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Lot 57

Architecture.- Gardens & Fountains.- Le Pautre (Jean) Veue Grottes et Fontaines de Jardins a l'Italiene, suite of 6 engraved plates, including title,  title with some surface dust, each c.165 x 240mm., Pierre Mariette, [c.1670], bound with Nouveau Dessins de Jardins, Parterres et Fassades de Maisons, suite of 6 engraved plates, including title, each c.160 x 235mm., Nicolas Langlois, [c.1660], together 2 in 1, stitching holes just visible at gutter, modern paper-covered boards, small folio, Paris.

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Lot 72

Palace of Westminster.- House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on the House of Commons Buildings, 23 lithographed or engraved plans, 19 folding, 13 partly hand-coloured, some foxing, one lightly water-stained, some frayed at edges, original printed blue wrappers, spine worn and faded, lower wrapper almost detached, 1833 § Further Reports and Memorials of the Commissioners...for Improvement of Streets and Places near to Westminster Hall and the Two Houses of Parliament, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates by Basire, one folding, modern cloth, 1814; and 4 others on new designs for the Palace of Westminster, folio & 8vo (6)*** The Select Committee of the first was appointed "to consider the possibility of making the House of Commons more commodious and less unwholesome" and called on Sir John Soane, Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, Decimus Burton and others to tender designs for a new building. In the end the fire of 16th October 1834 destroyed most of the Palace of Westminster and a public competition was launched for a new design. It was won by Charles Barry assisted by Augustus Pugin, neither of whom had been interviewed for the 1833 report.

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Lot 51

18th Century Newspapers.- [Amhurst (Nicholas)], "Caleb d'Anvers". The Country Journal; or, the Craftsman, No.615, H.Haines, April 22 1738 § Newcastle Gazette (The), No.70, a few stains, [Newcastle], W.Cuthbert, October 16 1745 § Daily Advertiser (The), red duty stamp, Matthew Jenour, April 7 1758 § Northampton Mercury (The), Vol. XLIV no.VII & VIII, Northampton, Cluer Dicey & J.Ellington, May 9 & 16 1763, all folded sheets, a little soiled, folio (5)*** The Daily Advertiser announces a tennis match to be played in James Street in the Haymarket, by a M. Masson from Paris, "he being the best Player in the World".

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Lot 171

Gold & Silver.- Report from the Committee appointed to enquire into the manner of conducting the several Assay Offices in London, York, Exeter, Bristol, Chester, Norwich, and Newcastle upon Tyne...1773, extract from a volume of reports, pp. [59]-97, disbound, folio, n.d.*** With names and addresses of the gold- & silversmiths.

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Lot 259

London.- Photograph Albums.- [Views of London], 36 mounted albumen prints of London and the Thames, c.135 x 205mm., titled and numbered in the negative, mounted on thick card on rectos only, prints a little faded at edges, mounts foxed and slightly chipped at edges, contemporary half morocco, worn, [late 19th century] § Views of London. New Series, 22 mounted photographic prints, c.120 x 190mm, mounted on thick card on rectos only, with letterpress half-title and title, slight spotting, original cloth, rubbed, London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co. Ltd., [c.1900]; and another album of 18 panoramic photographs of ?Southend and the East coast, and 3 photographs of North End, Hampstead in 1887 together in a frame, oblong 4to & folio (4)

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Lot 71

Nash (Joseph) The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, 4 vol. in 1, 104 tinted lithographed plates including 4 additional pictorial titles, occasional marginal foxing, contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, 1869-72 § Hall (S.C.) The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England, 2 vol., 72 tinted lithographed plates after Harding, Cattermole, Prout & others, tissue guards, illustrations, some foxing, ex-library copy with label but no stamps, contemporary half red morocco, spines gilt, g.e., rubbed, spine ends repaired, 1881, [cf.Abbey, Scenery 402 & 405, earlier editions], folio (3)

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Lot 289

Lowe (E. J.) The Conchology of Nottingham, illustrations, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, new endpapers, modern cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1853 § Swinnerton (H. H.) Fossils: The New Naturalist, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, ex-library with usual labels, ink-stamps and blind-stamps, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, creasing to edges, 1960 § Miall (L. C.) The Geology Natural History and Pre-Historic Antiquities of Craven in Yorkshire, one map and one plate, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where signature removed, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, cracked hinges, original cloth, defective backstrip but holding firm, rubbed, Leeds, Joseph Dodgson, 1878; and anothers, folio & 8vo (4).

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Lot 62

Amphitheatres.- Lipsius (Justus) De Amphitheatro Liber, engraved printer's device to title and final leaf, 2 folding engraved plates, whole-page engraved illustrations, multiple ff. with either small amount of worming (some silked) or small paper repairs to lower margin, no text affected, some very minor soiling instances, modern paper-covered boards, [Adams L769], small folio, Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1598. 

