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AN ESSAY ON THE ORGANIC DISEASES AND LESIONS OF THE HEART AND GREAT VESSELS. Together with, ON PERCUSSION OF THE CHEST By Leopold Auenbrugger.
Birmingham, Alabama. The Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. A limited editions facsimile, bound in full calf, gilt. All edges gilt. A near mint copy.
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AN EXPOSITION with Practicall Observations continued up the Thirty Second, the Thirty Third, and the Thiry Fourth Chapters of the Booke of JOB: being the Substance of Forty-nine Lectures, delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London. By Joseph Caryl, Preacher of the Gospel, and Pastour of the Congregation there.
London: M. Simmons, 1661. [16], 863, [1 blank], [28 Table],[3 book catalogue] pages. Contemporary sheep. Octavo. Leather spine absent; boards heavily rubbed and worn; some browning and water-staining; some turned cornersand the occasional very short tear; else god plus.
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An Extraordinary Chace, or The Parson and the Cat; a serio-comic satirical poem; By William Cowper of the Outer Temple, junior, Esq. [pseud]. Embellished with various engravings. Second edition.
Sheffield: T. Orton, No date [1820]. 24 pages. Illustrated with four full-page plates by Mequiner. Contemporary paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed with a new paper label. 8vo. One plate trimmed close to text beneath; else a very good copy of a scarce work. Necker 668, who failed to locate a copy of the first edition.
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AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL PALACE AT ELTHAM.
London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1828. [4], 108 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original brown cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Last leaf browned; frontispiece a little water-stained and with a corner creased; else a very good copy. The front paste-down bears the pictorial bookplate of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men. .
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AN HISTORICAL CHARACTER relating to the holy and exemplary Life of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Hastings: To which are added I. One of the Codicils of her last Will, setting forth her Devise of Lands to the Provost and Scholars of Queen’s College in Oxford, for the Interest of twelve Northern Schools. II. Some Observations resulting therefrom. III. A Schedule of her other Perpetual Charities; with the principal Rule for their Administration. By Thomas Barnard.
Leeds: Printed by James Lister, for John Swale; and Sold by. S. Birt in Ave-Maty-Lane, London; and T. Martin in Leicester, 1741. xxviii, 199 pages. Contemporary full untitled calf. 12mo. First edition. Binding rubbed; else a very good copy of this biography of the celebrated Lady Elizabeth Hastings, known as ‘Lady Betty’ (1682-1739). Extremely well known in her lifetime, Hastings was noted for her intelligence, her pious character, and her support of charitable causes.
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AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH OF CHRIST, Canterbury: containing an account of its antiquities, and of its accidents and improvements, since the first establishment. With an English translation of the epitaphs, and a south prospect of the Cathedral. The second edition, greatly enlarged, with a Preface, containing observations on the Gothic Architecture. And an Historical Account of the Archbishops of Canterbury, from Augustin to the Present Time. Together with An Elegy, written by the Rev. John Duncombe, M.A.
Canterbury: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby, 1783. [4], viii, 156 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original marbled board boards recently finely re-backed in sheep gilt to match the leather corners; black gilt label. 206 x 133 mm. Corners a little worn; bookplate to front pastedown and a small address label to rear pastedown; else an excellent clean copy in a handsome binding. The first edition was published in 1772.
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An Historical Topographical and Descriptive ACCOUNT OF THE WEALD OF KENT. With eight engravings and a map.
Cranbrook: S. Reader, 1814. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [4], vii, [ 1 errata], lvi, 277, [6] pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, recently re-backed. Octavo. First edition. Some foxing to Index; some offsetting of plates; bookplate of George Lyall; else a very good copy.
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AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OF FENCING, wherein the use of the small sword, is rendered perfectly plain and familiar; being a clear description and explanation of the various thrusts used, with the Safest and Best Methods of Parrying, as practised in the present age. To which is added a Treatise on the Art of Attack and Defence. By C. Martelli, late pupil of the Academy at Florence, and Preceptor to many of the Nobility of Paris.
London: J. Bailey, 1819. 36 pages. Folding, engraved frontispiece depicting twelve moves. Contemporary cloth with red leather gilt label to the spine. 12mo. First edition. Frontispiece has off-setting and some foxing; small piece cut from the top of the title-page – presumably a name; else a very good copy of this scarce work.
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An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; In Two Treatises. I’ Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design. II. Concerning Moral Good and Evil.
