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Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, London 1839, 2nd edition, 1/2 leather binding, other volumes and prints (box)

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An Edwardian Oak Book Trough, with magazine section, 46 cm

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Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. Ninth [-Nineteenth] Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, for the year 1874 [-1884], printed by Henry F. Richardson, Greenwich, c. 1874-84, b & w illusts. to text, contemp. cloth, a little rubbed, small thick 8vo, together with Mansfield (Charles Blachford), Aerial Navigation, ed. Robert Blachford Mansfield, 1877, some b & w illusts. to text, diags. to texts, orig. cloth, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, plus Cox (Rev. J.N.), The Dominion of the Air, The Story of Aerial Navigation, n.d., c. 1900, twenty-four b & w plts. after photos., orig. dec. cloth gilt, some minor marks, 8vo, and three others (All About Airships by Ralph Simmonds, A Book for Boys, pub. Cassell, 1911, Flying-Machines, Past, Present, and Future, by Alfred W. Marshall and Henry Greenly, n.d., c. 1910, & Balloons, Airships and Flying Machines, by Gertrude Bacon, n.d., c. 1905), all 8vo (6)

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Duchene (Captain). The Mechanics of the Aeroplane, A Study of the Principles of Flight, trans. John H. Ledeboer and T. O'B. Hubbard, 1st English ed., b & w illusts. to text, orig. red cloth, a little rubbed and slightly faded to spine, one or two marks, together with Matthews (R. Borlase), The Aviation Pocket-Book for 1918, 6th ed., revised and enlarged, 1918, b & w illusts., orig. blue cloth, spine faded, small 8vo, plus Lanchester (F.W.), Aerial Flight, 2 vols. (Aerodynamics & Aerodonetics), 3rd ed./2nd ed. respec., 1911/10, b & w illusts., orig. blue cloth, rubbed and soiled with some staining and fraying to head of spine of 2nd vol., contemp. ownership inscription of Captain Robin Grey, Grenadier Guards & R.F.C. to front pastedown of each vol., and Grahame-White (Claude & Harper, Harry), With the Airmen, 1st ed., 1913, b & w illusts., col. plts. etc., orig. cloth, rubbed and some soiling and wear, partly cracked on inner hinges, plus other aviation interest, incl. technical works, handbooks, meteorology, and a quantity of vintage aviation maps (2 cartons)

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* Manuscript notes. A 62-page manuscript draft memoir by Cecil L. Pashley, sixty-two folio sheets, handwritten in ink, with pencil corrections and alterations, together with a small exercise book containing twelve pages of handwritten notes by Cecil Pashley. A fascinating and detailed draft memoir by Cecil Pashley, of his earliest flying days, from 1910 onwards. (2)

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* Concorde, G-BOAA. Aircraft Log Book for Constructors No 100-006, dated 1975. B.A.C. (Commercial Aircraft Division, Filton, Bristol), the pre-delivery flight-test log book, recording 1st flight, 5.11.75 3hrs 10mins, after 17 flights, 54hrs 49mins, 31 landings, Check 'A' carried out and certified on 6/1/76, together with the original Modification Record Book signed off by Chief Inspector B.A.C.Ltd on 12/1/76; both L.H. and R.H. Concorde exhaust system delivery manuals with all relevant control and examiners signatures; a copy of British Airways Concorde Special News dated 28/10/03 and the original pre-Paris incident, oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 6/512CB, 17 in. (43cms.) long (-)

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* Concorde, G-BOAB. Aircraft Log Book for Constructors No. 100-008, dated 1976. B.A.C. (Commercial Aircraft Division, Filton, Bristol), the pre-delivery flight-test log book, recording 1st flight, 18-5-76, 3hrs 33mins, after 12 flights, 42hrs 17mins, 24 landings, Check 'A' carried out and certified on 20.9.76, with flying control, range of movements analysis documents, Certificate of Compliance inspection documentation dated 21/9/76 signed off by Chief Inspector B.A.C., together with a copy of British Airways Concorde Special News dated 28/11/03 and the original pre-Paris incident oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 623 AB, 17 ins. (43cms.) long (-)

