MRS. JORDAN AND HER FAMILY BEING THE UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE OF MRS. JORDAN AND THE DUKE OF CLARENCE, LATER WILLIAM IV

By: ASPINALL, A. (ed.)

Price: €16.50

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker Limited: 1951

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 37789

Large octavo, green cloth, gilt title at spine, double portrait fronts., xxvii + 295pp., mono. illustrations. No dustwrapper, edge foxing, scarcely penetrating; rear board with a little soiling near spine edge, nothing serious. No significant wear. A reasonably good copy. View more info

THE LIFE OF SIR ISAAC PITMAN (INVENTOR OF PHONOGRAPHY)

By: BAKER, Alfred

Price: €25.00

Publisher: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.: 1908

Seller ID: 35020

Thick octavo, dark blue cloth, gilt title at spine, same with gilt portrait decoration at front board, xi + 392pp., plates (one folding), illustrations; details (illustrated) of Bath conference bound in at rear. Spine darkened, soiling, chiefly at rear board, not penetrating; edges and contents quite foxed, but still accessible. Minor wear at extremities. Shorthand bookplate (1911) at front paste-down endpaper. A sound, square copy. View more info

ABRAHAM TREMBLEY OF GENEVA: SCIENTIST AND PHILOSOPHER 1710-1784

By: BAKER, John R.

Price: €12.00

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold: 1952

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 34561

Octavo, xix + 259pp., mono. illustrations.Dustwrapper with small nick at head of spine, foxed (rear panel, not particularly heavy), endpapers and edges a little tanned. No significant defects. A good, sound copy, quite presentable in removable clear protective wrap. View more info

WILLIAM CASLON 1693-1766: THE ANCESTRY, LIFE AND CONNECTIONS OF ENGLAND'S FOREMOST LETTER-ENGRAVER AND TYPE-FOUNDER

By: BALL, Johnson

Price: €30.00

Publisher: Kineton, The Roundwood Press: 1973

Edition: Fifth Printing

Seller ID: 16936

Thick, large octavo, xxviii + 494pp., illustrated (including folding). A little wear at dustwrapper extremities, including one closed tear. A very good, sound copy in clear protective wrap. View more info

WITH A DAUGHTER'S EYE: A MEMOIR OF MARGARET MEAD AND GREGORY BATESON

By: BATESON, Mary Catherine

Price: €12.50

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1984

Seller ID: 17202

Large octavo, 242pp., mono. photo. illustrations. Dustwrapper turn-ins a touch browned at margins, and no significant defects. A very good copy. View more info

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: THE WOMAN AND HER LEGEND

By: BOSTRIDGE, Mark

Price: €22.50

Publisher: London, Viking: 2008

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19422

Large octavo, illustrated endpapers, xxiii + 646pp., mono. illustrations. Extremely slight wear only. A near-fine copy in like, unclipped dustwrapper. View more info

SCRIABIN: A BIOGRAPHY

By: BOWERS, Faubion

Price: €13.50

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc.: 1995

Edition: Second, revised edition.

Seller ID: 40693

Octavo, publisher's pictorial wraps, two volumes in one, 342pp., 294pp., mono. illustrations. Extremely minor edge foxing, scarcely remakable, minimal wear. A very good, sound copy. View more info

MARIE STOPES: A BIOGRAPHY

By: BRIANT, Keith

Price: €12.00

Publisher: London, The Hogarth Press: 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 36671

Octavo, 285pp., mono. illustrations. Unclipped dustwrapper with closed tear at spine edge, a little faunt foxing at rear panel, spine just very slightly tanned. A very good, sound copy in removable clear protective wrap. View more info

HUGH GAITSKELL

By: BRIVATI, Brian

Price: €20.00

Publisher: London, Richard Cohen Books: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20346

Large octavo, xix + 492pp., mono. photo. illustrations. Extremely minor wear only. A near-fine copy in like, unclipped dustwrapper. View more info

