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1807: FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND.
The Polish Campaign.
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007. 4to., pp.144, pictorial hardcover, colour maps and illustrations; near-fine.
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20TH CENTURY BRITISH GLASS.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009. 4to., pp.480, blue hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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5 EASY PIECES.
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.
Washington/London: Island Press, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xii,193, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A BARONIAL FAMILY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: THE CLARES, 1217-1314.
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.332,x, red cloth, gilt, folding genealogy; light tobacco odour, a good copy, in good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed, with wear to edges (now in a protective cover).
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A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON.
London: Collins, 1958. First edition in a later dust-jacket, small 8vo., pp.128, pink cloth lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; light surface soil to cloth, small pin-hole to cloth over spine, creasing to head and foot of spine, very slight curling to corners of boards, a good++ copy of the scarce first edition, in later price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed with slight wear to edges, with small closed to rear upper edge, else very good and now in a protective cover.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BURNS.
Edinburgh/London: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. 8vo., pp.xiii,396, teal cloth with stamped title-band, gilt; internally clean and very good, with dampstaining to boards, in unclipped dust-jacket which shows surface soil to pale paper, a good+ copy.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT OWEN, THE SOCIALIST 1771-1858.
The National Library of Wales. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Aberystwyth/London: Published by the National Library of Wales, in association with the Press Board of the University of Wales/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. 8vo., pp.viii,90, uncut, quarter beige cloth, lettered in black, with pale blue paper-covered boards, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1926, review notice pasted in to front paste-down endpaper; toning to margins of boards and to endpapers, a little foxing within, else very good.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM.
The Soho Bibliographies series.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Tall 8vo., pp.x,60, red cloth, gilt; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear and light rubbing to upper edge.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD A.D. 1501 TO 1540, Supplementary Volume.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 8vo., pp.xxiv,742, grey cloth, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light sunning to spine, one small closed tear and small length of scotch-tape reinforcement to upper margin.
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A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES.
London: Zodiac Books, 1949. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.64, pictorial paper-covered boards, small b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; light sunning to spine and margins, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has a 2cm closed tear to the rear upper margin, and light chipping to extremities, and some light spotting to the pale paper, overall very good.
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A BUSHEL OF MERRY-THOUGHTS. Comprising: The Terrible Punishment of the Naughty Boys of Corinth; The Exciting Story of the Cat and the Mouse; The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar Bread; The Fearful Tragedy of Ice-Peter.
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Oblong 4to., pp.(iv),14,16,16,16, cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, plates and vignettes hand-coloured by Busch; foxing to margins throughout, wear to extremities, with loss to paper covering of front board at lower margin, a good(+) copy of this scarce hand-coloured edition. The second title Cat and Mouse appears to be lacking page 13 although there is no sign it has ever been there.
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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS CHIEFLY RELATING TO THE HISTORY, ART, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF INDIA AND THE FAR EAST,
Followed by a small collection of Oriental miniatures, Drawings, Paintings, and some Arabic, persian, and Siamese MSS. (No.462).
London: Bernard Quaritch. Bookseller’s catalogue, 8vo., pp.119,(ix)adverts, brown printed wrappers, 22 single-page b/w plates plus one folding plate; surface soil to wrappers, rear wrapper with series of light creases to upper corner (last 3 plates have single crease to upper corners), small closed tear to fore-margin of 2 leaves of plates (not affecting printed area), otherwise very good.
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A CHRONICLE OR HISTORY OF THE SEVEN TRIBULATIONS OF THE ORDER OF BROTHERS MINOR.
St. Bonaventure: The Franciscan Institute, 2005. 8vo., pp.xxxii,242, paperback; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy indeed.
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A CLASH OF CULTURES.
Awadh, The British and the Mughals.
Riverdale, Maryland: The Riverdale Company, 1987. 8vo., pp.x,284, dark brown cloth, gilt; slight marking to cloth, a very good, internally fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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A COMMENTARY ON HORACE: ODES. Book 1.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lviii,440, paperback; light crease to spine, a very good copy indeed.
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A COMMENTARY ON HORACE, ODES, BOOK III.
Oxford University Press, 2007. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxx,389, paperback; a fine copy.
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A COMPANION TO CATULLUS.
United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 8vo.,pp.,xxvi,590, pictorial paperback; light crease to upper edge of front cover, light scuffing to head and fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy.
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A COMPANION TO JOHN OF SALISBURY.
Leiden: Brill, 2015. 8vo., pp.ix,466, pictorial hardcover; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper and small inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a few tiny pencilled annotations within, light rubbing to head and foot of spine, small scratch to rear board, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A COMPARATIVE HAND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF JAPAN AND THE BRITISH ISLES.
In this Hand List the author has attempted to supply the materials for a complete comparison between the birds of the Island of Japan and the birds found in Great Britain and Ireland.
Cambridge University Press, 1925. 4to., pp.(vi),107, beige cloth, gilt; ownership bookplates to front endpapers, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed and partly toned, with water-stain to rear/spine, and light wear to extremities, with apx. 6mms loss at head of spine.
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A CORPUS OF ANGLO-SAXON MATERIAL FROM SUFFOLK. East Anglian Archaeology Report No.84, 1998.
Ipswich: Suffolk County Council, 1998. 4to., pp.ix,373, paperback, b/w illustrations; light rubbing and creasing to wrappers, creasing to spine, else very good.
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