London: Almanach de Gotha, 1998. 182nd edition, Volume 1: Part I. Reigning and formerly Reigning Royal Houses of Europe and South America. Part II Mediatized Sovereign Houses of the Holy Roman Empire. Portrait of H. M. King Carlos I. Small 8vo (6 x 4 1/2 inches), 671-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Fine.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19283
London: Almanach de Gotha, 1998. 187th edition, Volume 1: Part I. Genealogies of the Sovereign Houses of Europe. Part II Mediatized Sovereign Houses of the Holy Roman Empire. Small 8vo (6 x 4 1/2 inches), Pages 1026:xcii. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Fine. With the visiting card of the Princess Karl Viktor zu Wied loosely inserted.
£120.00
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Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1907. Portraits. Small 8vo (6 x 4 inches), 1200-pages. Original red cloth. 1 portrait detached. Personal name stamp on front pastedown. Signature on front free endpaper. Lower inner joint cracked and at one time partly repaired with sellotape, chip out of edge of lower board.
£25.00
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London: Annuaire de France,1976. Coloured armorial frontispiece, portraits. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 868-pages. Original crimson cloth blocked in gilt. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Bound upside down in the case.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19291
London: Burke's Peerage, 1962. Plates of armorials. Large 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), 643-pages. Original black cloth with red gilt title lable. Private name stamp on front pastedown & signature on front free endpaper. Very good. £300.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19255
London: Harrison (Bookseller to the Queen), 1858. First edition. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 inches). Folding pedigrees. Original maroon cloth gilt neatly rebacked. Edges of boards and corners rubbed through, foxing to prelims. Signature on front free endpaper. Armorial bookplate. A few tears to a few folds of folding pedigrees, one repaired to the verso with sellotape. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19260
London: Harrison, 1912. Illustrated with numerous armorials. Large thick 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 2714-pages plus advertisements. Original red bevelled cloth gilt, vertical crease to backstrip. Upper inner hinge cracked and front free endpaper detached. Foxing to prelims. Headbands with short splits, name on half-title. £70.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17310
London & Paris, World Nobility and Peerage, 1969. Coloured armorial frontispiece, photographic portraits throughout. Stout 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 1142-pages. Original crimson cloth blocked in gilt, all edges red. Fine.
£80.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19287
Paris: Le Nobiliare, n.d. Portraits. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches), 799-pages. Original crimson cloth blocked in gilt.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19289
London: Whittaker & Co., 1842. 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 inches), 482:(2, advertisements), contemporary full pebble-grain dark green calf, sides ruled in gilt with corner ornaments, spine gilt on raised bands and lettered direct in gilt, all edges gilt. Extremities rubbed, foxing to prelims. Generally very good, strongly and attractively bound. Inscribed at front, "The Lady Caroline Morant 1842". £60.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14044
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1813. 17 engraved plates of armorials. Two volumes folio (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), pages 759:xiv & 752:xiii, contemportary full calf gilt, all edges gilt. Joints crudely repaired with tape, lacks lower cover of Volume 1. Light creasing to first few leaves, some foxing and light damp-marking to the plates. |
Weight 6.660 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£100.00
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[London W. & E. Finden, c. 1839.] This copy of Findens' Portraits contains the following 9 portraits: Queen Victoria; Countess of Hillsborough; Lady Louisa Cavendish; Countess of Falmouth; Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope; Marchioness of Londonderry; Lady Frances Cowper, Marchioness of Ailesbury; Countess of Wilton. Bound without title page, opening with the dedication to H.M. Adelaide the Queen Dowager followed by the 2-page preface. Folio (14 x 10 1/4 inches). Contemporary full burgundy grained calf lettered in gilt on upper cover within decorative borders in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Plates foxed and with marginal damp mark. Inscribed on fly "Elizabeth Dunn, May 22nd 1839".
£45.00
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England: White Mouse Editions. Thailand: Phitsanulok Pub. Co. 1989. First edition. Very well illustrated from photographs, folding genealogies. 4to (11 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches), 688-pages. Original dark blue grained cloth lettered in gilt in dust jacket. Some light marginal tanning, large patch of loss of surface to upper panel of the jacket else excellent. Text in English and Thai.
Weight 2.740 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£375.00
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London: Dean & Son, 1929. Profusely illustrated with armorials throughout. Large thick 8vo (10 x 6 3/4 inches), 2235-pages plus 28-page list of Royal Warrant holders and 219-pages of largely illustrated advertisements. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Spine very faded and bumped at headband else very good.
£38.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11296
London: George Allen, 1902. 4to (11 x 9 inches), 397-pages, original decorated cloth; cloth partly "bubbling" on upper cover and a little marked.
Weight 2.090 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19270
London: Garnstone Press, 1973. Three volumes. 4to (12 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches) original blue grained cloth blocked in gilt in slipcase; slipcase worn, the volumes themselves excellent and NOT ex-library. The three volumes are: Volume one: The Royal Houses; Volume two: The Families; Volume three: Plates & Indexes. 118-portraits. Pages: 1054:394 plus unpaginated addendum. Size overall 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches. Weight 7.17 kg thus extra postage will be requested. |
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19251
London: Dean & Son, 1885. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), 784-pages plus 80-pages of oartly illustrated advertisements. Original red cloth, all edges gilt, blocked in gold & colours; corners rubbed through, some fading and marking, cloth "bubbling" a little on lower cover, upper inner hinge cracked but holding. Overall good. Bookplate.
Weight 1.770 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£40.00
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London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1907. "Private and Confidential", 1 of only 6 copies printed and thus very rare indeed. |
Frontispiece, linen-backed map and approx.108 plates (portraits, views, battle scenes etc. mostly with captioned guards). 4to (11 3/2 x 9 1/4 inches, weight 2.5 kg), pages: viii:(1):74:(1). Contemporary half green morocco, spine ruled and gilt lettered direct, top edge gilt, others uncut, bound-in silk bookmark. With, inserted at front, 2 proof leaves signed by Mawdesley. A little rubbed, some foxing to edge of text block, overall very good.
A splendidly produced genealogical work. From "The Apology" dated Fulford Cottage, Nov. 1907: "The book is limited to six copies, in order that it may not be supplied to anyone outside the immediate family, and it is earnestly hoped that it may never be allowed to pass into other hands". Chapters are devoted to: the Parent Stem; Branch; Thomas Mawdesley of Newbrough; Mawdesley & Heskin Halls; the Mawdesley Arms; John Mawdesley's services in the Navy; His Ships; the Leylands; The Robertses; Genealogy showing the Maternal Progenitors; and On the Dundee Broadside.
No copy cited on Copac.
£750.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17692
Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1766. Small 8vo, pp.(4):510:(2, Privilege du Roi"). contemporary full mottled calf, spine floral gilt extra with lettering piece. Half inch square patch rubbed through exposing board on upper cover. A very good copy. £55.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10464
London: Burke's Peerage, 1977. Two volumes. Volume 1 Europe & Latin America. Volume 2 Africa & the Middle East. Portraits. 2 volumes 8vo (10 x 7 1/4 inches), pages: 594 & 320, original red cloth armorially blocked in gilt; fine in very good dust jackets, vol. 2 having fading to the spine.
Weight 2.310 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£120.00
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London: Privately Printed by J. Tamblyn, 1895. First edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 311-pages. Original blue cloth. Binding damp-mottled, foxing to prelims. Generally sound. Rare. £55.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13061
London: Burke's Peerage, 1953. Armorials within the text. Large 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 inches), pages: cccxxii:2624. Original red cloth. Binding faded, corners rubbed through; overall very sound.
Weight 3.36 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£55.00
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London: Duckworth, 1900. First edition. Large 8vo (9 1/4 x 7 inches), 335-pages. Original red cloth lettered in black; very good. Private name stamp on front pastedown & signature on front free endpaper. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19258
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1903. First edition. Coloured frontispiece, portraits. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 inches), 621-pages. Original blue cloth gilt, top ege gilt others uncut. Headbands worn, covers badly damp-stained, corners rubbed through. Spine unaffected, internally very sound. Inscribed on front pastedown " Newcombe, Aldershot Manor, 1911".
Weight 2.57 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19297
London: Harrison & Son, 1914. 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 inches), Pages lxxi:1598. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Rubbed, fraying to one joint and base of spine. The first 20-pages are missing and supplied in loose photo-copies. Private name stamp on front pastedown and signature on front free endpaper. Upper inner hinge split and sellotaped, sellotape to another inner margin.
Weight 3.870 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£80.00
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London: Burk's Peerage, 1963. Armorials within the text. 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 x 4 3/4 inches), 2987-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; some rubbing and marking, endpapers marked. Bookplate and signature on front free endpaper. Overall very sound.
Weight 4.460 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£75.00
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London: 1910. 8vo, pp. 812 plus advertisement leaves, original blue cloth gilt; a very good copy.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7099