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M[atthew]. Carey, American bookseller and publisher [24]pp., 12mo, unbound (formerly bound into a book?), crude repair to spine, partly detached leaves, foxing, text clear and complete. Subjects; Voyages, Travels, Geography, and Topography; Miscellaneous; Divinity; Medicine, Surgery and Chemistry; Novels, Romances, etc.; Education (most... |
£580.00 | |
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Nathan Haskell Dole, editor. Book Culture, vol. 1, nos 1-4 [of 7, all published] Pp. 16' 16; 32-56; 57-80, one coloured frontispiece.Some wear and tear, marking and sunning, fair condition, complete. Articles and advertising aimed at the book-collector (for example "A Prince of Collectors" (Jean Grolier)). |
£50.00 | |
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Percy J. Dobell, bookseller. Two Autograph Notes Signed "P.J. Dobell" to C.J. Windle. 4to, good condition. Dobell describes a defective "tract" ("A Precious Apple") and speculates on its authorship (Lady Eleanor Douglas). He will send it to be examined. Another hand (presumably Windle) has added pencil notes on the reference works which do not list the item and speculating "... |
£50.00 | |
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R. A. Brimmell; Boris Harding-Edgar (Charles Rare Books) Forty-four pages, octavo, with two-page leaf of addenda loosely inserted. Four pages illustrating seventeen pictorial covers on art paper. In printed card wraps. A worn and creased copy of an influential catalogue, issued at a time when, as the introduction points out 'catalogues devoted to... |
£120.00 | |
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R. Helder, Bookseller and Printer, 10, Duke Street, West Smithfield, London. Printed Advertisement Leaf containing list of books printed by him. Two pages, on a rough-edged leaf approximately seven inches by four. Good, though aged and a lightly stained. A highly interesting list of twenty-seven titles by a radical publisher. Several works relating to Robert Wedderburn and Thomas Davison. Also 'The Cast-Iron Parson', 'A Peep after Hell'... |
£450.00 | |
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Richard Lemmon Gregory, 'The Respected Librarian at MR. LODER'S ESTABLISHMENT, North St. Brighton.' [Robert Loder; Circulating Libraries] Dimensions of paper roughly eight and a half inches by six and a half wide. Illustration roughly five and a half inches by five wide. Good on slightly aged and creased paper. A grey-haired Gregory, fashionably dressed in striped waistcoat and cravat, and wearing a white apron, stares at the... |
£75.00 | |
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T[homas] Osborne, bookseller and publisher, of Grays Inn. Catalogue, "Books Printed for T. Osborne, in Grays Inn". Four pages, bifoliate, 8vo, [collation] x2A2,text clear and complete, stab-holes, and rough extraction from a book has led to chipping. He advertises fourteen titles fully described, arramged by format (folio, quarto, octavo), subjects including history, law, botany, religion. The works were... |
£300.00 | |
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The Booksellers' Provident Institution [Thomas Bolton, wood engraver; William Henry Prior (c.1812-82), illustrator] Landscape. Dimensions of paper roughly nine inches by thirteen and a half. Trimmed. Clear image on aged and foxed paper. Captioned 'This ENGRAVING of the BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT RETREAT at Abbots Langley, Herts, erected upon ground presented by JOHN DICKINSON, ESQ. is respectfully dedicated to... |
£250.00 | |
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Theophile Barrois fils, Libraire, French bookseller and publisher. Invoice/Receipt signed indecipherably on behalf of Th. Barrois to Lord Glenbervie One page, 4to, good condition. Books include English grammars in French, Pope's Works, Guarini's "Pastor Fido". Broiefly docketed presumably by Glenbervie. |
£65.00 | |
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Thomas Butter, bookseller, "near St Martins lane in Exon [Exeter]" c.3.5 x 2.5", verso blank, manually trimmed hence irregular, minor defects. He also advertises his sale of "Mathematical and Sea Instruments, several sorts of Physical Medicines [Dr Daffy's, Stoughton's, "Spirit of Scurvy Grass Golden or Plain"] . . . Also the famous Cephalick or Liquid-snuff... |
£150.00 |
