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New Photography in Britain by: Maggia, Flippo (editor)
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New Photography in Britain
by: Maggia, Flippo (editor)

Hardcover. New York , Skira, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The artists included: Victoria Miro or Maureen Paley, as well as in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery and the Tate Modernare Lucy Levene, Lisa Castagner, Sarah Pickering, Anne Hardy, Esther Teichmann, Gareth McConnell, Melissa Moore, Suzanne Mooney, Harold Offeh, Sophie Rickett, Annabel Elgar, Danny Treacy, Kirk Palmer, Becky Beasley, Bianca Brunner, Simon Cunningham, and Heiko Tieman.

Record # 352065

Price: $30.00
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Ninety years of Family Farming: The Story of Lord Rayleigh's and Strutt & Parker Farm by: Gavin, Sir William
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Ninety years of Family Farming: The Story of Lord Rayleigh's and Strutt & Parker Farm
by: Gavin, Sir William

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 246 pages, b&w plates. Very good, clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 371218

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Norway 1940 by: Kersaudy, Francois
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Norway 1940
by: Kersaudy, Francois

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 31008

Price: $15.00
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Not-Quite Puritans, The: Some Genial Follies and Peculiar Frailties of Our Revered New England Ancestors (SIGNED COPY) by: Lawrence, Henry W.
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Not-Quite Puritans, The: Some Genial Follies and Peculiar Frailties of Our Revered New England Ancestors (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lawrence, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with red lettering, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim-page. Slight wear and soil to covers, internally very good

Record # 855227

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Official New Motor Trips: New England New York Canada Pennsylvania New Jersey Florida by: N/A
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Official New Motor Trips: New England New York Canada Pennsylvania New Jersey Florida
by: N/A

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Guyde Publishing Co., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limp red cloth covers stamped in gilt, now faded. Vintage travel guide for the northeast. Maps, advertising, photos, large folding map inside rear cover with a tear to one panel, no paper loss. Previous owners embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 371175

Price: $35.00
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Oiticica in London by: Brett, Guy and Figueiredo Luciano
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Oiticica in London
by: Brett, Guy and Figueiredo Luciano

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. 136 pages, 40 color & 50 black & white illustrations. Helio Oiticia (1937-80) was one of the most influential artists of the late twentieth century. At the end of the 1960s Oiticica was invited to exhibit at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. This book captures not only a pivotal moment in the life and career of a unique artist but also in the development of the avant-garde in London.

Record # 350342

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Old Came Rectory by: Sedley Proctor
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Old Came Rectory
by: Sedley Proctor

Softcover. Leopard Publishing Ventures, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, illustrated. Built in the cottage orne style from a plan by the Regency architect John Nash (1752-1835), Old Came Rectory is the historic home of the poet philologist, William Barnes (1801-1886), Thomas Hardy's mentor. Amid gatherings of poets, writers and historical figures, how many discussions around the fire of this homely home have gone on to shape the world we know today? INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on Dedication page.

Record # 373420

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Old English Songs from Various Sources by: Dobson (introduction by), Austin
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Old English Songs from Various Sources
by: Dobson (introduction by), Austin

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover.

Record # 856820

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Old English Towns by: Andrews, William & Elsie M. Lang
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Old English Towns
by: Andrews, William & Elsie M. Lang

Hardcover. New York , F.A. Stokes , 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, boards with cloth spine. Color frontispiece, b&w Illustrations. Spine darkened, light foxing to a few pages otherwise clean. Hinge weak at title page. A descriptive and historical account of the more important old English towns.

Record # 100526

Price: $18.00
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Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors: The London Midland and Scottish Railway and Travel and Transport in Four Centuries by: Groom, Arthur
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Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors: The London Midland and Scottish Railway and Travel and Transport in Four Centuries
by: Groom, Arthur

Hardcover. Euston Station, London Midway & Scottish Railway Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to front and spine, 15 color and b&w plates including frontispiece, smaller b&w figures throughout. Light rubbing and edgewear to covers, mild foxing to endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808161

Price: $24.00
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Old Public Schools of England by: John Rodgers
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Old Public Schools of England
by: John Rodgers

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale red cloth stamped with black lettering, 112 pages. Color frontis, 119 b&w plates, endpapers map. Lacks dust jacket. clean copy.

Record # 387024

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Old Times: Relics, Talismans, Forgotten Customs & Beliefs of the Past by: Meller, Walter Clifford
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Old Times: Relics, Talismans, Forgotten Customs & Beliefs of the Past
by: Meller, Walter Clifford

Hardcover. London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover red cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 264 pages, b&w plates. No date, appears to be circa 1920s. Subjects include: old stone crosses, sanctuaries, English bells, holy wells, misericords, the holy grail, etc. Cloth has

Record # 380953

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon by: Christine Haynes
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Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon
by: Christine Haynes

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated nation rebuild itself and pay substantial reparations to its conquerors. Our Friends the Enemies provides the first comprehensive history of the post-Napoleonic occupation of France and its innovative approach to peacemaking. From 1815 to 1818, a multinational force of 150,000 men under the command of the Duke of Wellington occupied northeastern France. From military, political, and cultural perspectives, Christine Haynes reconstructs the experience of the occupiers and the occupied in Paris and across the French countryside. The occupation involved some violence, but it also promoted considerable exchange and reconciliation between the French and their former enemies. Clean copy.

