THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [with] A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID
Lovely Regency-era edition of this book of Psalms along with the classic Christian devotional texts, featuring touches of extra ornamentation to the text's gilt edges.
Lovely Regency-era edition of this book of Psalms along with the classic Christian devotional texts, featuring touches of extra ornamentation to the text's gilt edges.
Inscribed first edition of this "rare, very little-known book" (Eric Partridge) on American bafflegab.
Advertising fan for showman Albert Smith's long-running "lecture" on his ascent of Europe's tallest peak — a sensational example of capitalizing upon the early days of the alpinism craze.
First edition, first issue of the notorious bungled literary hoax, purporting to have discovered portions of PARADISE LOST plagiarized from earlier works by Hugo Grotius et al., which Lauder had found, but only after putting them there himself.
Attractively bound Victorian edition of the classic Christian devotional texts, demonstrating its importance as a devotional and genealogical tool.
Beautiful velvet-bound copy of the classic Christian devotional texts, with gauffered edges and brass fittings, in contemporary leather box.
Original photograph album of a variety of costumes and accessories able to be rented from a photography studio in Derby, England, including outfits emblematic of the Imperial mindset of the 1920s.
Scarce complete 3-volume set of the immense short-title catalogue, documenting books printed before 1701 held in the libraries of the Anglican cathedrals of England and Wales.
Inscribed first printing of this beautifully illustrated selection of over four centuries of maps of the Persian Gulf, compiled by the geographically minded ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah.
Second Dublin edition of this textbook for beginning Latin learners, focusing on vocabulary "from the purest Latin classics."
First edition of this work on the language of the Motu people of Papua New Guinea, owned by a linguist of ill repute.
Scarce presentation copy of the first edition, subscribers' issue, of the lore, language and song of the Isle of Wight.