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* Concorde, G-BOAC. Aircraft Log Book for arguably the most famous of the British Airways Concorde fleet, recording flights 177 to 188 (Book 1, 2nd volume, flight 1-176 now lost, but first flight given as on 27.2.75), total time given as 502hrs 48mins, 252 landings, together with delivery date to British Airways signed off as 13-2-76, rigging, life control items and listed equipment documentation, a Concorde Readiness log, the L.H. and R.H. Concorde exhaust system delivery manuals with all relevant control and examiners signatures, a copy of British Airways Concorde Special News dated 28/10/03 and the original pre-Paris incident oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 512 BB, 17 in. (43 cms.) long (-)

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* Concorde, G-BOAD. Aircraft Log Book for Constructors No. 100-010, dated 1976, B.A.C. Commercial Aircraft Division, Filton, Bristol, the pre-delivery flight-test log book, recording 1st flight, 25.8.76m 1hr 28mins, after 23 flights, 62hrs 30mins, 48 landings, Check 'A' completed 2.11.76, Certificate of Airworthiness issued 5.11.76, with Certificate of Compliance, Modification Record Book photocopy and rigging documentation; together with the Aircraft Readiness Log, a copy of British Airways Concorde Special News dated 28/10/03 and the original pre-Paris incident oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 621 DB, 17 in. (43cms.) long (-)

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* Concorde, G-BOAE. Aircraft log book for Constructors No. 100-012, dated 1977, B.A.C. Commercial Aircraft Division, Filton, Bristol, the pre-delivery flight-test log book, recording 1st flight 17.3.77, 2hrs 23mins, after 12 flights, 28hrs 44mins, aircraft certified for approval of C of A 19/7/77; together with Certificate of Compliance, Certificate of Maintenance Release, Flying Control Range of Movements document and alignment (rigging) analysis; together with a copy of British Airways Concorde Special News dated 28/10/03 and the original pre-Paris incident oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 625, 17 in. (43 cms.) long (-)

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* Concorde, G-BFKW. Aircraft log book for Constructors No. 100-014, dated 1978, British Aerospace/Aerospatiale, the pre-delivery flight test log book, recording 1st flight 21.4.78, 3hrs 7mins, after 9 flights, 27hrs 50mins aircraft approved for issued C of A on 5.2.80; together with Certificate of Compliance, British Airways Concorde News Special dated 28/10/03 and the original pre-Paris incident oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 523 HT, 17 in. (43cms.) long (-)

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* Concorde, G-N94AF (G-BOAF). Aircraft log book for Constructors No. 100-016, dated 1979, British Aerospace/Aerospatiale, the pre-delivery flight-test log book, recording 1st flight 20.4.79, 1hr 47mins, after 9 flights, 26hrs 36mins, aircraft delivered 13-06-80, registration cancelled and re-registered as G-BOAF, aircraft approved for issue of C of A on 12-06-80; together with Certificate of Compliance, British Airways Concorde Special News dated 28/10/03 and the original pre-Paris incident oval re-fuelling panel inscribed 621 EB, 17 ins. (43cms.) long (-)

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Doncaster Aviation Meeting. Souvenir Book of Doncaster Aviation Meeting, Oct. 15th to 23rd 1909, the First Flying Meeting in England, pub. 1909, 16pp. with illusts. from photos. of aeroplanes and ports. of aviators by Dudley Hardy, orig. printed wrappers with illust. by Hardy of fashionable lady and biplane, some spotting and wear, incl. some creasing and a small tear to upper cover, 8vo, together with a small qty. of aviation ephemera incl. 2 signed postcards by the aviator M. Shreck (-)

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Russell (D.A., ed.). Aircraft of the Fighting Powers, 7 vols., 1940-46, trade adverts at front excised to most vols., b & w photo. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, together with The Book of Westland Aircraft/The Book of Bristol Aircraft/The Book of Miles Aircraft, n.d., c.1945, together three vols., b & w photo. illusts., orig. cloth gilt, and other aviation including modern publications in d.j's, early 20th century aviation fiction in dec. cloth, aviation magazines, etc. (approx. 110)

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Middleton (Edgar). The Great War in the Air, 4 vols., Waverley Book Co. Ltd., 1920, col. frontis. to each, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spines, large 8vo, incl. WWI & WWII interest, and later (3 shelves)

