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Edinburgh, 1816. Unbound. Very Good. EDINBURGH TRAVELLING CIRCUS. An interesting letter written in 1816 from a son in Edinburgh (presumably at school) to his father James Burnett, a landowner of Caverhill, Fife. There are details of what appears to be either a circus or zoo with "wild beasts including a lion who upon seeing an Officer of the 42nd attempted to get out of his cage at him. He made one of the spars loose". The letter predates the original zoo in Edinburgh, so it is more likely the "wild beasts" were in some sort of travelling show, possibly Polito's Menagerie of Wild Beasts, which was advertised in the Edinburgh newspapers around this time. Written in a large and very legible hand. Folded with address panel on the reverse, and some slight edge tears to folds. 1816. ~ Italian-born Stephano Polito owned a celebrated travelling show, described in newspaper adverts of the period as a '...grand and pleasing assemblage of most rare and beautiful living beasts, from the remotest parts of the…
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EDINBURGH TRAVELLING CIRCUS. An interesting letter written in 1816 from a son in Edinburgh (presumably at school) to his father James Burnett
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The Early History of the Goldsmiths' Company 1327-1509 including The Book of Ordinances 1478-83
by REDDAWAY, T.F., and Walker, Lorna E.M.
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Edward Arnold, 1975. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. REDDAWAY, T.F., and Walker, Lorna E.M. The Early History of the Goldsmiths' Company 1327-1509 including The Book of Ordinances 1478-83. 378pp., plates. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper. Ownership name of C.E. Challis on the end-paper. 8vo. Edward Arnold. 1975.
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The Early Letters of Bishop Richard Hurd, 1739 to 1762 (3) (Church of England Record Society)
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Church of England Record Society, 1995. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very good hardback copy.
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The Early Letters of Bishop Richard Hurd, 1739 to 1762 (3) (Church of England Record Society)
by Brewer, Sarah
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Boydell Press, 1995. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very good hardback copy.
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Ednaston Lodge - Coloured Lithograph
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1870. Unbound. Very Good. original coloured lithograph 134mm x 186mm (image size) - with borders. c1870. good condition.
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property
by Schmidgen, Wolfram
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Cambridge University Press, 2002. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper.
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El Arte En La Iglesia De Castilla Y Leon
by Catholic Church;Castilla y Leon (Spain);Caja de Ahorros de Salamanca;Catedral de Valladolid
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Europa Artes Graficas, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. very good pbk. 4to.
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Electric Models from Odds and Ends
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Penguin, 1948. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A very good clean copy in original wrappers. Number 83 in the series. Oblong format, colour and b/w lithographed illustrations. No names or inscriptions. Staple rusted.
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Elements of German and English Conversation, on familiar subjects. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections. Revised by A. Bernays
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Boosey and Sons, 1828. Hard Cover. Good. CRABB, George. Elements of German and English Conversation, on familiar subjects. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections. Revised by A. Bernays. [2], 179, [1]p., half-title. Full contemporary tree calf, slight crack to the upper joint and some rubbing. Some dustiness and worming to the blank lower margin of the pages towards the end, with no loss of text. Ownership name and book plate of Thos. Freer Bilton, Hull. 8vo. printed for Boosey and Sons. 1828.
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Ellen Archer; or, a Little at a Time
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Bingley, 1867. Hard Cover. Fair. 1867 - Bingley printed - Ellen Archer - by James Campkin. 96 pages, frontispiece. 19th century blind stamped library mark to edge of title-page. Original limp cloth, spine worn, covers dull.
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Elton Hall - Coloured Lithograph
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Emma Hamilton. Seduction & Celebrity
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Thames & Hudson, 2016. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good clean hardback copy in dust-wrapper.
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Englische Grammatik
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Leipzig, 1823. Hard Cover. Fair. Theodor Arnolds Englische Grammatik. Lepizig. 1823. 470 pages. Original half leather, marbled boards. Covers rather rubbed, and with some foxing.
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English Exercises, adapted to Murray's English Grammar
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York: Thomas Wilson, 1816. Hard Cover. Fair. English Exercises, adapted to Murray's English Grammar. Designed for the benefit of private learners, as well as for the use of schools. 227 + 1 p. York: Thomas Wilson & Sons. 1816. Full 19th century leather binding, some ink splashes to the covers, ownership name dated 1819 on the end-paper, and some occasional marks to the pages. A good sound copy.
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English librettist Thomas Morell (1703-1784)
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Jones & Co, 1840. Unbound. Very Good. English librettist Thomas Morell (1703-1784) by James Basire (1730-1802) after William Hogarth (1697-1764). Engraving published by Jones and Co, Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London, 1763. This is a 19th century issue of the engraving. 21cm x 16cm (sheet size). c1850?
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English County Histories
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Sutton, 1994. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in vry good dust-wrapper.
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English Forests and Forest Trees, historical, legendary, and descriptive
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Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853. Hard Cover. Very Good. FORESTS. English Forests and Forest Trees, historical, legendary, and descriptive. 406pp., half-title., engraved title-page, frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations and vignettes throughout. Two wood-engraved plates are with signature: "T. Heaviside. Sc." All are with title captions, and include elaborate wood-engraved illustrated initials. One illustration within the text is signed "B[irket] Foster" and another "BF". One each is signed "T. Heaviside" and "Pearson Sc." A very good copy bound in original blind and gilt stamped cloth. With the name of Miss Sarah Heartfield, Prize, Thorner Lodge, Mids[ummer], 1857, on the recto of the frontispiece, and a later book-plate. 8vo. Ingram, Cooke, and Co. 1853. ~ "The forest and forest trees of England, so far as the present Publishers are aware, have never yet been fully described in a single volume. It is true that many able works have been published upon English forest trees, and many on the…
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English Illustration: 'the Sixties' : 1855-70
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Kingsmead, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very good hardback copy.
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Engraved Portrait
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1814. Unbound. Very Good. Charles Bicknell, Esq. Portrait; three-quarters length seated to right, head turned and looking towards the viewer, hands folded and resting on a book propped in his lap, left elbow resting on a table beside an inkstand and letter addressed 'To the Honble. the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty'; after Murphy. c20cm x 14cm - image size. [1814]. Charles was a high-ranking solicitor, appointed as Solicitor to the Admiralty, Legal Adviser to the Prince of Wales and in partnership with Anthony Spedding in a legal practice in London. His skill at handling some of the awkward situations the Prince of Wales got himself into earned him great praise from many people.
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Engraved View
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1900. Unbound. Very Good. 85mm x 125mm image, with borders. c1900.
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