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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, W. Warde Fowler, 1904
Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, by W. Warde Fowler. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Knickerbocker Press, New Yo...
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South Africa A Century Ago (1797-1801), Lady Anne Barnard, 1926
South Africa A Century Ago (1797-1801); Part I: Letters Written from the Cape of Good Hope; Part II: Extracts from a Journal Addressed to Her Siste...
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Miniature Painters British and Foreign, J.J. Foster, Signed Edition Royale, No. 13/45. 1903.
Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...
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Princess Mary; Viscountess Lascelles, Evelyn Graham, 1930
A biography of Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Princess Mary; Viscountess Lascelles; An Intimate and Autho...
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Edward P.; A New and Intimate Life Story of The Prince of Wales, Evelyn Graham, 1929
A biography of Edward, Prince of Wales, prior to his ascension, and subsequent abdication, of the throne. Edward P.; A New and Intimate Life Story ...
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A Collection of Works by Ian Hay, mostly first editions, 1911-1941
Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...
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Joy Adamson; First edition set of Born Free, Living Free, & Forever Free, 1960-1962
First edition set of Born Free, Living Free, & Forever Free, by 2.5k: Born Free; A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's L...
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Our Journey Around The World, Rev. Francis E. Clark, with Glimpses of Life in Far Off Lands as Seen Through a Woman's Eyes, Harriet E. Clark, 1895
Our Journey Around The World; An Illustrated Record of a Year's Travel of Forty Thousand Miles Through India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand,...
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William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his published work on the subject.
William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his publish...
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Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one, c. 1870
Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one. An illustrated compendium of 'Penny Readings' to be read and shared with the ...
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Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, Photographed by Lock and Whitfield, Thompson Cooper, 1876-1881. Chiswick Press.
Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...
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The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Adam & Co/John G. Murdoch, London, c. 1880
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources. The front cover also carries the title 'The Life &...
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Studies in Romanticism, Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 1977, Boston University
Studies in Romanticism, Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 1977. This issue with articles on Marxism and Romanticism. With various contributors. Provenance;...
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Keats-Shelley Journal, Volume LXV 2016, signed by contributor, William St. Clair
Keats-Shelley Journal, Volume LXV 2016; Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and their Circles. With various contributors. Provenance; from the library of ...
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The Bee and Other Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, Together with the Life of Nash, 1914
The Bee and Other Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, Together with the Life of Nash. Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Printed in Ox...
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Maalesh; A Theatrical Tour in the Middle East, by Jean Cocteau. Translated by Mary C. Hoeck, 1956. Publisher signed.
Maalesh; A Theatrical Tour in the Middle East, by Jean Cocteau. Translated by Mary C. Hoeck. Signed by the Publisher. Published by Peter Owen Limit...
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Siecle de Louis XIV, Edition Stereotype, Augmentee d'une Tables des Matieres, Paris, 1810, 2 Volume set
Siecle de Louis XIV, Edition Stereotype, Augmentee d'une Tables des Matieres, Paris, 1810, 2 Volume set. Published by Stereotype de Mame, Freres, P...
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Os Luciadas de Luiz de Camoes, Segunda a do Morgado Matteus, Pariz
Os Luciadas de Luiz de Camoes. Nova Edicao. Segundo a do Morgado Matteus. Com as Notas e Vida do Autor pelo Mesmo, Corrigida Segundo as Edicoes de ...
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Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus, Danielis Georg Morhof, 1714
Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...
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Sammlung von Johann Christian Günthers, aus Schlesien, bis anhero herausgegebenen Gedichten, 1751
Sammlung von Johann Christian Günthers, aus Schlesien, bis anhero herausgegebenen Gedichten. Auf das neue übersehen, und in einer bessern Wahl und ...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins, Philadelphia 1831
The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in One Volume. Published by John Grigg, Philadelphia, 1831. Stereotyped ...
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Maria Gisborne & Edward E. Williams; Shelley's Friends; Their Journals and Letters, Frederick L. Jones
Maria Gisborne & Edward E. Williams; Shelley's Friends; Their Journals and Letters. Edited by Frederick L. Jones. Provenance; from the library...
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Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet, Leslie Hotson, 1930
Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet. Edited with an Introduction by Leslie Hotson. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 -...
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Bloomsbury/Freud; The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925, Perry Meisel & Walter Kendrick
Bloomsbury/Freud; The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925. Edited by Perry Meisel & Walter Kendrick. Provenance; from the library of ...
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Shelley and His World, Claire Tomalin, 1992
Shelley and His World, by Claire Tomalin. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and ...
