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The Story of “F” Troop Royal Horse Artillery.

TYNDALE-BISCOE (Major A. S.) · 1932

£32.25 (€38.66 | $42.61 | ¥6,802)

Aldershot: Printed by Wm. May & Co., Ltd., 1932. Second edition, 8vo, [4], 84pp., 9 plates, 2 folding maps to rear, original publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering and crest to upper cover, a nice copy. White, p. 31.

Bands of the British Army. Illustrated by F. Stansell With Coloured Plates of Representative Bandsmen and Instruments and the Drum-Banners and Drum- Horses.

GORDON (W. J.) · 1914

£53.75 (€64.43 | $71.01 | ¥11,336)

London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. [c. 1914]. Oblong 4to, 25pp., 12 coloured lithographic plates, original publishers pictorial boards, extremities rubbed.

The Standards and Colours of the Army, from the Restoration 1661 to the Introduction of the Territorial System 1881.

MILNE (Samuel Milne) · 1893

£268.75 (€322.14 | $355.06 | ¥56,680)

Leeds: Printed for the Subscribers by Goodall and Suddick, 1893. First edition, 4to, xxiii, [1], 257, [11]pp., no. 93 of 200 numbered copies, pasted to front endpaper is an ALS PRESENTATION LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR TO CAPTAIN LEVITT, 29 plates (mostly coloured) with tissue guard...

Anthony Froshaug. Typography & texts / Documents of a life.

FROSHAUG (Anthony), KINROSS (Robin) Editor. · 2000

£166.63 (€199.73 | $220.14 | ¥35,143)

London: Hyphen Press, 2000. First edition, 2 vols., 254: 272pp., illustrated, original black stiff paper wrappers, housed in original slip-case, a fine set. These volumes retrieve the life & work of the typographer Anthony Froshaug, providing abundant evidence of his contrib...

“Monotype” Flower Decorations: Fine Ornament & Decorative Material available to “Monotype” users.

MORISON (Stanley) Introduction by. · 1924

£26.88 (€32.22 | $35.51 | ¥5,669)

London: The Lanston Montype Corpn. Ltd., 1924. 4to, 20pp., original typographical printed wrappers, stitched as issued.

The Nymph and the Grot: The Revival of the Sanserif Letter.

MOSLEY (James) · 1999

£48.38 (€57.99 | $63.92 | ¥10,203)

London: Friends of the St Bride Printing Library, 1999. First edition, 4to, 56pp., illustrated throughout, original pictorial boards, a fine copy.

Monotype Typeface Library: Synopsis Catalogue.

MONOTYPE TYPEFACE. · 1993

£26.88 (€32.22 | $35.51 | ¥5,669)

Redhill: Monotype Typography Ltd., 1993. 4to, 212, [16]pp., illustrated throughout in black and white with examples of Type and decorations, original ring-bound colour laminated boards. 212 pages, plus 16 pp of Index and advertising material. Provenance: From the private pr...

Cock-a-Hoop: A Sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote, and Cockalorum. Being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press September 1949-December 1961.

CHAMBERS (David) & SANDFORD (Christopher) · 1962

£12.90 (€15.46 | $17.04 | ¥2,721)

London: Private Libraries Association. 1962. Royal 8vo, 126pp., Illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.

Relief from Accidental Death: or, summary instructions for the general institution, proposed in the year 1773, by Alexander Johnson, M. D. to introduce and establish, In his Majesty's British Dominions, A Successful Practice for Recovering Persons who meet with Accidents producing suddenly AN Appearance Of Death, And preventing their being buried alive. Re-Published at the expence of the author in 1785.

JOHNSON (Alexander) · 1785

£209.63 (€251.27 | $276.95 | ¥44,212)

London: Printed by T. Hodgson, [1785]. 12mo, 24pp., woodcut illustration in the text, recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper board. Devoted to the immediate treatment of apparent death resulting from drowning, suffocation, hanging, lig...

Some Observations on the Present Epidemic Dysentery.

GEACH (Francis) · 1781

£118.25 (€141.74 | $156.23 | ¥24,939)

London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1781. First and only edition, [2], 41, [1]pp., title page dust soiled, recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper board. Drawing upon first hand clinical observation, Geach examines the nature, symptoms, and...

An Essay on the Gonorrhoea, with some observations on the use of Opium, in the cure of that disease.

THOMAS (William) · 1780

£134.38 (€161.07 | $177.54 | ¥28,341)

London: Printed for John Donaldson, 1780. First edition, 8vo, [4], 42pp., recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper board. A practical medical treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhoea, published during a period when its disti...

