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[Worlidge, John]. Systema Agriculturae; the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered. Treating of the several New and Most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, Improving.to which is added Kalendarium Rusticum or The Husbandman's Monthly Directions.Dictionarium Rusticum; or, The Interpretation of Rustick Terms. The Fourth Edition, carefully corrected and Amended, with one whole section added, 1687,. add. engr. title, with explanation leaf cleanly torn and repaired without loss, one plt. and two illusts. in text, marginal stain on Q1 and Q2, blank corner of title to Kalendarium missing, not affecting text, signature of Godfrey Copley, 1689, and his bookplate, contemp. calf, rubbed, rebacked, folio (1)

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George VI (1895-1952, King). The Funeral of His Late Majesty King George VI, at Windsor, on Friday, 15th February 1952, British Railways Western Region typed procedure booklet, folding diagram of processional train, orig. cloth-backed printed wrappers, slim folio (1)

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*Theatre. A good album of approx. 300 signed black and white photo postcards, mostly c. 1910-15, personalities include Lillie Langtry, Anna Pavlova, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Henry Irving, Marie Lloyd, Gerald du Maurier, George Robey, Irene Vanbrugh, Charles Wyndham, Pauline Chase, Henry J. Wood, Weedon and George Grossmith, Gladys Cooper, Fay Compton, Alice Delysia, G.H. Elliott, Adeline Genee, Seymour Hicks, Shirley Kellogg, Edna May, Charles Quatermain, Marie Tempest, Ellaline Terriss and Huntley Wright, mostly window-mounted postcards, though a few larger and a few pasted in, all clearly signed on images, some fraying to album leaves not affecting cards, contemp. cloth, some wear, folio. Full list of names available. The album cover has the ownership stamped initials of the collector Phyllis Goldsmith who evidently sent had these cards personally signed or posted back to her once signed. (1)

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*Pink Floyd. The Wall, double LP, 1979 signed in gatefold by Roger Waters to Jack [Karnehm], overall VG, together with an undated autograph letter signed from Waters to Jack declining an invitation and promising to ring to arrange a game, 1p., folio. Jack Karnehm (1917-2002), snooker and billiards player, as well as TV commentator and designer of swivel-lens spectacles first sported by Dennis Taylor. (2)

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*Anne (1665-1714, Queen). Four manuscript sheets of code words for February, March and April, 1703/4, each sheet written to rectos only with two columns 'For the Court' and 'For the Citty', the first leaf with conjugate (det.) and signed by Queen Anne at head of document, all leaves somewhat browned, folio (4)

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Bristol. An Act for Making a Navigable Canal between the Cities of Bath and Bristol; and also for Supplying with Water the Inhabitants of the City of Bristol, and its Environs, 1811, 136pp., slight fraying to fore-edge, slim folio, together with Forest of Dean, An Act for Making and Maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from the Summit of the Hill above Churchway Engine in the Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucester, to a Certain Place in the said Forest Called Cinderford Bridge, 1809,30pp., margins slightly frayed to upper outer corners, slim folio (2)

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*Marlborough (John Churchill, 1st Duke, 1650-1722). Four leaves of accounts receipts to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, for various goods and services, April 1696 to April 1697, in total forty-three consecutively written receipts, each written and signed in the hand of the supplier, with breif details and including amount paid, signatories include Frances Lyne "0.6s.2d. "for the Ladys masters, the Shoemaker and ?mantow woman", (15 to G. Arthaud "for one year wages", also (1.11s.3d. "for mony layd out for Lord Churchill", M. Laroche ((4 for lace), William King ((20), Samuel ?Clothier ((20 "for painting work don at St. James House"), ?Gardye ("twenty four chares bought in Hoalland by my Lady Villers" and later "tea red for my Lady Villers"), Magret Healy, John Dissoll, Estienne Hugueny, Margaret Reeve, James Marchand, Anne Johnson, John Clarke, Robert Magee, Elizabeth Smith, Francis Burton, George Collwell, Theodore Chester, William Sherard, ?Gabriel Douglas, Gilbert Abrahall, William Emerson, J. Pecher, John Oxton, Henry Trovell, William Nash, ? Horwood, Ann Hon and Nicolas De Laussac, paper ruled in red, folio, together with an unrelated and later small manuscript book of copied epigrams. Churchill was created earl of Marlborough in 1689 and 1st Duke of Marlborough in 1702, three years before the battle of Belenheim and the start of the construction of Blenheim Castle. The Lady Villers referred to in two of the receipts is presumably Barbara Villiers (1641-1709, Duchess of Cleveland), mistress of King Charles II and her cousin, John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough. (2)

