AMBRA BOOKS - Miscellaneous Selection from stock.

Anon THE DEADLY 73 DEGREES A Business Tragedy in Two Hemispheres. viii + (ii) + 52pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial limp cloth. Simpkin, Marshall.... London: 1897. £4.00
* A criticism of Standard Oil Trust's monopoly and its reduction in Britain of the flash point from 100 to 73 degrees.
Baethcke (Hermann) DES DODES DANZ. Nach des Lubecker Drucken von 1489 und 1496. 145pp, early half calf, marbled boards and page edges, rubbed to edges, lacks spine, top board and front endpaper loose, ex-uni.lib., with label to front pastedown, and perforated university name to title-page. Tubingen, Litterarische Vereins, in Stuttgart: 1876. £30.00
Ballantyne (R.M) FIGHTING THE WALES; or Doings and Dangers on a Fighting Cruise. Vol. 1 of Ballantyne's Miscellany. With 4 illusts, 124 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth damped, internally sound, contemporary inscription to verso of front endpaper. James Nisbet, London: 1870. £4.00
[Barber (J.W)], preface EMBLEMS OF MORTALITY; Representing by Numerous Engravings, DEATH seizing all ranks and conditions of people. Imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil in Switzerland. With an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin. To which is now added for the first time, a particular description of each cut or engraving. With 47 wood cut engravings, including the frontispiece, 102pp, small 8vo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, early label on top board, ex-uni.ref.lib. with perforated name of the university to title-page, and to one text leaf. Charlestown: Babcock & Co., 1846. £100.00
Bernadac (Marie-Laure) LOUISE BOURGEOIS, Coloured and black and white illusts, 194pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper, name to front endpaper. Flammarion, Paris: 1996. £12.00
Bick (Helen), illustrated by Allingham (Helen) THE COTTAGE HOMES OF ENGLAND. With 63 of 64 coloured plates, xvi + 287 + 166pp of publishers adverts, original decorative cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, short splits to head of spine and head of back outer hinge, split to foot of spine, slightly shaken, occasional foxing to text. First Edition, Edward Arnold, London: 1909. £15.00
Bingham (Joseph) ORIGINES ECCLESIASTICAE. THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 2 volumes, liv + 676 and 677-1296pp, 4to, original buckram, leather labels, covers lightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. Reeves and Turner, London: 1878. £50.00
Blair (Arthur) BEST WISHES The Story of the GREETING CARD. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial wraps, corners of top wrap slightly creased. Greeting Card and Calendar Association, (1985) £4.00
Bowyer (Jack) VERNACULAR BUILDING CONSERVATION. Numerous illusts, 184pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, pages slightly crinkled. The Architectural Press, London: 1980. £4.00
Boyne (William) THE YORKSHIRE LIBRARY, A Bibliographical Account of Books on Topography, Tracts of the Seventeenth Century, Biography, Spaws, Geology, Botany, Maps, Views, Portraits, and Miscellaneous Literature Relating to the County of York. With Collations and Notes on the Books and Authors. With 2 plates, vi + (ii) + 304pp, dustwrapper. First published 1869, reprinted N.T. Leslie, Hull: 1974. £4.00
Brake (Ted) MEN OF GOOD CHARACTER. A History of the Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers. Illusts, 446pp, original pictorial card covers. Lawrence and Wishart, London: 1985. £4.00
Bright (N.L) SIX POEMS 8pp + colophon, untrimmed in the original grey wraps, with title on top wrap. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES. The High House Press, Westbury on Trym, Bristol: (1938) £4.00
Brownbill (John), editor THE ROYALIST COMPOSITION PAPERS Being the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, A.D. 1643 - 1660, so far as they relate to the County of Lancaster Extracted from the Records preserved in the Public Record Office, London. Vol. 5., P - R. ix + 243pp, original cloth. Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. (Volume 72) 1917. £4.00
Brunel (Isambard), editor A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF SARAH ACLAND. Frontis, viii + 107pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, cloth partly faded, small portion cut from front endpaper, ownership name to front pastedown, few spots to prelims. First edition, London: Seeley and Co., 1894. £4.00
* Sarah was the wife of Sir Henry Acland, academic and physician. They lived in Oxford. After her death in 1878 a fund was started to build the Acland Hospital to commemorate her life. It was opened in Oxford in 1879.
