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These are books are in English and some are very rare. We have not stated the rarity. If you would like further details on any item send us an email. Other interesting items are on our ‘livres’ page. Some of these are early translations into French written originally in English. We are always adding items to our internet bookshop. If you are interested in books in French please advise us of your collecting interests.


E3153 Graham Turner. Fishing Tackle. A Collector’s Guide Ward Lock. 1989. First edition. Signed by Author. £95

E3154 Josiah Dwight Whitney. Names and Places. Studies in Geographical and Topographical Nomenclature. 1888 No 23 of 100 copies. £85

E3156 William Morris and others. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Longman’s Green 1899. Chiswick Press. £60

E3214 Mabson, R. R. ‘The Statist’ Mines of the Transvaal. 6th Edition. (1909-10) London. £80

E3218 Wilson, Mona. The Life of William Blake. The Nonesuch Press. 1927. Limited Edition of 1480 copies. Printed by the Chiswick Press. No. 414. £70

E3225 Emich, Karl, Count zu Leningen-Westerburn. German Bookplates. An illustrated handbook of German & Austrian Exlibris. Translated by G. Ravenscroft Dennis. 1901 London. George Bell & Sons. Printed by Chiswick Press. Charles Whittingham & Co. £70

E3229 Dalziel Brothers. ‘Fun’ on the Sands. A Holiday book for Everybody. With pictures on every page. Published by the Fun Office. 1880. £150

E3240 Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Original Greek with Notes Critical and Historical and a life of Plutarch by John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, M.A. in 6 volumes. Two volumes only 1 & 2. Sixth edition, corrected. London 1801. Vol. 1. T. Gillet. Vol 2. S. Hamilton. £30

E3262 Richard A. Proctor. The Great Pyramid. Observatory, Tomb and Temple. London. Chatto & Windus. 1883. Brown cloth. £155

E3264 Hugh Blair. Lectures on Rheteric and Belles Lettres. 3 volumes. Printed and sold by James Decker, Paris. 1801. In English. Half leather binding. Binding tight. Text clean throughout. Each volume has a faint circular stamp on thr front endpaper. Some staining on the paper covered boards. £85

E3281 Alexander Thom, Surgeon 86th Royal County Down Regiment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Course of Storms in the Indian Ocean South of the Equater; with a view of discovering their Origin, extent, rotatory character, rate of direction of progression etc. London. Smith Elder & Co 1845. £125

E3296 Bureau of Social Affairs. Japan. The Great Earthquake of 1923 in Japan. 615 pages. Text volume. VG with tissue guards in place. The stitching has been pulled in one section. Grey cloth. 1926 VG £95

E3308 Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Journal of My Life During the French Revolution. London. Richard Bentley. 1859 1st Edition. The book which came from Paris has a hand written difficult to read inscription in French which translated says:- ‘The book was sent to me by the Germans who had occupied our country during the cruel war in 1870. They had taken it and they gave it back to my son Rudolph (Randolph?). It was the Duke of Muckelburg (Mecklebourg?) who had taken it.’ Orange blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine; front hinge badly cracked. G. £225

E3328 Washington Irving. The Crayon Miscellany. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Joseph Jefferson Edition. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Limited Edition of 250 sets of which these are 148. Vols. 17 and 18 in the series. Vol. 1 371 pages. Vol. 2 394 pages. Both volumes clean throughout. Binding tight. Vellum spines age discoloured. VG + £85.

E3329 Washington Irving. Spanish Papers. Jeseph Jefferson Edition. G. P. Putnam’s Son’s. Limited Edition of 250 sets of which this is 148. This is Vol. 14 in the series. VG + clean throughout, binding tight, vellum spine age discoloured. £55

E3330 Washington Irving. Knickerbocker’s History of New York. Vol.1 and Vol. 2. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Joseph Jefferson Edition. Limited Edition of 250 sets of which this is 148. Vol. 1 364 pages. Vol. 2 379 pages. These are volumes 3 & 4 in the series. VG + clean throughout, binding tight, vellum spine age discooured. £85

E3332 Henry Thomas Buckle. Library of Social Progress. From the Original Editions collected by the late Henry Thomas Buckle, Author of ‘A History of Civilisation in England. Exhibition of Female Flagellants. 1907 Tours. Imp. E. Arrault et Cie. Reprints of 3 books bound in 1 vol. No. 1 Exhibition of Female Flagellants (1777). No. 2 Exhibition of Female Flagellants (1785). No.3 Lady Bumtickler’s Revels. A Comic Opera (undated). 207 pages. VG Cloth Bound. With the book is a separate 8 page publishers leaflet. £176

E3373 Louis Joseph De Bourbon.Life of the Great Conde. Translated by Fanny Holcroft. London. 1807. Printed for R. Juigne, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row. 328 pages. Binding tight, text clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Wolsey Bart. Half leather binding - grubby with some scuffing, Corners bumped. VG- £125

E3386 George Parr, Professor of Equitation, Paris. How to Break a Horse. Practically, Thoroughly and Humanely. London Printed and Published by Neville & Pennymore, 1884. 62 pages. Maroon cloth. Cloth age toned. VG. £65

 

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