WILLUGHBY, Francis (1635-72). Ornithologiae libri tres ... Totum opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit Joannes Raius. London: Impensis Joannis Martyn, 1676. Folio (361 x 230mm). Imprimatur leaf, title printed in red and black with the Arms of the Royal Society, 77 engraved plates by Emma Willughby, 2 folding letterpress tables (variable spotting and browning throughout, more heavy in the margins of 2 plates, short marginal tear in H4). [?]Later vellum (corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Wing W2879; Anker 532; Nissen IVB 991; Zimmer II, 677: "The cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology, being the first book on the classification of birds without respect to geographical boundaries."
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Battle of Britain so few multiple signed rare book. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain, 10th July - 31st October 1940, pub. 1990. The volume has twenty-five profile portraits in silhouette of Battle of Britain pilots and bomber crewmen, each silhouette signed by the subject with photographic portraits and other illusts, facsimile letters and documents etc, a biography of each individual, a. e. g, orig. dark blue goatskin, lettered and decorated in gilt, `So Few` with RAF embroidered wings inset to upper cover. Numbered 45 of 401 copies, signed by Michael Pierce and members of the creative team. Issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and to recognise and celebrate the courage and heroism of the thousands of fighting men who stayed the westward advance of the Nazi menace, many of whom paid the supreme sacrifice. Both books were produced for the benefit of the RAF Benevolent Fund. It comprises Wg Cdr P. P. C. Barthropp, DFC, AFC; Wg Cdr R. P. Beamont, CBE, DSO, DFC, DL, FRAes; Sqn Ldr G. H. Bennions, DFC; Air Vice-Marshal H. A. C. Bird-Wilson, CBE, DSO, DFC, AFC; Air Cdre P. M. Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling KCB, CBE, DSO, DFC, AE; Gp Capt W. D. David, CBE, DFC, AFC; