The Minster Gate Bookshop

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE.

WILDE, Oscar. · 1903

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Paris: (Leonard Smithers), 1903. Limited edition of 250 copies, this copy unnumbered, 8vo., pp.(ix),154, uncut, brown cloth, gilt; ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1909, to front free endpaper, heavy foxing and toning to prelims and ultimate leaves, foxing to edges, Tou...

MEMOIRS OF CLAN FINGON, WITH FAMILY TREE

MACKINNON, Donald. · 1899

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London: Lepis Hepworth and Company, 1899. 8vo., pp.246, red pictorial cloth, gilt; toning and foxing to endpapers, rubbing to extremities, light surface soil, a good+ copy.

THE KABALA OF NUMBERS PART I A Handbook of Interpretation.

SEPHARIAL [Walter Gorn Old]. · 1928

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London: Rider & Co. 1928. Fourth impression of the new enlarged and revised edition. 8vo., pp.204, dark blue cloth, gilt, decoratively blindstamped to front board; ownership book plate to front paste-down, toning to endpapers, light very occasional foxing, more pronounce...

FROM BANTRY BAY TO LEITRIM A Journey in Search of O’Sullivan Beare

SOMERVILLE-LARGE, Peter. · 1974

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Victor Gollancz, 1974. First edition, 8vo., pp.272, blue hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w plates; very slight yellowing to pages, spotting to top edge of text block, a very good copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket, very light rubbing to extremities.

A GERMAN CRIME Bombardment of Scarborough December 16th 1914.

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Scarborough Mercury, n.d. Commemorative illustrated booklet published by the Scarborough Mercury, oblong 8vo., pp.32, colour pictorial stapled wrappers, 81 b/w illustrations; pages lightly toned, light surface soil to wrappers, else a very good copy

BULMER’S HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND DIRECTORY OF EAST YORKSHIRE (WITH HULL), Comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features; its agricultural, mining & manufacturing industries; family history and genealogical descent; myths, legends, biographical sketches,

[BULMER] · 1985

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Howden: Pye Books, 1985. Fascimile reprint (first published 1892), 8vo., pp.1233,xxx (publisher’s adverts), red cloth, gilt; very slight bump right lower corner of front board, very good indeed, in a good unclipped dust-jacket, light wear to extremities, light chipping...

THE LOST TOWNS OF THE HUMBER; With an introductory chapter on the Roman Geography of South East Yorkshire. A Paper Read, in Part, to the Members of the Hull Literary Club, 11th March, 1889.

BOYLE, J.R. · 1889

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Hull: A. Brown & Sons, 1889. 8vo., pp.xii,102, blue hardcover, gilt, uncut, frontispiece b/w map; light foxing to endpapers, light yellowing to pages, else very good.

WELLINGTON: The Bidassoa and Nivelle

BEATSON, F.C. · 1931

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London: Edward Arnold, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,224, blue hardcover, gilt; light yellowing to pages, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.

HORNBLOWER and the ATROPOS.

FORESTER, C.S. · 1953

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London: Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, 8vo., pp.302, brown cloth, gilt; foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, very slight roll to spine, else a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket with extremities rubbed and lightly toned to verso.

RURAL DEPOPULATION In England and Wales 1851-1951

SAVILLE, John. · 1957

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957. 8vo., pp.xvi,253,16 (publisher adverts), green hardcover, gilt; light yellowing to pages, else very good indeed in a good+ price clipped dust-jacket, creased and chipped to extremities closed tear to headband and tailband, very light ...

THE PARLIAMENTARY PRESENTATION OF YORKSHIRE Earliest Representative Parliament on Record, In the Reign of King Edward I to the Dissolution of the Twenty-second Parliament, in the Reign of Queen Victoria

Compiled by PARK, Godfrey Richard. · 1886

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Hull: Charles Henry Barnwell, 1886. 8vo., pp.xi,331, blue cloth, gilt; light yellowing to pages, light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, rubbed to extremities, else a very good copy.

Loeb Classical Library, No.s 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445 and 468. PLOTINUS. [Set of Seven Volumes:] I. Porphyry on Plotinus, and Ennead I; II. Ennead II; III. Ennead III; IV. Ennead IV; V. Ennead V; VI. Ennead VI. 1-5; VII. Enneads VI. 6-9.

PLOTINUS, translated by ARMSTRONG, A.H. · 1989

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press/William Heinemann, 1989;1990;1967;1984;1984;1988;1988. Seven volumes, mixed editions, pocket 8vo., pp.xxxvii,325;302;viii,417;x,441;x,319;viii,359;x,345,8, green cloth, gilt; very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jackets, with ...

ON THE ROAD WITH WELLINGTON. The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaigns.

SCHAUMANN, August Ludolf Friedrich, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General in the English Army. Edited and translated by LUDOVICI, Anthony M. · 1924

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxi,416, blue cloth, gilt, blindstamped borders to front board, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates; ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1928, to front paste-down endpaper, small pencil-marks to margins, li...

THE SCOTTISH COINAGE. With Supplement.

STEWART, Ian Halley. · 1967

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London: Spink & Son, Ltd., 1967. Reprinted, 8vo., pp.xi,215,xxii, green cloth, gilt, 22 b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to the spine, with rubbing and slight chipping to edges - now in a protective cover.

THE CROSS OF CARL.

OWEN, Walter · 1931

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1931 First edition, 8vo., pp.(xxvii),99, orange cloth lettered in black; light toning and foxing to endpapers, text margins and edges, extremities lightly rubbed, with slight creasing to head and tail of spine, slight surface soiling to clot...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY, Volume I.

FARADAY, Michael. · 1849

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1849. Volume I only, the second edition, 8vo., pp.viii,574,8 (adverts), decoratively blindstamped green cloth, gilt, eight folding plates at rear of volume; ex libris Francis Edward Paget, Rector of Elford, with neat ownership nameplat...

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES. [Set of Nine Volumes]. Loeb Classical Library No.s 242, 490, 281, 326, 365, 489, 410, 433, and 456. Volume V. Books 1-3; Volume VI. Books 4-6; Volume VII. Books 7-8; Volume VIII. Books 9-11; Volume IX. Books XII-XIII; Volume X. Books 14-15; Volume XI. Books 16-17; Volume XII. Books 18-19; Volume XIII. Book 20; Index.

JOSEPHUS. With English translation by: THACKERAY, H. St. J.; MARCUS, Ralph; WIKGREN, Allen; FELDMAN, Louis H. · 1998

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Harvard University Press, 1998- Nine volumes, pocket 8vo., grren cloth, gilt; a fine, fresh set in unclipped dust-jackets.

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.

DICKENS, Charles. Illustrated by TENNIEL, J., LEECH, J., STANFIELD, C., and STONE, F. · 1848

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition of Dickens’ fifth and final Christmas book, in the original cloth, pocket 8vo., pp.(v),188, decorative red cloth, gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece and pictorial title (both by J. Tenniel), fourteen further engraved illustra...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REVEREND GEORGE CRABBE. [Set of Eight Volumes] With his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by his Son.

CRABBE, George. · 1834

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London: John Murray, 1834. Eight volumes, pocket 8vo., pp.xi,322,(ii);viii,335;viii,311;viii,317,(ii);viii,297,(vi);viii,295,(vi);viii,298,(vi);viii,317, uncut, decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, gilt, decorative endpapers, engraved frontispieces and pictorial titles; en...

DOMESDAY BOOK.

Edited by: HALLAM, Elizabeth; BATES. David. · 2001

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Stroud: Tempus, in association with Pro Pubications, 2001. 8vo., pp.224, paperback, 49 b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, with just slight tone to edges.