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Birds of Britain
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn D. Green; David Tree
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967.Large format photobook with short profiles of some of the most happening young women of 1960s London. Subjects include Mary Quant, Marianne Faithful, Dust Springfield, Hayley Mills, Susannah York, Patti Boyd, and many others.
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Young London: Permissive Paradise
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Habicht; Heather Cremonesi; Robert Bruce
London: George G. Harrap, 1969.Classic street photography photobook of 1960s London youth.
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[William Alexander]
London: John Murray, 1814.50 persons from across early 19th century English society are depicted in fine hand-coloured costume plates dated 1813, each accompanied by a detailed descriptive text. This copy in a signed Zaehnsdorf binding and with the bookplate of Ada Thatcher Huntzinger
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The Natural History of Selborne
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGilbert White
London: The Folio Society, 2009.Introduction by Keith Thomas. FORD-SMITH 1557.
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Westminster School: Past and Present
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrederic H. Forshall
London: Wyman & Sons, 1884.A history of the Westminster School in London, though also a recording of its past customs and a lengthy biographical recording of headmasters and numerous distinguished students, and personal reminiscences. Frederic H. Forshall was a Queen’s Scholar at Westminster and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left after a year, moving to Sydney. He was part of the first cohort at The University of Sydney in 1852, and while still a student was appointed the University Librarian. In 1853 he was the first prizewinner for Greek verse composition which are printed here (pp. 358-360). Plates illustrating various interiors, Westminster beating Eton at rowing in 1845, and others.
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London and Its Sights: Being a Comprehensive Guide to All That is Worth Seeing in the Great Metropolis
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNo author
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1858.Rare 19th century travel guide to the city with 12 colour plates depicting views of London from Blackfriars Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Treasury Buildings, Westminster Abbey, Duke of York’s Column-Carlton Place, The Tower, Trafalgar Square, Royal Exchange, The Serpentine, Hyde Park Corner, Buckingham Palace, and Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The vignettes in the text show London Bridge, Thames Tunnel, The Monument, East India House, Guildhall, Mansion House, The Post-Office, Temple Bar, Somerset House, The Admiralty, The Horse Guards, Custom-House Quay, and the British Museum.
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Waiting at Table: A Practical Guide Including Parlourmaid’s Work in General
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. S. Peel
London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date.1930s British guide to table service and hospitality including how to lay the table, service of dessert, beverages, cigars, how to carve, pantry work, and other duties. Single typescript leaf of service instructions laid in.
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Aberdoniana: Footdee in the Last Century
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA Lady, A Native of Aberdeen
Aberdeen: A. Brown & Co., 1872.A short account of Footdee, a historic fishing village in Aberdeen.
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The New Forest and its Ponies
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Ramsay
Tunbridge Wells: Photochrom Co. Ltd., No date. -
London: Portrait of a City
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoger Hudson
London: The Folio Society, 1998.Complied by Roger Hudson.
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Antiquities of Roman London
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Antiquities of Roman Britain: Guide to the Principal Roman Sites in England Outside London
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
British Salmonidae
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Jardine
London: Decimus, 1979.First published privately in Edinburgh between 1839 and 1841, this facsimile is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 327. Paintings by Jardine, engraved by William Lazars, who engraved the early sets of Audubon’s Birds. Four page essay ‘Sir William Jardine and the British Salmonidae’ by Alwyne Wheeler, Curator of European fishes at the British Museum (Natural History), laid in.