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National Commercial Directory 1928-9: Nottinghamshire
Manchester J Pigot & Co Very Good 8vo
This section of the Directory (Nottinghamshire) has been bound in modern cloth with gilt titles. The title page for the main work is bound in in facsimile, but the remainder pp.625 - 668 including a folding map of the county is the original.
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70.00 GBP
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Norfolk Archaeology or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk Volume III
Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society 1852 Very Good 8vo
Professionally rebacked retaining surviving original materials with new back strip. Half maroon morocco over marbled boards, numerous bw engravings, some folding, 431pp inc index. Title page printed in red and black. Contents include articles about: Little Cressingham; Norwich Pageants; Rood Screens; North Burlingham; Drayton Church; Thetford Mints; Cawston Church; Harleian Mss. Cod. 4756; Corn and Grain in Clackclose Hundred; Brooke Church; Ancient Shields in Yarmouth Church; Unpublished letter James I to Robert Cecil; Hundred of Tunstead; A Gold Niello at Matlask; Thetford Priory; Easthall Manor-House; Murals at Stow Bardolph; Memoir of William Herbert de Losinga; Will of Margaret Paston; Norwich Merchants' Marks; Ancient Pulpit at Diss; Weybourne Pits; Arms in Norwich Cathedral; Ketteringham; Company of St George; Gold Cross found at Wilton; Monastery of the Dominican Friars at Great Yarmouth; Town and Parish of Watton.
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200.00 GBP
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Norfolk Archaeology or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk Volume II
Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society 1849 Very Good 8vo
Contents include articles relating to: Boundary of the City and Hamlets of Norwich; the Guildhall, Diss; Diary of Peter Le Neve; the Crowmer Monument; Letter from Sir Philip Stapleton to Oliver Cromwell and four letters from OC; Autographs of Sir Miles Hobart and Anthony Hobart; Challenge of Oliver Neve to Sir Henry Hobart; An Ancient Door in St Clement's Norwich; Speech of Sir Robert Baldock, recorder of Yarmouth to King Charles; Letter from Queen Elizabeth to Lady Paget; the Font at Aylsham; Letter from Walsingham to the Lord Treasurer to promote the erecting of a House of Reformation in Norfolk for Vagabonds; Extracts from Wills at Stowe Bardolph,; Sepulchral Brass at Yaxham; Parish and Church of Wimbotsham; Ancient Shields at St Nicholas' Church, Yarmouth; Extracts from the Chamberlain's Book of Accounts - Lynne; Notices of Francis Blomefield; Will of Sir John Fastolf re Caister; On Misereres; Extracts from the Coroners' Rolls, Norwich; Rood-loft Screens of Gateley and Cawston; Proverbs, Adages and Popular Superstitions, Irstead; Thirteen unpublished Letters from Sir Is. Newton to John Covell; Note of Privy Seals received by Sir Charles Cornwallis; Mural Paintings in Crostwight Church; Ruined Lodge at Drayton. Cloth Clovers, worn, frayed at ends of spine and faded, two book plates and some mss notes in pencil on ffetp, some gathers loose.
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175.00 GBP
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Shakespeare's Heroes and Heroines
London Raphael Tuck First Edition Cloth 4to
The book is undated (c 1890) and dedicated to Sir Henry Irving - a facsimile letter of his as frontis. AEG 16 colour plates with quotations from the appropriate play opposite. The artists are Sir A Callcott, CRLelslie, D Maclise , A Redgrave and S Hart. The gutta percha binding is perishing.
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25.00 GBP
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Slater's ( Late Pigot & Co. ) Royal National Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire and North and South Wales, and a Classified Directory of the Town of Liverpool
Manchester Isaac Slater 1858 First Edition 8vo
(title cont.) "comprising classified lists of the nobility, gentry and clergy, merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders, in the above counties, with Historical Sketches of each County, Town and Village, The city of Bristol has in addition and alphabetical directory. An account of every mode of transit for passengers and merchandise, by rail, road and water: the postal regulations of each place, and a variety of miscellaneous information. The Bankers of the United Kingdom with their branches are appended to the directory. Two hand coloured county maps. The map of Wales is missing. At the end there are 57 pages of trade advertisements. Bound in original diced calf with gilt decorated spine. Marbled endpapers.
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450.00 GBP
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The Court and City Register; or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar for the Year 1798
London JJ Jolliffe, J Walters et al 1798 First Edition 12 Mo
(title page cont.) Containing, I New and Correct lists of both houses of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain, which met, for their Fist Session, in September, 1796. II. The Court register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, etc. With many Improvements, and the addition of some New Lists. Original leather covers with modern spine, 311pp, calendar printed in red and black.
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60.00 GBP
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The Duke of Newcastle's Letter, By His Majesty's Order
London 1753 Small Folio
(Title cont.) to Monsieur Michell, the King of Prussia's Secretary of the Embassy, in Answer to the Memorial, and other papers, deliver'd, by Monsieur Michell, to the Duke of Newcastle, n the 23rd of November, and 13th of December Last. Printed by Edward Owen. 46pp + 2 folding charts - lists of "Neutral Shipping" "Prussian Shipping". Bound in half calf over marbled boards with a Brooklyn Public Library book plate on pastedown. Charts torn with no loss.
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215.00 GBP
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The Hive a Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs. 2 Volumes
London Printed For J. Walthoe 1724 Second Revised Edition 12mo
Full contemporary calf, raised bands, engraved frontis pieces and vignettes on title pages, title pages printed in red and black, numerous head and tail pieces, 276pp, 276pp. Foot of spine of volume I chipped to expose tailband and half an inch of gathers, some staining to contents, quotation written in ink on blank at end of volume I.
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130.00 GBP
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The Life of Arthur Vandeleur, Major, Royal Artillery
London James Nisbet 1862 Fourth thousand. Very Good 12 Mo
Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration, engraved portrait frontis with vignette on title page, second title page,303pp + publisher's list. Ownership name and date (1888). Some creasing at head and tail of spine. Minor spotting to prelims.
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40.00 GBP
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The Norwich Magazine 1835
London Josiah Fletcher Hardcover Fine 8vo
The first twelve issues of The Norwich Magazine bound in modern brown buckram, 384pp. Articles on a wide variety of subjects and some poems.
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50.00 GBP
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