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A Present for a Little Boy.
Unpaginated small blue book, card cover, reprinted from original material (1797) on 193 antique ...
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A Printer's Christmas Books.
42p privately printed green hardback, cloth spine and patterned paper covered boards extremely well ...
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A Reader's Guide to the University Library.
19p stapled booklet, includes floor plan showing a future extension, a fresh item, very good
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A Review of Penicillin 30 Years After it's Introduction.
Special issue of Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for sale is the entire issue ...
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A Sampling of Books Published by Bejamin Blom, Inc.
Very large white catalogue with stapled illustrated card cover, pages clean with plates and ...
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A Select List of Books in Natural and Physical Science, Mathematics and Technology published by Messrs Longmans, Green & Co.
40p removed from binding, stitched, very good
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A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions of the End of the Fifth Century BC. Second Edition.
xx 266p light blue cloth, library bookplate and shelfnumbers, dustjacket present but aged, a clean ...
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A Selection of Latin Inscriptions.
vii 91p green cloth very fresh, frontispiece, excellent copy
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A Short Account of the Charity and Library Established under the Will of the Late Rev. Daniel Williams, D.D.
vi 147p hardback, navy cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, binding very ...
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A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger. A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
vi 67p plus 20 plates, large format paperback A4 size, grey card cover, a fresh and tight copy, ...
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A Small Catalogue of Books for Sale, Property of a Collector.
well produced listing, 24 pages with 228 items, grey card cover, issued by D Seakman, The Paddock, ...
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A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, his Young Body-Guard and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnikov. With Decorations by Paul Nash. Translated by John Cournos.
24p v large format, full morocco binding designed by Paul Nash, black and white inlays and blind ...
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A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy.
272p green hardback in excellent condition, as new
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A Stephen Crane Collection.
xiii 30p cloth, very good, 1/350 copies, from a Cambridge college library
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A Study of History: What the Book is for, How the Hook Took Shape.
12p pamphlet, green cover, portrait, this is uncommon publisher's advertising material, not the ...
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![A Thousand Years of French Books. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Manuscripts, First Editions and Bindings […] for the National Book League.](images/books/138664_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "A Thousand Years of French Books. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Manuscripts, First Editions and Bindings […] for the National Book League.")
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A Thousand Years of French Books. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Manuscripts, First Editions and Bindings […] for the National Book League.
132p paperback, cream card cover, black titles, blue motif to front cover, light wear to corners, ...
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A Trade Catalogue of Books Published by Macmillan & Co Limited, St Martin's Street, London.
163p 149p 49p original grey cloth, black lettering to front, well preserved, dated July 1901, ...
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A Trade Catalogue of Books Published by Macmillan & Co Limited, St Martin's Street, London.
212p 164p 68p original red cloth, black lettering to front and spine, well preserved, dated January ...
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A Transcript of "The Red Book", a Detailed Account of the Hereford Bishopric Estates in the Thirteenth Century.
ix 36p green card cover, stapled, with the Editors Compliments (not signed) to endpaper, ...
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A Visual Testimony. Judaica from the Vatican Library.
104p very large format paperback, excellent colour plates, fresh and clean copy without name or ...
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A Window onto Late Medieval Cumbria: The Drawings in the Lanercost Cartulary.
30p stapled booklet pink cover, fresh and clean, many illustrations
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Ab Terrae Tenebris ad Mappae Lucem. Cartographic Exhibition from the Eran Laor Collection on the first Anniversary of his Death.
30p booklet, tall format, transparent cover sheet, with illustrations, text in English and Hebrew, ...
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Abbildungen zur Neidhart-Überlieferung I. Die Berliner Neidhart-Handschrift R und die Pergamenfragmente Cb, K, O und M.
viii 42p of plates, A4 sized blue paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Abréviations Latines Médiévales. Supplemément au Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiane de Adriano Cappelli.
vii 86p slim paperback, small format, very well preserved, clean and tight, uncommon title, ...
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Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Catalogo sommario dei manoscritti del Fondo Rossi. Sezione Corsiniana.
xlviii 239p plus 14 plates in the back, frontispiece, well preserved copy, largely un-cut, without ...
