Books on Biography
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Papers Relating to the Family of Wimsey, edited by Matthew Wimsey.
55p blue paper cover, black lettering to front, some sunning to front, spine a little chipped / ...
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On My Own Terms.
293p hardback with fresh and complete and un-clipped jacket, first edition, excellent attractive ...
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Vida y Virtudes del Venerable Siervo de Dios el Padre Christoval de Santa Cathalina, Presbytero, Natural de la Ciudad de Mérida. Tercera Impression.
xxvi 366p original soft vellum binding well preserved but creased, old lettering to spine, ink ...
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 1 (1955) to Volume 54 (2008)
A nice long run, all volumes in dustjackets except volume 1, excellent condition, very well ...
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Epistolario di Vincenzo Monti, Raccolto, ordinato e annotato da Alfonso Bertoldi. 6 Vols.
6 volumes in black library cloth, approx 500p each, very good, clean unused set from a Cambridge ...
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An Abridgement of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times. With an account of many others of those Worthy Ministers who were ejected, after the Restauration of King Charles the Second.
[xxxii] 700p plus a few pages of index, expertly rebound in plain cloth with title label to spine, ...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones. Second Edition.
531p quarter leather with marbled boards, 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, attractive ...
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Clerihews by Various Hands, Edited by John Waynflete, B.A. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged.
small unpaginated oblong format paperback, beige card cover lettered in green, slight spotting to ...
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G.K. Chesterton as Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist, and Critic.
200p hardback, brown cloth with portrait, good condition, some wear to cover corners and spine, ...
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Mémoires complets et authentiques du Duc de Saint-Simon, sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la Régence, publiés sur le manuscrit original entiérement écrit de la main de l'auteur par le Marquis de Saint-Simon. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.
40 volumes in 20, bound in quarter calf on marbled boards, joints a little rubbed, front joint of ...
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Mémoires du Duc de Rovigo (M Savary) écrits de sa main, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Vols 1 - 4.
4 volumes approx 300p each, large polished calf with gilt decoration and leather label on spine, ...
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Photos of Rose Grainger and of 3 Short Accounts of her Life by herself, in her own Handwriting; Reproduced for her Kin and Friends by her Adoring son Percy Grainger; also Table of Dates and Summary of Cultural Tastes.
46 leaves, stiff booklet with illustrated cover, glassive jacket present, in old and worn slipcase, ...
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Ronald H Coase.
viii 205p hardback with fresh dustjacket, faint name to endpaper, excellent fresh copy, first ...
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The Nonconformist's Memorial, Being an Account of the Lives, Sufferings, and Printed Works of the Two Thousand Ministers Ejected from the Church of England. Edited Samuel Palmer. Second Edition. Vol 1 & 2 only.
434p 479p strongly bound in decorative half calf binding with black title labels, marbled paper on ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume V. Part 3: The Coming of War 1936 - 1939.
xx 1684p a super thick volume, hardback, very fresh white dustjacket, no names or stamps, first ...
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Documenta et Montia quae S Maria Madgdalena de Pazzi diversis dedit Religionsis, dum Vixit, nulli non ad perfectionem ... edita in luce idiomate italico per D Ioannem Antonium Solazzi de Vertralla.
168p 151p 2 pages with errata in the back, old full calf worn, spine old cloth repair with paper ...
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Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great. Newly Translated from the French Edition of M de L'Écluse.
five volumes on full calf, hinges soft but boards still attached, marginal wear to original ...
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Men-at-the-Bar. A Biographical Hand-List of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges.
xxvi 528p bright blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt arms, large format, heavy book, well ...
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Authentic and Impartial Memoirs of Her Late Majesty, Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Containing A Faithful Retrospect of her Early Days, Her Marriage, Coronation, Correspondence, Illness, Death, Funeral Obsequies, &c. &c.
478p half leather with marbled boards, yellow endpapers, foxing to engraved portrait frontispiece ...
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The Life of General, the Right Honourable Sir David Baird, Bart. 2 Volumes.
448p 442p frontispiece, folding map (Cairo/Suez), half calf with marbled paper boards, very good ...
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An Ecclesiastical Biography, Containing the Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, Interspersed with notices of Heretics and Schismatics.
8 volumes in full calf, small format, library bookplate and shelfmark, only one title label ...
£160.00
£160.00
Ferdinand Lassalle. Nachgelassene Briefe und Schriften. Volumes 1 - 6. Ed. Gustav Mayer.