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* Standard 'Avon' Special Two-Seater. Six-page fold-out sales leaflet, fully illustrated text and specification,. Standard Six colour fold-out sales leaflet for the 'Exmouth' Special Saloon and Saloon, a fine two-page full colour fold-out sales brochure for the 'Standard' Six and Four Cylinder models c.1927; 'Standard' 8 h.p and 10 h.p instructions book, 1st ed., c.1955; Hillman 'White Wing' Straight Eight fold-out full colour leaflet with price list dated 1st September, 1928; 1929 Swift Ten fold-out sales leaflet, colour cover, sepia illustrations with prices of the full range of 10 h.p models and a 1930 Swift Ten fold-out sales leaflet illustrating the 'Fleetwing', 'Migrant', 'Nomad' "Paladin Foursome" and Four-Seater models (9)

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The Shell Poster Book, together with Christie's catalogues, Famous Ferraris, Beautiful Bugattis and Magnificent Marques, in slipcase (2)

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Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth Railway. Plan and Secton, 1844, thirty-four (of 35) eng. sheets, (appears to lack sheet 20), sheet 2 supplied in later facsimile, all sheets stamped 'Great Western Railway, Engineers Office, Paddington', fore-edges damaged with some loss, several repairs, old canvas wrappers, soiled, oblong folio (approx. 46 x 68 cm.), together with Southern Railway. Through Rate Book, English Section (Stations South of Berwick and Carlisle), containing the Rates for Merchandise & Livestock., Salisbury (Milford) Station, 1926, 360pp., num. ms. insertions and addn. printed notes, etc., orig. half leather, rubbed and worn at extrems., thick folio (2)

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* Platform tickets. A book containing approximately 340 tickets, mainly BR Edmondson and AA machine issues, but also includes pre-Nationalisation, large card and preservation lines (approx. 340)

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A DERBY BISQUE MODEL of a maiden and cupid, probably modelled by Jean-Jacques Spangler, the cupid holding a fountain pen with open book on a flower encrusted base, 8 1/2" high

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A set of Oriental carved ivory red and white chessmen and a folding backgammon board in the form of a book

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A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PETITE BEDSIDE COMMODES with marble tops, the front with single drawer and faux book panel door and supported on tapering legs with undertier. 1ft 4ins wide.

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An autograph book including autographs from Dennis Compton and the Arsenal football team 1948-9.

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* Yorkshire. A group of four albumen prints by Philip Henry Delamotte and Joseph Cundall, c. 1856, images include Kirkstall Abbey Main Entrance, Ruins on the South Side, Rivaulx Abbey triforium, and River Stepping Stones, each approx. 28 x 23 cm, mounted on book leaves, mounts a little spotted and last mount somewhat damp stained. Taken from 'A Photographic Tour Among the Abbeys of Yorkshire' (1856). (4)

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Leycester (Sir Peter). Historical Antiquities, in Two Books. The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland, the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire.Whereunto is Annexed a Transcript of Doomsday-Book, so Far as it cConcerneth Cheshire, Taken Out of the Original Record, 1st ed, 1673, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and armorials, uncol. folding engraved map of "The County Palatine of Chester" by John Speed (Roger Rea edition), errata leaf at rear, front blank endpaper detached (but extant), contemp. mottled calf, rebacked, folio. Wing L1943. (1)

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Holbrook (John Edwards). North American Herpetology; Or, a Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States, vol. 1 only (of 4), Philadelphia, 1836, twenty-four fine hand-col. litho. plts. of turtles, frogs, lizards, and snakes, etc, some marginal dampstains, orig. boards, worn on spine and covers det, 4to, together with The Instructive Picture Book. Lessons from the Geographical Distribution of Animals, or the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, which Characterise the Principal Divisions of the Globe, by M.H.H.J, Edinburgh, 1860, sixty full-page hand-col. wood engs, modern green half morocco gilt, slim folio, plus Kelsall (Rev. J.E, and Munn, Philip W.), The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1905, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, upper corner of half-title cut away, t.e.g, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, and Hamilton (Franciscus, and Don, David), Prodromus Florae Nepalensis, sive Enumeratio Vegetabilium, quae in Itinere per Nepalliam Proprie Dictam et Regiones Conterminas, Ann, 1802-1803, pub. London, 1825, half-title present, untrimmed, orig. boards, tall 12mo, and other natural history. (a carton)