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Patents. A collection of approx. 200 patent specifications, c. 1890-1900, some with printed drawing, all disbound, slim folio (small carton)

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Piracy. Black letter Act to Amend an Act Made Under William III for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy, 1745, 8pp, together with another black letter act for the better prevention of Piracies, 1759, 16pp, both disbound, folio This Act refers to the pirates operating in the West indies and it sought to stem their lucrative trade operating there. (2)

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*Scrap Album. An early 19th c. scrap album containing twenty hand-col. aqua. views of seats in Devon and Cornwall, all trimmed to image, approx. 11 x 20 cm., incl. Dunster Castle, Swainston, Belhus, Poltimores, Watermouth, Fulford House, Eridge Park, West Dean House, Lanhydrock House, etc., plus various topographical engs., a few hand-col. lithos. of juvenile/comic interest, a few photos., etc., orig. half morocco gilt, worn, folio (1)

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The Cirencester Flying-Post, parts 172, 180-251 & 253-313, April 2, 1744-Dec. 15, 1746, parts 218 & 274 both lack second leaf of text, some margins close trimmed occ. affecting text, few pages repaired, 20th c. brown half morocco, folio (1)

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The Glocester Journal,. 4 vols., jan 3, 1758-Dec 30, 1760; Jan 2, 1764-Dec 29, 1766; Jan 5, 1767-Dec 25, 1769; Jan 1, 1776-Nov 28, 1776, a broken run, column of text to part 1926 excised, few pages close trimmed slightly affecting text, near contemp. qtr. sheep, worn, vol. for 1767-69 with upper board detached, folio. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (4)

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Illustrated London News. Vols. 1-8, 10-13, 15-18, 20-26, 28-35, 37-42, 44, 45, & 47, a broken run, 1842-65, numerous wood engravings, some double-p. or folding, a few col. plts., orig. pubs. cloth, some wear, folio (40)

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Antoninus (Archbishop of Florence). Prima [-Tertia] pars Historialis, Basel, Nicolaus Kessler, 1502, black letter text, a few old neat marginal annotations, some minor scattered worm holes to rear of vol. (not affecting legibility), title and last leaf of text slightly soiled (text generally in clean condition), 18th-c. blind-stamped vellum, darkened and some marks and stains, thick folio (1)

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Bible [Latin]. Sacrorum Bibliorum Pars II, Pars III, (Old Testament Isaiah to Malachi, Apocrypha and New Testament complete) in one vol., ed. Lucas Osiander, Tubingen 1591 and Frankfurt 1608, double column text, printer's woodcut device to each title,occasional erratic pagination, some browning, small hole in X5 of New Testament, contemp. blind-stamped pigskin over boards, stained and heavily rubbed, armorial central panels, later spine labels, folio (1)

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Blondel (David). A Treatise of the Sibyls so Highly Celebrated as well by the Antient Heathens, as the Holy Fathers of the Church, 1661, title and following leaf slightly soiled and frayed at outer margin, modern antique-style half calf, folio (1)

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Buchanan (George). Rerum Scoticarum Historia, ad Jacobum VI Scotorum Regem, Accessit De Jure Regni apud Scotos Dialogues, Edinburgh, 2nd ed., 1583, light browning throughout, 19th-c., half plain vellum, rubbed and soiled, clean, wide-margined copy, folio. Early edition (post 1582) of the first history of Scotland written by a scot, with the intention of purging it of "sum Inglis lyis and Scottis vanite" and the first appearance in print of an influential tract on the source of authority in kings. Story of Macbeth starts verso of folio 61. (1)

