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Imprint: 1815 BREE, Robert. A PRACTICAL INQUIRY INTO DISORDERED RESPIRATION; distinguishing the Species of Convulsive Asthma, their Causes and Indications of Cure. London, J. Callow, 1815. 8vo. Fifth edition, corrected and imnproved, with additional observations. Unlike most earlier and later physicians, an asthmatic himself, doubted that that asthma was a separate disease in itself, but saw it as a symptom of other disorders. First and last pages detached, along with boards; spine off. Stock number: 78237.
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Imprint: 1844 BREMER, Frederika. NEW SKETCHES OF EVERY-DAY LIFE: A DIARY. Together with Strife and Peace. Translated by Mary Howitt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. First American edition. 134 pp. Text printed in double columns. Disbound, but signatures sewn. Lacks half-title. Occasional light foxing and marginal dampstaining; two signatures have paper that has browned. A couple of leaves have short edgetears and a chip; the final signature is chipped and starting at the inner margin. It is offered as is. Stock number: 65659.
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Imprint: 1930 BRENNAN, Ellen Elizabeth. MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL OF THE MAGISTRATES. Reprints from The New England Quarterly, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1930. [n.p.]: Southworth Press, 1930. 8vo., stapled pamphlet; pp. 54-93. Inscribed for Samuel Morison at front wrap. Touch of wear to wraps, touch of soil internally; very good., Very Good Stock number: 66654.
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Imprint: 1959 BRETONNE, Restif de la. MONSIEUR NICOLAS; Ou Le Coeur Humain Devoile. (Paris): Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1959. 6 volumes. In French. Edition Nouvelle; revue sur les textes originaux, et pour la premiere fois complete de tous les volumes prevus par l'auteur, ilustree de 72 gravures et de 24 fac-similes hors-textes. 8vo., blue cloth, gilt title to spines, printed paper label to front boards. Some sun to board and spine edges. Occasional shelfwear to cloth at bottom-edges. Clean and fresh within. A very good set., Very Good Stock number: 77527.
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Imprint: 1906 BREWSTER, William. THE BIRDS OF THE CAMBRIDGE REGION OF MASSACHUSETTS. Cambridge: Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. IV., 1906. First edition. Illustrated with 4 plates and 3 maps. 4to., green cloth printed in gilt to spine. Text and illustrations are generally clean and bright but over-opened in one place, with two toned pages from a laid-in note since removed. Front hinge is cracked with upper board loose, rear hinge is starting to crack at bottom. Boards are scuffed and stained with bumped corners and wear to head and tail of spine. Book is shaken. Scarce, in serviceable condition. Stock number: 57574.
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Imprint: 1840 BREWSTER, Sir David. LETTERS ON NATURAL MAGIC ADDRESSED TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Harper's Stereotype Edition. 314 pp. 16mo., brown cloth with gilt lettering, "The Family Library No. 50" above title on spine. Good, moderate shelfwear to edges and corners, spine nicked at heel and crown. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Optical illusions, magic tricks, magic lanterns, machines and devices, more. Engravings in the text., Good Stock number: 79492.
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Imprint: 1972 O'BRIAN, Patrick. POST CAPTAIN. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company (1972). Second printing. 414 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine in near fine color illustrated dust jacket with minor rubbing to bottom edge. The second title in the Aubrey series., Fine Stock number: 83335.
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Imprint: 1941 BRIDENBAUGH, Carl. THE PRESS AND THE BOOK IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PHILADELPHIA. Offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1941. Inscribed presentation copy for Samuel Eliot Morison. 8vo., wrappers, re-inforced with tape at spine; 30 pp. Very good, with slight soil and wear to wraps., Good Stock number: 65776.
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Imprint: 1961 (BRIDGMAN, Percy Williams). EXPRESSIONS OF APPRECIATION as arranged in the order given at the memorial meeting for Professor Percy Williams Bridgman, October 14, 1961. [n.p.: n.p.] c. 1961. 12mo., wrappers; 26 pp. Near fine., Fine Stock number: 61547.
