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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe… [1834-1835]
£100.00CRABBE, George (1785-1857). The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals , and His Life, By His Son.
8 volumes, 8 frontispieces (one to each volume), engraved title page to each volume. 8vo. London, John Murray, [1834-1835].
[WITH]: ALS* dated 27th Feb 1884, adhered to front pastedown of volume 1, from the GRANDSON of the author REV. GEORGE CRABBE.
“Dear Mr Tuckwell, I have sent you by post the little edition if Tales if the Hall published by Edw? Fitzgerald. I also enclose a bit of the Poets writing if you care to have it- I hope you will come and see me in the summer. I am yours truly Geo. Crabbe. “
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Forest Planting A Treatise on the Care of Timber… (1893)
£70.00JARCHOW, H. Nicholas. Forest Planting A Treatise on the Care of Timber and the Restoration of Denuded Wood-Lands on Plains and Mountains.
8vo. New York, Orange Judd Company 1893.
Chapters/sections include: Importance of Forest Culture, Governmental Assistance to Forest Culture, Drainage and Irrigation, Cultivation of the soil, Planting Forest Trees, Forest Planting on Plains, Forest Planting on Mountains.
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The Nursery Book… (c.1840). Very Rare.
£120.00BILBY, T (1794-1872) ; R. B. Ridgway. The Nursery Book Containing An Easy Description of Nearly One Hundred Familiar Objects, With Drawings of Each Object.
15 plates (of 16, i.e. lacking one plate). Majority of the plates have been crudely hand coloured. Although LACKING 1 plate, this is nonetheless a VERY RARE early Victorian Children’s book. Please see the main description for further details and condition.
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MANT, Catherine Alicia. The Cottage In The Chalk Pit [c.1830/40s].
£60.00MANT, Catherine Alicia (1788-1869). The Cottage In The Chalk Pit.
“Residing in one of the largest and best conditioned houses in Broad-street, and enjoying every comfort and advantage that opulence could afford, the young family of Mr Gardiner passed the years of their infancy and childhood.Mr Gardiner was a partner in one of the first mercantile houses in the city: his character for probity and honour, in his commercial transactions, was not more established, than were his manners for those of a gentleman in private society”.
Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece.
8vo. London: Harvey and Darton [no date. c. 1830/40s].
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Guy Fawkes…The Gunpowder Treason A.D. 1605… (1839)
£70.00LATHBURY, Rev. Thomas (1798 – 1865). Guy Fawkes; Or, A Complete History of The Gunpowder Treason A.D. 1605; With A Development of the Principles of The Conspirators, and Some Notices of the Revolution of 1688. (1839)
A scarce history. Please see main description for condition and further details.
Chapters include: A Sketch of Papal Attempts in England and Ireland, during the Reign of Elizabeth. The State of Religion and the Country on James’s accession, Sketches of the Conspirators, The Jesuits Privy to the Plot, Trial of the Conspirators, Trial and Execution of Garnet, the Jesuit, The Principles on which the Conspirators acted, The Act for the Observances of the Day- A Service Prepared for the Occasion.
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The Piston Process of Freezing….The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company. (Ice Cream, Various Contraptions. RARE (1880s).
£100.00The Piston Process of Freezing. The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company.
“The machine was first publicly exhibited in the Western Annexe of the Exhibition Building, Kensington, 1862, and attracted considerable attention from the scientific as well as from the general public, and also received official recognition at the hands of the Jury of the Machinery Department; moreover the numerous orders that flowed in from all parts of the globe during the “Exhibition” year, especially from India, stamped it at once as an invention of the greatest utility”.
8vo. London, John Smith [and] Co., [no date c. 1883].
A VERY RARE, late Victorian book.
Please note that this book is of its time.
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PUGIN. The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England. (1843). SCARCE, with Curious Provenance.
£200.00PUGIN, A. Welby (1812-52). The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England. (1843). SCARCE with Curious Provenance. 32 plates and 4 illustrations within the text. Plates are numbered I-XVI. Plate 16 in the second group of plates is mis-numbered as plate 17 and a couple of the other plates are un-numbered and are mis-bound, all present though.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century. (1855)
£75.00BURN, Jacob Henry (1794-1869). A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century; Presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy Citizen and Distiller.
“The necessitye of these small moneys did appeare here with us in England, where everie chandler, tapster, vintner, and others made tokens of lead and brasse for half-pence, and at Bristol by the late queenes authoritie were made of copper, with a ship on the one side, and C.B. on the other side signifying CIVITAS BRISTOLL…”
8vo. [London], Printed for the use of members of the Corporation of the City of London, 1855.
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The Poetry of Robert Burns. (1901). 4 Volumes.
£60.00HENLEY, William Ernest; Thomas F. Henderson. The Poetry of Robert Burns. (1901) 4 volume set. Frontispiece to each volume.
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Picturesque York. (1886). W.J. Boddy’s Copy.
£85.00BENSON, George (1856-1935) ; J. England Jefferson. Picturesque York. Large 8vo. York, Ben Johnson and Company, 1886. SUBSCRIBER’S COPY. SIGNED by one of the subscribers on the front endpaper: ‘W.J. Boddy’ and dated 1886. Contents include: Railway Station, Marygate, Monk Bar, Coney Street, Old Ouse Bridge, Walmgate Bar.
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DRINKWATER, John (1882-1937). Oliver Cromwell. (1922) AUTHOR SIGNED to Henry Ainley.