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Burnet (Gilbert). The Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, & in which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland.from the Year 1625, to the Year 1652, together with many letters, instructions, and other papers, written by King Charles I, never before published. 1677, one or two minor marks, contemp. full calf, gilt dec. spine, rubbed and marked and some old repairs to joints and outer corners, folio (1)

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Burton (William). A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire., 1685, title in red and black, some spotting, lacks port. frontis. and double-p. map (both supplied in pen and ink 'facsimiles'), old half calf, covers det. and spine deficient, folio, (Wing B6185), together with [Fenn, John], Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III, vols. 1 & 2, 1787, twenty plts. incl. three hand-col. and one folding pedigree, heavy spotting throughout, contemp. half calf, rebacked with remains of orig. spine relaid, 4to, (three further volumes published in 1823), plus Lambert (Benjamin), The History and Survey of London, 4 vols., 1806, forty-two (of 56) eng. plts. incl. folding map to vol. 4, contemp. tree calf gilt, upper cover to vol. 2 det., 8vo, plus other misc. antiquarian incl. sets by Mommsen and Goldsmith (32)

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[Caulfield, James]. Cromwelliana. A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was Engaged from the Year 1642 to his Death, 1658; with a Continuation of other Transactions to the Reformation, 1st ed., 1810,. frontis. and five plts., plts. foxed and offset, bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, contemp. full vellum, gilt border, spine split in one place, upper joint cracked at top, folio. One of 250 large paper copies. (1)

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Chambers (Ephraim). Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences., 2 vols., 5th ed., 1741-43,. titles printed in red & black, twenty eng. plts. (inc. seven folding), one folding plt. badly torn without loss to image, contemp. calf, old rebacks, joints worn, folio (2)

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Cruikshank (George). Prince of Shuma,illustrated by the designs of George Cruikshank, 2 parts [all pub.] bound in 1, 1823-24, ten etched plts. to each, some spotting, lacks orig. wrappers to Part 1, orig. printed wrappers to Part 2. retained (soiled and relaid), two pencil sketches mounted to inner wrappers, one showing a broom seller and the other of a man's head with old pencil attribution to Cruikshank or Robert Seymour, contemp. polished calf, rebacked, rubbed, together with Cruikshank (George, Illust.), Mornings at Bow Street., by J. Wight, 3rd ed., 1825, twenty-two woodcuts, incl. frontis, a.e.g., bound without orig. wrappers in contemp. half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, rubbed on spine and joints, both 8vo, plus My Sketch Book, No.9 only (of 9), 1836, four hand-col. etched plts., a little soiled at margins, orig. printed wrappers, slightly frayed, torn on spine, slim oblong folio, plus other George Cruikshank interest (20)

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Eusebius Pamphilius (Bishop of Caesarea). Ecclesiasticae Historiae Libri Decem Eiusdem de Vita Imp Constantini, Libri IV, ed. Henricus Valesius, Mayence, 1672,. title vignette, parallel Greek and Latin text in double column, foxing, browning and light waterstain, contemp. calf, worn, joints broken, small piece of leather missing from spine, folio. Corrected reprint of the Paris edition. (1)

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Hardy (Thomas, ed.). Monumenta Historica Britannica, or Materials for the History of Britains from the Earliest Period to the End of the Reign of King Henry VII, Published by Command of Her Majesty, vol. 1 only [all pub.], 1848, twenty-eight plts. incl. one folding, minor scattered spotting, orig. half calf, rebacked, sl. rubbed and marked, folio (1)

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Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings and authorized by the names of the Writers in whose works they are found. Abstracted from the Folio Edition.to which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English Language, 2 vols., 4th ed., corrected, 1770,. occn. slight foxing and some minor marks to margins, contemp. calf, rubbed and marked, rebacked with orig. labels laid retained, outer corners showing (one or two repaired), 8vo (2)