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Imprint: 1852 BRIDGMAN, Thomas. MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD IN BOSTON; containing an exact transcript from Inscriptions, Epitaphs and Records of the Monuments and Tombstones in Copp's Hill Burying Ground, in the city of Boston. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1852. Second edition, first published by Munroe in 1851 under the title "Epitaphs from Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston." Wood-engraved frontispiece of Copp's Hill and 14 small wood-engravings throughout the text. xxiv,252,[4] pp., + a "List of Patrons of 'Boston Epitaphs'," 15 pp. 12mo., publisher's brown cloth with a gilt-stamped vignette of the Mariner's Tomb on upper and lower boards, and gilt-stamped title and decoration to spine, brown coated endpapers, a.e.g. Contemporary binder's ticket (B. Bradley & Co., Boston) on rear pastedown. Binding shows wear at corners and slight loss at heel and crown, with a bit of spotting and discoloration in places to cloth; but it is sound overall and internally clean. It is a very good copy of an uncommon book. (Sabin 7839). Founded in 1659, Copp's Hill Burying Ground is Boston's second oldest burying ground. It is the final resting place of the Mather family of ministers and other notable early residents of Boston, as well as artisans, tradespeople, merchants, and African-Americans. Although the latter, who were buried in unmarked graves, are not included in this history., Very Good Stock number: 87439.
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Imprint: 1969 BRIEGER, Peter, Millard MEISS and Charles S. SINGLETON. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS OF THE DIVINE COMEDY, BOLLINGEN SERIES LXXXI, 2 VOLUMES. New York/Princeton, NJ: Bollingen Foundation/Princeton University Press, 1969. First edition. Volume I: Text; Volume II: Plates. 378 pp/539 pp. incl 16 color plates, hundreds of monochrome illustrations. 4to., taupe cloth stamped in gilt. Fine in near fine dustjackets with faint dampstain at spine, not affecting books. In fine cloth publisher's slipcase with paperlabels (light soil to rear label). Extra postage required., Fine Stock number: 83444.
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Imprint: 1937 O'BRIEN, Jack. SILVER CHIEF TO THE RESCUE. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1937. First edition. Owner's ink Christmas gift inscription on reverse of frontispiece. Near fine in good price-clipped dust jacket. Corners gently bumped, else a fantastic copy. Stunning silver and blue endpapers. Color frontispiece and plates, b/w illustrations in the text. Jacket soiled, closed 3 inch tear to front panel at flap joint (not affecting text or image), a few small chips. In mylar jacket protector. The author's fourth book., Good. Illustr: WIESE, Kurt Stock number: 79400.
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Imprint: 1932 BRIGGS, Martin S. THE HOMES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA (1620-1685). London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1932. 8vo., green cloth, spine in gilt. Illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout. A near fine copy lightly sunned at the spine., Fine Stock number: 44143.
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Imprint: 1936 BRIGGS, Lyman, chair. THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY-U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT OF 1935 IN THE BALLOON "EXPLORER II." 277 pp. + (1) pp. + supplemental folding sheet (b/w aerial photo reproduction) and complimentary notice (laid in). Ink ownership on front cover at top corner. Flights, experiments, data, photos. Unusually fine condition., Fine Stock number: 80242.
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Imprint: 1858 BRIGGS, Charles F. and Augustus Maverick. THE STORY OF THE TELEGRAPH, AND A HISTORY OF THE GREAT ATLANTIC CABLE: A COMPLETE RECORD OF THE INCEPTION, PROGRESS, AND FINAL SUCCESS OF THAT UNDERTAKING. A GENERAL HISTORY OF LAND AND OCEANIC TELEGRAPHS. DESCRIPTIONS OF TELEGRAPHIC APPARATUS, AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE GREAT WORK. New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858. 255 pp. + 7 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. 8vo., pebbled blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, blindstamped cover. Boards and spine quite sunned, the cloth faded to light brown. Corners gently bumped. Pencil notes/ownership to coated brown endpapers, next blank recto. Light foxing to edges of frontispiece engraving, not affecting image. Folding color map in near fine condition, a few nicks, light foxing. B/w engravings in the text. Scarce; a nice copy., Fine Stock number: 80448.
