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Aspin, Jehoshaphat A Picture of the Manners, Customs, Sports, and Pastimes, of the Inhabitants of England, From the Arrival of the Saxons Down to the Eighteenth Century. Selected from the Ancient Chronicles, and rendered in Modern Phraseology. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, From Strutt and Others
London J. Harris 1825 First Edition Quarter Morocco Very Good
8vo. iv, 296 pp. With 12 plates. Great miscellany of cultural history. Modern quarter morocco over original boards, with paper pastedowns. Small loss to the paper, which also has considerable soiling. Some light soiling within. Overall an attractive, tight copy.
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250.00 USD
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Brown, Thomas Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths, . . . Also Urn Burial, and Garden of Cyrus
London Edward Dod 1658 Fourth Edition Three-Quarter Leather Very Good
8vo - over 7¾. Book. [16] plus 468pp plus [16] Alph. Table plus 73 pp for Urn Burial and Garden of Cyrus essays. Modern 3/4 calf with marbled boards pristine. Tightly bound. Pages of Pseudodoxia have light soilage on some pages, and one page with small tear/chip in corner, but overall in fine condition. Some light dampstaining on bottom of final pages bound in (Garden of Cyrus) and a tiny wormhole affecting the top edge of some pages thereto, not affecting text. Otherwise, this is a fine copy overall. Includes a plate of four urns and another plate of geometric design before final essay. The key work, Pseudodoxia, is one of the precursors of the Enlightenment. Brown attempted to dispel superstitions, and under the influence of Bacon, apply reasoning, observation and objectivity to examine a host of old wive's tale, religious dogma, and the like.
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725.00 USD
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Logan, James The Scotish Gael; or Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders Being an historical and descriptive account of the inhabitants, antiquities, and national peculiarities of Scotland, more particularly of the Northern or Gaelic parts of the country where the singular habits of the aboriginal Celts are most tenaciously retained.
Hartford, CT S. Andrus & Son 1843 First American edition Full Calf Very Good
8vo, 520 pp. Illustrations and embellishments throughout text. One hand-colored plate of tartan, a frontis of a highland piper and prints of Highland chiefs and of Royal Arms in the prelims. Modern full calf with stamping on boards of Celtic ornamental diaper in the style of a 16th century binding. Excellent source still of Scottish miscellany, Celtic religious rituals and beliefs, the clans, weaponry, on and on. Some scattered foxing and soiling. Mostly just age toned and clean. Binding has some scuffs that happily contribute to a slight aged patina.
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400.00 USD
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Machen, Arthur The Canning Wonder
London Chatto & Windus 1925 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good
Book. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 250 pp., + 8 plates. Some soilage on pink/red boards. Tiny edge chips on endpaper. Soilage/foxing to half-title leaf. Otherwise, tight and clean interior.
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35.00 USD
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