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Still available: The Oxford University Calendar For The Year 1816. by Various - - £75 Free shipping on orders over £500....
14/08/2026

Still available: The Oxford University Calendar For The Year 1816. by Various - - £75

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The Oxford University Calendar For The Year 1816. Corrected to December 31st 1815. 8vo. Oxford, J. Parker, 1816. PROVENANCE: "Daniel (and partially erased letter possibly- ''C'' Exeter Coll...(Inscription to front endpaper). Also marginalia in places. On page 144 "Exeter College" there is an annotation at the bottom. In the printed list of names on this page there is a one "Cave, Daniel". A very rare survivor.

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Still available: ATTENBOROUGH, Frederick (1887-1973). Cities In Sonnets. SIGNED by Frederick Attenborough - Signed - £50...
14/08/2026

Still available: ATTENBOROUGH, Frederick (1887-1973). Cities In Sonnets. SIGNED by Frederick Attenborough - Signed - £50

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ATTENBOROUGH, Frederick (1887-1973). Cities In Sonnets. 8vo. London: S.M. Hall & Son, [1926] SIGNED by Frederick Attenborough on the title page, signature dated: Nov. 1926. Places covered include: Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Venice, London, and Constantinople. Frederick Attenborough was an English academic, and also Principal of University College, Leicester. He was the father of Sir David, and Sir Richard Attenborough. Scarce.

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Still available: Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, To Accompany The Charts of the Northern Atlantic Ocean… by John Pu...
12/08/2026

Still available: Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, To Accompany The Charts of the Northern Atlantic Ocean… by John Purdy - - £150

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PURDY, John. (1773-1843). Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, To Accompany The Charts of the Northern Atlantic Ocean; and Comprising Instructions, General and Particular for the Navigation of the Sea. 8vo. London: R.H. Laurie, 1853. Scarce.



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Still available: Edmond Holmes. Poems Second Series. (1879) Scarce, SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY by Edmond Gore Alexander H...
12/08/2026

Still available: Edmond Holmes. Poems Second Series. (1879) Scarce, SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes - - £60

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HOLMES, E.G.A. [Edmond Holmes] (1850-1936). Poems Second Series. 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul & co., 1879. Contents include: Nature Lost and Found, To My Mistress, On Snowdon, Whence and Whither, On The Yorkshire Coast, To Slieve Croghaun, Sonnets of the Atlantic, On The Moors, Sunset and Sea, Sonnets To An Imaginary Being. PRESENTATION COPY: SIGNED to reverse of front endpaper by the author Edmond Holmes and dedicated to George Chester Earle, inscription dated September 1903. Other owners inscription at top of the same page. Curiously the inscription is made out to George Chester Earle- who research reveals is recorded as a school master living with poet Eleanor Farjeon. Possibly the same George Chester Earle! Edmond Holmes was an educator, poet and schools inspector (1875 to 1910), educated at St. John's College, Oxford. His many works included: Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Study & a Selection (1902), The Triumph of Love (1902), and The Tragedy of Education (1913). Scarce book of poetry, signed by the author.

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Still available: Three Gothic Stories – Vathek (1834), The Castle of Otranto’, (1834) and The Bravo of Venice’ (1834). b...
11/08/2026

Still available: Three Gothic Stories – Vathek (1834), The Castle of Otranto’, (1834) and The Bravo of Venice’ (1834). by Matthew Gregory Lewis William Beckford - - £100

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BECKFORD, William (1760-1844). Vathek. [Bound with]: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1834), [And]: M.G. Lewis' The Bravo of Venice: A Romance (1834). 8vo. Richard Bentley, 1834. Both Vathek and The Castle of Otranto are Gothic stories originally written in the late 18th Century. The Castle of Otranto being considered as the first Gothic Novel and influential on the aesthetic of the modern gothic genre. The Bravo of Venice' also being a gothic novel- penned by Matthew Gregory Lewis, who's work 'The Monk,' gained him the nickname "Monk".



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Still available: The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee… (1860) by Martin Archer Shee - Inscribed Special Provenance - £280 ...
10/08/2026

Still available: The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee… (1860) by Martin Archer Shee - Inscribed Special Provenance - £280

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EARLY FOOTBALL INTEREST, EDGAR LUBBOCK - ARCHER SHEE, Martin (1804-98). The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee President of the Royal Academy... 8vo. London: Longman Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. PROVENANCE: Inscription to front endpaper: "Arthur Kinnaird, with the best wishes of Edgar Lubbock on his leaving Eton, Easter 1865". Edgar Lubbock (1847-1907) and Arthur Kinnaird (1847-1923) are considered important figures in the history of early football. Please note for sale is volume one only!

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