Europe

  • The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

    # 45638

    CERVANTES, Miguel de (1547 - 1616)

    The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

    Done into English by Henry Edward Watts. A new edition, with notes, original and selected. In four volumes. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1894. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound by Denny of London in half-calf over cloth, the spines in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, attractive air nouveau ornamentation, marbled …

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  • [JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

    # 45648

    [BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von

    [JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

    Upsala : uplagde af Magnus Swederus … , 1777. First edition. Octavo, papered boards with title label to spine (edges rubbed, chips and small areas of loss), title with engraved vignette illustration of the Icelandic landscape and Geyser spouting water, ownership signature dated 1878 to front pastedown, pp. 20, [2], 376, [1 errata], with two …

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  • Mary Stuart

    # 45458

    SKELTON, John

    Mary Stuart

    London: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1893. First edition. Quarto, full straight grained green morocco, lightly rubbed at corners and edges, a few scratches to lower board, spine in compartments with gilt lettering (a little faded), gilt borders and dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, exquisite frontispiece engraved portrait with hand painted detail in gold and …

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  • Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

    # 45536

    THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

    Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

    [New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …

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  • [MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.

    # 38366

    [MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.

    [London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …

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  • [NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

    # 37099

    RAY, John (1627-1705)

    [NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

    in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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  • The Red Mole (complete run)

    # 44831

    International Marxist Group

    The Red Mole (complete run)

    London : The Old Mole, 1970 – 1973. Newspaper. Eighty-two issues… 66 regular issues including one unnumbered issue (1st Sept. 1971) that falls between Vol. 1, No. 14, Aug 1971… the actual 27th issue release, and the issue numbered 27. In addition to the regular issues, the run includes 16 broadsheets. Various paginations, 12×18 inches …

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  • Irish melodies

    # 44917

    MOORE, Thomas

    Irish melodies

    London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838. Thirteenth edition. Octavo, full polished calf (edges rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, engraved title page, pp. xii; 300, a very good copy. An attractive copy of Moore’s Irish melodies.

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  • [MOUNTAINEERING] Glacier des Bossons.

    # 44548

    [SCHROEDER & CIE.]

    [MOUNTAINEERING] Glacier des Bossons.

    [Zürich : Schroeder & Cie., 1885]. Large format albumen print, 220 x 275 mm, captioned in the negative ‘399.Glacier des Bossons’; mounted recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf; in very good condition, the mount annotated with the word ‘Switzerland’ (in error) in blue fountain pen at lower left; the verso with another albumen print in …

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  • Greece

    # 44571

    M'CLYMONT, The Right Rev. J. A.

    Greece

    Painted by John Fulleylove, R.I. London : A. & C. Black, 1924. Second edition. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (small chips and edge wear), inscription to endpaper, pp. x; 234; 4 (catalogue), edges foxed, a very good copy.

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  • Three in Norway

    # 44793

    James Arthur Lees and Walter J. Clutterbuck

    Three in Norway

    By two of them. With map and fifty-nine illustrations on wood from sketches by the authors. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. Fourth edition. Octavo, illustrated cloth with image of a fisherman (lightly sunned to spine, small bump to fore edge of upper board), bookplate to front pastedown, pp. xii; 307, folding map printed …

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  • A river of Norway. Being the notes and reflections of an angler

    # 44794

    THOMAS-STANFORD, Charles

    A river of Norway. Being the notes and reflections of an angler

    London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Octavo, gilt-illustrated cloth (a few light marks), slightly canted, top edge gilt, pp. xvi; 168; 40 (publisher’s catalogue), photogravure plates with tissue guards, colour plan. Fishing for salmon and trout in Norway.

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  • The pictorial history of Scotland

    # 44507

    TAYLOR, James

    The pictorial history of Scotland

    London and New York : George Virtue [1859]. Two volumes, thick octavo, contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth, spines in compartments with raised bands, decorated in gilt, contrasting Morocco title labels with gilt lettering,, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, pp. xcvi; 808; 968, numerous fine steel engravings, folding map, a fine set. Binder’s stamp of …

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  • The A to Z of Regency London

    # 44738

    WISDOM, Joseph

    The A to Z of Regency London

    Introduction by Paul Laxton. London : London Topographical Society, 1985. Publication No. 131. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. xvi; 116, with detailed maps of Georgian London.

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  • The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern;

    # 44357

    CUNNINGHAM, Allan (1784 - 1842)

    The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern;

    with an introduction and notes, historical and critical, and characters of the lyric poets. London : John Taylor, 1825. Four volumes, octavo, in attractive bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards, flat-panelled spines with decorative tooling, contrasting morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt (some light scuffing); marbled edges and endpapers, pp. vii; [blank]; 352; viii; …

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