Books on Biography
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Obituary of Edward Armstrong (1846 - 1928). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 14.
10p sewn paper cover, few pages uncut, very good
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A Lonely Patriot: Ferdinando Ranalli. Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 27.
28p sewn paper cover, notes, very good
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Obituary of Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 15.
20p sewn paper cover, notes, short bibliography, very good
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The Diary of a Country Parson 1758 - 1802.
xvi 622p 16cm embossed blue cloth, appendix, genealogical table folded in, name to front end page, ...
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Constable: The Natural Painter.
144p paperback, short biography, plates, bibliography, index, very good
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Aspects of E M Forster: Essays and Recollections written for his Ninetieth Birthday 1st January 1969.
viii 196p cloth, fresh dustjacket, private bookplate, frontispiece, 15 essays by Elizabeth Bowen, K ...
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Milton's First Marriage. Two Reprints from Modern Language Review Vol 26 & 27.
[20]p, [20]p sewn, card wrappers, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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The Rebel Generation. Transl M W Hoper.
xiv 388p blue cloth with blue top edge, also includes newspaper article by "A Woman Doctor" ...
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Jane Austen 1775 - 1817.
[24]p stapled, illustrated card cover, nice fresh copy, with plates, : Catalogue of an Exhibition ...
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Obituary of David Keilin (1887 - 1963). Offprint from Parasitology.
28p offprint with frontispiece portrait, extensive bibliography, fresh and clean
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Trelawny: A Man's Life.
379p bright red cloth with title in silver, frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, ...
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Walt Whitman's Backward Glances: A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and Two Contributory Essays Hitherto Uncollected.
ix 51p 27cm cloth, frontispiece, plates showing facsimile of manuscript of one of the essays, very ...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
212p cloth with title in gilt, text begins with decorated initial, very good copy from a Cambridge ...
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Benjamin Franklin: Statesman-Philosopher or Materialist?
114p paperback, frontispiece, bibliography, spine faded, from a Cambridge college library
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Jubilee Banquet, September 29, 1977.
64p stapled booklet, yellow paper with white card cover, list of guests with seating arrangements, ...
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New Statesman Profiles.
254p hardback, illustrations by Vicky, very good: Victor Gollancz, Dame Edith Sitwell, Malcolm ...
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Marianne Thornton 1797 - 1887: A Domestic Biography.
301p blue cloth fresh but impact dent / hurt to spine, frontispiece, plates, index, first edition ...
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John Tresidder Sheppard, Kt, MBE, 1881 - 1968.
38p sewn booklet, frontispiece, plates, fresh clean copy, inscribed by the author
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Medizinisches Wörter- und Nachschlagebuch: Ein Hilfsbuch für Studierende und Ärzte, und alle mit der Medizin im Zusammenhang stehende Berufe.
xxiv 816p 314p 16 x 12cm burgundy cloth with gilt title to cover, black & gilt title panel to ...
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727 - 1787.
[58]p 15cm, card wrapper, short biographical memoir, bibliography, 24 repro plates, also includes ...
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Philip Magnus: Victorian Educational Pioneer.
[x] 298p brown boards dustjacket, foreword by C R English, index, clean and bright, from a ...
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Corot: Biographie Critique.
128p rebound in broad orange library buckram, gilt lettering to spine, photographic paper ...
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Life of William Penn. (Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive and Entertaining Tracts, No 121).
32p folded sheets, not bound, portrait, slightly worn, original issue
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Pontificia Academia Scientiarum: Annuaire General 1987. 2nd ed.
xxv 375p large paperback, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index: Biographies and ...
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Gerhard M J Schmidt Memorial Volume.
600p brown cloth with gilt lettering, frontispiece, illustrations, tables, diagrams, bibliography, ...
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Das Leben und die Abentheuer des Armen Mannes im Tockenburg, von ihm selbst erzählt.
xii 224p hardback, white spine a little dulled otherwise very good
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Homenaje Universitario a Dámaso Alonso, reunido por los Estudiantes de Filología Románica.
358p cloth, dustjacket (yellowed), frontispiece, bibliography, indices, excellent copy
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Ferdinand Franck; An Autobiographical Sketch of the Youthful Days of a Musical Student.
iv 282p 14cm green papercovered boards, brown & gilt morocco title panel on spine, gilt edges, wear ...
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Histoire du Seigneur de Bayart, le Chevalier sans Paour et sans Reprouche, composée par le Loyal Serviteur: Transcription de l'édition parisienne de 1527.
270p grey paperback, adhesive plastic cover, remains of bookplate in front cover, front hinge ...
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Le Cardinal Richelieu - sa Famille - son Favori Bois-Robert. Ed. Émile Magne.
224p paper wrappers, woodcut portrait frontispiece by Achille Ouvré, introduction by the editor, ...
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Faenza: Bollettino del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. Vol 39 Nos 3, 4, & 5. Onoranze a Gaetano Ballardini.
[168]p brown card wrapper, half-tone portrait frontispiece, 32 articles including personal tributes ...
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Raffaello.
90p+72p plates, large format, half red cloth, front cover embossed with gilt title, critical & ...
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Mémoires. Ed. J Calmette & G Durville. Vol I: 1464 - 1474. 2nd ed.
xxxvi 258p paperback, introduction by the editor, includes biography of author & bibliography, text ...
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La Mort de la Reine (Les Suites de l'Affaire du Collier).
264p half cloth binding, marbled paper boards, black & gilt title label to spine, marbled endpapers ...
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A Biographical Dictionary.
2 volumes, 1211p continuous pagination + 219p supplement, russet cloth, gilt lettering to spine, ...
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Gladstone.
x 315p paperback, library cancel with adhesive film over cover, notes, bibliography, index, very ...
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Victorian People.
320p original paperback, covers Trollope, Samuel Smiles, Disraeli, bibliography, index, fresh and ...
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Jaan Tõnisson: Koguteos Tema Üheksakümnenda Sünnipäeva Tähistameks.
368p grey cloth embossed with gilt signature to cover, blue & gilt title panel to spine, dustjacket ...
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Mälestuste Radadel I: Kodu ja kool & II: Tartus 1896 - 1906.
2 volumes, 312p 19cm green embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine & green top edge & 322p 19cm ...
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Hinge Sild: Päevikulehti aastaist 1916 - 1921.
272p 19cm blue cloth with gilt title & highlights to spine, orange top edge, dustjacket (wear to ...
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Pööripäevad: Päevikulehti aastaist 1927 - 1931.
326p 19cm blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, green top edge, dustjacket (worn), also includes ...
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Noor Kreutzwald: Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi arengulugu. Ed. Bernard Kangrolt.
216p 19cm ochre cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket (worn), gloss paper throughout, ...
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Portrait of Josephine Butler.
222p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 7 other halftone plates, biography by ...
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Ausalt & Avameelselt: Eesti Suurmeestest. Johan Laideronist; Jaan Poskast; Konstantin Pätsist; Jaan Tõnissonist.
64p stapled, card wrapper with portrait plates to endpaper, contains biographies of the 4 ...
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Macmillan: Portrait of a Politician.
255p red hardback, gilt lettering to spine, top edge red, dustjacket, half-tone portrait ...
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Egon Schiele and his Contemporaries: Austrian Painting and Drawing from 1900 to 193 from the Leopold Collection, Vienna.
296p large paperback, art paper throughout, colour repro frontispiece, 5 articles on Schiele, Klimt ...
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Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 1920 - 1922.
85p black cloth (spine absent), record of conversations with Thomas Hardy in his 80s, good
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