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A COMPENDIOUS ANGLO-SAXON AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
London.John Russell Smith. 1855. [v], ix, 10-278pp. Original blind decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine badly chipped with a loss of 2 cm's. at head; board corners bumped and worn; ownership inscription to title page; else a good copy of a scarce title.
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A COMPLEAT JOURNAL of the Votes, Speeches and Debates, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons Throughout the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Of Glrious memory. Collected by that Eminent member of Parliament; Sir Simonds D'ewes, Baronet.
London. Paul Bowles, 1693. [xii], 689, [1 blank], [15 alphaebetical table], [3 catalogue of books] pages. Engraved frontispiece, 'Queen Elizabeth in Parliament.' Contemporary full calf, gilt. Folio. First edition. Binding worn and rubbed, and holding on strings only, but sound; the odd mark internally and creased corner; else a very good copy. This book is heavy; please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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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 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 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 DICTIONARY, English-Latin, and Latin-English; containing All Things necessary for the Translating of either Language into other. To which End, Many Things that were Erroneous and Rectified, many Superfluities Retrenched, and very many Defects Supplied. And all suited to the meanest Capacities, in a plainer Method than heretofore: Being (for Ease) reduced into an Alphabetical Order, and explained in the Mother-Tongue. And Towards the Compleating the English Part (which hath been long desired) here are added Thousands of Words, Phrases, Proverbs Proper Names, and many other useful Things Mentioned in the Preface to the WORK. The Eighth Edition, Enlarged.
London: S. Collins, for R. Bonwick, 1716. Not paged. Contemporary quarter calf, over marbled boards; vellum-tipped corners; red title label. Binding: 20 x 13.5 cm. Label newly replaced; spine expertly repaired. A very handsome copy.
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A DISPLAY OF HERAULDRY of the particular Coat Armours now is Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales, and several others Elsewhere; with the Names of the Families, whereby any Man knowing from what Family his is Descended, may know his particular Arms.
Chester Roger Adams for the Author, 1739. Hardcover. A late mid 19th century facsimile edition of this rare work, probably published by John Camden Hotten. 24 pages. Illustrated. Original roan backed paper-covered boards. 22 x 17 cm Spine worn; covers rubbed; internally clean; bookplate of Harold Sands to front endpaper. A very good copy.
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A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL WORDS AND PHRASES IN USE IN WILTSHIRE.
London.John Russell Smith. 1842. [iii], ix, [x], [1], 2-60pp. Original publisher's cloth with paper title label. Octavo. First edition. Spine repaired; corners a little worn; spotting to rear free endpaper; else a very good copy.
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A HEBREW GRAMMAR FOR BEGINNERS.
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1939. Hard cover. Dust-wrapper. 207 pages. Octavo. Some damp-marking to outer corners of at top edge of binding; some staining to wrapper; else a very good clean copy.
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A MAN MADE OF MONEY.
London: Bradbury and Evans, [1848] 1849. Complete set published in six monthly parts. All parts illustrated with two steel engravings by John Leech preceding text. Each part in original light green pictorial printed wrappers. 20.6 x 12.4 cms. Housed in an early 19th century slipcase of green morocco, half bound, with gilt tooling and lettering to spine, replicating a book. Some slight splitting to spines of parts with small paper loss. Slight foxing. Green cloth of case rubbed; some damp marking to cloth sides of case Else an excellent set in an attractive case.
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A PRIMER OF BIBLE GEOGRAPHY. Found on the latest explorations.
London: Sunday School Union, No date [circa 1888]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 182, [1 ad] pages. Illustrated with 6 maps. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. Spine somewhat faded; name and date on endpaper; else a very good copy.
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A SKETCH-BOOK OF R. CALDECOTT'S. Reproduced by Edmund Evans the Engraver & Printer.
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, No date [ 1883]. 48 pages. Illustrated in colour and in line. Original two-tone cloth with titling and decoration to the upper and lower panels. Oblong: 18 x 26 cm. First edition. Extremities a little worn; some light at front and start; else a very good copy of this charming book.
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A SUMMARY OF THE ROMAN LAW, taken from Dr.Taylor's Elements of the Civil Law. To which is prefixed a dissertation on obligation.
London.Printed for T. Payne. 1772. [8], lxx, 328, [32]pp. Contemporary full calf; spine with compartments and title-label, gilt. Red speckled fore-edges. 8vo. First edition. Bookplate to front paste-down endpaper; endpapers browned at edges; else a very good plus copy of a scarce book.
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A TREATISE OF THE LAW OF TITHES Compliled in part from some notes of Richard Wooddeson, Esq. D.C.L. The Second Edition, with considerable improvements.
London. J. Butterworth and Son, 1816. Hardcover. xl, 322 pages. Contemporary full calf, with red label to the spine. Octavo, measuring approximately 23.5 x 15 cm. Spine recently expertly repaired. Some foxing to endpapers and occasional spotting throughout; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, being that of Cholmeley Edward Dering Chaplain to Queen Victoria; rear free endpaper has two small pieces missing; some bumping to corners of cover; else a very good copy.
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A VISIT TO BEDSYDE MANOR. Guinness's Guide For You. Text by Stanley Penn. Illustrated by John Lord.
Arthur Guiness Son Co, No date [1965]. Softcover. A very good copy complete with Bedsyde Manor Free Admission ticket.
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ABBEY LODGE Number 2120.
A Retrospect 1886 – 1936. Illustrated. Original wrappers with ribbon tie. Quarto. A very good copy. Loosely laid in, on Abbey Lodge [Chertsey] paper, and date March 1936 is a letter from the is a letter from the Secretary of the Lodge sent with the history.
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ALMANACH pour cette Année MDCCXCI. Supputé par Mtre M. Laensbergh, Math.
Liege.Chez la Veuve S. Bourguignon. 1791. Unpaged. 152pp. First section interleaved. Last section: Almanach des Bergers, probably a separate almanack, illustrated with wood-engravings. Original Dutch flower paper-covered boards. 8.6 x 7cm's. Some paper missing from spine; shaken; but a very nice copy of a scarce title.
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An Act for the Relief of Merchants Importing Prize-Goods from America.
London: John Baskett, Printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1712. 4 pages including series title. Folio. Disbound. A very good copy.
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. [Passed 7th June 1832.] With an abstract.
London.George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode. 1835. [iii], xi, [1], 1-115pp. Original printed wrappers the whole book bound in contemporary full calf gilt. Small octavo. Head and heel of spine and board edges rubbed; bookplate; else a very good copy.
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AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COLOUR DECORATION from the earliest times to the middle of the XIXth century. With explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert.
Berlin.Ernst Wasmuth Ltd. 1928. 35pp. text, followed by 120 full-page colour plates. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Large quarto. First English edition. Head of spine a little bumped; lower outer corner of upper board a trifle worn; some faint spotting here & there in text; else a very good copy.
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