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Adams (Ansel) Yosemite and the Range of Light , dust-jacket, a couple of corners very lightly creased, otherwise a near-fine copy, Boston, ...

Churchill ( Sir Winston Spencer, editor ) The British Gazette , nos. 1-8 (all published), loose as issued, light browning, some spotting, a...

Commonplace Books.- Four Victorian Commonplace Books , containing colour plates, pencil sketches, elaborate decorative cards, pressed flora...

Wine.- Simon (André L.) Notes on the late J. Pierpont Morgan's Cellar book 1906 , [one of 200 copies], lightly browned, original grey print...

Russia.- Peter the Great.- Uystryalov (Nikolai) Karty, Plany I Snimki K Pervym Trem Tomam (-Chetvertomu Tomu) Istorii Tsarstvovaniya Petra V...

Milk & dairy products.- Martin (Barthélemy) Traité du lait, du choix qu’on en doit faire, & de la manière d’en user , second edition, title...

Wine.- Nicolas.- Montorgueil (Georges) & Louis Forest. Monseigneur le vin & L’Art de boire , 5 parts in 2 vol., colour plates and illustrat...

[Thynne (Isabella Elizabeth, Marchioness of Bath, compiler )] Cottage Domestic Economy. Extracts From Cobbett and other Writers , first and ...

Physics.- Planck (Max) Ueber die Natur des Weissen Lichtes , in Annalen der Physik, fourth series, v ol.7, pp.390-400 , ...

George III.- Coronation Proceedings.- Form of the Proceeding (The) of the Royal Coronation of their most excellent Majesties King George III and...

Nottinghamshire.- Acts of Parliament.- Act (An) for Dividing and Inclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Common Pastures and Waste Grounds, within th...

Cooke (John Conrade) Cookery and Confectionery , first and only edition , engraved additional pictorial title depicting cherubs cooking and ...

[Pope (Alexander)] The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus , engraved vignette on title, title toned with some paper repair...

Ambrosius, Mediolanensis ( Saint ) Opera , edited by the Congregation of St. Maur, 8 vol., double column, vol.1 with ...

China.- Teichman (Eric) Affairs of China, illustrations, light spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, strips of toning to cove...

Bible, English . The Holy Bible: Containing The Old Testament and The New , authorized version, black letter, double column, general and New T...

Stevenson (Robert Louis) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , first English edition , lacking advertisement leaf at end for second editio...

Eliot (George) The Novels , 7 vol., plates, scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, richly gilt spines, sunned spines, a little rubbed, s...

Broadside.- Treason.- Jacobite Uprising.- Full and True Account (A) of the Apprehending and bringing up to London the Dutchess of Gourdon from ...

Doyle ( Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , first edition, first issue , with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence ...

Balkans.- Woman traveller & scholar.- Near & Middle East Association. Mrs. Margaret Hasluck...(who has just returned from the Near East) will ...

Braddon (Mary Elizabeth) Aurora Floyd, sixth edition, half-title, front free endpaper with embossed stamp of John Field Bookseller, occasion...

Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The End of Laissez-Faire , second impression, original cloth-backed boards, light staining, dust-jacket, sl...

Purchas (Thomas) The Communicants duty. Set forth in eight sermons, preached at Kings-Lynne in Norfolk , woodcut head-pieces and decorative i...

Patisserie.- Carême (Marie-Antoine) The Royal Parisian Pastrycook and Confectioner , edited by John Porter, first edition in English , hal...

Council of Trent.- Dilucida Explicato, veraque demonstratio, ob quas causas, Illustres Electores et Principe , [VD16 E 4633] n.p., 1564 bound...

London.- Cary (John) Cary’s New and Accurate Plan of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and parts adjacent... , : viz. Kensin...

Metallurgy & Engineering.- Fowler ( Sir Henry) Metallurgy in relation to Mechanical Engineering , typescript for a lecture, autograph addi...

Burke (Edmund) The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke , 8 vol., first edition , half-titles in vol.4-8, contemporary ink inscription...

World War I.- Rutter (Edward, English historian, novelist and travel writer, 1889-1944) Salonika Picnic , manuscript , 10pp., central folds,...

