Click here to view

The Court and City Register. For the Year 1755. The Nineteenth Edition. Carefully corrected at the Proper Offices to the present Time

J. Barnes / London: J. Barnes (etc.) 1755
the cheaper issue, without the almanack; 24mo, [8], 220 pp., 3 folding tables; contemporary full leather rubbed and dry, especially at spine, only light general age toning to text and block well sewn. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, British history, genealogy

Item #: 690617

Request a photo for this item.

$184.97

Add To Cart

North British Review. (Volumes 1-10) [1844-1849]

W.P. Kennedy / Edinburgh : W. P. Kennedy 1844
Volumes 1 through 10 only [1844-1849]; ex library including large hand stamps on edges, later cloth bindings darkened and soiled, general age toning, title of first volume torn and repaired, large but light damp staining on early and late leaves of the same volume, scattered underlining, still sound and serviceable. Volumes Included: 10

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, literary criticism, British literary periodicals BIG SETS

Item #: 626420

$42.94

Add To Cart

Tidal Research. The simplification of the prediction of "The Time of Tide" Problem. ... To which is added a short paper on The Physical Characteristics of Southampton Water in which the author was assisted by G. H. Daysh.

Rupert-Jones, John A. / Southampton: Printed privately for the Author, 1929
first edition, inscribed by author on first page; narrow folio, 24 pp., graph, large folding color table, folding color map; paper wrappers tattered and pulling away, light age speckling on title, still good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history of , tides, tidal research, Great Britain, TCX

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 690525

$5.07

Add To Cart

Joint Resolutions of the Mayor, Recorder, Alderman, and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, Passed the 17th Day of December, 1851; and Memorial of sundry Citizens of the same place.

Holt, John E., et al. / Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1822
9 pp., 2 folding tables; issued as 17th Congress, 1st Session, H 21; light age staining, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers; objections to an act "by which British vessels are prohibited from bringing the production of British colonies into our ports and taking away those of our country in return",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Great Britain, commerce, Norfolk, Virginia

Item #: 686302

$62.56

Add To Cart

East Africa in Transition. Being a review of the principles and proposals of the Commission on Closer Union of the Dependencies in Eastern and Central Africa, With a preface by Lord Lugard.

Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland / Student Christian Movement 1929
12mo, xii, 83 pp, library markings, spine trimmed close but no loss, only the front cover of paper wrappers remains and now rebacked, good; an examination of the Imperial and inter-racial questions raised by the report, the authors chose to remain anonymous. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: East Africa, Great Britain, dependencies and colonies, race relations, ZNI

Item #: 679938

$4.73

Add To Cart

Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. Volume the Sixty-ninth, being Nos. 455-460, January to June, 1898.

Baily's Magazine. / London: Vinton and Co., 1898
Volume 89 only; iv (volume title and contents), 512 pp., illustrated including plates and an engraved portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature for each of the six issues and a pictorial title; red later half morocco very rubbed with front hinge cracked, armorial book plate, interior sound with only light general age toning. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, sport, sports

Item #: 679847

$9.16

Add To Cart

Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. Volume the Seventy-second, being Nos. 473-478, July to December, 1899.

Baily's Magazine / London: Vinton and Co., 1899
Volume 72 only; [iv] (volume title and index), 495 pp., illustrated including plates and an engraved portrait frontispiece after photograph with facsimile signature for each of the six issues and a pictorial title; red later half morocco darkened and very rubbed at spine with stain in lower margin of front cover but still sound, armorial book plate, all but one of the portraits have damp staining in lower outside corner but not the other plates. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, sport, sports

Item #: 679843

$9.75

Add To Cart

Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to Compensation for Injuries to Workingmen. (Great Britain. Home Office. Committee on Workmen's Compensation.)

Digby, Kenelm Edward, Sir, chairman. / London: Printed for HMSO by Wyman and Sons, 1904
first edition; complete in 3 volumes, narrow folio, I. Report & Appendices. (1904, 236 pp.) II. Minutes of Evidence with Index. (1904, 404 pp.) III. Supplementary Appendix. (1905, 50 pp.); now together in one later half cloth binding; library book plate and markings, the binding rubbed with spine torn and front joint broken through, only light general age toning to text and all original paper sides bound in. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Labour, Labor laws and legislation, workmen's compensation, WWP

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 676437

$28.45

Add To Cart

An Impartial Report of the Debates that Occur in the Two Houses of Parliament, in the Course of the Fourth Session of the Seventeenth Parliament ... Vol. IV.

Woodall, William. / London: T. Chapman 1794
Volume 4 only; pagination irregular, contemporary leather worn with spine chipped and front cover detached, overall damp warp to text but little staining and entirely readable, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain

Item #: 671603

$9.92

Add To Cart

Britain's Economy. Its Structure and Development. (Science in Society, Number 6)

Smith. George W. / London: Mills & Boon, 1963
first edition; 191 pp., 6 plates; very good in jacket and original cloth. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, economic history, economics, CSG

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 671504

$9.38

Add To Cart

Click here to view

The Grand Question, Concerning the Bishops Right To Vote in Parliament In Cases Capital Stated and Argued from Parlament-Rolls, and the History of former Times...

(Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester) / London: Printed for M. P. and sold by Richard Rumball 1680
...With an Enquiry into their Peerage, and the Three Estates in Parlament, first edition; 12mo (leaves 17 cm. tall), [2 leaves] (title, Contents), 188 pp, possibly contemporary plain full leather binding worn with substantial chip at tail of spine and hinges cracked, free endpapers stained and tattered, name of a previous owner scribbled out in ink at corner of title, last two leaves margin tattered with no letters touched, complete and block still well sewn but good only; Wing S5594. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Parliament, Church of England, Bishops, Archbishops, temporal power mw8x

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 667767

Request a photo for this item.

$951.66

Add To Cart

Click here to view

The State of the Protestants in Ireland Under the late King James' Government; in which Their Carriage towards him is justified, and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his...

(King, William, Archbishop of Dublin) / London: Printed for Robert Clavell, 1691
...Government and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated; first edition; quarto (21 cm. tall), [14 leaves] (permission, title, contents), 408 (actually 426, there are printer's numbering errors in Bb, Bbb, Fff, and Ggg1), [1] (advertisements); first few leaves tattered with no loss, bottom margin of title repaired with tape from verso and a short tear at fore edge of following page also repaired but again no loss, age toning and age staining with occasional burn dots, paper not fragile and an entirely readable copy in simple modern cloth; Wing K538. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Ireland, Protestants, James II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Anti-Catholicism mw8x

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 666688

Request a photo for this item.

$337.66

Add To Cart

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, a Report of the Secretary of State, in relation to vessels of the United States engaged in the fisheries, seized by the British authorities during the year last past.

United States. Department of State. / Washington: Blair & Rives, printers, 1840
42 pp, issued as 26th Congress, 1st Session, HD 186; extraction roughness at spine, first leaf holed with a few letters hit but readable; part of the long running dispute over American fishermen operating in Canadian territorial waters, among the reports is a communication that close to 5000 armed American fishermen in the Bay of Fundy "will not long suffer the tyranny of drunken lieutenants in the British Navy",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Great Britain, Canada, fisheries dispute

Item #: 663728

$39.78

Add To Cart

The Principles of Foreign Exchange as affecting the Preferential Trading with the Colonies proposed by The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. November, 1903. Second Edition.

Matheson, Ewing. / London/Leeds: Spon/Richard Jackson, 1903
46 pp, light extraction roughness at spine and soft fold mark at one corner of title, niw in self wrappers; opposes preferential tariffs for the Colonies. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, colonies, tariff, MW8

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 659483

$4.85

Add To Cart

The Cornwall Family History Society. Numbers 107 (March 2003) through 118 (December 2005).

Cornwall Family History Society. / Truro: The Cornwall Family History Society 2003
these 12 issues only; 36 pages each and illustrated, all but one has a New Members Interests supplement inserted; overall a very good group in softcover. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Cornwall, England, Great Britain, Cornish geneology

Item #: 657462

$27.58

Add To Cart

Handbook for Speakers on the Tariff Question.

Free Trade Union. / London: Free Trade Union, 1903
92, [2] (index) pp., lacks paper wrappers, light extraction roughness at spine and fore edge lightly tattered, good; arguments in favor of Free Trade. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Free Trade, MW8

See more items from this collection  ⇛

Item #: 653704

$1.00

Add To Cart

Click here to view

The English-Speaking World. (Volume 20, Number 6 - Volume 44, Number 4) (1938-1962)

English-Speaking Union. / London: English-Speaking Union, 1938
Volume 20, Number 6 (June 1938, first issue after the title change from The Landmark) through Volume 44, Number 4 (July 1962, last published); quarto before Volume 26 and small octavo after, 12 issues a volume at first and later 6 issues a volume in the smaller format (with a few exceptions e.g. Volume 25 is complete in three issues with the first misnumbered as Volume 24, Number 13; Volume 35 is complete in 8 issues and December 1953 not issued); ex library in 13 later quarter or full cloth bondings, most front covers retained but only some back covers, some early issues are called American Edition; an illustrated magazine to promote Anglo-American friendship and mutual support. Volumes Included: 24

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Great Britain, Anglo-American relations, SLT, Big Sets

Item #: 626124

Request a photo for this item.

$195.15

Add To Cart

Food Economy in War Time.

Wood, T. B., & F. G. Hopkins. / Cambridge (etc.): At the University Press, 1915
35 pp, library markings, only the chipped front cover remains of original paper wrappers, spine trimmed and entirely disbound, complete text but reading copy only; tries to balance nutrition with cost in wartime Britain e.g. eggs are agreeable but extravagant, new milk has the same food value at one third the cost. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: food, nutrition, World War I, Great Britain

Item #: 644680

$4.61

Add To Cart

American Journalists in Europe. An account of a visit to England and France at the close of the war made by a party of editors and publishers of American industrial papers ...

Swetland, Horace M. / NY: United Publishing Corporation, 1919
large quarto, 115 pp., plates; flexible cloth, good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain France

Item #: 640437

$16.54

Add To Cart

The Maintenance of the Agricultural Labour Supply in England and Wales During the War.

J. K. Montgomery / Rome: International Institute of Agriculture, 1922
[viii], 121 pp, library markings, text and paper wrappers browned and need careful handling, spine trimmed with no loss but now entirely disbound, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain, agriculture

Item #: 629497

$4.73

Add To Cart