Books on Biography
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Biographisch-literarisches Handworterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften. Band 7B, Teil 3: F - Hem (1932 - 1962)
pp 1313 - 1948 black library cloth, single volume, excellent copy from a Cambridge college library
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Ibsen the Norwegian: A Revaluation.
x 150p cloth, index, chronological table, explicatory author inscription on title page, very good
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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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Design for a Gentleman: The Education of Philip Stanhope.
222p large cloth, blue dustjacket, frontispiece, index, bibliography, photographic plates, hardly ...
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Mémoires du Marquis de Boissy, 1798 - 1866. Rédigés d'après ses papiers, précédés d'une lettre-préface par Mme la Marquise de Boissy. Vols 1 - 2.
2 volumes 372p 318p large paperback, spines tape-repaired, front board of volume 1 detached, cover ...
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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan with a Short Account of his Life, Vol 1 and 2. Ed. G G S.
x 398p 416p original cloth, gilt ornaments to cover and spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, ...
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The Fearless Prime Minister: Daniel.
vi 123p cloth, colour illustration tipped on cover, frontispiece, colour plates, in excellent ...
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Livingstone the Pathfinder. With 16 Illustrations by Ernest Prater and 28 other Pictures and Photographs.
viii 215p cloth with colour illustration on cover, frontispiece with tissue guard, photographic ...
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Yarns on Christian Torchbearers.
96p paperback, spine tape-repaired, bookblock detached from spine, original papercover, on various ...
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Yarns on the Human Quest.
96p paperback, original papercover, on various writers and their works, questions, very good
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Hannington of Africa: The fine Life-story of a Man of lion-like Courage, Tenacity of Purpose and Kindliness of Heart, retold for Boys and Girls. With many Illustrations.
59p colour illustrated paper boards, small ink mark on lower edges, illustrations, very well ...
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Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson abridged from James Boswell's complete Text and from the 'Tour to the Hebrides'. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard.
xx 609p brown cloth, illustrations, index, gilt motiv to cover, light soiling to spine, with many ...
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The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century.
286p green hardback, gilt lettering to spine, notes, bibliography, index, few faint pencil ...
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Sir Joshua and His Circle.
2 vols: xii 326p, x 310p brown buckram cloth, gilt lettering to spine, photogravure frontisps with ...
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My Study Windows.
xvi 378p blue cloth, paper title label to spine, introduction by Richard Garnett, page edges ...
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Lucrezia Borgia: A Chapter from the Morals of the Italian Renaissance.
x 362p grey cloth, 92 halftone plates, notes, index, cloth a little worn and dull, text clean, a ...
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Bishop Reginald Pecock: A Study in Ecclesiastical History and Thought.
viii 261p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, appendices, bibliography, index, a well preserved ...
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Lives of Popular Leaders in the Middle Ages: Tyler, Ball & Oldcastle.
xi 281p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, top of spine fraying, pages clean, front hinge ...
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Reminiscences of a French Eton.
79p green cloth, gilt lettering & border to cover, all edges red, foxing to pages, hinges weak, ...
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The Life and Times of William Shakespeare.
xxiii 392p hardback, gilt lettering to spine, printed endpapers, appendices, bibliography, index, ...
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New Light on the Youth of Dante: The Course of Dante's Life Prior to 1290 Traced in the 'Inferno', Cantos 3-13.
viii 278p green cloth, notes, bibliography, index, spine sunned, fresh and clean copy, first edition
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Dear My Mother and Father. The Story of a Visit to Joe Homan's Boys Towns, South India.
116p paperback, photographic plates, very good
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T H Huxley: Scientist, Humanist and Educator.
xxii 330p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 12 halftone plates, bibliography, ...
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The Master Thinkers: Vignettes in the History of Science, with Portraits.
xiii 238p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, includes Roger Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, ...
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Louis Pasteur.
194p hardback, halftone plates, appendix, indices, a clean and fresh copy
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Coligny: The Earlier Life of the Great Huguenot. Transl. A H Holmden.
xxxvi 351p brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, emblem to cover, appendix, cover slightly dulled, ...
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Madame de La Fayette: Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres.
viii 292p burgundy cloth, appendices, bibliography, indices, fresh and tight copy of the first ...
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An Account of the Life of that Ancient Servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson. Giving a Relation of many of his Trials and Exercises in his Youth, and his Services in the Work of the Ministry in England, Ireland, America, etc.
viii 238p original blind-stamped cloth, tiny letters to spine, no other library signs, clean text, ...
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William Cobbett: A Study of his Life as shown in his Writings. Illustrated.
xii 318p large green cloth, weak inner hinges, some foxing, appendix, index, many plates ...
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The Athabasca Ryga.
218p large paperback, chronology, bibliography, illustration, introduction by David Gregory very ...
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Historical Gleanings, a Series of Sketches: Wiklif, Laud, Wilkes, Horne Tooke. Second Series.
vii 247p cloth, a nice and fresh copy
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Lord Palmerston.
xi 364p cloth, dustjacket worn, bibliography, index, frontispiece, photographic plates, very good
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Servitude et grandeur militaires: Laurette ou le cachet rouge, La veillée de Vincennes, La canne de Jonc. Notes et éclaircissements de Fernand Baldensperger. (Oeuvres Complètes de Alfred de Vigny).
324p large paperback, upper part of cover torn, first section detaching, frontispiece with tissue ...
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The Writers Dictionary 1971 - 1973.
xc 533p large heavy cloth with fresh jacket, index, list of publishers, hardly used, excellent copy
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Paradox: Trudeau as Prime Minister.
ix 262p hardback with gilt dustjacket, biography of controversial Canadian PM, halftone plates, ...
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Recollections of a Labour Pioneer.
223p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, halftone plates, author inscription "To my ...
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Malcolm Lowry: His Art and Early Life. A Study in Transformation.
170p paperback, notes, bibliography, index, as new
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Thomas Gainsborough.
16p and 40 black-and-white plates, large hardback, white cover, frontispiece, bibliography, very ...
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Hartley and James Mill.
250p cloth, 30p stapled list of publications laid in, inner hinges yielding and soft, a very good ...
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From Hogarth to Keene. With 87 Reproductions of black and white Drawings by English story-telling Artists and Illustrators.
xi 115p large red cloth A4 format, spine torn, weak inner hinges, many plates and illustrations, ...
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Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters.
x 249p large cloth with dustjacket and protective sleeve, notes, index, appendix, photographic ...
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Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life.
viii 423p large cloth fresh jacket, index, notes, bibliography, photographic plates, almost as new, ...
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Shakspere.
167p small cloth, cover a little dusty, appendix, clean pages, very good: "Shakspere" (sic)
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Isaiah Berlin: A Life.
356p large cloth with dustjacket, frontispiece, notes, index, photographic plates, as new, very ...
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The Vocation of Bachan Singh.
125p large paperback, extensive author inscription to endpaper, newspaper article laid in, very good
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Cambridge Scientific Minds.
viii 343p paperback, various contributors, bibliography, as new, very good
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Who's Who 1981. An Annual Biographical Dictionary. 133th Year of Issue.
2836p large heavy cloth, supplement, biographies, the Royal Family, very good copy
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