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Windsor: Printed for the Author, 1787. 239-455pp. A complete run of the rare magazine in first issue from nos 21-40. Each issue has a separate printed title-page. Original half-calf binding with marbled boards and five raised bands. Worn and rubbed. All issues dated 1787 with the imprint 'Sold by C. Knight, Windsor 1787 [Entered at Stationers Hall]'. Produced as a… Read more about this item

London: J. Dodsley, 1780. On Presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th February,1780) a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Oeconomical Reformation of the Civil and Other Establishments.....[ii half-title], 95pp.[96 blank]. Includes America, Canada, and the West Indies discussion p70-79. Dis-bound copy from a nonce volume. Lacking covers. 21cms. Many variants… Read more about this item

London: J. Debrett, 1795. Proved by the Author to have been the most vulnerable Part of Consequence in the whole Island, in the Situation it was left in the Year 1794....iv, 134pp [page 121-134 mis-numbered 105-118] Dis-bound copy from a nonce volume. Tilte-page a trifle dusty otherwise a fresh and clean copy lacking covers. 'Most respectfully addressed to Right… Read more about this item

London: John Mason, 14 City-Road, 1850. NDc1850's. 734pp. Frontis. portrait. Orig. pub. 1779. A new edition with the original preface dated 1779 present. Pub. full calf, rubbed.. a new Edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London: Jeremiah Bright, James Brooks, John Stuart and James Holland, 1712. 52, 293pp, Lives of the Apostles 103pp. Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 5 double-page engraved maps and plans 259 plates on 130 sheets by Kip and others after G. Freeman and others. Translated by Dr Anthony Horneck. Folding plan of Jerusalem worn with damage to the… Read more about this item

Nottingham: C. Sutton for the Flying Stationera, 1800. 8pp on a single uncut sheet. Full title-page with lyre and horn block decoration.. Printed on grey wove paper. 'and who desire the salvation of their immortal souls; showing, by scripture truths, the way to attain everlasting life'.A very fine copy of a scarce Chapbook with no 7 in tiny print… Read more about this item

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1832. Upon the History of Jacob Delivered During Lent, 1828, at the Church of St. Luke, Chelsea....xii, 244pp. [first pub. 1828]. Blunt was minister of Trinity Chapel, Sloane Street , Chelsea. Original polished brown half-calf with gilt black morocco labels to the spine and marbled boards. Matching marbled end-papers. A very attractive simple binding in… Read more about this item

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1774. ..From the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Third to the Thirteenth Year of George the Third Inclusive...xii, xiv, x, 926pp, index [xiv to the eleventh volume]. The Statutes from 1771-1773. INCLUDES 14 Statutes relating to Plantations. Inscribed 'Langley Brackenbury, Spilsby'. Spilsby is a small town in the East… Read more about this item

London: J. Limbird, The Strand, 1827. 360pp. Original ribbed buckram with paper label. Nos 232-255. Jan 6th - May 26th 1827. 23 original issues each with a wood cut engraving to the head of the edition. Long folding plate [in need of cleaning and pressing but complete] in a supplementary issue [No 237] showing the funeral procession of the Duke… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1700. C1700. Contemporary full red leather binding with attractive woven gilt border edge design. 48 full page engraved plates after Adriaan Van Derr Werff [1659-1722] by variuous important engravers of the late seventeenth century including P.A Gunst, G. Valck, Vermeulen, Pitaut, 27x24cms. Pasted to the blank leaf at the beginning is a title-page page engraving from another early work… Read more about this item

Nottingham: Thoroton Society, 1947. ..IN THE ARCHDEACONRY COURT OF NOTTINGHAM 1947 Vol. X Part II..161-285pp, ix. Original green paper wrappers [trifle crease at the lower corner]. Only 150 copies printed. The second volume of of marriage liciences from 1765-1770. With the title-page, index and introduction for the binder of the two volumes at the rear. Scarce item.. Soft Cover. V.g..… Read more about this item

Doncaster: Hartley and Son, 1884. 6pp. Original printed paper wrappers. A report by the Chairman, William Aldman and accounts for the year ending 1884. On December 31st 1883 there were 70 girls under detention. The residental school opened in 1861 and closed in 1891. A rare pamphlet.. original edition. Soft Cover. V.g.. 8vo.

London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. Frontis, xii, 290 pages, 6 woodcut plates after William McConnell and engraved by the Bros Dalziel. Original green cloth with embossed gilt block dec. surrounded by a floral embossed border repated on the reverse. Spine gilt titles and decoration. Small neat owners stamp to the original yellow end-papers. A nice copy.. 1st UK edition. Hardback. Fine.… Read more about this item

Huddesfield: Sikesand Smart, 1800. 96pp. Disbound copy. Engraved frontis-plate showing a planter and a matlock. Paper watermarked 1797. A rare and complete copy of the undated 1st edition. The full title reads 'The profitable planter : A treatise on the cultivation of larch and Scotch fir timber: showing that their excellent quality ... will render them so extensively useful, as… Read more about this item

Leeds: Edward Baines, 1813. ..PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE SPECIAL COMMISSION AT THE CASTLE, AT YORK, OPENED THIS DAY......71pp. Disbound copy complete. 21cms. The Commission and trial of the West Yorkshire workers who organised and rose up against the mill owners who had changed the laws of the land to make it a capital offence to break up weaving frames. The… Read more about this item

London: J. Badcock; J.Ginger; J. Asperne; and R. Hutton, 1803. ..arrested by order of the French government at the commencement of hostilities; with the transactions on the arrival of the First Consul at Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk, and.....to the End of July..38pp. [p15/16 incomplete], Grubby title-page and lose but a rare pamphlet. William Wrigh was translator to General Brabançon,… Read more about this item

London: J. Adlard, 1801. ..AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC As Ratified By Both Parties with Observations..15 [i]pp. Single column text with a separate title-page. 15 articles detailed including XIII relating to the Newfoundland Fisheries.This exceedingly rare pamphlet published in 1801 concerns the early talks to end the French war. These talks were conducted between Lord Hawkesbury and a mysterious Frenchmen just… Read more about this item

London & New York: George Virtue & Co,, 1853. clx, 832, iv, 1052p., 2477 wood engravings, 40 steel engravings. Vol. 1 Abbatoir to Hair-Pencils with the engraved title-page 'The Bell Rock Lighthouse'; Vol. 2 Hammer to Zirconium with the engraved title-page 'The Great Britain leaving Liverpool 1853'. Bound in the orginal blue buckram with gilt block to each cover surrounded… Read more about this item

London: Luke James Hansard, 1844. RELATING TO PRIVATE BILLS AND OTHER MATTERS 1685-1844.. 126pp. Folding plan of a 'proposed' development. Table of fees etc,etc. Original card covers with printed title to the covers. Signed to the upper from by Mr [William] Aldam.[Frickley Hall] He was a Liberal Party politician and MP for Leeds between 1841 and 1847. Spined frayed… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1850. 32pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Imprint Saint-Cloud Imprimiere de Belin-Mandar. Piquet was a card trick taking game invented in the sixteenth century. This very rare mid-ninteenth century French edition of the rules has the orginal covers depicted a design of cards as a border. No copy traced in Copac.The date is mid-nineteeth century… Read more about this item