Recommended Books
A Sermon Preached in St. Andrew’s Church… 1828.
£14.40Rev. J. JONES’ A Sermon Preached in St. Andrew’s Church, Liverpool, On Sunday, The 23rd November 1828. 30pp. Interior: Occasional light spotting, some creasing, no Half-Title. Binding: dis-bound (i.e. without boards). 8vo. Liverpool, 1828.
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A Sermon Preached At Parish Church of St. Peter… [1822]
£16.20JONES, Rev. J. A Sermon Preached At Parish Church of St. Peter, Liverpool On Tuesday, 18th June, 1822. Being The Time of the Yearly Meeting of the Children Educated in the Charity Schools Connected with the Established Church in that Town. [6], 26pp. Interior: pages age toned, occasional spotting, a few closed tears/tears, creasing to top right hand corner throughout. Binding: dis-bound (i.e. without boards). 8vo. Liverpool, James Smith, [1822].
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Lectures Pour Les Enfans de 5 à 8 ans… 1833.
£16.201830’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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Adams Illustrated Guide Rye and District. 1960.
£9.00FOSTER, Jim. Adams Illustrated Guide Rye and District. Monochrome photographs/illustrations throughout, folding map at the rear. 96pp. Interior: light age toning to pages, top right corners of pages creased. Binding: publisher’s red/orange and white pictorial wrappers (creasing, previous owner’s name partially erased at top right hand corner, spine chipped with minor loss, light wear to covers). 8vo. [Rye]: Adams of Rye Limited, 1960.
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The Ideal Guide To London For Visitors and Londoners… [c. 1947.]
£7.20GROSS, Alexander. The Ideal Guide To London For Visitors and Londoners Complete Revised Edition With Maps of Cinemaland Theatreland, Central London & Underground Railway. 80pp. Interior: Age toning, some tearing to last few pages with loss to blank margins-not affecting text. Binding: Publisher’s pink wrappers (staples rusted, some staining and creases). 12mo. (Size). Geographers’ map Co., LTD., [no date c. 1947].
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Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley.
£7.20[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]
£7.20[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 Dream: Or The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery… [c. 1843-48]
£108.00RARE AMERICAN ANTI-ALCOHOL RELATED PAMPHLET. [c.1840’s]. [CHEEVER, George Barrell, (1807-90)]. The Dream: Or The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery, and Deacon Jones’s Brewery. Reported for the Benefit of Posterity. “It was a Dream, yet not all a dream”. Folding frontispiece illustration, numerous woodcut engravings within the text. Interior: light soiling, light soiling, spotting. Binding: Original yellow wrappers. (Binding frail, text block hanging by a thread in places, wrappers detached, some chipping and tearing with loss, soiling). 32pp. 8vo. New York and Boston: Printed For the Publisher’s. [no date c. 1843-48].
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St. Ronan’s Well… 1845.
£45.00SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832). St. Ronan’s Well. With all his Illustrations [1]* and Notes. Text in two columns. As part of a larger set in this edition. Interior: sporadic light spotting/foxing throughout, pages age toned. Exterior: Quarter red morocco with green cloth boards (binding heavily worn spine cover lacking, upper board hanging by a thread, remanence of erased old label to upper board.) [2], 177-332, [2], pp. 8vo./4to (size): Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1845.
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Holidays on High Lands… 1869.
£45.00MACMILLAN, Rev. Hugh. Holidays on High Lands; or, Rambles and Incidents In Search of Alpine Plants. (Pages age toned, occasional spotting and foxing). Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth, gilt (wear to cloth, corners bumped, spine cocked). 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
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Scottish Border Life A Series of Original Sketches. 1897.
£27.00DIBDIN, James C. (1856-1901). Scottish Border Life A Series of Original Sketches. (Sporadic light spotting). Publisher’s red and green pictorial cloth (faded, rubbed). Some pages uncut. 8vo. London: Methuen and Co., 1897.
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The Raven and The Dove. 1822.