Hannibal's Crossing.- Whitaker (John) The Course of Hannibal Over the Alps Ascertained , 2 vol., some light spotting, contemporary half c...

Bees.- Charlton (George) The Bee-keeper's guide , first edition , wood-engraved illustration of a hive to title (the upper wrapper), minor...

Angling.- Snart (Charles) Practical Observations on Angling in the River Trent , first edition , occasional marginal finger-soiling, ex-li...

Darell (Rev. William) The History of Dover Castle , engraved title with vignette, 8 engraved plates, folding engraved map, a few spots and so...

Photobook.- Carstensen (Pay Christian), Hans Hitzer and Friedrich Richter. Deutschland, first edition, photographic illustrations mounted on...

America.- Barnum (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife , first edition , woodcut frontispiece depict...

Keynes (John Maynard) A Treatise on Money , 2 vol., first edition , ink ownership name to front free endpapers, ex-library with ne...

Asia.- Putnam Weale (B.L.) The Re-Shaping of the Far East, 2 vol., some pp. unopened, 1905; The Truce in the East and Its Aftermath, 1907...

Voyages.- Dampier (William) A New Voyage Round the World... the Isthmus of America... , vol.1 (of 3), the third edition corrected, 5 engraved...

Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture [The Age of Oak; Walnut; Mahogany; Satinwood], 4 vol., first edition, chromolithographed p...

Music.- Mazzinghi (Joseph) Three Sonatas for the Piano-Forte with or without the Additional Keys, and an Accompaniment for a Flute or Violin...

London.- Homann (Johann Baptist) Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Konigl: Gros - Britanisch: Haupt und Residentz stadt London... , map of...

Middle East.- Raunkiær (Barclay) Gennem Wahhabiternes Land paa Kamelryg , first edition , half-title, frontispiece, tissue-guards, copious...

Miscellany.- Album of letters, cut signatures and engravings, numerous items on 56pp. excluding blanks (19pp. of letters and cut signatures, 3...

Cider & perry.- Knight (Thomas Andrew) A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and the manufacture of Cider & Perry , second, enlarg...

Guarini (Battista) Il Pastor Fido, Tragicomedia Pastorale , title within ornate woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, engraved port...

Newspapers.- A large collection of 18th and 19th century Newspapers , mainly London and the South, including 'The Morning Chronicle' (55), 'Ken...

[Dickens (Charles)] "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, vol. 1 & 3 only (of 3), first edition, mixed issue, half-titles, 4...

Tree plantations.- Langley (Batty) A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppi...

Parkyns, of Bunny Park ( Sir Thomas) Progymnasmata: The Inn-Play: or, Cornish-Hugg Wrestler , second edition, corrected, the author's copy...

Disney (Gervase) Some Remarkable Passage in the Holy Life and Death of Gervase Disney, esq , previous owner's ink signature to title, scatter...

Trials.- P roceedings of (The) a General Court-Martial held at the Horse-Guards ... upon the Trial of Lord George Sackville , A. Millar, 1760...

Economics.- Mill (John Stuart) Principles of Political Economy , 2 vol., third edition, publisher's advertisements at end, ink ownershi...

Engineering, Mining, Railways etc.- [Maude (Edward James, civil engineer )] [ HMS Rattler, 9-gun steam screw sloop of the Royal Navy, and one o...

London.- Newcourt (Richard), After. An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof... , plan of Londo...

Suleymanname [Life of Suleiman the Magnificent] , first printed edition , text in Arabic, previous owner's ink inscription, contents ff. and fin...

The Times.- [Announcement that The Universal Register will change its name to The Times: Or, Daily Universal Register], advertisement ha...

Food & drink quality.- Lemery (Louis) A Treatise of all sorts of foods, both animal and vegetable: also of drinkables , initial imprimatur ...

England.- Shaw ( Rev. P.J., editor ) An Old York Church, All Hallows in North Street , one of 500 copies, list of subscribers, title with dec...

Argan (Giulio Carlo) Botticelli: Biographical and Critical Study, first edition , tipped-in colour plates, jacket extremities slightly rubbed...

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