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Salters River Thames Steamers. Official Handbook May 21September 19, 1953.
RIVER THAMES STEAMERS. · 1953
£16.13 (€19.33 | $21.31 | ¥3,402)
Oxford: Salter Bros. Ltd., 1953. 8vo, 28pp., illustrated, original decorated wrappers.
An Appeal to the County of Buckingham and England.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS. · 1929
£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,534)
London: The Royal Society of Arts, 1929. Small 4to, 18, [2]pp., illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. An appeal for contributions towards to architecture conservation and restoration of the cottages of the county.
The Flora of the District of the Thames Valley Drift between Maidenhead & London.
MONCKTON (Horace Woollaston) · 1919
£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,534)
Printed for the Author, 1919. 1919. Small 8vo, 81, [1]pp., presentation inscription from the author on upper wrappers, original green printed wrappers, a very good copy.
Inspection Exercise for the Brigade of Bucks Yeomen Cavalry.
BUCKS YEOMEN CAVALRY. · 1830
£26.88 (€32.22 | $35.51 | ¥5,669)
Buckingham: Seeley, Printer, [c. 1830]. 12mo (115 x 78 mm), single card printed on both sides. An extremely rare printed guide for the roll taken in the inspection of the Bucks Yeomen Cavalry.
Surreptitious Printing in England 1550-1640.
WOODFIELD (Denis B.) · 1973
£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,534)
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1973. First Edition, 4to, x, 203pp., numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, a very good copy. History of those books that were printed in England with false information on the title page etc.
Excursions in Victorian Bibliography.
SADLEIR (Michael) · 1922
£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,534)
London: Chaundy & Cox, 1922. First edition, 8vio, viii, 240pp., orig. cloth, uncut, a very good copy. Bibliographies of Trollope, Marryat, Disraeli, Collins, Reade, Whyte-Melville, Gaskell & Melville. Provenance: With the neat bookplate of Charles Wells.
The Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci. Sold by order of the Trustees of the Holkham Estate. Which will be sold by Christies on Friday 12 December 1980.
DA VINCI (Leonardo) · 1980
£37.63 (€45.11 | $49.71 | ¥7,936)
London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1980. 4to, 175pp., coloured frontis., 72 coloured facsimile plates, original printed pink boards.
English Verse 1701-1750. A Catalogue of Separately Printed Poems with Notes on Contemporary Collected Editions.
FOXON (D. F.) · 1975
£48.38 (€57.99 | $63.92 | ¥10,203)
Cambridge: The University Press, 1975. First edition, 2 vols., 4to, orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case. Volume 1 contains some 10,000 entries, giving full bibliographical details and information on the first lines, subject, and locations. Volume 2 comprises a full series of indexes...
Catalogue of Important Collections Mainly of the Writings of Charles Dickens... Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Hatton, Esq. at Anstey Pastures, Leicester. To be Sold by Sotheby & Co., 30th November & 1st December 1931.
HATTON (Thomas) · 1931
£32.25 (€38.66 | $42.61 | ¥6,802)
London: Sotheby & Co., 1931. Royal 8vo, 39, [1]pp., un-illustrated, orig. printed wrappers, 298 lots.
Catalogue of Autograph Letters & Manuscripts Relating to the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte, The Property of Charles Evan Fowler, Esq... and of Valuable Books in original morocco and half morocco bindings, from the Library of Marie Louise... the second and final part. Which will be Sold by Messrs. Sotheby & Co., on Wednesday, the 6th of December, 1933.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. FOWLER (Charles Evan) · 1933
£102.13 (€122.42 | $134.93 | ¥21,540)
London: Sotheby & Co., 1933. Large 8vo, 84pp., 5 plates (4 coloured), orig. printed wrappers, 594 lots.
Hunt & Cos, City of Oxford Directory, Including the Commercial and Private Residents in That City, and Suburbs, and also in the Towns of Abingdon, Banbury, Bicester, Deddington, Thame, Witney, Woodstock, &c., &c., With Topographical & Statistical Accounts of Each Place; and Miscellaneous Local Information; also A Guide to the Sights of London.
OXFORD DIRECTORY. · 1846
£91.38 (€109.53 | $120.73 | ¥19,272)
Printed for E. Hunt & Co., by B. W. Gardiner, 1846. 8vo, [viii], 176, [12], 54, xxiipp., an extensive group of local advertisement leaves at the end, publishers original green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, a little worn.
Compendium of Geography; being an Abridgment of the Larger Work, entitled An epitome of geographical knowledge, ancient and modern, compiled for the use of the teachers and advanced classes of the national schools in Ireland.