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Group of 4 x Percy Bysshe Shelley Pamphlets from the Library of William St Clair
Group of 4 x Percy Bysshe Shelley Pamphlets from the Library of William St Clair. Comprises: Shelley; Unacknowledged Legislator, April 25 to August...
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The Shelleys of Field Place, Susan Cabell Djabri, Annabelle F. Hughes, Jeremy Knight, Horsham Museum Society, 2000
The Shelleys of Field Place; The Story of the Family and their Estates, by Susan Cabell Djabri, with Annabelle F. Hughes and Jeremy Knight. SOLD Pr...
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Mad Shelley, A Dramatic Life in Five Acts, Elma Dangerfield, 1977
Mad Shelley, A Dramatic Life in Five Acts, by Elma Dangerfield. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British h...
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Collection of Romantic Period Offprints from William St Clair's library - mainly author signed and inscribed
Collection of Romantic Period Offprints from William St Clair's library - mainly author signed and inscribed. Comprises: SOLD Keats-Shelley Journal...
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Shelley in England; New Facts and Letters from the Shelley-Whitton Papers, Roger Ingpen, 1917
Shelley in England; New Facts and Letters from the Shelley-Whitton Papers. With Illustrations and Facsimiles. By Roger Ingpen. Volume I. Provenance...
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The Godwins and the Shelleys; The Biography of a Family, William St Clair, 1990
The Godwins and the Shelleys; The Biography of a Family, by William St Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 202...
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The Shelley Papers; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, T. Medwin, 1833
The Shelley Papers; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Original poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now First Collected. By T. Medwin, Esq. ...
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The Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley; New Details from Unpublished Documents, by Dr. Guido Biagi, 1898
The Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley; New Details from Unpublished Documents, by Dr. Guido Biagi. Provenance; from the library of the late William...
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Shelley on Love; An Anthology, Richard Holmes, 1980, signed with letter
Shelley on Love; An Anthology edited by Richard Holmes. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian,...
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Shelley His Life and Work, Walter Edwin Peck, 1927, 2 Vols
Shelley; His Life and Work, by Walter Edwin Peck. Volume I: 1792-1817 and Volume II: 1817-1822. 2 Volume set complete. Provenance; from the library...
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Shelley by Newman Ivey White, Secker & Warburg, 1947, 2 Vols
Shelley by Newman Ivey White. 2 Volume set complete. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, ac...
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Queen Mab, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; With Notes. Published by J.P. Mendum, Boston, c. 1850
Queen Mab, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; With Notes. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academi...
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Queen Mab; 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Woodstock Books 1990
Queen Mab; 1813, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and ...
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Original Poetry by Victor & Cazire, (Percy Bysshe Shelley & Elizabeth Shelley). Edited by Richard Garnett, 1898
Original Poetry by Victor & Cazire, (Percy Bysshe Shelley & Elizabeth Shelley). Edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. The book contains a ...
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Demosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes
Demosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Accurate Edita. Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes. The best works of Demosthenes, Greek statesman...
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The Trial and Death of Socrates, Being The Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato, F.J. Church, 1887
The Trial and Death of Socrates, Being The Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato. Translated into English by F.J. Church. Published by Ma...
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A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton, The Argonaut Press, 1930, Limited edition 2 Volume set
A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir Willia...
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Northern Najd; A Journey from Jerusalem to Anaiza in Qasim by Carlo Guarmani, The Argonaut Press, 1938 Limited edition
Northern Najd; A Journey from Jerusalem to Anaiza in Qasim by Carlo Guarmani. Translated from the Italian by Lady Capel-Cure. With Introduction and...
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The Man Who Presumed; A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, Byron Farwell, 1958
The Man Who Presumed; A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, by Byron Farwell. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a famous Welsh-American explorer, sol...
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Rambles & Studies in Greece, J.P. Mahaffy, 1887
Rambles & Studies in Greece, by J.P. Mahaffy. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, acade...
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Memoir of Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh, Notes by R.W. Chapman, Oxford, 1926
Memoir of Jane Austen, by her Nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh. With Introduction, Notes, & Index by R.W. Chapman. Provenance; from the librar...
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Byron and the Shelleys; The Story of a Friendship, Jane Blumberg, 1992. With publicity sheet.
Byron and the Shelleys; The Story of a Friendship, by Jane Blumberg. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Briti...
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Some English Philhellenes, Z.D. Ferriman, The Anglo-Hellenic League, 1917-1920. 8 Volume Set.
Some English Philhellenes, by Z.D. Ferriman, Author of "Home Life in Hellas,", Turkey and the Turks," etc. 8 Volume Set, comprising: I: Frank Abney...
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