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Relation des événements arrivés à Sainte-Hélène, postérieurement à la nomination de Sir Hudson Lowe, au gouvernement de cette île, en réponse à une brochure anonyme intitulée : "Faits démonstratifs des traitements qu'on a fait éprouver à Napoléon Bonaparte, confirmés par une correspondance et des documents officiels", etc.
by O'Meara, Barry Edward:
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Paris, Chaumerot jeune, , 1819. First French edition. 8vo. pp. 508, light spotting, contemporary red half calf, rebacked retaining original spine, headcap renewed. Formerly in the library of Holland House, the Jacobean mansion in Kensington which was owned by the Fox family, the Barons Holland; the house was largely destroyed in the Blitz although most of the books were… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Midsommer Nights Dreame [A Midsummer Night's Dream]
by Shakespeare, William:
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London, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount,, 1623. The full text of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the First Folio, 9 leaves of text, numbered pp. 145-162, supplied with a handwritten title leaf. Marginal manuscript ink note or symbol to recto of N3 (p. 149); mispagination of recto of N5 (number 151 repeated) corrected to page 153 in an early… Read more about this item Item Price
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Corrected galley proofs to Die Frage de Laienanalyse,
by Sigmund Freud:
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Vienna, , 1926. 45 folio leaves, each approx. 47 x 20 cm, printed on one side only, versos blank. Printed on acidic paper, with some age-toning, and now enclosed in custom-made mylar sleeves and housed in a cloth drop-box. Freuds pencilled annotations and corrections are more numerous in the first part of the work.Freuds Question of lay analysis is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sketches of Portchester Castle
by Stockman, I., and Fudge, E.:
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- 1838
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Chichester: Printed by I.T. Lewis, 1838. Lithographed title page and 15 b/w lithographed plates by E. Fudge after I. Stockman, with tissue guards + pp. [vi] letterpress descriptive text; plate 8 misbound after plate 10; light foxing, mostly marginal; contemporary half calf over green pebbled-cloth, with title lettered in gilt to morocco label on front cover. One of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hoyles games improved; being practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal or advantageous Terms; including the laws of each, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapletons Choclate-houses, the Star and Garter, &c Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. A new edition enlarged.
by Hoyle, Edmond:
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- 1786
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London, printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne and Son etc, 1786. 12mo. pp. vi, 306 + engraved plate (illustrating fortification billiards). Some spotting and browning, particularly to the title and final page (offsetting from turn-ins of an older binding). Modern sheep, with gilt-ruled spine. John Dews section on billiards was also issued separately. Hoyles treatises on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne, D. D. Late Dean of St. Pauls. With elegies on the authors death. To this edition is added, some account of the life of the author.
by Donne, John:
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- 1719
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London: printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor, 1719. 12mo. pp. [xxiv], 315, [iii]. Some light spotting and browning. The account of Donnes life is abridged from the life by Izaak Walton. Some copies may have a portrait frontispiece which is not present here, but an uncontrolled note on ESTC suggests that this was reported by one… Read more about this item Item Price
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The works of the late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq... With a complete index.
by Addison, Joseph:
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- 1761
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Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761. 4 vols, 4to. pp. xxv, [ii], 537, [iii], 415-525 [=537, misnumbered, but 674 in total], [iv]; [viii], 538, [xii]; 579, [xi]; 555, [xi] + portrait frontispiece of Addison, engraved by John Miller after Godfrey Kneller, and three other plates engraved by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; woodcuts… Read more about this item Item Price
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Historical pastime, or, a new game of the history of England from the Conquest to the accession of George the Third.
by Harris, John:
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- 1803 [but c. 1813].
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London, 1803 [but c. 1813].. A popular early nineteenth-century table-game; the board is an engraved snail-shell racetrack, 56 x 54 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 12 panels and laid on linen, worn and thumbed, with slight fraying to lower edge, folding into slip-case with printed paper label, rubbed and worn; complete with the 48pp "Rules and Directions for… Read more about this item Item Price
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'Krieg und Frieden' [War and Peace: a collection of five pamphlets]
by Ehrlich, Eugene; Herron, Prof George D; Lammasch, Henrich; Palyi, Eduard:
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Berlin, Geneva, Zurich, 1919-20. Sammelband comprising five pamphlets bound together, of which four are inscribed to Rudolph Kommer: 1. Lammasch, Henrich: La Maintien de la Paix, Geneva, édition Atar, n.d. (inscribed); 2. Ehrlich, Eugen: Bismarck und der Weltkrieg, Zurich, Orell Füssli, 1920 (inscribed); 3. Ehrlich, Eugen: Quelques aspects de question nationale Autrichienne, édition Atar, n.d. (inscribed); 4. Herron, Prof… Read more about this item Item Price
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Droits de l'homme; en réponse a l'attaque de M. Burke sur la Révolution Françoise. [ ] Traduit de l'Anglois, par F. S[oulès]. Avec des notes et une nouvelle préface de l'auteur.
by Paine, Thomas:
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- 1791
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Paris: F. Buisson, Mai , 1791. Octavo, untrimmed in near-contemporary paper wrappers (they incorporate printer's waste from what seems to be a critical edition of Voltaire, c. 1820-30); pp. xii, 227. The first French edition, second state, of the first part of Paines Rights of Man, with a preface specially written by Paine for this translation. This edition appeared… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Collected Edition of the Works of Graham Greene
by Greene, Graham:
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- 1970-1982
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London: William Heinemann & The Bodley Head , 1970-1982. 8vo. 23 volumes: the 22 volume set of first printings of the Collected Edition, each supplied with a new introduction by the author, together with a first printing of the Collected Essays (1969) in a slightly taller but matching format. Green publishers cloth, dust wrappers designed by Michael Harvey,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Human Life, a Poem.
