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Architecture.- Gibbs (James) A Book of Architecture, containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, second edition, 150 engra

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Architecture.- Gibbs (James) A Book of Architecture, containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, second edition, 150 engraved plates, 5 large and folding, some soiling, a few stains, several folding plates torn and frayed (some repaired), plates 21-23 bound upside down, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, [Harris 258; cf.Berlin Kat. 2270, Fowler 138 & Millard British 22, first edition of 1728], folio, W.Innys and R.Manby, 1739.

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Aristotle.- Aquinas (Thomas, Saint) Commentaria in octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros, ex vetustissimo ac fidelissimo manu sc

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Aristotle.- Aquinas (Thomas, Saint) Commentaria in octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros, ex vetustissimo ac fidelissimo manu scripto exemplari, diligentissime castigata, edited by Robert Grosseteste & others, double column, woodcut printer's device to title and foot of final verso, woodcut diagrams and decorative initials, a few instances of later ink marginalia, lower corner of title repaired, just touching 1 letter, [cross]2 short tear within text at foot, with loss of a few letters and corner repaired, [cross]3 lower corner repaired, [cross]4 small section of lower blank corner torn away, occasional mostly light foxing / staining, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, board slip-case, [EDIT 16 CNCE 27297], folio, Venice, Hiers of Lucantonio Giunta, 1566.⁂ Rare edition in commerce of these commentaries on Aristotle. Robert Grosseteste was one of the first to work extensively on Aristotle.

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Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 hand-coloured plates, spotting and foxing, light fing

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Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 hand-coloured plates, spotting and foxing, light finger-soiling to title, contemporary half calf, rather rubbed, 4to, 1855.

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Birds.- Shelley (Capt. G.E.) A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, first edition, 14 hand-coloured plates, tissue-guards, short m

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Birds.- Shelley (Capt. G.E.) A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, first edition, 14 hand-coloured plates, tissue-guards, short marginal tear (p.101) neatly repaired, publisher's advertisements bound at end, modern cloth, [Anker 469], 1872 § Delacour (Jean) The Waterfowl of the World, 4 vol., first edition, frontispieces and plates by Peter Scott, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jackets, rubbed, chipping and small loss to corners and extremities, 1954-64 § Bannerman (David A.) The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa, 2 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth, faint spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1953; and 5 others, similar, 8vo & folio (12)

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Birds.- Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidæ, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes ..., firs

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Birds.- Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidæ, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes ..., first edition, second issue with 'Chilean Dotterel' as frontispiece, 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J. G. Keulemans, wood engraved illustrations by J. G. Millais and others, front free endpaper, frontispiece and title becoming loose, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 455], 4to, [1887].

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Psychoanalysis.- Jones (Ernest) Papers on Psycho-Analysis, second revised edition, initialled presentation inscription from t

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Psychoanalysis.- Jones (Ernest) Papers on Psycho-Analysis, second revised edition, initialled presentation inscription from the author to Otto Rank, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1918 § Rank (Otto) Der Künstler Ansätze zu einer Sexual-Psychologie, contemporary half cloth, publisher's front wrapper laid down on upper cover, Vienna & Leipzig, Hugo Heller, 1907; Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden, rebacked in linen, Leipzig & Vienna, F. Deuticke, 1909 § Adler (Alfred) Über den Nervösen Charakter, extensive underlining and some pencil marginalia, Wiesbaden, J.F. Bergmann, 1912 § Freud (Sigmund) Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie, second edition, [Norman F56], Leipzig & Vienna, F. Deuticke, 1910; Das Ich und das Es, later boards with original covers and spine laid down [Norman F105], 1923; Die Zukunst einer Illusion, 1927; Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, [Norman F133], 1930; Moses and Monotheism, first American edition, New York, Knopf, 1939; Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety... translation by Alix Strachey, second impression, dust-jacket, Hogarth Press, 1948, first editions, unless otherwise stated, original cloth and wrappers unless where stated, 8vo (10)

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Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, translated by John James, first ed

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Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, translated by John James, first edition in English, engraved pictorial frontispiece, vignette title, dedication to Earl of Pembroke, 2pp. list of subscribers, 7 plates (numbered I-VI, one unnumbered with 2 engravings) and illustrations in text, numerous charming engraved head- & tail-pieces and initials by John Sturt, 4pp. errata/advertisements at end, no pp.43/44 as correct, occasional soiling, light staining to inner margin of frontispiece and title, contemporary panelled calf, worn, rubbed, lacking most of spine, covers detached, [Fowler 248; Harris 700], folio, Benjamin Motte, sold by John Sturt, 1708.⁂ Subscribers of this important and influential work include the architects Lord Burlington, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and John Vanbrugh, as well as several bricklayers, carpenters, masons etc.