£60.00DRINKWATER, John (1882-1937). Oliver Cromwell. (1922) AUTHOR SIGNED to Henry Ainley. PRESENTATION COPY: Signed and dedicated to the actor “Harry [Henry] Ainley” who was appearing in the show: “Harry Ainley from John Drinkwater give us a good night. Brighton February 19th 1923”. [SELLING WITH] a copy of the theatrical programme from the show- when it was at His Majesty’s Theatre. Henry Ainley (1879-1945) A noted actor, particularly in Shakespeare. Ainley was the father of Anthony Ainley (1932-2004) who played the Master- notorious adversary of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
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Brittany [and] Its Byways: […,] Inhabitants and its Antiquities… (1869)
£60.00BURY PALLISER, [Fanny] (1805-78). Brittany & Its Byways: Some Account of Its Inhabitants and its Antiquities; During A Residence in that Country. 8vo. London, John Murray, 1869. Contents include: Cherbourg, Querqueville, Tourlaville, Granville, Pontorson, Dinan, St. Malo, Kermartin, Lannion, St. Pol. de Leon, Carnac, Nantes, Carhaix. Apart from this work, author Fanny Bury Palliser (sister of Frederick Marryat) was an authority on lace, publishing a work entitled The History of Lace in 1865. Scarce.
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BAKER, Frank. I follow But Myself. (1968). SIGNED and INSCRIBED.
£70.00BAKER, Frank. I follow But Myself. (1968). SIGNED and INSCRIBED. 8vo. London, Peter Davies. British writer and actor born in 1908, completed his first novel in 1935. Miss Hargreaves followed in 1940 (adapted for stage- performed at The Royal Court Theatre Club, with tv, and radio adaptations). Baker’s second novel The Birds was published in 1936. Many years later there was some controversy (from Baker) as to whether the Daphne Du Maurier had been based on his novel. The two were cited as being very different! However many years after the publication of Baker’s novel, the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name helped to increase sales of Baker’s book! I Follow But Myself includes recollections on those friends who had most contributed to his life, each also had the distinction as Baker puts it “Each of these widely different men and women had one particular quality; they in their various ways followed but themselves”.
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St Dunstan’s Clock A Story of 1666. (1893) SCARCE VICTORIAN NOVEL.
£60.00WARD, E. St Dunstan’s Clock A Story of 1666. 8vo. London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1893. PROVENANCE: Sheffield School Board, school prize label to front pastedown with presentation inscription dated Nov 30th 1894. A fictional account/novel depicting life experienced at the time and during the fire of London in 1666. Scarce victorian novel.
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Artificial Limbs, and The Amputations Which Afford The Most Appropriate Stumps in Civil and Military Surgery. (1885)
£95.00BIGG, [Henry, Robert], Heather (1853-1911). Artificial Limbs, and The Amputations Which Afford The Most Appropriate Stumps in Civil and Military. 8vo. London: Published by the Author, 1885. Henry Robert Heather Bigg (1853-1911), was a British medical doctor and author. SCARCE. Please note that this book is of its time.
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List of British & Irish Spiders. (1900).
£130.00PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, Rev. Octavius (1828-1917). List of British [and] Irish Spiders. 8vo. Dorchester: Dorset County Chronicle, 1900. PRESENTATION COPY: “William Falconer Esq. with kind regards O.P.C.” (Inscribed to upper wrapper). PROVENANCE: Old photostat Library bookplate to modern front endpaper “F. E. Cooper” and additional old printed label of “Dr. J.A.L. Cooke” to front endpaper. Also partially erased inscription to upper wrapper. The text is heavily annotated throughout by previous owners. RARE book with an interesting connection.
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Edmond Holmes. Poems Second Series. (1879) Scarce, SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY
£60.00HOLMES, E.G.A. [Edmond Holmes] (1850-1936). Poems Second Series. 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul & co., 1879. Contents include: Nature Lost and Found, To My Mistress, On Snowdon, Whence and Whither, On The Yorkshire Coast, To Slieve Croghaun, Sonnets of the Atlantic, On The Moors, Sunset and Sea, Sonnets To An Imaginary Being. PRESENTATION COPY: SIGNED to reverse of front endpaper by the author Edmond Holmes and dedicated to George Chester Earle, inscription dated September 1903. Other owners inscription at top of the same page. Curiously the inscription is made out to George Chester Earle– who research reveals is recorded as a school master living with poet Eleanor Farjeon. Possibly the same George Chester Earle! Edmond Holmes was an educator, poet and schools inspector (1875 to 1910), educated at St. John’s College, Oxford. His many works included: Walt Whitman’s Poetry: A Study & a Selection (1902), The Triumph of Love (1902), and The Tragedy of Education (1913). Scarce book of poetry, signed by the author.
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How I lost £250,000 in Two Years. [c.1889].
£65.00BENZON, Ernest (1866-?). How I lost £250,000 in Two Years. 8vo. London” Trischler and Company [no date c.1889]. Quite scarce now. Please note that this book is of its time.
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Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineering. ([1894]). SCARCE
£90.00NASMITH, Joseph (1850-1904). Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineering. 8vo. Manchester, John Heywood [no date c. 1894]. SCARCE work with some lovely folding plates and period adverts.
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A Manual of Machinery and Millwork. (1887)
£50.00RANKINE, William John Macquorn (1820-72). A Manual of Machinery and Millwork. 8vo. Charles Griffin and Company, 1887. Chapters include: Geometry of Machinery, Of the Motions of Primary Moving Pieces in Machines, Of Elementary Combinations in Mechanism, The Performance of Work by Machines, Of Materials Used in Machinery, Principles and Rules Relating to Strength of Materials.
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