Cheap Repository Tract THE GOOD MOTHER'S LEGACY. 16pp, 12mo, disbound. New Edition, J.G. & F. Rivington, London: 1837. £4.00
Cheap Repository Tract BETTY BROWN; Or, the St. Giles's Orange Girl. With some account of Mrs Sponge, The Money-Lender. 14pp, 12mo, disbound. New Edition, J.G. & F. Rivington, London: 1833. £4.00
Christie (Agatha) AGATHA Bookplate. Unused, size including margins, 5.5cm x 8.0cm. Image shows mainly acanthus leaves, below which are small images of a decorated cross, elaborate spine of 2 books? and a small image of a house, not sure which one as she lived in several over the years. n.d. £10.00
Christie's South Kensington CHRISTIE'S SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS. For sale by auction, Thursday, April 14, 1988. Illusts, 46 + (10)pp, original pictorial card covers. Christie's South Kensington, London: 1988. £4.00
Christie's THE CAMERARIUS FLORILEGIUM. To be offered as lot 151 in the Sale of Valuable Travel and Natural History Books. Wednesday, 20 May 1992. 27 coloured illusts, 30 + (10)pp, original decorative card covers, slight crease to lower corner of top cover. Christie's, London: 1992. £4.00
Clarke (William Gray) CONSTITUTIONS OF THE ANCIENT FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. Containing the Charges, Regulations, etc., etc. Published by Authority of the United Grand Lodge. With 13 plates, viii + 152pp, original embossed cloth, partly faded, couple of small holes in lower margins of first few leaves. Harrison and Son., London: 1867. £8.00
Clay (Rotha Mary) JULIUS CAESAR IBBETSON 1759-1817. 155pp, 4to, original cloth partly damp stained, some occasional foxing, plates slightly crinkled. First edition, London: Country Life, 1948. £8.00
Cohen (Colin) WATERMARK 74 Handbook of an Exhibition organised by Wiggins Teape.... Portals Limited.... lllusts, (32)pp, original printed card cover. Curwen Press, 1974. £6.00
Collins (J.H) ON MINERAL CLASSIFICATION. 17pp, disbound. n.d. c.1880 £4.00
Collins (J.H) ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE RIO-TINTO MINES, with some General Remarks on the Pyritic Region of the Sierra Morena (Spain) Folding map, illusts in the text, pages numbered 245-265 complete, disbound, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Geological Society Journal fo August 1885. £5.00
Collins (J.H) THE HISTORY OF A REMARKABLE GEM.- The "Maxwell Stuart" Topaz. 2 plates, 2«pp, disbound. c.1880. £5.00
Collins (Judith) WINIFRED NICHOLSON. Coloured and black and white illusts, 117pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title, few small marks to top cover. The Tate Gallery, London: 1987. £10.00
Comben (Norman) and Day (John) THE DURHAM OX. Celebrating the bicentenary of the demise of this most famous English beast which lived from 1796 to 1807, with a facsimile reprint of 'An Account of the Late Extraordinary Durham Ox.' by John Day, published in 1817. Coloured and black and white illusts, pictorial endpapers, 64pp, original pictorial paper boards. Limited edition of 500 copies. Printed and Published by Adlard Print, Nottingham: 2007. £4.00
Constable AN ACT for discontinuing certain presentments by Constables. Pages numbered 353-354, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre, and Andrew Strahan, 1827. £4.00
Cowlishaw (William) NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF SOUTH AMERICA (Southern Division) With 6 plates, 186pp, 12mo, original cloth, short split to cloth at head of spine. J.A. Geldart, Buenos Aires: 1931 £4.00
Cowper (William) POEMS BY WILLIAM COWPER, Of the Inner Temple. 2 volumes, x + (ii) + 368 + iv + (iv) + 363pp, 12mo, full contemporary calf, leather labels, on gilt tooled spine, slightly rubbed, portion of calf missing from foot of one spine, marbled endpapers, one leaf slightly proud. A New Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson. 1806. £10.00
* With the engraved armorial bookplates of Laura Cornwallis, and a neat contemporary inscriptions by her to the front endpapers.
Coysh (A.W) BRITISH ART POTTERY 1870-1940. Numerous illusts, 96pp, dustwrapper protected with a loose plastic sleeve. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1976. £4.00
Crafts Advisory Committee THE CAMERA & THE CRAFTSMAN. A travelling exhibition of photographs and objects. Organised by Crafts Advisory Committee in conjunction with The Photographs' Gallery, London, 1975. Illusts, 79pp, 4to, original card covers, ownership name to half-title. Crafts Advisory Committee, London: 1975. £6.00
Cruttwell (C) THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THOMAS WILSON, D.D. Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. Volume 1 of 2 only. Frontis, plate, xcvi + 492pp, 4to, disbound, frontis loose with a few short marginal tears, one section of text just held by strings. C. and R. Cruttwell, Bath 1781. £8.00
Darlington Show DARLINGTON SHOW (Amalgamating North Durham and North Yorks, Horse, Cattle, and Dog Society and Haughton-le-Skerne Agricultural and Horticultural Society). South Park Darlington, Saturday 15th August 1964. Folding plan, c.200 unnumbered pages, includes adverts, 12 page list of Subscribers, and Exhibitors, names and numbers in biro in a few margins, original paper boards, cloth spine, page edges browned. Printed by Wm. Dresser, Darlington: 1964. £6.00
Davis (William T) GENEALOGICAL REGISTER OF PLYMOUTH FAMILIES. 363pp, original cloth, few spots to rear board, name on front endpaper. First published 1899, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore: 1975. £4.00
De Bethel (David) BOUQUET GARNI Good Dishes from LA BELLE FRANCE. Full page and part page illusts, 56pp, original pictorial qtr cloth paper boards, lightly rubbed to corners. First edition, Medici Society, London: 1939. £8.00
De Foe (Daniel) THE HISTORY OF THE UNION between England and Scotland, with A Collection of Original Papers Relating Thereto. With an Introduction in which the consequence and probability of a like union between this country and Ireland are considered. To which is prefixed a Life of Daniel De Foe by George Chalmers. Frontis, xxiv + 781pp, 4to, early half calf, rubbed, boards, and frontis loose, inner margin of frontis has a few small portions missing and with tape to verso where once crudely held in place, ex-lib., with a couple of stamps to title, label to front pastedown, ink splash slightly affecting imprint on title-page, light water stain to last few leaves. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1786. £20.00
Desprez (Frank) READINGS & GOSSIP ABOUT RINGS. Numerous illusts in the text, 78 + (20pp, 12mo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap and spine. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1877. £4.00
Douse (T. Le Marchant) EXAMINATION OF AN OLD MANUSCRIPT PRESERVED IN THE LIBRARY AT ALNWICK preserved in the Library of the Duke of Alnwick and sometime called The Northumberland Manuscript. With a 2 page facsimile, 11 + 1 page adverts, 4to, original paper boards, cloth spine, boards rubbed, portions missing from corners, short tear to rear cover, stitching loose, front inner hinge broken, small ink blot to top margin of one page, First edition, Taylor and Francis, London: 1904. £6.00
Dublin Trial COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Wednesday, 28th June, 1809. 25pp, lacks title-page and possibly wraps, last leaf neatly strengthened to verso. 1809. £4.00
* Concerns a Trial in Dublin in which Francis Fox was Plaintiff, and Alderman Abraham Bradley King, a Police Magistrate, and Stationer to his Majesty, in Ireland, was Defendant.
