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Limited first edtion View picture(s) 21 JOLAS, Eugene. The language of night.- (Transition series 1). The Hague, 1932. Orig. wrappers. 60, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  England  English  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting French observations on English morals View picture(s) 22 JOUY, [Étienne DE]. L'Hermite de Londres, ou Observations sur les Moeurs et usages des Anglais au Commencement du XIXe Siècle, faisant suite à la Collection des Moeurs Françaises. Seconde édition. Paris, Pillet Ainé, 1820-1821. 3 vols. Sm.8vo Contemp. half morocco. With large folding engraved plan of London with 3 small views at either side by A. Tardieu, 3 engraved frontispieces by Johannot, Roger and Burdet, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text of scenes of English live and costumes. 354; 344; 344 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  England  French  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British birds before they were shot View picture(s) 23 MILLAIS, John Guille. The natural history of British game birds. London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. Folio. Original gilt red cloth. With 18 chromolithographed plates, and 17 photogravures  of game birds, beautifully drawn within their natural environment by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais, and with 2 ills. after photographs by T. Tait. XI, 142 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chromolithography  Colour Platebooks  Colour Printing  England  English  Hunting  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A history of the British, Dutch and Portuguese colonial activities in the East Indies View picture(s) 24 MÖKERN, Philipp VAN. Ostindien, seine Geschichte, Kultur und seine Bewohner. Resultate eigener Forschungen und Beobachtungen an Ort und Stelle. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe. Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1857. 2 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt title on spine. XII, 395; (6), 327 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  East Indies  England  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine colour plates View picture(s) 25 MORRIS, Francis Orpen. (Ed.) A series of picturesque views of seats of the  noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. London, William MacKenzie, [ca. 1880]. 6 volumes. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt with gilt title,  covers elaborately gilt with central gilt ornament with title, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. With in total 240 chromolithographs. (Each vol. ca. 90 pp.). Full description >> Related Subjects: Chromolithography  England  Ireland  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting travel account on the Low Countries and France by a controversial English courtier View picture(s) 26 OVERBURY, Sir Thomas. His observations in his travailes upon the state of the XVII provinces as they stood anno dom 1609. The treatie of peace being then of foote. (London, Bernard Alsop for John Parker), 1626. Sm. 4to. Late 19th century purple morocco with gilt lettering on spine and central gilt ornament on covers, inner dentelles, g.e. (SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). (2), 28 pp. (last blank lacking). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Criminology  England  Low Countries  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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England's secret weapon in the battle of Trafalgar View picture(s) 27 POPHAM, Sir Home Riggs. Telegraphic signals; or marine vocabulary. London, printed for T. Egerton, 1809. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards. Engraved plate with flags and signals, thumb-indexed. (4), II, 4-113, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  England  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of one of Richard Price's influential orations View picture(s) 28 PRICE, Richard Redevoering over de waarschynlykheid van een toekoomend tydperk van verbeteringe, in den staat van het Menschdom; nevens de middelen en de verplichting om dezelve te bevorderen. Uit het Engelsch. Amnsterdam, Jacob van der Birgh & Z.., 1788. 8vo. Without binding. VIII, 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  England  Enlightenment  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In the service of the queen View picture(s) 29 RICHARDS, Walter. Her Majesty's army. A descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising the Queen's forces, from their first establishment to the present time. London, J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., (ca. 1890). 3 vols. Large 8vo. Original red calf with pattern of triple filets along the edges, spine with raised bands with filets in compartments and gilt title on spine, gilt pattern with ornaments on inner margins, marbled endpapers, g.e. With 3 chromolithographed half title-pages and 44 full-page chromolithographs in total. (2), VI, 352; (2), VIII, 352; (2), VIII, 376 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Cavalry  Chromolithography  England  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Trade with Japan during the years 1853-65 View picture(s) 30 ROUSSIN, Alfred. Une campagne sur les côtes du Japon. Paris, Hachette, 1866. 12mo. Original yellow wrappers. Double-page plan of the straits of Shimonoseki. [4], 285, [2], 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  England  France  Japan  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Heavily annotated copy of one of the early Cologne (Quentell) editions View picture(s) 31 SACROBOSCO, Johannes de. Opus sphericum magistri Joannis de Sacro Busco natione angli figuris verissime exculptis et interpretatione familiari ad comoditatem desiderantium iucundissima Artis Astronomice callere principia pulcherrime et iterata recognitione illustratum. Cologne, Sons of Henricus Quentell, January 1505. 4to. Modern boards. With a six-line woodcut initial on title comprising a teacher with his pupil, full-page woodcut of a armillary globe held by angels above and below, with the zodiac and a small view of a walled small town in centre on the verso of the title, and 27 large half-page astronomical and cosmological woodcuts in text, 2 other 6-line woodcut initials. (38) lvs. (last blank present; collation: A6, B-C4, D6, E-F4, G6, H4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  England  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Striking illustrations of the antiquities of Oxfordshire View picture(s) 32 SKELTON, Joseph. Skelton's engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire, from original drawings. Oxford, Joseph Skelton, 1823-[1827]. Large 4to (41 x 32 cm). Contemporary three quarter roan, g.e. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page showing Wroxton Abbey, 50 full-page engraved and etched plates (including a map) after drawings by F. Mackenzie and others, numerous engraved and etched illustrations in text. [6], II, 10, 8, 4, 12, 10, 22, 10, 10, 4, 2, 2, 8, 10, 26, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Castles  England  Monuments  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting description of England including accounts on new scientific inventions as well as a lot of gossip View picture(s) 33 SORBIERE, Samuel. Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre, où sont touchées plusieurs choses, qui regardent l'estat des sciences, & de la religion, & autres matieres curieuses. Cologne, Pierre Michel, 1666 (= Amsterdam, Elzevier, 1666?). 12mo. 19th century red morocco, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, triple gilt lines along the edges on both sides, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e.(Duru). With woodcut vignette (celestial sphere of A. Wolfgang) on title and a double-page engraved plate showing the construction of a platform capable of carrying a heavy weight. (12), 192 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  Science  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Advocating a pro-reward philosophy of human resource management View picture(s) 34 ST. LO, George. England's safety; or, a bridle to the French King. Second edition with additions. London, for W. Miller, 1693. 4to. Later blue wrappers with ms. title on pasted label on front. Full-page allegorical woodcut frontispiece. 54, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Economy  England  Navigation  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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600 examples of monograms View picture(s) 35 SYMPSON, Samuel. A new book of cyphers, more compleat & regular than any ever published wherein the whole alphabet twice over consisting of 600 cyphers, is variously chang'd interwoven & reverse'd. Very entertaining toy curious & useful to all sorts of artificers. London, for John Bowles and Son, (1750). Sm. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed in 6 compartments. Engraved title, 102 full-page engraved plates each with 6 monograms, of which last plate with crowns and helmets of the nobility. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Applied Arts  England  Ornaments  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British standard edition View picture(s) 36 THEOCRITUS & Thomas WARTON (ed.). Theocriti Syracusii quae supersunt. Cum scholiis Graecis auctioribus, emendationibus et animadversionibus in scholia editoris et Joannis Toupii. glossis selectis ineditis, indicibus amplissimis. Praemittuntur editoris dissertatio de Bucolicis Graecorum, vita Theocriti a Josua Barnesio scripta, cum nonnullis aliis auctariis. Accedunt editoris et variorum notae perpetuae, epistola Joannus Toupii de Syracusiis, ejusdem addenda in Theocritum, necnon collationes quindecim codicum. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1770. 2 parts in 2 vols. Large 4to. Early 19th-century dark blue morocco, sides with elaborately gilt ornamental border decoration with triple gilt ruled border, richly gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, gilt sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. I: (4), LXX, (2), 1-134 (4), 135-236 (80). Vol. II: (4), 1-388 (i.e. 390), (4), 389-412 (i.e. 391-414); VII (1), 45 (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bibliophily  England  Greek & Latin  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the Azevedo-Samodães collection View picture(s) 37 THOMAS A BECKET. Historea da vida e martyrio do glorioso sancto Thomas arcebispo, senhor de Cantuaria, primas de Inglaterra, legado perpetua da sancta see apostolica, trelada da novamente de Latim em lingoagé Portugues. Coimbra, Joâo Alvarez, 1554. 4to. 20th-century Portuguese tree calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Title and preliminaries supplied in neat manuscript facsimile, numerous charming woodcut initials in text. (8), ccci (=303), (1 blank, 20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Church History  England  Middle Ages  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on warfare by one of the greatest military commanders of the 16th century View picture(s) 38 VERE, Francis. Commentaries, Being Diverse pieces of service, wherein he had command. Published by William Dillingham. Cambridge, London, John Field, 1657, 1672. Folio. Later dark red calf, with gilt title, blindtooled and gilt decorated covers. Two titles; woodcut device of Cambridge University on first title, 3 full-page engraved portraits, of Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere, and John Ogle, double-page engraved plate of Francis Vere's monumental tomb by R. Gaywood, and 6 double-page engraved maps and plans by Robert Vaugham, of the sea-coasts  of Europe, the Netherlands, Cadiz and the Azores, the armies arranged for battle at Turnhout and Newport, and the siege of Ostende. (18), 209, (2, 1 blank) PP. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  England  English  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shells at the Sandwich sea shore View picture(s) 39 WALKER, Geo. & William BOYS. Testacea minuta rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris Sandvicensis, A collection of the minute and rare shells lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich. London, printed by J. March, (1784). 4to. Later purple three-quarter calf with marbled boards, spine  ribbed and gilt with title lettered in gold, frontcover with title, marbled endpapers. With 3 full-page engraved plates depicting 90 species of shells, after drawings by G. Walker and engraved by D. Mackenzie. (1, 1 blank, 1), V, 25, (3 blank pp.). Full description >> Related Subjects: Conchology  England  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nightly thoughts on life, death and immortality in Dutch View picture(s) 40 YOUNG, Eduard. Nachtgedachten, uit het Engelsch vertaald en met aanmerkingen opgehelderd door Joannes Lublink den Jongen. Tweede uitgaave, verbeterd en vermeerderd. Amsterdam, heirs P. Meijer & G. Warnars, 1785. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemp. half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red and green title labels. With engraved portrait on title, 9 full-page engraved plates. LXX, 205; 367; 345; 310, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  England  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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