Nuckley Rare Books

Still available: Health and Success In Business… 1892. by John Williamson - - £50 WILLIAMSON, John. Health and Success In Business: How Lost: How Recovered. A Personal Experience. Addressed To Business Men. By A Business Man. Monochrome photographic frontispiece, (presumably of the author?). (Title page detached, first few pages loose, occasional marks, browning and spotting). Publisher’s dark red cloth, lettered in silver (some wear, staining). Includes the 8pp. (With two plates) supplement bound in at the rear: “Dyspepsia: Its Cure, and How it is Applied. Being a Supplement to “Health and Success in Business. How Lost: How Recovered”. [With] pink printed slip bound in. 8vo. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., 1892. Rare Victorian Self Help Book. https://bit.ly/3UptzNJ #18011900 #1892 #8vo #business #businessmen #dyspepsia #hamilton #healthandsuccessinbusiness #johnwilliamson #kentco #london #marshall #mrgladstone #rare #selfhelp #selfhelpbook #simpkin #victorian #williamson

Still available: The Raven and The Dove. 1822. by Lucy Lyttelton Cameron - - £70 [LYTTLETON- CAMERON, Lucy]. The Raven and The Dove. By the Author of ‘’The Two Lambs”, “Margaret Whyte, “ &c. Engraved frontispiece, other engravings within the text (Sporadic soiling, pages age toned, occasional spotting). Publisher’s olive/grey wrappers (chipping with loss, soiling to covers, covers detaching). 36pp. 8vo. Wellington, Salop, F. Houlston and Son., 1822. https://bit.ly/4dBGClH #18011900 #1822 #8vo #chapbook #fhoulstonandson #juvenilechapbook #lucylyttletoncameron #lyttletoncameron #margaretwhyte #marthaannhammand #salop #shropshire #theravenandthedove #thetwolambs #wellington

Still available: St. Ronan’s Well… 1845. by Sir Walter Scott - Inscribed - £30 SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832). St. Ronan’s Well. With all his Illustrations [1]* and Notes. Text in two columns. As part of a larger set in this edition. Interior: sporadic light spotting/foxing throughout, pages age toned. Exterior: Quarter red morocco with green cloth boards (binding heavily worn spine cover lacking, upper board hanging by a thread, remanence of erased old label to upper board.) [2], 177-332, [2], pp. 8vo./4to (size): Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1845. https://bit.ly/3Ni8Tmy #18011900 #1845 #8vo4to #binder #bookseller #circulatinglibrary #edinburgh #jddurrell #jmboddy #junr #printer #robertcadell #scott #sirwalterscott #stronanswell #stationer #walterscott #woolwich

Still available: Holidays on High Lands… 1869. by - - £40 MACMILLAN, Rev. Hugh. Holidays on High Lands; or, Rambles and Incidents In Search of Alpine Plants. (Pages age toned, occasional spotting and foxing). Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth, gilt (wear to cloth, corners bumped, spine cocked). 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869. https://bit.ly/3BCea63 #18011900 #1869 #8vo #francesmarypeard #holidaysonhighlands #london #macmillan #macmillanandco #revhughmacmillan #whsmithson

Still available: The Dream: Or The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery… [c. 1843-48] by George Barrell Cheever - - £120 RARE AMERICAN ANTI-ALCOHOL RELATED PAMPHLET. [c.1840’s]. [CHEEVER, George Barrell, (1807-90)]. The Dream: Or The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery, and Deacon Jones’s Brewery. Reported for the Benefit of Posterity. “It was a Dream, yet not all a dream”. Folding frontispiece illustration, numerous woodcut engravings within the text. Interior: light soiling, light soiling, spotting. Binding: Original yellow wrappers. (Binding frail, text block hanging by a thread in places, wrappers detached, some chipping and tearing with loss, soiling). 32pp. 8vo. New York and Boston: Printed For the Publisher’s. [no date c. 1843-48]. https://bit.ly/3Nh4ikO #c184348 #8vo #alcohol #amosgilesdistillery #boston #cheever #deacongiles #deacongilessdistillery #deaconjonessbrewery #georgebarrellcheever #newyork #revgeorgebcheever

Still available: Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley. by - Vintage Paperback - £8 [ANON]. Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley. 8pp. (With 4pp: Monochrome photographic plates). Interior: generally clean, pages lightly age toned. Binding: Cream wrappers with armorial crest in gilt and red, wrappers lettered in red. (Light soiling, creasing to edges, staples rusting a little). 8vo. [No place]: [Flaxley Abbey], [no date. c.early/mid 20th century]. https://bit.ly/3XWeCU5 #flaxleyabbey #8vo #abbeyofblessedmaryofdene #abbeyofflaxeley #anon #deneabbey #earlofhereford #milofitzwalter #vintageguide

SOLD: The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers… 1824. by The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers; Displaying the various Adventures They Encountered In Their Travels, &c. &c. Hand-coloured frontispiece, two hand-coloured plates (one plate detached and trimmed- not affecting the image, occasional light spotting throughout, pages lightly soiled, one or two tears with loss to blank margins-not affecting text, one or two creases and closed tears here and there, corners folded over in places, mis-pagination between pages 56-59, 66-69: text runs on fine). Later crudely stitched marbled wrappers (lacking original publisher’s wrappers, text block broken in places, no endpapers).  Small 8vo. London: T. Hughes, 1824. #cc #18011900 #1824 #anon #engravings #georgian #handcoloured #london #small8vo #thughes #thehistoryofjack #thehistoryofjackandhiselevenbrothersdisplayingthevariousadventurestheyencounteredintheirtravels

Still available: The Reform of the National Schools. 1876. by James Morton - - £40 MORTON, James. The Reform of the National Schools. 148pp. Interior: browning to first and last pages, sporadic occasional light spotting. Binding: Publisher’s purple/dark red cloth (fading to spine and covers, some staining and wear, corners bumped). 8vo. Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, 1876. https://bit.ly/4eqKVBw #18011900 #1876 #8vo #edinburghmerchantcompanysschools #glasgow #glasgowmechanicsinstitution #jamesmorton #lossoftradecausedbywantofeducation #morton #mrgrantduffonschoolendowments #nationalschools #salariesandfeesinsecondaryschools #salaryofauniversityprofessor #thomasmurrayson

Still available: Martial-Lore. 1918. by - - £28 King's Lynn Interest - [ANON]. Martial-Lore. [1]-15, [1] pp. Interior: pages age toned. Exterior: Tan/yellow wrappers, detached, tearing and chipping, some marks. Relating to military matters in 17th/18th century. Reprinted from ‘The Lynn Advertiser’, Lynn, 1918. https://bit.ly/3zIEOcJ #18011900 #1918 #anon #kingslynn #lynn #martiallore #thebritishlibrary #thelynnadvertiser

Still available: The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. [c. 1835] by - Inscribed - £40 [ANON]. The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. 107pp. Interior: Browning to endpapers, light foxing in places throughout. Binding: Contemporary quarter straight grain Morocco, with marbled boards (some wear, corners bumped). 12 mo. (Size). Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union [No date c.1835]. https://bit.ly/3XDxtmA #nodatec1835 #12mo #18011900 #americansundayschoolunion #anon #archibaldthompson #philadelphia