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O'Keeffe (Georgia) Georgia O'Keeffe: A Studio Book, number 151 of 200 special copies (175 for sale) signed by the author/artist and with an additi...

Rego (Paula) The Children's Crusade, with an Introduction by Blake Morrison, number 26 of 90 deluxe copies with an original etching 'Bait' and sig...

Rego (Paula) Jane Eyre, introduced by Marina Warner, number 31 of 85 deluxe copies with an original lithograph and signed by the artist & Warner, ...

Rampant Lions Press.- Gross (Anthony) The Very Rich Hours of Le Boulvé, number 90 of 135 copies signed by the author/artist, etched double-page ti...

Rocket Press.- O'Connor (John) Ariel & Miranda: Seven wood engravings...inspired by Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', number 13 of 20 special copies wi...

Shakespeare (William) A Midsommer Nights Dreame...from the First Folio of 1623, illustrated by Paul Nash, 1924; The Merchant of Venice..., illustr...

Shakespeare Head Press.- Trollope (Anthony) [The Barchester Chronicles], edited by Michael Sadleir, 14 vol., one of 525 sets, original green buckr...

Tern Press.- Griffiths (Bill, editor/translator) The Phoenix, number 28 of 95 copies signed by the artists/printers, lithographed illustrations by...

Whitman (Walt) Wrenching Times: Poems from Drum-Taps...selected by M.Wynn Thomas, number 250 of 450 copies, wood-engraved plates by Gaylord Schani...

Whittington Press.- O'Connor (John) Knipton: a Leicestershire village, one of 200 copies signed by the artist, wood-engravings by O'Connor, with 3...

John F. Kennedy Assassination.- Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas city jail, 24 November 1963, a NBC-TV still from the...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.- Mars, a collection of 31 vintage gelatin silver prints, comprising 10 from Mariners 6, 7 & 9, 1969-1971...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.- The first photograph to show the Earth and Moon together in a single frame, Voyager I, 18 September 197...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.- Mars, a collection of Viking Lander surface views, 32 vintage gelatin silver prints, of which twenty ar...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.- Jupiter and its four largest moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto, Voyager I, March 1979; Saturn and...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.- Jupiter's southern hemisphere from the Great Red Spot to the South Pole and two others centred on the G...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.- Saturn's rings and atmospheric banding, Voyager I, 1980, three vintage chromogenic prints, each 24.5 x ...

Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Moon walk.- Two original transcripts of the Apollo 11 Mission Control commentary of the first lunar landing and first m...

Corbeil (Gilles de) De urinis et pulsibus, edited by Venantius Mutius, with a commentary by Gentilis de Fuligneo, collation: a8 b-r4 s6, 77 ff. (o...

Arithmetic.- [Recorde (Robert)] [The Grounde of Artes: teaching the perfecte worke and practise of Arithmetike, bothe in whole numbers and fractio...

Cardiac medicine.- Lower (Richard) Tractatus de Corde item De Motu & Colore Sanguinus et Chyli in cum Transitu, first edition, 7 folding engraved ...

Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, translated by Sir Henry Billingsley, preface by John Dee, first edition in English of the first complete transl...

Eye surgery.- Bartisch (Georg) Opthalmoduleia [Greek type]. Das ist, Augendienst., first edition, collation: A-D⁶ E⁴ A-Z⁶ a-x⁶ y⁸ z⁴ Aa⁶, Gothic l...

Glisson (Francis) Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, first edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 folding engra...

Mechanics.- Euler (Leonhard) Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita, 2 vol., engraved vignette to head of dedication, 32 folding engrave...

Botany.- Fuchs (Leonhart) De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes ..., first edition, collation. α⁶ β⁸ A-Z⁶ a-z⁶ aa-zz⁶ Aaa-fff⁶, printer's devi...

Botany.- Furber (Robert) The Flower-Garden Display'd in Above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the Most Beautiful Flowers, title page and t...

Burton (Richard F.) Falronry in the Valley of the Indus, first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates, 8pp. publisher's catalogue ...

Darwin (Charles) The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, sixth edition (forty-third thousand), half-title, folding lithographed p...

