curious old papers (5 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Good paperback copy; edges and wrappers worn and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: viii, 368 pages; 23 cm. Subjects: Genealogy; Indexes. Genealogy; Bibliography; Catalogs. Local history; Bibliography.Genealogy. Travel. England Description and travel; Bibliography. Genre: Bibliographies - England - 1863. 3 Kg.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Paperback in a custom made slipcase. 368pp. nd. [circa1860]. Covers grubby and worn, with loss to corner of rear cover. Inner hinges split across end-papers, but binding remains secure. Private ownership. (q23).

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO60106199: 1994. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 124 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition bibliographical handbook by John Camden Hotten, an extensive account of twenty-thousand books. The first edition of John Camden Hotten's brilliantly detail handbook, the most laborious and yet least known of his works.An extensive bibliography of Hotten's works on English and Welsh topography, detailing in total twenty thousand curious and rare books.John Camden Hotten was a bibliophile and publisher, best remembered for his clandestine publishing of erotic and pornographic works.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. Small chip to the tail of the front wrap. Light discolouration and marks to the wraps and spine. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Stamp to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Blind stamp to the title page, to page 1/2, and 367/368. Good. book.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). A collection of separately bound poetry and legal papers. Including: - A Packet of Pestilent Pasquils (consisting of a number of poems, privately printed) - Trial Between Anthony Hodges, Esq., and the Hon. Charles Wyndham, for Adultery With the Plaintiff's Wifee. Tried Before the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, and a Special Jury, in Westminster-Hall, 1791 - Curious Case: Oxford Circuit (Oxford, July 21 1830) [Before Mr Baron Gurney] (tipped onto paper from original publication), - Elizabeth Chapman, Versus William Shaw, Attourney at Law. Action of Damage for a Breach of Promise of Marriage; Before Lord Kenyon, in the Court of King's Bench, May 22, 1790. With ink inscription dated 1896 to front free-endpaper. With pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. In a half-morocco binding. Externally, generally smart, though with some rubbing. Internally, firmly bound although slightly strained. Ink signature to recto of front free-endpaper. Pages have some patches of foxing and some handling marks. Good. book.