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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 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE FRANCISCANS IN THE CUSTODY OF YORK c.1229-1539.
The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society founded 1863 incorporated 1893. Record Series Volume CLXV for the Year 2017.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, in association with the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 2019. 8vo.,pp. xviii,307, pictorial hardcover, b/w figures; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, otherwise a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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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 CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. First edition, with illustrations by Millicent Sowerby, Publisher’s deluxe binding, Large 8vo.,pp. xv,125, cream boards with pictorial gilt and gilt lettering, gilt to upper edges of text block, colour plates with tissue guards, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; toning to leaves with some light foxing to edges of text block, occasionally to margins and more present to half title and endpapers, tissue guards occasionally creased but otherwise clean, extremities lightly rubbed and soiled with a little creasing to rear lower corner, a very good copy.
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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 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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A CORPUS OF WHEEL-THROWN POTTERY IN ANGLO-SAXON GRAVES.
The Royal Archaeological Institute Monograph Series.
The Royal Archaeological Institute, 1979. Large 8vo., pp.ix,148,(x) b/w plates, black cloth, gilt, original card front wrapper bound in; numerous b/w figures, charts and maps, b/w plates to rear of volume; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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