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Cassell's Popular Natural History 4 Volumes
London Cassell, Petter & Galpin First Edition Very Good 4to
V I Mammalia; pp 276; V II Mammalia pp376; V III Birds; pp 408; V IV Reptiles, fishes, Insects, Worms, Crustaceans etc. 346pp. Each volume has a coloured frontis and vignette to the title page with further chromolithographic plates and numerous bw engravings. Undated c 1870. Bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt decoration. The spines have faded and the cloth is splitting along the joints of two of the volumes. Bindings are tight.
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150.00 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 Cod. 4756; Corn and Grain in Clackclose Hundred; Brooke Church; Ancient Shields in Yarmouth Church; Unpublished letter James I to Robert Cecil; Hundred of Tunstead; A Gold Niello at Matlask; Thetford Priory; Easthall Manor-House; Murals at Stow Bardolph; Memoir of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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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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Wonders of the Waters
Religious Text Society Hardcover Very Good 16mo
Undated [1853] containing the animalcule, the coral-maker, the sea-star, the lobster, the fish. 160pp. Stamped buckram covers with gilt vignette and titles, AEG. Wear at head and tail of spine, covers faded and first blank missing, nevertheless a tight clean copy.
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20.00 GBP
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(KEBLE) The Keble Autograph Birthday Book
London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington Very Good 4to E.L. M.
Undated, C 1900. Green cloth covers with gilt and black illustrations, bevelled edges, AEG 12 chromolithographi floral plates, printed in red and black. Gift inscription on ffep, several birthdays entered in differen hands, corners of covers fraying. Digital images available on request.
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120.00 GBP
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ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDW Life of Field Marshal, His Grace the Duke of Wellington embracing civil, military, and political career to the Present...2 Volumes
Henry Colburn. 8vo
Half brown morocco, gilt dec to spines, marbled boards, 14 bw engraved plates, 1 folding map of 1839, 1840Spain and 1 folding plan of Toulouse and environs. Pp 491;576 inc index. Edges and surface of boards are rubbed, spines faded, hinges of vol 2 beginning to crack but binding is tight. On the whole the text is clean and bright but there is occasional spotting/browning associated with the plates. There are small tears at the gutter edge of the map/plan.
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90.00 GBP
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ANDREWS, LANCELOT Preces Privatae Graece & Latine
Oxford E Theatro Sheldoniano 1675 12mo
Lancelot Adrews (1565 - 1626), Bishop of Winchester 1605 -26 was one of the translators of the King James Bible. The orginal 'Manual for Private Devotions' was originally written wholly in Greek. It was not published until 22 years after his death. This edition is written in Greek with Latin translation on the page opposite. Later diced calf with marbled endpapers, engraved portrait, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian on title page, 359pp. The three endpapers are loose as is the portrait, otherwise the binding is firm. Contents browned. There is an armorial book plate on the reverse of the loose portrait (John Washer of Lincoln's Inn Esq).
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150.00 GBP
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ANON Revival of the Greek and Roman Empires: Being Observations on the Prophet Daniel's Metallick Image....
The Philanthropic Society 1810 First Edition 8vo
..(title cont.) ..the Interpretation of whose form was to make known that which was to Happen in the Latter Days; also and Investigation of those parts of The Apocalypse which appear to to be derived from, and illustrative of, the Prophecies of Daniel and The Ancient types of the the Old Testament many of which were, from the first, Indicative of the Present Opening Signs of the Times. Two volumes (conjtinuously paginated, bound in one. Modern tan buckram with brown spine label, gilt, modern endpapers,575pp. Title page and errata leaf of Volume II bound at end. Tight and crisp. One leaf has a tear with some loss of text.
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75.00 GBP
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