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NO RESERVE Anatomy.- Malpighi (Marcello) and Carlo Fracassati. Epistolae Anatomicae, first edition, title with woodcut printe

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NO RESERVE Anatomy.- Malpighi (Marcello) and Carlo Fracassati. Epistolae Anatomicae, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding engraved plates, title with small blind-stamp of Mark Pattison of Lincoln College recto and ink notes verso, 1 plate neatly laid down,the odd spot, occasional light browning, lower hinge split, [Heirs of Hippocrates 570],12mo, Amsterdam, Caspar Commelin, 1669.⁂ The five folding plates illustrate Malpighi's microscopic investigations of the brain and tongue. His name is celebrated in several eponymous anatomical structures in the kidney, spleen, skin, and lungs.

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Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthouse, first edition, spotting, ink inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine browned, spin

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Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthouse, first edition, spotting, ink inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners bumped, chipped and frayed, creasing and discolouration to covers, facsimile dust-jacket, [Kirkpatrick A10], 8vo, 1927.

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NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Baye (Joseph de, Baron) The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, first edition, 17 plates, original

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NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Baye (Joseph de, Baron) The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, first edition, 17 plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and slightly stained, split to lower joint, 1893 § Fox (Sir Cyril) Offa's Dyke, 1955 § Apted (M.) & others. Ancient Monuments and their Interpretation, London & Chichester, 177 § Carver (M., editor) In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Philip Rahtz, Woodbridge, 1993, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets; and 15 others, British archaeology, v.s. (19)

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NO RESERVE Architecture.- Heating.- Engel (Carl Ludwig) Richtige Anweisung zur Heitzung der Gebäude mit erwärmter, first edit

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NO RESERVE Architecture.- Heating.- Engel (Carl Ludwig) Richtige Anweisung zur Heitzung der Gebäude mit erwärmter, first edition, 3 folding engraved plates, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt and with orange leather label, rubbed, 4to, Berlin, [A. Petsch], in der Stuhr'schen Buchhandlung, 1830.⁂ Rare work on the heating of buildings. The German architect Engel was responsible for most of Helsinki's key buildings, including The Senate, Helsinki Cathedral, the library and parts of the university.

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NO RESERVE Coward (Noel) To Step Aside. Seven Stories, first American edition, Noel Coward's own copy with his bookplate to p

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NO RESERVE Coward (Noel) To Step Aside. Seven Stories, first American edition, Noel Coward's own copy with his bookplate to pastedown and French typed letter of provenance from Blanch Blackwell tipped onto front free endpaper, some browning to endpapers, contemporary morocco, joints and extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, New York, 1939.

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Birds.- Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett prin

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Birds.- Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett printed in colours and finished by hand, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, previous owner's pencil inscription 'Nov. 1859' to front free endpaper verso, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 345], 4to, [1855].

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NO RESERVE Birds & Fish.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., first edition, supplement bound-in at end

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NO RESERVE Birds & Fish.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., first edition, supplement bound-in at end, wood-engraved illustrations, spotting to front and back covers (vol. 1), 1843-45; A History of British Fishes, 2 vol., first edition, supplement to each vol. bound-in at end, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, 1836-39, later uniform morocco, spine and dentelles heavily gilt, aeg, very light rubbing to extremities, 8vo (5)

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Millais (John Guille) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vol., limited edition, half-titles, titles in red and black

