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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare from the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed with Copious Annotations. 12 volume set. Walker Stereotype edition

Shakespeare, William · 1821 · Barter Books Ltd

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

Covers worn and scuffed with some hinges cracked and weak. 2 title panels missing. Content in very good condition London J Walker; G Offor; &c Stereotype Edition 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 322pp; 366pp; 293pp; 299; 302pp; 323pp; 332pp; 357pp; 351pp;391pp; 342pp; 373pp + Annotation…

Plotin Et L'Occident

Paul Henry · 1934 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Dubuque, William E. Brown. William E. Brown Reprint Library. Undated reprint of the 1934 edition. Blue cloth. pencil underlining and notations throughout text. A hardcover book in agood reading condition. Text in French. .

Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus. Text by Brenda Venus. Edited by Gerald Seth Sindell

Miller, Henry · 0 · Brookline Village Books

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

New York, William Morrow & Co. c1986. 1st edition . Hardcover. 191p. illus. Preface by Lawrence Durrell . Very good condition/good.

The Right Honorable Robert Dundas

Raeburn, Henry · 1790 · Wittenborn Art Books

$160.00 (€145.17 | £121.11 | ¥25,550)

London: William Sharp, 1790. Engraving by William Sharp. Rips and tears through border. Subtle water stained in upper left quarter. Image in mostly good condition. 44 x 55 cm. .

The Great Seals of England from the time of Edward the Confessor to the reign of his majesty William the Fourth : illustrated by thirty-eight plates, containing exact fac-similes of the seals in their present condition...

[ EDWARDS, Edward 1812-1886. ] / COLLAS, Achilles - Engraver (1795-1859) . · 1837 · CHILTON BOOKS

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London: Henry Hering, 9, Newman Street, Oxford Street, 1837 . 0 Folio. pp.4/pp.17/1p. - Contents] + frontis + XXXVII plates. Original boards very rubbed and bumped. Gilt royal coat of arms to each board. Rebacked in marron cloth with leather label: " Great Seals Of England 1837"…

Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals

Philip Henry Gosse · 1860 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Van Voorst, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a lovely exploration of British corals and anemones, with beautiful chromolithographs by Royal Academy artist William Dickes. The first and only edition of Actinologia Britannica: A History of The British Sea-A…

"Contemporary collection of in-folio printed texts on the Popish Plot ; the Henry Sacheverell impeachment trial and the Rye House plot of 1683."

EARL of DANBY - Stephen DUGDALE - Richard LANGHORN - John WILLIAMS 1636-1709) - John SMITH of WALWORTH - five JESUITS - William BEDLOE (1650 - 1680) - Henry SACHEVERELL ( 1674 - 1724) - William Lord RUSSELL ( 1639 -1683) : · 1679 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

A contemporary collection of 8 complete and 10 incomplete publications on the Popish Plot and other English trials at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. Bound in a contemporary full leather binding. Binding with some traces of wear but the whole in relati…

The Legend of Jubal and other Poems. HENRY AND MARY PONSONBY'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE; IN SIGNED BIRDSALL BINDING

ELIOT George · 1874 · Island Books

£740.00 (€887.01 | $977.64 | ¥156,117)

William Blackwood, 1874. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; handsomely bound in full tan morocco BY BIRDSALL, boards elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, bevelled edges, back with raised bands, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments…

Leges Marchiarum, or Border=Laws: containing Several Original Articles and Treaties, Made and Agreed upon by the Commissioners of the Respective Kings of England and Scotland, for the better Preservation of Peace and Commerce upon the Marches of Both Kingdoms: From the Reign of Henry 111. to the Union of the Two Crowns, in K. James 1. With a Preface, and an Appendix of Charters and Records, relating to the said Treaties. By William Lord Bishop of Carlile.

[NICOLSON (William)] · 1705 · Forest Books

£403.13 (€483.22 | $532.59 | ¥85,048)

London: Printed for Tim. Goodwin, 1705. First edition, 8vo (190 x 120 mm), [8], lvi, 388, [4, publisher’s adverts]pp., with half-title, with the blind stamp of the Earls of Macclesfield on the first four leaves, and the South Library bookplate (1860), contemporary mottled calf,…

British Working-Class Movements and Europe, 1815-48:

Weisser, Henry · 1975 · Naomi Symes Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

(MUP, 1975) Hardback. Very good in slightly faded dustwrapper. viii + 226pp.

