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The Illustrated London News. Vol. LVI., Jan. to June 1870 [Volume 56, Nos. 1574-1600]

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, George C. Leighton: 1870

Seller ID: 2260273

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards a bit rubbed with minor leather loss, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1870 Half-Leather. iv, 668 pp. Folio. Twenty-seven issues of The Illustrated London News, bound in one half-leather volume. Green leather spine and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, five raised spine bands. Numerous engravings throughout (including several with a partial fold-out), with an index of these preceding the periodicals, and an engraved title page preceding that, which states that this volume was released on July 16, 1870. The Illustrated London News was the first illu...
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Guide Book to Fort Ticonderoga: Held In Turn by France, Great Britain and the United States

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vermont, The Stinehour Press:

Seller ID: 2267200

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date. Unpaginated. Topics include the fort at Ticonderoga, the stone fortress, the south wall, the French village, the interior of the fort, the west barracks, the bastions, the view from the ramparts, the canon, the museum collection, the restoration of the fort. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
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Silhouettes of British Aircraft (Prepared by the Air Ministry)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1940

Seller ID: 2283090

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper creased. 1940 Soft Cover. 143 pp. An identification guide to British aircraft. CONTENTS: National Marking, Royal Air Force Aircraft; Fighters; Bombers; Army Co-operation; Fleet Air Arm; Reconnaissance; Transport, Communication and Training; Experimental; Civil. Includes illustrations.
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British German and Italian Aircraft: How to Spot Them

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London and Melbourne, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD.:

Seller ID: 2283094

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

25th thousand. No publisher date. No jacket, a couple light stains on front board, spine lightly toned. 96 pp. Includes 320 drawings and photographs with descriptions. An identification guide to British, German and Italian aircraft.
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V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: England, Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou...
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Major Richardson's Dogs [World War I; Dogs][Print]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., .:

Seller ID: 2296524

Binding: Print

Condition: Near Fine

Matte creased with a few smudges. No chips, no tears. Matte outside to outside dimensions: 13 3/4 x 11. Inside to inside dimensions: 10 x 7 3/4. Print reproduced from photograph of Major Richardson of the British Red Cross with two Bloodhounds and an Airedale.
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Sport & Country: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: Holly Leaves, the Christmas Number, November 11, 1955, Vol. 200, No. 3910A

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Ingram House: 1955

Seller ID: 2298819

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. Quarter inch tear to top edge of front wrapper and to bottom edge of rear wrapper, ink name on first page, general wear. 1955 Stapled Binding. Color illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Articles and photographs include Beckoning Signs; Nature's Climatic Jokes, Illustrated by J. E. Tickner; The Qualities of Charm, by P. Stephens; The Royal Scots Greys, by Major P. Pereira; A Tour of Hadrian's Wall; Newcastle and the Royal Shows, by Sydney Moorhouse; A King's Travels by Gwyneth Pennethorne; Animal Innocence; Beyond the Wall, by Hamish MacAlistair; Silhouettes, Cut by H...
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The Illustrated London News, April 4, 1953, No. 5946--Volumes 222: In Memoriam Number Queen Mary

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News: 1953

Seller ID: 2299940

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. No chips, no tears. Light general wear. 1953 Stapled Binding. Includes two-panel color photograph of Queen Mary.
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Salute to the R.A.F.: A Souvenir to Commemorate 25 Years' Happy and Progressive Association with the R.A.F. [Royal Air Force]

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wolverhampton, Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd.: 1943

Seller ID: 2299958

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers creased, a few small tears to wrapper edges. 1943 Stapled Binding. 28 pp. As a memento of twenty-five years' service to the R.A.F. this brochure illustrates some of the achievements in the field of aviation which stand behind this company. ...This brochure shows the succession of aircraft designed and built by the organisation.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: UK, The National Trust: 1989

Seller ID: 2300663

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Three color postcards laid in. A very nice copy. 1989 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. A brief history and visitors' guidebook to the famed site. Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardener...
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Rochester and Other Literary Rakes of the Court of Charles II. With Some Account of Their Surroundings.