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Hortus Sanitatis. [Ortus sanitatis de herbis et plantis, [etc.], Strassburg, Reinhard Beck, 1517], an incomplete copy, comprising 342 (of 356) leaves, lacking the title-page a1, a8, K5, 54, 55, VI and all 8 leaves of Gg, illustrated throughout with striking woodcuts of plants, animals, birds, fish, nd lapidaries, long tears in a2 ang Kk7, Kk8 laid down, some soiling and staining, occasional paper repairs, in an 18th c. English full russia binding, sides detached and spine split, small folio. With hundreds of extraordinary woodcuts, sometimes 4 to a page. Collated against Adams H.1019. Adams states that sig.Hh is omitted from the register, and our copy gives rise to doubts against Gg as well. The last book, "De Lapidibus", finishes at the end of Ff, and is followed by the Tabula beginning on Ii1. If Gg is indeed a ghost, then we are short of only 6 leaves. (1)

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Wright (Lewis). The Illustrated Book of Poultry, pub. Cassell, c.1880, fifty chromo. plts. of prize birds, occasional spotting and offsetting, a few doodles, hinges repaired, contemp. half morocco with gilt dec. spine, some wear, esp. to joints and edges, 4to. (1)

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Great Britain. Walker (J.), Map of the Inland Navigation, Canals, and Rail Roads with the Situations of the Various Mineral Productions throughout Great Britain, from actual surveys. accompanied by a Book of Reference, compiled by Joseph Priestley, Esqre, of the Aire and Calder Navigation, pub. Richard Nichols, Wakefield, January 1st 1830, hand-col. eng. map, sectionalised on linen, inset map of the North of Scotland, eng. title and dedication cartouche, compass rose, approx. 193 x 156 cms. overall, in orig. morocco slipcase, rubbed, large 8vo. (1)

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* Sussex. Speed (John), Sussex Described and Divided into Rapes with the Situation of Chichester the cheife cite thereof, pub. George Humble, [1646], ornamental 'open-book' title cartouche, separate scale of distance, inset plan of Chichester, royal crest and county armorials, sailing ships, sea monsters, etc, English text to verso, paper somewhat aged, several minor marginal tears and repairs, approx. 39 x 51 cm, old Hogarth-style frame, double glazed. (1)

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* Misc. ephemera, 19th/20th century, including an assortment of military, merchant navy, signed House of Lords letters, a few signed photos, including autographs of Alec Douglas Home, Lord Hailsham, Giscard d'Estaing, etc, a few art-related documents including signatures and documents signed by Barbara Cartland, Percy F. Westerman, all neatly presented in modern plastic folders with detailed lists, plus a few misc. prints, drawings and old book leaves. (a bundle)

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* Herefordshire - Ledbury. Collection of printed and manuscript material relating to Ledbury, 19th c, consisiting of a number of printed lists giving the names of the constables for the years of 1850, 1851, 1852, 1855, 1858, 1863, printed medical certificates for relief for the poor, dispensary accounts and reports, report for Ledbury School, printed list of payments made to the poor and base children listing the names and recipients, manuscript account book for the necessary relief for the poor of 1826, etc,. (-)

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Bible [English]. The Bible, that is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599, addn. title within woodcut border (close-trimmed with slight loss & laid-down), separate letterpress title with woodcut illust. (closed tear repaired to verso), New Testament title within woodcut border, few woodcut illusts. to text, leaves Nnn4 & Nnn5 torn to fore-edge margin affecting a few letters of marginal notes, occ. marks and light dust soiling, bound with an incomplete Book of Psalmes, contemp. calf, rubbed & scuffed, upper board detached, brass corners (lacking one corner), lacks clasps, 4to (Herbert 251), together with The Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, 1577, lacks general title, New Testament title present (close-trimmed to fore-edge margin), bound with Apocrypha, folding view and map (close-trimmed with loss), few woodcut illusts. and initials, ruled in red throughout, some pages torn with loss and few old repairs, dust soiling and few marks, 19th c. sheep, joints worn and adhesive tape to spine, small folio, (Herbert 148). (2)

