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Skelton (Joseph). Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original Drawings by F. Mackenzie..., pub. Oxford, 1823, eng. frontis. and eng. vign. title (spotted), single-page map and forty-nine eng. plts., numerous eng. vignettes to text, list of subscribers, some spotting & offsetting mainly to plts., a.e.g., contemp. half morocco with gilt dec. spine, joints & extrems. a little worn, folio, together with an early 19th c. edition of Domesday Book (Oxfordshire portion only), contemp. green half morocco gilt, spine worn and scuffed, slim 4to (2)
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Smith (William). A New & Compendius History, of the County of Warwick, Birmingham, 1830, eng. title and sixty eng. plts. (inc. single-page map), some spotting (mostly to margins), contemp. half calf, boards detached and spine defective, 4to, together with Lysons (Daniel), Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, vol. 2, parts 1 & 2, (Cambridgeshire), 1808, double-page eng. map and three single-page maps, forty-three eng. plts. (inc. many folding and some hand-col.), contemp. half calf, upper board detached and lacks spine, 4to, and Herring (J.H.), Thames Bridges from London to Hampton Court, [1885], half-title present with publishers complimentary inscription, twenty-two etched plts., minor dust soiling to margins, orig. printed boards with cloth spine strip, dust soiled and rubbed, folio plus three others (6)
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Spencer (Nathaniel). The Complete English Traveller; or, a New Survey and Description of England and Wales..., 1772, eng. frontis., folding eng. map of Great Britain and single-page map of Scotland, fifty-eight eng. plts., early ink signature at head of title, contemp. calf with old reback, joints & extrems. worn, folio (1)
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Gould (John). A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, 1832, eighty fine hand-col. lithos. with uncol. backgrounds, some spotting, mainly to margins but sometimes severe, upper margin of final five or six plates slightly affected by worm, list of subscribers present, short closed tear repair to fore-margin of list of plates, a.e.g., contemp. plum half-morocco, gilt dec. spine, restored, tall folio (1)
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Penrith (James M., van Velden, Nelia, & Davidson, Anthony D.). The Kill. Wildlife Encounters...foreword by David Shepherd, pub. The Directors' Collection Limited, Gaborone, Botswana, 1989, sixty fine full-page reprods. of paintings, each with a short text and one or two col. illusts. from photos., orig. full leather gilt with slipcase, oblong folio, with a separate folio containing an addn. suite of col. reprods. from the orig. paintings, each signed and numbered by the artist. Limited edition 736/1250, signed by John F. Richardson. A fine series of paintings of African animals by eighteen different artists who were asked to interpret the predator-prey interaction without actually seeing the photographs of the kill. (2)
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Schinz (Salomon). Anleitung zu der Pflanzenkenntniss und derselben nutzlichsten Anwendung, Zurich, 1774 [-1777], title with eng. vign., two single-page general plts. by J. P. Bullinger, after Schinz (entitled Primae Lineae Botanicae), and 101 single-page woodcut illusts., on 100 leaves (two plts. printed back-to-back), all with contemp. hand-col., contemp. boards with orange marbling, rubbed and some marks, a little chipped to joints and extrems., folio. Nissen 1761; Hunt 640. The first edition, printed and coloured at the Zurich Wansenhaus. The woodcuts were originally prepared for Leonhart Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium (Basel, 1542), here reprinted and hand-coloured. (1)
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Walford (James F.). A Book of Orchid Paintings, Text by Peter F. Hunt, Foreward by L. Maurice Mason, Introduction by Roy Grubb, 1972, twenty-four col. plts., t.e.g., orig. qtr. vellum gilt, cloth sides with a few minor marks, folio, limited edition of 525 (this unnumbered and unsigned), together with Ure (George) Our Fancy Pigeons, and Rambling Notes of a Naturalist, 1st ed., 1886, six b & w eng. plts., incl. frontis., two leaves loose, one leaf pub's ads. at rear, orig. cloth, gilt dec., spine faded, 8vo, plus Skues (G.E.M.), Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred Studies, 1st ed., 1910, col. frontis., endpapers browned, orig. cloth, small 4to, plus eight other vols. related, incl. 6 x New Naturalist Series (nos. 10, 11, 19, 33, 43, 52) (11)
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* Entomophila Picta. Painted Honey-eater , fine hand-col. lithograph with associated leaf of printed text, folio, together with fourteen other various hand-col. lithographs from Gould's Birds of Australia, each with associated leaf of printed text, folio. The other lithographs are Glyciphila Albifrons (White-fonted Honey-eater), Ptilotis Penicillatus (White-plumed Honey-eater), Eopsaltria Capito (Large-headed Robin), Eopsaltria Australis (Yellow-breasted Robin), Erythrodryas Rhodinogaster (Pink-breasted Wood-Robin), Myzantha Obscura (Sombre Honey-eater), Acanthorhynchus Superciliosus (White-eyebrowed Spine-bill), Atrichia Rufescens (Rufescent Scrub-bird), Chrysococcyx Lucidus (Shining Cuckoo), Geopelia Cuneata (Graceful Ground-Dove), Gerygone Personata (Masked Gerygone), Sphecotheres Flaviventris (Yellow-bellied Sphecotheres), Collacalia Ariel (Fariy Martin) and Poephila Leucotis (White-eared Grass Finch). (15)
