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BOOKS, CLASSIC FRENCH LITERATURE (AND TOLSTOY etc.): Bibliotheque de la Pleiade edition (50s/60s), all jacketed. Baudelaire, Michelet etc. Very ni...

BOOKS, ANTIQUARIAN: GENLIS, Stephanie la Comtesse de Genlis, 'Annals de la Vertu ou Cours d'Histoire a l'usage des Jeune Personnes', Lambert, Pari...

BOOKS, ANTIQUARIAN (AND LATER): Late 19th century and 20th C. bindings of Baudelaire, Corneille, Villon, etc. Along with other French wiriters in ...

VERLAINE, Paul, 'Fetes Galantes', Paris, 1920 from 'Les Manuscrits des Maitres' series. Boards. In good condition generally; pages slightly wavy.

BOOKS, USA: A selection of modern books, all VG by US authors or concerning US politics etc. Whitman, Gore Vidal, Emily Dickinson etc.

BOOKS MINIATURE: MARIVAUX, 'La Vie de Marianne ou les Aventures de Madame etc.', Paris, 1826 in two small vols. Little bookplate of le Comte de Mo...

BOOKS, FRENCH LANGUAGE: BERENGER, H., 'Chateaubriand Heros de l'Aventure Romantique', Librarie Hachette, 1931 in half-leather binding. This 1st ed...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS: An interesting selection to include: BARING-GOULD, W. and C., 'The Annotated Mother Goose', 1st US, Bramhall House, 1962, comple...

FLAUBERT, Gustave: 'Oeuvres Completes de Gustave Flaubert', Louis Conard, Paris, 1910. 18 volumes in uniform half-leather and green mottled boards...

VOLTAIRE: 3 volumes in uniform bindings pub. 1808/9, Stereotypes d'Herhan, Paris, de l'imprimerie des Freres Mame. Firstly 'Contes en Vers, Satire...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS: An interesting group to include: WILLCOX SMITH, J., 'A Child's Book of Verses', Chatto 1st ed. 1910. This is a very nicely prese...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS: An interesting batch to include: SAINT-EXUPERY, A. 'Le Petit Prince', a relatively fragile, but clean copy in French, soft-cover...

DICKENS, Charles: Christmas books, three volumes. 'The Chimes A Goblin Story', Chapman and Hall. 1845. Somewhat rubbed/marked red boards but well-...

STEVENSON, Robert Louis: 'Kidnapped', 1st ed. 1st state. With gift inscr. to G.E.Chadwick Healey (later bart.) dated 1886 from aunt and uncle. Red...

HARRIS, Joel Chandler, 'Uncle Remus', Routledge 1883. Presumed 2nd UK ed. In Good condition. nice clean decorated boards. Clean and bright interna...

POPE, A. 'Homer's Iliad' and 'Odyssey', 1853, Ingram, Cooke and Co.. Beautiful full-calf and uniformly bound. From the library of Chedington Court...

VERNEY (VARIOUS) EDS., 'Verney Family During The Commonwealth', Longmans, 1892-99 in four volumes. Beautifully bound in 3/4 calf and decorated boa...

TALLENTYNE, S.G., 'The Life of Voltaire' in 2 Vols. Smith, Elder, 1903. Very nicely 3/4 bound in olive calf and boards. Bookplate of (Sir) Henry P...

MOUNTAINEERING: WILLS, Alfred, 'Wanderings in the High Alps', 1st ed., Richard Bentley, 1856, in full calf with tooled spine, gilt engraving etc. ...

WYNTER, Andrew, ' Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers, Some Chisel-Marks of Our Industrial and Scientific Progress and other Papers', Robert Hardwick...

WORDWORTH D.D., Christopher: 'Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical', William S. Orr, 1840. A superb full calf-bound copy with many engra...

VOLTAIRE: 'Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede par M. Voltaire Fait sur l'edition de Geneve', Printed 'A Londres' Jean Joseph Stockdale, 1807. N...

HINE, Richard: 'The History of Beaminster', Barnicott and Pearce, 1914 1st ed., in green boards (a few marks) and well bound. From the library of ...

FIELDING, Henry: 'Fielding's Works'. In two vols.', this 1840 'popular edition', by Roscoe has been handsomely rebound at a later date and comes w...

PULMAN, George P.R., 'The Book of the Axe', Longmans, 1875 4th rev. ed. Linen map present. Minor spotting here and there to early pages, but overa...

JUNGMAN, N. (illus) and JUNGMAN, B. (text), 'Holland', Black, 1904. A 'de luxe' ed. (78(?)/300) signed by Nico Jungman, the Dutch painter and illu...

FITTLER, J., 'The Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by The Old Masters', Bensley. Volume 1 'Genesis ...

BOOKS, MISCELLANEOUS. A selection of books from the library of Sir Henry Peto of Chedington Court, Dorset to include: LACROIX, P., 'Manners, Custo...

MARRIOTT, J.A.R., 'The Life and Times of Lucius Cary', Methuen 1st, 1907. From the library of Sir Henry Peto (bookplate) very nicely bound 3/4 cal...

BOOKS, NAVAL/MILITARY: MAHAN, Capt. A.T., 'The Life of Nelson, The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain', in two vols., Sampson Low, 1897....

BINDINGS: nine volumes from the library of Sir Henry Peto the first four very well bound in decorated calf. Firstly, PRESCOTT, 'Philip the Second'...

BOOKS MISCELLANEOUS: seven highly varied books from the library of Chedington Manor. To include: ADAMS, J.T., The Epic of America', Routledge, 193...

THACKERAY, W.M., 'The Works', in 24 Volumes (complete) in blue-green boards, Smith Elder, 1879. From the library of Chedington Court with Henry Pe...

PHILLIPS, Henry: 'The History of Cultivated Vegetables Comprising their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualitiesl; Natural History and...

Lucy Humphries (b. 1876), 'Plant Study From Nature No.2', Edwardian ink and watercolour of daffodils and bluebells, bearing Art School label dated...

J Watts after Edward Dalton Smith (1800-1883), three 19th century hand coloured botanical prints of geraniums, each 21x13cm, published by J Ridgew...

Harry Holcroft (20th century British), watercolour on paper, 'St. Andrews, Krakow', 20x13.5cm, together with one other 'Village in Southern Bavari...

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