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Still available: The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. [c. 1835] by - Inscribed - £...
13/09/2026

Still available: The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. [c. 1835] by - Inscribed - £40

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[ANON]. The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. 107pp. Interior: Browning to endpapers, light foxing in places throughout. Binding: Contemporary quarter straight grain Morocco, with marbled boards (some wear, corners bumped). 12 mo. (Size). Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union [No date c.1835].

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Just Arrived: Vintage Pamphlet- Taunton St. James [c.1950] by [HIRST, Rev. Edwin] - - £15 Free shipping on orders over £...
13/09/2026

Just Arrived: Vintage Pamphlet- Taunton St. James [c.1950] by [HIRST, Rev. Edwin] - - £15

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[HIRST, Rev. Edwin]. Taunton St. James ("Taunton's Oldest Church") . [c. 1950, or earlier]. A scarce local history. Please see photos and main description for condition.

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Just Arrived: The Piston Process of Freezing….The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company. (Ice Cream, Various Contrapti...
13/09/2026

Just Arrived: The Piston Process of Freezing….The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company. (Ice Cream, Various Contraptions. RARE (1880s). by [The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company] - - £100

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The Piston Process of Freezing. The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company. VERY RARE Victorian book about Ash's patent pending machines in the production of ice and related products. Includes various recipes for Ice Cream. Please see full description and photos for details. (c. 1883).

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Still available: The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles… 1870. by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell - Inscribed Limited E...
13/09/2026

Still available: The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles… 1870. by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell - Inscribed Limited Edition - £600

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Sir Anthony Coningham Stirling’s (Crimea Campaign) copy- SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Sir William Stirling Maxwell. MAXWELL, William Stirling (1818-78). The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles The Fifth Designed By Martin Heemskerck In M.D. L. V. ###vi, 91, [1]. Beautifully illustrated throughout, decorative endpapers. Interior: some occasional light soiling. Binding: Publisher’s yellow and black pictorial cloth (some wear). Folio. London and Edinburgh: Privately Printed For The Editor, 1870.

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Still available: QUENNELL, Peter. Poems. (1926) by Peter Quennell - Limited Edition - £25 Free shipping on orders over £...
12/09/2026

Still available: QUENNELL, Peter. Poems. (1926) by Peter Quennell - Limited Edition - £25

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QUENNELL, Peter. Poems. Interior: Browning to a few pages, sporadic foxing/spotting. Binding: Publisher’s blue quarter cloth with marbled boards (light wear, wear to corners). LIMITED EDITION OF 60 COPIES SIGNED BY PETER QUENNELL OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 11. Peter Quennell (1905-93) was the son of authors C.H.B. and Marjorie Quennell. He was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. 4to. (Size) London: Chatto & Windus, 1926.

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Just Arrived: [VARIOUS]. The British Drama (5 vols). 1804. Robert Herbert 1st Premier of Queensland, Provenance by [VARI...
12/09/2026

Just Arrived: [VARIOUS]. The British Drama (5 vols). 1804. Robert Herbert 1st Premier of Queensland, Provenance by [VARIOUS] - Special Provenance - £200

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[VARIOUS]. The British Drama: Comprehending The Best Plays in the English Language [Tragedies, Comedies, Operas [and] Farces].

5 volumes (compiled as 3 volumes across 5 books).

PROVENANCE: Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Ickleton (bookplate to each volume). Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert (1831-1905) was the first premier of Queensland, Australia from 1859-1866. He died at his home in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire in 1905.

Please note this is a heavy item.

A lovely set.



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Just Arrived: DUFFERIN, Lord. Letters From High Latitudes (1858) Includes SIGNED Envelope Face by Frederick Hamilton-Tem...
12/09/2026

Just Arrived: DUFFERIN, Lord. Letters From High Latitudes (1858) Includes SIGNED Envelope Face by Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (Lord Dufferin) - - £75

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[Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood] DUFFERIN, Lord (1826-1902). Letters From High Latitudes; Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856, in the Schooner Yacht Club"Foam", To Iceland, Jan Mayen & Spitzbergen. (1858) Includes envelope face which has been SIGNED by Dufferin and adhered into the book.

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A curious piece.

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Still available: Essay on Irish Bulls. 1802. by Maria Edgeworth Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1st Edition - £95 Free shippi...
12/09/2026

Still available: Essay on Irish Bulls. 1802. by Maria Edgeworth Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1st Edition - £95

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EDGEWORTH, Maria; Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Essay on Irish Bulls. FIRST EDITION. [4], 316 pp. Interior: No half title, sporadic staining in places, worn hole puncture mark to bottom blank margin, piercing same place on pages throughout, worming to lower blank margins on last ten pages, pages age toned, occasional spotting/foxing. Otherwise good. Exterior: full contemporary calf (worn, rubbed corners bumped), spine re-backed (a while ago). 8vo. London: J. Johnson, 1802.

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Still available: Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York. 1831. by Joseph Halfpenny - - £140 Free shipping on o...
11/09/2026

Still available: Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York. 1831. by Joseph Halfpenny - - £140

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York Cathedral [York Minster]. Beautiful book of plates. HALFPENNY, Joseph. Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York. [12], [50]. 105 engraved plates. [monochrome plates, 2 of which are in colour]. Interior: staining to lower margins throughout, pages age toned. Exterior: later quarter green morocco with marbled boards (worn). Folio. York: John and George Todd, 1831.



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Just Arrived: ELMES, James. Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century. (1829) by - - £120 Free shipp...
11/09/2026

Just Arrived: ELMES, James. Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century. (1829) by - - £120

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ELMES, James (1782-1862). Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements. (1829).

81 pages of steel engraved plates (2 half paged plates on each page), one plan (of Regent's Park), 2 engraved title pages.

A handsome tome, in reasonably good condition, featuring some lovely engravings of bygone London in the late Georgian period.

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