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Pickering (William, publisher). The Book of Common Prayer, As Printed at Edinburgh 1637. Commonly Called Archbishop Lauds, 1844, partly printed in red & black, printed in black letter text throughout with dec. initials, a.e.g, endpapers with leather joints, contemp. elaborate gilt dec. morocco with raised bands, slightly rubbed to upper joint, folio. (1)

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Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 20 orig. parts in 19, 1st ed, 1864-65, forty wood eng. plts. by Marcus Stone, all ads. called for by Hatton and Cleaver present except 4pp. 'Economic Life Assurance Society' insert following plts. in Part 14, orig. printed wrappers, some expert repairs at spines and corners, contained in green cloth solander box, gilt lettered spine, book ticket of Pamela Lister, 8vo. (19)

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Dover (Robert). Annalia Dubrensia. Upon the Yeerely Celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games Upon Cotswold-Hills. Written by Michaell Drayton. Esq. John Trussell. Gent. Thomas Heywood. Gent, printed by Robert Raworth, for Mathewe Walbancke, 1636, [but later, c.1720], copper eng. frontis, A1 [title-page]-A2, B1-J4, K1-2, (36 leaves in all), armorial bookplate of Kerr to upper pastedown, with 4pp. autographed letter loosely inserted signed by J.A. Hyett on Painswick House headed paper to Lord Kerr discussing the book, dated 9. x. [18]93, a.e.g, early 19th c. blue crushed morocco gilt by Ramage, neatly rebacked retaining gilt dec. spine, small slim 4to. Date of publication supplied by the British Library Rare Book Department. This copy has the printed words to the verso of leaf A2 "Dr. Dover thought it his Duty to perpetuate the Memory of that Good Man his Grandfather.", which appears on the reprint editions. The Games were instituted in c.1605 (visited by Shakespeare), banned by the Puritans c.1650, re-instituted in 1680, banned again in 1851, and revived in the 1960s. Amongst other sports it includes shin-kicking. STC 24954. (1)

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[Fore-edge painting]. Legends and Lyrics. A Book of Verses by Adelaide Anne Proctor, with an Introduction by Charles Dickens. and Illustrations by Ida Lovering, 1895, ten b & w plts. incl. frontis, a.e.g, contemp. heavy bevel-edged brown morocco by Ramage, gilt, spine extrems. a little rubbed, 8vo. Fore-edge painting depicting a view of Highgate overlooking the ponds. (1)

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Illuminated leaves. Three illuminated leaves from a printed Book of Hours, Paris, J. Poitevin, 1503, three decorated leaves, each printed on both sides, twenty-eight lines per page, with woodcut border decorations, num. small initials illuminated in red and blue, and two illuminated miniatures in gold and colours, one depicting Mary holding the body of Christ at the foot of the cross, the other depicting Christ the Redeemer, overall size of each leaf approx. 20.5 x 13 cm. (3)

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Taylor (Isaac Junior). Elements of Thought, or, First Lessons in the Knowledge of the Mind, 1st ed, 1822, author's first book, errata slip after title, bound with two theological works by John Sheppard and Harvey Goodwin, a little staining to lower outer corner of early leaves of first work, contemp. half calf, sl. rubbed, together with Wayland (Francis), The Limitations of Human Responsibility, 1st London ed, 1838, orig. cloth, a little frayed on joints and at ends of spine, both 12mo, plus Duncan (David), The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer, 1st ed, 1908, b&w plts. and portraits, bibliography at rear, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus others related, mostly 19th century. (13)

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Watson (John). The Gentleman and Citizen's Almanack, (By John Watson, Bookseller,) for the Year of Our Lord, 1754, occ. scattered spotting, contemp. calf, slight weat to joints, small 8vo, together with Manuscript book, A late 17th/early 18th c. manuscript book containing notes for gilding & printing mezzotints, laying prints upon glass etc, approx. 50pp. of neatly written notes, also includes reference to weights and measures, syntax, arithmatic etc, contemp. calf, with "Tho. Hogben his Book 1696" written to upper cover, rubbed & scuffed, slight loss of leather to spine, clasps broken, tall 8vo, with an 18th c. manuscript book containing muses & poems, plus three other misc. antiquarian volumes. (6)