IRISH GEOGRAPHY. · 1857
£48.38 (€57.99 | $63.92 | ¥10,203)
Dublin: Printed by Alex. Thom and Sons, 1857. 12mo, new edition, revised, 191, [2]pp., ink stamp to title and terminal leaf, contemporary hessian cloth.
The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain; or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of those remains of Testaceous Animals or Shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth.
SOWERBY (James) SOWERBY (James de Carle) & SOWERBY (George Brettingham) · 1812
£11,819.63 (€14,167.55 | $15,615.46 | ¥2,492,794)
London: Printed by Benjamin Meredith [and others], 1812-29. First edition, 6 vols., large 8vo (233 x 144 mm), engraved portrait frontispiece, complete with 611 hand-coloured engraved plates, each with a letterpress description (numbered 1-609: including 33 and 184 bis; 22 fold...
Codex Sinaiticus. A Facsimile.
CODEX SINAITICUS. · 2011
£1,343.75 (€1,610.68 | $1,775.29 | ¥283,401)
London: The British Library, 2011. 2 Vols., folio (450 x 360 mm), introduction volume: 31pp., orig. printed wrappers, facimile volume: 822 pages of coloured facsimiles, orig. cloth, slip-case, some light spotting. The facsimile is an enormous and extremely heavy book. Codex ...
PRING (Daniel) An Essay on the Absorbents; Comprising some Observations upon Relative Pathologies and Functions of the Absorbent & Secreting System. Bath: Printed by Wood and Co., 1813. First edition, 92pp. [Bound with:] PARRY (Charles Henry) Additional Experiments on the Arteries of Warm-Blooded Animals: together with a brief examination of certain arguments which have been advanced against the doctrines maintained by the author of 'An experimental inquiry, &c.
PRING (Daniel) & PARRY (Charles Henry) · 1819
£80.63 (€96.65 | $106.52 | ¥17,005)
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, 1819. 2 vols., bound in one, 8vo, [4], iv, 92; xi, [1], 257, [3]pp., 6 engraved plates of 7 (lacking the first plate), a few neat faint library stamps, nineteenth-century red buckram. Provenance: From the library of t...
Adam out of Eden, or, An abstract of divers excellent Experiments touching the advancement of Husbandry. Shewing, among very many other things, an Aprovement of Ground by Rabbiss, from 200l. annual Rent, to 2000l. yearly profit, all charges deducted.
SPEED (Adolphus) · 1659
£1,069.63 (€1,282.11 | $1,413.14 | ¥225,588)
London: Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1659. First edition, small 8vo (140 x 90 mm), [8], 163 [i.e. 179], [5]pp., without final blank leaf, page 179 misnumbered 163, the last leaf bears vertical half-title: Speeds husbandry, woodcut headpieces, leaf before ...
A Tour of the Banks of the Thames from London to Oxford, in the Autumn of 1829. By a Predestrian.
[WALTON (A.)] · 1834
£102.13 (€122.42 | $134.93 | ¥21,540)
London: Printed for the Author by T. W. Hord, 1834. First edition, small 8vo, viii, 142pp., with half-title, original plain dark blue Moiré cloth. An extremely rare privately printed account of the Waltons journey which describes the scenery and sights between London and Ox...
Poems on the Following Subjects: Abram and Lot : Manoah and his wife. Naomi and Ruth, part i. Life of David-Part 1. Flood of Formosa, and fire of Cliffden. Vale of Wycombe. Detached pieces, chiefly wrote on particular occasions, and to particular persons. Lucinda. Rosalinda and the Lark The River Jordan. The Nuptial Day. Emma and Melinda, or the Recluses. The Invitation, or the May-Blown Bower. Silvia and her Robbin Red-Breast. The Anticipation. Clapham Common. An Elegy. The Congratulation. Resi
LANE (William) · 1798
£102.13 (€122.42 | $134.93 | ¥21,540)
Reading: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Snare and Co., 1798. First edition, 8vo, [2], 7-112pp., lacking the 2 leaves of subscribers, archival repair to hole in B2 affecting a couple of letters, recent quarter calf, spine with title in gilt, a nice copy. A scarce collect...
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
WISE (Thomas J.) · 1918
£26.88 (€32.22 | $35.51 | ¥5,669)
Dawsons. (Reprint of the 1918 Edition) 1970. Frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w.
A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Robert Browning.
WISE (Thomas J.) · 1897
£16.13 (€19.33 | $21.31 | ¥3,402)
Dawsons. (Reprint of the 1897 Edition) 1971. 8vo, facsimiles, orig. cloth.