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Imprint: 1976 BRIGGS, Walter. WITHOUT NOISE OF ARMS. The 1776 Dominguez-Escalante Search for a Route from Santa Fe to Monterey. Oil paintings by Wilson Hurley. Forward by C. Gregory Crampton. Flagstaff: Northland Press, (1976). First edition. 4to., white cloth lettered in gilt. A fine copy in like dustwrapper., Fine Stock number: 52470. ISBN: 087358418X
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Imprint: 1598 BRIGHT, Timothy. THERAPEUTICA; Hoc est, de Sanitate Restituenda, Medicinae Pars Altera. Frankfort, Ex Officina Paltheniana, 1598. 12mo. 111pp. Bound together with: MARSILII FICINI, MEDICI FLORETINI atque Philosophi Platonici celeberrimi, Libri III de Vita. Frankfort, Paltheniana, 1598. [xvi]190pp. Consisting of Parts II and III of Bright's "Medicina," the second edition. The first part was titled "Hygiena, id est de Sanitate Tuenda Medicinae pars prima," and with the other two parts was first published in London, 1582-3. Part I, Hygiena," was on maintaining health; Part II, "Therapeutica," was on restoring health, and Part III was taken from the medical advice of Marsilio Ficino, the fifteenth-century Florentine scholar and Humanist. Lacking a binding, and with light soil and library stamp to title, which is partially detached. The text in general is in good condition. As is.(Durling 705)., Good Stock number: 87137.
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Imprint: 1927 BRIN, Alexander, ed. THE JEWISH ADVOCATE SILVER JUBILEE EDITION MARCH 17, 1927 VOL. 49 NO. 1. Boston: The Jewish Advocate Publishing Corporation, 1927. 216 pp. Folio, printed silver wrappers, cover designed by J. Rosen. Spine slightly chipped, rear cover slightly rubbed. Interior fine. Moxie ad on rear cover. Very good overall. Features A Record of Our Progress in the Community and Historic Aspect of New England Jewry by Shubow., Fine Stock number: 79977.
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Imprint: 1927 BRIN, Alexander, ed. THE JEWISH ADVOCATE SILVER JUBILEE EDITION MARCH 17, 1927 VOL. 49 NO. 1. Boston: The Jewish Advocate Publishing Corporation, 1927. 216 pp. Folio, printed silver wrappers, cover designed by J. Rosen. Spine and covers chipped, both covers detached. Interior good, closed tear to last 6 pages. Moxie ad on rear cover with tape repair. About good overall. Features A Record of Our Progress in the Community and Historic Aspect of New England Jewry by Shubow., Good Stock number: 79978.
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Imprint: 1833 [NA]. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY; WITH MEMOIRS, Part 52. London: H. Fischer, 1833. First edition. Rt. Hon. Earl of Mulgrave, James Brindley, Rt. Hon. Viscount Combermere featured. Large 8vo., yellow wraps. Light offsetting opposite plates. Wrappers are somewhat soiled and much worn, lacking spine. As is. Stock number: 73848.