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Josephus (trs. Lodge, Thomas). The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus, a man of much honour and learning among the Jews, 1655, C3 cleanly torn without loss, top blank margin of title torn with minor loss, small hole in Dd6 affecting seven words, occn. spotting and slight marginal worming, contemp. calf, rubbed, upper cover det., folio (1)

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Moreri (Louis). Le Grand Dictionaire Historique : ou Le mŽlange Curieux de l'Histoire SacrŽe et Profane, qui contient en abregŽ les vies et les Actions Remarquables des Patriarches, des Juges, des rois des Juifs, des Papes, des saints peres & anciens docteurs orthodoxes., 4 vols. in 2, 1702, eng. frontis. to first vol., title in red and black, contemp. blind-stamped vellum with raised bands, a little worn, folio (2)

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Morgan (Sylvanus). The Sphere of Gentry: Deduced from the Principles of Nature, an Historical and Genealogical Work, of Arms and Blazon; in Four Books, London, 1661, engr. frontis. incorporating port. of author, dedication armorial to reverse of title page, numerous eng'd. armorial and genealogical plates (some with contemp. hand-col.), sig. of Peter Le Neve, Norroy and contemp. sig. of Eliza Bludell to front flyleaves, minor tear to lower margin of title, not affecting text, contemp. full calf, rebacked and corners repaired, orig. morocco label retained, folio. The herald Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) held office as Norroy King of Arms from 1704 to 1729. (1)

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Petrarch (Francesco). Annotatio nonnullorum librorum seu epistolarum Francisci Petrarche, [Opera vol. 2 only], Venice, Simone de Luere impensa domini Andree Torresani de Asula, 17th June, 1501. gathers 6 and 7 with running wormhole slightly affecting text, a few contemp. marginalia, recent half calf, folio. Adams P775. (1)

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[Roberts (William)]. The Looker-on, a Periodical Paper by the Rev. Simon Olive-Branch, A.M., 1st ed., original issues 1-86 [all published in this format], March 1792 - December 1793, a few light stains, contemporary quarter calf, rebacked, folio (1)

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Russell (W.H. & Dudley, Robert). A Memorial of the Marriage of H.R.H. Albert Edward Prince of Wales and H.R.H. Alexandra Princess of Denmark, pub. Day & Son, [1863], chromo. title and forty-one mounted chromo. plts. by Robert Dudley, num. wood engs. to text, serious damsptain to lower margins of many leaves (not affecting image), some leaves frayed at edges, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. crimson half morocco, worn, upper cover det., tall folio (1)

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Russell (W.H.). The Wedding at Windsor. A Memorial of the Marriage of H.R.H. Albert Edward Prince of Wales and H.R.H. Alexandra Princess of Denmark. The Various Events and the Bridal Gifts Illustrated by Robert Dudley, [1863], illuminated title page, forty-one chromo. plts. incl. naval scenes and London topography, text illusts., light foxing, margins of a few plts. slightly torn, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, stained and worn, folio, together with The Gentlewoman's Royal Record of the Wedding of H.S.H. The Princess Victoria Mary of Teck and H.R.H. The Duke of York, 1893, silk printed double port. frontis., plts. (one folding), illusts., adverts, contemp. half morocco, rubbed, oblong folio (2)

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Statutes. The Whole Volume of Statutes at Large, which at anie time heeretofore have beene extent in print, since Magna Charta, untill the XXIX. yeere of the reigne of our most gratious sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth ., 2 vols. in one, printed for Christopher Barker, 1587, black letter text, lacks front blank before title, a little soiling and some marks to title (with minor damage to inner margin at head), final few leaves soiled and creased to margins, with last two leaves torn and repaired to top and inner margins with a little loss of text, one or two minor worm-holes to portion of vol. at end, a.e.g., contemp. blindstamped calf over wooden boards, with clasps, worn and spine recased with portion of orig. spine laid down, upper cover det., thick folio in 8's. STC 9316. A fascinating collection of medieval and Elizabethan statutes, some of which are still in use today. (1)