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* Furniture. A collection of approx. 125 engraved plates from Chippendale's Cabinet-Maker's Director, prob. late 18th or early 19th c., together with approx. forty similar eng. plts. from William Pain's Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository, pub. I. & J. Taylor, 1787, approx. ten eng. plts. from Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 1791-93, and approx. fifteen various early 19th c. furniture engs., many cleaned, all loose, folio (approx. 190)
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* Vanity fair cartoons - Horseracing. "James Woodburn", June 21, 1890, together with "Frank Wootton", Sept. 8, 1909, "Rick" [Fred Rickaby], Sept. 12, 1901, ","A Rising Star" [Arthur Templeman, November 7, 1906, "Johnny" [Joh Reiff], August 23, 1900, "Mr. George" [George Thursby], December 12, 1907, "Jim" [James Lowther MP], December 8, 1877, plus others including statesmen, allorig. chromo. caricatures by Spy, Ape, etc., folio. Some with corresponding text leaf. (18)
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* Medical Manuscript. Manuscript Prescription Book kept by A. Harrington of Rochford, Essex, between 19th January 1864 and 28th December 1868, Rochford, 1864-68, 197 pages of prescriptions written in several neat hands, 48-page index, contemp. reversed calf with cross hatch decoration to ties, red leather label and letter "D" stamped to upper cover, sl. wear to spine, folio. A record of prescriptions with details of preson to whom described, place of residence, date prepared, and a total of over 500 prescriptions. (1)
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Bacon (Nathaniel). An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, from the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth..., 4th ed., 1739, title printed in red and black (with early inscription to upper margin), occ. minor spotting, contemp. mottled calf, gilt armorial of the 'Society of Writers to the Signet' to centre of each board, upper joint cracked & lower board detached, folio, together with Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury), Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1724-34, some margins frayed, pages soiled, marked & few loose, contemp. calf, worn and upper board of vol. 1 detached, vol. 2 lacks spine, folio (3)
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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement, 2nd ed. [Great 'She' Bible], imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613/11, black letter text, fifty-nine lines in double column, large portion of woodcut general title still present (large portions to fore-margins missing, relaid), all eighteen leaves of prelims. present, without the Speed map usually found after the Genealogies, A2 repaired to margins, with some loss, A3 & 4 repaired to top margin, sl. affecting one or two words, several following leaves with paper repair to extreme top margin, not affecting text, eighteen leaves of Genealogies present (the first two leaves misbound before A2 of prelims.), NT woodcut title present (in good condition), lacks final leaf of text (Aa6), now supplied in old manuscript, Aa5 repaired and restrengthened to margins, with some loss of text to lower outer corner, occn. minor marginal repairs elsewhere, some minor damp stains, mainly to top margins at front of vol., occn. minor soiling (text generally in good clean condition), contemp. blind-panelled full calf over wooden boards, remains of brass clasps, diamond-shaped brass lozenge to centre of upper and lower covers, and brass bosses to corners of each cover (one missing to upper cover), 19th-c. reback, large thick folio. Herbert 319. A good copy of the Great She Bible, with the correction 'She' for 'He' in Ruth, III, 15. (1)
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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible... printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1638, lacks eng. title, dedication leaf (A1), a little frayed and torn with minor loss to extreme inner margin at foot, with loss of one or two words, several following leaves a little frayed to extrems., dampstains to inner margins at front of vol., NT title present, with small portion torn away to extreme lower margin, touching woodcut border, Whole Book of Psalmes, 1638, bound in at rear, with some fraying and minor wear to final few leaves, 19th c. half morocco, rubbed and marked, folio. Herbert 520. (1)
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Bible [Latin]. Synopsis Criticorum Aliorumque Sacrae Scripturae Interpretum et Commentatorum..., Matthaeo Polo, Londinensi..., 5 vols., Utrecht, 1686, titles printed in red and black, each vol. with extensive fore-edge tabulation (vellum tabs), contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt dec. spines with raised bands, vol. 2 slightly chipped at head, folio (5)