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Imprint: 1889 BRINE, Mary D. CHRISTMAS RHYMES AND NEW YEAR'S CHIMES. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1889. 124 pp. Oblong 4to., color illustrated glazed paper covered boards. In original taupe dust jacket printed in brown, quite rare, which accounts for the book's superb condition. There is only slight creasing to the front and rear joints, slight wear to corners, neat pencil ownership, else very fine. Full page and vignette b/w illustrations. A charming multi-seasonal holiday book., Fine Stock number: 84604. ISBN: CHRISTMAS
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Imprint: 1983 BRINKER, Helmut. SHUSSAN SHAKA-DARSTELLUNGEN IN DER MALEREI OSTASIENS: Untersuchungen zu einem Bildthema der buddhistischen Figurenmalerei. Bern; Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, (1983). Schweizer Asiatische Studien: Monographien: Bd. 3. Inscribed by the auhor. 276,[2] pp., including black and white plates. Gently bumped at top-edge, and occaional light edgewear; very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 78243.
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Imprint: 1973 BRINKER, Helmut. DIE ZEN-BUDDHISTISCHE BILDNUSMALEREI IN CHINA UND JAPAN von den Anfangen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts; eine Untersuchung zur Ikonographie, Typen- und Entwicklungsgeschichte. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1973. Munchener ostasiatische Studien, Band 10. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Octavo. x,279 pp. + [38] black & white illustrations. Printed paper wrappers. Ink ownership on front cover. Wrappers are sunnned at spine with short edgetears at heel and crown. clean within, and very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 78296.
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Imprint: 1898 BRINKLEY, F., ed. JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, WRITTEN BY EMINENT JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND SCHOLARS, VOL. VII, DE LUXE EDITION. Boston: J B Millet Company, 1898. No. 439 of 750 numbered copies (De Luxe edition). Elephant folio, 270 pp. + 8 large plates, being six colored albumen photographs (7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches), 1 color collotype (10 1/2 x 8 inches) and one mat-framed color plate (12 x 7 1/4 inches) with accompanying essay by Kakuzo Okakura. There are 20 additional smaller colored albumen photos tipped in to the text. Includes "Festivals" and "Observances and Pastimes." Some wear to green decorated paper covered boards, light rubbing, corner wear. No stains, rips or tears. Japanese style cord binding, accordion fold pages (with publisher's notice laid in: Do Not Cut The Leaves). Extra shipping charges will be required for this large and heavy book. Stock number: 85429.
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Imprint: 1897 BRINKLEY, F., ed. JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, WRITTEN BY EMINENT JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND SCHOLARS, VOL. II, DE LUXE EDITION. Boston: J B Millet Company, 1897. No. 439 of 750 numbered copies (De Luxe edition). Elephant folio, 74 + [2] pp. + 8 large plates, being one color collotype (10 1/4 x 9 inches), six colored albumen photographs (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches) and one mat-framed color plate (13 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches) with accompanying essay by Kakuzo Okakura. There are 20 additional smaller colored albumen photos tipped in to the text. Includes "The Early Japanese and their History." Some wear to orange decorated paper covered boards, light rubbing, corner wear. No stains, rips or tears. Japanese style cord binding, accordion fold pages (with publisher's notice laid in: Do Not Cut The Leaves). Extra shipping charges will be required for this large and heavy book. Stock number: 85448.
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Imprint: 1897 BRINKLEY, F., ed. JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, WRITTEN BY EMINENT JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND SCHOLARS, VOL. III, DE LUXE EDITION. Boston: J B Millet Company, 1897. No. 439 of 750 numbered copies (De Luxe edition). Elephant folio, 112 + [2] pp. + 8 large plates, being one color collotype (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), six colored albumen photographs (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches) and one mat-framed color plate (13 x 8 5/8 inches) with accompanying essay by Kakuzo Okakura. There are 18 additional smaller colored albumen photos tipped in to the text. Includes "Establishment of the Tokugawa Dynasty." Some wear to brown decorated paper covered boards, light rubbing, corner wear. No stains, one inch chip to paper at rear board's bottom corner. Japanese style cord binding, accordion fold pages. Extra shipping charges will be required for this large and heavy book. Stock number: 85449.