London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, J. Osborn and T. Longman, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and A. Ward, 1729. xxii, [2], 304 pages. Octavo. Contemporary panelled calf gilt, recently and finely re-backed. Binding a little worn at corners; else a very good copy.
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ANALYSIS OF MR TENNYSON'S IN MEMORIAM.
London.Smith, Elder, and Co. 1862. Not Paged., but a total of 56pp., including prelim's and ad's at rear. Black pebbled semi-stiff cloth, gilt. Small octavo. First edition. Small bookseller's label to bottom corner of paste-down endpaper. Minor wear to head and heel of spine; rear hinge cracking. A very good copy.
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ANCIENT EGYPT. Quarterly Journal of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. (Part publications bound in four volumes.] March 1924 to December 1931. Each volume contains eight parts, spanning two years. The original front wrappers have been bound in to the first two volumes, but omitted in the last two.
London. Macmillan and Co. 1924-1931. Illustrated throughout. Each volume is bound in full calf, gilt. Top edge gilt. Slight darkening of spines; else a handsome run of this important journal.
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ANGLING.
London.The Field. 1877. viii, 132pp. Illustrated with four full-page plates. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Rear inner hinge just cracking; some damp-marking on upper cover; else a very good copy.
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ANTHROPOLOGY. Translated by Robert T.H. Bartley M.D. [The Library of Contemporary Science.]
London.Chapman and Hall Limited. 1878. i-xvi 1-548pp. 49 woodcuts within the text. Original green decorative cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Errata slip present. Bookplate. Previous owner's note to front free endpaper. Booksellers stamp to half-title page. A very good bright copy.
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ANTONY GORMLEY.
London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1995. 160 pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. Softback. First edition. Signed by Antony Gormley on the front blank flyleaf. A fine copy.
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APOLOGIA ECCLESIÆ ANGLICANÆ. Auctore Joanne Juello, olim Episcopo Sarisburiensi. CumVersione Græca J. S. Bcc. In Art. Coll, Mag. Quondam Socii. Rom.I. Non enim me pudet Evangelii Christi: Potentia Siquidem est Dei, ad salute omni credenti, &c.
Oxonii: Excudebat Guilielmus Turner, Impensis Guilielmi Webb, 1639. [12], 331 pages. text alternate page of Latin and Greek. Later binding, possibly late 18th or early nineteenth century, full untitled red, roan. Binding: 14.5 x 9.8 cm. Binding worn at splitting at bottom of upper joint, but firm; else a very good copy. John Jewel was an English Bishop who published his Apology of the Church of England in 1562 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It was the first methodical statement of the position of the Church of England against the Church of Rome, and forms the groundwork of all subsequent controversy. The work was translated into English to reach a wider audience and was a significant step in the intellectual justification of Protestantism in England.
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APPENDIX to the History and antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford containing Fasti Oxonienses. Or a commentary on the Supreme magistrates of the University By Anthony Wood, M.A. Now first published in English, from the original MS in the Bodleian Library; with a continuation to the present time, also additions and corrections to each college and Hall; and indexes to the whole: by the Editor John Gutch.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1790. [4], 330, [55] pages. Recent quarter calf, gilt over marbled boards; vellum tips. 4to. First edition. Blind stamp of Free Wigan Public Library to title; a very good, clean copy, now in a handsome binding.
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ARCADIAN BALLADS with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Heinemann, 1978. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First trade edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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ARCHITECTURAL NOTES ON GERMAN CHURCHES; with notes written during an architectural tour in Picardy and Normandy. The third edition to which are added Notes on the Churches of the Rhine, by M. F. De Lassaulx, Architectural Inspector to the King of Prussia.
Cambridge.J. and J. J. Deighton. 1843. xv, [1], [1], 2 - 333pp.+ Illustrated with four engraved plates. Bound in later full buckram, gilt. Octavo. Some light browning and spotting to the plates, and a few spots on the title; else a very good copy.
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ART OF COSTA RICA. Pre-Columbian Painted and Sculpted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Edited by Lois Katz.
Washington. The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1985. Hardback in an unclipped dust-wrapper. Folio. First edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper. This book is very heavy; please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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ASHFORD: The Church, Vicars, College, and Grammar School.
Ashford: Thompson, 1886. xx, 164 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Nicely re-backed, with the original spine laid down and new endpapers; ownership name and date on title; else a very good, clean copy. Scarce
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