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A CONCISE HISTORICAL & TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HASTINGS, WINCHELSEA, & RYE, including also several places in the Vicinity of those Ancient Towns. Embellished with numerous engravings from original drawings by Fred. W. L. Stockdale.
London.P. M. Powell. No date [1817]. 48 pages. 19 engraved plates and nine engraved vignettes, including that on title. Original plain, untitled paper-covered boards, sometime expertly re-backed to match original. Small bookplate; some very light and occasional foxing; else a very good copy.
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A CONCISE VIEW OF ANCIENT HISTORY. By the Rev. Thomas Smith.
London: J. Wallis… J. Wallis, Jun… J. Harris, 1806. Being volume III of The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature.; comprising Astronomy Geography Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. In six volumes. [8], 168 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Series titlepage and individual titlepage. Original quarter red roan gilt over plain paper-covered boards. 130 x 87 mm. Frontispiece offset onto series title; head & heel of spine worn with small loss of leather; else a very good, clean copy.
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A Continuation of the Adventures of DAME TROT and HER COMICAL CAT.
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A COPIOUS PHRASEOLOGICAL ENGLISH-GREEK LEXICON; founded on a work prepared by J. W. Frädersdorff… Revised, enlarged, and improved by the late Thomas Kerchever Arnold… and Henry Browne…
London: Rivingtons, 1856. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. viii, 654, [2 ad's], pages. Contemporary half calf gilt. Octavo. First edition. Small piece torn from one blank margin; the occasional ink stain to margin; light spotting to endpapers; lacks half-title; else a very good copy.
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A CORNER OF KENT; Or Some Account of the Parish of Ash-Next-Sandwich, Its Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities.
London: Robert Hardwicke. 1864. xxiii, [ 1 blank], 413pp. Illustrated with 13 lithographic full-page plates, and woodcuts on the title and in the text. Rebound, sometime probably early twentieth century in full cloth. Octavo. First edition. Some light spotting to the plates; hinges cracked; binding rubbed and a little worn at extremities, and somewhat faded on the spine; else a very good copy. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title: 'To Mrs Bushell as a trifling recognition of her great kindness to me and mine J. R. Planche.'
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A CORNER OF KENT; Or Some Account of the Parish of Ash-Next-Sandwich, Its Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities.
London.Robert Hardwicke. 1864. xxvii, 413pp. Black & white lithographic frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout, including a plan of the Church of St Nicholas by Robert Goodsall tipped on to page179. Original brown cloth gilt, with decorative border in to boards in blind. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate. Recased, with the head & heel of the spine expertly repaired and the inner joints strengthened; else an excellent clean copy of a scarce book rarely found in this condition.
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A COUNTRYMAN'S CALENDAR. Sayings for the month compiled by Gerald Cooper Bateman.
Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press, 1928. 42 [2] pages. Illustrated with 9 small wood-engravings. Bound in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Binding signed, ' Bound by BM/Powell. W.C.1. 1932.' 2 pages with some light brown marking; binding rubbed at head & heel; else very good.
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A COURSE OF GEOGRAPHY, by Means of Instructive Games, invented by the Abbe Gaultier. Collated with the author’s last Paris Edition, and digested for Europe conformably to the territorial arrangements at the pacification in 1815. By J. Aspin. In three parts. The first part, containing The Game of Simple Geography, for teaching the names and situations of the different countries and places of the earth. The Second Part, containing A Concise Treatise on the Artificial Sphere. The Third Part, containing A Geographical Game, Illustrative of Ancient and Modern History. A New edition with numerous improvements. As a necessary Appendage to the First Game, a Set of coloured Maps is subjoined. And another Set, containing merely the Outlines of Kingdoms and Provinces, with the Course of Rivers, Situation of Principal Towns, Islands, Mountains, &c. A Set of Counters, having the Names of Kingdoms, Provinces, Islands, Seas, Rivers, &c, marked on them, by which the Pupils may themselves explain and point out their Situation on the Map, may be had.
London: John Harris, 1829. 60 pages of text; one plate, fifteen hand-coloured double-page maps, including ‘Recent Discoveries in the Arctic Regions’ which is not present in editions prior to 1826. Original boards with a mounted paper title label to the upper panel. Re-backed in red sheep gilt. Folio. A very good, clean copy. See Moon 306 (8).
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A CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY and expositor of the English Language: in which not only the meaning of every word is clearly explained, and the sound of every syllable distinctly shown, but where words are subject to different pronunciations, the authorities of our best pronouncing dictionaries are fully exhibited, the reasons for each are at large displayed, and the preferable pronunciation is pointed out.
