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MECHANICS’ MAGAZINE, MUSEUM, REGISTER, JOURNAL, AND GAZETTE. No. 325, Saturday, October 31, 1829 (Vol. XII); No. 326 - Saturday, November 7, 1829;

1829

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

1829. 8vo., pp.162-256,(iv), bound into unlettered moire cloth, b/w illustrations including folding plate; chipping and light wear to edges of contents, foxing and toning to contents, a good copy (binding vg).

JOHN CAPGRAVE'S ABBREUIACION OF CRONICLES.

Edited by: LUCAS, Peter J. · 1983

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,852)

Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.cvii,410, brown cloth, gilt; folding frontispiece, 6 further b/w plates including further folding plate; very good indeed.

HISTORY OF DUNDEE; Being an Account of the Origin and Progress of the Burgh from the Earliest Period; Embracing a Description of its Antiquities, Topography, Public Works and Buildings, Manufactures and Commerce, Municipal, Educational, and Charitable Institutions, With Biographical Sketches of Eminent Men. A New and Enlarged Edition.

THOMSON, James. Edited and continued to the Present Time, with Map and Illustrations, by MACLAREN, James. · 1874

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Dundee: John Durham, 1874. 8vo., pp.xvi,419,xxxiii,8, uncut, recased, preserving the original heraldic brown cloth, gilt, recased, folding frontispiece map; tear to first fold of frontispiece, light foxing to prelims/Index, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, with slight...

THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.

HANNA, Ralph; LAWTON, David. · 2003

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,852)

Oxford: published by the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xcix,224, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight foxing to top edges, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

SNOWDROPS AND SNOWFLAKES. A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum.

STERN, F.C. · 1956

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. First edition, pp.128, navy cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, further b/w and colour plates, folding map to rear of volume; rubbing to extremities, mark to front board, slight mustiness, an internally clean and good+ copy. No du...

GREATER PERFECTIONS: The Practice of Garden Theory.

HUNT, John Dixon. · 2000

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. 8vo., pp.xiii,273, paperback, b/w illustrations; crease to upper corner of front wrapper, light shelfwear, light creasing to spine, a clean and otherwise very good copy.

THE COMIC ART OF REG. PARLETT. 60 Years of Comics!

CLARK, Alan. [Signed by author and artist] · 1986

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Tunbridge Wells: Golden Fun Publishing, 1986. 4to., pp.127, paperback; signed by Reg Parlett and Alan Clark to title page; light crease to lower corner of front wrapper, slight shelfwear to wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

The Chronicle of John Hardyng, Containing an Account of Public Transactions from the Earliest Period of English History to the Beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the Continuation by Richard Grafton, to the Thirty Fourth Year oF King Henry the Eighth To which are added a Biographical and Literary Preface and an Index by Henry Ellis.

HARDYNG, John [and] GRAFTON, Richard · 1812

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London F.C. and J. Rivington, et. al. 1812 4to., xxi, 607, [70] pp., tan calf with floral borders in blind, attractively re-backed with modern calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, five raised bands; light spotting to prelims, otherwise a clean, fresh copy. Reprinted f...

SNORRI STURLUSON.

CIKLAMINI, Marlene. · 1978

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Boston, Twayne Publishers, A Division of G.K. Hall & Co, 1978. 8vo., pp.188, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

THE MEDIEVAL PROFESSIONAL READER AT WORK: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower.

Edited by, KERBY-FULTON, Kathryn; HILMO, Maidie. · 2001

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

Victoria, University of Victoria, 2001. 8vo.,pp. 239, paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to half title page, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.

BARDACHD ALBANNACH: SCOTTISH VERSE FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAN OF LISMORE.

Edited by, WATSON, W.J. · 1978

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press Ltd, 1978. 8vo.,pp. xl,327, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine with water marking, rubbing to extremities with light chipping to head and foot of spine and light wear to corners.

VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.

DE NOLHAC, Pierre. Illustrated by: BINET, Rene. · 1906

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: William Heinemann, 1906. Signed, limited edition, no. 48 of 100 copies, 4to., pp.viii,305, uncut, full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates with caption sheets; loss to corner of mounted plate at p.163, paper-cracking to front inner hinge, w...

BOY. A Novel.

HANLEY, James. · 1931

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London: Boriswood Limited, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.271, orange cloth lettered in black, top edges black; some foxing to edges and front free endpaper, very light sunning to spine, with slight roll to spine, else a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jack...

THE ACTIS AND DEIDIS OF SCHIR WILLIAM WALLACE 1570.

With Introduction by: CRAIGIE, Sir William A. · 1940

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

New York: Facsimile reproduction printed by arrangement with Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1940. 8vo., pp.viii,unpaginated facsimile text,8, quarter black leather, gilt, green cloth boards, t.e.g.; slight rubbing to corners, a very good copy indeed.

THOMAS HUDSON'S HISTORIE OF JUDITH. With Introduction, Notes, Appendices and Glossary.

HUDSON, Thomas. Edited by: CRAIGIE, James. · 1941

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Edinburgh/London: Printed for the Scottish Text Society by William Blackwood and Sons Ltd., 1941. 8vo., pp.ciii,191,8, quarter black leather, gilt, green cloth boards, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece; toning to free endpapers, a very good copy indeed.

NEW LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR THE CROWN.

GRANDPAPA EASY · 1845

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Dean and Co., c.1845. Tall 8vo., pp.8, sewn pictorial wrappers, illustrated with one full-page and 7 half-page hand-coloured wood engravings; light partial water-staining from fore-margins, light surface soil to wrappers, with a little chipping along spine, illustrations bri...

THE MAKING OF MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1765-1910.

MATTHEWS, David. · 1999

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,231, black hardcover lettered in white; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.

MAKERS AND USERS OF MEDIEVAL BOOKS. Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards.

Edited by: MEALE, Carol M.; PEARSALL, Derek. · 2014

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. 8vo., pp.xvi,258, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a fine copy.

THE FAMOUS CRONYCLE OF THE WARRE WHICH THE ROMAYNS HAD AGAINST IUGURTH, USURPER OF THE KYNGDOME OF NUMIDY. Alexander Barclay’s Translation of Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum. Early English Text Society O.S. 344.

BARCLAY, Alexander, after Sallust. Edited by: WAITE, Greg. · 2014

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.lxxxix,361, b/w frontispiece and 2 further plates; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

MANUSCRIPTS AND READERS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study. Essays from the 1981 Conference at the University of York.

Edited by PEARSALL, Derek. · 1983

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983. 8vo., pp.(v),146, blue hardcover lettered in silver, 10 b/w plates; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to margins and lightly worn to edges, with 1cm closed tear to head of front fold.