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J Russell Smith for the British Archaeological Association, London, 1851. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 464 pages plus advertisements. Articles included are: On the Antiquities of Northfield; Antiquities of the site of Worcester Castle; On Early Monumental Effigies – with plates, the Romantic Materials of History; Details of a visit to the Crypt of Worcester Cathedral; Worcester Cathedral, its History and Antiquities; the Interrnment of Prince Arthur; the Marriage and Death of Prince Arthur; the Refounding of Worcester Cathedral; The Bishop’s Palace; Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to Worcester in 1575; On the Worcestershire Custom of Catherning; the Sepulchral Character of Cromlechs in the Channel Isles; the Cromlech at L’Ancresse, Cromlech in Jersey; Cromlechs of Alderney; Cromlech in the Isle of Anglesea (Anglesey); the Kentish Cromlech, Kit’s Coty House; Cromlechs at Addington & Trottescliffe; On the Horn Shaped Head-Dresses of the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries;… Read More

William MacKenzie, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: R Anderson. Half leather with dark red marked covers, deecorated spine with black spine-label, worn corners and spine-ends. 103 plates with explanatory letterpress. Marbled end-papers with strengthened inner hinges, sound binding, light smudging on title-page, clean pages and plates are a little darkened with very occasional light marginal foxing. Plates are: 1. Cluny - Group of Houses of the Twelfth and Fourteenth Centuries; 2 & 3. Part of the Domestic Buildings of the Monastery of St. Benedict; 4. St. Antonin; 5, 6 & 7. Clermont Montferrand; 8, 9 &10. Caylus, Villefranche, Aveyron and Cluny - Sketches of Windows, Cahors, St. Junien, St. Gilles, and Najac - Houses; 11, 12, 13, 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Cordes; 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. Figeac; 25. St. Antonin; 26. Ardennes, Near Caen - The Abbey Barn; 27 & 28. Cordes and Caylus; 29, 30, 31. St. Antonin and St.… Read More

John Murray, London, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Report to the Admiralty of the expedition that left Upernivick on 22 July 1875 and returning in October 1876. This is an ex-library copy with flaws as described. Black half-leather binding with banded spine and dark blue covers are lightly rubbed at edges, binding is sound with strengthened inner hinges. Crossed and stamped large library label is pasted to the inside of the front cover, additional end-papers (darkened), no half-title-page, frontis map has been pasted to previous end-paper with resultant wrinkles on both surfaces and a stamp of "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." on the obverse of the frontis shows through the pasted end-paper (although not visible from the map. Title-page is darkened, has a crossed out reference number in the upper leading corner and a psted paper rectangle covering a "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." stamp, small feint stamp on reverse and short closed… Read More

H D Tjeenk Willink, Haarlem, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Black and white frontis plus 10 black and white full page illustrations and 1 vignette. Half leather with marbled boards. Covers are well-rubbed with scuffing on corners and spine-ends, binding is sound. Previous owner's name at top of front end-paper. Pages are a little darkened, have occasional light foxing, have smudge marks and creases across top corners consistent with having been dropped. 96 pages. Text is in Dutch. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61115070003. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Lovell Reeve, London, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full title: The Last of the Arctic Voyages; being a Narrative of The Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., In Search of Sir John Franklin, During the Years 1852-53-54 with Notes on Natural History. Two volumes (complete) in a modern library rebind with new end-papers containing all illustrations, both monotone and coloured. Include two bound charts, one fold-out, but the two loose folded charts are missing. Both title pages have punched identifiers for Hackney Public Libraries and stamps on the reverse, there are similar punched identifiers on pages 1/2 of both volumes. There is occasional light foxing in the margins and some light foxing on some of the plates. 2-volume set (complete). No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61115070007. For… Read More

Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale Together with the Entire Vale of Calder in the County of York. Volume II. Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes and Parts Adjacent, in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the Pedigrees of Many of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Matters Relating to Those Parts; Extracted from Records, Original Evidences, and Manuscripts. To Which is Added, at the Request of Several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of His Museum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities, Particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scotch Coins, With Modern Medals. Also A Catalogue of… Read More

John Hearne, London, 1824. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full Title: Gradus ad Cantabrigiam or New University Guide to the Academical Customs and Colloquial Cant Terms Peculiar to the University of Cambridge observing Wherein it Differs from Oxford. Embellished with six coloured engravings of the Costume etc, a striking likeness of thar Celebrated character Jemmy Gordon, and Illustrated with a Variety of Curious and Entertainig Anecdotes. To Which is affixed, A Tail-Piece or, the Reading and Varmint Method of Proceeding to the Degree of A.B. Plain brown boards with neat replacement grey spine and cream spine-label. Bumped corners. Missing the "Tail-Piece". Bookplate with crest on inside front cover (motto - Pour Bien Desirer), binding sound, pages a little darkened but clean. Contains all six called-for coloured plates (including scarce "Quite Unexpected" plate at page 86) which are all clean and bright, plus uncoloured plate of Jemmy Gordon. [v],… Read More

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark green covers with gilt decoration and lettering on front, slightly sunned around edges, and gilt lettering on lightly sunned green spine. Front spine edge is very lightly rubbed. Light shelf-wear to spine-ends. Sound but slightly skewed binding. Clean pages and end-papers. Pages 35 and 40 are glued back to back, and pages 36-39 do not exist. Contains : Black and white photo Interior of City Hall, Victoria Square (Hull); Title-page; Vignettes of The Mayor of Hull, Councillor T S Taylor and Mayoress Mrs T S Taylor, The Sheriff Of Hull and the Lady Sheriff, Alderman and Mrs John Brown; Photo of Mr Frank Underhill (Plymouth), President-Elect of the National Chamber of Trade; List of Members of the National Chamber of Trade with photographs of D Dickinson (Blackpool), President, S T Nicholson (Hull), Hon. Gen. Secretary, and F Atkinson (Hull), Hon. Asst. Secretary; History of the National Chamber… Read More