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Charles I. A Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and Other Principal Passages Concerning the Differences Betwixt King Charles I and His Two Houses of Parliament..., 1612, title ruled in red, eng. illust. to title, two double-page eng. plts. (1 plt. inverted), contemp. panelled calf, gilt dec. spine, upper board detached, some wear to extrems., folio. This forms only vol. 2 of "Basilika: The Workes of King Charles the Martyr..., Edited by William Fulman and Richard Perrinchief". (1)
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Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, Citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine Scholies, Anotations, and Inventions, of the best Mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull Preface made by M. J. Dee, specifying the chiefe Mathematicall Sciences, what they are, and whereunto comodius: where, also, are disclosed certaine new Secrets Mathematicall and Mechanicall, untill these our daies, greatly missed, 1st complete English ed., John Daye, 1570, woodcut title (a little browned and minor fraying to extrems.), lacks folding Groundplatt at end of preface, num. woodcut diags., initials, etc., Book XI with most moveable overslips missing (seven small slips still present but detached), final leaf of text with colophon to verso, and large woodcut port. of the printer John Daye (a little browned and marked to extreme edges), one or two leaves with minor rust hole or sl. damage, affecting one or two letters (generally in good condition), contemp. full calf, worn with backstrip deficient and covers detached, folio. STC 10560; Honeyman 1008; Thomas-Stanford 41. The first edition of the first complete English translation, with an important preface by John Dee. (1)
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Gerli (Agostino). Opuscoli, 1st ed., Parma, Bodoni, 1785, title with large eng. vign., eight large eng. head- and tail-pieces, fifteen b&w eng. plts., incl. three folding, some light damp discol. towards rear of vol., untrimmed, modern brown half-calf, folio, contained in modern drop-over bookbox, with bookplate of Gšsta E. Florman, folio. A collection of essays on aerostatics, architecture, decoration, etc., incl. obsverations on the hot air balloon constructed by Paulo Andreani, of Milan, which made the first aerial ascent in Italy, in 1784. (1)
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Shakespeare (William). The Library Shakspeare, Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank, and R. Dudley, 3 vols. in 9 divisions, [1873-5], numerous chromo plts., b & w plts. and illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, folio, together with Russell (William), The History of Modern Europe with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a View of the Progress of Society from the Fifth to the Eighteenth Century. In a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, 4 vols., 1779-1784, contemp. half calf, worn and few boards detached, 8vo (13)
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Vaughan (Edward). The Reports and Auguments of that Learned Judge Sir John Vaughan Kt. Late Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas..., 1677, eng. port. frontis., ink stamps to frot endpapers, contemp. calf, rubbed & a little worn, folio, together with Siderfin (Thomas), Les Reports des Divers Special Cases Argue & Adjudge en le Court del Bank le Roy..., 2 vols., 1683-84, early marginal notes throughout, ink stamp to title and endpapers, contemp. calf, old reback, rubbed & scuffed, folio, with Reports of Cases Taken and Adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the Reign of King Charles I. and to the 20th Year of King Charles II..., 2 vols., 1693, ink stamps to half-title of vol. 1 and to front endpapers, contemp. calf, upper board of vol. 1 near detached, slight wear to joints and extrems., 8vo, plus twenty-one other late 17th & 18th c. law books (26)
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Beauclair (R.). Farbige Flachenmuster fur das Moderne Kunstgewerbe, Stuttgart, 1900, printed title and thirty-two printed litho. plts. (complete), mostly contained in orig. half cloth portfolio, the upper cover printed with art nouveau-style decoration and lettering, a little rubbed and soiled, slim folio (1)
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Denton (J. Bailey, ed.). The Farm Homesteads of England. A Collection of Plans of English Homesteads Existing in Different Parts of the Country, Carefully Selected from the Most Approved Specimens of Farm Architecture, to Illustrate the Accommodation required under various Modes of Husbandry..., 1864, sixty-nine uncol. and tinted litho. plts., wood engs. to text, minor scattered spotting, postage stamp to title, owners stamp to title and final page of text, ink inscription to verso of frontis., a.e.g., contemp. red half morocco gilt, upper joint partly cracked, small folio (1)
