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AUSTRALIAN BANK NOTES 1817-1963...
Edition: First Edition
Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1963. Title page continues : "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Notes of the Banks of Issue 1817 to 1910, the Commonwealth of Australia 1910 to 1963 and others, together with brief notations.TOMLINSON, GEOFFREY WILLIAM". Red cloth. pp (8), 143. Many photos. Tape stains to endpapers and lightly to covers, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Dust jacket has shallow chips to spine ends, tan spot to spine; VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 44966More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Histoire des perruques, où l'on fait voir leur origine, leur usage, leur forme, l'abus et l'irrégularité de celles des ecclésiastiques.
Edition: First Edition
Paris: aux dépens de l'auteur, 1690. Édition originale. 12mo. [24], 544 pp + Privilege leaf; three small woodcuts on p. 133. Bound in old calf, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, sprinkled page edges. Shallow chips to spine tips; front joint cracked but cover still firmly attached; fingernail-size skinned spot to upper outer corner of front cover; fingernail-size damp spot to top margin of page 529 to end; in all a VG tight copy, text quite clean and unworn, no owner names. Thiers was a respected theologian and writer. This work, which opposes the wearing of wigs by the clergy, has been said to be the first comprehensive book on wigs.
Book ID: 22054More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
Interparliamentary Union: XVIIth Conference, Geneva, September, 18-20th, 1912. Resolutions voted and Elections made at the Conference. Circular to the Groups
Uccle-Brussels: Interparliamentary Bureau, 1912. 16 pp, stapled, in pale orange printed paper covers. Some sunning to margins of covers, soft creases, else a VG+ clean and unworn copy, no owner names. Founded in 1889 and still active, the Interparliamentary Union "is the focal point for world-wide parliamentary dialogue and works for peace and co-operation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy. " (their website). A precursor to the League of Nations and the United Nations.; Tall octavo
Book ID: 28048More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
LEFT HOOKS, RIGHT CROSSES: a decade of political writing
Edition: First Edition
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. VG clean and unworn copy. Not issued in hardcover. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55889More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
MALTA AND ITS INDUSTRIES. Published by the Commission appointed to superintend in Mlta the sending of objects to the Exhibition of Industries of Her Majesty's Colonial and Indian possessions to be held in London in 1886...
Edition: First Edition
London: Waterlow and Sons, Printers, 1886. Octavo, pp (iv), 88, stapled, in buff printed wrappers. Spine darkened, with chips at ends; staples rusty, with a narrow chip at inner margin of front cover at staple; rear cover has slight soiling and a small chip and insect holes at top margin; pencil ownership inscription inside front cover; front cover has light rubbing; else a VG copy of this fragile booklet. Translated from the Italian by H. Vella. Text only, no illustrations, as issued.
Book ID: 38316More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
NEW CLIMBS IN NORWAY: An Account of Some Ascents in the Sondmore District. Illustrated by A.D. McCormick and from Photographs
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 29533More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
NOTES ON DUELS AND DUELLING, Alphabetically Arranged, with a Preliminary Historical Essay. Third Edition
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1859. Third printing (first was in 1854). Original dark brown cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered, [2], viiii, 426, [4], cream endpapers. Spine a bit worn at tips, with gilt lettering dulled; cloth splits to spine and front joint neatly repaired; scattered foxing (not heavy); book just a little leaned; else a VG clean & tight copy, no owner names.; Octavo
Book ID: 27886More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
SCANDALS AT CAIRO IN CONNECTION WITH SLAVERY. Published with the Sanction and Under the Auspices of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. To Whom the Documents in Proof of the Statements Made, Have Been Submitted. By an English Resident at Cairo.
