Category: English History

Acrostic.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 006268

Binding: NA

Condition: Good

Negative campaign flyer against Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884) who was a member of Parliament representing Ipswich, in Suffolk, from 1837 to 1839, as a Tory, and then Manchester, 1841-1857, as a Liberal. The flyer appears to be attacking Gibson on the basis of his switching his party loyalties, and so we would conjecture that it was created in his first race to gain the seat in Manchester, or 1841. But it could have come from when Gibson was running in Ipswich, perhaps in 1838, as it mentions "[Fitzroy] Kelly", the other Tory MP from Ipswich. Regardless, the item is a novel piece of elec...
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The Spirit of Despotism. Dedicated to Lord Castlereagh. Edited by "The Political House that Jack Built."

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, William Hone : 1821

Seller ID: 004356

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 94, [2] pp.
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Scisma D'Inghilterra, Con altre Operette del Signor Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi, Gentiluomo Fiorentino; Tratte dall'Edizion Fiorentina del MDCXXXVIII

By: Davanzati Bostichi, Bernardo (1529 - 1606)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Padova, Presso Giuseppe Comino : 1727

Seller ID: 002834

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

8vo. [8], 256 pp. With engraved frontis portrait of Davanzati, and a folding diagram regarding currency exchanges. The principal work herein gives an account of the English Reformation, or Henry VIII's break with Rome, through his daughter's, Mary's reign. The other works contained herein, though, may in fact represent more important pieces from a historical perspective. The first two of these are "Notizia de Cambi" and "Lezione delle monete", which are early discourses on economic topics and the former, on the working of exchange rates. Also of special interest would be...
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A Child's History of England (Three Volumes)

By: Dickens, Charles. Frontispieces by F. W. Topham

Price: $1,600.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury and Evans : 1852, 1853 and 1854

Seller ID: 005281

Binding: Full Morocco. Cloth Slipcase

Condition: Fine

Beautiful full brown morocco set, bound by Henry Sotheran of London, with a blindstamped gilt cameo portrait as a centerpiece on each volume's front board, a gilt impression of his autograph on each rear board, and English or kingly devices stamped into the spine compartments (a crown, an abstract rose, a fleur-de-lys, an armorial lion). Original cloth front covers, with gilt vignettes, bound into respective volumes. With first issue points: "Christmas 1851" in Vol. I Dedication; missing "xi" for page number in this first volume; missing "6" for Chapter XXV Table of...
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Tragicum Theatrum Actorum, Casuum Trigicorum Londini Publice celebratorum, Quibus Hiberniae Proregi, Episcopo Cantuariensi, . . .

By: Du Moulin, Peter

Price: $875.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Joachim Jansonium : 1649

Seller ID: 004414

Binding: Half Vellum, marbled boards.

Condition: Very Good

With eight hand-colored portrait plates! 8vo. 14.5 by 9 cm. 320 pp. With one double paged b/w plate of Whitehall, in addition to the hand-colored plates. A history of the Puritan Rebellion, written shortly have the regicide of Charles I. (In Latin.) Rare with the plates colored. Light wear and soiling to the binding. Scattered soiling to leaves, with some leaves heavily darkened. A few edge repairs to leaves.
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[Fore-edge Painting] Magna Charta Stories A New Edition with an Etching by Francis S. Walker, R.E. and 119 Illustrations

By: Gilman, Arthur, ed.

Price: $485.00

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son

Seller ID: 003293

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a frieze of seraphs in a harvest celebration, and more specifically, celebrating the vine. N.d., circa 1900. 8vo. 17 by 12 cm. 192 pp. School prize, with certificate pasted onto FFEP. Moderate wear to the binding.
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A Saunter Through the West End. In One Volume.

By: Hunt, Leigh

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett : 1861

Seller ID: 002634

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

An extra-illustrated copy. 8vo. ix, 251 pp. Numerous plates of personages, buildings, costume. seven fashion plates are hand-colored, the rest being in black and white. Rubbed spine extremities and joints. Heavy toning to mid-section of endpapers. A few trivial corner chips in lower corner of early pages, and one small edge chip in later leaf. Otherwise, clean and tight within.
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Image for The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. (Three Volumes) With Portrait.

The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. (Three Volumes) With Portrait.

By: Jenkins, Louis J., ed.

Price: $2,800.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1885

Seller ID: 003220

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

A "Grangerized" copy -- extra-illustrated and augmented with many original letters and autographs by a virtual who's who on the English political and literary scene of the day tipped into the text. Among these are Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington (when he was known as Arthur Wellesley and the Field Marshall in Spain), George Canning, Lord Holland, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Isaac Disraeli, Queen Victoria, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Newcastle, Gladstone, Lord Bentinck, Lord John Russell. Also included is a short inscription from Metternich. In addition, ...
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The Britons. Forging the Nation 1707-1837

By: Linda Colley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 002362

ISBN-13: 9780300057379

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Like New

Heraldry Manuscript

By: Logie, Edward (?)