Record # 396279

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before
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PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never beforePARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

Hardcover. London, printed by C. & R. Baldwin for Thomas Payne, 1st, 1808, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished brown calf, 253 pages. A clean copy of the First Edition of Samuel Johnson's tract on the Corn Laws written in 1766 for the use of his friend William Gerard Hamilton - an important politician of the period who achieved a brilliant reputation as an orator - despite his nickname of 'Single Speech Hamilton' The volume was edited by Malone, who found the tract among Hamilton's papers and contributed a long preface. 8vo., xlvi, 253, [1]p colophon.; Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, edgewear/rubbing to calf along gilt ruled border on covers, spine with gilt decoration, red morroco label on spine. Front cover hinge tender, but holding.

Record # 371292

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Parliamentary Reminiscences by: William Jeans
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Parliamentary Reminiscences
by: William Jeans

Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering, 325 pages including index. Front endpaper glued to inside cover, Clean copy. Memoirs of a journalist who covered the British Parliament for 45 years.

Record # 371376

Price: $28.00
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Peeps at Parliament: Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair by: Henry W. Lucy, F Carruthers Gould (illustrator)
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Peeps at Parliament: Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair
by: Henry W. Lucy, F Carruthers Gould (illustrator)

Hardcover. London, George Newnes Ltd., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, black, white and gilt decoration with Speaker of the house in profile on cover, 378 pages. Illustrated with text cartoons throughout and a color frontis by Gould. Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (1842 -1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. Owner's signature on blank prelim page, cloth is worn at spine edges with some fraying, title on spine faded. Binding is sound, tight.

Record # 374330

Price: $20.00
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Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832 by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson
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Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832
by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson

Softcover. NY, Morrow, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. A remarkable pre-Freudian account of schizophrenia written by the son of a prime minister of England. Certifiably insane from 1830 to 1831, he wrote the autobiography of his illness and recovery with vigor and insight. Clean copy.

Record # 384854

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PETER LELY: A LYRICAL VISION by: Campbell, Caroline
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PETER LELY: A LYRICAL VISION
by: Campbell, Caroline

Softcover. US, Paul Holberton Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) was Charles II's Principal Painter and the outstanding artistic figure of Restoration England. When Lely arrived in England in the early 1640s his ambition was to be a painter of narrative scenes and not to work as a portraitist. However, the 'subject pictures' did not find favor with many English patrons and he produced less than thirty. As Lely's friend Richard Lovelace explained, all they wanted was "their own dull counterfeits" or portraits of their mistresses. Thus, Lely was obliged to turn to portraiture to make a living. Yet, his poetic pictures of figures in idyllic landscapes are among the most beautiful paintings made in 17th-century England and this catalog will be the first in-depth look at this important chapter of this major painter's career.

Record # 350824

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700 by: Kroll, Richard, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin
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Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700
by: Kroll, Richard, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. Dividing into two parts, it first examines the importance of the Cambridge Platonists, who sought to embrace the newest philosophical and scientific movements within Church of England orthodoxy, and then moves into the later seventeenth century, from the Restoration onwards, culminating in essays on the philosopher John Locke. These contributions establish a firmly interdisciplinary basis for the subject, while collectively gravitating towards the importance of discourse and language as the medium for cultural exchange. The variety of approaches serves to illuminate the cultural indeterminacy of the period, in which inherited models and vocabularies were forced to undergo revisions, coinciding with the formation of many cultural institutions still governing English society. Name on front fly, pencil marking to about 20 pages.

Record # 386515

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Pilgrims and their History, The by: Usher, Roland G.
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Pilgrims and their History, The by: Usher, Roland G.Pilgrims and their History, The by: Usher, Roland G.

Pilgrims and their History, The
by: Usher, Roland G.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99169

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Portobello Road: Photographed in the Sixties by: Petty, John
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Portobello Road: Photographed in the Sixties
by: Petty, John

Hardcover. Suffolk, UK, ACC Publishing Group Ltd, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Black and white images throughout. A collection of photographs from the early sixties taken by John Petty. Tight copy.

Record # 352902

Price: $40.00
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Portraits of the Sixties by: McCarthy, Justin
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Portraits of the Sixties
by: McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green clith with gilt titles on front and spine, 340 pages. Illustrated with several photographs, top edge gilt. Essays on the literary and political figures of the 1860s, including Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackery, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Richard Owen, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir Richard Burton, Lady Burton, J.A. Blake, Sir Patrick O"Brien, Lady Russell, Lord John Russell, Garibaldi, Robert Keeley, John Arthur Roebuck, Lord Clarence Paget, Thorold Rogers, and Goldwin Smith. Justin McCarthy (1830 ? 1912) was an Irish nationalist, a Liberal historian, a novelist and a politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1879 to 1900 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and an ardent proponent of Irish Home Rule. He is perhaps best remembered for his five volume work--A History of Our Own Times which covers the Victorian Era from Queen Victoria"s accession to her Diamond Jubilee.

Record # 371935

Price: $15.00
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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam by: Richard DeLuca
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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by: Richard DeLuca

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 398827

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam by: Richard DeLuca
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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by: Richard DeLuca

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 398828

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00