Elliott (David) intro. (Leon Kossoff) LEON KOSSOFF paintings from a decade 1970 - 1980. Black and white illusts, 48pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, name to top of title-page. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: 1981. £8.00
Ewing (Elizabeth) FASHION IN UNDERWEAR from Babylon to Bikini Briefs. Illusts, 160pp, folio, original pictorial card covers, clear tape applied to crack in rear cover. Reprinted, Dover publications, New York: 2010. £4.00
Exchequer Bills AN ACT for raising thew sum of Thirteen millions eight hundred thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. Pages numbered 365-367, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre, and Andrew Strahan, 1827. £4.00
Fitzgerald (E), Translator, Dulac (Edmund), Illustrator RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Original cream cloth, 4to, with gilt decorations of peacocks and elephants. Spine faded. One small nick in cloth at head of spine, and some fraying at base of spine. 61pp, printed on rectos only, with decorative borders. 20 tipped-in illustrations, with captioned tissue guards, decorative endpapers. Hodder and Stoughton London. Printed from the Second Edition by Kind Permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co. Ld. n.d. (1909). £70.00
Fleming (John) and Honour (Hugh) THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF DECORATIVE ARTS. Numerous illusts, 896pp, very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Allen Lane, Penguin Books, London: 1977. £10.00
Foster (Birket) and Davidson (J) PICTURES OF RUSTIC LANDSCAPE. Illusts, 238pp, small 4to, original bevelled cloth, ex-lib. with stamp to verso of title, lacks front endpaper, covers lightly rubbed. First Edition. John C. Nimmo, London: 1896. £4.00
Franklin (Capt. John), Commander of the Expedition JOURNEY TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, In 1819-20-21-22. With a Brief Account of the Second Journey In 1825-26-27. Volume 4 of 4 only. With 5 of 6 plates, 269 + (i)pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed, paper label, on spine, darkened and chipped to edges. First edition, London: John Murray, 1829. £8.00
Franklin (Capt. John), Commander of the Expedition JOURNEY TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, In 1819-20-21-22. With a Brief Account of the Second Journey In 1825-26-27. Volume 2 of 4 only. With 6 plates, 268pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed, cloth bubbled in places, front inner hinge cracked, slightly shaken, paper label, on spine, darkened and chipped to edges. First edition, London: John Murray, 1829. £10.00
Frederick, Archbishop of Canterbury CHARGE DELIVERED AT THE FIRST VISITATION. 39pp, original printed wraps. London: MacMillan and Co., 1898. £4.00
Ganshof (F.L) THE IMPERIAL CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE. 28 + (5)pp, original pictorial card covers. University of Glasgow, 1971. £4.00
Glass Excise Duty AN ACT to continue, until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty, an Act relating to Duties of Excise on Crown, Flint, and Phial Glass, and to alter certain Laws of Excise relating to Flint Glass. Pages numbered 361-362, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre, and Andrew Strahan, 1827. £4.00
Goldberg (Norman L) JOHN CROME THE ELDER. 2 volumes, 16 coloured plates, 321pp, and 243 black and white plates on 166 pages, 4to, dustwrappers. New York: New York University Press, 1978. £20.00
Gover (E.T), publisher ANECDOTES AND MEMOIRS OF THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL AND PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM, From Their Birth to Their Grand Marriage. 16pp, 12mo, disbound, 2 leaves loose. London: E.T. Gover, 1858. £4.00
Gowing (Lawrence) LUCIAN FREUD. Coloured and black and white illusts, 230pp, 4to, dustwrapper is protected with a loose glassine cover, name to front endpaper. First edition, Thames and Hudson, London: 1982. £28.00
Greenhill (Basil) and Villiers (Alan) NONSUCH Hudson's Bay Company ship Replica. Illusts, map, 16pp, original pictorial paper covers. 1969. £4.00
Groves (Sylvia) THE HISTORY OF NEEDLEWORK TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES. With 199 plates and 13 textual illusts, 136pp, large 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper. Second impression, Country Life Books, Feltham: 1968. £4.00
Hadley (J.J), printer and publisher FIORALISA; or The Conjuror - No Conjuror. A Comic Story for Christmas. (translated from the Italian.) By A Lady. 14pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: J.J. Hadley, Journal Office, c.1868. £4.00
Hadley (J.J), printer and publisher SIX MORE STORIES, from the Romantic Incidents of Real Life. 30pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: J.J. Hadley, Journal Office, 1868. £4.00
Hadley (J.J), printer and publisher THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. A True Tale. 11pp, 12mo, disbound. Fifth edition, Cheltenham: J.J. Hadley, Journal Office, c.1868. £4.00
Hadley (J.J), printer and publisher THEODORA, or The Mistaken Choice. A True Story. 15pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: J.J. Hadley, Journal Office, c.1868. £4.00
Hadley (Mary), printer and publisher NOTHING NEW! 16pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: Mary Hadley, Journal Office, c.1860. £4.00
Hadley (Mary), printer and publisher "SOMETHING NEW." 16pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: Mary Hadley, Journal Office, c.1860. £4.00
Hadley (Mary), printer and publisher THE BIRTHDAY; A Tale for New Year. 10pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: Mary Hadley, Journal Office, c.1860. £4.00
Hadley (Mary), printer and publisher THE REALITIES OF TIME; (A Compendium.) and Opportunity; an Incident of the Past. 12pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: Mary Hadley, Journal Office, c.1868. £4.00
Hardie (Martin) ENGLISH COLOURED BOOKS With 27 coloured and black and white plates, xxiv + 340, partly faded dustwrapper, scratch mark to rear of dustwrapper. Kingsmead Reprints, Bath: 1973. £4.00
Hardwick (Michael) A LITERARY ATLAS AND GAZETTEER OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Maps, 216pp, dustwrapper David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £4.00
Harold (Edward), Bishop of Ely THE WORLD AND THE MAN. A Sermon Preached at the Consecration of St. Paul's Gorefield, on Wednesday, January 25, 1871. 17pp, disbound, contemporary hand-written inscription slightly cropped at the top of the title-page. Ely: T.A. Hills, (1871) £4.00
Harris (Rendel) THE THE TIBER AND THE RHINE. The After-Glow Essays Number Nine. Diagrammatic map, 17pp, original paper boards. University of London Press, Ltd. 1935. £4.00
* In this essay Harris tries to prove that place names along the Rhine and the Tiber are derived from Egyptian words.
