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GOLDMARK GALLERY CATALOGUESTwenty various including "Pablo Picasso - Dans I'Atelier de Picasso Lithographies 1957; plus 11 St.Ives School and othe...

"Umbrella-Making, Re-covering and Repairing. "by J L H. illusts comp, 2nd edition, orig wraps, lacking part of lower wrap, c1900; "Matches and Mat...

WILLIAM PITT" Papers Relative to the Rupture with Spain Laid Before Both Houses of Parliament on Friday the 29th Day of January, 1762." 71pp comp,...

DON MARQUIS"Archy and Mehitabel". First Edition, fine copy with unclipped dustjacket, Ernest Benn, 1931, small inscription fly leaf March 11th, 19...

LOUIS WAIN ILLUSTRATIONS."Such Fun with Louis Wain." Stories written by Norman Gale, Grace C Floyd and others", edited by Capt. Edric Vedenbert. T...

GEORGE HERBERT"The Temple." Engraved plates etc comp, well bound morocco gilt, teg, 1904, vg ALFRED LORD TENNYSON "Queen Mary." Well bound morocco...

S DOMINIC'S PRESS."The Affectionate Parent's Gift." by Margaret Honor Swinstead Title illus by David Jones, inserted brochure for "Pilgrim Songs."...

Good coloured chromolithograph plates of decorative styles through the ages, architecture, furniture, tiles, etc. French, loose, folio, c1860s app...

EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOK"The Rambles of a Butterfly." by Mary Belson. First Edition, four engraved plates complete, pages 125 to 128 torn or have los...

CHARLES BENNETT"The Nine Lives of a Cat. A Tale of Wonder." frontispiece, title page, tailpiece and 20 hand-coloured plates complete, orig wps, or...

CHARLES BENNETT"The Nine Lives of a Cat. A Tale of Wonder." 20 plates complete, linen-backed title-page and tailpiece, cloth gilt, top cover only,...

FRANCES CORNFORD"Spring Morning." (Third Thousand). Woodcuts, including cover, by Gwen Raverat, original wraps, uncut, Poetry Bookshop, 1923, fine.

KELMSCOTT PRESS"Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society." by William Morris. Woodcut titles, Red Letter Headings...

WILLIAM SCOTT LITHOGRAPHS."Soldiers' Verse." chosen by Patric Dickinson. 12 col litho plates complete, first edition, original illust boards, 1945...

EDWARD BAWDEN LITHOGRAPHS"Travellers' Verse." chosen by M G L Thomas, 17 col litho plates complete, First Edition orig illust boards, 1946, vg (in...

SIGMUND JACOB BAUMGARTENS"Algemeine Geschichte der Lander und Volker von America." Twelve engraved plates including two folding only, (lacks all m...

DANIEL DEFOE 'The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.' Two Vols in one. Engravings. Calf upper cover det, worn. Albion Press circa 1810. ...[...

J.P. SHELDON. 'Dairy Farming, Being the Theory, Practice, and Methods of Dairying'. Chromo plates, cloth gilt, circa 1870s. ...[more]

A. S. COBET and H.M. PENDLEBURY. 'The Butterflies of the Malay Penisular'. Coloured Pplates comple, original cloth, dj, 1936 plus other books, BOX...

HAROLD NICOLSON. 'Some People'. First edition, original cloth, 1927, good; VERNON BARTLETT. 'Calf Love'. Good ALS from Bartlett to Forest Reid reg...

HOWARD JACOBSON. 'The Finkler Question'. First edition, signed copy, original cloth, unclipped dj, 2010, fine. Plus four other signed modern ficti...

A.B. TONNOCHY. 'Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum'. Original cloth, 1952, vg; LAWRENCE WEAVER. 'The House and its Equipment'. O...

WILLIAM JAMES. 'The Naval History of Great Britain.' Six vols complete. Charts and diagrams, calf. Harding, Lepard, and co. 1826.Condition report:...

WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais'. Plates comp, original cloth gilt, teg, circa 1900. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE. 'Gormenghast.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, 1950. vg; 'Titus Groan.' Second impression, original cloth, unclipped dj...

SIR HUMPHURY DAVY. 'Consolations in Traveler the Last Days of a Philosopher.' First edition, mod half calf, Murray 1830, vg plus other Cornish boo...

JAMES LEES-MILNE. Diaries, Nine vols, vg plus five other works of the author, vg.Condition report: None are ex-library, all are in excellent clean...

SAMUEL RICHARDSON. 'The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson......and Observations on His Writtings by Anna Laettia Barbauld. Six vols complete, fi...

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL J. L. VIVIAN. 'The Visitiations of Cornwall Comprising The Herald's Visitations of 1530, 1573, & 1620.' Well bound modern half ...

JOHN GAY. 'Fables by the late Mr Gay.' 68 woodcuts complete. Sheep, Osbourne and Griffin 1795. Two small college library stamps. ...[more]

SIR MATTHEW HALE. 'Pleas of the Crown or, a Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters relating to the Subject.' All pages complete, calf, recase...

SYLVESTER DOUGLAS. 'Reports of Cases Argued and Determined In the Court of Kings Bench in the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Years of the...

JAMES BOSWELL. 'The Life of Samual Johnson'. Four volumes. Portrait, charts, calf gilt lettering pieces. 1807. Good; Plus two vols 'Letters of Sam...

REVERAND RICHARD POLWHELE. 'The History of Cornwall'. Seven Volumes bound in two, aquatint and other plates complete, folding map, folding view of...

SIR MATTHEW HALE. 'Historia Placitorum Coronae. The History of the Pleas of the Crown.' Two vols, repaired throughout including title pages, quart...

DR. JOHN CAMPBELL. 'The Naval History of Great Britain'. 8 Vols complete. Portraits, maps, plans etc complete, calf gilt lettering pieces, 1818. ...

PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. 'Between the Woods and the Water'. First edition signed copy. Unclipped dj 1986. Fine; 'The Traveller's Tree, A Journey Thro...

W. F. P. NAPIER. 'History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the year 1807 to the Year 1814.' Six vols complete, maps com...

ROBERTSON DAVIES. 'Table Talk of Samuel March Banks'. First Edition, dj, 1949, vg; Plus seven other first edition by the author all with dj. Vg. ...

CAPTAIN S. W. ROSKILL. 'The War at Sea 1939-1945.' Three volumes in four complete, plates, maps etc complete, orig cl, unclipped dj. 1954-1961. Vg...

RICHARD CAREW. 'The Survey of Cornwall. An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue, Now First Published From the Manuscript.' Fi...

REV RICHARD WARNER. 'A Walk Through Some of the Western Counties of England.' Maps, plates etc complete. Half calf gilt, 1800. G ...[more]

F. W. L. STOCKDALE. 'Excursions in the County of Cornwall'. Large paper copy with map and fifty engraved plates. Well bound half calf gilt. 1824, ...

WALTER H TREGELLAS. 'Cornish Worthies, Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families'. Two vols, half calf guilt. 1884, vg. ...[more]

THOMAS HARDY. 'Wessex Poems and Other Verses'. First edition, original cloth gilt, 1898; FRANCOIS VILLON. 'The Testaments'. Limited edition of 750...

ARTHUR RACKMAN ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland.' By Lewis Carroll, 13 coloured plate complete, each with tissue guard, original c...

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