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Rules for Compiling the Catalogues of Printed Books, Maps and Music in the British Museum. Revised Ed.
68p paperback, grey card cover, very good condition, cover lightly tanned, pages clean and bright, ...
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Authors, Publishers and Politicians. The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement 1815 - 1854.
xv 311p cloth, dustjacket, index, nice and fresh copy of this study
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Die Handschriften der Oeffentlichen Bibliothek der Universität Basel. Erster Band: Die Handschriften der Abt A.
xi 437p 28cm. Not more published (see Steinmann, 11). Bound in grey cloth with original printed ...
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Catalogue of the Acton Collection. Classes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7: Papacy, Canon Law, Religious Orders, Counter Reformation.
vii 504p unbound as issued by publisher, index, as new, a valuable research tool
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The House of Macmillan. First Edition.
xii 248p green cloth, top edge gilt, index, very good, early history of this important publisher
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Bodleian Library Record. Vol 9, No 2 (Mar 1974) to Vol 10, No1 (Dec 1978).
six issues, together 370p, as issued, very good, the lot
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The Bookman's London.
ix 161p hardback with fresh dustjacket, attrative copy, many plates
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Of Making Many Books.
xii 347p cloth, label to spine, fresh and clean. Scribner-Centenary-Festschrift, extensively ...
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Newton D Baker and his Books.
85p cloth, dustjacket (worn), inscribed by the author with middle initial
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Dichter und Verleger. Briefe von Wilhelm Friedrich an Detlev von Liliencron.
119p grey card cover with red and black lettering, photographic plates, index, bookplate, very ...
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Literary Annuals and Gift Books. A Bibliography, 1823 - 1903. (1912) reprinted with suppl. essays by E Jamieson & Iain Bain.
25p 24plates, xxix 140p, red cloth, chronological index, main text printed on rectos only, nice ...
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![The Celebrated Library of Harrison D. Horblit, Esq. Early Science, Navigation and Travel Including Americana and a Few Medical Books. Parts I (A-C) and II (D-G) [All Published].](images/books/2123_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "The Celebrated Library of Harrison D. Horblit, Esq. Early Science, Navigation and Travel Including Americana and a Few Medical Books. Parts I (A-C) and II (D-G) [All Published].")
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The Celebrated Library of Harrison D. Horblit, Esq. Early Science, Navigation and Travel Including Americana and a Few Medical Books. Parts I (A-C) and II (D-G) [All Published].
2 volumes, large format, original cloth minor water soiling to one volume, many plates, indices, ...
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Der Druck des Wissens. Geschichte und Medium der wissenschaftlichen Publikation.
76p large paperback, grey card cover, mint copy
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Wisconsin State Historical Library Building. Memorial Volume, 1901. Exercises, Description, Accounts, Brief History etc.
139p large format, original cloth a bit dusty, many plates, index, library stamp, very good
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Lueurs et Reves. Poemes.
65p card cover, #31 of 150 copies only, fresh copy, by the famous bookseller in Paris?
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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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Catalogue 2 and 3, mimeographed, approx 1985.
One list entitled "1984" with much Orwell material, contains many interesting items and ...
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English Books before 1700. Catalogue 1165.
120p red card cover, 180 titles, illustrations, very good
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German Books in Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1500 - 1700. Offprint Modern Language Review, Volume 62, No 4, October 1962.
18p plates, inscribed
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Don Juan in Context.
xiii 184p cloth, fresh dustjacket (red), quite a few pencil marks to the text, neat and faint, but ...
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L'Amérique, l'Europe et les Autres. A la Recherche de la Informatique.
121p card cover, notes in ink to last few pages
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Bibliotheca Americana, 1883. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets relating to America, with a descriptive list of Robert Clarke & Co's Historical Publications.
viii (= index) 266p, + 42p Clarke publisher's catalogue, more than 6500 items, paper cover minor ...
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Faith, Text and History. The Bible in English.
x 203p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, new: Negotiating the distinction between bible as ...
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Queens of the Circulating Library. Selections from Victorian Lady Novelists 1850 - 1900. Ed. F Alan Walbank.
328p plain burgundy cloth, colour frontispiece, Boots Library label (and Boots re-binding), a tight ...
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Early Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts in England.
32p plus 16 plates, card cover, very good
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Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. An Exhibition 1966.
52p plus 32plates, paperback, very good copy
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Altdeutsche Handschriften.
104p cloth, dustjacket present, 41 plates with transcriptions, nice fresh copy
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Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books.
89p illustrations, boards, frontispiece, comprehensive bibliography of her works, very good
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The History of Signboards from the Earliest Time to the Present Day.
x 536p expertly rebound in plain green cloth with red title label to spine, colour frontispiece ...
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Letters to Thomas & Adele Seltzer. Ed. Gerald Lacy.
xiv 285p card cover, many illustrations, from a Cambridge college library, very good ...
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Selected Poems. Ed. John Sparrow.
127p cloth, nice and fresh, this copy blindstamped Beccles (bindery), File Copy with technical ...
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Data: Mirrors of Science.
213p cloth, many illustrations, very good copy from a Cambridge college library: An Aid to imagine ...
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The Typographical Association. Origins and History up to 1949.
ix 487p cloth, tables, index, a well preserved copy with dustjacket
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Visual Recognition of Words.
166p white card cover, illustrations, bibliography, includes an historical account of Reading ...
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Partial Degradation in Visual Word Recognition.
79p card cover, stapled, bibliography, appendix, research proposal, very good
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The Book Collector. Vol 17, No 1 (1968).
approx 140p, plates, advertisement, as issued, very good
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The Book Collector. Vol 5, No 4 (1956).
approx 140p, plates, advertisement, as issued, very good, House of Lords stamp
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The Book Collector. Vol 23, No 2 (1974).
approx 140p, plates, advertisement, as issued, very good
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The Book Collector. Vol 14, No 3 (1965).
approx 140p, plates, advertisement, as issued, very good, House of Lords stamp
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The Tale of Beatrix Potter. A Biography by Margaret Lane.
174p green cloth with black lettering, 30 plates, 4 in colour, appendix, fresh and clean copy, ...
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Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel.
xii 272p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm, a 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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100 Jahre Bruckmann.
156p papered boards, dustjacket, many plates, also in colour, very fresh very nice book
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