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;) ;) | ANON Album de Trollhatta. - Collection des vues, les plus pittoresques et les plus remarquables de Trolhatta et de ses environs. Avec texte descriptif D.F. Bonnier (1850 (circa)) 4pp + 10 tinted litho plates. 1st ed., clean in very worn original pictorial boards. Minor water stains in margins only of first two plates. Lovely views of the canal in Trollhatta, Sweden. | £95.00 |
;) | ANON National Maritime Museum Catalogue of Warship Photographs. Richard Perkins Collection. HMSO (1969 (circa)) 257 + 46pp. Clean in card covers. Catalogue of the collection of photos of warships mostly from the 1920's and 1930's. Note there are no actual images reproduced. | £10.00 |
;) ;) | ANON Colour: - A Collection of Papers Describing Investigations in the Fields of Colour Physics and Colour Psychology Carried Out in the Laboratoires of the Dyehouse Department of I. C. I. Dyestuffs Division at Blackley, Manchester During the Period 1940-48 I.C.I. Ltd (1950) 120 large pp. Clean in original worn cloth. | £60.00 |
;) | ANON Livre de poste ou Etat général des postes du royaume de France: - suivi de la carte géométrique des routes desseires en poste, avec désignation des relais et des distances: pour l'an 1825. Paris, Imprimerie Royale (1825) 247pp. 1st ed., a very clean copy in crude later card binding. A scarce road book. | £90.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | ANON St Michael and All Saints church, Wilsill. Morton & Newey (1929) Special presentation book to W.B. Board for his service to the church. Contains two photographs and two 3pp of illuminated manuscript in full calf binding with silk end papers. Most impressive. | £85.00 |
;) ;) | ANON The Harp, or New Musical Pocket Book for 1829. London (1829) 129pp + plates and engagement diary. A couple of pages from diary removed otherwise clean in original full red calf with flap. Most attractive. | £45.00 |
;) | ANON The Life and Wonderful Adventures of John Metcalfe, - commonly called BLIND JACK, of Knaresborough. Knaresborough: Printed and Sold by J.D. Hannam (1882) 67pp + frontispiece, clean in original worn and chipped paper covers. | £45.00 |
;) | ANON Execution of MacLean, Commonly Known by the Name of the Gentleman Highwayman. Sold by S. Hazard, Bath (1795 (circa)) 22pp. Clean in worn paper covers with stain on front cover and wear to edge. 4¼ x 7" Very scarce. | £165.00 |
;) ;) | ANON THE ROYAL KALENDAR; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1786. London: Printed for J. Debrett (1786) vi + 281pp. 1st ed., lacking end papers bound in modern quarter cloth with marbled boards. | £45.00 |
;) ;) | ANON 24 Views of H.M. Indian Troop Ship to India & Back. R. Wilkins & Co., Portsea (1880 (Circa)) Folding chromo litho views in original worn red boards. 4.5 x 5.5" Rare view book produced during the second Afghan War with views showing troops embarking at Portsmouth, passing Gibraltar, at anchor in Malta, passing through the Suez canal and finally arriving in Bombay. | £125.00 |
;) | ANON Official History of Knaresborough. Parrs Stationers Knaresborough (n.d.) 56pp + 4 plates. Clean in card covers. Circa 1920. | £8.00 |
;) ;) ;) | ANON Hand-Book to the Cathedral Church of Ely; with a brief account of the conventual buildings. Ely: Thomas A. Hills & Son (1857) 91pp + plates and folding plan and publisher's adverts. 4th ed., fine in original cloth. | £38.00 |
;) | ANON The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1834. Boston: Published by Charles Bowen (1833) xii + 336pp + folding map. 1st ed., some light foxing, margins of map repaired with tape otherwise clean in original half calf with marbled boards. The map shows the eclipses of 1831 and 1834. | £40.00 |
;) | ANON Wilson's Guide to the Scott Country by the North North British Railway. Wilson Advertising Co (1922) 64pp. Fine in paper covers. Mostly advertisments but contains a guide to all the stops along the railway line. | £8.00 |
;) | ANON The Life and Wonderful Adventures of John Metcalfe, - commonly called BLIND JACK, of Knaresborough. Knaresborough: Printed and Sold by W. Parr, High Street (1861) 62pp + frontispiece, lightly browned in original worn and chipped paper cover, lacking back cover. | £30.00 |
;) ;) | ANON 50 Vues de Paris et Versailles (1890 (circa)) Album containing 50 chromolitho views of historical buildings and street scenes. Fine and complete. | £40.00 |
;) ;) | ANON British Naval Biography: - comprising the lives of the most distinquished admirals, from Howard to Codrington: with an outline of the naval history of England from the earliest period to the present time London: Printed for Scott, Webster and Geary (1840) x + 665pp + frontispiece and half title. 2nd ed., 12mo. Very fine in decorated full calf, a.e.g. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. | £90.00 |
;) ;) | ANON Constitution, By-Laws, Sailing Regulations, Etc., of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay New York, Corlies, Macy & Co (1879) 76pp + engraved frontispiece, coloured plates and maps. 1st ed., clean in worn original pictorial cloth. | £60.00 |
;) ;) | ANON Shipwrecks and disasters at sea : narratives of the most remarkable wrecks, conflagrations, mutinies, &c London: L.J. Chidley (1846) 430pp + half title and frontispiece. 1st ed., slightly browned otherwise clean in original worn green cloth, rebacked. | £75.00 |
;) | ANON Gibraltar and back in an eighteen-tonner, by one of the crew London. W.H. Allen & Co (1888) 131pp + folding chart and plates and publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., fine in faded pictorial cloth. Very scarce | £120.00 |