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck. Translated, edited and with an introduction and afterword by William Ashton Ellis.

RICHARD WAGNER. · 1905 · Clearwater Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

H. Grevel & Co., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxii, 386pp + [ii] advertisements. Two-tone cloth, gilt lettered and decorated at the spine, and with a large green and gilt decoration to the upper board. Top edge gilt. With a frontispiece portrait of M…

Flora of Herefordshire

William Henry Purchas; Augustin Ley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Hereford, Jakeman and Carver, [1889]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive illustrated work on the flora of Herefordshire. The first edition. The introduction of this work was first published in 1967 under the title 'A Flora of Herefordshire: Part 1…

A Flora of Herefordshire

William Henry Purchas; Augustin Ley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Hereford, Jakeman and Carver, 1889. Cloth. A signed copy of William Henry Purchas and Augustin Ley's work on the flora in Herefordshire, illustrated with a folding map. Signed by the author to the verso to the front endpaper, 'With A. Ley's kind regards&apos. This…

The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration

Ephraim Hardcastle [William Henry Pyne] · 1825 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Knight and Lacey, 1825. Leather. An early edition of William Henry Pyne's only novel, set within the period of the English Restoration. Second edition. Complete in two volumes.  Uniformly bound in quarter pebbled cloth, with marbled paper covered boards. This was t…

Un Cambrioleur Amateur: Raffles

Ernest William Hornung; Henry Evie · 1935 · Rooke Books

£71.99 (€86.29 | $95.11 | ¥15,188)

Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, c1930. Leather. A copy of this collection of short stories, known in English as 'The Amateur Cracksman', which follows the adventures of the British gentleman thief Arthur J. Raffles. Translated from English to French by Henry Evie. Cont…

Wonders of the Vegetable World

Anonymous [William Henry Davenport Adams] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1877. Cloth. A very scarce 1877 edition of this beautifully illustrated title. A very scarce 1877 copy of this illustrated title, originally published in 1867. This work documents a variety of trees and their habitats, complete with illustrated chapt…

Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV

W.H. Wilkins [William Henry Wilkins] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a complete two volume biography on the scandalous love affair between George IV and Maria Fitzherbert, the first with access to the Fitzherbert papers. The first edition of Mrs. Fitzherbert and Geor…

ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents... [&] AN ACADEMY FOR GROWN HORSEMEN Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking Trotting Cantering Galloping Stumbling and Tumbling..

GAMBADO Geoffrey [BUNBURY William Henry] · 1796 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, 1796 2 vols in 1. 4to (13½ x 10 ins). Contemporary half morocco on marbled paper-laid boards, raised ribbed spine gilt ruled in six compartments, top edge gilt (some light wear at edges of boards - otherwise VG). Pp. [ii] + xvii + [1] blank + 81 + …

The Windsor Shakespeare: 19 volumes, of 20; Illustrated from the Paintings of Great Artists

Shakespeare, William; Henry Hudson, ed · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$238.40 (€151.57 | $167.06 | £126.45 | ¥26,677)

London The Caxton Publishing Company Red cloth bindings, with gilt lettering and decoration to spines and front boards. Colour frontispieces, black-and-white plates. Light shelfwear, a few spines pulled, occasional spotting to contents/bindings. Vol. 13 shows significant discolo…

Diary of John Evelyn ESQ., F.R.S. To Which are Added a Selection from His Familiar Letters and the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. And Sire Edward Nicholas and Between Sir Edward Hyde (Afterwards Earl of Clarendon) and Sir Richard Browne

Bray, William & Wheatley, Henry B · 1879 · Greensleeves Books

£67.69 (€81.14 | $89.43 | ¥14,280)

good . Bickers & Son 4 volume set, foxing to end papers & toning to edges, spine of vol1 chipped, bookplates, text clean no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981