Harris (Rendel) WORDSWORTH'S LUCY. The After-Glow Essays Number Eight. Diagrammatic map, 3 illusts, 24pp, original paper boards. University of London Press, Ltd. 1935. £4.00
Hassall (W.O) A SELECT BIOGRAPHY OF ITALY. A Thousand Books about Italy its Geography, Population, Cities and Regions its Language, Literature and History its Social, Economic and Political Life its Art and Music. 82pp, original printed wraps, spine slightly worn to head and foot of spine, top outer hinge partly split to head and foot. Aslib, London: 1946. £4.00
Hayes (T.T) LORD BEACONSFIELD, A Paper Read by T.T. Hayes, Jnr., Before the Members of the Leigh Liberal Club. 20pp, stitched as issued, lacks wraps(?), signs where once folded, first and last outer leaves slightly dusty, stitching loosening. London: John Kempster, 1879. £4.00
Hedley (Olwen) THE PRINCES OF WALES. Coloured and black and white illusts, illusts, pedigree, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Pitkin Pictorials, London: 1975. £4.00
Hedley (Owen) CAMBRIDGE The City and the Colleges. Coloured and black and white illusts, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Pitkin Pictorials, London: 1974. £4.00
Higgs (Eric) WALTHAM ABBEY The Abbey Church of Waltham Holy Cross and St Lawrence. Coloured and black and white illusts, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Pitkin Pictorials, Andover: 1989. £4.00
Home Office COAL MINES ACT, 1911. Regulations and Orders. Illusts some of which are folding, 175pp, tall 8vo, original printed paper boards, roan spine, covers slightly rubbed, head of spine chipped and outer hinges split for approx. 1" at head of spine. Ink notes on top board. H.M.S.O. London 1913. £4.00
Horrocks (Sidney), editor REGISTERS PAROCHIAL: NON-PAROCHIAL Monumental Inscriptions Names Wills. A Contribution towards a Lancashire Bibliography, vol. 5. xi + 162pp, original cloth. Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography, Manchester: 1973. £5.00
Hudson (W.H), pictures by E.J. Detmold BIRDS IN TOWN AND VILLAGE. With 8 colour plates, vi + 274pp, original cloth, private ownership stamp to front pastedown, no dustwrapper. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1919. £8.00
Irish Children AN ACT to continue until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, respecting deserted Children in Ireland. Pages numbered 349-350, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre, and Andrew Strahan, 1827. £4.00
Kearns (R.H.B) BROKEN HILL Volume 1, 1883 - 1893. Discovery and Development. Illusts, map, 68pp, original pictorial card covers, Reprinted, Broken Hill Historical Society, Australia: 2003. £4.00
* Broken Hill is a mining community where silver, lead and zinc were discovered in 1883, and are still mined to-day.
Kearns (R.H.B) BROKEN HILL Volume 2, 1894 - 1914. The Uncertain Years. Illusts, map, 72pp, original pictorial card covers, Reprinted, Broken Hill Historical Society, Australia: 2002. £4.00
* Broken Hill is a mining community where silver, lead and zinc were discovered in 1883, and is still mined to-day.
Kearns (R.H.B) BROKEN HILL Volume 3, 1915 - 1939. New Horizons. Illusts, map, 76pp, original pictorial card covers, Reprinted, Broken Hill Historical Society, Australia: 1981. £4.00
* Broken Hill is a mining community where silver, lead and zinc were discovered in 1883, and is still mined to-day.
Kenyon (Kathleen K) and Frere (Sheppard S) THE ROMAN THEATRE OF VERULAMIUM (and Adjacent buildings). (St. Albans) Official Guide. Illusts, plans, 16pp, oblong 8vo, few marks to the original pictorial card covers. English Life Publications, c.1988. £4.00
Kinahan (G.H) THE DRIFTING POWER OF TIDAL CURRENT versus THAT OF WIND WAVES. Pages numbered 443-459, disbound, lacks wraps, signs where once folded, occasional spotting. Reprinted from the Geological Society Journal for November, 1875. £4.00
King (Isaac) A SAILOR'S LETTER. 4pp, 12mo, disbound. F. Westley, London: c1821. £5.00
* King wrote this letter shortly before he died with 800 men and officers on His Majesty's Ship, St. George off the coast of Denmark. He wrote the letter to the Rev. G.C. Smith, Penzance, Cornwall.
Kingsley (Charles), Flint (W. Russell), Illustrator THE HEROES, OR GREEK FAIRY TALES FOR MY CHILDREN By Charles Kingsley, Illustrated by W. Russell Flint. Limited Edition, number 195 of 500 copies, printed on hand-made Riccardi paper. 112 pages, uncut, and 12 coloured tipped in plates, with captioned tissue guards. Original limp vellum binding with gilt title top right, green silk ties broken. Some very slight dusting to corners of vellum binding. London. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society. 1912. £250.00
Kipling (Rudyard) SOMETHING OF RUDYARD KIPLING AND HIS WORKS. With an Index to the volumes published by MacMillan & Co., Ltd. Illusts, 65pp, original wraps, slight spotting to cover and prelims. R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh: c.1936. £4.00
Kist (N.C) DE KERKELIJKE ARCHITECTUUR EN DE DOODENDANSEN: Als proeve van het Humoristisch Karakter der Christlijke Kunst in het tijdvak, hetwelk de Hervorming heeft voorbereid. With 5 folding plates, 112pp, ex.uni.ref.lib. with labels to pastedowns, and the perforated name of the university to the title-page, accession number to foot of spine, large 8vo., untrimmed in early half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, edges slightly rubbed. Luchtmans, Leiden: 1844. £30.00
* Not on COPAC.