Price: $1,600.00

Seller ID: 004478

Binding: Wraps. Marbled paper on card.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1852. Oblong 4to. 26 by 37 cm. Ten leaves, or 18 pp., with thirty different watercolors of armorial banners. The images are extraordinarily bright and beautiful; these paintings were by an accomplished, confident hand. The imagery is of three basic types: squarish banners held up by stylized animals, long triangular-ish armorial pennants, and armorial rectangular paintings that are not shown as part of a flag or banner. The presentation is chronological based on monarchs, beginning with Edward III and running to Henry VIII and his wives, Anne and Jane. The name of the parti...
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The Chapter of Kings. Illustrated by Thirty-eight Engravings Exhibiting the Most Important Events in English History

By: Mr. Collins

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, J. Harris : 1818

Seller ID: 002230

Binding: Quarter Morocco, over boards with paper pastedowns

Condition: Very Good

12mo, 5.25 by 4.25 inches, 14 by 11 cm. As noted in title, with 38 hand-colored plates depicting the kings of England. Each plate has a header caption relating a salient fact about the particular king, and the bottom caption carries a line of doggeril that rhymes with the facing page. The book was intended as an instructive text for children, as noted on the rear cover: "Parents and Teachers must have remarked the difficulty Children experience in recollecting the Succession of the English Monarchs, and likewise how much the memory is assited by rhyme." The blurb also notes the ...
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The Chapter of Kings. Illustrated by Thirty-eight Engravings Exhibiting the Most Important Events in English History

By: Mr. Collins

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, J. Harris : 1818

Seller ID: 002532

Binding: Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Very Good

12mo, 5.25 by 4.25 inches, 14 by 11 cm. As noted in title, with 38 hand-colored plates depicting the kings of England. Each plate has a header caption relating a salient fact about the particular king, and the bottom caption carries a line of doggeril that rhymes with the facing page. The book was intended as an instructive text for children, as noted on the rear cover: "Parents and Teachers must have remarked the difficulty Children experience in recollecting the Succession of the English Monarchs, and likewise how much the memory is assited by rhyme." The blurb also notes the ...
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A Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland

By: Mudie, Robert

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd : 1822

Seller ID: 004185

Binding: Full Straight-Grained Morocco, Armorial Decoration

Condition: Very Good

Unique copy with four folding plates featuring contemporary hand-coloring. (The book was issued without color, and all known copies lack coloring.) 8vo. 22 by 13.5 cm. 338 pp. Five folding plates, four of which are hand-colored by a contemporary hand. Armorial binding for "E.C.", for whom there is a small bookplate containing a crown above the initials. The spine and joints are heavily scuffed, with otherwise moderate edgewear. Still a handsome binding with gilt ruling and geometric decoration surrounding a gilt crown centerpiece.
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Image for The Coronation of his Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth solemnize in the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter Westminster upon the Nineteenth Day of July MDCCCXXI Published by his Majesty's Especial Command

The Coronation of his Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth solemnize in the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter Westminster upon the Nineteenth Day of July MDCCCXXI Published by his Majesty's Especial Command

By: Nayler, Sir George

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: London, Samuel and Richard Bentley

Seller ID: 002404

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Large folio, 22.5 by 16.5 inches, or 57 by 42 cm. 13 hand-colored plates, plus large hand-colored illustration on title to plate section of the book. This volume was followed by a separate volume commemorating the same event issued three years later (1827), and the these two volumes were later collected, along with yet another work (Whittaker's plates of the same event) into a single volume in 1837, See Tooley 343. Calf is heavily scuffed in corner triangles and a few other spots, and rubbed particularly along hinges, with abrasions on the spine and a few spots of crud. Minor margin soil...
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Image for The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, . . . Exhibiting a Correct Account of the General Congress of Vienna, The Escape of Bonaparte from the Isle of Elba, the Flight of Louis XVIII from His Capital, the Defeat of Bonaparte at the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo, . . .

The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, . . . Exhibiting a Correct Account of the General Congress of Vienna, The Escape of Bonaparte from the Isle of Elba, the Flight of Louis XVIII from His Capital, the Defeat of Bonaparte at the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo, . . .

By: Nicholson, William

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Kelly : 1816

Seller ID: 003170

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

Folio-sized. 40 by 26 cm. 583, [1] pp. With 22 hand-colored plates, mostly depicting uniformed military leaders, and monarchical leaders, on horseback. Detailed, contemporary history of the Napoleonic wars. A few minor tears to leaves. Occasional light soiling. Mostly clean. Calf is heavily stained and abraded. Joints repaired. Spine is dry. Nonetheless an attractive full leather binding. Ex-lib, with minor indicia thereof (a few light name stamps) in prelims.
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Image for A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and Parts adjacent; From the Earliest Accounts, to the Beginning of the Year 1770. . . .

A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and Parts adjacent; From the Earliest Accounts, to the Beginning of the Year 1770. . . .

By: Society of Gentlemen; revised, corrected and improved by Henry Chamberlain.

Price: $775.00

Publisher: London, J. Cooke : 1769

Seller ID: 003712

Binding: Half Calf, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good Plus

1769 or 1770. Folio, 36 by 24 cm. 682, [10] pp. 67 copper engravings, including frontis and three maps, two of which are folding. With four page list of subscribers, appendix and index. Also engraved headpiece, first page of text. Page 225 has smattering of ink stains, and one margin tear, and facing 224 with single small ink stain -- nothing, though, is unreadable. Small hole affecting three leaves (pp. 235 to 240), with a letter to three letters affected per page. A few other small stains in the book, but generally the leaves are clean, even remarkably so. Plate facing 596 with margi...
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Victoria. An Intimate Biography

By: Stanley Weintraub

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Truman Talley Books, E. P. Dutton : 1987

Seller ID: 002351

Condition: Very Good Plus

Lightly used, with DJ all there but with a few closed tears, rubbing, etc. from the book probably having been read with DJ on and not cared for.
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The Four Georges (Four volumes bound in two)

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: $1,950.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder, and Co. : 1866

Seller ID: 005869

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Extra-illustrated, with autographs of George I through George IV. 8vo. [5], 105, 105-226 pp., with 92 and 108 additional illustrations in the two volumes, respectively. Signatures of George I and II in the first volume, III and IV, in the second.
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Category: English History