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Abbot, Abiel

History of Andover: from its Settlement to 1829

Andover [Massachusetts]: Flagg and Gould, 1829. First Edition. First edition. Contains rather interesting content, including an entire chapter on witchcraft in Massachusetts. Small 8vo. [4], [5]-204pp. Sabin 32127.

Price: $100.00

Allen, Joseph Henry

Fragments Of Christian History [signed]

Boston: Roberts Bros. 1880. First Edition. First edition. Signed and inscribed by author Joseph Henry Allen on the front free endpaper. Important work in ecclesiastical history by the noted nineteenth century Unitarian pastor and Harvard lecturer.

Price: $50.00

[Anonymous].

[Mary, Queen of Scots.]. The Court of Holyrood: Fragments of an old Story. . .

Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, & Co., 1822. First Edition. First edition of a scarce historical romance about Mary, Queen of Scots, published to coincide with the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822, the first by a reigning monarch since that of Charles II in 1651. A work clearly.....

Price: $600.00

[Anonymous].

[Unpublished History Book]. The Triple Crown in England. A Brief Chronicle of the Connexion Between England and Rome from the Conversion of the Saxons to the Reign of Henry the Eighth. Compiled from Protestant and Romanish Histories.

[n.p.]: [1848]. An unpublished handwritten manuscript which appears to be a final draft of an ecclesiastical history of the English church, and which clearly takes issue with many of the teachings of the contemporary Catholic church. Written throughout in a clear hand and with extensive footnote citations to writers such.....

Price: $600.00

[Anonymous]; By a True-Hearted Briton.

Two Questions Considered: What is it That we Have to Defend and Against Whom.

London: Printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly, 1798. First Edition. First edition of a British patriotic screed against a potential French invasion and the threat of “Gallic oppression.” Scarce. 12mo. 20pp. ESTC T59443.

Price: $85.00

[Bancks, John]

The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Containing Particularly his Decent, His First Advances to Popularity, his Wonderful Success in the Civil Wars . . .

Stourbridge: Heming and Tallis, [n.d., ca. 1814-15]. The rare sole edition of the separately printed pamphlet, containing excerpts of Banck’s A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell. . ., originally published in 1739 (though many of the passages in the instant work are lifted verbatim not.....

Price: $300.00

Barber, Fairless; Ruskin, John; Haigh, D.H., Waters, Robert; Quarterly Review; Lukis, W.C.

A Few Examples of Mediaeval Deeds, by Fairless Barber; John Ruskin: A Bibliographical Biography; Comparison of the Earliest Inscribed Monuments of Britain and Ireland; Parish Registers; British Family Histories; and On the Class of Rude Stone Monuments.

[various 1840s-70s]. Sammelband of 6 pamphlets containing 1) A Few Examples of Mediaeval Deeds, by Fairless Barber [signed with some annotations by Barber], 1879, 2) John Ruskin: A Bibliographical Biography, by Willam Axon, 1879, 3) Comparison of the Earliest Inscribed Monuments of Britain and Ireland, by D.H. Haigh 1876, 4).....

Price: $150.00

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, With the True State and Condition of That Kingdom Before the Year 1640; and the Most Material Passages and Actions Which Since That Time Have Contributed to the Calamities it Hath Undergone . . .

Dublin: Printed for Patrick Dugan, 1719-20 [1720]. The Dublin Edition. The Dublin edition, issued in the same year as the English edition. As proclaimed opposite the title page, “[t]his edition is much more correct than that of London, having been compared with two Manuscripts...” Clarendon’s account of the events in.....

Price: $300.00

[Collier, John, attrib.].

The Corporation: a Fragment.

London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-Row; W. Charnley, and T. Slack, in Newcastle, 1775. First Edition. First edition polemic satire in Hudibrastic verse on a corrupt Newcastle election. Down with the corporations. 8vo. vii, [9]-35pp. ESTC T185203. Goldsmiths’ 11364. Higgs 6497. RBH shows.....

Price: $250.00

Denne, Rev. Samuel

[Sedilia]. A Brief Survey of a Part of Canterbury Cathedral, as Described by Eadmer and Gervase: and a Review of Mr. Clarke’s Opinion of the Original Use of Stone Seats in Chancels . . .

[London]: [1793]. An offprint of an article by the antiquary Rev. Samuel Denne which appeared in Archaeologia, v11 (1792): 375-396. While a niche essay, on a niche topic, Charles Clarke’s original essay and this response form part of the “first critical examination of the liturgical function and development of sedilia.....

Price: $125.00

Evelyn, John.

Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. . . . Comprising His Diary, from the Year 1641 to 1705-6 . . . to which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I and His Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas . . .

London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition. First edition, the Abel Berland copy (Christies, 10/9/2001). The second most celebrated English diarist, Evelyn’s Diary remained unpublished until 1818, when editor William Bray obtained permission from Evelyn’s family to publish a small portion thereof in the instant two volumes. The diary covers a......