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Imprint: 1897 BRINKLEY, F., ed. JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, WRITTEN BY EMINENT JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND SCHOLARS, VOL. V, DE LUXE EDITION. Boston: J B Millet Company, 1897. No. 439 of 750 numbered copies (De Luxe edition). Elephant folio, 190 + [2] pp. + 8 large plates, being one color collotype (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), six colored albumen photographs (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches) and one mat-framed color plate (14 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches) with accompanying essay by Kakuzo Okakura. There are 20 additional smaller colored albumen photos tipped in to the text. Includes "Yoshitsune, Genghis and the Mongol Invasion." Some wear to dark grey decorated paper covered boards, light rubbing, corner wear. No stains, rips or tears. Japanese style cord binding, accordion fold pages (with publisher's notice laid in: Do Not Cut The Leaves). Extra shipping charges will be required for this large and heavy book. Stock number: 85450.
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Imprint: 1897 BRINKLEY, F., ed. JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, WRITTEN BY EMINENT JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND SCHOLARS, VOL. V, DE LUXE EDITION. Boston: J B Millet Company, 1897. No. 439 of 750 numbered copies (De Luxe edition). Elephant folio, 230 + [2] pp. + 8 large plates, being one color collotype (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), six colored albumen photographs (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches) and one mat-framed color plate (13 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches) with accompanying essay by Kakuzo Okakura. There are 20 additional smaller colored albumen photos tipped in to the text. Includes "Religion and Rites." Some wear to light brown decorated paper covered boards, light rubbing, corner wear. No stains, rips or tears. Japanese style cord binding, accordion fold pages (with publisher's notice laid in: Do Not Cut The Leaves). Extra shipping charges will be required for this large and heavy book. Stock number: 85451.
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Imprint: 1815 BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. AN ABRIDGED STATEMENT OF THE LEADING TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY; WITH A DIGEST OF THE VIEWS OF THE SOCIETY AND A NOTICE OF ITS CHIEF PATRONS. [n.p. - London/n.p.] 1815. Disbound from the Pamphleteer. pp. 269-280. 8vo., disbound. Pages in very good condition. Interesting list of translations of the Bible in foreign languages., Very Good Stock number: 81069.
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Imprint: 1916 (BRITISH MUSEUM). A CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE & CHINESE WOODCUTS... in the British Museum. By Laurence Binyon. [London]: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1916. First edition. 4to, lii + 605 pp., with 3 color plates and 28 b&w plates tipped in. Green cloth. Front hinge cracked, cloth splitting at rear joint, corners bumped. Some pencil notes. Still overall a very good, clean copy. Very scarce., Very Good Stock number: 28511.
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Imprint: 1910 BRITISH MUSEUM. GUIDE TO MR. WORTHINGTON SMITH'S DRAWINGS OF FIELD AND CULTIVATED MUSHROOMS AND POISONOUS OR WORTHLESS FUNGI often Mistaken for Mushrooms Exhibited in the Department of Botany British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum, 1910. First edition. 8vo., wrappers. Illustrated, with two folding color plates. Very light foxing; soil and wear to wrappers, rear detached. About very good., Very Good Stock number: 72815.
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Imprint: 1924 BRITISH MUSEUM. A GUIDE TO THE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN OF THE FAR EAST IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CERAMICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY. With 14 Plates and 230 Illustrations. (London): Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1924. Black and white illustrations from photos. xvi,168 pp. Octavo, printed paper boards. A very good copy; light sunning at spine, else clean and crisp., Very Good Stock number: 77649.
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Imprint: 1921 BRITISH COLUMBIA. HANDBOOK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada. Bulletin No. 1, History, Topography, Climate, Resources, Development. Victoria, BC: (Legislative Assembly), 1921. 8vo., printed wrappers, 79 pp. Good only, as front wrap is detached, but present, Wear to wraps, with some sun/soil; short edge tear to one leaf; age-browned and little brittle. Clean text and illustrations., Good Stock number: 59758.
