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An address to subscribers to the Windsor and Eton public library and reading room. Delivered at the first general meeting of the subscribers held at the Christopher Inn, Eton, in Tuesday, 29th Jan, 1833. By ... President of the Institution. Second edition
by Herschel, J[ohn] F[rederick] W[illiam], Sir
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London: Smith Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1834. 12mo, pp. 32; original printed blue wrappers; small ink stain at the bottom of the front wrappers, some dustiness, else very good. Ads for Smith, Elder publications on the back wrapper. Herschel (1792-1871), the great astronomer and mathematician, was also the president of the Windsor and Eton Public Library. Here, in… Read more about this item Item Price
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A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole [engraved title] ... Mr. George Robins is honoured ... to sell the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill, and it may fearlessly be proclaimed as the most distinguished gem that has ever adorned the annals of auctions ... fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842
by [Walpole, Horace]
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London: Smith and Robins, Printers, King Street, Long Acre, 1842. First edition, 4to, pp. xxiv, 250; mounted lithographic frontispiece portrait of Walpole by G. Madeley after Eckhardt; woodcut title, vignettes in the text; original cloth-backed blue pictorial wrappers creased and worn; spine ends chipped, good and sound. Tipped in at the front is a printed slip from W. Forster,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The confessions of J. Lackington, late bookseller at the temple of the muses, in a series of letters to a friend. To which are added two letters on the bad consequences of having daughters educated at boarding-schools
by Lackington, James
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London: printed by Richard Edwards, Crane Court, Fleet Street, for the author; and sold by all booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1804. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 212, [4] index and errata; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper labels on both the front board and (unusually) on the back board as well; front cover loose, spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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A catalogue of redouteana exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library 21 April to 1 August 1963
by Lawrence, George H. M., ed
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- 1963
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Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1963. 8vo, pp. [2], vii, [3], 117, [9]; 22 grayscale illustrations in text and 2 plates tipped in; maroon paper wrappers; bookseller label on first leaf, else fine. Item Price
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Early printed books
by Duff, E. Gordon
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- 1893
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1893. 8vo, pp.xii, 219, [1]; frontispiece and 10 facsimile plates; full brown cloth; ex-Liverpool Racquet Club library, with spine label and their bookplate on pastedown, upper joint starting boards sunned with spots of soiling, good. Item Price
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Monumenta chartae papyraceae historiam illustrantia or collection of works and documents illustrating the history of paper: 1. Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries
by Heawood, Edward
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- 1981
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Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1981. 4to, pp. [4], xvi, [2], 11-154, [2]; 533 plates; full black cloth; fine. A good visual reference of over 4000 watermarks, organized by subject. Item Price
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Dutch and Flemish woodcuts of the fifteenth century
by Schretlen, M. J.
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- 1969
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New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969. 4to, pp. viii, [2], 71, [1]; 84 leaves of plates; full tan cloth; fine. Item Price
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The contemplative man's recreation. A bibliography of books on angling and game fish in the library of the University of British Columbia
by Starkman, Susan B., and Stanley E. Read
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Vancouver: The Library of the University of British Columbia, 1970. 8vo, pp. 138, [2]; text illustrations; full brown cloth, fine. "With a chronological appendix indicating landmarks in the evolution of angling literature and some prefatory matters pertaining to the history of the Harry Hawthorne Foundation for the Inculcation and propagation of the principles and ethics of fly-fishing, including an… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Henry Davis gift. A collection of bookbindings. Volume II. A catalogue of North-European Bindings
by Foot, Mirjam M.
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- 1983
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[London]: The British Library, 1983. 4to, pp. 446; grayscale text illustrations throughout; full tan cloth; red label on spine; fine. Preceeded by vol. 1, an introduction, and later followed by vol. 3. This volume covers bindings from the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria, and Denmark. Item Price
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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, some new bibliographical discoveries
by Davis, George W.
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- 1928
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London: Marks & Co, 1928. 8vo, pp. 20; green printed paper wrappers; light toning to wrappers, pencil ticks throughout text, very good. Item Price
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W. B. Yeats. Manuscripts and printed books exhibited in the library of Trinity College, Dublin 1956
by Dougan, R. O.
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- 1956
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Dublin: Friends of the Library of Trinity College, 1956. 8vo, pp. 50, [2]; pictorial paper wrappers; a touch of toning and bumping, near fine. Item Price
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Public auction. Literary and historical manuscripts, autographs, books, original Audubon watercoler drawings. The collection formed by the late David Gage Joyce [cover title]
by Hanzel Galleries Inc
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- 1973
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Chicago: Hanzel Galleries Inc, 1973. 8vo, pp. [76]; facimiles in text; printed paper wrappers; fine. Item Price
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The library of Dr. Gottfried Koehler with additions, comprising Americana, Illinois and the west, Chicagoana, American first editions and autograph material
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- 1931
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Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1931. 8vo, pp. 50, [2]; yellow printed wrappers, old fold, light soiling to wrapper, short closed tear to one leaf, very good. Sale No. 11 October 6th, 1931. Item Price
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An exhibition of manuscripts and printed books at the University of Texas, October 1-30, 1942. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 [wrapper title]
by Ratchford, Fannie E.
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[Austin: University of Texas, 1942. 9.25 x 6.5 in., pp. 20, printed self-wrappers, lightly toned at edges, else fine. Includes details on the Wise forgeries also in the collection. Item Price
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Stephens, Yeats and other Irish concerns
by Saul, Geroge Brandon
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- 1954
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New York: The New York Public Library, 1954. 10 x 7 in, pp. 45, [3]; printed green paper wrappers; upper wrapper chipped, some sunning to edges, text clean and sound, very good. A reprint from essay provided to the Bulletin to the New York Public Library. Item Price
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Selections from the Americana library of Edward G. Mason with additional rare Americana
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- 1932
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Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1932. 8vo, pp. 60, [4]; printed green paper wrappers; spine sunned, a couple pencil marks in margins, near fine. Sale No. 27, October 25, 1932. Item Price
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Ars memorandi. A facsimile of the text and woodcuts printed by Thomas Anshelm at Pforzheim
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- 1981
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[Boston]: Harvard University, 1981. Edition limited to 1500 copies, this one of 400 gifted to friends of the Harvard Library, 7 x 5 in., pp. [40]; 15 text illustrations; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. "The woodcuts of the Ars Memorandi contain some of the most curious images ever printed... one of the most remarkable early mnemonic workds, [it] is extremely… Read more about this item Item Price
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The library of the late Colonel Daniel French. First and second sessions Americana. Third and fourth sessions rare and curious books ..
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Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1932. 8vo, pp. 123, [5]; printed gray paper wrappers; light sunning to spine, else fine. Sale no. 17, February 9-10, 1932. Item Price
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Catalogue of treasures from the Dickens collection formed by the late Comte Alain de Suzannet on exhibition at the Dickens House 1 June - 12 September 1970
by Slater, Michael, compiler
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[London]: The Dickens Fellowship. 8vo, pp. 42, [2]; text illustrations; printed paper wrapper with vignette of the Comte's bookplate; light toning to wrapper, near fine. Item Price
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American Book Collector
by Thorsen, William B., et al, editors
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Chicago, New York, et al., 1957. A blast from the book-trade past. After AB Bookman's Weekly, the American Book Collector was the most important trade magazine on the American scene in the last half of the 20th century, with many interesting articles by many renown authors and book people: Walter Hart Blumenthal, Lawrence S. Thompson, Frederick R. Goff, Jeff… Read more about this item Item Price
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