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Finden (W. & E.). Findens' Tableaux of National Character, Beauty, and Costume..., vol. 1 of 2, 1843, twenty-nine eng. plts. only, occ. scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. sheep, upper joint worn and extrems. rubbed, folio, together with Simpkin & Marshal (pub.), The Gallery of Modern British Artists, 2 vols. in 1, n.d., c.1840, seventy-six eng. plts., occ. scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, covers near detached, spine faded and frayed at head & foot of spine, 4to, plus London Printing & Publishing Company, The Heroines of Shakspeare: Comprising the Principal Female Characters in the Plays of the Great Poet..., n.d., c.1850, forty-seven eng. plts., contemp. half morocco gilt, extrems. rubbed, 4to (3)
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Klein (Paul G., illust.). De Legende en de Heldhaftige, Vrolijke en Roemrijke Daden van Uilenspiegel en Lamme Goedzak in Vlaanderen en Elders Tekst van Charles de Coster Ingeleid Door Joseph Hanse, 1965, thirty colour porchoir plts., rough trimmed, contents loose as issued in orig. crimson half morocco, some wear to extrems., contained in orig. board slipcase (fraying to extrems.), large folio (56 x 81 cm). Signed by Klein and publication dated 13.2.65. One of 15 lettered copies prepared for the artist. (1)
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Les Maitres du Dessin. Publication Mensuelle editee par l'Imprimerie Chaix, sous la direction de M. Roger Marx... Les Dessins du Mussee du Luxembourg & Les Dessins Francais du Siecle a l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, First & Second series, 24 orig. parts, May 1899-April 1901, ninety-six b & w and sepia helioptype plts., orig. art nouveau style printed wrappers contained in two orig. card envelopes, together with Les Grands Modeles, Fourrures, 1940, 34 pp., num. col. fashion illusts. of ladies in fur coats, etc., orig. pict. stiff wrappers, slim folio, plus Le Petit Journal, approx 67 orig. issues, c. 1891-1911, col.-printed front and rear covers, slim folio, and a few other items (a carton)
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Macaulay (James). The Gothic Revival, 1745-1845, 1st ed., 1975, num. b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed, 4to, together with Williams (Iolo), Early English Watercolours, and some cognate drawings by artists born not later than 1785, reprint ed., 1970, col. frontis., num. b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Hyde (Ralph), A Prospect of Love of Britain, the town panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1994, num. b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., oblong folio, VG, and Hollander (Eugen), Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin, 2nd ed., Stuttgart, 1921, col. frontis., col. and b&w plts. and illusts., frontis. loose, orig. cloth, rubbed and frayed to joints and head and foot of spine, somewhat soiled, 4to, plus other various art reference, mostly modern publications, 4to/8vo (28)
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Phaidon. The Paintings of Michelangelo, The Sculptures of Michelangelo, Donatello, Rodin, Velazquez, Etruscan Sculpture, Roman Portraits, The Paintings of Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt, The Impressionists, Leonardo da Vinci, 1939-48, all 1st eds. (except final three), col. and b & w illusts., all orig. cloth, folio (11)
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Schiele (Egon). Handzeichmungen, pub. Verlag Ed. Strache, 1920, nine (of fifteen) photolitho. reprods. only, mostly b & w, single printed title and contents leaf, loosely contained in remains of cardboard slipcase, together with Kokoschka (Oskar), Variations on a Theme, n.d., n.p., c. 1920, ten b & w photolitho. reprods., numbered I-X, loose in orig. boards, some wear, atlas folio, plus one other similar album of five col. reprods. after Schiele without text or letterpress, loosely contained in orig. wrappers, slim folio, and three other atlas folio albums of reprods. after Old Masters, incl. Grunewald, Van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, w.a.f. (6)
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Bates (H.E.). Down the River, illust. Agnes Miller Parker, Victor Gollancz, 1937, b & w wood engs. throughout, some full-page, front free endpaper with inscription from Bates to Ursula Deacon dated 1944, orig. cloth in chipped and lightly stained d.j., 4to, together with Achilles the Donkey, illust. Carol Barker, 1st ed., 1962, signed by Bates on the title-page, col. illusts. throughout, orig. pictorial boards, d.j. chipped at edges and with staining to spine, folio, plus Achilles and the Twins, illust. Carol Barker, 1st ed., 1964, signed by Bates on the title-page, col. illusts. throughout, orig. pictorial boards, d.j. with some staining, folio, plus four further Bates 1st eds. in chipped and rubbed d.j.s (7)
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Crossley (Anthony). The Floating Line for Salmon and Sea-Trout, illust. Roy Beddington, 3rd ed., 1948, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., together with Walker (C.F.), The Art of Chalk Stream Fishing, 1st ed., 1968, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., plus Lawrence (D.H.), Pansies, Poems, 1st ed., 1929, t.e.g., orig. quarter cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, all 8vo, and others various, mostly angling, Scottish history, modern literature etc., mostly 8vo but incl. Birdwing Butterflies of the World, by Bernard D'Abrera, 1975, folio in slipcase (1 shelf)
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