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Bloomsbury Academic. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

Modern Art Oxford. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

SeaWolf Press, 2020. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Birthday Oracle, or Whom Shall I Marry: Guess at the Character or Appearance of Your Future Husband or Wife. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1883.
(105 x 85 mm) pp. 248, [8]. Machline binding with photo of Old Aberdeen Cathedral. Leather spine with gilt panels. Floral endpapers and decorative edges. Full gilt foredges. Ornamental border printed on all pages. Names written adjacent to birthdays, with dates ranging from 1880s to 1950s (several dates pre-date book's publication indicating birth year of person rather than date inscribed). Includes handwritten index of names (19th c.).
This Mauchline-wear binding relic of the Victorian era shows continued usage from the 1880s to the 1950s— following the hopes of several (possibly related?) families through height of the Spiritualist movement, through the First and Second World Wars into Britain's Post-War period. The Birthday Oracle falls into the Victorian middle class fervour for accessing knowledge from beyond the veil. Though true Spiritualists… Read More

1763. A la Haye, Pierre Grosse & Daniel Pinet, 1763. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice contemporary full mottled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, primarily affecting spines. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. (4), XXXII, 284 pp; (4), 256 pp. First edition (Hague-edition – an edition in Avignon was published same year, no priority has been established) "Scarce. An early comprehensive dictionary defining terms used in the 18th century study of oryctology, which by today's convention would include all of the earth sciences such as geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology, and vulcanology. In the alphabetical list, various terms deal with earths, salts, sulfurs, bitumens, petroleum, simple and complex stones, common and precious gems, minerals, metals, petrifications of animals and plants, the latest theories on their formation, and their uses. In many instances a substantial definition is… Read More

Putnam, 1997. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1658. London, Rothwell, 1657 & 1658. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, lower part of front hinge split. Dampstain to lower margin of first half of the book, not touching the text. Light occassional soiling but generally nice and clean. (8), 139, (5); (4), 234, (6); (4), 218, (6); (8), 338, (4); (4), 134, (6) pp. With seperate title-page to each work (included in the collation). An interesting sammelband consisting of five later editions, presumably all second edition, of Love’s works, all printed by John Rothwell as were the first editions. His sermons were published, after his death, under the sponsorships of the leading Presbyterians of London and his most important of his works are the once presented here. Love’s works are rarely found in the trade. Love (1618-1651), a Welsh Presbyterian preacher and activist during the English Civil War. After taking the master's degree he was obliged to leave… Read More

Rare complete run of 34 issues in 34 volumes. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1971-2017. First edition. In-4. Original softcover, becoming hardcover from vol. 33. A very nice set. This journal is very heavy, special shipping charges will apply. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Van Siclen III (VSX). Language: German. This set ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Journals Egypt, Language, Texts & Writing, Demotic Studies, Coptic Studies.

1673. London, for Tho. Collins and John Ford in Fleet-Street, and Will. Cademan and Th. Popes Head New-Exchange Strand, 1673. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to lower margin of title-page. Light occassional marginal browning and worm-tract to last 4 leaves. Overall a good copy. (6), 185 pp. With numerous typographical errors in pagination, but complete. Often referred to as the second edition of this rare collection of poems. No poet is listed by name but John Sheffield, Marquis of Normanby, Charles Sedley, George Etherege and Aphra Behn have been identified. A shorter version in two parts had appeared the year before so all though technically being a second edition this version contain new material. These authors are all associated with the period of English literature known as the "Restoration Era" (1660-1700) and were influential… Read More

1702. Kiøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Kongl. Maj. og Univers. privil. Bogtrykkerie, 1702. 4to. In contemporary half calf with three raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Small tear to title-page, no loss of text. Dampstain to upper half of last 30 ff. (4), 112 pp. + 6 plates and numerous engraving in text. Exceedingly rare first edition of this – arguably most famous and sought after – early Danish work on naval navigation, a textbook for a small navigational school on the Danish island of Møn. We have not been able to trace a single copy at auction and OCLC only list two copies, both in Denmark. In the 17th and 18th century Denmark was one of the largest seafaring nations in the world and had numerous small schools dedicated to various maritime aspects. Most schools used foreign material and almost none of the locally printed works have been preserved. Jørgen Rasch (ca. 1665 – 1714), Professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. As… Read More

1649. London, Richard Lowndes, 1649. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, parts of leather on front board worn off. Top of spine with tear. Inner hinges split, but bookblock firmly attached. Internally with light marginal miscolouring, but generally nice and clean. (6), 474 pp. Cartwright's rare work containing 36 of his sermons. Christopher Cartwright (1602–1658) was an English clergyman, also known as a Hebraist.

1589. [Both works:] (No place but possibly Basel, no printer), 1589. 8vo. In contemporary limp vellum. Extremities with wear and soiling, repair to upper part of spine and back board. Stampstain throughout, primarily affecting first and least leaves. A few worm-tracts throughout, occassionally touching text. (16), 201, (7); 331, (3) + portrait. A most interesting sammelband containing two works on political theory, offering contrasting views on rulers legitemacy and how to exercise power. The two works are: Third Latin edition translated by Sylvestre Tellio of Machiavelli's foundational work of modern political philosophy "The Prince", perhaps published in Basel by Pierre Perna like the two previous 1580-editions or in Montbeliard by Jakob Foillet as suggested by “Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts” (VD 16). Machiavelli’s work is here as usual accompanied with the anonymous influential Huguenot tract "Vindiciae contra tyrannos" first published… Read More

Pocket. Unknown Binding. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Internaturally, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Philosophical Library, 1962. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Jackson Smith. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked and with wear to corners; pp. xxvi. [20], 427, additional errata slip at the end of preliminaries; new fly-leaf at end, repair to corner of final leaf, a good copy, complete with half-title and errata slip. Very rare first edition of this defence of slavery, written by one of Britain's staunchest Ant-Abolitionists. 'MacQueen's position on the issues had not changed since 1820, though it seemed it had since his arguments became increasingly hardened, extreme, persona1 and narrow as the emancipation debate progressed through the latter 1820s' (Jeffrey David Pardue, Agent of Imperial Change: James MacQueen and the British Empire, 1778-1870 p. 71). In defending slavery the author gives much statistical material relating to the West Indies and reveals the mind-set of the profiteers of a society whose wealth is to a great extent based on slavery.

London, Printed by Richard Chiswell, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1681. Folio. Slightly later panelled calf, spine with raised bands, lettering-piece and ornamentation in gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. [xxiv], 189, [publisher's catalogue], folding engraved map and 15 engraved plates; binding worn but holding firm, re-backed at an early date; map with small filled flaw in outer margin, affecting only the framing line, one plate with repaired tears, one reaching 3cm into image, a little spotting here and there; a good copy of a very rare work, complete with initial imprimatur leaf (signed by Christopher Wren in print) and final advertisement leaf; engraved armorial bookplate inside front cover. First edition of the first account of Sri Lanka in English, which provided source material and inspiration for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Whilst trading along the Coromandel coast Robert Knox (1641-1720) was forced to land at Kottiar Bay, Ceylon, whereupon he was… Read More