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Millais (John Guille) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vol., limited edition, half-titles, titles in red and black, photogravure, chromolithographed or halftone plates, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, original cloth, faded spines, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1904-06; Wanderings and Memoirs, first edition, inscribed, signed and dated by author, frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, strengthened hinges, original cloth, faded, bumping to corners and extremities, 1919; Far Away up the Nile, first edition, frontispiece, plates, faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1924; and 2 others by the same, v.s. (7)

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NO RESERVE Sitwell (Sir Osbert) Before the Bombardment, first edition of the author's first novel, ink ownership inscription

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NO RESERVE Sitwell (Sir Osbert) Before the Bombardment, first edition of the author's first novel, ink ownership inscription and light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light fading to spine and covers, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, an excellent example, 1926; and another by Maugham, 8vo (2)⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket, especially in such condition

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NO RESERVE Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, first Israeli edition, ink inscription title and endpaper, contemporary boards, Jerusal

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NO RESERVE Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, first Israeli edition, ink inscription title and endpaper, contemporary boards, Jerusalem, 1955 § Čapek (Karel) The First Rescue Party, ink inscription and light browning to endpapers, a few short closed tears and some light creasing to head and foot, 1939 § Borch (Hermann) The Death of Virgil, jacket with light browning to spine, chip to head of upper joint, 1946 § Chestov (Leo) In Job's Balances, jacket with very light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1932, all but the first first English editions in original boards and dust-jackets, generally excellent copies; and c.50 by the same and similar, 8vo (c.55)

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Photography.- Madonna. Sex, Photographed by Stephen Meisel, first edition, with CD sealed in envelope loosely inserted, origi

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Photography.- Madonna. Sex, Photographed by Stephen Meisel, first edition, with CD sealed in envelope loosely inserted, original ring-bound aluminium boards stamped "Sex" on upper cover and with cut-out "(X)" on lower, a few scratches, without pictorial mylar envelope, 1992 § Testino (Mario) Alta Moda, second edition, signed on title, Lima, 2015 § Beltrá (Daniel) Spill, signed on title, 2013 § Bailey (David) The Lady is a Tramp: Portraits of Catherine Bailey, signed by both Baileys on title, 1995 § L'Ecotais (Emmanuelle de) & others. Man Ray 1890-1976, Cologne, 2000 § Perez (N.N.) Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East (1839-1885), New York & Jerusalem, 1988 § Worswick (C.) & Ainslie Embree. The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911, 1976, illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the last a little frayed; and c.40 others on photography, v.s. (c.45)

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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) ) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue guards, occasional foxing, occa

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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) ) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue guards, occasional foxing, occasional staining (vol. 3 only), original red cloth, light fading to spines and bumping to extremities, 4to, 1915-16.

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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue-guards, occasional marginal spott

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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., first edition, 80 colour plates, tissue-guards, occasional marginal spotting, original red cloth, a little rubbed, faded spines, slight bumping to extremities, 1915-19; A Naturalist's Sketch Book, first edition, plates, tissue-guards, original red cloth, faded spine, slight bumping to extremities, 1919; 4to (5)

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NO RESERVE McGahern (John) Getting Through, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1978; Amongst Women, uncorrect

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NO RESERVE McGahern (John) Getting Through, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1978; Amongst Women, uncorrected proof copy with original title of Monaghan Day, original wrappers, sticker to upper cover altering the name, some light rubbing and creasing to extremities, 1990; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)

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Antiquities.- Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stone-heng, 3 parts in 1, second edit

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Antiquities.- Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stone-heng, 3 parts in 1, second edition, general title in red & black, engraved portrait frontispiece to second part only (lacking that of Jones to first part), with 12 engraved plates (8 folding or double-page), engraved illustrations in text, first four folding plates and portrait a little browned, bookplate of Sir William Crookes, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, later half morocco, rubbed, [Fowler 159; Harris 384], folio, printed [by James Betterman] for D. Browne Junior...J.Woodman and D.Lyon, 1725.

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Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) The Library Companion, 2 vol., first edition , titles with wood-engraved vignettes, slightly br

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Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) The Library Companion, 2 vol., first edition , titles with wood-engraved vignettes, slightly browned, vol. I H3-8 & vol. II title margins water-stained, Norfolk & Norwich Library bookplates on front pastedowns, later endpapers, contemporary half calf, rubbed, Library printed labels on upper covers, 1824.

