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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. A Last Word. 8vo, turquoise cloth boards with embossed border on front and black titles on spine. Spine sun faded and worn to head and tail. 183pp with portrait frontispiece. Gift inscription from Lady Wantage (a relative by marriage of Grey) dated 1917 on front free endpaper. Inside is nice and clean. Earl Grey was not originally expected to inherit his title and began his career as a Liberal politician initially in the Commons and then in the Lords, after inheriting the Earldom. He was also a business man as a Director of the British South Africa Company, who reported directly to Cecil Rhodes, after his return from South Africa he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and finally was Governor General of Canada 1904–1911. Grey took an active interest in Women's suffrage, improvement in slum housing conditions, electoral reform in Canada and other liberal issues of the day. Ahead of his time in many things, but not all.
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Albert Fourth Earl Grey
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Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia
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London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1969. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Slim 8vo, illustrated card covers. 51pp with coloured frontis 25 other plates, 12 figures throughout text. Generally very good, inner book is in excellent condition.
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The Art Journal 1866
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London: Virtue & Co., 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Various. New Series. Vol. V. Approx. 13'' by 10'', green cloth binding with gilt titles on spine & gilt decoration on front. Corners bumped & outer spine in poor condition with parts missing, sticker mark on spine. Viii + 384pp illustrated with 34 engravings, 24 from pictures (one is absent) and 10 of sculptures, numerous other illustrations throughout text. Many artists work including Rembrandt, Turner, Elmore, Webster, Gavin, Foley etc. The articles cover subjects such as architecture, design, furniture, costume, sculpture, portraits, landscapes, classical, individual artists & movements, book reviews etc. Generally the inner book is in very good condition, with some foxing. Ex reference library with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, no other library markings. **Over 1kg & may require extra overseas postage**
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London: Virtue & Co., 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Various. New Series. Vol. II. Approx. 13'' by 10'', green cloth binding with gilt titles on spine & gilt decoration on front. Wear and tears to spine and corners. Viii + 256pp illustrated with 36 engravings (12 from selected pictures, 12 from the Turner Gallery, 7 of The Churches of Asia Minor by T. Allom and 5 from sculptures) and numerous other illustrations throughout text. Many artists work including Leslie, Goodall, Wilkie, Paton, Warren, Spence, Fontana, Turner, Etty etc. The articles cover subjects such as architecture, book decoration, design, furniture, costume, sculpture, portraits, landscapes, classical, individual artists & movements, book reviews etc. Generally the inner book is in good condition, with some foxing. Ex reference library with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, no other obvious library markings. **Over 1kg & may require extra overseas postage**
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The Art Journal 1859
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London: Virtue & Co., 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Various. New Series. Vol. V. Approx. 13'' by 10'', green cloth binding with gilt titles on spine & gilt decoration on front. Wear to spine and corners. Viii + 380pp illustrated with 35 engravings (25 from pictures and 10 from sculptures) and numerous other illustrations throughout text. Many artists work including Landseer, Van Eycken, Rubens, D. Wilkie, MacLise, Foley, Miller, Westmacott, Noble etc. The articles cover subjects such as architecture, book decoration, design, furniture, costume, sculpture, portraits, landscapes, classical, individual artists & movements, book reviews etc. Generally the inner book is in good condition, with some foxing. Ex reference library with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, no other obvious library markings. **Over 1kg & may require extra overseas postage**
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The Australian Aborigines
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London : British Museum, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Yellow pictorial cover, British Museum publication. 47pp illustrated with pictures and figures throughout text. Contents include aspects of daily life and subsistence, religion and social life, trade and exchange, art etc.
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The Babbitt Warren
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, blue paper covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Front board faded. 230pp. From a private library with a stamp on the front end paper & title page. Excellent condition inside. A treatise on aspects of American life and culture during the early 20th century. Some of the comments seem quite accurate even now.
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The Bells of Hell Go Ting A Ling A Ling
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London: Arlington Books, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo, Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards with red titles on spine. Jacket slightly sunned on spine, otherwise in very good condition. Lovely and clean inside, slight age toning on endpapers. 149pp. ‘..a moving and deeply disturbing book, but one that is full of truth and refreshing good humour..’ An account of the author’s time serving in WW1, starting when he was only 16 years of age.
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Blenheim
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The British Publishers Guild, 1941. First edition. Softcover. Very good. From Marlborough (Vol II) . Slim paperback in card covers. 126pp illustrated with a few black and white maps and plans inside. A little staining to covers, but generally very good condition. Previous owner’s name and stamp on front cover. ‘.. gives an authentic picture of one of the most vital of all battles in European history’
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The Caledonian Phalanx: Scots in Russia
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Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1987. Softcover. Very good +. An overview of the connections between Scotland and Russia. The essays illustrate the more important contributions made by Scots to the varied history of Russia. Published to coincide with the 1987 exhibition by the Scottish Library. 105pp illustrated throughout in black and white.
