SOUVENIR OF THE DIAMOND JUBILEE circa 1897. The Educational Supply Association Ltd., London. 12mo 256 pp including nineteen illustrations, genealogical table and summary of events. Blue cloth and red spine.
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£10.00

THREE SPEECHES ON THE GENERAL STRIKE 1926 by The Rt. Hon. Sir John Simon, M.P. published by Macmillan & Co. 8vo. 96pp including an introduction, diary of events and appendices. Red cloth covered board.
Condition good.
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£10.00

JAPAN. The Nations' Histories. 1916. Beginnings to the Russo-Japanese War. by F. Hadland Davis. Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Limited, London. Frederick A. Stokes, New York. 7.5" x 5" x 1". 323pp illustrated with photograps, drawings and paintings. County library stickers on inside front cover, numbers on lower spine. Reasonable condition. Front paper broken but holding.
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£10.00

LIFE WITH UDI 1966 by Louis Bolze and Klaus Ravn. A humerous cartoon history of Independent Rhodesia. Paperpack, landscape orientation, 96 pp157mm x 200mm. Condition Fair to Good.
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£10.00

FROM CAPETOWN TO LADYSMITH 1900. An unfinished record of the South African War by G.W. Steevens. Published by Wm Blackwood & Sons, London. 180 pp with 2 maps and 32 pp of advertisements. 7.75" x 5.5" x 1.125". Dark yellow cloth covered boards, rough cut pages.
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£15.00

PICTORIAL RECORDS of THE ENGLISH IN EGYPT with LIFE OF GENERAL GORDON and other PIONEERS OF FREEDOM published by James Sangster & Co., London. c1891. 9.5" x 7" x 1.5". 502pp. Seven pages of mezzo tint portraits, plus one frontispiece and one hundred and twenty wood engravings. The case is of red cloth covered board bearing a richly illustrated front board and spine comprising title and emblematic illustration in intaglio and raised red, black and bright gilt. Back board is blind stamped decorative framing. Spine slightly faded. Head and foot of spine cloth bent but not chipped. Fore and end papers have parted. Cover colour has leeched to the top corners of the first three fore pages. All page edges are gilded. Cover slightly soiled but with remarkably little damage or wear.
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£48.00

BOSCOBEL 1743. Boscobel Or, The Compleat History Of the most Miraculous Preservation of King Charles II After the Battle of Worcester. 3.75" x 6.25", 16mo. Bereft of its encasing, fore and end papers. The parts printed in one for Mr. M. Cooper at the Globe, in Paternoster-Row. The fifth edition Published for Mrs. Ann Wyndham includes the Supplement to the whole. The signatures are tight but the book's only claim to having ever been blessed with a cover is the remaining leather spine. The first page is the title and the last is page 188. Pages 182/183 are absent. Laid paper, faded, foxed and stained; a rare edition offered as described heretofore.
Offered with this book is a curious bookplate (James Penderel Brodhurst, Count de Boscobel) of later date, (contrived?) illustrated here with the book's title page.
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£250.00
illustrations

THE INQUISITION REVEALED 1851 by Rev. Thomas Timpson. Pub. Aylott and Jones, London. 16mo 384 pp. Blind decorated dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt titled spine. Unillustrated save for frontispiece. Condition: Very good.
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£20.00

THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE 1915 (first) by Hilaire Belloc published by
C. Arthur Pearson Limited, London. Page margins faded throughout, spine faded.
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£15.00

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