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NO RESERVE Bendemann (Edouard) Der Fries im Thronsaale des Koeniglichen Schlosses in Dresden al fresco gemalt ..., first edit

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NO RESERVE Bendemann (Edouard) Der Fries im Thronsaale des Koeniglichen Schlosses in Dresden al fresco gemalt ..., first edition, 16 tinted etchings by Bürkner after Bendemann, tissue-guards, occasional faint spotting, original wrappers with ink-stamp dated 1846 bound-in, bookplate, contemporary cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, oblong folio, Leipzig, Georg Wigand, [1846].⁂ Wigand published Bürkner's etchings of the frescoes in two forms. As here, with the plates unfolded, printed on Chinese paper, with no accompanying text, and as an oblong 4to, prefaced by six pages of explanatory text in German and English, with the etchings folded in half and mounted on stubs. Provenance: Bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt (1795-1867) of Lincoln's Inn.

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Achebe (Chinua) Arrow of God, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and creasing to head an

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Achebe (Chinua) Arrow of God, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, but a bright and near-fine example overall, 8vo, New York, 1967.⁂ The last in Achebe's celebrated African trilogy, rare.

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NO RESERVE Gardens.- Jones (Barbara) Follies & Grottoes, second, enlarged, edition, 1979 § Hunt (John Dixon) & Peter

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NO RESERVE Gardens.- Jones (Barbara) Follies & Grottoes, second, enlarged, edition, 1979 § Hunt (John Dixon) & Peter Willis. The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, light spotting, ex-library copy with stamps, 1975 § Hyams (E.) Capability Brown and Humphry Repton, 1971 § Cowell (F.) Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure Garden, 2009 § Saudan (M.) & Sylvia Saudan-Skira. From Folly to Follies: Discovering the World of Gardens, Cologne, 1997, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first with nick to spine; and 9 others on gardens, v.s. (14)

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NO RESERVE Oriental Art.- Hillier (Jack) Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr & Mrs Ric

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NO RESERVE Oriental Art.- Hillier (Jack) Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr & Mrs Richard P.Gale, 2 vol., 1970; The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijo Style, limited edition, signed and inscribed by the author, 1974; Suzuki Harunobu, Philadelphia, 1970 § Heineken (Ty & Kiyoko) Tansu: Traditional Japanese Cabinetry, New York & Tokyo, 1981, illustrations, many colour, original cloth, the first two with slip-cases, the last two with dust-jackets; and c.30 others on Japanese art, 4to & 8vo (c.35)

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Rhys (Jean) Wide Sargasso Sea, first edition, original board, dust-jacket, head of spine and corner tips rubbed, near-fine ot

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Rhys (Jean) Wide Sargasso Sea, first edition, original board, dust-jacket, head of spine and corner tips rubbed, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1966.

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NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Artis (Edmund Tyrell) The Durobrivae of Antoninus...Roman Station in the vicinity of Castor, Northam

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NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Artis (Edmund Tyrell) The Durobrivae of Antoninus...Roman Station in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire, first edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map and 59 engraved or lithographed plates and plans, some with aquatint, 4 folding or double-page, 10 hand-coloured, light spotting or water-staining to a couple of plates, bookplates of George E.Foe and Will.Stephenson, contemporary half roan, rubbed and stained, spine worn and torn, upper cover detached, folio, for the Author, 1828.⁂ Handsome work on the various Roman sites around Castor, Northants., including views, plans and plates of the mosaics, building materials, furnaces, pottery, jewellery, and household utensils.

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NO RESERVE McCulloch (J. R.) The Literature of Political Economy: a Classified Catalogue, first edition, ex-library with book

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NO RESERVE McCulloch (J. R.) The Literature of Political Economy: a Classified Catalogue, first edition, ex-library with bookplate and occasional ink-stamps, original cloth, library shelfmark to spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1845.

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NO RESERVE Newby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and minor cr

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Lot 181

NO RESERVE Newby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light rubbing and minor creasing to head and foot, but a near-fine example generally, 8vo, 1968.⁂ The first winner of the booker prize.