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Lot 98

Aristotle.- Ammonius, Hermiae In Porphyrii Institutionem, Aristotelis Categorias, et librum De interpretatione, commentary by Giovanni Battista Rasario, first Rasario edition, double column, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, woodcut diagrams in text and historiated and decorative initials, c6 errata f., some marginal worming, some spotting and staining / water-staining, contemporary boards, spine in compartments, lacking ties, spine ends and corners worn, soiled and stained, rubbed, [EDIT 16 CNCE 1633], folio, Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1559. *** Ammonius founded the school of Aristotle-interpretation in Alexandria. Rasario also edited the works of Galen for Valgrisi. Provenance: 'Johannes Rolandus' (contemporary ink inscription to rear free endpaper). 

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Lot 67

Whistler (Laurence) The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his fellow artists, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, spine toned, a little surface dust-soiling, spots to flaps and verso, repairs at spine and fold ends, mainly on verso, folio, 1954.

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Lot 266

Yorkshire.- Aglio (Agostino) [To Godfrey Wentworth Junr. Esqre. This Series of Sketches of the Interior & Temporary Decorations in Woolley-Hall, Yorkshire], first edition, lacking lithographed portrait and pictorial title but with 28 views on 20 plates printed by C. Hullmandel, all tipped to drab brown leaves, no text as issued, light foxing to plates (mostly marginal but affecting a few images), some a little creased at corners where glued, one torn and repaired, a few small tears to edges of drab leaves (most repaired), modern half crimson morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, folio, [by the artist], [1821]. *** Scarce. The Italian painter Agostino Aglio was employed to decorate the walls of the drawing room of Woolley Hall with panels of classical Italian landscapes, as part of the improvements by Godfrey Wentworth. Some of the plates show interiors of the house but most are of Aglio's paintings.

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McCartneys
Lot 153

Folio Society. Tractatus de Herbis and Commentary, facsimile edition, British Library 2002; limited edition no. 697/1000; colour plates, all edges gilt; bound by Smith Settle of Ottley in full goatskin; with leather onlays, over bevelled boards, blocked wih design by David Eccles, handmade paper endleaves from Fabriano Mill. Folio and 8 vo.

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Lot 582

Folio Society. The Winchester Psalter Miniature Cycle. 2015. Limited edition no. 513/1000 total copies. Facsimile volume: folio in red morocco tooled in gilt; Commentary Volume by Kristine E Haney, in green buckram solander box with pictorial label. Fine copy.

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McCartneys
Lot 602

Three boxes of Folio Society and other books.

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Lot 159

Folio Society. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorised Version of King James I, illustrated by Eric Gill. Monochrome illustrations and vignettes, all edges gilt, gilt decorated black morocco plus essays volume in black cloth book box. Limited edition no. 1459/2750. Large 8 vo.

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McCartneys
Lot 590

Two boxes of Folio Society and other books.

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Lot 586

Folio Society. London and New York by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Facsimile edition no 166/520 total copies. Folio. Printed on Canaletto Grana Grassa paper by Smith Settle, quarter bound by them in goatskin with blocked materica paper sides. Contained in cloth covered sleeve. Fine copy.

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Lot 157

Folio Society. Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 volumes, 2006, limited edition no. 391/1000. Publisher's uniform original gilt decorated half mottled calf in slip case folio.

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McCartneys
Lot 594

Two boxes of books including Folio Society.

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Lot 603

Two boxes of books to include Abberville Press - Masterpieces of Chinese Painting and Folio Society - The Door in the Wall, Wells and Coburn.

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Lot 154

Folio Society. The Benedictional of Saint Athelwold, limited edition 2001 no 215/1000, colour facsimile pages, all edges gilt, gilt decorated brown morocco leather plus commentary volume in cloth book box. Large 8 vo

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Lot 600

Two boxes of Folio Society and other books.

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Lot 155

Folio Society. The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, by Edward Young. Illustrations by William Blake, 2 volumes, facsimile edition 2005. Quarter goatskin by Smith Settle of Ottley, upper boards with blocked illustration in silver, designed by David Eccles based on Blake's original drawings; with commentary volume in buckram. Folio. Limited edition no 337 of 1020 total copies

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Lot 156

Folio Society, The Luttrell Psalter. 2006. Facsimile edition, reproduced from British Library Additional MS 42130, all edge gilt, blue morocco, upper cover blocked with design in red, gilt and silver, 4to, commentary volume in cloth backed boards, in cloth solander box. Limited edition no 670 of 1500 total copies.

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McCartneys
Lot 591

Two boxes of Folio Society and other books.

