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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to...
[Bible]London: John Baskett, 1716. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Book of Common Prayer unpaginated, Psalter pagination as follows: [3], 4-237, [7] pp. Contemporary fine-grain red morocco, spine in six compartments, gold tooling on the boards and spine, contemporary marbled endpapers and pastedowns; all edges gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece of King.....
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The Principles of Human Knowledge; Being Berkeley's Celebrated Treatise on the Nature of The Material Substance (And Its Relation to...
Berkeley, GeorgeLondon: William Tegg & Co., 1878. First Simon edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-lii, [5], 6-220 pp. Bound in green cloth with both boards bordered in blind, lettering and rule stamped in gold on the front board. Yellow/green endpapers and pastedowns. Algaier, Reconstructing the Library of William James; Gay Wilson.....
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![99 Stereograph Photographs of Japan [offered with] Telebinocular Stereoscope. Japan, Photography, Stereography, Travel.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000013623.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705079029)
99 Stereograph Photographs of Japan [offered with] Telebinocular Stereoscope
[Japan]; [Photography]; [Stereography]; [Travel]New York: Underwood & Underwood Publishers / Keystone View Co., ca. 1904. Stereograph Photographs. Stereograph photographs mounted on stiff brown paper board printed in black. Each card measures 18 cm x 9 cm, each photograph measures 8 cm x 8 cm. Two photographs mounted on each card. Each card states.....
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Fire and Sword in the Sudan; A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895
Slatin, Rudolf C., PashaLondon: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [2], 636, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spine, a decoration in gilt of Slatin escaping from Sudan on a camel on the front board; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure of.....
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Mort
Pratchett, TerryLondon: Victor Gollancz Ltd in association with Colin Smythe Ltd, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-221, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Josh Kirby. Inscribed on the title page by the.....
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Cygnea Christi Cantio, Eller Christi Swane-Sang, thet är andelige både tröste-och läro-rika betrachtelser öfwer herrans Jesu Christi siu ord på...
Carstenio, Mag. Henr[ik] (Bishop Henrik Henrikson Carstenius) (Ed.)Lund [Sweden]: Carl Gustav Berling, 1749. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 8 cm x 14 cm. [17], 2-170, [6] pp. Half nineteenth-century (ca. 1810) sheep over marbled boards. Title page with publisher's device, first page of text with a woodcut headpiece. Text in Swedish. The margins of some leaves are trimmed.....
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Quinctillian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
Quinctillian; W. Guthrie, Esq., [Tr.]London: Printed for R. Dutton, W.J. & J. Richardsons, R. Lea ... and J. Cawthorn, 1805. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-448, [2]; [5], 2-458, [2] pp. Contemporary calf with a gilt rule on each board and the spines in six compartments, gilt decorations and a......
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The Pilgrims of the Rhine
[Lytton, Edward-Bulwer]London: Saunders and Otley Conduit Street, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], vi-xxxvi, [1], 2-341, [5] pp. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century half brown morocco over green paper boards, boards ruled in gold, with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and gold rules on the spine; top edge gilt. Green mottled endpapers and.....
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Animal Farm
Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair)New York: Harcourt Brace and Company [1946], 1946. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 3-118, [4] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $1.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket done by Art Brenner. First printing of the first American.....
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Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars
Butler, SamuelLondon: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], ii-lii, [3], 56-500; [5], 4-476 pp. Full early twentieth-century polished dyed and patterned calf with the spines in six compartments, a green and a purple morocco label lettered.....
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![De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni [= On the Matter of the Deeds of Alexander the Great]; Libri. Q. Curtii Rufi, Quintus Curtius Rufus.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/00009405.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627934499)
De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni [= On the Matter of the Deeds of Alexander the Great]; Libri Decem [= Ten...
Rufi, Q. Curtii [= Quintus Curtius Rufus]Parisiis [= Paris]: J. Barbou, 1757. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-xv, [2], 2-557, [3] pp. Late eighteenth to early nineteenth-century mottled calf with a maroon morocco label on the spine, label lettered in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, board edges show gilt gauffering; all edges decoratively marbled. Marbled endpapers.....
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues ...
[Bible]; [Isaiah Thomas]; [Early American Printing]Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. First Thomas edition. Hardcover. 4to. [2], 3-1310 pp. Contemporary paneled sheep with the spine in six compartments. Illustrated with two engraved frontispieces. Completing the title page: And with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England.....