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NO RESERVE Barnes (Julian) Talking it Over [2 copies], limited edition, 1991; The Porcupine, 1992; Cross Channel, 1996; Engla

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Lot 150

NO RESERVE Barnes (Julian) Talking it Over [2 copies], limited edition, 1991; The Porcupine, 1992; Cross Channel, 1996; England, England, 1998, first editions, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; and 10 others by the same, 8vo (14)

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NO RESERVE [Mavor (William Fordyce)] Youth's miscellany; or, a father's gift to his children: consisting of original essays,

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Lot 117

NO RESERVE [Mavor (William Fordyce)] Youth's miscellany; or, a father's gift to his children: consisting of original essays, moral and literary; tales, fables, reflections, first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement f. at end, frontispiece water-stained and offsetting on to title, occasional water-staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, [Roscoe J240], 12mo, E. Newbery, 1798.⁂ Diverse topics include electricity, spectres and apparitions, and worms.

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Reck-Malleczewen (Friedrich) Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten, first edition, Autograph Note and Typed Note by signed by the auth

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Lot 193

Reck-Malleczewen (Friedrich) Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten, first edition, Autograph Note and Typed Note by signed by the author loosely inserted, frontispiece portrait, later half cloth, Stuttgart, 1947; and an English edition of the same (2)⁂ Reck-Malleczewen's celebrated journal, expressing his passionate opposition to the Nazi regime. Reck-Malleczewen died in the camp at Dachau in 1945, 2 years prior to publication.

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NO RESERVE Cornwell (Patricia) Postmortem, first edition, signed by the author, A. L. s. by the author loosely inserted, orig

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Lot 160

NO RESERVE Cornwell (Patricia) Postmortem, first edition, signed by the author, A. L. s. by the author loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, a little chipped at foot, New York, 1990.⁂ The author's first book with a letter on paper headed the Department of Health in Virginia, where Cornwell worked before her career as a writer took off.

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NO RESERVE Poetry.- Ros (Amanda M.) Fumes of Formation, original cloth, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, surface soiling

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Lot 189

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Ros (Amanda M.) Fumes of Formation, original cloth, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, surface soiling to panels, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1933 § Farjeon (Eleanor) Young Folk and Old, original wrappers, High House Press, 1925 § Phillips (Stephen) New Poems, light foxing, browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1908 § Thomas (R. S.) Laubbam Sprache, translated by Kevin Perryman, limited edition, signed by the author, original half cloth, Denklingen, Babel, 1998, first editions; and c.80 others, poetry and poets, generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.85)

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NO RESERVE Birds.- Hudson (W.H.) Birds of La Plata, 2 vol., first edition, 22 colour plates, original decorative cloth, small

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Lot 267

NO RESERVE Birds.- Hudson (W.H.) Birds of La Plata, 2 vol., first edition, 22 colour plates, original decorative cloth, small stain to upper cover (vol. 1 only), slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Anker 216], 8vo, 1920.

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Rhys (Jean) Good Morning Midnight, first edition, second issue without endpaper, original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, price-cli

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Lot 197

Rhys (Jean) Good Morning Midnight, first edition, second issue without endpaper, original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, very short tears to head and foot of upper panel with some light creasing, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1939.

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NO RESERVE Poetry.- Stevenson (Robert Louis) New Poems, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket spine very lightly browne

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Lot 190

NO RESERVE Poetry.- Stevenson (Robert Louis) New Poems, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket spine very lightly browned, some light surface soiling, 1918; Poems, limited editions, original limp vellum, ties partly defective, 1913 § Gascoyne (David), Martyn Crucefix, Marius Kociejowski, Christopher Middleton, Norm Sibum and C.H. Sisson. Enitharmon Poetry Pamphlets, 6 vol., each number 36 of 50 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, slip-case, 1993 § Prynne (J. H.) News of Warring Clans, first edition, original wrappers, some fading, Trigram Press, 1977; and c.70 others, poetry and poets generally excellent or near-fine, 8vo (c.75)

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Yeats (William Butler) The Wild Swans at Coole, first English edition, "Presentation Copy" blindstamp to title, Robert Lynd's

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Lot 208

Yeats (William Butler) The Wild Swans at Coole, first English edition, "Presentation Copy" blindstamp to title, Robert Lynd's copy with his ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine dulled, spine ends and corners bumped, light wear to extremities, 8vo, 1919.⁂ A good association copy, Robert Lynd (1879-1949), writer, journalist and Irish nationalist.