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Lot 585

Folio Society. The Letterpress Shakespeare, Othello, edited by Michael Neill 2007. Folio, top edge gilt, red half-leather goatskin with accompanying book of notes bound in cloth, 8 vo. In cloth solander box. No 1240/3750 copies. Fine copy.

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Lot 592

Two boxes of Folio Society and other books.

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Lot 583

Folio Society: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Facsimile edition no. 799/2005 total copies reproduced from the 1929 Golden Cockerel Press edition 2010, with separate essay volume by Peter Holliday, in cloth solander box. Folio. Fine copy.

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Lot 584

Folio Society. The Letterpress Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, edited by Roger Warren 2008. Folio, top edge gilt, green half-leather goatskin with accompanying book of notes bound in cloth, 8 vo. In cloth solander box. No. 1240/3750 copies. Fine copy.

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McCartneys
Lot 593

Two boxes of books including Folio Society.

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Cheffins
Lot 320

Battles of the Civil War: The Complete Kurz & Allison Prints, 1861-1865. Limited first edition of 7700 copies, large folio, 1976, colour plates; with three gilt framed colour prints of London scenes by Charles James Lauder (4)

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Toovey's
Lot 2100

A large modern beech folio chest, fitted with seven graduated drawers, height 168cm, width 99cm, depth 76cm.

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Vectis Auctions Ltd
Lot 491

Collection of History & Military History Hardback Books in Cases.  Includes 'The Seven Years War' & 'The History of Scotland' (2 volumes).  All published by The Folio Society.  Conditions generally appear Good Plus (some storage wear).  Not checked for completeness.  See photo. 

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Rendells Auctioneers & Estate Agents
Lot 521

A small folio of eight North London Railway vintage style poster prints

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Kinghams Auctioneers
Lot 227

Thames and Hudson, Memorial Lecture publications, including Kenneth Clarke, What is Masterpiece, David Wilson, Forgotten Collector, together with Folio Society editions of Lewis Carroll and Thomas Hardy

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Keys Fine Art Auctioneers
Lot 192

PINK FLOYD INTEREST: A large folio containing an excellent collection of PINK FLoyd memorabilia and ephemera.To include Film Stills from 'The Wall', Tour programmes, ticket stubs, Photographs, Film celluloids, Art etcVIEWING ADVISED

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Lot 6

LEWIS CARROLL: ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND with SALLY BROWN: THE ORIGINAL ALICE, London, The Folio Socirty, 2008.Limited edition, hand numbered 2245/3750, a facsimile of the original manuscript with a 32-page booklet, housed in a solander box.

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 432

Colonial Conference, 1907. Papers laid before the Colonial Conference, 1907. London, 1907. Foolscap folio, 5784 pages. Sections on such as defence, emigration, naturalization, taxation, preferential trade, etc.

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 97

Architecture] Waring, J. B. Illustrations of Architecture and Ornament, 1871, folio, plates, half brown morocco; Raguenet, A. Die Hervorragendsten Palaste der Pariser Weltausstellung 1900. Gesammtansichten und Einzelheiten [Most outstanding Palaces (ie. exhibition pavilions buildings) of the Paris World Exhibition 1900. General Views & Details], Berlin, about 1900, folio, portfolio as issued of over 70 excellent loose lithographed plates, secured by ties. [2 items]

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 451

John Feehan, Farming in Ireland, folio, dj, mint, 2003. Signed copy of now very scarce magisterial work, particularly in this condition. (1)

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Lot 165

P.J. Polana.The Historie of the Council of Trent translated from Italian to English by Nathanael Brent.1620.First English edition Small folio. Fine contemporary calf, raised bands. This rare first edition chronicles the Great Council that formed the modern Catholic Church.. Provenance Dominican Convent Cabra

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 247

Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape, folio, 1997, signed, almost mint. Lough Crew the Cairns; Woodman, on archaeological visibility, signed; MacAlister, Gold Objects found in Ireland, RIA, 1914; Bateson, Roman Material in Ireland, RIA, 1973; Maryon, Irish Smiths, RIA, hb, 1938. George Eogan, Lockrings of the Bronze Age, RIA, 1969. Smith Earliest Irish Annals, RIA, 1972. Plus 11 related archaeological items. (c19)

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 16

The Banner Published By the Claremen and Women's Patriotic Association of New York. 1963. Ireland: 1963, folio. blue Cloth. Illustrated. Large format. Famous Claremen & Women; Norsemen & Dalcassians: Schools in Clare; Parishes; Battles in Clare; Clare's Dragoons; The Famine; Coats of Arms of Some Clare families in colour; Irish Independence in Clare 1916-22; GAA in Clare etc etc rare book