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Rueff (Jakob). The Expert Midwife or an Excellent and most Necessary Treatise of the Generation and Birth of Man, wherein is Contained many very Notable and Necessary Particulars Requisite to be Knowne and Practised, printed by E G[riffin] for S B[urton], 1st ed, 1637, thirty-three (of thirty-six) woodcuts, of which six are full page, contemp. inscription in ink to inside upper board "George Wightman's Book Bought by way of Auction April ye 4th 1693 price 1:6 for this and Cullpepers Astological Judgement of Diseases", some minor soiling, lacks leaves F7, F8 and G1, contemp. full calf, sq. 8vo. Waller 8309, STC 21442. (1)

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Sydenham (Thomas). Dr. Sydenham's Compleat Method of Curing Almost all Diseases, and Description of their Symptoms. To which are now Added, Five Discourses of the same Author Concerning the Pleurisy, Gout, Abridg'd and Faithfully Translated out of the Original Latin, 4th ed, 1710, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, some dust soiling creasing to corners, sewing slightly weak, contemp. sheep, upper board loose, spine defective, 12mo, together with Rundell (Maria Eliza), A New System of Domestic Cookery. By a Lady, new ed, corrected, 1818, nine eng. plts. (lacks frontis.), spotting and dust soiling, sewing weak, contemp. half calf, worn and upper board detached, 12mo, plus a defective 18th/early 19th c. cookery book. (3)

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Cipriani (Giovanni Battista). A Collection of Prints, after the Sketches and Drawings, of the late Celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esqr. R. A. Engraved by Mr. Richard Earlom, pub. March 25th 1789 by Jn. & Josiah Boydell, comprising a coloured stipple-engraved portrait of Cipriani after Rigaud, a stipple-engraved title-page, and forty-nine aquatint or stipple-engraved plates being either plain, tinted, or printed in colours, the printed "Catalogue of the Prints", one leaf, present at the end, some soiling or trivial staining in the wide margins, a few plates with short marginal tears, the plates all captioned in pencil, recent qtr. calf binding, unlettered, marbled board sides, some plates becoming loose, folio. Abbey, Life, 199 "The first book printed in England in which aquatint is to be found as a method of rendering wash drawings, with plates in imitation of ink and chalk drawings". Prideaux p. 55. (1)

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Penrose Annual. A Revue of the Graphic Arts, vols. 51 & 55-65, 1957 & 1961-72, numerous col. and b & w illusts, some tipped-in or folding, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, together with Photography Year Book, 22 vols, a broken, 1961-80 & 1984 & 1986,numerous col. and b & w illusts, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, and others similar. (52)

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The Practical Magazine: An Illustrated Cyclopaedia of Industrial News, Inventions and Improvements. for the use of those concerned in raw materials, machinery, manufactures, building, and decoration, 2 vols, 1873, numerous b & w illusts, free endpapers browned, contemp. scarlet half morocco, sl. rubbed, spine gilt lettered, cloth sides a little stained, large 4to, together with Sparrow (Walter Shaw), A Book of British Etching from Francis Barlow to Francis Seymour Haden, 1st ed, 1926, numerous b & w illusts, book ticket of Christopher Mendez, untrimmed, orig. faun cloth with red lettering, spine sl. darkened and a little rubbed at head and foot, 4to in 8's, plus eighteen other art/architecture/decorative arts related, mostly mod. with d.j's. (20)

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Moveable. The Fairy Ring. A Novel Picture Book for Children. Verses by H.M. Burnside, pub. Nister & Dutton, c. 1890, six full-page col. kaleidoscope style circular moveable illusts, b & w illusts. to text by T.J. & E.A. Overnell, some minor chipping to fore-edges, orig. linen-backed glazed pict. boards, minor wear to corners, square 4to. (1)