Klamkin (Marian) PICTURE POSTCARDS Numerous illusts, 192pp, small nick to dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot and London: 1974. £4.00
Kossoff (Leon) LEON KOSSOFF Drawings 1985 to 1992. Black and white illusts, 48pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London: 1993. £20.00
Landsberg (Sylvia) THE MEDIEVAL GARDEN. Coloured and black and white illusts, plans, 144pp, dustwrapper. British Museum Press, 1995. £4.00
Langlois (Eustace-Hyacinthe) ESSAI HISTORIQUE, PHILOSOPHIQUE, ET PITTORESQUE SUR LES DANSES DES MORTS. 2 volumes, with 49 plates, with descriptive text, some plates are folding, and other full-page and illusts in text, 372 + 92pp and 220pp, ex-uni.ref.lib., with labels to front pastedowns, and to rear pastedowns, accession number to spines, and perforated name of the university to the title-pages, qtr morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, lightly rubbed to edges. Six plates which were presumably removed at some time have been neatly returned and taped to stubs with archival tape. A. Lebrument, Libraire, Rouen: 1852. £200.00
* Includes a Bibliography of the Dance of Death, including works by Holbein.
Lawrence (G.C), editor BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION 1925. Official Guide. Illusts, plans, 128pp, original pictorial wraps, crease and short tear to top wrap and adjacent hinge, wraps slightly rubbed, ownership name inscribed to title-page. Fleetway Press Ltd., 1925. £35.00
Le Rouzic (Zacharie) CARNAC Menhirs-Statues avec signes figuratifs et Amulettes ou idoles des Dolmens du Morbihan. Illusts, plans, 24pp tall 8vo, original, partly faded wraps, first and last plate foxed. A. Dugas, Nantes: 1913. £6.00
Leatham (Diana) CELTIC SUNRISE; An Outline of Celtic Christianity. Illustrations by George Mackie, map endpapers, 192pp, original cloth, partly faded, rear cover has some rust? spots, few light marks to top board. First edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1951. £4.00
Leighton (Ann) EARLY ENGLISH GARDENS IN NEW ENGLAND 'For Meate or Medicine.' Illusts, xviii + 441pp, partly faded dustwrapper. First edition, Cassell, London: 1970. £5.00
[Longueville (Thomas)] THE CURIOUS CASE OF LADY PURBECK A Scandal of the XVIIIth Century. ix + 148pp, original cloth, ex-ref.lib. with label to front endpaper and stamp to title-page, number to foot of spine. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. £4.00
* Elizabeth Hatton (Lady Purbeck) was murdered in the courtyard of Hatton House, in 1616. She was last seen alive leaving a ball with the Spanish Ambassador with whom she had just danced.
MacColl (Ewan) and Seeger (Peggy) TRAVELLERS' SONGS FROM ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. xii + 387pp, couple of short tears to partly faded dustwrapper. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1977. £12.00
Mackenzie (Ian) BRITISH PRINTS Dictionary and Price Guide. Numerous coloured and black and white illusts, 359pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk: 1987. £15.00
"Madge" of "Truth", (Mrs Humphry) THE "PERI-LUSTA" HAND-BOOK A Guide to Art and Fancy Needlework. Illusts, 93pp, 4to, original decorative paper card covers, cloth spine, covers partly faded. G. Faulkner & Sons, Manchester & London: c.1906. £10.00
Maguire (W.A), edited and introduction by LETTERS OF A GREAT IRISH LANDLORD. A selection from the estate correspondence of the third Marquess of Downshire, 1809-45. Illusts, facsimiles, 189pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, small stamp to front endpaper. Belfast: H.M.S.O. 1974. £14.00
Mann (J.C) THE NORTHERN FRONTIER AFTER A.D. 369. Pages numbered 34-42, complete, original card covers, name on top cover. Reprinted from Glasgow Archaeological Journal, (1974) £4.00
Mann (Sir James) AN OUTLINE OF ARMS AND ARMOUR IN ENGLAND from the early Middle Ages to the Civil War. Coloured and black and white illusts, 44pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, H.M.S.O. London: 1964. £7.00
Mann (Sir James), revised by Dufty (A.R) AN OUTLINE OF ARMS AND ARMOUR IN ENGLAND from the early Middle Ages to the Civil War. Double-page coloured plate, black and white illusts, 44pp, few small marks to the original pictorial card covers. H.M.S.O. London: 1969. £6.00
Marr (J.E) FOSSILIFEROUS CAMVRIAN SHALES NEAR CAERNARVON. Pages numbered 134-139, disbound, lacks wraps, signs where once folded. Reprinted from the Geological Society Journal for May 1876. £4.00
Marriott (H) ST. DAVIDS CATHEDRAL. Plan, coloured and black and white illusts, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Pitkin Pictorials, London: 1973. £4.00
Marshall (T.H) JAMES WATT. (1736 - 1819) Frontis, 192pp, original cloth, occasional foxing. Leonard Parsons, London: 1925. £4.00
Massel (Anton) and Barty-King (Hugh) CLASSIC WINE MAKING. Illusts, 202pp, original pictorial card covers. Heidelberg Publishers Ltd., London: 1983. £4.00
McEwen (John) PAULA REGO. Coloured and black and white illusts, 288pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, name to first leaf. Second edition, Phaidon Press, London: 1997. £14.00
Meek (Henry M), publisher WALTHAM DIRECTORY Containing General Directories of the Residents, Business Directories, Town Officers, etc., of Weston, Wayland, Cochituate, and Lincoln, Mass. With a Street Map of Weston, Middlesex County. 1911-1912. Folding map, adverts, 149pp, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, inner hinges partly cracked though sound. Henry M. Meek, Publishing Co. 1911. £9.00
Merivale (John Herman) A LETTER TO WILLIAM COURTENAY, ESQ., ON THE SUBJECT OF THE CHANCERY COMMISSION. 187pp, disbound. First edition, John Murray, London: 1827. £12.00
Mills (G.R) THE BRISTOL LH (Lightweight chassis Horizontal engine.) A Pictorial Survey. With 236 illusts of mainly buses and coaches, approx. 98 unpaginated pages, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. Oxford Publishing Company, 1984. £5.00
Mills (James) A LETTER TO SIR CHARLES ABBOTT, Knt. The Chief-Justice of the Court of King's Bench, upon a Late Decision of that Court, and also upon Two Subsequent Decisions of the Common Serjeant of the City of London. 40pp, disbound, stitching broken in 2 halves, title slightly spotty. T. Dolby, London: 1819. £7.00
* Mills complains that he is forbidden by law to conduct a prosecution without the aid of counsel.