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Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) Ordonnance des Cinq Especes de Colonnes selon la Methode des Anciens, first edition, title w

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Architecture.- Perrault (Claude) Ordonnance des Cinq Especes de Colonnes selon la Methode des Anciens, first edition, title with woodcut arms of Louis XIV, engraved head-piece of arms of Colbert (the dedicatee), engraved initial and 6 plates by Le Pautre, Chastillon and le Clerc, woodcut illustrations, a little wormed, mostly to margins but affecting some plates, pencil inscription of Kerry Downes, handsome contemporary red morocco ruled and tooled in gilt, rubbed, lacking spine, covers worn at corners and detached, [Berlin Kat. 2386; Fowler 247 ; Millard, French 138], folio, Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1683.

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Lifeboats.- Sociétés de Sauvetages Maritimes de Provence, fondée a Marseille en 1863. Présidé par M. J-B Pastré. Son but, son

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Lifeboats.- Sociétés de Sauvetages Maritimes de Provence, fondée a Marseille en 1863. Présidé par M. J-B Pastré. Son but, son organisation, ses travaux, first edition, half-title, 10 lithographed plates, Marseille, Arnaud, Cayer, & Co., 1866 bound with Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages. Description du canot de sauvetage, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, 4 folding lithographed plates, narrow worm trace at foot, occasionally affecting part of a letter or letters, plate 1 short splits at folds at foot, Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1867, together 2 works in 1 vol., some water-staining, contemporary red calf-backed cloth, gilt, rubbed and stained, large 8vo

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Salinger (J.D.) Povesti. Nad propast'iu vo rzhi ... [Catcher in the Rye], first Russian edition, translated by Rita Rait-Kova

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Salinger (J.D.) Povesti. Nad propast'iu vo rzhi ... [Catcher in the Rye], first Russian edition, translated by Rita Rait-Kovaleva, portrait frontispiece, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, Moscow, 1965; and 8 others, Russian, 8vo & 12mo (9)⁂ Containing translations of 'Catcher in the Rye', 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters', 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish', 'The Laughing Man', 'De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period', and 'Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut.'

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Harwood (Busick) A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology, first edition, preliminaries misbound, some wa

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Lot 302

Harwood (Busick) A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology, first edition, preliminaries misbound, some water-staining, with a final blank leaf but without the vi pp. at end called for by ESTC, some pencil annotations, bound in the middle of 4 other pamphlets on various subjects, early 19th century boards, spine label "Prose Tracts", foot of spine torn, Cambridge, Printed by F. Hodson, 1787; and 4 others, miscellaneous, v.s. (5)⁂ The mentioned work is rare, with ESTC locating only 3 copies (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Wellcome Library; Countway Library of Medicine in USA; and Royal Australian College of Physicians).

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NO RESERVE Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, first authorised English edition, browning and neat ink ownership inscri

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Lot 173

NO RESERVE Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, first authorised English edition, browning and neat ink ownership inscription, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, 1932 § Eliot (T. S.) The Confidential Clerk, first edition, light dampstain to front free endpaper, dust-jacket, light cockling, light sunning to spine, minor fraying to head of spine, 1954 § Aldington (Richard, editor) Fifty Romance Lyric Poems, limited edition, signed by the editor and Bruce Rogers, glacine dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped, New York, 1928, original cloth, generally excellent or near-fine; and 28 others by the same and similar, 8vo (31)

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Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Wildfowler in Scotland, first edition, photogravure frontispiece, 20 plates, illustrations,

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Lot 271

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Wildfowler in Scotland, first edition, photogravure frontispiece, 20 plates, illustrations, bookplate, original half-vellum, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1901 § Hawker (Lt. Col. P.) Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting, third edition, partially hand-coloured frontispiece, 9 plates (3 hand-coloured), occasional faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1824; and others, similar, v.s. (22)

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Birds.- Crawshay (Richard) The Birds of Tierra del Fuego, first edition, limited edition of 300, this copy 'out of series', 2

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Lot 260

Birds.- Crawshay (Richard) The Birds of Tierra del Fuego, first edition, limited edition of 300, this copy 'out of series', 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 23 photogravure plates, colour map at end, bookplate, hinges strengthened, contemporary morocco-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1907.

