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The Whole Proceedings on the Trial Between Mrs Rebecca Minifie, and W.D. Best, Esq. Sergeant at Law, and Member of Parliament, Charged With an Assault Upon Rebecca, the Wife of James Minifie, in His Chambers, Where She, at his request, concerning a reversionary property, in which he acted for her as Counsel, which was tried at the Court of Kin's-Bench, Guildhall, on Thursday, July 12, 1804 Before Lord Ellenborough, and a Special Jury.

By: N/A

Price: £180.00

Publisher: John Fairburn, [1804]:

Seller ID: 37030

8vo. pp. 20. Disbound, Very Good. Best was defended by William Garrow who was responsible for the introduction of the adverserial court system, insisting that all evidence should be thoroughly tested in court and introduced the phrase "presumed innocent until proven guilty". In this case he successfully defended Best who was shown to be a victim of an attempt at extortion. "A more horrid and dreadful attempt to ruin and destroy a worthy and highly respected character never was made; and a more satisfactory and honourable aquittal never was pronounced." William Garrow.
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On Tithes. Taxes, &c.

By: N/A

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Farnham: Nichols & Sons, printers, Dec 15th, 1830.:

Seller ID: 39812

Single sheet, mounted, 340 x 210 mm. A rare survival of a provincially printed broadsheet, probably written by the local landowner at Crondall, Hampshire in response to disturbances over South East England which became known as the Swing Riots. “There is talk of Tithes and Taxes being against the Farmers and Labourers... The rich and thriving are the best friends of the Poor...” “That they have been very inconsiderate and improvident, and brought distress greatly upon themselves by too early marriages, which has increased the population beyond the demand for labour is the...
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Puzzle Map of the World for the Teaching of the Elements of Geography.

By: N/A

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Ward Lock and Co., c. 1890.:

Seller ID: 39862

Single sheet map, 555 x 750 mm, folded. Presented with part II of “The Child’s Instructor.”
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Elegant Extracts. Poetry, 6 volumes; Prose, 6 volumes; Epistles, 6 volumes. Complete set of 18 volumes. [or 36 volumes in 18].

By: N/A

Price: £7,500.00

Publisher: John Sharpe, c. 1810.:

Seller ID: 36180

36 volumes in 18. 12mo. Uniformly finely bound in full contemporary straight grained morocco, ornately gilt on the spines and covers with a central lyre device to each board, all edges gilt. Contained in a purpose built brass inlaid miniature glass fronted cabinet bookcase, the moulded top centred by a brass inlaid lyre, matching the design on the bindings, over a glazed brass strung door, on ogee bracket feet, the whole 15 inches high. Each of the 18 volumes has a unique FOREDGE PAINTING of an English pastoral scene hidden under the gilt foredge. SPECIALIST SHIPPING WILL REQUIIRED - FURTHER I...
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Miscellanea Biographica. Oswinus, Rex Northumbriae. Cuthbertus, Episcopus Lindisfarnensis. Eata, Episcopus Haugustaldensis.

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: Surtees Society, 1838.:

Seller ID: 40768

8vo. pp. xv, 127, [1]. Original cloth, a little split on the s;pine. Volume 8.
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[The Little Geographer] The Voyage Round the World, or a picturesque survey of the different nations that inhabit the world. Volume I. Europe; Volume II. Asia; Volume III. Africa.

By: N/A

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: Nürnberg: sold by A. and C., c. 1805.:

Seller ID: 39559

3 volumes. 12mo. pp. 54; 45; 46. Original printed wrappers, woodcut designs to upper and lower wrappers. Very Fine. Seemingly descriptive guides to a map or series of maps, these instructional texts are full of facts and opinions of the different countries in each continent. Probably intended to include the Americas and Australasia it is not known whether the other volumes were published as no locations can be traced worldwide.
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Plan of Druids Lodge Estate, South Wiltshire.

By: N/A

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Salisbury: Rawlence & Squarey, Auctioneers and Estate Agents, 1960.:

Seller ID: 40143

Large plan, 1350 x 1100 mm. Mounted on linen, outline colouring, cloth covers. The Druids Lodge Estate, near Salisbury was a large estate, now home to many substantial properties and the Druid’s Lodge Polo Club.
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Image for The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle; or New Weekly Entertainer. A work recording authentic accounts of the most extraordinary productions, events, and occurrences, in providence, nature and art. Consisting entirely of such curious matters as come under the denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the Way! and Unaacountable!

The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle; or New Weekly Entertainer. A work recording authentic accounts of the most extraordinary productions, events, and occurrences, in providence, nature and art. Consisting entirely of such curious matters as come under the denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the Way! and Unaacountable!

By: N/A

Price: £1,500.00

Publisher: C. Johnson, 1793. [Dated on the spines]:

Seller ID: 40965

1st issues. Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 5 only [of 5]. 8vo. pp. iv, 512: 480: 480: 456; 58 illustrations, a few folded [as called for according to the binder’s instructions in the rear of Volume 5]. Some illustrations a little frayed, 4 with slight damage and loss. Full matching contemporary sheep, a little worn, especially the first volume. A full list of the illustrations present: Vol 1. 1. Wonderful Journey of Flight from France to Gibraltar, America etc. some loss bottom edge 2. Portrait Henry Jenkins aged 169 years edge a little frayed. 3. Portrait Old Boots of Ripon. 4. Portr...
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Views of the Forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire.

