Books on Book History
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A B C. Saint Claude, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 3(17)
approx 60p very large paperback, folio size, grey cover with fable animal illustration, text in ...
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A Batsford Century.
viii 148p blue cloth with gilt lettering, binding firm, rough cut edges, top edge gilt, many b&w ...
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A Batsford Century.
viii 148p blue cloth with gilt lettering, pink dustjacket present, binding firm, rough cut edges, ...
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A Bibliographical Study of William Blake's Note-Books.
175p cloth, large format, facsimile of notebook, transcription, this copy from a Cambridge college ...
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A Bibliography of Dr John Donne. Third Edition.
285p large blue hardback, green and gilt title label to spine, excellent fresh copy, Third Edition, ...
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A Bibliography of English Corantos and Periodical Newsbooks 1620 - 1642.
283p half cloth, many illustrations, with an introduction early newspaper press, as new
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A Book About Books.
viii 264p buff cloth, red lettering & decoration to spine & cover, frontispiece, halftone plates & ...
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A Catalogue of Books, Fine and Rare Editions, Standard and General Works: Early Herbals, Manuscripts, Incunabula, Bindings for Charles II, Colbert, Louis XIV, Mme Pompadour, Curtis Botanical Magazine, Dresser's Birds.
92p stapled catalogue with white cover, hardly used, double columned text, pages clean, very good
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A Catalogue of Books, mostly Recent Purchases on Historical and Miscellaneous Subjects with Special Sections on Genealogy and Heraldry, Ireland and Irish History, School and College Histories.
48p green paper cover, stapled, a little aged
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A Catalogue of English Books and Fragments from 1477 to 1535 in the Public Library of Victoria.
72p large format paperback, plates, a little dusty, very good, compliments slip
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![A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon Mrs Horsfield removed from Allington Castle. (No 6 [7] of 1950-51); A Catalogue of Books from Various Sources. (No 7 of 1960-61)](images/books/223546_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon Mrs Horsfield removed from Allington Castle. (No 6 [7] of 1950-51); A Catalogue of Books from Various Sources. (No 7 of 1960-61)")
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A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon Mrs Horsfield removed from Allington Castle. (No 6 [7] of 1950-51); A Catalogue of Books from Various Sources. (No 7 of 1960-61)
two stapled period auction catalogues, 40p each, well preserved, green/blue paper cover, for the ...
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A Catalogue of the Recent and Forthcoming Books on the Orient.
72p paperback, publisher's Autumn catalogue, cover a little dusty otherwise as new
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A Catalogue to an Exhibiton of Notable Books and Manuscripts from the Collections of the University of Chicago Library, Prepared for the dedication of the Joseph Regenstein Library.
95p large format paperback, colour cover, illustrated throughout, very good indeed
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A Clearance List of some Recent Purchases of Publishers' Surplus Books. List 189.
4p folded, creased, very good
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A Close Look at Magazines and Comics.
91p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations, teachers' notes, from a Cambridge college library
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A Collection of Book Catalogues of Russian Books from the Firm Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.
issued between 1966 and 1977 in a standard format in light blue paper cover, of which we have 36 ...
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A collection of inquiries and orders for the Rolls Series (Rerum Brittanicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores) addressed to George Harding's Bookshop in the 1950ies.
a dozen inquiries perhaps, some stock listings, the book-trade without fax and without email, ...
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A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides. Printed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Between the Years 1559 and 1597.
xxxvi 319p cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped and sunned cover, from a Cambridge ...
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A Decree of Themistokles from Troizen.
24p offprint, large format, brown card cover, authorial inscription "for Lloyd and Betty", various ...
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A Dictionary for Calligraphers.
86p(?) red card cover, stapled, clean and tight copy, very good indeed, with illustrations ...
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A Dictionary of Reading and Related Terms.
381p hardback with brown laminated jacket, from a Cambridge college library, first edition, pages ...
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A Discourse, from Tale of a Tub, 1704; and A Meditation upon a Broom Stick, 1710.
40p yellow paper cover, facsimile of original printing
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A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public.
xxii 325p hardback with dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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A Formula Book of English Official Historical Documents: Part 1. Diplomatic Documents. Part 2: Ministerial and Judicial Records.
xvi 170p x 229p two volumes in original dark cloth, old library markings, first edition, well ...
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A Fragment of the Old Danish Version of the Legend of St. Christina, &c., in Collotype Facsimile.
32p offprint from the Transactions of the Cambridge Philological Society, excellent condition, with ...
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Seventh Printing.
x 528p in a defective full calf binding which has seen a crude attempt at repairing the binding, ...
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Seventh Printing.
x 528p in a full calf binding which has seen spine hinges repaired approx 1920ies, inner hinges ...
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A Guide for Authors of Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society.
6p stapled booklet, annotated by owner in red ink, cover a little yellowed, pages clean
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A Guide to a Select Exhibition of Cottonian Manuscripts in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Death of Sir Robert Cotton, 6 May 1931.
35p plus six plates in the back, a fresh and clean copy, grey card cover, no flaws
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A Guide to Color Reproductions.
v 382p blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, trade catalogue of American publisher, index, very ...
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A Guide to the Historical Records of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
123p blue/white paperback, from a Cambridge college library, pages unmarked, binding firm, as new
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A Guide to the Use of Visual Aids.
48p stapled booklet, purple rule to cover fresh clean copy of the first edition, dated February ...
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A Handbook for Hospital Librarians on Simple Repairs and Case-Making.
20p stapled booklet, grey paper cover with title label to front, clean and well preserved copy: ...
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A Hebrew Latin Glossary - Testimony of Spoken Hebrew in 10th Century Jerusalem?
30p page offprint, grey paper cover, text in Hebrew with abstract in English, many plates, very good
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A History of Booksellers. The Old and the New.
483p original cloth with significant tear to spine, horn-book illustration in gilt to front board, ...
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A History of Foreign-Language Dictionaries.
214p library rebound as hardback, a clean copy, library traces, very well preserved, with plates
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A History of Histories of German Literature, 1835 - 1914.
xii 301p green cloth, gilt lettering to cover, as new, with bibliography, index, as new, no name or ...
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A History of Printmaking: A Traveling Exhibition of the Madison Art Center, June 15 - July 29, 1979.
approx 30p oblong format, stapled, large item, colour plates which reflect on the history of ...
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A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Carefully Revised.
[xxx?] 390p original hardback, title label to front and spine, many illustrations throughout, a ...
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A Journey Around the World Mind.
44p large purple paperback, very well illustrated and informative on the history and holdings of ...
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A Journey of Discovery: On Writing for Children.
102p hardback with dustjacket, occasional marginal pencil marks, from a Cambridge college library
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A Junior History Book List.
23p stapled booklet, photographic card cover, clean pages, excellent copy, Historical Association ...
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A Lost Clairvaux Exemplum Found: The Liber Visionum et Miraculorum compiled under Prior John of Clairvaux (1171 - 1179)
36p essay, author note, fresh and clean copy, large format
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A Manual of Calligraphy.
208p large format hardback with fresh dustjacket, reproduced from very attractive calligraphy in ...
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A New History of the Book of Common Prayer.
xxiv 699p blue cloth bright, light library markings, nice clean copy
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A New Reagent for Etching Mild Steel.
15p offprint, with many striking photographic plates, nice clean copy, holed for insertion into ...
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A New Virgilian Writing Exercise from Oxyrhynchus.
20p offprint, plain white cover with author's note stapled to front, fresh copy, illustrations in ...
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