House of Lords. Official Report. Second Session of the Fifty-Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 61 Elizabeth II. Second Volume of Session 2012 - 2013 Comprising Period from 25 June 2012 - 13 July 2012. The Parli

Stationery Office (Great Britain) / Authority of the House of Lords London 2013
thick folio, approx. 1200 pp., Hardcover, fine. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0108465799
Subject/Keywords: history Great Britain mxz

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Item #: 933973

$18.17

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Polk's Great Bend (Barton County, Kans.) City Directory 1959. Including Barton County. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens ... (etc. etc.)

R. L. Polk & Co.. Publishers / Kansas City (Missouri): R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers 1959
quarto, 16, 124 (Yellow Pages, Great Bend), 280 (Great Bend City Directory), 34 (Numerical Telephone Directory), 63 (Barton County Directory) pp, a few smudges to original cloth but else very good with a clean interior. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: telephone books, Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas, genealogy, CSG

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Item #: 921099

$44.72

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British Ambassador's House, Paris: I. Copies of Communications received by the Treasury, etc., 1852 or 1853; II. Statement of Sums for the Repairs of the Ambassador's House; III. General Account of the Items of Expenditure in Each Year (Parliamentary Pa

Great Britain. Foreign Office. / London: HMSO 1853
71 pp., original self wrappers, extracted from larger bound volume, text slightly age toned, overall good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: great britain france

Item #: 904304

$7.73

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Report from the Select Committee on Extradition; Correspondence [&] Further Correspondence Respecting Extradition; Extradition of Richard Baker Caldwell [&] Bennet C. Burley; Return of Cases of Extradition of Prisoners, etc; Further Correspondence Respe

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Extradition. / HMSO 1868
xiv, 166, [viii], 115, [ii], 25, [ii], 32, [ii], 7, [ii], 77, [ii], 12 pp., seven papers bound together representing the history of Anglo-American negotiations regarding the development of law and rules of extradition, all folio, half leather & marbled boards, ex library, binding worn. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: great britain americana law

Item #: 901170

$34.30

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The Green Box of Monsieur de Sartine: Found at Mademoiselle du The. Heartman's Historical Series No. 19

(Tickell, Richard) / Printed for C.F. Heartman 1916
limited to 65 numbered copies, this being copy #18; 60 pp., original boards, very good in a worn slipcase. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: britain france benjamin franklin

Item #: 897685

$26.52

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Survey of Monroe Harbor, Michigan: Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting, with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Report of Survey of Monroe Harbor, Michigan (55th Cong., 2nd Sess., House Document, #102)

R. A. Alger / Washington: GPO 1897
4 pp., original self wrappers, extracted from larger bound volume, good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nautical great lakes travel Americana engineering JZX

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Item #: 896922

$19.11

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Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second. By Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford. From the Original MSS.

Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) / London: John Murray, 1822
2 volumes; folio (leaves 32.5 cm. tall), li, [3], 536 pp., frontispiece and 3 other plates xi, [3], 536 pp., frontispiece and 5 other plates; The leather spines and corners of a later binding have been functionally covered with cloth and the marbled paper covered sides rubbed but still sound, light age staining throughout, a section of the first volume has a light purple stain at lower outside corner but no letters touched, complete but good only. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: George II of Great Britain, British history, M2G Oversize

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Item #: 735691

$31.25

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The Good Barque Anna, An Incident of the Pacific Cruise of the Atlantic Fleet by Robert W. Henderson, U. S. N., Flag Lieutenant, 2nd Division.

Henderson, Robert W. / NP: 1908
first edition; 32mo (12.5 cm. tall), one sheet folded for 4 pages including the title, this copy has a soft fold mark at center but never actually folded in half; humorous poem about how Old Captain Dan, drunk and running the Anna without lights to save money, manages to go through the Great White Fleet without hitting any ships; possibly based on an actual incident and probably printed only for friends and shipmates. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: American poetry, United States Navy, Great White Fleet, RBH

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Item #: 868992

$8.61

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Anno Regni Georgii II. Tricesimo Primo. (An Act for appointing Commissioners for putting in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax ...)

Great Britain. Parliament. / London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1758
first edition; narrow folio, [2], 215-527 pp. as issued; light extraction roughness at spine and first two leaves detached, some sections age toned and some have a narrow line of damp staining along fore edge, good; almost entirely devoted to lists of the names of those appointed as Land Tax Commissioners (an unpaid post, usually a yearly income of one hundred pounds or more was required), arranged by county and within these, subdivisions for cities and larger towns. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, land tax, direct taxation, genealogy

Item #: 868831

$38.48

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Industrial Reconstruction. Memorandum on the Industrial Situation after the War. The Garton Foundation. Harrison, 1916.

Fayle, C. Ernest. / London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1916
reprinted from Quarterly Review; 23, [1] pp, library markings, both paper sides present but now entirely disbound. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, industrial history, ZNI

Item #: 867058

$9.39

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Edinburgh, the Borders and the Trossachs

John Geddie / Blackie & Son 1933
195 pp., Hardcover, bookplate to front paste down, else good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Scotland, Great Britain, Europe, Travel, History, Urban mll

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Item #: 865068

$17.86

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Miss Weeton. Journal of a Governess, 1807-1811. Edited by Edward Hall.