More (Hannah) CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACTS. Third Selection. Eight tracts, continuously paginated, wood-cuts, 142pp, 12mo, original calf, blind stamped with the societies name on top board, covers rubbed to edges, shaken, a couple of leaves loose and slightly shaken, rear outer hinge partly split. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London: 1841. £35.00
National Coal Board. ANALYSTS' HANDBOOK. Sections:- (x) Standard Method for the Analysis of Oils and Grease. (xi) Standard Method for the Analysis of Water. Two sections, individually paginated, tables, diagrams, 139 and 166 pages, stoutly contained in the original cloth file, few small marks to covers, occasional ex-museum stamp. National Coal Board, London: 1950. £30.00
Nevill (Ralph) THE REMINISCENCES OF LADY DOROTHY NEVILL. Frontis, xiv + 336 + 16 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, ex-ref. lib. with label to front pastedown and stamp to title-page. London: Edward Arnold, 1926. £5.00
Oldham (Wilfrid) BRITAIN'S CONVICTS TO THE COLONIES. Illusts, xiii + 270pp, dustwrapper, small stamp to front endpaper. Library of Australian History, Sydney: 1990. £8.00
Oppe (A.P) THE WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS OF JOHN SELL COTMAN. Frontis and 24 plates, xvipp, 4to, original printed wraps. London: The Studio Ltd. 1923. £10.00
P. (T.H) THE ROYAL FOREST OF BERNWOOD, its History and Legends. A Lecture Delivered at Winslow to the Members of the C.E.M.S., December 10th, 1908. By the Rector of Hoggeston. 21pp, top printed wrap loose and slightly spotty and marked, lacks lower wrap. Printed and Published by Edwin J. French, Winslow: 1909. £7.00
Parson Woodforde Society INDEX TO THE JOURNAL OF THE PARSON WOODFORDE SOCIETY. (Vols 1 -5:- 1968-1972) Supplement No 3. 26pp, original paper covers, edge of top cover spotty and faded. Parson Woodforde Society, 1972. £4.00
[Pearse (Mary)] HENRIETTA RACHEL WILSON A Sketch by Her Mother. Frontis, one original mounted photo, 50pp, sm 8vo, few small marks to the original cloth. First edition, Printed For Private Circulation, (1904) £4.00
* Henrietta was the daughter of Henry Pearse railway owner and M.P. for Durham South. The photograph in this work is of him.
Pothier (Rev. Pere Dom Joseph) LES MELODIES GREGORIENNES d'apres la tradition. 268 + Errata, few spots to early binders cloth, corners slightly rubbed. Tournay, Desclee Lefebvre et Cie. 1880. £8.00
Prideaux (Frederick) A LECTURE ON FANATICISM. What it is, and how to Avoid it. 39pp, original printed wraps, spine chipped, ex-lib. with labels to verso of wraps, stamp to verso of title-page. London: S.W. Partridge, 1888. £5.00
Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur), Illustrated by Edmund Dulac THE SLEEPING BEAUTY and other fairy tales From the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Edition de Luxe limited to 1000 copies of which this is 413. Signed by the artist. Bound in full brown leather, size 12«" x 10", gilt tooled on boards with design of scrolls and cherubs, spine with raised bands, gilt title and gilt cherubs in four panels. 30 tipped-in colour plates, with decorative borders, tissue guards. Some slight toning of the front and back free endpapers, tear to one margin which intrudes into one word on each side, neatly repaired, London. Hodder and Stoughton. (1910). £400.00
Rates for Goods AN ACT to repeal such Parts of Two Acts of King William and Queen Mary and of King George the Second, as relate to the settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods. Pages numbered 357-358, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre, and Andrew Strahan, 1827. £4.00
Redgrave (Samuel) A DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOL. Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Ornamentists. With Notices of their Lives and Works. xvii + 498pp, few short nicks to head of spine of dustwrapper. Second Edition, first published 1878, Kingsmead Reprints, Bath: 1970. £5.00
Rigg (Arthur) A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE. With 96 plates, 350pp, 4to, original cloth, corners slightly rubbed otherwise a nice copy. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged, E. & F. Spon, London: 1894. £24.00
Roberts (Anthony) THE FAIRIES REVENGE, or Reinvoked Memories of the Future. (A Fable on the Nature of Geomantic and Ecological Justice) Apocolyptic Archives No 1. Illusts, 18pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Zodiac House Publications, Glastonbury: 1991. £4.00
Robertson (James Alexander) BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILLIPPINE ISLANDS Printed and Manuscript. Preceded by a Descriptive Account of the most important Archives and Collections containing Phillipina. 437pp, original cloth. Originally published 1908. Kraus Reprint, New York: 1970 £4.00
Roper (Freeman C.S) CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON THE MICROSCOPE, and of those referring to Microscopal Subjects in the Library of Freeman C.S. Roper. 102pp, original cloth. Originally published 1865, reprinted Nicholas T. Smith, New York: c.197- £4.00
Rousham (Sally) CANTERBURY the story of a cathedral. Coloured and black and white illusts, 62pp, original pictorial card covers. Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1875. £4.00
Royal Jubilee Trusts THE ROYAL WEDDING. The Marriage of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and The Lady Diana Spencer St. Paul's Cathedral 29 July 1991. OFFICIAL PROGRAMME. Coloured illusts, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Royal Jubilee Trusts, 1981. £4.00
[Schmid (C)] PETITS CONTES POUR LES ENFANS. par l'auteur des Oeufs de paques. Ouvrage autorise par l'Universite. With printed title-page and engraved title-page with a hand coloured vignette title and 2 hand-coloured plates, 136 + (4) pages of publishers averts, sm 8vo, original printed paper boards, rubbed, lacks spine, portions of paper torn from boards, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of top board, and names to verso of both titles, and ink note to printed title-page. Paris: Chez Levrault, Strasbourg: 1835. £4.00
Scientific Instrument Society BULLETIN OF THE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SOCIETY. No. 40. March 1994. Illusts, 48pp, small folio, original card covers, small snag to foot of top cover. The Scientific Instrument Society. 1988-1999. £4.00
* Includes 19th century French instrument makers; John Handsford of Birmingham and Bristol; Tompion Regulator Clock at Old Greenwich Observatory, etc.