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Trials. The Trials of Henry Cornish, Esq., for Conspiring the Death of the King and Rousing a Rebellion in this Kingdom and John Farnley, William Ring and Elizabeth Gaunt for Harbouring and Maintaining Rebels, 1685, modern cloth, folio, together with The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, before the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeanours, 1710, contemp. blind-panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo (2)

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Sydenham (Thomas). Opera Medica, Venice, 1762, port. frontis and one fldg. plt., title in red and black, printed in double column, a little worming in second half of vol., mostly marginal but occasionally affecting text, contemp. full mottled calf, sl. rubbed, lacking free endpapers, folio. To this edition was added William Musgrave's Dissertations on Arthritis, Mazino's "Mechanical Morborum" and Boschetti's Dissertation on Salivation. (1)

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Anderson (William). The Pictorial Arts of Japan, 1886, eighty plts. incl. seventeen col., 146 text illusts. plus vigns., orig. qtr. morocco, decorative boards, spine worn, joints broken, folio (2)

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The Art Decorator. Designs in Colours for Art Workers and Amateurs, Sixteenth Series, 1905, sixty chromo plts. of art nouveau designs by Kupka, Aubert, Roubille, Habert-Dys etc., some minor soiling to title, orig. cloth gilt, worn with backstrip partly detached, folio (1)

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Beardsley (Aubrey, illust.). A Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings Illustrating "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, n.d., c. 1907, seventeen prints measuring 344mm x 274mm, contained in orig. publisher's half-vellum portfolio, gilt dec. lacking ties, folio (1)

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Brieger (Peter H.). The Trinity College Apocalypse, with an Introduction and Description by Peter H. Brieger, 2 vols., Eugrammia Press, 1967, text vol. with illusts., facsimile on specially made vellum-effect paper, in full colour and heightened with gold leaf, text vol. in orig. cloth, facsimile in parchment, gilt, (by Zaehnsdorf), in slipcase, folio. Number 323 of 600 copies. (2)

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Bury (Lady Charlotte). The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna, a Poem., 1833, addn. eng. title, port. and six etched sepia plates after Edward Bury, slight marginal browning, orig. cloth, morocco label to upper board, rebacked, oblong folio (1)

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Constable (John). English Landscape Scenery: a series of forty mezzotint engravings on steel, by David Lucas, from Pictures painted by John Constable, pub. Henry G. Bohn, 1855, forty mezzotint engs., very faint water staining to lower margins, extensively extra-illustrated with modern colour reprods. of Constable's works, later red cloth, spine partly defective, folio (1)

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Gartside (Mary). Ornamental Groups, Descriptive of Flowers, Birds, Shells, Fruit, Insects, etc., and Illustrative of a New Theory of Colouring, from Designs and Paintings, pub. William Miller, London, 1808, eighteen etchings and aquatints, all mounted as drawings, some with colour printing and others hand-col., each with associated leaf of text, list of subscribers present (165 names), a few minor marginal repairs, contemp. half calf gilt, some wear to extrems., atlas folio. (1)

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Harding (J.D.). Elementary Art or, the use of the Chalk and Lead Pencil Advocated and Explained, 4th ed., [1854], twenty-four litho plts., minor spotting, orig. cloth gilt, slight wear to spine, folio, together with Prout (Samuel), Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, etc. as Applicable to Landscape Painting, 1838,twenty litho plts., orig. cloth gilt, rebacked, folio (2)

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Hillier (Jack). Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, 2 vols., 1st ed., pub. Sothebys, 1976, col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s., folio, limited edition 495/2000, together withHillier (J.), The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, 2 vols., 1970, col. and b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. cloth, contained in slipcase, 4to (4)

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Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, pub. Day and Son, n.d., c.1860s, num. chromo plts., some marks and contents partly loose (a few leaves slightly frayed to extremities), orig. cloth gilt, soiled and somewhat worn, folio, w.a.f., together with Racinet (Auguste), Polychromatic Ornament, [1873], 50 chromo plts., each with small circular library ink stamp, some marks to margins, prelims. loose and frayed, disbound without covers, folio, plus a disbound vol. of etched plts. after Renaissance artwork and objects from the South Kensington Museum, c.1866, without covers, folio, and an orig. part of Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament (containing 4 chromo plts) (4)

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Michelangelo (Buonarotti). The Sistine Chapel, Text by Frederick Hartt, Commentary on the Plates by Gianluigi Colalucci, Note on the Restoration by Fabrizio Mancinelli, Photographs by Takashi Okamura, 2 vols., pub. Barrie & Jenkins, 1991, num. fine col. illusts. from photos., many folding, orig. cloth with red morocco labels to spines, slipcase and orig. packaging, folio. Limited edition 168/500. (1)

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Monteverdi (Mario). Storia della Pittura Italiana dell 'Ottocento, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1984, num. col. and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. mock brown leather gilt, with slipcase, a few minor marks, folio, together with Comanducci (A. M.), I Pittori Italiani dell' Ottocento, Dizionario Critico e Documentario, Milan, 1934, reprinted, 1992, num. b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., thick folio, VG, plus Pignatti (Terisio), Pietro Longhi, Paintings and Drawings, Complete Edition, 1st. ed., Phaidon, 1969, tipped-in col. plts., b&w illusts., orig. cloth, covers lightly damp marked, in d.j., square 4to, and Voss (Hermann), Die Malerei der SpŠtrenaissance in Rom und Florenz, 2 vols., Berlin, 1920, plus others on Renaissance and later Italian Art (23)

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Moore (Henry). The Drawings, pub. N.Y., Curt Valentin, 1946, 30 plts. incl. two in colour, loose as issued in orig. boards with d.j., sl. marked, spine darkened, folio, together with Chagall, Peintures 1942-1945; Braque, Peintures 1909-1947; Rousseau, all pub. Paris, Les Editions du Chene, 1947-51, col. plts. to each, all orig. printed wrappers, minor staining, 4to, and another similar (5)

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Ottley (William Young). The Italian School of Design: Being a Series of Fac-similies of Original Drawings, by the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors of Italy; with Biographical Notices of the Artists, and Observations on their Works, Printed for the Author, 1823, num. facsimilie engs., many printed in sepia or bistre tint, some minor marginal dampstains and a few closed tears, untrimmed, orig. boards, backstrip def. and covers det., folio (1)

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Price (Bruce). Modern Architectural Practice No. 1, A Large Country House, pub. New York, 1886, num. litho. plts., orig. printed boards, library stamps to most leaves, worn with covers detached, folio, together with Stroobant (F.), Monuments de la Belgique, c.1850s, tinted litho. plts., orig. cloth gilt, covers detached, 4to, and other architectural interest (8)

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Raemaekers (Louis). The Great War, A Neutral's Indictment, One Hundred Cartoons, with an Appreciation by H. Perry Robinson and Descriptive Notes by E. Garnett, together with The Great War in 1916, A Neutral's Indictment, plus The Great War, Victory Volume, together 3 vols., pub. Fine Arts Society, 1916-19, 252 col. and b & w tipped-in illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. uniform half cloth gilt in generally bright condition, two contained in orig. publsiher's book-boxes, worn, folio. Printed in editions of 1050 (the first two volumes) and 1030 (the third volume), vols. 2 and 3 signed by the artist. (3)

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Sauvageot (Claude). Palais, Chateaux, Hotels et Maisons de France du XVe au XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 4 vols., 1867, 295 b&w eng. plts. of plans, elevations, etc, including a few double-page and one or two col., contemp. half red morocco, rubbed and scuffed and some marks, minor wear to extrems., folio (4)