by Rogers, Samuel:
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London, John Murray, , 1819. 8vo. pp. 100, including half title. Contemporary gilt-ruled biscuit calf, headcap renewed. Armorial bookplate of 3rd Viscount Sidmouth (1811-1876; he married a member of the Pelew family, whose arms appear on the right). Near contemporary signature of a member of the Addington family to flyleaf. Rogers' poem was printed in both quarto and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Riders (1737.) British Merlin: adorn'd with many delightful varieties and useful verities, for the year of our Lord God 1737. [Bound with:] The Court Kalendar: 1737. [Also bound with:] A list of the publick offices and officers ecclesiastical and civil employ'd in His Majesty's government [...]
by Rider, Cardanus:
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London: printed by R. Nutt for the Company of Stationers [first work; remainder, 1737. Three works bound as one, 12mo. pp. [xliv] (ie, A-B12); 72, 70, [ii]; 72. Signature A in Riders British Merlin printed in red and black and interleaved with blanks for notes. ESTC calls for 48 pages rather than 44, possibly advertisments which were omitted when… Read more about this item Item Price
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The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters. By Mr Samuel Richardson, author of Pamela and Clarissa. In eight volumes...
by Richardson, Samuel:
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- 1776
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London: printed for John Donaldson, corner of Arundel-Street, No. 195. in the Strand. Sold by T. Wilson, at York, 1776. Seventh edition. 8 vols. 12mo. pp. ix, [iii], 345, [i]; [ii], 315, [i]; 299, [i]; 308, [ii]; 322; 320; 324, [ii]; 346, [ii] + portrait frontispiece of Richardson. One or two trivial spots and stains; L1 (pp. 121-22) in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bibliotheca Radcliviana: or, a short description of the Radcliffe Library, at Oxford. Containing its several plans, uprights, sections, and ornaments, on twenty three copper plates, neatly engraved, with the explanation of each plate.
by Gibbs, James:
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- 1747
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London: printed for the author [probably by William Bowyer], 1747. Folio. pp. 12, plus portrait frontispiece of Gibbs engraved by Bernard Baron after Hogarth and 21 architectural plates engraved by Paul Fourdrinier; lacking the portrait of Radcliffe engraved by Fourdrinier after Kneller. Very light marginal waterstaining to one or two of plates, which include interior and exterior views and… Read more about this item Item Price
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An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe, during the last four years: comprising a series of views of the principal places, battles, etc. connected with those events. Together with a history of those momentous transactions compiled from official and other authentic documents.
by Horne, Thomas Hartwell; Robert Bowyer ed.:
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London: printed by T.Bensley and Son, for Robert Bowyer, 1816. Folio. pp. [ii] (letterpress title), 32, [xx] + 10 aquatint plates with original hand colour, of which two (Moscow, and the entry of the Allied Sovereigns into Leipzig) are folding + engraved b/w plate of facsimile signatures and documents; occasional trivial spotting, but generally clean. Publishers boards with printed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Summoned By Bells
by Betjeman, John:
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London: John Murray,, 1960. First edition, signed. 8vo. pp. [viii], 111. Signed John Betjeman made me on the bell on the title-page. Green publishers cloth, price-clipped d/w, light toning to front endpapers, bookplate. Book Item Price
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [...] A New Edition
by Gibbon, Edward:
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- 1819
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London: printed for W. Allason; B. Whitrow and Co [et al.], 1819. 12 vols bound as six. 8vo. pp. vi, 16, xxi-xxxii (but nothing appears to be lacking), 456, xii, 486; viii, 409, viii, 438; vi, 427, viii, 411; viii, viii, 423, viii, 375; x, 503, x, 382; x, 450, [iv], xii, 508. Portrait frontispiece engraved by Freeman after… Read more about this item Item Price
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Epistolia, Dialogi Breves, Oratiunculae, Poematia, ex variis utriusque linguae scriptoribus. Inter poemata autem est Satyra elegantissima, quae inscribitur Lis, non prius edita [...]
by [Estienne, Henri, ed.]:
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[Geneva]: excudebat Henricus Stephanus,, 1577.. 8vo. pp. [iv], 276, 120. Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut Estienne device to title, red-ruled throughout, lightly and uniformly toned. Seventeenth-century calf with oval wreath to covers, gilt. Some wear to joints and extremities. All edges gilt. An anthology of letters, verses, dialogues and other small works by diverse classical authors, mostly… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hesiodo Ascraei poetae vetustissimi ac sapientissimi opera, quae quidem extant, omnia Graecè, cum interpretatione latina è regione, ut conferri à graecae linguae studiosis citra negotium possint. Adiectis etiam ijsdem latino carmine elgantiss. uersis, & genealogi[a]e deorum a` Pylade Brixiano ... descriptae libris V. Item Ioannis Grammatici cognomento Tzetzis ... scholia graeca in eadem omnia Hesiodi opera ... cum ... indice.
by Hesiod:
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Basileae [Basel]: [Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius?], , [1542]. 8vo. pp. [viii], 373, [iii], 270, [xxiv]. Parallel Greek and Latin text. Commentary of Joannes Tzetzes in Greek, other commentaries, by Nicolaus de Valle, Joannes Ulpius and Bonino Mombrizio, in Latin. Small flaws to upper margin of title, tear to gutter of b1 in the second part, affecting a couple… Read more about this item Item Price
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