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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. [4], v-xi, [1], 319pp, [1]. Original buckram in DJ. Very minor wear, generally bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good+. 8vo.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1963. x, [4], 310pp, [2], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine very slightly water marked, otherwise bright and clean. With a typed review by W.D. Howarth. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xx, 214pp, full morocco, smooth back, author, title and publisher in gilt to spine, a.e.g. with marbled endpapers. Presentation label to front pastedown (from Jesus College). Howarth's own copy of his festschrift in a presentation binding. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+/No Jacket (as Issued). 8vo.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. viii, [2], 111pp, [1], original decorative cloth, no DJ (presumably as issued). Spine slightly faded, otherwise fairly bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.

Paris: S.E.R.G., 1968. Title and 4pp of text with photographic plates numbered 1 to 70, loose leaves in a card chemise. Chemise slightly worn and very lightly soiled, internally some minor foxing but generally quite bright and clean, with all leaves called for. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to.

Paris: Jack Petit, 1970. [32]p, original card covers in original glassine. Very minor rubbing, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Poster.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xiv, 296pp, original laminated boards, bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). 8vo.

Paris: Adolphe Laine, 1872. [3], 4-68pp, original decorative cloth, title in gilt within ornate frame to upper cover, with corner pieces in blind. Rubbed to extremities, corners lightly bumped, small black mark to centre of upper cover, endpapers browned, label of 'The Friends Meeting House Clevdon' to front pastedown and previous owner's name (John Frank - one of the members of the 'Comite General de Angleterre') to front free endpaper, but otherwise internally fairly bright and clean. French text. The "first official Friends War Victims Relief Committee (FWVRC) was set up in 1870, following the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ... Their work fell into three phases. Firstly, following the siege of the town of Metz, they provided emergency famine relief, and later experimented with the new-fangled steam ploughing in order to provide urgently needed help with planting the next harvest. The second, less successful stage was in working class districts of Paris following the… Leer más

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. xi, [1], 425pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. Spine of DJ very slightly dulled, small sticker to ffep, otherwise quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Paris: Firmin Didot, 1836. Printed certificate, edges mounted on linen which is stretched and pinned over a light wood bearer, approximately 365mm x 260mm in size. Heavily browned, slightly chipped to edges, lightly foxed with ink spot towards the right hand edge, some writing in pencil to reverse. Early, the Society was formed in 1830, membership certificate, for a Mr. Gilbertson, probably William Gilbertson of Preston (1788-1845), a pharmaceutical chemist and keen collector of fossils, some of whose collection was used by John Phillips to illustrate his monograph 'Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire'. Gilbertson's collection of fossils "suffered a convoluted fate. In 1841 at least some of it was purchased by the Zoological Branch of the then Natural History Department of the British Museum, (now the Natural History Museum) by the recently appointed Keeper of the Zoological Branch, J E Gray. Its housing stimulated much debate. Gray insisted that fossil organisms should be… Leer más

London: Burgess Printed, single sided tissue, approximately 355mm x 355mm in size, n.d. c.1906? Missing a piece about five inches in length to top right hand corner / side, a few spots of light foxing, otherwise fairly bright. Flower corner pieces, overprinted with images of British soldiers, with text beneath. The band is part of the Gendarmerie. [Sarah] Burgess specialised in the printing of these commemorative tissues, generally the decorative borders were printed in Japan, with the overprinting which was "commonly primitive .. and display a ... disregard for niceties of typography and spelling" (Rickards, page 221) done locally. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Commemorative Tissue.

Paris: Bureau De L'eclipse Colour lithographs loosely laid in a contemporary half morocco album, lettered 'Souvenirs du Siege de Paris' in gilt to upper cover, heavily worn, with boards splitting from spine and weak. Comprising mainly of Draner's works making up his 'Au Bureau de l'Eclipse' portfolio, n.d. c.1872, namely 'Souvenirs du Siege de Paris - La Defenseurs de la Capitale' complete with a title and thirty-one plates; his 'Paris Assiege' with plates one to twenty-four only (of thirty-one - see Le Quillec 1498); and his 'Soldats de la Republique', with plates one to six and eight to twenty-four (so twenty-three of thirty-one plates), also included are a couple of steel engravings and a few modern newspaper cuttings about the Commune and with an incomplete copy of Cham and Daumier's 'Album du Siege' (see Le Quillec 899 and 1290, described as "dessins du celebre"), with twenty-one monochrome lithographs only (of forty).… Leer más

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. xv, [1], 411pp, [1], original boards in DJ. DJ spine faded, running round on to upper and lower panels, top edge lightly dust stained, signature G is slightly smaller than the rest of the book, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

Valencia: Grant and Cutler, 1988. 375pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly browned, slightly soiled, internally bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. [8], 275pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ spine faded, rubbed to extremities, very light staining to top-edge of text block, internally bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. xxi, [1], 275pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, presentation copy from the author, with an A.L.S.. Presentation Copy from Author. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xxvii, [1], 481pp, [1], 2pp and Volume Two - vii, [1], 431pp, [1], 24pp. Original blind stamped cloth, author, title and volume number in gilt to spine. Slightly cocked, small ink stain to both lower covers and a small one to upper cover of volume two, corners slightly bumped. Internally fairly bright and clean, light damp stain to head of first twenty pages of text in volume one, a couple of signatures are slightly loose and therefore a little proud of text block, but a decent set. Normanby was the British ambassador to France between 1846 and 1852, and this book led to Louis Blanc writing 'Revelations Historique en Reponse au livre de Lord Normanby'. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.