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Smith (Captain John). The Generall Histoire of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles, 1966 facs. reprint of the 1624 1st. ed., maps and plts., descriptive pamphlet loosely inserted, mock vellum gilt, together with Bayer (Johannes), Uranometria, 1987 facsimile of the 1603 1st. ed., astronomical charts, orig. dark blue buckram, together with Tooley (R.V.) and Bricker (Charles),. Landmarks of Mapmaking, 1st English ed, Oxford, 1976, num. col. and b&w plts., many fldg., orig. cloth, film protected d.j., and six other vols., cartography, travel, facsimiles, folio (9)

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Studio Special Numbers. The Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, 1906, Old English Country Cottages, 1906-7, Modern Etchings, Mezzotints and Dry-Points, 1912-13, Paris, Past and Present, 1915, Early English Water-Colour Drawings, 1919, Drawings in Pen & Pencil from Durer's Day to Hours, 1922, Figure Painting in Water-Colours, 1923, num. col. and b & w illusts., all orig. printed wrappers, some a little worn on spines and eight others, folio (15)

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Tatham (Charles Heathcote). Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; Drawn from the Originals in Rome, and other Parts of Italy, during the Years 1794, 1795, and 1796, 3rd ed., 1810,. 100 uncol. etched plts. (lacks plts. 28, 73 & 101), contemp. plum half morocco gilt, rubbed (small portion at head of spine missing), together with Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Grecian and Roman Architectural Ornament; Drawn from the Originals, and Chiefly Collected in Italy, before the Late Revolutions in that Country, 1826, 125 uncol. etched plts. (lacking plts. 73 & 101), some minor scattered spotting, mainly to margins, recent linen-backed boards, both folio (2)

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Terret (Victor). La Sculpture Bourguignonne aux XII et XIII Siecles ses Origines et ses Sources D'inspiration Autun, 2 vols., Autun, 1925, numerous photogravure plts., orig. printed wrappers in glassine d.j.s., folio, together with Vitry (Paul & Brire, Gaston), Documents de Sculpture Franaise du Moyen Age., reprinted, Arno Press, New York, 1969, numerous b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, a little marked, folio (3)

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Tipping (H. Avray). English Homes, Period II, vol. 1 (Early Tudor, 1495-1558), 2nd ed., Country Life, 1929, English Homes, Periods I & II, vol. 2 (Mediaeval and Early Tudor, 1066-1558), 1st ed., Country Life, 1937, num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt in remains of d.j.s., folio, together with Lenygon (Francis), The Library of Decorative Art. English Decoration & Furniture, 1550-1650, Decoration in England, 1640-1760, Furniture in England, 1660-1760, English Decoration & Furniture, 1760-1820, 4 vols. (a complete set), mixed eds., Batsford, 1924-27, num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed (vols. 1 & 3 in torn d.j.s.), 4to (6)

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Aldin (Cecil). Gyp's Hour of Bliss, n.d., c. 1920, fifteen full-page col. illusts., text printed in blue, orig. linen-backed pict. boards, a little marked and corners bumped, slim 4to, together with An Artist's Models, by Cecil Aldin, 1st ed., 1930, twenty tinted plts., orig. cloth (dampstained) in slightly frayed d.j., small folio, plus one other by Aldin (3)

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Barker (Cicely Mary). The Book of the Flower Fairies, 1st collected ed., [1927], seventy-two col. plts., orig. green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Wilman (Stanley V.), Games for Playtime & Parties, With & Without Music, for Children of all Ages, Pictured by Margaret W. Tarrant, [1914], col. and b & w illusts., orig. linen-backed pict. boards, slim folio, with others similar (12)

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Brunhoff (Jean de). Histoire de Babar le petit elephant, 1st ed., 1st issue, Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1931, num. col. illusts., minor marginal soiling, orig. linen backed glazed pictorial boards, edges worn, deep score in upper cover, joint splitting at top of spine, folio. The first issue of the first Babar book lists no other titles and has no elephant on the copyright page. (1)

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