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The Cathedrals of Central Italy
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London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt decoration and titles on front and spine. Upper edge gilt. Viii + 321pp + 6pp publisher’s catalogue. Coloured tissued guarded frontispiece and 3 other coloured plates from paintings by Stafford Leake accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress, other black and white plates throughout text. Map on front endpapers. Undated presumed first edition. Title page printed in green and black. Contents: The Journey; The Arts subsidiary to Architecture--I. Stained Glass and Painting; The Arts subsidiary to Architecture--II. Sculpture; The Romanesque: Genoa, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoja; The Gothic--I. Siena, Orvieto; The Gothic--II. Assisi, Arezzo; The Gothic--III. Florence, Pistoja, and Lucca. Includes bibliographical references and index. A little edge wear / chipping to spine, inside nice and clean and in very good condition.
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Charters of the Royal Burgh of Ayr
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh: Ayr & Wigton Archaeological Association, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh: Edinburgh: Ayr & Wigton Archaeological Association, 1883. First edition. Very Good. First edition. Limited edition of 450 copies of which this is no. 54. Approx. 12'' by 9'', rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Xxxvi + 232pp including index, tissue guarded frontispiece, illustrated with 2 double page engraved views of Ayr, facsimiles of documents & map in text. 2 minor tears on half title page. Ex reference library with bookplate on front pastedown, number on spine, bookplate & reverse of title page, single stamp on upper edge. No other obvious library markings, inner book is clean & in very good + condition.***Over 1kg & may require extra overseas postage***
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Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
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Routledge, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part, traditional historical narratives of the English Reformation have been distinctly tone deaf. Recent scholarship has begun to take increasing notice of some elements of Reformed musical practice, such as the congregational singing of psalms in meter. This book marks a significant advance in that area, combining an understanding of theory as expressed in contemporary religious and musical discourse, with a detailed study of the practice of church music in key sites of religious worship. Divided…
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The Church of San Lorenzo at Florence
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Florence: Arnaud, 1960. First edition thus. Softcover. Very Good +. Pictorial card covers. 34pp plus numerous illustrations. Includes a plan and the historical background as well as a comprehensive description.
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Clyde River and Other Steamers
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Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Some loss of colour to the binding on covers. 254pp including index, illustrated with photographs of some of the steamers. Contains a list of the boats with the acquisition, build and disposal date, the class of steamer, length of service and other information. Frontis loose.
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Coins of Greek Sicily
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London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Slim 8vo, illustrated card covers. 31pp with coloured frontis, monochrome map of Sicily and a further 16 full page plates of the coins at the rear. Card covers are slightly discoloured, inner book is in excellent condition.
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The Commentaries of Caesar
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, series decoration in black on front. Part of the Ancient Classics for English Readers series. Vi + 182pp plus 4pp of publisher's catalogue. Some edge wear, nice and clean inside.
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The Darker Superstitions of Scotland
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Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, green cloth boards with gilt tiles on spine. Library rebound with name in gilt on front cover. Scarce first edition of this treatise on superstitions, their origins and the customs associated with them. Contents include chapters on Evil Eye, Invocations, and Maledictions; Occult Infection and Cure of Maladies; Miscellaneous Remedies, or Antidotes to Disease; Amulets; Analogies to Propitiatory Sacrifice; Propitiatory Charms; Faculties Ascribed to Sorcerers; Superstitions Relative to Marriage; Doctrine of Sympathy; Ingredients and Instruments Superstition and Sorcery; Mystical Plants; Mystical Animals; Mystical Mankind; Prognostication, Divination; Imaginary Beings; Spectral Illusions; The Tongues; Tests, Trial, Conviction and Punishment of Sorcery. With errata, Addenda and index. A fascinating book. Ex reference library with minimal markings, pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, handwritten library number to reserve of…
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A Dictionary of the English Language
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London: . & J. Offor, W. Allason et al, London , 1820. Hardcover. Good. London: . & J. Offor, W. Allason et al, London , 1820. Good. 'In Which The Words are Deduced from Their Originals and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language and An English Grammar'. Complete in 2 volumes. 4to, approx.11'' by 9''. Full leather binding, spine rebacked with gilt titles on spine, some edgewear to boards & bumped corners (see pictures). Mark on front pastedown where bookplate may have been, a couple of minor repairs, occasional foxing, but generally nice & clean inside. Vol. I 1029pp illustrated with frontispiece of Johnson, tear to page 451. Vol. II 1084ppType in 3 columes. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown, single stamp on rear endpaper & upper edge, handwritten number on reverse of title page, blind stamp on title & first page, occasionally elsewhere . No other obvious library markings,…
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Dolaucothi-Pumsaint: Survey and Excavation at a Roman Gold-mining Complex 1987-1999
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Oxbow Books, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Photographic boards, folio, 339pp, illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and diagrams. 'Dolaucothi, near the modern village of Pumsaint in south-west Wales, is the only site in Britain where the Romans are known certainly to have mined for gold. The main workings, which are thought to span various phases of exploitation from the pre-Roman through to the present, can be traced over a distance of more than a kilometre. This volume reports on a series of investigations carried out at this important complex over a period of 12 years. These investigations have helped to clarify several aspects of the mine's development, the technologies involved, and the impact of the mines on the wider cultural and environmental landscape during the later 1st and 2nd centuries, when the Romans had a major presence in the Dolaucothi area. The volume includes reports on: the new excavations and survey of the Roman fort and vicus at the village of…
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