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- The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England: containing the Representations of All the English Monarchs, from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth; and of many persons that were eminent under their several reigns; ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $525.68
- Publisher: London: Henry G. Bohn, Date Published: 1842
- Description: on sixty copper plates, engraved by the author: with a supplement, containing twelve plates. The whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts. By Joseph Strut A New and Improved Edition, with Critical and Explanatory Notes, by J. R. Planche; large quarto (31 cm. tall), [2] (title leaf), iv, 151, [1] (blank) pp., 72 hand colored plates with plate 57 used as frontispiece as it should be; the first 60 plates hand colored in rich colors (very handsome but the lesser state, without the addition of gold), the last 12 with the colors subtle; half morocco with top edge gilt; binding rubbed with library call number at tail of spine, library book plate, text and illustrations near fine. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, England, color plate books, costume, royalty, oversize Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 584974
- Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860. Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army, Panoramas, etc. From the Library of J. R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue.
- ISBN: 1556601298 Price: $108.90
- Publisher: San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, Date Published: 1991
- Description: facsimile of the 1953 edition; small folio (leaves slightly taller than 31 cm.), xxi, [1], [428] pp., 32 plates and a color frontispiece that is new for this edition; near fine in jacket and publisher's cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: books about books, color plate books, PKB Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 758426
- The Laws of Honour: Or, A Compendious Account of the Ancient Derivation of All Titles, Dignities, Offices, &c. as well spiritual as temporal, etc., etc., etc.
- ISBN: NA Price: $150.02
- Publisher: London: Printed for R. Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown, Date Published: 1714
- Description: octavo binding copy, text darkened or browned but still quite supple; hence good; . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British History Genealogy Feudalism Knighthood Novility Royalty Show items similar to this.
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- The Bristol Contest. Part II
- ISBN: NA Price: $118.05
- Publisher: (Bristol: W. Pine,) Date Published: 1791
- Description: Part 2 only; [part title leaf], 81-152 pp.; library markings, later cloth, text age toned and last leaf has chip at fore edge not touching text, good+ only; concerns the contested election between Henry Cruger and George Daubeny in 1781, this part includes poetry and the words to songs occasioned by the dispute. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, Bristol, England Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 395814
- A New and Complete History of the County of York. Illustrated by a Series of Views, engraved on steel from original drawings by Nathaniel Whittock.
- ISBN: NA Price: $207.14
- Publisher: London: I. T. Hinton and Holdsworth & Ball Date Published: 1829
- Description: 6 volumes, octavo edition, ex library, half leather bindings badly rubbed, especially at spines, with some hinges weak or cracked the second volume is from a different binding and very worn with spine crudely cloth taped, front hinge broken, and missing the frontis. with one of the interior plates margin chipped, most of the plates in the other volumes have age spotting, a working set only. Volumes Included: 6
- Subject: British history, Yorkshire, England Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 431792
- Illustrated London News. Volume 54
- ISBN: NA Price: $306.00
- Publisher: London Date Published: 1869
- Description: vol. 54 nos. 1519-1545 (January to June, 1869), complete volume, bound in later red quarter leather, well illustrated, very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British History Royalty International Affairs Military History Americana bak Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 255710
- Illustrated London News. vol. 26
- ISBN: NA Price: $362.66
- Publisher: London Date Published: 1855
- Description: quarto, later binding, vol. 26 nos. 725-750 (January to June, 1855), some external defects but text is still clean and good. Well illustrated!. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British History Royalty International Affairs Military History Crimean War BAK Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 255704
- An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion In the Year MDCXXXIX. To the Murther of King Charles I. ... (Volume 1)
- ISBN: NA Price: $532.06
- Publisher: London: Printed for S. Meane etc., Date Published: 1682
- Description: Volume 1 only, covering the period 1639-1641 (the concluding volume was published the following year and is not present here); folio (32.5 cm. tall), [1 leaf] ("The Mind of the Frontispiece."), [engraved frontis.], [3 leaves] (title and dedication), lxxix, [1] pp., [8 leaves] (table), 817 pp.; old calf very worn with sides detached, explanation of frontis. detached and tattered at margins, library hand stamp and pen note on title, expected age toning to text: Wing N106,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, British history, oversize Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 585020
- Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of His Majesty, The Nobility, and the Public Collections, etc., etc., etc.
