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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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Gardens Their Form and Design. (1919) With Curious, Possibly Royal Provenance.
£65.00WOLSELEY, Viscountess [Frances Garnet Wolseley] (1872-1936). Gardens Their Form and Design. (1919) Curious Royal connection, Bookseller annotation points to ownership by H.R.H. Princess Mary (i.e. the daughter of Mary of Teck and King George V). Sadly the card which was once enclosed with a dedication from the author to Princess Mary has long since gone!
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CHURCHILL, [Charles]. Poems (1763).
£100.00CHURCHILL, [Charles]. Poems Containing The Rosciad, The Apology, Night, The Prophecy of Famine, An Epistle to William Hogarth. And The Ghost, In Four Books.
[4], 369 pp.
PROVENANCE: Edward Parker of Browsholme in the County of York (Armorial bookplate) to front pastedown.
4to. (Size). London: Printed By The Author, by Dryden Leach, 1763.
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The British Drama (5 vols). 1804. Robert Herbert 1st Premier of Queensland, Provenance
£200.00[VARIOUS]. The British Drama: Comprehending The Best Plays in the English Language [Tragedies, Comedies, Operas [and] Farces].
5 volumes (compiled as 3 volumes across 5 books).
PROVENANCE: Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Ickleton (bookplate to each volume). Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert (1831-1905) was the first premier of Queensland, Australia from 1859-1866. He died at his home in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire in 1905.
Please note this is a heavy item.
A lovely set.
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Pleasant walks around Blackburn… [c.1900]. RARE
£60.00Johnson, Thos. Pleasant walks around Blackburn, With Observations By The Way. First [and] Second Series.
“In the following series it is not our intention to draw any hard and fast line as to how far these walks shall extend. Railway facilities are so good and the fares so low now-a-days that anyone having the leisure can enjoy the scenery of the country around adjacent towns when he wants a change from that of his own”.
Large foldout map. Numerous illustrations within the text. 60, 52pp. (2 parts in 1 book). 8vo. Blackburn, Thos. Johnson, [no date c.1900].
A RARE work. Library Hub locates one copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library.
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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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A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies of the Kings and Queens of England. (1820)
£60.00THOMSON, Richard. A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies of the Kings and Queens of England Exemplified in that of Their Late Most Sacred Majesties King George The Third and Queen Charlotte. (1820).
8vo. London, John Major, 1820.
PROVENANCE: Previous owner’s name Thos: Stapleton inscribed in an old hand in blue pencil on front endpaper and reverse of folding frontispiece. Additional name inscribed to rear of front pastedown.
Please see photos and main description for condition and further information.
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[POETICAL SAMMELBAND]- Ramsay, Fergusson, Beattie, Burns [1840-53]. BINDING
£75.00[POETICAL SAMMELBAND]- RAMSAY, Allan (1713-84). Select Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay Including The Gentle Shepherd. 8vo. London, William and Robert Chambers, 1853. 54pp. Robert Fergusson’s The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Edinburgh, 1840) 48pp. DR. James Beattie’s The Poetical Works of DR. James Beattie and Robert Blair’s The Grave (no place, no date). 51pp. Robert Burns’ The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Edinburgh, 1853). 148pp.
A handsome compilation of poetry. Please see photos and main description for further details including condition.
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DUFFERIN, Lord. Letters From High Latitudes (1858) Includes SIGNED Envelope Face
£75.00[Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood] DUFFERIN, Lord (1826-1902). Letters From High Latitudes; Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856, in the Schooner Yacht Club”Foam”, To Iceland, Jan Mayen & Spitzbergen. (1858) Includes envelope face which has been SIGNED by Dufferin and adhered into the book.
Please see main description and photos for condition and further information.
A curious piece.
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[WHITE, Charles]. Almack’s Revisited (1828).
£120.00[WHITE, Charles] (1793-1861). Almack’s Revisited.
“At that period of the year, when the western part of the metropolis again receives to its bosom the gay and eager votaries of fashion – when numerous well-packed and heavily-laden equipages may be seen in continual succession disgorging their contents in the vicinity of the squares – when hotel-keepers, who, during the dead season have been comparatively poor, and consequently proportionably civil, now commence the bustle of their business, and with it the extent of their extortion and impertinence”.
8vo. London, Saunders and Otley, 1828.
This three volume Georgian set is written in the vein of what has been termed as the Silver Fork Novel, depicting tales of the fashionable aristocracy and the lives of the upper classes. In Almack’s Revisited the setting revolves around Almack’s exclusive assembly rooms in London, with much gossip and scandal!
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Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century. (1829)
£120.00ELMES, James (1782-1862). Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements. (1829).
81 pages of steel engraved plates (2 half paged plates on each page), one plan (of Regent’s Park), 2 engraved title pages.
A handsome tome, in reasonably good condition, featuring some lovely engravings of bygone London in the late Georgian period.
Please see the main description and photographs for further details.
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Vintage Pamphlet- Taunton St. James [c.1950]
£15.00[HIRST, Rev. Edwin]. Taunton St. James (“Taunton’s Oldest Church”) . [c. 1950, or earlier]. A scarce local history. Please see photos and main description for condition.
8vo. Gloucester, The British Publishing Company, [no date c. 1950, or earlier].
A scarce local history pertaining to St. James Taunton, including some great period advertisements.
PROVENANCE: Previous owner’s inscription to top of first page (adverts page).
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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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Lectures On Roman History Delivered at The University of Bonn. HENRY AND HERBERT GLADSTONE PROVENANCE
£200.00Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831) . Lectures On Roman History Delivered at The University of Bonn. HENRY AND HERBERT GLADSTONE PROVENANCE. 3 volume set. (1855). SIGNED by Henry and Herbert Gladstone.
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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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The Book of Common Prayer… (1720-1721)
£55.00The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. 8vo. John Baskett, 1720. [WITH]: The Whole Psalms Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and Others. 8vo. London, William Pearson, 1721.
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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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