Seebohm (Benjamin), editor MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM FORSTER. 2 volumes, vii + 394 and 400pp, original cloth, spines faded, ex-ref. lib, with labels to front pastedowns, and stamp to title-pages. London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1865. £10.00
* Forster was a Quaker preacher. He campaigned against slavery which was still rife around the world, although abolished in 1807 in the British Empire. He was married in 1816 and then moved to Dorset.
Sherwood (Mrs) THE HISTORY OF THE FAIRCHILD FAMILY; or, the Child's Manual: Being a Collection of Stories Calculated to Shew The Importance and Effects of a Religious Education. 300pp, 12mo, occasional spotting, one leaf has a couple of tears, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, lacks spine, top board loose, rear board held by strings, early presentation inscription to second blank. Seventh Edition, J. Hatchard and Son, London: 1824. £12.00
Simplified Building Society RULES OF THE SIMPLIFIED PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY. Established November 28, 1851. On new and most advanced principle; under the management of gentlemen of great experience, directors of existing societies.... Subscriptions payable at the Subscription Room, "George Tavern," Commercial Road, Stepney, on the Fourth Friday evening in every month.... 32 + (3)pp, 12mo, stitched as issued in the original printed wraps. London: Printed by D. Francis 24, Mile End Road, 1855. £8.00
Smith (Patsy Adam), Drawings by Arthur Phillipps LAUNCESTON SKETCHBOOK. Illusts, 58pp, dustwrapper. Rigby Publishers, Adelaide: 1973. £4.00
Spanish Armada PROTESTANT COMMEMORATION IN 1888 OF THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA IN 1588, Accession of the Protestant Dynasty in 1688. Report of Sermons and Public Meetings Held under the Auspices of the Hastings and St. Leonards Auxilliary Protestant Reformation Society. 20pp, with the top wrap, lacks spine and rear wrap. Reprinted from the "Hastings and St. Leonard's News." 1888. £7.00
Spilhause (Athelstan and Kathleen) MECHANICAL TOYS. How Old Toys Work. Coloured illusts, viii + 150pp, dustwrapper. First edition, New York: 1989. £6.00
Spon (E. & F.N) WORKSHOP RECEIPTS For the Use of Artizans, Manufacturers, Mechanics, &c. Volume 5 only. Text illusts, 440pp, original decorative cloth, front inner hinge cracked though sound, occasional light foxing. A.W. Cowan, London: 1898. £12.00
* Includes sections on magic lanterns, explosives, barometers, velocipedes, lacquers, tobacco pipes, boat building, etc.
Spry (Joseph Hume) JUDITH AND HOLOFERNESS; An Oratorio. 12pp, original printed paper wraps, spine partly split. E. Lansdown, Bath: 1862. £4.00
Stanhope (Philip Dormer) LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son; with some account of his life. 4 volumes, 429pp; 381pp; 406pp; 427pp, 12mo, contemporary qtr calf, marbled boards, gilt lines and motifs to spines, lightly rubbed to edges, one volume has paper missing from lower corner of back board, light water stains to margins of a few leaves, otherwise clean copies. Theophilus Barrois, Bookseller, London: 1815. £30.00
Stark (James H) DORCHESTER DAY. Celebration of the Two Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Anniversary of the Settlement of Dorchester, June 8th, 1907. Plates, 117pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, spine partly faded. Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1907. £5.00
Stocks (G.A), and Tait (James), and others. editor CHETHAM MISCELLANIES. New Series. Vol IV. Containing:- i. Dunkenhalgh Deeds. ii. Extracts from the Manchester Churchwardens Accounts. iii. The New Court Book of the Manor of Bramhall. iv. Latin Verses and Speeches by Scholars of the Manchester Grammar School. v. Records of some Saltford Portmoots in the Sixteenth Century. Frontis, 108 + ix + 41 + 35 + vii + 13 + vii + 14pp, original cloth, partly unopened, small indelible cancel stamp to front pastedown. Volume 80. Printed for the Chetham Society. 1921. £6.00
Stocks (George Alfred), editor THE RECORDS OF BLACKBURN GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 3 volumes, frontispieces, original cloth, partly unopened, small indelible cancel stamp to front pastedown. Volumes 66, 67, and 68. Printed for the Chetham Society. 1909. £16.00
Sturt (Charles), edited by Richard C. Davis THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION 1844-1846. The Journals of Charles Sturt. With 5 illusts, map, lxxi + 366pp, dustwrapper, small stamp to front endpaper. The Hakluyt Society, London: 2002. £10.00
Sylva-Tarouca (Count Ernst) EXTRACT "KEIN HEGER KEIN JAEGER" A Handbook of Game Preserving 42 leaves printed on rectos only, 4to, original cloth, pasted to a few leaves at the rear are cuttings from a magazine article on deer. With the armorial bookplate of Sir James Beethom Whitehead. Tipped into the front is a letter to Beethom Whitehead, from Bertie Whitehead, thanking him for translating it from the German. Pasted to the front pastedown is a cutting of an article on 'Deer Forest Management' concerning the book and Bertie Whitehead. Printed for Private Circulation, Paul Pary, Berlin: c.1914. £10.00
Synge (Lanto) ANTIQUE NEEDLEWORK. Numerous coloured and black and white illusts, 202pp, dustwrapper. Blandford Press, Poole: 1982. £5.00
Tate (Peter) A CENTURY OF BIRD BOOKS. Illusts, 256pp, dustwrapper. H.F. & G. Witherby, 1979. £5.00
Thompson (G.R) and Hummel (E.L) THE MAKING OF MINE PLANS. Folding table, 14pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1910. £4.00
Thorp (Rev. Thomas), Senior Dean A SERMON DELIVERED IN THE CHAPEL OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, On Easter Day, 1834. 16pp, disbound. Pitt Press, Cambridge: 1834. £4.00
Tiddeman (R.H) ABSTRACT OF THE THIRD REPORT OF THE SETTLE CAVES (Victoria Cave) Committee, read at Bristol, in August, 1875. 4pp, lacks wraps. 1875. £4.00
Tilley (Joseph) A NEW ARITHMETICAL TABLE-BOOK, AND COUNTING HOUSE GUIDE; To which is added an easy revised and facile series of mental exercises.... Frontis, 86pp, sm 8vo, original cloth boards, crude paper spine, ex-Bickford Smith of Tuckingmill library with label and a couple of stamps, some spotting to prelims, waterstain mainly affecting top margins of a few prelims. Longman, Rees.... London: James Drake, Birmingham: Preface dated 1836. £5.00
Tristram (H.B) SCENES IN THE EAST, Consisting of twelve coloured photographic views of places mentioned in the Bible, with descriptive letter-press. With 12 coloured plates, 49pp, 4to, original cloth, covers worn, and partly waterstained, gutta percha binding with 2 plates loose, one slightly frayed to one margin, plates lightly spotted, one plate has waterstain to margin. London, Printed for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. £15.00
* Includes chapters on:- Bethlehem, Nazareth, Gaza, and Joppa.