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 2303180

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards and edges lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and university library stamp on title page. 1903 Three-Quarter Leather. x, 330 pp. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Top page ridge gilt. With portraits. Charles II (29 May 1630 6 February 1685)[c] was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and I...
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Greek Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: An Exhibition Held in Connection with the XIIIth [13th] International Congress of Byzantine Studies

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Bodleian Library: 1966

Seller ID: 2306951

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1966 Soft Cover. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1966. CONTENTS: Introduction; Bibliography; Greek Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Uncial Manuscripts, Early Texts, Dated Manuscripts, Scholars' Copies, Greek in the West in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Illuminated Manuscripts, Liturgical Manuscripts, Slavonic Manuscripts, Bindings; Index to Manuscripts.
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The Comic History of England

By: A'Beckett, G.A. [Gilbert Abbott]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury, Evans, and Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 2283682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Two books in one volume. Binding repaired, corners a bit rubbed. 1864 Hard Cover. xviii, 320, 304 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Color frontispiece (one of 20 color plates) and reproductions of 200 engravings by John Leech. The classic work by one of the original staff of Punch magazine, the weekly British humor magazine. A'Beckett also wrote the Comic History of Rome (to which John Leech also added illustrations), Comic Blackstone, etc., as well as two operas for which his wife composed the music.
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Great Britain and the American Civil War

By: Adams, Ephraim Douglass

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Russell & Russell: 1958

Seller ID: 2304916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

1958 one-volume reissue of 1924 two-volume original. No jacket. Wear to cloth along front joint and cloth spine head and spine base, tape ghosting on front paste-down endpaper, ink marginalia and underlining throughout. xi, 307;vii, 340 pp. Two-volumes bound as one. Includes black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: Backgrounds; First Knowledge of Impending Conflict, 1860-61; The Development of a Policy, May, 1861; British Suspicion of Seward; The Declaration of Paris Negotiation; Bull Run, Consul Bunch, Cotton, and Mercier; The Trent; The Blockade; Enter Mr. Lindsay; King Cotton; Russell's Med...
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War and Peace in South Africa, 1879-1881: The Writings of Philip Anstruther and Edward Essex

By: Anstruther, Philip; Essex, Edward; Butterfield, Paul H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Melville / Pietermaritzburg, Scripta Africana / Hans Strydom Publishers / Interpak Natal:

Seller ID: 2304032

ISBN: 0947025189

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #746 of 1000 copies, signed by publisher on limitation page. Slipcase rubbed. 246 pp. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations in text. Includes: Prelude to Disasters: The Letters of Philip Anstruther, 1879-1880; Introduction: The Ulundi Campaign, The Sekukuni Campaign, Garrison Duties at Lydenburg; The Journal of 'Lucky' Essex, January/February 1881: Introduction; Glossary, Journal of the Natal Field Force; Reference; Conclusion; Appendix: Official Evidence of the Flaunting of Regulations by Anstruther; Official Evidence of the March from Lydenburg to Bronkhorstspruit; O...
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Mistress Dorothy Marvin: Being Excerpta from the Memoirs of Sir Edward Armstrong, Baronet, of Copeland Hall, in the County of Somerset (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 188)

By: Armstrong, Sir Edward; Snaith, J. C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2302634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Spine lightly toned. 1896 Hard Cover. viii, 419 pp. A fictitious account set in Somerset Country, England.
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Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Indianapolis / New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1972

Seller ID: 2296700

ISBN: 0672513757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine very slightly cocked, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. ix, 260 pp. What do you say to the wonderful proceedings in Paris, which really seem like a story in a book or a play? wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, in December 1851. Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, had made himself dictator of France, stealing the limelight of the European stage to open the first act of a play that would last for more than thirty yearsand in which Queen Victoria was herself to play a major ...
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British Military Flintlock Rifles, 1740-1840: With a Remarkable Wealth of Data about the Riflemen and Regiments that Carried These Weapons

By: Bailey, De Witt

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rhode Island, Andrew Mowbray Publishers: 2002

Seller ID: 2307681

ISBN: 1931464030

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bottom corners of boards slightly bumped. 2002 Large Hardcover. 264 pp. History enthusiasts have always been intrigued by Riflemen and the special weapons that they carried. This new book covers such famous weapons as the Ferguson, the Pattern 1776 and the rifles used by German mercenaries and American loyalists during the Revolution. And naturally, a large portion of the book is dedicated to the most famous rifle of them all, the Baker. Illustrated with 320 exceptional photos, this book also includes a remarkable wealth of data about the Rifleman and Regiments that carried thes...
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Victoria, the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

By: Baird, Julia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2016

Seller ID: 2308118

ISBN: 1400069882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small hole in front jacket flap joint. A few pages wrinkled. 2016 Hard Cover. xlvii, 696 pp. The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queena Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europes monarchies in the coming decades. ...
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James Claypoole's Letter Book: London and Philadelphia, 1681-1684

By: Balderston, Marion

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Marino, California, The Huntington Library: 1967