6 vols, privately rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spines, "Neudruck der Ausgabe 1921", ...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott. Ten Volumes.
Ten large hardbacks in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine labels. No. 508 of a limited edition ...
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A Subaltern in Macedonia and Judaea, 1916 - 1917.
183p original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece and additional plates, first ...
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Beijing Longquan Monastery. 365 Days.
382p large format paperback, beige cover with colour photograph, like new condition, minimal wear, ...
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Lettere di M Pietro Bembo, Cardinale, Vols 1 - 5.
379p 413p 495p 326p 498p rebound in plain black library cloth, set of 5 volumes, gilt lettering and ...
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Black Tents of Arabia (My Life Amongst the Bedouins)
280p red cloth with gilt title in fine condition, first edition, photographic illustrations by the ...
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B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...
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Silence Farm.
259p 19p publisher's catalogue, original burgundy cloth with faint sunning, gilt lettering to spine ...
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Abelardo L Rodriguez: El Mejor Amigo del Proletario.
864p very thick paperback, portrait to cover, many illustrations throughout, paper yellowing, cover ...
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Aelfric's Lives of the Saints being a Set of Sermons on Saints' Days formerly Observed by the English Church. Ed. Walter Skeat.
vii 553p, lxii 474p plus Early English Text Society adverts in back, 2 vols rebound in plain brown ...
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Apologia de Don José Arrese.
184p original paperback with illustrated cover, fresh clean copy, first edition, author ...
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Biografia e Autobiografia. Il Modello Alfieriano.
137p paperback, author inscription, bookplate, excellent copy
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Cairo to Riyadh Diary.
233p hardcover, first edition with unclipped dustjacket protected by cellophane wrapper, b&w ...
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Cairo to Riyadh Diary.
233p hardcover, first edition with worn dustjacket protected by old transparent wrapper, b&w ...
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Catharine of Siena. A Biography.
xix 338p original cloth blindstamped with blindstamped ornaments to boards, gilt lettering to ...
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Ferdinand de Saussure, 1857 - 1913.
95p original paperback with white paper wrapper, private spine lettering in ink (dulled), fresh ...
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Francesco Matarazzo: Chronik von Perugia, 1492 - 1503.
258p full parchment, printed on Bütten paper, map in back, additional plates, errata inserted, two ...
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Jalal Talibani. Mam Jalal. From a Peshmarga to a President.
large format book with many colour illustrations, text in English and in Arab script, Kurdish ...
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Kesf-el-zunun. Volume 1 ONLY.
This is a very large and heavy volume (only one of a set of six volumes) bound in half calf, tight ...
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Lady Sings the Blues.
250p hardback, red cloth fresh, original dustjacket present but with marginal wear and creases, ...
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Lukian: Sämtliche Werke. Mit Anmerkungen nach der Übersetzung von E M Wieland, bearbeitet von Dr Hanns Floerke. 5 Volumes.
5 volumes, half calf with red title label to spine, red paper covered boards, printed on quality ...
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Mémoires de Louis XIV pour l'Instruction du Dauphin. Première édition complète, d'après les Textes Originaux avec une Étude sur leur Composition, des Notes et des éclaircissements par Charles Dreyss.
ccli 256p 590p Two volumes half morocco binding, schoolprize binding marked in gilt to front board ...
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Memorials of a Quiet Life. 3 Volumes (2 Vols + Supplementary)
3 Volumes, black cloth with gilt lettering to spines and inset cover panel containg gilt dove, from ...
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Our Lenin. Edited by Ruth Shaw and Harry Alan Potamkin. Pictures by William Siegel.
62p oblong format hardback, illustrated throughout, pages clean and well preserved, striking ...
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Prospero's Wireless. A Biography of Peter Pendleton Eckersley. Revised Edition.
xvii 510p paperback, blue cover with b&w illustration, very good condition, binding firm, a little ...
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The Idea of History. An Autobiography. Russian Translation.
485p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, blindstamp detail to front, author portrait ...
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The Life of William Hey, Esq. F.R.S.
355p bound in half calf with marbled boards, library shelfmarks to spine, errata to last page, ...
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Thomas Bewick and his Pupils.
xviii 232p superb half calf binding with floral paper to boards = endpapers, five bands to spine, ...
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Vernadsky.
318p original hardback with illustrated cover, cloth spine, binding a little soft, especially at ...
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