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NO RESERVE Webb (Kaye) Refugees 1960, illustrated by Ronald Searle, original pictorial wrappers, 1960 § Lancaster (Osbert) Th

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Lot 217

NO RESERVE Webb (Kaye) Refugees 1960, illustrated by Ronald Searle, original pictorial wrappers, 1960 § Lancaster (Osbert) The Saracen's Head, 1948; Drayneflete Revealed, 1949 § Hennell (Thomas) Lady Filmy Fern..., illustrated by Edward Bawden, 1980 § Blake (Quentin) Word and Pictures, limited edition, signed by the artist on title, 2000 § Grossmith (George & Weedon) The Diary of a Nobody, illustrated by Paul Hogarth and Philip Hood, signed by Hogarth on title, original half rexine, 1984, illustrations, some colour, all but the first and last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, of which the first price-clipped, the second slightly rubbed; and c.20 others, illustrated and illustrators, 4to & 8vo (c.25)

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NO RESERVE London.- [Grant (James)] The Great Metropolis, 2 vol. in 1, half-titles, original green cloth, uncut, spine faded,

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Lot 252

NO RESERVE London.- [Grant (James)] The Great Metropolis, 2 vol. in 1, half-titles, original green cloth, uncut, spine faded, New York, 1837 § Baines (Thomas) Liverpool in 1859, folding map, 8pp. advertisements printed on pink paper at end (faded at edges), also 4pp. on the Royal Insurance Company printed in red and green, original blind-stamped cloth, London, Liverpool & Manchester, 1859, both a little rubbed, the second faded at edges and worn at head of spine, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is an interesting work on London, published using the sheets of the London edition with a New York imprint. There is information on theatres, clubs, gaming houses, and newspapers.

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Bible, Hebrew.- Forster (Nathaniel, editor) Biblia Hebraica. Torah Nevi'im u-Ketuvim, title in Latin, text in Hebrew, bookpla

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Lot 78

Bible, Hebrew.- Forster (Nathaniel, editor) Biblia Hebraica. Torah Nevi'im u-Ketuvim, title in Latin, text in Hebrew, bookplate to pastedown, title working loose, light stains to margin of title, some small marginal tears and chips to first few leaves, occasional light marginal browning, occasional light staining not affecting text, corner repaired to 3M⁴, contemporary blue polished calf, gilt, red morocco spine label, lightly scuffed with small abrasion to upper cover, joints a little rubbed, [Darlow & Moule 5151], 4to, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1750.⁂ ⁂ "An unpointed edition based on E. van der Hooght's text. The earliest edition of the Hebrew Bible (apart from the London Polyglot) to be printed in England". - Darlow, 5151.

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NO RESERVE Grossmith (George) and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrat

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Lot 169

NO RESERVE Grossmith (George) and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, publisher's advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, Bristol and London, [1892].

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Music.- Miller (Edward) The Psalms of David for the Use of Parish Churches, first edition, engraved title and dedication, sub

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Lot 115

Music.- Miller (Edward) The Psalms of David for the Use of Parish Churches, first edition, engraved title and dedication, subscriber's list of over 3000, engraved music, without finis on final leaf and without 4pp. Addenda at end (found in some copies), faint spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary tree-calf, cracked hinges, bumping to corners and extremities, [1790] § Boyce (Dr.) The Chaplet. A Musical Entertainment, engraved title and 46pp. music, this edition not on ESTC, ?lacking privilege leaf, occasional faint marginal staining, modern half-morocco, for I. Walsh, n.d. § Milne (A. A.) Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, price-clipped dust-jacket, rubbed, loss to spine foot, several small holes to spine, New York, 1925; and 35 others similar, including 15 vol. of a defective 'Orpheus: a collection of glees of the most admired German composers,' v.s. (38)