£63.00[LYTTLETON- CAMERON, Lucy]. The Raven and The Dove. By the Author of ‘’The Two Lambs”, “Margaret Whyte, “ &c. Engraved frontispiece, other engravings within the text (Sporadic soiling, pages age toned, occasional spotting). Publisher’s olive/grey wrappers (chipping with loss, soiling to covers, covers detaching). 36pp. 8vo. Wellington, Salop, F. Houlston and Son., 1822.
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The Sunday Scholar and the Young Loiterer. [c. 1830s].
£18.00[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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Flowers That Never Fade. [c. 1820/30s]
£292.50REDE, Lucy Leman. Flowers That Never Fade. 15 hand-coloured engravings (including hand-coloured frontispiece). (Foxing/staining to the bottom right hand corners throughout). Publisher’s salmon pictorial wrappers (soiled, especially to corners, a few contemporary pen doodles to lower wrapper). 31, [1] pp. Small 8vo. London: Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Street [no date c. 1820’s/30s].
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Health and Success In Business… 1892.
£45.00WILLIAMSON, John. Health and Success In Business: How Lost: How Recovered. A Personal Experience. Addressed To Business Men. By A Business Man. Monochrome photographic frontispiece, (presumably of the author?). (Title page detached, first few pages loose, occasional marks, browning and spotting). Publisher’s dark red cloth, lettered in silver (some wear, staining). Includes the 8pp. (With two plates) supplement bound in at the rear: “Dyspepsia: Its Cure, and How it is Applied. Being a Supplement to “Health and Success in Business. How Lost: How Recovered”. [With] pink printed slip bound in. 8vo. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., 1892. Rare Victorian Self Help Book.
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The Cinder Path. 2009.
£13.50SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. MOTION, Andrew (1952-) The Cinder Path. (text clean and bright). Publisher’s blue boards (light wear) with purple pictorial dust-wrapper (creasing to rear panel of jacket and light wear). 8vo. London: Faber & Faber, 2009.
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Observations On Modern Gardening. 1770.
£1,080.00Rare influential gardening book from the Library of Josiah Wedgwood with Wedgwood’s Bookplate. [WHATELY, Thomas (1726-72)]. Observations On Modern Gardening, Illustrated by Descriptions. Second Edition (occasional light spotting). Contemporary calf (spine chipped with loss, joints and inner hinges split, binding a little frail, boards loose, wearing to calf). [8], 257, [1] pp. 8vo. London: T. Payne, 1770.
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A Literary Chronicle of Half A Century. 1888.
£49.50PRESENTATION COPY to publisher Thomas Norton Longman. FRANCIS, John C. John Francis Publisher of The Athenaeum: A Literary Chronicle of Half A Century. 2 volumes. Frontispieces to both volumes (frontispiece and opening pages of volume 2 detached, occasional light spotting). Publisher’s green cloth, (wear and some tearing, text block splitting in places). 8vo. London: Richard Bentley, 1888.
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The Sexagenarian: or, The Recollections of a Literary Life. 1818.
£67.50[BELOE, William. (1756-1817)]. The Sexagenarian: or, The Recollections of a Literary Life. 2 volumes. (Occasional light spotting, occasional light soiling, occasional browning, one old paper repair at blank margin of a page, some tearing with minor loss to blank margins in places-without loss to text, otherwise a good copy). Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, red morocco title labels to spine, some wear to calf). 8vo. London: F.C and J. Rivington, 1818.
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The Gentleman’s Stable Directory… 1793.
£117.00TAPLIN, William. (?1740-1807). The Gentleman’s Stable Directory; or, Modern System of Farriery. 2 volumes. Engraved frontispiece to volume 1. Volume 1 is a twelfth edition, volume 2 a slightly earlier edition (In the majority of cases this two volume set appears to be formed of mixed editions- therefore not an unusual thing). (No half title to volume 1, occasional light spotting, light occasional browning, some creasing to endpapers). Full contemporary calf with red morocco title labels to spines (calf rubbed). 8vo. Volume 1: London, G.G. J. & J. Robinson, 1793. Volume 2: London: J. Kearsley, 1791
£130.00