Experimental printing.- Lucas (Richard Cockle, British sculptor and photographer, 1800-1883) A collection of seven Nature Prints, including a Foxg...

Nodder (Richard Polydore, 1774-1820) A Leopard, watercolour, signed lower right and dated '1793', on wove paper, with double ruled borders, image ...

Whaling.- Dutch School (19th Century) Five large sailing ships and five smaller rowing boats circling and harpooning whales, two polar bears on t...

Architecture.- Papworth (John Buonarotti) Hints on Ornamental Gardening: consisting of a series of Designs for Garden Buildings, first edition, la...

Architecture.- Wood (John) The Origin of Building: or, the Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected, 5 parts in 1 vol., first edition, 25 engraved plat...

Egyptology.- Leemans (Dr. Conradus) Monumens Égyptiens du Musée D'Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide, 2 parts in 1 vol., plate vols., 93 lithographed...

Italy.- Raphael's Loggia.- Antoni (Niccola de, publisher) [Logge del Vaticano], engraved frontispiece and 13 engravings by Carlo Lasinio after Rap...

Royal Photographic Society (The). Pictures from the Tyng Collection, 6 tipped-in photogravures, each with protective glassine sheet, without the a...

[Thompson (Stephen)] [Assyrian Antiquities], 23 mounted albumen photographs only (of 45), typed captions to mounts, ex-library with ink-stamp to e...

Hollstein (F.W.H.) & others. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcut c.1450-1700, vol.1-58 in 57 only (lacking only vol.53: F. de Wit -...

Hollstein (F.W.H.) & others. German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts c.1400-1700, vol.1-42, 44, 45 & 49 only in 53 (Achen - Schongauer), illustra...

Printmaker's shop.- Bosse (Abraham, 1602-1676) Graveurs en taille douce au Burin et à l'eau-forte, etching, a clear impression on laid paper with ...

Print Sellers.- Vladislav Hall, Prague.- Sadeler II (Aegidius, 1568-1629) Ortographicam, et vel sciographicam, si advertis Inspector, hypotyposin ...

Bartolozzi (Francesco) Twelve Months of the Year, after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), the suite of 12, etchings with engraving, on laid papers, eac...

Cartography.- Savery (Salomon, engraver, 1594-1678) Portrait frontispiece of John Speed, probably from 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain...'...

Earlom (Richard) An Iron Forge, after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), the published state, mezzotint, a good impression on laid paper, mounted...

Engelbrecht (Martin) [Die zwolf Monaten/The twelve Months], 6 from the set of 12 plates: January, February, April, June, September and October, co...

Feyerabend (Johann Rudolf, called Lelong, Swiss, 1770-1814) Pair of Still Lifes: Tabletop with birdcage and Tabletop with artist's materials, wate...

Füssli (Johann Rudolf) Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, etching, 13 x 9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 ½ in.), trimmed just within platemark at foot, narrow margi...

Italy.- Hackert (Jacob Philipp, 1737-1807), After. Quatre Vues de Livourne, the suite of four views of the Tuscan city of Livorno, after the paint...

Canary Islands.- Glas (George) The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, first edition, 3 engraved maps, 1 folding, occasio...

China.- White (Herbert C.) Peking the Beautiful, first edition, half-title, mounted photographic frontispiece and 70 plates, most sepia or tinted,...

Greece.- Ozenfant (Amédée) Tour de Grèce, first edition, text booklet in original wrappers, 32 photographic plates in black or sepia after Ozenfan...

India.- Fagan (Miss, active c. 1830-1850) A scrap album, including items relating to India, China, and the Middle East, including over 15 small An...

India.- Eden (Hon. Emily) Portraits of the Princes & People of India, first edition, tinted lithographed title with vignette and 24 tinted lithogr...

India.- Scott (Captain Allan N.) Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, first edition, half-title, albu...

Voyages.- Bruyn (Cornelis de) Voyage au Levant ... dans les Isles de Chio, Rhodes, Chypre, &., 5 vol., first collected edition, engraved portrait ...

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