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Booksellers and bookselling

Images

  • Street vendors on the Seine in Paris: a pet-groomer, a shoe shiner, and a bookstall. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.
  • Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.
  • Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The paradox of prosperity : the Leiden booksellers' guild and the distribution of books in early modern Europe / Laura Cruz.

    Cruz, Laura, 1969- | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Elsie Bertram.

    | Date: [date of publication not identified]
    • Books
    • Online

    A catalogue of ancient and modern books, including many curious and scarce articles, together with a large collection of old tracts, particularly trials; also some engraved British portraits, and prints for illustration; with a few paintings in oil, which are now on sale, (for ready money only) at the prices affixed to each article, / By William Hone, bookseller. 45, Ludgate Hill, London.

    Hone, William, 1780-1842. | Date: [1820]
    • Ephemera

    Just published abroad, and imported by Joseph Pote, bookseller, at the Golden Door over against Suffolk-Street, Charing Cross, Receuil historique d'actes, negotiations, memoires et traitez ... : R.Nelson, M.D. being well known to have made the cure of seminal and genital imbecilities his chief study and practice for many years, does recommend his most noble, cleansing and strengthening elixir, as the only medicine in the world, for gleets and weaknesses, the bane of virility in one sex and destroyer of fertility in the other ...

    | Date: [1728?]
    • Books

    Obituary: Richard Gurney, 1920-2001 / an appreciation by John Boyle.

    Boyle, John. | Date: [2001]
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