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Lightly marked pale blue firm covers with gilt lettering and decoration, darkened spine, sound binding except for pages 49-64 being detached, darkened end-papers, clean pages, large fold-out colour plan has horizontal tear. Contains: Advertisements; United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Association, Hull Branch, details and portraits, Hon. Secretaries for Hull Conference including vignettes; Port of Hull Society & Sailors' Orphan Homes; The City of Hull Official Handbook with a Historical and Commercial Review, 1908 by Sir Albert Kaye Rollit and edited by H E Cooper Newham, introduction by H Feldman, Mayor containing: A Walk with the Visitor Round the Old Town; Round Modern Hull; Round the Docks; The City and Port of Hull - Historical and Commercial; The Co-operative Movement; Municipal Establishments; Visitors' Appendix; Adverisements; Index to Advertisers; Large fold-out coloured map… Read More

Published by James, John & Paul Knapton, The Crown Inn, Ludgate-Street near the West End of St. Paul’s, 1732. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The History of England. Written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras. Translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal, Vicar of Great Waltham in Essex (Vols. I & II) and Continued from the Revolution to the Accession of King George II by N. Tindal (Vols. III & IV). Packed weight approx. 10kg. Four matching contemporary full leather large folio volumes with some wear at spine-ends and rubbed edges, front joint/hinge of Volume II is split with cover attached by cords. Volume III has short split at head of front joint. Binding is otherwise sound. End-papers are a little darkened. Pages, plates, fold-out maps and tables are all clean. There is occasional light foxing to margins. Volume I – Books I-XV (15).Published 1732. Bookplate on inside front cover. Bookplate – Francis Dixon John on reverse of… Read More

John Craggs; George Lee, Hull, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Rebound in dark red half-leather and cloth covered boards, replacement end-papers. Contains fold-out map pasted to a front end-paper showing "A New Plan, of the Town of Kingston upon Hull and its Environs" which although lightly foxed is clean and free from tears. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Black and white frontis. illustration of Wilberforce monument. 69 (includes frontis, title & preface), iii. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50317021021. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Houlston & Stoneman; Nicholson & Rayner, London; Hull, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Rebound in green covers with gilt lettering on the spine with replacement end-papers. Clean pages, sound binding. Includes: Clean and intact fold-out map at front dated 1852 showing "A new Plan of Hull" with an inset engraving of "New Railway Station & Hotel" and retaining light impressions of plate edges but with taped repair on the reverse; Frontis plate of Birthplace of Wilberforse, High-Street, Hull; Advertisements at rear, one with illustration of the Marine Family Hotel, Hornsea. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50317021022. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A half-leather bound volume with banded spine and marbled covers of quarterly magazines covering a period of two years, front paper covers of each issue are bound-in, the last two quarters were published as one issue. Includes black and white plates and inset illustrations. Leather and covers are lightly rubbed at edges, bumped corners, sound binding, clean marbled end-papers, blue issue paper covers are a little darkened with light wear at some edges of some, clean pages. Articles include: January 1984: The Plate and Insignia of the Hull Corporation by Alderman Kelburne King; Some Scraps of Holderness Folk-Lore by Wm Henry Jones; The Influence of the Northmen on our Language by John Nicholson; Star Showers and Red Sub-Sets by A N Somerscales; William Wilberforce, a Biographical Sketch & Catalogue of Exhibition; The Meterology of Hull by William Lawton; The Johnson Mss Correspondence; The Old… Read More

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red covers with black and gilt lettering and simple decoration are lightly rubbed at the edges, ex-library copy with usual pasted labels, stamps and ticket wallet. Paper is split over webbing at internal hinges with some looseness in the front joint but covers are firmly attached, internal binding is sound, pages are clean but a little darkened. Many black and white illustrations. Articles include: January 1984: The Plate and Insignia of the Hull Corporation by Alderman Kelburne King; Some Scraps of Holderness Folk-Lore by Wm Henry Jones; The Influence of the Northmen on our Language by John Nicholson; Star Showers and Red Sub-Sets by A N Somerscales; William Wilberforce, a Biographical Sketch & Catalogue of Exhibition; The Meterology of Hull by William Lawton; The Johnson Mss Correspondence; The Old Walls of Hull; Notes Queries reviews etc. April 1884: Cottingham Castle and Its Lords by C… Read More

Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green, C and W B Whiiaker, London, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I dated 1824 on title-page but preface dated January 1826, volume II dated 1825 on title-page. Matching bindings with quarter leather, marbled board and marbled end-papers. Leather joints are cracked but binding is sound, rubbed cover edges, previous owners' names, clean slightly darkened pages and plates. All plates are present and show the following churches (some churches are shown on more than one plate): Volume I: Buckinghamshire - Stoke Pogis Church; Cambridgeshire - Cambridge Great St. Mary's and Holy Trinity; Essex - Borley, Lambourne, Thaxted, Theydon Nount; Gloucestershire - Camden, Cirencester, Tewkesbury; Herefordshire - Ledbury, Leominster; Hertfordshire - Sabridgeworth, St Albans Abbey Church; Kent - Ashford Church; Norfolk - Ingham, North Walsham, South Lopham, Worstead, Yarmouth. Volume II: Northamptonshire - Bulwick, Kettering;… Read More