A Collection of five Historic Acts and Declarations. Collection consists of five individually bound volumes: Vol.1: An Act for the Attainder of the Rebels in Ireland. (1657) / Vol. 2: A Declaration of His Highness The Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, for a Day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation in the Three Nations. (1656) / Vol. 3: An Act for an Assessment at the Rate of Five and Thirty thousand Pounds by the moneth upon England, Six thousand Pounds by the Moneth upon Scotland, and Nine thousand pounds by the Moneth upon Ireland, For Three Years from The Twenty fourth of June 1657. / Vol. 4: An Act and Declaration Touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the Twentieth of April 1653. and before the Third of September 1654. and Other Acts. / Vol. 5: An Additional Act for the Better Improvement and Advancing the Receipts of the Excise and New-Impost (1657).

Five Volumes. London, Henry Hill and John Fields, 1857, Vol. 1: (2), 24 pages, (50 blank pages) / Vol. 2: (2), 5 pages, (74 blank pages) / Vol. 3: (2), 28 pages, (50 blank pages) / Vol. 4: (2), 40 pages (not consistently numbered), 50 blank pages) / Vol. 5: (2), 61 pages (2). Vol. 1-4: Modern three-quarter dark blue leather with blue cloth boards. Some gilt line decorations to boards. Gilt titel and decorations on spine. (Bindings by Period Binders, Bath, England) / Vol. 5: Modern half-leather with pale blue cloth. Gilt line decorations on boards. Gilt titel and decorations on spine. Very good condition. Bindings for vol.1-4 as new. Binding for vol. 5 with some shelf wear, some staining and discoloration to boards. The actual acts show age darkening, browning and occassional foxing. Edges are darkened. Pages have small tears and small amount of paper loss, but not affecting the actual text. A few pencil lines. A very handsome collection in tasteful bindings.

A Conan Doyle.

The Stark Munro Letters.

London, The Amalgamated Press, [1907]. 21 x 14 cm. vi, 170 pages (2). With various illustrated adverts. With three illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. Soft illustrated greenish cloth covers. Rear board shows ad for Fry’s Cocoa. Various ads inside. Good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Worn at the edges. Binding sound. Spine ends fraying. Internally browned and with some pencil lines.

Aaron, Richard I.

John Locke.

Third Edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973. 21 x 13 cm. xiv, 383 pages. Original dark cloth with gilt title and decorations on spine. In price clipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelfwear. Top edge dust dulled. Dust jacket is price clipped and faded at the spine. A nice copy.

Abbot Gasquet.

English Monastic Life.

London, Methuen, 1904. 22 x 14 cm. xix, 326 pages plus 40 pages publishers list. Illustrated throughout, including foldout plans. Original red cloth with gilt titles on spine and front boards. Gilt decorations. Good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine faded, frayed and cracked. Water staining to many pages in the book, including frontispiece and title page. Edges age darkened. Internally clean with no annotations.

Abbot Gasquet.

The Greater Abbeys of England.

First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1908. 18 x 23 cm, xvi, 268 pages. Colour frontispiece and 59 full page colour Illustrations after Warwick Goble. Original cloth with gilt titles and illustrations on front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Very good condition. Edges darkened. Corners and spine rubbed and bumped. Some foxing. Award plate glued to front paste down. Colour plates are bright and clean.

Achmatowa, Anna.

Vor den Fenstern Frost. Gedichte und Prosa. Barbara Honigmann übersetzte die Gedichte und Fritz Mierau die Prosastücke.

Berlin, Friedenauer Presse, 1988. 24.8cm x 17cm. 24 Seiten. Originale, illustrierte Broschur. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Ackerman, Diane.

The Zookeeper’s Wife – A War Story.

New York / London, W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. 14.5cm x 21.5cm. 368 pages. Includes photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Ackerman, Jennifer.

Chance in the House of Fate. A Natural History of Heredity.

Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. 23 x 16 cm. 252 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Ackermann, Randolph / Combe, William].

The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments. [With 80 hand-coloured Plates, one engraved Portrait (of 2) and one engraved Plan].

First Edition. Two Volumes – Complete. London, Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 34 x 28 cm (13.5 x 11 inches). Vol.1: (6), xviii (Subscribers, Index, Intro), 330 pages plus 4 pages Index. With a coloured Frontispiece and two Plates / Vol.2: (2), 275 pages. With 79 Plates. One Plate (‘Aymer De Valance – Earl of Pembroke’) not present. Plate 38 mislabeled (‘North’ vs. ‘South’ Isle). Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Raised decorated bands. Black labels with gilt titles and volume numbers. Small blind decorations. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Age darkened throughout, mild damp staining. A few pages have been professionally repaired. Small Bookworm holes to first and last few pages of volume 1. Armorial Ex Libris of previous Owner (‘George Fottrell’) on front paste downs of both volumes.

Ackroyd, Peter.

Chatterton.

First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 16 x 24 cm. 234 Pages. Original red boards with gilt lettering on spine (Hardback). Good condition. Few signs of external wear. Signature of previous owner on front free-endpaper.