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Birmingham, Stephen - Duchess the Story of Wallis Warfield Windsor

Little, Brown 1981, First Edition, Hardcover. . 0316096431 344 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
USD 159.50USD [Appr.: EURO 138.25 | £UK 121.5 | JP¥ 24595] Booknumber: 66057

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Chandos, John - Boys Together: English Public Schools, 1800-1864

New York, Yale University Press 1984, First, Hard Cover. . 0300032153 B/w illustrations. Contents include: The Birth Place of the Mystic, Preparation, Trial by Ordeal, Fags and their Masters, The Liberties, Liquor and Violence, A Little Learning, The Habit of Rebellion, The Unspared Rod, Nearer to God, A Demon Hovering and The New Order. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.
USD 18.00USD [Appr.: EURO 15.75 | £UK 13.75 | JP¥ 2776] Booknumber: 26652

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Bailey, Peter - Leisure and Class in Victorian England: Rational Recreation and the Contest for Control 1830-1885

Routledge & K. Paul 1978, First, Hard Cover. . 0802022588 Signed and Inscribed by Author to front free end paper. Pencil underlining through-out. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Signed by Author. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
USD 156.00USD [Appr.: EURO 135.25 | £UK 118.75 | JP¥ 24055] Booknumber: 31127

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Blake, William (Alfred Kazin, ed.) - The Indispensable Blake. Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, by Alfred Kazin

New York, The Book Society, 1950. Hardcover. Ends of backstrip lightly bumped; pages slightly toned; gift inscription on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). In very good slipcase. 713p. Illus. .
USD 25.00USD [Appr.: EURO 21.75 | £UK 19.25 | JP¥ 3855] Booknumber: 51595

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Amaldi, Ginestra - IL Nostro Mondo E L\'Universo Che Lo Circonda: Primo Volume - L\'Universo, la Terra; Secondo Volume - la Materia, la Vita

Milano, Garzanti Editore, 1966. Hardcover. Orange and navy cloth over boards; gold lettering. 2 volumes with 624 pages and 464 illustrations in color and bw, total. In board slip case with textured paper cover, illustrated and with black lettering and orange edge at opening. Includes a single, folded paper (3 pp.) of introductory information about the texts and the author. Text in Italian. All kinds of everything: maps, dinosaurs, the heavens, volcanos, animals, periodic table, isotopes, the Hydrogen bomb, cells, etc. An introduction to the science of our world and universe. VG+/VG+/Good+ with light wear to slip case and sunning to slip case top.
USD 60.00USD [Appr.: EURO 52 | £UK 45.75 | JP¥ 9252] Booknumber: 143527

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Otavsky, Karel (editor) - Riggisberger Berichte, Volume 6: Entlang Der Seidenstrasse - Frühmittelalterliche Kunst Zwischen Persien Und China in Der Abegg-Stiftung = Along the Silk Road - Early Medieval Art between Persia and China

Riggisberg, Switzerland, Abegg-Stiftung, 1998. Softcover. Pale green wraps with dark green lettering. French flaps. 382 pp. with 207 figures, 11 in full color. Text in German. A new group of silk textiles from between the 7th and 9th centuries have been causing a sensation among experts over the last few years. Their precise provenance is still unresolved. The fabrics were probably produced in the vast region between Persia and China and were made into clothing, saddle cloths and other objects. These sumptuous textiles draw their decorative imagery from the Sasanian design repertoire. They complement and thereby enrich our knowledge about the art of the Sasanians, with which we are already familiar from metalware, swords, sceptres, vases, glassware and ceramics. In this volume the Abegg-Foundation presents ten of these unique medieval weavings as well as selected stylistically related works of art from its collection. Essays include: Karel Otavsky - Stoffe von der Seidenstrasse: Eine neue Sammlungsgruppe in der Abegg-Stiftung; Regula Schorta - Beobachtungen zu frühmittelalterlichen Webtechniken; Amy Heller - Two Inscribed Fabrics and their Historical Context: Some Observations on Esthetics and Silk Trade in Tibet, 7th to 9th Century; Prudence O. Harper - Sasanian and Early Islamic Silver and Bronze Vessels; Pieter Meyers - Technical Examinations of Sasanian Silver Objects in Riggisberg; Bruno Overlaet - Sasanian Bronze Sculptures in the Werner Abegg Collection; Bruno Overlaet - Regalia of the Ruling Classes in Late Sasanian Times – The Riggisberg Strap Mountings, Swords and Archer’s Fingercaps; Jens Kröger - Gläser aus spätantiker und islamischer Zeit in der Abegg-Stiftung; Jens Kröger - Die Reliefplatten aus Chal Tarkhan-Eshqabad mit Enten und Weinblättern im sasanidischen Stil in der Abegg-Stiftung; St John Simpson - Gilt-Silver and Clay: A Late Sasanian Skeuomorphic Pitcher from Iran; Sheila S. Blair - An Inscribed Rock Crystal from 10th-Century Iran or Iraq. VG- (Clean, tight interior but with light wear to covers) .
USD 300.00USD [Appr.: EURO 260 | £UK 228.25 | JP¥ 46260] Booknumber: 148790

