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A French late 19th Century Gilt metal figural Mantel Piece Garniture the clock surmounted by two ladies and a vase of flowers the porcelain dial having blue ground, Roman numerals, florally painted and further panels to the clock, striking on a bell. The movement initialled H. P. & Cie and No. 36482 flanked by painted panel urns, Clock 36cm high.
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Murdoch, Iris, The Bell, London, Chatto & Windus, 1958, half title, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original dust-jacket, with yellow Book Society Choice band around the book, bookplate of W. H. Smith & Son Library, First Edition. With a number of other works including volume two only of Walton & Cotton's 'The Complete Angler' (London, 1826), the W. Heath Robinson illustrated Kipling work 'A Song of the English' (London, n.d.), Henry Holt's 'The Life of Prig' (London, 1885), Winston Churchill's 'The Crisis' (London, 1908), and by the same author 'Coniston' (London, 1906), Kingsley Amis 'I Want it Now' (London, 1968), a signed copy of Minette Walters 'The Echo' (London, 1997), and Clare Leighton's 'Four Hedges A Gardener's Chronicle' (London, 1935).
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Reclus, Elisee, The Earth and its Inhabitants The Universal Geography, London, Virtue & Co, [n.d.], 8vo (270 x 180mm.), two volumes, illustrations, maps, many double-page and coloured, original green cloth gilt, g.e.. With a number of other works including James Bell 'A System of Geography...' (Glasgow, 1839), Geoffrey Gorer 'The Americas' (London, 1948), a two volume set of 'The 1931 International Code of Signals' (London, 1932, and the G. W. Bacon edited 'Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles' (London, 1895).
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Bell (William). A New General Atlas from the Best Authorities Exhibiting the Boundaries and Divisions of the Principal Countries on the Known World, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1840, engraved title, contents leaf and twenty-nine engraved maps, hand coloured in outline and all complete as list, some light foxing and a few short marginal tears, contemp. half calf with moire cloth boards and paper label to upper cover, sl. rubbed, 4to (1)
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Agate (W.). Diary of a Tour in South Africa, Paisley, Printed for Private Circulation, 1912, plts. from photos., orig. morocco-backed boards, sl. rubbed, 4to, together with Fyfe (H. Hamilton), South Africa To-Day, with An Account of Modern Rhodesia, Nash, 1911, plts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus Butt (Rev. G.E.), My Travels in North West Rhodesia, Dalton, c.1910, port. frontis., plts. from photos., spotting to edges, orig. cloth gilt, and Harding (Col. Colin), Frontier Patrols, A History of the British South Africa Police and other Rhodesian Forces, Bell & Sons, 1938, port. frontis., plts. from photos., orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, plus Hole (Hugh Marshall), Old Rhodesian Days, Macmillan, 1928, port. frontis., plts. from photos., folding map, a couple of owner ink stamps, orig. cloth gilt, marked on lower cover, 8vo, and four others, related (9)
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* Japan - Nagasaki. An album of twenty albumen prints [by Felice Beato], c. 1864, including town views, street scenes, temples and boats with figures, birds-eye views of the town, boats on estuary mud, a tea house on a bridge on Tocaido Road, plus an extra albumen print of a large group of Europeans posing on rough ground, all images approx. 21 x 28 cm, most with English pencil captions beneath, some fading throughout, mounts badly dampstained with some purple colour on the majority of images, contemp. traditional style Japanese album with pictorial wooden boards, backstrip deficient, and covers det., oblong folio. Felice Beato arrived in Japan in 1862/3 and lived in Yokohama from 1863 until 1884. He visited Nagasaki in 1864 and took some of the earliest known photographs in this region. Three of the rare photographs in this album are also in the collection of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period at Nagasaki University. These are a photograph of the Bell Tower within the Daionji Temple compounds in Teramaschi (no. 1286); the tea house on the Tocaido Road, upstream on Nakashima River, the oldest known photograph of this bridge (no. 1289); and a general view of Nagasaki from Battery Hill from around the cemetery of Donnoyama in Koshima (no. 1292). (1)
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Horseracing. Anecdotes Relating to the Antiquity and Progress of Horse-Races, for Above Two Thousand Years, printed for J. Bell (Successor to Mr. Bathoe) near Exeter Exchange in the Strand, and C. Etherington in York, 1769, 35pp. (inc. title), pages trimmed to margins and window mounted onto separate leaves, title with near contemp. short manuscript note, includes three additional 18th c. newspaper cuttings pasted to separate leaves, bound together in early 19th c. half calf, slight wear to upper joint & extrems., 8vo (resized to 4to). Rare. (1)
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Dickson, Adam A Treatise of Agriculture, 2 volumes, first edition of volume 2, second edition of volume 1, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, 8vo, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1765, one plate torn without loss, slight marginal discolouration to volume 1, slightly rubbed Provenance: Signature of John Hamilton at head of titles.
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Smith, Adam The Theory of Moral Sentiments, second edition, with initial blank leaf, contemporary calf, 8vo, London: A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1761, some spotting and slight damp-staining, very slightly rubbed Provenance: Signature of John Hamilton at head of title Note: Rather than the more widely known "The Wealth of Nations" it was "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", first published in 1759, which made Adam Smith's career. It was the sensation of its age and sold out in weeks.
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