annotation. Dust jacket a little creased and edgeworn with a few faint handling marks, overall VG/Good+. (SHELF 15) ISBN: 0674789121 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $18
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A GUIDE TO PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL Comprising a Brief History of the Monastery from its Foundation to the Present Time, with a Descriptive Account of its Architectural Peculiarities and Recent Improvements, and an Introductory Historical Sketch of the Establishment and Dissolution of Religious Houses in England. Compiled from Authentic Documents.
12mo., bound in blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, [xvi] + 102pp, illus with b/w engravings. Light foxing throughout, heavier to prelims, ink owner name to ffep, otherwise a Good, clean copy with no other ownership inscriptions or annotation. (SHELF 101) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $45
- $45
THE VICTORIA NYANZA – The Land, The Races And Their Customs, With Specimens Of Some Of The Dialects
KOLLMANN, Paul. (Trans. by H. A. Nesbitt) FIRST EDITION 8vo. red cloth hardback, gilt. 254pp, indexed, illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and plates, plus one folding map. Minor foxing, some rubbing and fading to covers. A Good Sound Copy. (SHELF 9) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $125
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THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF KENT WITH TRANSLATION. NOTES, AND APPENDIX
Larking, The Rev Lambert Blackwell. Large Folio, x+28 lithographic pages of facsimile + 190pp. plus appendix and index. Original ¼ red morocco gilt. Edges and corners rubbed; endpapers replaced; else a very nice clean copy with neat ink signature on half title page and book plate pasted to front endpaper. (Shelf 5) PLEASE NOTE: VERY Heavy BOOK (6.5kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $206
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TRATTATO DI VACCINAZIONE Con Osservazioni sul Giavardo e Vajuolo Pecorino
SACCO, Luigi FIRST EDITION Large 4to. original half calf with red title label, gilt to spine and marbled paper-covered boards. TEXT IN ITALIAN. 221pp. + 2pp plus 4 large folding hand-coloured engravings at end. Also illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of Dr. Jenner and a portrait medal of Sacco. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Occasional very light foxing and slight darkening to endpapers. Small burn hole through leather layer of spine and some light wear and rubbing to marbled boards. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $1,321
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The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt. Commissioner of the Customs, and afterwards of the Treasury to his Majesty King Charles the Second. And of the Honourable and Reverend Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, and Greek Professor, Prebend of Westminster, and sometime Clerk of the Closet to the same King Charles the Second.
North, Roger FIRST EDITION 4to. full contemporary calf with five raised bands and red title label, gilt, to spine. 288pp. + 7pp. Index. Engraved portrait frontispiece, but of Francis North, Lord Guilford (about whom Roger North also wrote a biography, mentioned at the end of the Index) instead of Sir Dudley North. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. One inch closed tear to portrait frontispiece. Leather of spine hinges beginning to split but binding still tight. Some wear and scuffing to covers. Overall a Good Copy. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $139
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE FISH-POOL: Consisting of A Description of the Vessel so call’d, lately invented and built for the Importation of Fish alive, and in good Health, from Parts however distant. A Proof of the Imperfection of the ‘Well-Boat’ hitherto used in the Fishing Trade. The true Reasons why Ships become stiff or crank in Sailing; with other Improvements, very useful to all Persons concern’d in Trade and Navigation. Likewise, A Description of the Carriage intended for the Conveyance of Fish by Land, in the same good Condition as in the Fish-Pool by Sea.
STEELE, Sir Richard and Mr. Joseph GILLMORE FIRST EDITION 8vo. hardback in half tan morocco with bblack title label and decorative gilt to spine and marbled boards and endpapers. t.e.g. vii, 60pp. with 20 wood engraved figures within the text and decorative head and tail pieces. Oval dark brown morocco, gilt, armorial label to front pastedown and large modern (1978) bookplate to early blank. Occasional light spots of foxing and offsetting from illustrations. Thumb-sized piece missing from top, outer corner of p.9. Edges of spine very lightly rubbed. A VERY GOOD, HANDSOME COPY. (Shelf 4) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $881
- $881
The Youngest Lion: Early Farming Days in Kenya
BACHE, Eve First Edition. 8vo., dark blue clothbound hardback gilt; 286pp, with 32 black and white plate plus 2 text illustrations, 8pp publisher's list at end. No previous owner inscriptions or annotation. Foxing to edges and throughout, edgewear and a few scuffs and marks to boards, splitting of cloth at sides of spine, fraying to ends. A Good, Sound copy overall. (SHELF 9) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $74
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La Peau de Chagrin: Études Sociales
BALZAC, Honoré de FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION Royal 8vo. half vellum with marbled boards. Green leather title label to very ornate gilt decorated spine. t.e.g. Marbled endpapers. TEXT IN FRENCH. 402pp., with original illustrated paper wraps from a later edition (dated 1841) bound-in at rear. Title with vignette showing a man being pulled backward by skeleton, armed with a scythe, plus 100 steel engraved vignettes in the text after drawings by Adam, Baron, Boulanger, Charlet, David, Devéria, Fragonard, Gavarni, Grandville, Grent, Janet-Lange, Johannot, Raffet, Vernet, et. al. Bookplate of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk to inside front cover with small red ink 'xxi' written in bottom corner. Some light foxing throughout, occasionally heavy. Some light rubbing to binding and slight dulling of vellum. Overall a Good+ Copy. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1.4 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $360
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OLD COTTAGES AND FARMHOUSES IN KENT AND SUSSEX. Illustrated in One Hundred Plates Printed in Collotype from a Special Series of Photographs with some Descriptive Notes and Sketches.
DAVIE, W. Galsworthy (Photographs) and DAWBER, E. Guy (Notes) FIRST EDITION. Small 4to (approx. 25 x 18cm), green clothbound hardback gilt, with gilt lettering and decoration to upper cover, t.e.g., [x] + 28pp text, illustrated with line drawings, tissue-protected frontis plate plus 100 black and white plates + 24 publisher's list at end. Previous owner's old rubber-stamped name plus a modern bookplate to front pastedown. Binding a little fragile, light wear to boards, spine rather sunned and with a few tint marks. A Good+ copy overall. (SHELF 9) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1.3kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.- $133
- $133