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The Library of the late Kenneth K Knight, Esq on the History of Science and Economics. Wednesday, October 31, 1979.
122p frontispiece, mauve card cover, 391 lots, ink notes indicating prices fetched to the margin on ...
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David Low (Booksellers). A Collection of Bookseller Catalogues.
a collection of approx 20 bookseller catalogues numbered, 57, 58, 59, 82, 87, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, ...
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The Chaucer Head. Catalogue 35. Books before 1800.
A4 format, 57p, 303 items, ivory cover with garden plan illustration, well preserved, year noted in ...
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The Chaucer Head. Catalogue 17. Economics and Related Subjects, including a Selection of Important Works from the Harvard Economic Series and the National Monetary Commission.
92p 529 items, white cover with Goodwin title to front, well preserved, but without a year of ...
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Bottega Apulja di Mario Somma. Libri Rari, Autunno 1995.
176p large paperback, illustrated cover, 622 items, with illustrations, a fresh copy, very good
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Bottega Apulja di Mario Somma. Libri Rari, Autunno 1994.
231p large paperback, illustrated cover, 769 items, with illustrations, a nice fresh copy, very good
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Catalogo 28, Nuova Serie. Natale 1967.
121p large paperback, illustrated cover, ink note to front, with illustrations, early listing, a ...
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Early Printed Books. Books on the History of Science, Economics, Literature and Theology, which will be Sold on Wednesday 1 April 1981.
64p large format paperback, old rose frame to cover, some illustrations, a few notes in ink, list ...
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Catalogue of a Selection from the Signet Library, Removed from Edinburgh. The Sixth Portion. Pamphlets of the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century, with a Selection of Americana. 31 October, 1 November, 1960.
115p paperback, green card cover, some illustrations, staples in this copy have failed completely, ...
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Livres anciens et modernes, sciences, economie politique. Lunedi 6 Novembre, 2000. Hotel Drouot Salle 6. Expert: Dominique Courvoisier.
405 items, some illustrations, colour city map to front, Quaritch note inserted
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Catalogue of a Distinguished Collection of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts of Voltaire and His Circle. The Property of a Continental Collector. Tuesday, 11 June, 1968.
68p large format paperback, green cover, some plates, frontispiece, a nice copy
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Printed Books and Maps. Historical Documents and Autographs. Wednesday, 20 June 2001.
64p large format paperback, 790 items, some illustrations, very good, a fresh copy
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Important Autograph Letters from the Historical Archives at Bowood House: Including Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Sir William Blackstone, Lord Byron, Benjamin Franklin, David Hume, etc. Wednesday, 12 October 1994.
137p large format paperback, many illustrations, a few notes in ink, list of prices realised ...
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Printed Books and Maps. Travel, Topography and Natural History, Geology and Palaeontology, Historical Documents and Autographs, Philosophy, Economics, Science and Medicine 26 - 27 January, 2011.
140p large format paperback with poissons fossiles to front, 809 items, illustrated in colour ...
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Printed Books and Maps. Important Historical Autographs, Natural History and Early Printed Books. 5 November 2008.
137p large format paperback with Baxter print to front 745 items, illustrated in colour throughout, ...
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Bonhams Printed Books and Maps, Tuesday 17 September 2002.
157p large format paperback, penguin illustration to front, well preserved, clean and tight copy, ...
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English Literature and History, Private Press and Illustrated Books, Related Drawings and Animation Art. London, 21, 22 July 1992.
314p thick catalogue, A4 format, with Shakespeare portrait to cover, includes Animation Art from ...
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English Literature and History: London, Thursday 20th July 1989.
245p thick catalogue with James Joyce Death Mask to cover, includes Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, ...
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English Literature and History. Thursday 13 December 1990.
347p A4 format thick catalogue with colour cover, including the Library of the Duke of Wellington, ...
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Bostonus Buriensis and the Author of the Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiae.
