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BUFFON (Count de) A Natural History, General and Particular, translated by William Smellie, 2 vols., London 1834, 4to, new edition corrected and e...

WILLIAMS (H W) Select Views in Greece, London 1829, 4to, large paper, 64 mounted india plates, sporadic variable spotting or staining, main title ...

BROCKEDON (William) Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, 2 vols., London: for the author 1828-29, 4to (29 x 22cm), 108 plates and double map g...

JAMESON (Mrs) The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second; a Series of Portraits.., London: Richard Bentley for Henry Colburn 1833, 4to, ...

CLUTTERBUCK (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, 3 vols. 1815-27, folio, map, plans and plates, a few with hand colour,...

HAKEWILL (James) A Picturesque Tour of Italy, from Drawings made in 1816-1817. London: John Murray, 1820, 4to, 63 engraved plates including views ...

ROSE (Thomas) Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, Illustrated..., 2 vols. London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832, 4to, ...

CRUIKSHANK. Scraps and Sketches, 1828-32, 23 (of 24?) hand-coloured etched plates; bound with Phrenological Illustrations, or an Artist's View, 18...

DESPATCHES OF FIRST SIKH WAR. The War In India. Despatches of Lt. Gen. Viscount Hardinge, General Lord Gough and Sir Harry Smith, comprising the e...

ALLOM (T) and Rev. G N WRIGHT. China, in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire. 4 volum...

HOGARTH (William) The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath, with the addition of many subjects not before co...

PETITOT (editor). Répertoire du Théâtre François, ou Recueil des Tragédies et Comédies. Paris: Foucault 1817-18, 8vo, 25 vols., calf gilt, lightly...

Bindings including miniature books. SHAKESPEARE Plays, in 9 vols. Pickering 1825, (one free end paper lacking); YOUNG (Edward) Poetical Works, in ...

BARBAULD (Mrs) The British Novelists, 50 vols. (numbered 1 to 50), 1820, 12mo, red straight grained morocco gilt, rubbed and worn in places, a.e.g...

Plate books, mainly second quarter 19th century. Collection of illustrated works, including Heath's Picturesque Annuals, The Keepsake, The Little ...

Plate books, mainly second quarter 19th century. Collection of 18 quarto works with scenery or figural plates published for or after Finden, Bartl...

SCROPE (William) The Art of Deer-Stalking, London: John Murray 1838, large 8vo, engraved title (dated 1839), frontispiece and 10 lithographic plat...

LOWNDES (Thomas) Tracts in Prose and Verse. Dover, 1825, 8vo, mezzotint portrait (slightly offset on to title), bound with various Letters, 1822-2...

PRICHARD (James Cowles) The Natural History of Man, first edition London: H. Bailliere 1843, 8vo, coloured and black and white plates as required,...

TAYLOR (Joseph) Apparitions or the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins and Haunted Houses, Developed. London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, second edit...

ROSS (Sir James Clark). A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, in 2 vols., first edit...

BEES. The Eclectic Hive, Hereford 1843, slim 8vo, some marginal pencil notes, toned, plain cloth; BAGSTER (S., Junior) The Management of Bees, 2nd...

STRUTT (Jacob) Sylva Britannica; or Portraits of Forest Trees. London: for the author, [1830], large 8vo, added engraved title and 49 plates, all ...

HUC (E R) Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844-5-6, translated from the French by W. Hazlitt, no date (circa 1851), 2 vols....

BEDDOES (Thomas) Hygeia: or Essays Moral and Medical on the Causes Affecting the Personal State of Our Middling and Affluent Classes, 3 vols., fir...

Bindings. HALLAM (H) Literature of Europe, 2nd edition, 3 vols., 1843, 8vo, half calf gilt; Constitutional History of England, 5th edition, 2 vols...

Literature, various. BELL'S Poets, 1777-78, 12mo, Gay (3 vol.), Butler (3 vol.), Swift (4 vol.), morocco; MOLIERE. Oeuvres Completes, 12 vols. Par...

Fore-edge paintings. [CUTHBERTSON (Catherine)] Romance of the Pyranees, 4th edition in 4 vols., 1812, 8vo, engraved frontispieces, each fore-edge ...

DICKENS (Charles) Household Words, 19 vols., 1850-59, large 8vo, text in double column, half calf gilt; Nicholas Nickleby, 1850; Sketches by Boz, ...

Literature, bindings. PRESCOTT (W H) Works, 9 vols., circa 1839-55, 8vo, titles slightly stained/browned; RACINE (J) Oeuvres, 5th edition, in 6 vo...

