Recommended Books
The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. [c. 1835]
£40.00[ANON]. The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. 107pp. Interior: Browning to endpapers, light foxing in places throughout. Binding: Contemporary quarter straight grain Morocco, with marbled boards (some wear, corners bumped). 12 mo. (Size). Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union [No date c.1835].
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Martial-Lore. 1918.
£28.00King’s Lynn Interest – [ANON]. Martial-Lore. [1]-15, [1] pp. Interior: pages age toned. Exterior: Tan/yellow wrappers, detached, tearing and chipping, some marks. Relating to military matters in 17th/18th century. Reprinted from ‘The Lynn Advertiser’, Lynn, 1918.
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Lectures Pour Les Enfans de 5 à 8 ans… 1833.
£18.001830’s Juvenile Book. [ANON]. Lectures Pour Les Enfans de 5 à 8 ans. Imité de L’anglais. Engraved title page, 2 pages of plates, illustrations within the text. Interior: pages age toned, one page torn with loss to a couple of letters, engraved title page is trimmed, sporadic spotting/foxing throughout. Binding: Later marbled wrappers with original printed wrappers adhered (and trimmed) to pastedowns, upper later wrapper has been re-adhered with clear tape, binding a little loose. Small 8vo. Genève, Paris: 1833.
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Everybody’s Book of Games (Outdoor)… [c. 1894.]
£20.00[ANON]. Everybody’s Book of Games (Outdoor). Containing the Laws of all the Principal Outdoor Games played in the British Dominions. viii, 167, [1], [8: adverts]. Interior: pages age toned, though generally clean. Binding: Publisher’s green pictorial cloth (light wear, some marks and indentation, corners lightly bumped, text block split in places-one page detached, no front endpaper-old brown paper tape repair at inner front hinges, else good. Small 8vo. London: Saxon & Co., [1894?]
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Ranworth A Village and Church On The Broads. 1959.
£8.00[ANON]. Ranworth A Village and Church On The Broads. 32pp. Monochrome photographic plates throughout. Interior: pages age toned, some creasing. Binding: Publisher’s yellow pictorial wrappers (some wear and staining, light rusting to staples). 8vo. Norwich: Page Bros. 1959.
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Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley.
£8.00[ANON]. Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley. 8pp. (With 4pp: Monochrome photographic plates). Interior: generally clean, pages lightly age toned. Binding: Cream wrappers with armorial crest in gilt and red, wrappers lettered in red. (Light soiling, creasing to edges, staples rusting a little). 8vo. [No place]: [Flaxley Abbey], [no date. c.early/mid 20th century].
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London Old & New. Thackeray & Kingsley Hotels. [c. 1928]
£8.00[ANON]. London Old & New. Thackeray & Kingsley Hotels. 32pp. Interior: generally clean with some light marks. Binding: Publisher’s green pictorial wrappers (light rubbing, some marks/minor chipping). Small 8vo. [London]: [Kingsley and Thackeray Hotels], [no date, c.1928].
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The Sunday Scholar and the Young Loiterer. [c. 1830s].
£20.00[ANON]. The Sunday Scholar and the Young Loiterer. (Light soiling). Publisher’s green pictorial wrappers (lacking lower wrapper, upper remaining wrapper is detached, light soiling). Upper wrapper is title page. 16pp. Small 8vo. Birmingham: Thomas Groom [no date., circa 1830s].
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The Walsall Apprentice and the Little Boy That Could Not Tell A Lie. 1831.
£18.00[ANON] The Walsall Apprentice and the Little Boy That Could Not Tell A Lie. 8pp. (Light foxing). Publisher’s pink, printed wrappers (upper wrapper torn to upper wrapper, bottom right-hand corner with loss, stitching (binding) loose/nearly detached, as stitches missing). 48mo. (65 x 100mm). Birmingham: J. Moore, 1831.
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The Baltic & American Ship-Master’s Assistant… 1812.
£180.00AN EXTREMELY RARE, SEEMINGLY UNRECORDED, EDITION. [ANON]. The Baltic & American Ship-Master’s Assistant, and Owner’s Calculator: containing an account of the course of exchange, weights, and measures, in the principal ports in the Baltic: Tables, of the weights at Petersburgh, &c. &c. reduced to English Tons, Hundreds, Quarters, &c. also for shewing any number of Deals reduced to Standard Deals, in all the ports of Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, and at Dram, Christiana, and the southern ports of Norway: Together with tables shewing the loads, feet & inches, contained in any Quantity of Dantzic Deal, Plank, &c. to which is added tables Whereby the freight of any Number of Loads of Timber, Barrels of Tar, &c. may be had. Also tables shewing the Wages of Seamen, from one day to six months. [2], 93, [1] pp. 8vo. R. Blachford, 114, Minories, London. North Shields: Printed by T. Appleby. 1812 (changed by hand to 1818??)
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Baby Hand Book. The Hare and Many Friends. [c. 1853.]
£95.00Very rare children’s juvenile book from the [Two Penny] Baby Hand Book [Series]. [ANON]. Baby Hand Book. The Hare and Many Friends. 8 hand-coloured, woodcut engravings. (Occasional light spotting). Publishers yellow printed wrappers (light wear). 8vo. London: Webb, Millington & Co., [no date, c. 1853].
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Garden Warfare. [no date, circa 1952].
£15.00[ANON]. Garden Warfare. (Pages lightly age toned, one or two creases/turned pages, otherwise very good). Publisher’s monochrome photographic and red pictorial dust wrappers. 32pp. 8vo. Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd., [no date, circa 1952].
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The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers… 1824.
£110.00The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers; Displaying the various Adventures They Encountered In Their Travels, &c. &c. Hand-coloured frontispiece, two hand-coloured plates (one plate detached and trimmed- not affecting the image, occasional light spotting throughout, pages lightly soiled, one or two tears with loss to blank margins-not affecting text, one or two creases and closed tears here and there, corners folded over in places, mis-pagination between pages 56-59, 66-69: text runs on fine). Later crudely stitched marbled wrappers (lacking original publisher’s wrappers, text block broken in places, no endpapers). Small 8vo. London: T. Hughes, 1824.
