A lovely set of Roscoe's Wales

1853-54: Roscoe's Wanderings and Excursions in North and South Wales; you'll rarely have the opportunity to acquire a nicer set: £375. http://uniqueorrare.com/uor-1626.htm

1853: Scarce complete copy of an important work

Alfred R. Wallace : A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro with an Account of the Native Tribes and Observations on the Climate, Geology and Natural History of the Amazon Valley.
London: Reeve and Co., 1853. FIRST EDITION.
US $2,150 / Aus $2,250 / £1,450
www.UniqueOrRare.com/wallace.htm

1940-41: Brighton under attack

There's an opportunity to obtain a nice original example of the German large scale street plan of Brighton prepared for their intended invasion of England in the early 1940s at http://www.uniqueorrare.com/uor-1922.htm

Unique/rare books on your mobile/smartphone

UniqueOrRare.com have a mobile/smartphone alert service for unique or rare books coming onto the market at http://uniqueorrare.com/mobindex.htm - a useful smartphone bookmark.

1950s stage and cabaret entertainers

Magnificent photos of 1950s stage and cabaret entertainers are at http://uniqueorrare.com/uor-1937.htm including jugglers, trapeze artists, acrobats, clowns, singers, a harpist, and a chorus line

WW2 Luftwaffe bombing of English town and cities

Scarce original WW2 target identification photographs issued to be used by Luftwaffe aircrew during bombing raids on over 100 English towns and cities have become available at http://germaninvasion.co.uk/luftwaffe/

Henry Pimm and Harbourne

Whoever Henry Pimm was, this is surely unique (and for 1968 read 1868) - http://ukbooklink.com/xkx5qp

Lady Irene Curzon, Oswald Mosley's lover, in Harrow

Unique or rare photographs of Lady Irene Curzon, Oswald Mosley's lover, in the 1923 Harrow Pageant have turned up at http://www.uniqueorrare.com/uor-1944.htm

Two million old and out-of-print books for sale.

There are around 400 independent UK booksellers' websites listed at YourOwnBookshop.com - between them they've got old and out-of-print books for sale on any subject you can think of.

All aspects of Scottish history

Huindreds of old and rare books on Scotland between £8 and £250 have turned up at the newly set up  http://www.oldscottishbooks.com/ website.

UKBookInfo 0-7 Rarity Scale for old books

UniqueOrRare.com are now using the UKBookInfo 0-7 Rarity Scale at www.clique.co.uk/ukbi-rarityscale.htm to show would-be customers the comparative scarcity of their titles for sale.

Lancashire history - Gee Cross cotton mill

A collection of rare original photographs of Gee Cross cotton mill, Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1924 have turned up at UniqueOrRare.com/uor-1953.htm

This is a particularly nice collection of photographs of the interior of the mill, of great interest both to the Lancashire cotton industry itself and as a virtually irreplaceable record of local history for the New Cross and Hyde region.

German 1941 WW2 town directory of England

The original 2 volumes 1941 WW2 German invasion of England town and city directory and dictionary of useful words and phrases now listed for sale at http://ukbooklink.com/ncc8xv looks a bit of bargain at just £4.50

Mappin & Webb's 1931 catalogue

There's an original Mappin & Webb's 1931 catalogue of clocks, sterling silver, cutlery, toilet services, dressing bags, jewellery, watches, gold cigarette cases, and similar small antiques and collectable items items at www.UniqueOrRare.com/uor-1877.htm

An estimated 3,000 separate Mappin and Webb items are illustrated in detail with their 1930s prices making this a superb reference work for collectors or selling tool for auction houses and antique dealers handling items of quality produced by this world-famous London company during the inter-war years.

All suffuse with an incandescent glow (Tom Lehrer)

Were we prepared to be nuked in 1957?

Well, in a sort of way we were - http://uniqueorrare.com/uor-1849.htm

August 2010 UK Bookfairs

Details of UK bookfairs for the remainder of August at Edinburgh, York, Norwich, Sherborne, Wilton, Buxton, Keswick, Lytham, Tenterden, Macclesfield, Monmouth and Havant can be found at TheBookGuide website at  http://ukbooklink.com/xkx3vf

Easy to find old books for sale in the UK

It's now easier than ever to find old and rare books for sale by UK booksellers at the newly laid out  http://www.ukbookinfo.com/ website

WW2 Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, etc; Market Garden.

93 original German WW2 town plans including the areas of the 1944 Battle of the Bulge (Bastogne, etc) and also Operation Market Garden (airborne and paratroops):

The 93 individual towns and cities in the atlas are set out below (B=Belgium; F=France; H=Holland; L=Luxemburg). Anyone in the land forces in North East France, Belgium and Holland in 1944/1945 will have had to fight his way through the actual streets shown in many of these towns:

Armentieres (F), Arras (F), Ath (B), Audenarde (B), Avesnes (F), Bastogne (B), Binche (B), Blankenberge (B), Bouillon (B), Breda (H), Briey (F), Brugge (B), Cambrai (F), Charleroi (B), Charleville-Mezieres (F), Brussels (B), Chimay (B), Courtrai (B), Denain (F), Dierkirch (L), Diest (B), Dinant (B), Dordrecht (H), Douai (F), Eecloo (B), Eindhoven (H), Ettelbruck (L), Eupen (B), Fourmies (F), Furnes (B), Gent (B), Gorinchem (H), Grammont (B), Hal (B), Hasselt (B), Hazebrouck (F), 's Hertogenbosch (H), Heyst-sur-Mer (B), Hirson (F), Huy (B), Knocke-sur-Mer (B), Laon (F), Lille (F), Luttich (Liege) (B), Lierre (B), Lokeren (B), Longuyon (F), Longwy (F), La Louviere (B), Lowen (Louvain) (B), Luxemburg (L), Maastricht (H), Maubeuge (F), Mecheln (Malines) (B), Marche (B), Menin (B), Mons (B), Montmedy (F), Namur (B), Nijmegen (H), Nivelles (B), Ostende (B), Peronne (F), Peruwelz (B), Renaix (B), Reims (F), Rethel (F), Rocroi (F), Roubaix (F), Roermond (H), Rotterdam (H), Roulers (B), St. Nicolas (B), St. Omer (F), St. Quentin (F), St. Trond (B), Spaa (Spa) (B), Termonde (B), Thielt (B), Thionville (F), Thourout (B), Thuin (B), Tilburg (H), Tirlemont (B), Tongres (B), Tournai (B), Turnhout (B), Valenciennes (F), Venlo (H), Verviers (B), Vervins (F), Vouziers (F), Ypern (Ypres) (B). 

http://www.uniqueorrare.com/uor-1907.htm

Victorian engineering & technology books

If you buy or sell Victorian/Edwardian books on engineering and technology, get the useful 1902 Scott Greenwood checklist and bibliography at http://ukbooklink.com/xkx2gt

Original German 1940 WW2 military atlas of NW France, D-Day landings area

An original 1940 WW2 German army military atlas with 116 plans of towns and cities in NW France is listed for sale at http://uniqueorrare.com/uor-1908.htm

If any of your relatives were involved in the British, American, Canadian and Allied forces landings in Normandy on D-Day in June 1944, they'll have fought their way through the streets of many of these towns against the retreating German forces.