Turner (D.H) ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 16 plates, 31pp, original pictorial card covers, few small marks to top cover. Trustees of the British Museum, 1971. £4.00
Van Loo (Gerald) A VICTORIAN PARSON The Life and Times of Thomas Prankered Phelps, Rector of Ridley, Kent, 1840-1893. Double-page pedigree of the Phelps family, 268pp, dustwrapper, small stamp to front endpaper. Privately Published, (1989) £6.00
Voysey (Cynthia) BOBBIN LACE IN PHOTOGRAPHS. With numerous plates on 126pp 4to, dustwrapper. B.T. Batsford, London: 1987. £6.00
Wain (Louis) LOUIS WAIN'S ANIMAL BOOK A Collins' Bumper Book. Original illustrated boards, slightly rubbed at edges and joints. First gathering with glossy illustrated title page and coloured frontispiece is loose. Collins Clear Type Press, London and Glasgow, n.d. £35.00
Walton (Paul H) THE DRAWINGS OF JOHN RUSKIN. Illusts, x + 134pp, 4to, original cloth. Reprinted Hacker, New York: 1985. £4.00
Ward (Roland) THE PRICE GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF W.H. GOSS. With 486 illustrations, 190pp, 4to, dustwrapper slightly rubbed to edges. Clopton, Suffolk: Antiques Collectors Club, 1975. £8.00
Warner (Rev. R. Hyett) PETER DE AQUABLANCA, BISHOP OF HEREFORD 1240-1268. 10pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, ink note on top wrap. Reprinted from the Diocesan Messenger, 1906. £4.00
Warren (E.J) SOUVENIR OF ST. HELENA. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. E.J. Warren, The Pharmacy, St. Helena: c.1932. £10.00
Watt (Robert) BIBLIOTHECA BRITANNICA or A General Index to British Foreign Literature. In Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects. Complete set 2 volumes bound in 4, over 2000 pages, 4to, original cloth. Originally published in 1824. Reprinted Burt Franklin, New York: c.1970. £35.00
* Gives a potted biography of the authors. A heavy set which will incur higher postal charges.
Weekley (Montague) THOMAS BEWICK. With 30 illusts, 224pp, rubbed dustwrapper, cellotape repair to head of dustwrapper. Oxford University Press, 1953. £4.00
Wilbraham (Roger) AN ATTEMPT AT A GLOSSARY OF SOME WORDS USED IN CHESHIRE. Extracted from Archaeologia, volume 19, pages numbered 13-42, complete. Society of Antiquaries, London: 1817. £10.00
Williams (Iolo A) EARLY ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS and some Cognate Drawings by Artists born not later than 1785. With an introduction With 200 plates showing 412 illusts, xii + 266pp, 4to, few small marks to the original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. First published 1952. Kingsmead Reprints, Bath: 1970. £9.00
Williams (Trevor I), editor A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTISTS xi + 591pp, dustwrapper. Adam and Charles Black, London: 1969. £6.00
Wilson (E) BRITISH LIASSIC GASTEROPODA Plate, 14pp, few spots to the original wraps, signs where once bound with other pamphlets. Reprinted from the Geological Magazine, London: 1887. £4.00
Wilson (John MacKay) WILSON'S HISTORICAL, TRADITIONARY AND IMAGINATIVE TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLAND. With an Illustrative Glossary by Captain Thomas Brown. Six volumes, bound in 3, frontis, 416 + 416 and 400 + 412pp, and 412 + 412 + 45 pages glossary, 4to, early half roan, amateur tape to 2 spines, one untitled, first volume lacks front endpaper, 2 volumes loose in case, few short tears to outer margins of a couple of leaves. There are 312 tales in all. Manchester: James Ainsworth, c.1850. £45.00
Wood (Christopher) DICTIONARY OF VICTORIAN PAINTERS. With Guide to Auction Prices 300 Illustrations and Index to Artists Monograms. Numerous black and white illusts, xv + 435pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk: 1971. £12.00
Zeising (Adolf) NEUES DEUTSCHES LESEBUCH fur Schule und Haus, insbesondere fur Gymnasiun und hohere Burgerschulen. xvi + 340pp, early half calf cloth sides, lightly rubbed. Magdeburg: 1856 £8.00

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