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Lot 433

University Education in Ireland, Royal Commission on]. Minutes of Evidence [being] Appendix to First Report, Dublin, 1901, 420 pages; Minutes of Evidence [being] Appendix to Second Report, Dublin,1902, 382 pages; Documents [being] Appendix to the Final report, Dublin, 1903, 151 pages; Minutes of Evidence [being] Appendix to the Third Report, Dublin, 1902, 671 pages; Final Report of the Commissioners, Dublin, 1903, 72pages. All foolscap folio in original blue wrappers. Massive source of information with about 1700 pages of expert evidence. [5 items]

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Lot 54

Duffy, Patrick F SIGNED. Landscapes of South Ulster. A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher, 1993. Large folio volume, profusely illustrated

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Lot 335

[3 Limerick City Maps, 1837] Limerick from Local Survey. Plate No. I, Plate No. 2 and Plate No.3. Municipal Corporation Boundaries. 1837. hand coloured. Folio. Signed Thos. Larcom Lieut.; 3 very attractive maps

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 84

Thomas Bodkin, The Noble Science, John Leech in the Hunting Field, oblong elephant folio, 1st 1948. Snoddy Dict of Irish Artists, 4to, dj almost mint copy of revised ed with two insignificant nicks in dj. (2)

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Lot 94

Atlas of Ireland. Prepared by Irish National Committee for Geography. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1979 folio, green cloth, fine copy. Fine coloured distribution maps on every conceivable subject.

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 440

Edward Forbes. A Monograph of the British Naked-Eyed Medusai with figures of all the Species. 1841. Folio. 13 coloured plates of specimens. Contemporary calf with gilt college brand on cover.

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 53

John Feehan: The Landscape of Clonmacnoise, elephant folio; The Geology of Laois and Offaly; The Great Heath, all copies mint. John Corkery, The City of Ciaran. Declan Ryan, The Marble of Clonmacnoise. (5)

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 427

Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the Board of Works Ireland. Dublin 1878. Folio. Large folding map of Ireland with some colouring

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 434

Report of the Commissioners of Ireland in to the Collection of Rates in the City of Dublin with Minutes of Evidence. Dublin. 1878. Folio. Original blue printed wrappers. Scarce work detailing efforts to streamline collection of Rates in Dublin and "To prevent all or any evasions of liability

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 246

Marlow, Capt Boycott and the Irish, 8vo, 1973, dj. A Century of Service, Co Mayo, folio, 2005. New Survey of Clare Island, the Abbey. RIA, O Riordain and MacDermott, Ringfort at Letterkeen, Co Mayo. St John the Baptist Sligo, 1962. (5)

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Purcell Auctioneers
Lot 469

An Atlas of Birr by John Feehan and Alison Rosse. 2000. oblong folio & Mapping Offaly in the Early 19th Century by Horner. 2 attractive and superbly detailed very large format atlases plus A Belfast Chronicle. 3 very large format studies

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RWB Auctions Limited
Lot 272

Percy Macquoid RI, "A History of English Furniture" in four folio volumes entitled "The Age of Oak" (1904), "The Age of Walnut" (1905), "The Age of Mahogany" (1906) and "The Age of Satinwood" (1908), Lawrence & Bullen,  illustrated with coloured plates after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations, top edge gilt, original cloth, all bearing Cardiff BBC Library stamp. (4)  (L)

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Woolley & Wallis
Lot 720

THE ARCHITECTURE OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM (1758-1794)BY ARTHUR T. BOLTON, 1922in two volumes, published by Country Life, London, folio, with green and gilt cloth covers, together with The Architecture, Decoration and Furniture of Robert and James Adam, by B. T. Batsford, 52 High Holborn, 1880, with twenty-four plates and Robert Adam & His Brothers by John Swarbrick, London 1915. (4) ProvenanceParker & Morris: The Art of Decorating.PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.

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Lawrences Auctioneers of Crewkerne
Lot 553

A fragment of a woven Coptic textile, possibly 5th/6th Century and with an old label to the reverse for 'Folio Fine Art Ltd, Coptic Textile, 5th/6th cent, Stock No A4483'. Mounted in a frame. Textile approx 17cms by 13cms, frame 33cms by 26.5cms. *CR The textile is a part of a larger piece, some wear in places, small hole/tear on the left side near the bottom, small hole on right side.

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Peter Francis
Lot 201

Folio of unframed watercolours, various, appearing to be mainly from the 19th century, some prints, portraits, topographical studies, Vanity Fair print etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 914

A folio case and contents of sketches and prints, to include S Mornwell, R Thompson, Richard Simkin and others, oil on boards, watercolours, etc., in a black folio case.

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Golding Young & Mawer
Lot 394

Lang (Andrew). The Crimson Fairy Book, illustrated by Tim Stevens, in gilt tooled crimson cloth with slip case, published by The Folio Society 2003.

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