- ISBN: NA Price: $195.95
- Publisher: London: Printed for Harding and Lepard, Date Published: 1829
- Description: 12 volumes, illustrated with approximately 216 steel engravings; small quarto (page size is 6.75 x 10.5 inches), later 19th century blind & gilt stamped red leather, a.e.g., foxing mostly to the margins of the plates, bindings worn, old library control numbers to the spines, small book plates to each front paste down; overall good. Volumes Included: 12
- Subject: British History Nobility Royalty Genealogy Engravings big sets Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 506075
- [Basilike, in Greek]. The Workes of King Charles the Martyr: with A Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers concerning the Differences betwixt His said Majesty and his Two Houses of Parliament.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,515.19
- Publisher: London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, Date Published: 1662
- Description: first collected folio edition and first edition of the Life; folio (35.5 cm. tall), [[general title leaf] (A3), [dedication leaf], [copyright leaf], [title leaf for first part with short contents on verso], [2 leaves] (contents), 1-120 (Life with “Richard Perrinchiefe” on a printed slip pasted in at bottom of page 118, perhaps the publisher had some qualms over the alleged plagiarism from William Fulman), [2] (Eikon half title), 1-198 (including half titles for Henderson Papers and Prayers), [2] (half title for Messages for Peace), 199- 258 (including three half titles, Declarations, Letters, and Speeches), [1] (Elegie), [1] (blank) pp., [title leaf for second part with engraved vignette] (A Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other Principal Passages … with short contents on verso), [3 leaves] (preface, contents), [1]-733 (including 6 half titles), [1] (blank) pp., [2 leaves] (Historical Table), lacks all of the engraved material i.e. Royal Arms, engraved title, frontispiece to the Eikon, and the two plates in second part, also the final leaf with Flesher’s colophon; old calf binding extremely worn, missing large portions of covering on back cover and spine with front cover detached; library hand stamps, early leaves and one interior leaf detached and tattered at margins with no loss, titles neatly ruled in red ink, a few small burn holes, general light age toning to text, signatures of previous owners (John Elting, Samuel Hawkins, and one partially crossed out, Grove[s?] Bend) on general title and dedication; Almack 61, Madan 65 “… Royston mentions that the greater part of this edition of the Works perished in the Great Fire.”, Wing C2075. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, British literature monarchism oversize Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 585178
- A Treatise upon Sundry Matters Contained in the Thirty Nine Articles of Religion, which are professed in the Church of England. Long since written and published by Thomas Rogers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $255.42
- Publisher: London: Printed by John Legatt, and are to be sold by Richard Thrale, Date Published: 1639
- Description: small octavo (18 cm. tall), [18 leaves] (beginning with title), 222 (actually 236 after accounting for numerous pagination errors) pp.; general age toning with early and late leaves dark and lightly tattered at margins, a few old pen marks in margin of second leaf, rebound in modern cloth; STC 21233. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: religion, British history, Church of England Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 530518
- The Illustrated London News. Vol. 27, July to Dec. 1855.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,190.67
- Publisher: London: William Little Date Published: 1855
- Description: vol. 27 nos. 751-779 (July to December, 1855), bound, lacking pp. 61/62 (ads?); pp. 261-264 bound out of sequence; folding map of Paris torn internally; pp. 267-278: folding plates issued withut explicit page numbers!; pp. 673-688 & 729-736 lacking and possibly not issued; December supplement NOT INCLUDED; well illustrated, some external wear but in all near very good,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British History Royalty International Affairs Military History Crimean War OVERSIZE Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 735381
- The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Upon an Impeachment of High Treason by The Commons then Assembled in Parliament, In the Name of Themselves and of all the Commons in England: ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $597.99
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Wright ... and Richard Chiswell, Date Published: 1680
- Description: Begun in Westminster-Hall the 22th of March 1640, and Continued before Judgment was Given until the 10th of May, 1641... Faithfully Collected, and Impartially Published, Without Observation or Reflection, by John Rushworth of Lincolnes-Inn, Esq.; first edition; narrow folio (slightly taller than 31 cm.), [5 leaves] (beginning with title), 1- 76, 101-252, 401-786 pp. as issued, portrait frontispiece; old calf badly worn with front cover detached, title leaf cut close at top margin with border almost touched, general light age toning to interior with occasional light age staining; not being guilty of the charges against him proved an inadequate defense and "Black Tom Tyrant" was sent to Tower Hill to lose his head; Wing R2333. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, British history, treason trials, oversize Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 584971
- The Case of the Royal Martyr Considered with Candour; or, An Answer to Some Libels Lately Published In Prejudice to the Memory of that Unfortunate Prince ... (etc. etc.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $75.04
- Publisher: London: J. Richardson, Date Published: 1758
- Description: 2 volumes bound as 1, lxii, 336 pp. + [ii], 221 pp.; library hand stamps, name of a previous owner on first title, general age toning with one leaf lightly tattered, well sewn but needs rebinding; includes contributions by Thomas Birch, and George Coade. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, British history, Charles I of England Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 477253
- Tragicum theatrum actorum, & casuum tragicorum Londini publice celebratorum, quibus Hiberniae proregi, episcopo cantuariensi, ac tandem regi ipsi, aliisque vita adempta, & ad anglicanam metamorphosin via est aperta.
