The Art of Valuing Rents and Tillages; Wherein is explained the Manner of Valuing the Tenant's Right on Entering and Quitting Farms, in Yorkshire and the Adjoining Counties by BAYLDON, J.S - 1823

1806 London fourth edition. Hardcover, modern fine binding. Condition is a mixed bag. Volume has been repaired and conserved. Modern quarter leather with marbled boards with text block resewn. Complete with all text pages, new blanks. Old water injury evident in about 75% of pages with worst injury at front and back pages. Last leaf repaired at bottom corner causing loss of a few words on p. 251/52 (see image). Some old ink stains along edges that do not extend to the interior. Old pencil mark on p.87, no other writing. Paginates: xix, 252. Subject matter is the English habit of search and seizure of American vessels and sailors which led to the War of 1812. Howes S946. Notes: First published in 1805 followed by 'new' editions every few months until fifth and final edition of 1807. The second edition (also 1805) adds a new preface and an appendix. The subsequent editions each add a new preface but otherwise appear unchanged. More notes: the interior pagination is wonky but text is complete. Needs a… Read More

London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More

xviii+99 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Small Books on Great Subjects / William Pickering, London, 1844. Ex libris of Edward J. Sowerby.
--- Cloth bound. Light wear at corners and spine ends. Pages bright and clean.
--- An introduction to Greek philosophy, published anonymously but known to be written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis (1786-1858). She was born in Wittersham, Kent. She devoted herself to scholarship and learned many languages. After a brief residence in Italy she returned to Kent and lived in Goudhurst. Cornwallis wrote the majority of the titles in Pickering's "Small Books on Great Subjects" and later made a name for herself as an advocate of women's emancipation, including the debate on married women's legal rights.

NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. Folio, 11" x 14 3/4", 701pp. plus 2pp. errata/addenda, 2000 black and white and 56 color illustrations. Light gray cloth with gilt tiles, dark blue endpapers. Catalogue raisonné with bibliography and index, originally published in 1928, revised and updated. Near Fine. For International orders additional shipping charges.

New York: Stokes, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in original dustjacket , states copyright 1930 and dated MCMXXX on bottom title page , yellow boards with black titles to spine and front , no inscriptions , no spine lean , no tears to pages , corners are sharp , bottom spine tip pushed , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , no foxing to edges , in original jacket that is not price-clipped showing $2.00 on flap , toned with age ,4 tiny chips missing to corners , a super clean copy , a scarce crime fiction title in original jacket , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999..

1806 London fourth edition. Hardcover, modern fine binding. Condition is a mixed bag. Volume has been repaired and conserved. Modern quarter leather with marbled boards with text block resewn. Complete with all text pages, new blanks. Old water injury evident in about 75% of pages with worst injury at front and back pages. Last leaf repaired at bottom corner causing loss of a few words on p. 251/52 (see image). Some old ink stains along edges that do not extend to the interior. Old pencil mark on p.87, no other writing. Paginates: xix, 252. Subject matter is the English habit of search and seizure of American vessels and sailors which led to the War of 1812. Howes S946. Notes: First published in 1805 followed by 'new' editions every few months until fifth and final edition of 1807. The second edition (also 1805) adds a new preface and an appendix. The subsequent editions each add a new preface but otherwise appear unchanged. More notes: the interior pagination is wonky but text is complete. Needs a… Read More

London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More

xviii+99 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Small Books on Great Subjects / William Pickering, London, 1844. Ex libris of Edward J. Sowerby.
--- Cloth bound. Light wear at corners and spine ends. Pages bright and clean.
--- An introduction to Greek philosophy, published anonymously but known to be written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis (1786-1858). She was born in Wittersham, Kent. She devoted herself to scholarship and learned many languages. After a brief residence in Italy she returned to Kent and lived in Goudhurst. Cornwallis wrote the majority of the titles in Pickering's "Small Books on Great Subjects" and later made a name for herself as an advocate of women's emancipation, including the debate on married women's legal rights.

NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. Folio, 11" x 14 3/4", 701pp. plus 2pp. errata/addenda, 2000 black and white and 56 color illustrations. Light gray cloth with gilt tiles, dark blue endpapers. Catalogue raisonné with bibliography and index, originally published in 1928, revised and updated. Near Fine. For International orders additional shipping charges.

New York: Stokes, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in original dustjacket , states copyright 1930 and dated MCMXXX on bottom title page , yellow boards with black titles to spine and front , no inscriptions , no spine lean , no tears to pages , corners are sharp , bottom spine tip pushed , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , no foxing to edges , in original jacket that is not price-clipped showing $2.00 on flap , toned with age ,4 tiny chips missing to corners , a super clean copy , a scarce crime fiction title in original jacket , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999..