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Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, limited edition of 550 copies, chromolithographed fr

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Lot 270

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, limited edition of 550 copies, chromolithographed frontispiece and 17 plates, 17 photogravure plates, 1 photographic plate, tissue-guards, original buckram backed boards, lightly faded spine, as usual, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1909; Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 34 plates (16 colour), illustrations, occasional faint spotting, original half-morocco, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1982; and another by the same, folio & 4to (3)

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NO RESERVE Carey (Peter) My Life as a Fake, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tariq Ali, jack

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Lot 158

NO RESERVE Carey (Peter) My Life as a Fake, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tariq Ali, jacket upper panel with short tear to head and some patch of foxing to foot, light discolouration to spine, Sydney, 2003; True History of the Kelly Gang, first English edition, signed by the author, "Ned Kelly's Australia" map loosely inserted, jacket with light sunning to spine, 2001; Jack Maggs, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, jacket with light creasing to spine ends, 1997, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and 6 others by the same, 8vo (9)

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NO RESERVE Britain.- [Gough (Richard)] British Topography..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved title vignettes, 7 folding engr

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Lot 17

NO RESERVE Britain.- [Gough (Richard)] British Topography..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved title vignettes, 7 folding engraved maps and large map (plate 8) in 3 parts, bookplate of George Gallwey Mills, contemporary russia, rubbed, spines worn, joints split, covers of vol.1 detached, 4to, T.Payne & Son, and J.Nichols, 1780.

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India.- Sleeman (Lieutenant-Colonel W. H.) Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, 2 vol., first edition, chromolith

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Lot 236

India.- Sleeman (Lieutenant-Colonel W. H.) Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, 2 vol., first edition, chromolithographed frontispieces and 30 plates, tissue-guards, spotting, corrections inserted by hand, manuscript bookplates, near contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1844.

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Orchids.- Millican (Albert) Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, while

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Lot 293

Orchids.- Millican (Albert) Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, while Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes, first edition, colour frontispiece and 21 plates, illustrations, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, spine a little dulled, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners but a remarkably bright and fine example overall, 8vo, 1891.

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NO RESERVE Commerce.- Cary (John) Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre, first edition in French, translated and augmente

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Lot 80

NO RESERVE Commerce.- Cary (John) Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre, first edition in French, translated and augmented by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont, 2 vol., titles with woodcut ornaments, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, vol.1 X12 blank and with errata f. at end, ink stamp of Eugene de Froberville to first title, some spotting and staining, lightly browned contemporary calf, gilt, spine richly so and with double morocco labels, spine heads little chipped, joint starting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Einaudi 920 (Guillyn); Goldsmiths' 9015; Higgs 986; Kress 5424; McCulloch, p. 46], 12mo, London & Paris, Nyon, 1755.⁂ 'the best discourse I ever read on that subject' (Locke). McCulloch proposes that the additions made by Butel-Dumont make this 'in all respects a more valuable work than that of Cary'. Butel-Dumont was an economist and secretary at the French embassy in St. Petersburg.

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NO RESERVE Stern (James) Something Wrong, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, light fading to spi

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Lot 201

NO RESERVE Stern (James) Something Wrong, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, light fading to spine, 1938; The Man who Was Loved, first American edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped, extremities rubbed, New York, 1951 § Masefield (John) Martin Hyde, first English edition, dust-jacket, spine sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, n.d. § Lee (Laurie) Peasants' Priest. A Play, first edition, original wrappers, preserved in custom chemise, Canterbury, 1947, all but the last in original cloth; and c.50 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.55)

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Purdey shooting accessoriesComprising:-A J. Purdey cleaning kit in a leather folding case, some pieces missingA J. Purdey 2-p

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Purdey shooting accessoriesComprising:-A J. Purdey cleaning kit in a leather folding case, some pieces missingA J. Purdey 2-piece ebonised cleaning rodA small cleaning kit in a J. Purdey nylon slipA modern J. Purdey brass, oak and leather game carrierA limited edition book entitled Purdey's, the guns and the family by Richard Beaumont, No. 36, signed by the authorThe Early Purdeys by P L. Unsworth (First Edition) Christies Books(6)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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