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Imprint: 1839 [BRITISH ARMY - REGIMENTAL HISTORY]. HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE FIFTH, OR PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOON GUARDS: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE REGIMENT IN 1865; WITH ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES TO 1838. London: Published by Longman, Orme, and Co.; W. Clowes and Sons, 1839. One of the series Historical Records of the British Army, prepared under the direction of Richard Cannon, Adjutant-General. Three hand-colored plates and an engraved t.p. for the series. Octavo. [10],viii,vi,[2],99 pp. Contemporary red cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and upper board. Ex-library; bookplate at front pastedown and two small, blind-stamped seals within. Spine is sunned and shows slight wear at ends. Front hinge has a hairline crack. It is a clean and relatively crisp copy overall, illustrated with bright plates; very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 74799.
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Imprint: 1937 BRITISH MUSEUM. LIST OF PICTORIAL POSTCARDS (COLOURED) PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. London: British Museum, 1937. Pamphlet, wire saddle stitch, 26pp. Age-browning to wraps and pages; pencil marking to front wrap. Very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 69956.
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Imprint: 1917 BRITISH PALESTINE COMMITTEE. PALESTINE. The organ of the British Palestine committee. The British Palestine committee seeks to reset the ancient glories of the Jewish nation in the freedom of a new British dominion in Palestine. Brittian: British Palestine Committee, Vol. II. No. 16. November 24th, 1917. First edition. 12mo., pamplet format, 26 pp.. Lightly dogeared with some discoloration to the upper wrapper. A very good copy. Judaica., Very Good Stock number: 55661.
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Imprint: 1937 BRITISH ACADEMY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY: Index to Volumes I- XX (1901-1934). London: Humphrey Milford, [c. 1937]. 8vo., maroon cloth. Ex-library. Soil to cloth, but internally, clean and bright. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 66242.
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Imprint: 1873 BRITTAN, Harriette G. SHOSHIE, THE HINDOO ZENANA TEACHER. New York: Thomas Whittaker (1873). 222 + 3 pp. publisher's advertisements. 12mo., brick colored cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Light shelfwear and rubbing to cloth. Small adhesion spot to coated brown pastedown and flyleaf. Pencil ownership to blank recto preceding half title. Text and plates clean, binding tight. B/w frontispiece & plates. Stock number: 84618.
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Imprint: 1894 (BRITTEN, Messrs.) THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, COLLECTED BY ALEXANDER WHYTE, F.L.S. Described by Messrs. Britten, E. G. Baker, Rendle, Gepp, and others; with an introduction by William Carruthers, F.R.S., F.L.S. London: Printed for the Linnean Society, May 1894. The Transactions of The Linnean Society of London. 2nd ser. Botany. Vol. IV. Part 1. 4to., sewn blue wrappers. 10 black and white plates. A very good copy with some soil and wear to edges; closed tears and minor chipping. Text is partially unopened and clean., Very Good Stock number: 51921.
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Imprint: 1867 [BROCK, Sallie A.] RICHMOND DURING THE WAR; Four Years of Personal Observation; by a Richmond Lady. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1867. First edition. 8vo., green cloth, gilt title to spine. Ex-library; all usual markings. Minor soil and moderate edgewear to spine and boards; chipped at spine extremities; fore-corners are bumped. Hinges are cracked. A bit dusty within. A scarce volume in good condition., Good Stock number: 76335.
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Imprint: 1949 BROKE, Jocelyn. A MINE OF SERPENTS. London: Bodley Head, (1949). First edition. 8vo., blue cloth; illustrated. Fine, in a slightly chipped and soiled dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 51235.
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Imprint: 1987 BRONK, William. DAWNINGS. (New Rochelle, NY): James L. Weil, (1987). One of an edition of fifty copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed from Garamond type on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. [8] pp. White paper wrappers, sewn. Fine., Fine Stock number: 81131.