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- Tracts Written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. Cosmicall Suspitions. The Temperature of the Subterraneall Regions. The Temperature of the Submarine Regions. The Bottom of the Sea. To Which Is Praefixt, an Introduction to the History of Particular Qvalities

Oxford, Printed by W.H. for Ric. Davis, 1671. Leather bound. Full leather with gilt border, 5 raised bands, gilt reeded edges, brightly marbled goldish endpapers with bookplate of Charles F. Cox, New York and gilt tooling on outer borders of inner pastedowns. 6 unnumbered pages, 42 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 27 pages (page 26 erroneously as 23), 1 unnumbered page, 28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 43 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 21 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 16 pages, 2 blank sheets and endpaper. Book measures 6.5" x 4.5" A rare collection of tracts, some printed in 1669 and others in 1671, but gathered under one title-page in 1671. Title-page is followed by two-page (one sheet) Advertisement of The Publisher To The reader, then aone-page listing of errata. Followed by the following essays: An introduction to the history of particular qualities -- Of the systematicall or cosmicall qualities of things -- Cosmicall suspitions (subjoyned as an appendix to the discourse of the cosmicall qualities of things) -- Three tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. Of the temperature of the subterraneal regions, as to heat and cold ; Of the temperature of the submarine regions as to heat and cold ; Relations about the bottom of the sea (which is preceded by a one-page Advertisement for the tracts that follow). Notes from others: "Of the systematicall or cosmicall qualities of things" and "Cosmicall suspitions" each have separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous. "Three tracts" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. "Of the temperature of the submarine regions as to heat and cold" has separate divisional title page, pagination, and register. "Relations about the bottom of the sea" has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous./ Includes errata (unnumbered page 3 at beginning). Charles F. (Finney) Cox (1846-1912) was a president of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was an avid book collector as well as a self-trained scientist (and aficionado of Magic Books) whose extensive collection of Darwiniana is deposited at The New York Botanical Garden Library and are known as the Charles Finney Cox Papers. VG .
USD 2500.00USD [Appr.: EURO 2166.5 | £UK 1901.5 | JP¥ 385501] Booknumber: 173402

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MELVILLE (George John Whyte): - Uncle John. A Novel. New Edition.

London: Chapman and Hall..., 1874. FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION. 8vo, 170 x 108 mms., pp. [iv], 329 [330 blank], contemporary half hard-grain red morocco, marbled boards, spine ornately gilt, marbled edges and end-papers. Inscribed "W. G. Marshall/ Melton 1880" on recto of front free end-paper A very good copy. The entry in ODNB follows the style above, while library holdings list him as Whyte-Melville (George John). The novel was first published in three volumes, followed in a common practice for 19th century publishers, by a separate one-volume edition. In The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (2nd ed., 2009), John Sutherland writes, "A breezily attractive novel in Whyte­Melville's sub-Trollopian style. The narrative opens with a January country-house party at Plumpton Priors. The host, (Uncle) John Dennison, is a hunting man. Among his guests are a cricketing parson, Algernon Lexley, Uncle John's niece, Annie, a young Etonian, Perigord, a bored man of the world, Percy Mortimer, and Laura Blair, a woman with a past. There are some hunting scenes but the novel's main action concerns Lexley's proposal to Laura. She tells him that she is in fact the widow of a gambler killed by pirates. They nevertheless marry and Laura's first husband, Delancy, unexpectedly returns. The couple separate, but are later reunited. Delancy is killed trying to escape from prison (Algernon converts him to Christianity on his cell deathbed). The other, quieter strand of the novel follows the courtship of Annie. The end of the novel is darkened by the death (or 'run­in' as he calls it) of the amiable Uncle John." Copies of this 1874 Chapman and Hall one-volume edition appear to be uncommon in Copac libraries, with Aberdeen having a copy, while BL, NLS, and Aberdeen have copies of the three-volume edition. Curiously, the three-volume edition is also found in five continental libraries.
GBP 275.00GBP [Appr.: EURO 313.5 US$ 361.58 | JP¥ 55757] Booknumber: 8421

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[A New Series Publication]. Adler, Elmer, Alfred Stanford, & John T. Winterich - Contributors - The COLOPHON NEW SERIES. A Quarterly for Bookmen. Autumn 1936. Volume II, Number I.

New York: The Colophon New Series, 1936. 1st edition. Beige cloth binding, brown stamped design to spine and front board. [4], 157, [1 (blank)] pp. B/w intratextual illustrations. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Very light wear to binding, bookplate to ffep. A VG+ copy.
USD 16.50USD [Appr.: EURO 14.5 | £UK 12.75 | JP¥ 2544] Booknumber: 39243

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Adams, Fredrick B. - FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT To The FELLOWS Of The PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

New York: The Peirpont Morgan Library, 1953. 1st Edition. Green cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. No dust jacket. [2], 78, [6] pp including List of Fellows. Several b/w photographic images. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". A VG+ copy.
USD 11.00USD [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1696] Booknumber: 34592

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