OSSIAN BINGLEY HART: FLORIDA'S LOYALIST RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNOR

By: BROWN, Canter

Price: €15.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20622

Octavo, xx + 320pp., mono. illustrations, map. Light wear only. A very good copy in like dustwrapper. View more info

THE WIZARD FROM VIENNA [Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origins of Hypnotism]

By: BURANELLI, Vincent

Price: €20.00

Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 1976

Seller ID: 42529

Octavo, patterned endpapers, 256pp., mono. illustrations. Some tanning/foxing at text block edges, nothing serious, bookseller's label (The Inner Bookshop) at front paste-down endpaper. Minimal wear. A good, sound copy in presentable, unclipped dustwrapper and removable clear protective wrap. View more info

SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE: THE TURBULENT LIFE AND CAREER OF THE HERO OF THE LITTLE "REVENGE"

By: BUSHNELL, George Herbert

Price: €20.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co.: 1936

Seller ID: 37082

Large octavo, 341pp. partially untrimmed, mono. illustrations. Ex-library (Boots), binding dulled and a little worn, slight soiling; edges browned, one illustration detached (but present). A working copy, text clean. View more info

SAINT ANGELA: THE LIFE OF ANGELA MERICI FOUNDRESS OF THE URSULINES (1474-1540)

By: CARAMAN, Philip

Price: €10.00

Publisher: London, Longmans: 1963

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 40510

Octavo, xii + 188pp., mono. photo. illustrations. Minor marginal wear at (unclipped) dustwrapper, pen doodle at fly-leaf corner; otherwise a clean and sound copy in removable clear protective wrap. View more info

LUCKY EYES AND A HIGH HEART: THE LIFE OF MAUD GONNE

By: CARDOZO, Nancy

Price: €15.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1978

Seller ID: 21734

Large octavo, 468pp., mono. illustrations. Some fairly inconsequential smuding, small stain at spine and minor wear at unclipped dustwrapper. Book very good. A sound, fairly presentable copy in clear protective wrap. View more info

ISABELLA D'ESTE MARCHIONESS OF MANTUA 1474-1539: A STUDY OF THE RENAISSANCE [two volumes]

By: CARTWRIGHT, Julia (Mrs. Ady)

Price: €45.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1932

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 21612

Two volumes, large octavo, decorated blue cloth, gilt, gravure portrait fronts., xxiii + 392pp., xiii + 419pp., full-page mono. and gravure illustrations, tissue-guards present at all gravures. Just a little wear at heads and tails of spines. A very good, clean, sound, presentable set. View more info

HARDING OF PETHERTON: FIELD-MARSHAL

By: CARVER, Michael

Price: €20.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 37624

Octavo, ix + 246pp., mono. illustrations, maps. Partial tanning and very slight foxing at (unclipped) dustwrapper turn-ins, otherwise minimal wear, and a very good, clean and sound copy in in removable clear protective wrap. View more info

THE LIFE-STORY OF THOMAS CHAMPNESS

By: CHAMPNESS, Eliza M.

Price: €20.00

Publisher: London, Charles H. Kelly: 1907

Seller ID: 20777

Octavo, dark maroon cloth, gilt title at spine, xiii + 370pp., mono. illustrations. Front inner hinge tape-repaired, one illustration re-glued (all illustrations present), scattered foxing, minor soiling, edges darkened. Lacking rear endpaper, and possibly (though not definitely) one leaf of the Afterword; binding partially darkened, but with minimal wear at extremities. A good copy only, but certainly usable. Not dated, foreword 1907, alter owner's inscription at fly-le... View more info

DALLAS PRATT: A PATCHWORK BIOGRAPHY PIECED TOGETHER, FROM HIS JOURNAL AND OTHER WRITINGS

By: CHAPMAN, Dick

Price: €20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mark Agent: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19388

Large octavo, cream pictorial wraps, 284pp., mono. and colour illustrations. A fine copy. View more info