- ISBN: NA Price: $672.58
- Publisher: Amstelodaim, apud Jodocum Jansonium Date Published: 1649
- Description: first edition in Latin; 24mo (slightly shorter than 14 cm.), 320 pp. beginning with title, but not including the Benevole Lector between F2 and F3 consisting of two leaves one of which is numbered “pag.85” on recto and the other unnumbered, in addition to the regular pages 85-88, has all of the eight portraits (including the sometimes missing Holland plate) and the double page “White Hall” plate showing the execution of Charles I; full dark blue morocco with all edges gilt; small modern book plate, a brief written description attached to first binder’s blank, general light age toning with title darker; a very good+ copy in an attractive binding; Madan (Eikon) 114. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: whx British history, Charles I, King of England Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 611956
- Lettres Historiques; Contenant ce qui se passe de plus important en Europe et les reflexions necessaires sur ce sujet.
- ISBN: NA Price: $5,855.43
- Publisher: A La Haye: Chez Adrian Moetjens, Date Published: 1696
- Description: 12mo, SIXTY-ONE VOLUMES, lacks 1792#1l 1796#2l and 1709#4; old leather , some age spotting & old water stains w/ consequent marginal disintegration of some pages (NOT AFFECTING TEXT) and general weakness or brittleness to covers; still a handsome example of an exceedingly scarce news periodical AND still largely UNPERUSED! The collection:. Volumes Included: 50
- Subject: Contemporary History News Magazines European Studies Genealogy Royalty Military Affairs Colonialism Nationalism Religion Business History Rare Books Office Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 118191
- Memoirs of the House of Orleans; including Sketches and Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Characters in France During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
- ISBN: NA Price: $223.05
- Publisher: London: Richard Bentley, Date Published: 1849
- Description: 3 volumes, newly rebound in cloth, untrimmed as issued, minor age spotting and, in all, still quite clean. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: European History Orleans French History Royalty Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 506295
- Della Robia Papers. Suggestions for Their Use Together with a Short Treatise on the Work of Della Robia.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,110.08
- Publisher: Springfield: United States Envelope Company, P. P. Kellogg Division, Date Published: 1926
- Description: folio (slightly larger than 12 x 18.5 inches), orange paper covered boards with blue cloth spine and embossed onlay on cover, illustrated endpapers, unpaginated but most of the volume consisting of seven sections of two doubled pages of various colored stock with text and illustrations on facing pages, a page of tipped color samples, and a page with two large tipped envelopes; the orange paper covered box soiled with corners split, book very near fine; a de luxe paper sample book.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: books about books, paper making, art, design, oversize Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 584786
- The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and Other Vestiges of Former Ages, Accompanied by Descriptions. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $275.00
- Publisher: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown etc., Date Published: 1814
- Description: first book edition; 2 volumes, approximately 34.5 cm. (tall) x 26 cm. with edges untrimmed (this size usually called the Royal impression), Volume 1 [printed title leaf], ["the proprietors of the 'Border Antiquities' beg to inform their subscribers ?" leaf], cxxvii, [1], 92 pp., frontis., pictorial title, 45 plates + [printed title leaf], [93]-209 (pagination continuous with first volume), [2] (list of plates calling for 98 plates but see below), ci (appendixes), [1], [11] (index), [1] (printer's imprint, T. Davison) pp., frontis., pictorial title, 44 plates; some guards watermarked 1816 and some text watermarked 1806, the illustrations engraved by John Greig are on heavy paper and after letters with the views of Lanercost Priory in double rules; original boards with printed cover label " ? Large Paper ? Proof Plates. Price [pound sign]14. 16s.", sides fully or almost detached, first volume lacks spine covering, the second has spine label intact but the cover label scuffed and worn with loss, later fabric covered paper protectors worn and frayed with the spine covering for first volume detached, first blank detached and badly wrinkled, pencil marginalia in introduction to first volume, occasional age speckling to plates, but overall very good, dark impressions, both volumes have armorial book plate of James Jackson Craig; ideally there should be a total 94 plates but William B. Todd notes in his informative article "The Early Editions and Issues of Scott's Border Antiquities? in Studies in Bibliography " ? the work is very unstable, originally issued in several forms not represented by any of the copies I have seen and, of those observed, now existing in variants differing with every exemplar.",. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: Great Britain, England, Scotland, British literature Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 539661
- Ein Beitrag zur Purpurkunde. Im Anhange: Neue Ausgaben seltener alterer Schriften uber Purpur. (I.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $569.74
- Publisher: Berlin: Mayer & Muller Date Published: 1898
- Description: the first of a series of volumes gathering treatises on the subject of purple as a color, most in their original languages only; [iv], 364 pp., frontis., 3 plates with two of them folding; ex library, later quarter leather rubbed, text age toned with some margins repaired, complete but reading copy only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: purple, color, dyes, dyeing, symbolism of colors Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 617276