Edinburgh.Thomas Nelson. 1843. [1], 2-587pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Half calf gilt over marbled boards. Head and heel of spine a trifle worn; board corners a little bumped, and extremities slightly worn; bookplate to front paste-down endpaper placed over original ownership inscription; else a very good copy.
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A CROPPE OF KISSES Selected lyrics of Ben Jonson chosen, with an appreciation by John Wallis.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Number 152 of a limited edition of 250 copies. 51 pages. Original binding of quarter morocco over cloth. 310 x 194 mm. Internally clean and fresh. However, the binding is a little dust-soiled, and worn at the corners.
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A CROWN OF FLOWERS. Illustrated by Mary Parry.
Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1997. Number 129 of an edition of 150 copies. The typeface is Eusebious, the paper is Lana, with drawings and watercolours by Mary Parry. Signed by both Mary and Nicholas Parry. A fine copy of this floral alphabet with the illustrations beautifully coloured as issued.
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A CURIOUS HIEROGLYPHICK BIBLE; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the Amusement of Youth: designed chiefly to familiarize tender Age, in a pleasing and diverting Manner, with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures. To which are subjoined, a short Account of the Lives of the Evangelists, and other Pieces, illustrated with Cuts. The Thirteenth Edition.
London: Robert Bassam, 1794. [ Price One Shilling bound.]. Wood-engraved frontispiece, (6), 136pp. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Later 19th century full plain black sheep. 12mo. Head of spine splitting, else a very good copy.
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A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS A Comedy of Youth, Love, and Adventure in Three Acts. French's Acting Edition. No. 1281.
London.Samuel French, Ltd. 1930. 88, (4)pp. 4 full-page photographic plates of stage sets. Original wrappers. Some underlining and in red and annotation in pencil, as this copy has been used for a production in 1932. Loosely inserted is an original 4 page printed programme for the performance by Dover Operatic and Dramatic Society, November 1932. Ownership inscription on upper cover by a member of the cast. Little worn at extremities, else a very good copy.
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A DARK NIGHT'S WORK. Copyright edition. Vol. 657.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1863. 282 pages. Half-title present. Bound in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Spine marked and marbled paper rubbed; else a very good copy.
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A DAY IN A CHILD’S LIFE. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Music by Myles B. Foster. (Organist of the Foundling Hospital.) Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1881]. 32 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Quarto. First edition. Fourth issue. A scarce binding and by far the best design. A very good copy.
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A DAY WITH NODDY. A Dean's Rag Book.
London.Dean. Noddy Subsidiary Rights Co. Ltd. 1962. 8pp. (including covers), illustrated in full colour. Edges pinked as issued. A mint copy.Very scarce in this condition.
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A Defence of Her Majesty's Title to the Crown, and A Justification of Her Entring into a War with France and Spain: As it was Deliver'd in a SERMON Preached before the University of Oxford on the 10th Day of June, 1702. Being the Fast Appointed for Imploring a Blessing on Her Majesty and Allies Engag'd in the Present War. Being the Discourse referr'd to in the Doctor's Answer to the Articles of Impeachment against him. The Second Edition.
London: Henry Clements, 1710. 24 pages. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets at some point. Octavo. A very good copy.
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A DEFENCE OF THE ANSWER TO THE REMARKS UPON DR. CLARKE'S EXPOSITION OF THE CHURCH-CATECHISM. Wherein The Difference between moral and positive Duties is fully stated. Being a reply to a Pamphlet entitled, The nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of th4e Sacrament consider'd.
London.J. and J. Knapton. 1730. 102, 2pp. [catalogue.] First edition. Disbound. 8vo. Uncut as issued; tatty at the edges with loss of corners to title-page; title and last leaf of ad's a little soiled; else a very good copy.
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A DESCRIPTION OF A SET OF ANCIENT HISTORY, contained in a set of easy lessons. In two parts.
London: Printed and sold by john Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, Cheapside, No date [between 1795 and 1800]. Part I: 120 pages. Part II: title and 32 engraved plates, all printed on one side of the leaves only. Original full, sometime re-backed. Closed tears in two plates (no loss); the blank backs of the first twenty-four plates have been used by the owner for notes written in copperplate; binding rubbed and worn; endpapers replaced; else a very good set
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A DESCRIPTION OF A SET OF PRINTS OF ENGLISH HISTORY; contained in a set of Easy Lessons. In two parts.
London: John Marshall, No date [inscribed on titlepages 1795]. Two volumes. Vol. I: [iv], 261 pages; Vol. II: [ii], 244 pages. Original semi-stiff marbled wrappers with paper tile labels to the upper boards of both volumes. Lacks the volumes of plates. A few small turned corners; else excellent. Rarely found in the original wrappers.
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