Plates Illustrative of Natural History, published by The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1845, oblong 4to, lacks main title, Part II ti...

PRICE (Major David) Essay Towards the History of Arabia antecedent to the Birth of Mohammed arranged from the Tarikh Tebry, and other Authentic So...

MACKINNON (Laughlan Bellingham) Some Account of the Falkland Islands, from a Six Months' Residence in 1838-39. London: A.H. Baily & Co. 1840, 8vo,...

HOARE (Richard Colt) The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII, by Giraldus De Barri, 2 vols., London: W. Miller 1806, 4t...

DICKENS (Charles) Dombey and Son, Bradbury and Evans 1848, 8vo, first edition in book form, illustrations by H K Browne, with 'Capatin' for 'Capta...

BEALE (Thomas) The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ... To which is added, a Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage, 2nd edition, John van Voorst,...

Cookery. [NUTT (Frederick)] The Complete Confectioner, 2nd edition, London: for the Author 1790, 12mo, half title, 10 plates including folding, so...

ADAM (Alexander) A Summary of Geography and History both Ancient and Modern, 3rd edition, Cadell 1802, 8vo, 13 folding maps, 1 folding diagram pla...

GUERINIERE (M de la) Ecole de Cavalerie, contenant la Connoissance, L'Instruction et la Conservation du Cheval, 2 vols., Paris and Metz 1802, 8vo,...

JARDINE (Sir William) The Naturalist's Library, 16 vol. circa 1830-40, 12mo, (one vol. in later style binding - Entomology 1860): Mammalia, 8 vols...

Scenery and antiquities - plate books. FISHER. Drawing Room Scrap Book, 4 vols. in two, circa 1850, 4to, plates, light foxing or staining, calf, r...

PSALMANAZAR (George) Memoirs of ****... a Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by Himself, 1st Irish edition, Dublin: P. Wilson et al. 1765, 12mo, 1...

BILTON (W) The Angler in Ireland: or an Englishman’s Ramble through Connaught and Munster, during the Summer of 1833, 2 vols., Richard Bentley, 18...

West Indies - travel. FROUDE (James Anthony) The English in the West Indies, 1888, 8vo, wood-engraved title-vignette and 8 plates (marginal browni...

Bridgewater Treatises, vols. I to VIII bound in 12, London: William Pickering 1833-37, 8vo, mixed editions, full tan morocco ...[more]

WRIGHT (Rev. G. N.) and Thomas ALLOM. China, in a Series of Views, 4 vols. in two, circa 1845, 4to, 124 steel engraved plates (1 plate with tape r...

WELLINGTON (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of) The Orders, Batons and Medals Conferred on His Grace the Duke of Wellington, circa 1852, oblong 4to, co...

RUDING (Rev. Rogers) Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies, 3rd edition, 1840, 4to, in 3 vols., plates, scattered spotting, ...

HARRADEN (R B) Cantabrigia Depicta, circa 1830, oblong folio, mounted india paper title (soiled), plan, 40 plates only (one added from a smaller s...

The Costumes of the Members of the University of Cambridge. London: H. Hyde no date circa 1830, 16mo, with 47 figural subjects on 24 joined leaves...

IRWIN (Eyles) A Series of Adventures, in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt, with Supplement of a Voyage fro...

RAPHAEL, The London Astrologer (Editor). The Royal Book of Fate, London: for John Knight 1830, 8vo, with coloured folding astrology chart frontisp...

COLLINS (Wilkie) Antonina; or, the Fall of Rome, 3 vol., 1st edition, Richard Bentley, 1850, 12mo, half-titles, contemporary red half roan (worn) ...

[LAMB (Charles)] A Book of the Ranks and Dignities of British Society. London: William Heney for Tabart & Co, 1805, small 12mo, 24 hand-coloured p...

THOMSON (Richard) A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies observed in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England. London: John...

JONES (Owen) The Preacher, Illuminated by Owen Jones, Longman, 1849, large 8vo, chromolithographed throughout in colours and gold, ink names dated...

HUMPHREYS (Henry Noel) A Record of the Black Prince, 1859, 8vo, colour plates, decorations, inner hinges strengthened, original morocco backed rel...

CRUIKSHANK (George and Robert) Collection of illustrated works, 12mo and 8vo, some in paper or card wraps, including: Brighton!! 1830, marbled wra...

A bound collection of satirical political tracts and ballads, with illustrations, mostly 1820, 8vo, various editions, including: The Political Hou...

The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, London 1861, 8vo, half-title, folding map, plates, as required...

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