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(GIBBON Association). COLLINS, Arthur. The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom....Their Births, Marriages, and Issue: Famous Actions both in War and Peace...Death, Places of Burial...Also Paternal Coats of Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottoes, Curiously engraved on 200 Copper-Plates....In Seven Volumes. Also included is Geoffrey Keynes' The Library of Edward Gibbon. A Catalogue. Edited and Introduced by Geoffrey Keynes which mentions this very set.
London: H. Woodfall, J. Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. Rivington.. 1768
In Seven Volumes. FROM THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD GIBBON. Each volume bears the book-plate of Edward Gibbon and the set is mentioned in Keynes' Bibliography. Bound in contemporary full tan calf, gilt, raised bands, 3 of the vols. lack their red morocco labels, extremities worn, spines rubbed, upper joint to vol. III tender. Contents mostly clean and fresh. "The Library of Edward Gibbon. A Catalogue." by Geoffrey Keynes is in original black cloth gilt and is illustrated. According to Keynes' catalogue of Gibbon's library this set came from the Bentinck Street collection. It is very exciting to handle a set that was in the London library of the writer of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire'. 8210
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ACTON, Harold and DOUGLAS, Norman. The Last of The Medici Done Into English by Harold Acton with Introduction by Norman Douglas.
Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, Lungarno Corsini, Florence. 1930
First edition. Limited to 365 copies only of which 350 are for sale. this being number 285. SIGNED by Douglas on last page of Introduction, page24 and SIGNED BY Acton at end of his preface on page 32. DW. Portrait frontis. Engravings. original brown cloth with gilt seal to upper bd and black morocco lettering piece. Lower edges, top of spine and small portion of spine faded. Wrapper very faded and lacks portions of spine. VG+ in VG- wrapper. Harold's translation of a lubricious 18th-century memoir of Gian Gastone de' Medici, The Last of the Medici, privately printed in Florence in 1930 as part of the Lungarno Series. 30231
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ANON. Four Miles South of Kitty Hawk.
Warren McArthur Corporation, New York. 1943
Second edition. DW. Slim 8vo. Ills. throughout. Bd. extremities rubbed and worn, lacking sm. portion from head of spine. Contents clean and fresh. Wrapper very worn, torn and chipped at extremities o/w VG/VG-. 22532
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ANON. Libertarian.
Libertarian Society at Sydney University. 1960
Pamphlet/magazine. Orig. red limp boards. No.3, Jan 1960. Dog-eared and torn cover, o/w interesting collection of polemic essays such as "Max Eastman"; "The Man Who Was Good Stuff"; "Orgasm Theory"; "Reich's Criticism of Freud"; "Futilitarianism". 22286
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ANON. The History of the Jews. (3 Vols)
John Murray, London 1829
Half tan leather, raised bands, contrasting labels, gilt type to spine. Small 8vo. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers. 4 fold-out maps, 4 fold-out plans, 1 fold-out pedigree. Owner's name-card neatly affixed to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning internally, but a lovely set. 69389
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ANON. The Practice of The Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, For The Parts of Lindsey, in the County of Lincoln, Settled and Approved by His Majesty's Justices of The Peace, at a Special Adjournment of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace Holden at Kirton, On Tuesday the 19th Day of November, 1811, and at The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace Holden at Spilsby, on Friday the 17th Day of January, 1812.
W. Brooke, Lincoln. 1812
Slim 8vo. Orig. limp bds. white label piece to upper bd. Bds. sl. soiled, worn at extremities, with sm. split to head of spine. Inner hinge visible, pages v. sl. browned o/w contents clean and sound. 23203
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