Europe
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 43962
SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)
The Waverley Novels
Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1862- 83. Twenty-five volumes, duodecimo, half-calf over marbled boards (rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt bands and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, specked edges, engraved title pages, pagination various, a very good set. An attractive set of Scott’s widely popular novels of the Victorian period.
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# 42545
THE EVENING NEWS
The Evening News London “Tube Map”
London : George Philip & Son, c. 1910. Folding map, 50 x 61 cm, with map of London Tube stations recto, map of the tramways verso, printed in colour; some slight mis-creasing, edge discolouration, very short edge tears at folds; a very good copy, housed in printed card case. A rare early printed map of …