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Nietzsche (Friedrich). Thus Spake Zarathustra, a book for all and none, trans. Alexander Tille, 1st English ed, 1896, together with The Dawn of Day, trans. Johanna Bolz, 1st UK ed, 1903, both a little spotted, rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. marked, large 8vo, plus Thoughts out of Season Part II, 1909/Human all-too-Human, Parts I and II, 1909-11/The Genealogy of Morals, a Polemic, 1910, all 1st UK eds. published T. N. Foulis, all orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo (each one of 1000 or 1500 numbered copies), plus Beyond Good and Evil, pub. T. N. Foulis/Good European Society, 1st UK ed, 1907, two title-pages, adverts for Nietzsche's Works at rear, orig. cloth, plus one reprint, all 8vo. (8)

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Potter (Beatrix). The Story of Miss Moppet, 1st ed. in book form [after 1913], frontis. and fourteen col. illusts, orig. grey boards stamped in green, with circular pict. panel to upper cover, a little rubbed, small 4to, together with Gibbs (May), Wattle Babies, n.d, pub. Sydney, c. 1920, col. frontis, b & w illusts, orig. paper wrappers with pict. panel to upper cover, a little soiled, slim 8vo, with other juvenile and illustrated works, mostly small format. (approx. 30)

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Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Some British Ballads, [1919], sixteen tipped-in col. plts, orig. blue cloth gilt in bright condition, 4to, together with Dulac (Edmund), Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book, Fairy Tales, n.d, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1920, sixteen tipped-in col. plts, orig. orange dec. cloth in bright condition, large 8vo, plus Grahame (Kenneth), The Golden Age, illust. R.J. Enraght-Moony, 1915, col. plts, a little foxing to prelims, partly untrimmed, orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and some marks, small stab-hole to foot of spine, 4to. (3)

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International Rare Book Prices/Annual Register of Book Values, 70 vols, c. 1980s-90s, comprising Arts and Architecture, 12 vols, Early Printed Books, 7 vols, Literature, 10 vols, Modern First Editions, 17 vols, Science & Education, 12 vols, Voyages, Travel & Exploration, 12 vols, all orig. glazed boards, 8vo, with other various bibliography, auctioneers and booksellers past catalogues, etc. (3 cartons)

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Hicks (Victor). Modern Play-Craft. A Book of Things to Make and How to Make Them, New Era Publishing Co. Ltd, c. 1930s, num. col. illusts, loosely contained in orig. art deco style printed boards, a little worn and lacks ties, 4to, together with Anthony (Gordon), Margot Fonteyn, M.B.E, reprinted, 1954, signed on half-title by Fonteyn, col. frontis, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, slim 8vo, plus other misc. books, incl. paperbacks and an unused motor fuel ration book from the time of the Heath government(!). (3 shelves)

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A burr maple box crossbanded in oak and other woods, together with a pair of Victorian mahogany book ends decorated in brass with floral cornucopia.

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An oak three tier book trough.

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A lady's crocodile skin travelling toilet case, with a canvas cover, opening to reveal a silk lined interior containing nine silver mounted cut glass jars and bottles, pair of hair and clothes brushes, hand mirror, comb, button hook and shoe horn, manicure and needle cases, pair of jewellery boxes and an address book, London 1919.

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Three small brass shell cases, a book, a booklet, a belt of brass cartridges, a brass anchor door knocker, a belt mounted with French coins, a brass button polisher, a plated Royal Marines spoon, a travelling compass, photographs and sundry.

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A needlework set, cased, a plated chain mesh purse, a book shaped money box and a quantity of hat pins in a blue ceramic stand.

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Two lady's powder compacts, three trinket boxes, a small box shaped as a bird, three items of brassware and a table cigarette box shaped as a book.

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MORRIS, Rev. F.O., A History of British Butterflies, 3rd edition 1870, colour plates; NEWMAN, Edward, The Natural History of Butterflies and Moths; ROGERSON AND TUNNICLIFFE, Our Bird Book (3)

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MRS BEETON's Book of Household Management, published Lock & Co 1906

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FITZGERALD, Brian, The Book of the Horse; KIRKMAN & JOURDAIN, British Birds; HORSLEY, Terence, The Long Flight, illustrated Tunnicliffe & 2 others (5)

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