Price: $675.00

Fisher, Herbert A.L. [Winston Churchill's copy; Randolph Churchill's copy]

Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship: Germany

Oxford: Claredon Press, 1903. First Edition. Sir Winston Churchill's copy with his bookplate and the bookplate of his son, Randolph S. Churchill, both on the front pastedown. Letter of authenticity certifying the book as from the personal library of Winston Churchill, dated 1977, signed by Diana J. Rendell (of.....

Price: $1,500.00

[Francesco Petrarca; Petrarch].

[Early Cloth Binding]. Le Rime.

London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. One of the series usually known as Pickering’s “Diamond Classics,” they are some of the earliest books to have publisher’s bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants.....

Price: $125.00

[Francesco Petrarca; Petrarch].

[Early Publisher's Cloth Binding]. Le Rime.

London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. One of the series usually known as Pickering’s “Diamond Classics,” they are some of the earliest books to have publisher’s bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants.....

Price: $125.00

Godman, Ernest.

[Essex House in Vellum]. Norman Architecture in Essex.

Banstead, Surrey: By the author [Essex House Press], 1905. First edition. First edition. #17 of 300 hand-numbered copies, of which this one of an unstated few bound in full stiff vellum with green silk ties and gilt-lettered spine. Filled to the brim with 50 illustrations of buildings and.....

Price: $350.00

Godman, Ernest.

[Essex House in Vellum]. Norman Architecture in Essex.

Banstead, Surrey: By the author [Essex House Press], 1905. First Edition. First edition. #9 of 300 hand-numbered copies, of which this one of an unstated few bound in full stiff vellum with green silk ties and gilt-lettered spine. Filled to the brim with 50 illustrations of buildings and.....

Price: $350.00

Godman, Ernest.

[Essex House, One of 38 in Vellum]. Mediaeval Architecture in Essex.

Banstead, Surrey: By the author [Essex House Press], 1905. First Edition. First edition. #121 of 250 hand-numbered copies, of which this is one of 38 copies bound in full stiff vellum with green silk ties and gilt-lettered spine. See Norman Architecture in Essex, Bibliographical Note. Filled to the brim.....

Price: $400.00

Goldsmith, Oliver

An abridgement of the History of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar, to the death of George the Second, with a continuation to the end of the reign of George IV

London: A. Wilson, 1831. Revised edition to include history through the end of the reign of George IV who died a year prior to publication, amassing an fifteen additional pages. Includes hand colored "chronological chart of the history of England executed purposely for this work." While Goldsmith's work is.....

Price: $150.00

Lardner, Dionysius

The Cabinet of History . . .Spain and Portugal [5 volumes]

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832-1833. Pleasant five volume set bound in blue gilt half leather over red marbled boards, top edge gilt. 5 vol. 16mo. Volumes I to IV from 1832. Volume V from 1833. xxiv, 347pp., [1]; xxxix, 319pp., [1]; xvi, 333pp., [1], xiii.....

Price: $130.00

Le Hardy, Esther

Agabus, or, the Last of the Druids: an Historical Poem

London: William Pickering, 1851. First Edition. Based on the author’s research into Druid temples on her native British island of Jersey. This work includes the perhaps more influential poem “The Dying Druid” by R.A. Davenport: “. . . this little poem . . . published some years ago in a......

Price: $150.00

Le Vaillant, M. [Francois]; Barrow, John; Mavor, William [abridged by]

Travels in Southern Africa [] and in the Interior Districts of Africa

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1807. Scarce Minerva Press imprint of two travel works. Curiously, apart from the Minerva title page, this volume seems identical to Volume XXII of Mavor’s Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time.....

Price: $300.00

Malone, Edmond

An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments . . . attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton. . .

London: Printed by H. Baldwin: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand, 1796. First Edition. This work was “a comprehensive and sensational exposure of the Shakespeare forgeries by William Henry Ireland” (DNB) who purportedly discovered a treasure trove of documents by Shakespeare including.....

Price: $250.00

Ritchie, J. Ewing

The Night Side of London

London: William Tweedie, 1857. First edition. An expose on the underworld of Victorian London. “It will certainly astonish the reader to find what innumerable sins are committed daily and nightly [in London].” The Observer, Sunday, May 30, 1869. However, as later scholarship notes, “annals of the slums ....

Price: $225.00

Shaw, Henry.

[Hand-Colored Lithographs]. Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries. Drawn and Engraved by Henry Shaw. With Descriptions by Sir Frederic Madden.

London: William Pickering, 1833. First Edition. First edition of Shaw’s beautifully illustrated work on the art of illumination and depicting ornamentation from the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. A splendid work featuring an illuminated extra title page and 59 hand-colored lithographs. Ruari McLean in Victorian Book Design & Colour.....

Price: $1,200.00

Sumner, Heywood.

[Beautiful Arts & Crafts Illustrations]. The Book of Gorley.

London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1910. First edition, with handwritten address label and ALS from Sumner to Horace Commin (a well-known Bournemouth bookseller who was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association) pasted to the front free endpaper. Sumner was an early member of the Arts.....

Price: $850.00

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