By: ABBOTT, Lieut. George [of 15th Regiment Native Infantry]

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: Printed by Engelmann, 1827.:

Seller ID: 39456

Oblong folio. pp. engraved title page with vignettes, engraved dedication to General Lord Combermere, 1 [account of the capture of the fort and explanation of the plates], 1 [list of subscribers]; 11 full page plates, all on india paper, all printed versos only. Unbound, lacking wrappers. Margins a little chipped, front cover and verso of final plate soiled. Fewer than 80 subscriptions listed [40 to the East India Company]. Three locations are listed: BL and two U.S. institutions.
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Image for Description of Works at the Ports of Swansea, Silloth, and Blyth. With an Abstract of the Discussion upon the Paper Edited by Charles Manby and James Forrest.

Description of Works at the Ports of Swansea, Silloth, and Blyth. With an Abstract of the Discussion upon the Paper Edited by Charles Manby and James Forrest.

By: ABERNATHY, James

Price: £35.00

Publisher: William Clowes, 1863.:

Seller ID: 37026

8vo. pp. 38, [4], 4 large folding plates. Separately published and paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. XXI. Session 1861-2. Disbound, Very Good.
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J. & J. Cash, Manufacturers and Patentees.

By: ADVERTISING ENVELOPE

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Coventry: J. & J. Cash, c. 1860.:

Seller ID: 41034

Envelope, 100 x 185 mm. patterned paper, bordered, decorated and lettered in gold. John and Joseph Cash founded their firm in 1846 as a ribbon making factory and later expanded into name tapes, woven clothing labels and other woven and printed cloth. The Cash family retained an interest until 1984 and the brand is now owned by a Hong Kong based company, still making identity name tapes as well as security labels for high end brands.
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Trajan’s Column, Rome.

By: ANDERSON, James [attributed to]

Price: £300.00

Publisher: c. 1855.:

Seller ID: 40979

A fine large albumen[?] print, 410 x 315 mm. on thin card mount, with the code 88 or 48 in the negative. James Anderson moved to Rome in 1838 and took up photography in its earliest days, specialising in landscape and architectural photography, becoming one of the most successful in Rome. This is a fine large clear image, with no attribution but remarkably similar in composition and style to others of this subject by Anderson.
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The Banker’s Clerk b(u)y One of Them. First Series.

By: ANON

Price: £125.00

Publisher: no publisher or printer, c. 1875.:

Seller ID: 39900

8vo. pp. [24], printed rectos only. Each page illustrated and printed intaglio. Original printed wrappers, split along the spine and a little chipped. A comic poem about employment as a banker’s clerk.
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Image for The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years. A Work published by the French Minister of the Interior, on the Report of the Board of Arts and Manufacturers. Translated from the French.

The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years. A Work published by the French Minister of the Interior, on the Report of the Board of Arts and Manufacturers. Translated from the French.

By: APPERT, M.

Price: £650.00

Publisher: Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1812.:

Seller ID: 38732

2nd Edition. 8vo. pp. xxv, 164, [2, publisher’s catalogue]; folding plate as frontispiece. Original boards, paper spine, paper title label a little chipped but an excellent copy. With a Cortachy Castle book ticket; name of C. Ogilvy, Airly Castle on title page. A pioneering work on food preservation written by the founder of the first food bottling plant in the world.
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Bronze Figure: Seated Girl Laughing.

By: ARDIZZONE, Edward

Price: £6,500.00

Publisher: The Estate of Edward Ardizzone, 2006.:

Seller ID: 36947

bronze, approximately 6.5 inches high x 7 inches AN EXTREMELY RARE ITEM FROM AN EDITION OF ONLY 3 Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979) was a popular and successful artist and illustrator who is highly regarded. His illustrated figures are instantly recognisable and this fine bronze statue is typically Ardizzone. He became interested in sculpture when he was working at Camberwell School of Art in the late 1940s and early 1950s where he was friendly with Karel Vogel, head of the sculpture department. Vogel was at that time making a series of small terracottas. Aridizzone liked the idea of small sculpt...
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The Local by Maurice Gorham.

By: ARDIZZONE, Edward illustrates

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: Cassell, 1939.:

Seller ID: 39638

1st Edition. Just a little wear to the head of the spine otherwise a better than usual copy of a title which is uncommon in nice condition. Colour lithographs by Ardizzone.
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[Map of India] To The Hon[oura]ble the Court Directors of the East India Company This Improved Map of India Compiled from all the Latest & most Authentic Materials Is Respectfully Dedicated by their most Obedient & most Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith.

By: ARROWSMITH, Aaron

Price: £7,500.00

Publisher: A. Arrowsmith, 2nd January, 1816.:

Seller ID: 38483

Large engraved map, full original wash colour printed on 9 sheets, dissected and made into 4 sheets, mounted on linen. 240 x 267 cm [at largest extent], original calf case. Some old damp marking and some of the sections starting to lift from the linen backing. This monumental wall map of India published based on route surveys was the largest to be published before those later based on Trigonometrical Surveys.
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The London Atlas of Universal Geography, Exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World.

By: ARROWSMITH, John

Price: £25,000.00

Publisher: John Arrowsmith, 1842 [- 1846]:

Seller ID: 40927

Folio. 66 double page maps. Some splitting along the folds on a number of the maps [But not Texas], title tabs soiled and boards detached with the binding mostly perished. Although the engraved title is dated 1842, the maps are dated between 1842 and 1846. Only 50 of the maps are listed on the contents page, numbers 51 to 66 presumably added to the publication at a later stage. The Texas map, dated 8th June 1843, the second state is “probably the first to show the full extent of Texas's claim to the region of the upper Rio Grande, an area included within Texas's boundaries until the Co...
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