Cairo, 3rd June, 1885. 18 pp, sewn, in tan printed paper covers. Ex American Antiquarian Society, with their blind stamp on front cover and discreet withdrawal rubber stamp at rear. The whole is vertically creased; wrappers are browned and chipped at edges; spine split neatly repaired; VG otherwise. A fragile and rare pamphlet. WorldCat locates only at BL and Cambridge U, author not identified.; Octavo
Book ID: 23932More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria. An account of an official's seven years' experiences in the northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Second edition, with new author Preface (first also 1912). Original terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind. pp xvi, 17-(342 ), (10, ads) + 16 pp publisher's catalogue + 36 illustrations on 30 plates and one folding map at rear; 2 illustrations in text, indexed. Light offset tanning to endpapers, else a fine, bright & tight copy, no flaking to the gilt cover stamping. With nice engraved Canadian West Coast bookplate of Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith (U of Toronto Prof. of Anthropology, author of The Bella Coola Indians, 1948).; Octavo
Book ID: 30212More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
THE ART & CRAFT OF OLD LACE. With an Introduction by Wilhelm Pinder
Edition: First US Edition
New York: E. Weyhe, 1931. Original black bevel edge cloth gilt lettered. pp (3)-181. 47 pp text following by the plates (some in colour; captions in English, French, German, and Italian). Library discard with rubber stamps; pouch at rear; bit of wear to spine tips; else a sound, clean copy, text unworn, tight in the binding. An excellent and uncommon book on the subject. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.; Folio
Book ID: 28832More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
THE ATTWOOD FAMILY, with historic notes & pedigrees
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 31918More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
THE BAN OF THE BORI: Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa
Edition: First Edition
London: Heath Cranton & Ouseley, no date (1914). Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in black, spine gilt lettered. pp 504 + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and 32 plates containing 60 photos; 47 figures in the text. Spine has minor rubbing at ends, gilt just a little dulled; tissue guard browned; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; slight foxing to top page edges; else a near fine, clean, bright and unworn copy. With nice engraved Canadian West Coast bookplate of Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith (U of Toronto Professor of Anthropology and author of The Bella Coola Indians, 1948), and one of his folded examination questions from 1951 (U of Toronto) laid in.; Thick octavo
Book ID: 30215More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
THE ELEMENTS OF HERALDRY, containing the definition, origin, and historical account of that ancient, useful, and entertaining science....The fifth edition, with considerable alterations and additions
Book ID: 51035More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50
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THE HISTORY OF THE REVENUE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE...The Third Edition
London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies...1803, 1803, 1804. Third edition, revised, with a new author introductory note (first was in 1785). Three volumes, octavo, old mottled calf, spines with labels, raised bands, gilt ornaments, page edges marbled. pp (2, half-title), xvi, 532; viii, 411, (1), 63 (appendices); viii, 320, 196 (appendices). Gilt spine ornaments rubbed, dulled; joints lightly rubbed; cracks to joints and hinges neatly repaired internally with rice paper; offset browing to endpaper margins for turn-ins; VG copy otherwise, internally fine; clean, attractive, tight in the bindings. "Containing an Account of the public Income and expenditure from the remotest Periods recorded in History, to Michaelmas 1802. With a Review of the Financial Administration of the Right Honorable William Pitt." A standard work on British taxation in its day. Sabin 81397
Book ID: 31243More details Price: USD $650.00 USD $585.00 -
THE KRONDSTADT REBELLION. With Map of Kronstadt and a Facsimile Page of the Kronstadt Izvestia
Edition: First Edition
Berlin: "Der Syndikalist, 1922. Green card covers lettered in red and black. pp (44), stapled. Russian Revolution Series no. 3. Printed on pulpy, now tanned and brittle paper; last leaf pulling at the rusty staples; creases and chips to upper outer corners of late leaves, well away from any printing; first leaf has a pencil name at top margin and a small chip at fore margin; short splits at spine tips neatly repaired, otherwise a VG sound copy of this scarce and fragile pamphlet, now protected with a plastic wrapper. The German edition was in 1923.; Octavo
Book ID: 26217More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
THE OXFORD BOOK OF DEATH
Edition: First printing
Oxford University Press, 1983. Black cloth. pp (xiv), (353). Index. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53040More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
THE RETAIL SHOE DEALER'S ADVERTISER. Spring Edition. Volume VIII.
Norwalk, OH: Willis H. Peters, no date (1904?). Octavo, red cloth, red page edges. [2], xx pp + 325 leaves printed rectos only + 327-56, [2] pp. With numerous suggested pictorial shoe ads from the turn of the century with tips on advertising. A former owner has written his name in ink numerous time on the blank verso of one leaf and to the top portion of the facing ad; text paper lightly yellowed; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise.
Book ID: 525More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
THE WORLD BOOK OF WONNACOTTS
USA: Halbert's Family Heritage, 1995. Quarto. Colour illustrations. Made to order geneaology of the Wonnacott family. Mostly general stuff with pages of names and addresses of Wonnacotts around the world at the rear. Fine copy. ; Quarto
Book ID: 44970More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THIS WAY TO THE BIG SHOW. The Life of Dexter Fellows.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Viking, 1936. Squarish octavo, hardcover, beige cloth. [12], 362 pp. Numerous sepia-toned photo plates inserted. Spine a bit tanned, with small rubbed spot at foot; sunning to the red top page edges; else a VG tight jacketless copy, no owner names. Fellows was the press agent for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and later for Barnum and Baily and Ringling Brothers circuses. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 18250More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
YR EISTEDDFOD: Sef, Cyhoeddiad Chwarterol y Sefydliad Cenedlaethol. Dan Olygiaeth Creuddyfab. Cyfrol I [-II].
Wrexham: (1864-1866). Octavo. Volumes 1-2 bound as a single volume containing nos. 1-8, 1864-1866. Half-calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to spine and some light edge-wear, very good otherwise. A Welsh language literary periodical, containing a translation into Welsh of Shakespeare's HAMLET (v.II, #6). British Prime Minister Lloyd George's copy with his distinctive "Big Ben" bookplate. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 1074More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00