Rochester: Published by S. Caddel, Gazette Office, 1831. Lithograph, 5.5 x 7.5 inches. Very good condition, mounted on a piece of worn blue paper. § John Any Bird Bell was the youngest person officially to be hanged in the 19th century, at the age of 14. His crime was the..... More
London: Newbery and Carnan, 1769. 2 vols., 16mo, xl, 264; 286, (2, ads)pp. Original quarter green vellum over black coated boards with paper label to spine. Slight wear and rubbing to extremities; else very good, clean copies. § Two from the seven volume series "The Circle of the Sciences" which..... More
Berkshire, England: The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922. Slim 8vo., 69 pp., with Golden Cockerel device on title-page. Quarter yellow cloth and brown paper boards, with printed paper label inlaid to backstrip, uncut. Some minor foxing to paper boards and endpapers; otherwise very good. Signed by author Havelock..... More
London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1817. 12mo, 8 leaves, printed on one side only. Naive binding of old printed wrappers from waste paper. Inscribed “Christmas present from Miss Emily Greco to Lady Frances Hastings [Lady Huntington] as a reward for good behaviour - December 24th 1820, Nursery". The inscription has..... More
Westphalie: Chez Florent-Q., Tue Pet-en-Guele, au Soufflet, MDCCLI [i. e. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Langlois, 1751]. 12mo, 108 pp. With a full-page engraved frontispiece. Later full calf, backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boards lightly rubbed and worn at corners; a very good copy. § First (only?) edition of..... More
London: Published at the Punch Office, [1848]. Folio. Original illustrated wrappers and 12 hand-colored plates interleaved by blanks, bound in half red morocco ruled and lettered in gilt with marbled endpapers and small oval bookplate of Alexander McGrigor. Hinges and board edges somewhat worn, large closed tear and small chips..... More
[Paris: n.d. ca 1895]. Original box (85 x 73 x 20 mm) covered in gilt-patterned paper with mounted color illustrated title on outside lid and printed instructions slip on inside lid. With 8 printed rectangular card game pieces plus the rare color printed solution sheet (120 x 120 mm), folded..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941. 4to, 10 pp. Quarter beige cloth, and blue gray cloth boards. Backstrip damaged. Bookplate. A good copy, but clean within. § Edition of 200 copies. Jackson Eli Reynolds endowed two professorships, Law and Humanities, at Stanford. "We of the earlier days have faith that..... More
[England]: William Simpson, 1883. 8vo, 49 pp. containing pasted and tipped in manuscript and printed sheets including 10 pp. autograph MS signed by Simpson; 2 pp. ALS from George Grove to Simpson; 2 pp. ALS from Alfred "Hajj" Browne to Simpson; 2 pp. ALS from Father A. Richardson to Simpson;..... More
![Item #126635 Trip to Killarney [Manuscript travel diary of Albert J. Perrett]. School Trip Travel...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/126635_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749678547)
Ireland: June 16-18, 1913. Small lined notebook (11x17.5 cm), [56] pp. orange card covers titled by hand, spine reinforced with tape. Approx. 28 pages filled with neat ink manuscript entries, illustrated with four small original sepia photos and a hand-drawn folded map tipped to inside of front cover. Covers a...... More
![Item #109228 Writing blanks depicting “The Lord’s Supper” [and] “Paul Preaching at...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/109228.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551287158)
[London]: Printed and Published by J. Fairburn, Featherstone, Street City Road [and] Published Oct[obe]r 1st, 1839 by J. Fairburn, 110 Minories. Two handcoloured prints, each bordering calligraphed bible verses, name and date. The first (384 x 486 mm) shows “Paul Preaching at Athens”, six smaller scenes from the Book of..... More