Seller ID: 2308093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1967 Hard Cover. vii, 256 pp. The letters that make up this book present a vivid account of the life of an active and successful businessman in the latter seventeenth century. The London Quaker merchant James Claypoole was by turns generous and penny-pinching, forbearing with important clients intolerant with others, deeply religious, often irritable, but certainly never dull.
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The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: UK, Boydell Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2280244

ISBN: 1843831112

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. Front wrapper edge very lightly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as well as men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but not invariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a rare survival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency - and...
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A History of the Regiments and Uniforms of the British Army

By: Barnes, Major R. Money

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Seeley Service & Co.: 1962

Seller ID: 2306029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Fifth edition. No jacket. Tape ghosting on endpapers, ink stamp on rear free endpaper. 1962 Hard Cover. 335 pp. A history of the regiments and uniforms of the British Army from 1642 through the end of World War II. Includes color illustrations.
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Queen Elizabeth's Daughter (A Novel of Elizabeth I)

By: Barnhill, Anne Clinard

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martins Griffin: 2014

Seller ID: 2304971

ISBN: 0312662122

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Remainder mark, address label on half-title page, some pages lightly dog-eared. 2014 Trade Paperback. ix, 371 pp. Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The British queen loves Mary like a daughter, and, like any good mother, she wants her to make a powerful match. The most likely prospect: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. But while Oxford seems to be everything the queen admires: clever, polished and wealthy, Mary knows him to be lecherous, cruel, and full of treachery. No matter how hard the queen tries to push ...
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Courage

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1922

Seller ID: 2307125

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Bookplate on front free endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. 45 pp. By author of Peter Pan. The Recreational Address delivered at St. Andrews University, May 3rd, 1922. Upon his election as Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University, Sir J.M. Barrie delivered an inaugural address in which he sought to inspire the youth sitting before him. His stirring words on the subject of courage are just as invigorating today, more than eight decades after they appeared in book form in 1923. Barrie advised young people never to ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own; to know what you mean; to ins...
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The Zulu War: A Pictorial History

By: Barthorp, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Poole / Dorset, Blandford Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2302818

ISBN: 0713710055

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edge wear. 1986 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 181, [1] pp. Of all the many colonial campaigns of the Victorian era, few have gripped the imagination more than the Zulu War of 1879. Its dramatic events and the high courage displayed by men of both sides have provided the material for books, articles and paintings, while in recent times its more remarkable incidents have featured in television programmes and films. Among military and colonial history enthusiasts its fascination has few equals. Even though a century has passed, there can be few who are not aware of the annihilation of a British column at ...
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The Life of Lady Jane Grey

By: Bartlett, David W.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Auburn, Derby & Miller: 1853

Seller ID: 2307276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second thousand. Corners slightly pushed, front and end matter and edges faintly foxed. 1853 Hard Cover. xii, [13]-298 pp. Brown stamped cloth, gilt titles. Frontispiece of Lady Jane Grey, which has a few points of resemblance to the Streatham portrait. English noblewoman Lady Jane Grey is one of the most romanticized monarchs of Tudor England. Her short, nine-day rule was an unsuccessful attempt to maintain Protestant rule. This challenge cost her the throne and her head. Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537, in Leicester, England. Her life began with promise and high expectations b...
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A Chronology of Printing, XVIII Century, Excerpts from the Typographic Treasures in Europe

By: Bartlett, Edward E.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Press of the Good Mountain, Rochester Institute of Technology:

Seller ID: 2303578

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 26 pp. A chronology of print history in18th century Europe.
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Reminiscences

By: Battersea, Constance

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd.: 1922

Seller ID: 2304114

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bookplate on front paste down endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. xvii, 470, 2 pp. Includes fold-out genealogical table of the Rothschild and Montefiore families. Constance Flower, Baroness Battersea (29 April 1843, Piccadilly, London 22 November 1931, Overstrand; ne de Rothschild), also known as Lady Battersea, was a society hostess and philanthropist in London who established the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (now subsumed by Jewish Care) in 1885 and was prominent in the Temperance movement in the United Kingdom.[1][2]
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Beginnings of the American People (Great Seal Books)

By: Becker, Carl L.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Great Seal Books / A Division of Cornell University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2306826

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. 1963 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 293, [xviii] pp. Illustrated with five black-and-white maps. CONTENTS: The Discovery of the Old World and the New; The Partition of the New World; The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century; England and Her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The American People in the Eighteenth Century; The Winning of Independence; Bibliography; Index.
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Arnold Bennett's Letters to His Nephew

By: Bennett, Arnold; Swinnerton, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1935

Seller ID: 2304458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1935 Hard Cover. xxi, 352 pp. With a Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal of more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in, and briefly ...
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