Hi LIS-LINK,
Please see below the list of reference books we have on offer to a good home (second list to follow). We offer these free of charge (although some postage costs may have to be covered) on the understanding that they are added to other library/archive collections.
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Catherine Towey, Senior Assistant Librarian - Collection Management, House of Lords Library
1. Dictionary of historical terms / Chris Cook. (1989)
2. The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world / edited by John L. Esposito. (1995)
3. Chambers world gazetteer : an A-Z of geographical dictionary. (1988)
4. The Columbia gazetteer of the world / edited by Saul B. Cohen. (1998)
5. Place-name changes : 1900-1991 / compiled by Adrian Room. (1993)
6. The Ordnance Survey gazetteer of Great Britain : all names from the 1:50,000 landranger map series. (1998)
7. Familiar quotations : a collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature / John Bartlett ; edited by Justin Kaplan. (1992)
8. Benham's Book of quotations proverbs and household words : a collection of quotations from British and American authors ... / by W. Gurney Benham. (1929)
9. Bloomsbury dictionary of quotations. (1987)
10. Cassell companion to quotations / Nigel Rees. (1997)
11. Everyman's dictionary of quotations and proverbs. (1951)
12. Classical and foreign quotations : a polyglot manual of historical and literary sayings, noted passages in poetry and prose, phrases, proverbs, and bon mots / compiled, edited, and told, with their references, translations, and indexes, by W. Francis H. King. (1904)
13. The Speaker's desk book / edited by Martha Lupton. (1937)
14. The harvest of a quiet eye : a selection of scientific quotations / by Alan L. Mackay ; edited by Maurice Ebison ; with a foreword by Sir Peter Medawar. (1977)
15. Quotations in history : a dictionary of historical quotations, c.800 A.D. to the present / [compiled by] Alan and Veronica Palmer. (1976)
16. A Dictionary of religious quotations / compiled and edited by Margaret Pepper. (1989)
17. Respectfully quoted : a dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service / edited by Suzy Platt. (1987)
18. The Macmillan book of proverbs, maxims, and famous phrases. (1965)
19. The dictionary of biographical quotation of British and American subjects / edited by Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin. (1978)
20. MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Joseph Gibaldi. (2003)
21. MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. (2008)
22. Imaginary people : a who's who of modern fictional characters : from the eighteenth century to the present day / David Pringle. (1997)
23. The Oxford literary guide to the British Isles / compiled and edited by Dorothy Eagle, Hilary Carnell. (1977)
24. Reader's guide to literature in English / editor, Mark Hawkins-Dady. (1996)
25. Paris 2011: une sé´lection de restaurants et d'hôtels / [Michelin] (2011)
26. Asian who's who international. 21st ed. (2008)
27. Who's who in Ireland : the influential 1000 : plus 200 rising stars / edited by Maureen Cairnduff. (1999)
28. Who's who in Northern Ireland / edited by Maggie Lennon. (1997)
29. Who's who in Asia 2012. 2nd ed.
30. Who's who of Southern Africa 2006.
31. Who's who in America 2008.
32. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. 4 vols. (1993)
33. Australian dictionary of biography. 18 vols plus index and supplement (1986)
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