Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Penny, Louise State of Terror. London: Macmillan, 2021. First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. 8vo., pp.[x], 494, [ii]. Red cloth, black title to spine. Corners very slightly bumped, very good indeed. Dust jacket a little creased at corners, slight crease to rear, very good indeed. To half-title: 'For Hilary - Best wishes! Hillary Rodham Clinton'. A political-mystery novel by former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny. The novel relates to Penny's Inspector Gamache series, the titular character of which appears here in a minor role. Ref: 54833show full image..
Coffey, John: Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp. xii, 304. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. endpapers discoloured along hinges (for no discernable reason), edges lightly bumped. Dust-jacket, mildly shelf-worn with creasing to edges. Still, a very good copy. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series. Ref: 53746
Cohen, Helen Louise: The Ballade. New York: Columbia University Press, 1915. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xvii], 397. Slight toning, else a very good copy. Blue cloth, boards and spine gilt, upper hinge loosening, a bit faded in places, but still very good. Bookplate of Brenda M Cook to front pastedown. Ref: 53530
Cohen, Morton N: Lewis Carroll: A Biography. London: Macmillan, 2015. First UK edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 577 + plates. Illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Ref: 54265
Collinson, Patrick: The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. 8vo, pp. 528. Maps as endpapers. Hardback: quarter green cloth with cream buckram boards, gilt-lettered to spine, a slight bow to upper board and a hint of dust to edges, still very good. Dust-jacket, rather shelf-worn and a little grubby, with creasing to top edge and tears to corners and head of spine, good only. Ref: 53753
Collinson, Patrick: The Religion of the Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 297. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, light foxing to fore-edge, slight dusting to top-edge, but still very good. Dust-jacket, tear to plastic layer of dust-jacket by top of spine but no loss, light discolouration to top of back cover. Ownership inscription of William Lamont to ffep. A revised version of the 1979 Ford Lectures. Ref: 53670
Commerell, Abb? de: [Lettsom, John Coakley, ed., trans.:] An Account of the Culture and Use of the Mangel Wurzel, or Root of Scarcity. London: printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and J. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1788. Fourth edition. 8vo., pp.xxxix, [i], 52 + engraved hand-coloured frontispiece. Sporadic foxing throughout, including title-page. Slightly later half brown calf, marbled boards, rebacked in a lighter shade with large vertical label.. Rubbed, edges and corners worn, endpapers foxed, good overall. Ownership inscription, Jenkins, in an old hand to title-page. One of many works by the industrious Quaker philanthropist and physician John Coakley Lettsom (1744?1815), translated by him from the original French of the Abb? de Commerell. 'Alongside botany, fossils, and natural history, another subject in which Lettsom interested himself was scientific agriculture. He was involved in the introduction of the mangel-wurzel, first brought to notice by Sir Richard Jebb in 1786. Lettsom translated a pamphlet on the subject (An Account of the Mangel-wurzel, or Root of Scarcity, from the French of the Abb? de Commerell, 1787); he grew the seed himself and imported a large quantity, which he distributed to farmers and others in Britain as well as in Europe, America, and the West Indies.' (Payne, rev. Porter, ODNB) ESTC T68301. Ref: 55070show full image..
Condren, Conal & Cousins, A. D. (eds.): The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 221. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear only, very good. Includes an essay by William Lamont, and from his library although with no evidence of ownership. Ref: 53736
[Cook, Captain James:] Anderson, George William, ed.: A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Undertaken and Perfomed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook?s First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, [...]. London: A[lexander] H[ogg], [1784]. First edition, folio, pp [iv], 654, [iv] + portrait frontispiece, folding General Chart and 153 further plates (of 155 called for). Lacks the final leaf before the unpaginated 4-page List of Subscribers, i.e. p.655, the end of the Concluding Remarks followed by a brief Contents list, with Directions to the Binder to verso First and last few leaves creased, title-page trimmed at bottom edge with loss of publisher's name and date, 8C only loosely inserted, small loss to bottom margin 2S2, South Side of Adventure Bay plate with a closed v-shaped tear to the centre (no loss), A Man of the Sandwich Islands plate with a closed tear to fore-edge (affecting image but with no loss), Winter Habitations of Kamtschatka plate coming loose, a little light sporadic foxing towards bottom edge with a very small area of light damp staining toward the rear. Many pressed dried leaves inserted between pages, but not affecting the surrounding paper. Slightly later simple brown calf, spine with raised bands gilt ruled and black gilt title label. Upper board detached but present, endcaps worn, lower joint split but cords holding firm, a little scuffed, corners frayed, without ffep. Includes the expeditions of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson, and Drake as well as those of Cook. Issued originally in 80 parts at a cost of sixpence a piece, this highly detailed and popular edition helped to spread the stories of Cook's travels among the general public. Often referred to as 'Anderson's Cook', although the name of the editor is likely a publisher's pseudonym. ESTC N5221 Ref: 54817show full image..
Cook, J.M.: The Troad. An Archeological and Topographical Study. Oxford University Press, (Sandiper reprint) 1999. 8vo., pp. xviii, 443, 73 (b/w plates). Black cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket Unused, as new. First published 1973. Ref: 55170