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Across the Plains to Santa Fe.
24p stapled booklet, brown card cover, tall format, exhibition catalogue, 53 items, with ...
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Actas del VIII Coloquio del Comité Internacional de Paleografia Latina. Madrid-Toledo, 29 Setiembre - 1 Octubre 1987.
242p large format paperback with stiff cover, A4 format, many illustrations, excellent condition
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Adventures in Africana. (Inscribed by the Author).
46p paper-covered boards, illustrated, moisture stain to front cover, spine missing, text in good ...
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Ai Tralleis: Etoi Sylloge Trallianon Epigraphon.
68p large format, bound in period brown cloth hardback, many plates representing the epigraphic ...
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Alarms and Diversions. The American Mind through American Magazines 1900-1914.
174p green cloth gilt, dustjacket, excellent condition, as new: Interprets certain major aspects of ...
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Alfred Charles de Rothchild, 1842 - 1918 (Portrait of a Bibliophile)
22p offprint from The Book Collector, printed on rectos only, with plates, very good
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A Survey of the Important Editions of one of the Outstanding Book Rarities of the 19th Century.
(xii) 41p booklet, cover in red and black, fresh and tight copy, limited edition, this is copy # 8, ...
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Alle Origini dell'Enciclopedismo Medioevale: Il "Liber de Auctoritate Divina" e il "Liber Deflorationum" di Werner di Sankt Blasien.
36p essay, offprint with blue card cover, staped, plate, a fresh and clean copy, large format
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Allotment by Tokens. A Roman Bronze Weight from Egypt.
two short offprints, white paper cover, one with illustrations, well preserved
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Almanaco Letterario Bompiani 1965. L'Industria della Narrativa. Societa Americana e Romanzo. Dai Quaresimalisti della Cultura di Massa al Pelegrinaggio sui Piselli dell'Avanguardia.
198p plus approx 80p of advertisement, some advertisement inserted, large format (A4), a fresh and ...
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Aloys Blumauer and the Literature of Austrian Enlightenment.
131p slim paperback, European flag to cover, text reproduced from typescript, a well preserved ...
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Alphabets and Ornaments: A Treasury of Letters and Alphabets, Scripts, Title Pages, Ornaments, Decorative Forms, Fleurons and Border Designs.
256p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, transparent protective jacket, first editon, ...
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Altdeutsche Handschriften.
104p cloth, dustjacket present, 41 plates with transcriptions, nice fresh copy
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American Book Collector: Vol. 1, No. 5, Sept. / Oct. 1980.
complete issue of American Book Collector, 72p, contains many essays and period bookdealing ...
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American Book Collector: Volume 3, No. 3, May / June. 1982.
complete issue of American Book Collector, 76p, contains many essays and period bookdealing ...
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American Books Abroad. Toward a National Policy.
xxiii 309p cloth, bibliography, index, with a memorandum by director of the National Security ...
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American Journalism. A History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 years: 1690 - 1940. Volume I.
ix 407p hardback, dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, like new condition, minimal wear, ...
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Americans from Abroad.
Fresh booklet, orange cover, very good, pencil notes to last page
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Amok Fifth Dispatch. Sourcebook of the Extreme of Information.
561p large heavy paperback, lurid colourful cover, good condition, light wear and creasing to ...
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Among My Books.
xi 297p green cloth, floral carpet to spine, pages are bright and unmarked, a firm copy, very good, ...
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An Act for better securing the Duties on Paper printed, painted, or stained, in Great Britain.
6 page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published in ...
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An Act for the more effectually carrying into Execution the Laws relating to the Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper; and for repealing certain Stamp Duties on Policies for insuring Property in any foreign Kingdom... from Loss by Fire.
4 page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published in ...
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An Address on Medical Books, Delivered before the Abernethian Society.
20p offprint, small format, removed from binding, clean and complete, "With kind regards, N M"
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An Enigma and a Phantom: Giovanni Aretino and Giacomo Languschi.
20p pamphlet, with facsimile of MS, very good
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