30p offprint, very good, with plates, a clean copy, with kind regards
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The A Text of Seneca's Tragedies in the Thirteenth Century.
30p offprint, very good, with plates, a clean copy
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Statim Invenire. Schools, Preachers and New Attitudes to the Page.
15p offprint, faint green paper cover, stapled, a very good copy
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Clare College MS 26 and the Circulation of Aulus Gellius 1-7 in Medieval England and France.
40p offprint, white card cover, very good, with appendix, from Mediaeval Studies
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The Early Editions of Macchiavelli's First Decenale.
40p offprint, dark card cover, very good, long appendix
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The Medieval Circulation of Cicero's Posterior Academics and the De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.
30p offprint, bright yellow card cover, very good copy
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Florilegia and Latin Classical Authors in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Orleans.
30p offprint, very good, clean copy
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Manuscripts belonging to Richard de Fournival.
20p offprint, author notes to back, very good
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Roll and Codex: A New Manuscript Fragment of Reinmar von Zweter.
40p offprint, author note to white cover, very good, together with 2 additional offprints on the ...
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Dizionario di Opere Anonime e Pseudonime di Scrittori Italiani o come che sia aventi Relazione all'Italia. Volume 2: H - R.
479p original blue cloth firm, library marking to spine and endpaper, a useful and tight copy of ...
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Dizionario di Opere Anonime e Pseudonime di Scrittori Italiani o come che sia aventi Relazione all'Italia. Volume 1: A - G.
479p original blue cloth firm, library marking to spine and endpaper, a useful and tight copy of ...
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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 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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The House of Macmillan.
xii 248p green cloth, top edge gilt, index, light library markings, foxy bookplate, very good
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Observations Codicologiques sur le Groupe W des Manuscrits du Liber Floridus; - Recherches sur le Stemma des Copies du Liber Floridus.
16p oversized pamphlet, contains many illustrations, Liber Floridus Colloquium extrait
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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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Centuries of Books and Manuscripts: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Houghton Library, 1942 - 1992.
A4 format, grey card cover with black and silver lettering, many plates, excellent copy, 102 items ...
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Archéologie du Livre Médiéval.
72p paperback, black cover, many colour plates, very good copy, clean and tight exhibition catalogue
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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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Mainz and Eltville: The True Tale of Three Compositors.
50p essay by Needham, with illustrations, for sale is the entire issue of Bulletin du Bibliophile, ...
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Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture.
34p offprint with author note, plates (also in colour), very good
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Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the Libraries, University of Southern California. No. 24, 1988.
48p stapled booklet, grey card cover, attractively designed issue, printed on excellent paper, with ...
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Bewegung im Reich der Immobilität. Revolutionen in der Habsburgermonarchie 1848-49. Literarisch-publizistische Auseinandersetzungen.
xvii 558p hardback with fresh dustjacket, as new, never used, no names or stamps, excellent
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Corpus des Inscriptions et Antiquités Sud-Arabes. Volume 1, Section 1. Inscriptions.
xxxviiii 243p paperback, black cover with photograph, good condition with some wear, pages are ...
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The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe.
xiv 284o large paperback, as new, never used, no name or markings, excellent
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When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861 - 1917.
xxii 450p hardback, fresh dustjacket, a clean copy, name to endpaper, (coffee?) soiling to margin ...
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Fighting Words: The Imperial Censorship and the Russian Press, 1804 - 1906.
viii 237p hardback, grey cloth with black lettering, decent copy with faint pencil marks to margin ...
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The Social History of Language.
x 220p large paperback, well preserved, interesting collection includes essay by McKenzie
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The Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha: The Seventeenth-Century Genesis of the 'Correspondence' Attributed to Prince A M Kurbskii and Tsar Ivan IV.
xi 237p hardback, dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy of the first edition, no names or stamps, no ...
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Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867 - 1907.
x 289p hardback, fresh dustjacket, a few faint pencil marks to the margin, a very good copy without ...
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