A Description of the Gonorrhoea, accounting for the symptoms and cure of that disorder, in a new, easy, and rational Manner. with Remarks on the present Practice. Shewing The ill Consequence of Purging, Mercurial Preparations, Injections, Astringents, &c. By James Nevill, Late Surgeon to the Right Honourable Lord Robert Manners’s Regiment, and Surgeon's Mate to his Majesty's Hospitals all the last War.

NEVILL (James) · 1754

£134.38 (€161.07 | $177.54 | ¥28,341)

London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1754. First and only edition, small 8vo, xx, 115pp., final leaf with repaired close-tear and mounted, title dust soiled, unobtrusive faint stamp to title page, recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. A sc...

Practical Observations on Herniae; Illustrated with Cases.

WILMER (Bradford) · 1788

£188.13 (€225.50 | $248.55 | ¥39,677)

London: Printed for T. Longman, 1788. First and only edition, 12mo, viii, 107, [1]pp., unobtrusive faint stamp to title page, recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. A concise yet influential eighteenth-century surgical treatise on the di...

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset, With observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the tear 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author, 1798. Third edition, 16, x, [11]-320pp., without half-title, 2 folding engraved maps, 1 engraving in the text. [Bound with:] RUDGE (Thomas) General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester... London: Printed for Richard Phillips,

BILLINGSLEY (John), RUDGE (Thomas) & HASSALL (Charles) · 1812

£177.38 (€212.62 | $234.34 | ¥37,410)

London: Printed by B. McMillan, 1812. xii, 142, [6, adverts]pp., without half-title, hand-coloured fold engraved map of the county, 2 engraved plates. 3 Works bound in one, contemporary half calf, rebacked, lacks spine labels. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agric...

Description of an Extraordinary Volume of Shakespeareana, the Property of Richard Frances Burton, Seq. of Longner Hall, near Shrewsbury.

BURTON (Richard Francis) · 1920

£17.20 (€20.62 | $22.72 | ¥3,628)

London: Sotheby & Co., 1920. Small 4to, 8pp., unillustrated edition, orig. printed wrappers detached. The volume contains what is apparently the first appearance of Shakespeare’s ‘Passionate Pilgrim & Sonnets’ as well as four other works including the rare fifth edition of ‘...

Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum, Liverpool. To which are Prefixed the Laws of the Institution and the Rules for the Circulation of Books. Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Chiswick Press. 1864. xxxvi,589pp., inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, a little frayed at extremities, uncut. [With:] Supplement... Containing the Books Received from January, 1864, to June 30th, 1892. Printed by Thomas Brakell Ltd., Liverpool. 1892. xiv,[ii],190pp., orig. cloth, slightly faded. [With:] Author-List

LIVERPOOL ATHENAEUM. · 1905

£48.38 (€57.99 | $63.92 | ¥10,203)

Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., 1905. [viii],103pp., loose in orig. printed cloth-backed boards, rubbed.

The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury.

DYDE (W.) · 1798

£69.88 (€83.76 | $92.32 | ¥14,738)

Tewkesbury: Printed by the editor, 1798. Second edition, 8vo, xxiv, [3], 26-243, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece, one engraved plan and 3 further engraved plates, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints cracked.

A Topographical Survey of the Counties of Stafford, Chester, and Lancaster, Containing a new-engraved map of each County, with a complete Description of the Great, Direct, and Cross Roads...

TUNNICLIFF (William) · 1787

£166.63 (€199.73 | $220.14 | ¥35,143)

Nantwich: Printed and Sold by E. Snelson... 1787. First edition, 8vo, iv, 118, [2]pp., 3 folding engraved maps of Staffordshire (loose), Chester, and Lancashire (2 with short closed tear to margin), 32 plates of heraldic crests printed back-to-back, some offsetting and light s...

Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers.

REED (R.) · 1972

£134.38 (€161.07 | $177.54 | ¥28,341)

London: Seminar Press, 1972. First edition, ix, 331pp., ex-library, 22 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The story of animal skin products and why it has been used as a writing and binding material from early Egyptian times to the present day. A scarce book.

The Nineteen Manoeuvres Explained: with the words of command, duties, and relative positions of officers and serjeants [sic]. Also the manoeuvres of a column formed on the two center [sic] companies; together with general observations on the principles and rules on which the manoeuvres are founded. By Two Officers of the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Association.

MILITARY MANOEUVRES. · 1804

£317.13 (€380.13 | $418.98 | ¥66,884)

Printed by C. Roworth and Sold by T. Egerton, at the Military Library. 1804. First Edition, oblong 8vo, [iv], 12,[ 2], 143, [1]pp., with errata leaf, some light spotting of text, with a neat cancelled Royal United Service Institution purchase label, later buckram-backed boards...