Stock, Nelly Weeton (b. 1776) / London: Oxforde University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1936
first edition (the previously unpublished journal was found in a book store); xxi, [1], 331 pp., frontispiece, plates, small folding map; ex library, binding worn and front hinge cracked at title, clean text but reading copy. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Regency England, Lancashire, governesses, BBW

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Item #: 860362

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$91.52

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Statistical Illustrations of the Territorial Extent and Population, Rental, Taxation, Finances, Commerce, Consumption, Insolvency, Pauperism, and Crime, of the British Empire ...

London Statistical Society. John Powell / London: Effingham Wilson (etc,) 1827
Third Edition; xvi, xxviii (disquisition on the external trade in corn, and currency), viii (introduction to third edition), 170 (tables), xi (index), [1] (table), [2] (ad) pp; only the faded and detached sides remain from green cloth binding, unrelated contemporary gift inscription, some leaves have margin chips and one causes minor loss, entirely disbound and a working copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, statistics, MC2

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Item #: 852014

$15.83

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Suggestions for a National Returns of Sickness.

Lewis, James. / London: C. P. Alvey 1870
first edition; small octavo, 12 pp, library markings, age toned, tattered, and disbound in self wrappers,complete text but poor copy; author proposes that there should be a weekly publication devoted to statistics of sickness. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history of medicine, public health, Great Britain, ZNI

Item #: 851970

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$93.80

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Les relations de societe entre l'Angleterre et la France sous la restauration (1814-1830). (Bibliotheque de la Revue de litterature comparee, 56)

Elkinton, Margery E. / Paris: Honore Champion 1929
first edition; small quarto, 208 pp, library markings, general age toning, spine of paper wrappers torn and frayed at head of spine, sound but good only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, France, cultural relations, PPH

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Item #: 847078

$11.51

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Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir David Dalyrymple ? et al. (with) Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Chatterton ? et al. (The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volumes 15 and 16)

Walpole, Horace (1717-1797). Lewis, W. S., et al., eds. / New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967
second printings of the 1951 editions; small quarto, Volume 15 (the other correspondents are Conyers Middleton, the Earl of Buchan, Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, William Robertson, Robert Henry, William Roscoe, James Edwards, William Beloe, and Robert Nares), liv, 395 pp., plates Volume 16 (the other correspondents are Michael Lort, John Pinkerton, John Fenn and Mrs. Fenn, William Bewley, Nathaniel Hillier, and Henry Zouch), xxvi, 439 pp., plates; library book plates and markings, else very good in blue original cloth; both volumes deal largely with antiquarian studies. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: British literature, English men of letters, Great Britain, antiquities, antiquarians, BWK

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Item #: 841314

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$96.49

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Armaments and Policy, 1919-1939, The Plain Facts. Proof only, For Private Circulation. May 1945.

National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. / London 1945
104 pp., library hand stamps and punched for a string tie but sound and good in original paper wrappers; feels that Conservative politicians, especially Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain have been unfairly maligned for the failure to properly re-arm the country between the World Wars. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, rearmament, Conservative Party

Item #: 839211

$7.73

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Il Traffico Marittimo, a cura di C. Ernest Fayle. (Storia della Grande Guerra, series)

Fayle, C. Ernest, ed. / Roma: Provveditorato generale dello stato, Libreria ... 1928
complete in 3 volumes; first edition in Italian, "Tradotto dall'inglese a cura dell' Ufficio del capo di stato maggiore della marina"; quarto, I. Il periodo degli incrociatori, traduzione di Ubaldo degli Uberti, II. Dal principio della campagna sottomarina alla nomina del controllore navale, traduzione di Angelo Varoli-Piazza, III. La guerra ad oltraza coi sommeribili, traduzione di Silvio Salza; library markings and later cloth but sound and near very good with all twelve folding maps and charts. Volumes Included: 3

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, naval operations, shipping, merchant marine, Great Britain

Item #: 837286

$24.68

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Patents for Invention. Abridgments of the Specifications Relating to Ship Building, Repairing, Sheathing, Launching, &c. Printed by Order of the Commissioner of Patents.

Great Britain. Patent Office. / London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Splottiswoode, 1862
first edition; in 2 parts, [Part I. 1618-1860], xix, [1], 633, [1], [5] (ads for Patent Office publications) Part II. A.D. 1861-1866. xiv, [2], 750, [2] (including errata for first part), [8] (ads for Patent Office publications), chronological presentation, both parts include a name index and a very general subject index; library markings and later cloth but a sound and overall good set; includes some very innovative concepts e.g. Mr. Soul has patented a process that can not only flush water closets under the waterline but is equally useful for shooting cannons underwater. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history of , shipbuilding, marine engineering, invention, Great Britain

Item #: 835435

$22.73

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The Antiquaries Journal. Vol. XIII, No. 1, January 1933.

Society of Antiquaries of London. / London (etc.): Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1933
Volume 13, Number 4 only; approximately 95 pages, illustrated; text and original paper wrappers age toned but sound and good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, British history, antiquities, archaeology

Item #: 830322

$15.91

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