A Clearance Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books in Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts ...H. Sotheran & Company, 1884 - 332 pages |
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... Volume . I Volume . I Volume . 7 Volumes . FORMING TOGETHER 37 VOLUMES IMPERIAL FOLIO . Uniformly Bound in the Best Style , Green Morocco , super extra , Handsomely Gold Tooled , Gilt Leaves . THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA AND THE PAPUAN ...
... Volume . I Volume . I Volume . 7 Volumes . FORMING TOGETHER 37 VOLUMES IMPERIAL FOLIO . Uniformly Bound in the Best Style , Green Morocco , super extra , Handsomely Gold Tooled , Gilt Leaves . THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA AND THE PAPUAN ...
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... Volume . 5 Volumes . 5 Volumes . I Volume . THE TROGONIDÆ , or FAMILY OF TROGONS , with 50 coloured plates ... I Volume . THE ODONTOPHORINÆ , or PARTRIDGES OF AMERICA , with 32 coloured plates THE BIRDS OF ASIA , with nearly 500 ...
... Volume . 5 Volumes . 5 Volumes . I Volume . THE TROGONIDÆ , or FAMILY OF TROGONS , with 50 coloured plates ... I Volume . THE ODONTOPHORINÆ , or PARTRIDGES OF AMERICA , with 32 coloured plates THE BIRDS OF ASIA , with nearly 500 ...
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... volume belong to Essex . All the Manors referred to in the House- hold Book of Duke of Buckingham being in Essex . " - MS . Note , ROMANCES of SIR GUY of WARWICK , and Rembrun his Son ; now first edited from the Auchinleck MS . with ...
... volume belong to Essex . All the Manors referred to in the House- hold Book of Duke of Buckingham being in Essex . " - MS . Note , ROMANCES of SIR GUY of WARWICK , and Rembrun his Son ; now first edited from the Auchinleck MS . with ...
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... Volume , 127 vols . 8vo . bound in Calf ( a neat set ) , £ 42 . 1758-1882 Another set , to 1881 , with the Index , 126 volumes , half russia , £ 38 . 10s 1758-81 AN INVALUABLE SET OF BOOKS , comprising a detailed view of the Politics ...
... Volume , 127 vols . 8vo . bound in Calf ( a neat set ) , £ 42 . 1758-1882 Another set , to 1881 , with the Index , 126 volumes , half russia , £ 38 . 10s 1758-81 AN INVALUABLE SET OF BOOKS , comprising a detailed view of the Politics ...
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... volume consists of a collection of Memoirs by different writers in illustration of the Antiquities of the City and County selected as the place of the annual meeting . ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of Great Britain and Ireland : Proceedings ...
... volume consists of a collection of Memoirs by different writers in illustration of the Antiquities of the City and County selected as the place of the annual meeting . ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of Great Britain and Ireland : Proceedings ...
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Page 180 - LAYARD'S (AH) Nineveh and its Remains. Being a Narrative of Researches and Discoveries amidst the Ruins of Assyria. With an Account of the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan ; the Yezedis, or Devil-worshippers ; and an Enquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. Sixth Edition. Plates and Woodcuts. 2 Vols. Svo. 36s. Nineveh and Babylon ; being the Result of a Second Expedition to Assyria. Fourteenth Thousand. Plates. Svo. 21s. Or Fine Paper, 2 Vols.
Page 92 - DUNLOP (JOHN). -THE HISTORY OF FICTION : Being a Critical Account of the most celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age.
Page 161 - THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, as exemplified in Works of Art, with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament.
Page 133 - THE GRAPHIC ARTS: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and Engraving in Comparison with each other and with Nature.
Page 68 - These, the first numbers of a Cyclopaedia of Ancient and Modern Costume, give promise that the work, when complete, will be one of the most perfect works ever published upon the subject The illustrations are numerous and excellent, and would, even without the letterpress, render the work an invaluable book of reference for information as to costumes for fancy balls and character quadrilles." — Standard, "Destined, we anticipate, to be the standard English work on dress." — Builder. " Promises...
Page 55 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 284 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 6 - GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORIcal, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. The first, Containing an Analysis Of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America...
Page 282 - Portraits ; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century.