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Imprint: 1969 BRONSTEIN, Leo. FIVE VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF JAPANESE PAINTING. Freeport: The Bond Wheelright Company, (1969). First edition. Tall 8vo., black cloth with illustration; xvi + 373p. 35 color plates, many b&w illustrations. This is a fine copy., Fine Stock number: 43439.
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Imprint: 1969 BRONSTEIN, Leo. FIVE VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF JAPANESE PAINTING. Freeport: The Bond Wheelright Company, (1969). First edition. Tall 8vo., black cloth with illustration; xvi + 373p. 35 color plates, many b&w illustrations. This is a fine copy., Fine Stock number: 45519.
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Imprint: 1857 BRONTE, Charlotte. THE PROFESSOR. By Currer Bell. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American edition in cloth. brown cloth; yellow endpapers. Front flyleaf missing. Moderate foxing throughout, spine Head and tail somewhat worn and some slight wear to extremes of cloth. Overall, an acceptable copy. (Smith p. 172), Acceptable Stock number: 83624.
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Imprint: 1853 [BRONTE, Charlotte]. SHIRLEY: A Tale. By Currer Bell. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. 3 volumes. First edition, press notices of third edition of Jane Eyre (pp [318]-320) to rear of volume three, lacking ads in volume 1 Bound in modern 1/4 blue leather with light blue paper sides. A bit soiled internally, but overall a pleasing set. (Tinker 382, Smith 5 p.112.) Stock number: 79276.
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(BRONTE SISTERS). WORKS OF THE BRONTE SISTERS. 6 vols. New York: Bigelow Brown and Co., [n.d.], (c.1900). 8vo., brown cloth, spine stamped in green, t.e.g. A very good set containing works by Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte. Light rubbing at the spine, and spine ends, paper labels a little chipped., Very Good Stock number: 57612.
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Imprint: 1946 BROOKE, Rupert. DEMOCRACY AND THE ARTS. With a preface by Geoffrey Keynes. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946. First, limited edition, with a publisher's presentation slip laid-in; this is number 164 of 240 copies printed on part-rag paper, quarter bound in red niger leather, with marbled paper made by Douglas Cockerell & Son. Frontispiece portrait in photogravure by Emery Walker from a photograph by V. H. Mottram. viii, 32 pp. Slim 8vo., t.e.g. The text leaves are gently rippled, but very clean and fresh. The leather is considerably darkened at the spine and at the top-edge, with a tiny nick at crown. Overall, this is a very good copy. The text is a lecture read by Brooke to the Cambridge University Fabian Society on 24 November, 1910. This publication was the first of the firm Rupert Hart-Davis Limited. (Keynes 46)., Very Good Stock number: 60926.
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Imprint: 1916 BROOKE, Rupert. THE OLD VICARAGE GRANTCHESTER. With a Woodcut by Noel Rooke. London: Sidgewick & Jackson, Limited, 1916. Thge woodcut is double page. 16 pp. 8vo., sewn into grey paper wrappers, printed in black; the wrappers are not trimmed to the size of the leaves. This is a clean and fresh copy, but somewhat irregularly creased at the center. Its overall condition is very good plus. This poem was originally published in 1914 and Other Poems. (Keynes 29)., Very Good Stock number: 60887.
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Imprint: 1915 BROOKE, Rupert. LITHUANIA, a drama in one act. The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915. First edition. Cover design and tail-piece by C. Raymond Johnson. 48 pp. 8vo., brown paper wrappers, pictorial design printed in grey and black on upper cover, device on the lower cover, wire saddle stitch; one free endpaper, pale brown, at each end. The staples have oxidized, and the wrappers are no longer attached to the text; otherwise, this is a fine fresh copy, showing just a touch of edgewear and one negligible crease to front wrapper. Keynes notes that only 200 copies of the book are said to have been printed. (Keynes 38)., Fine Stock number: 60918.
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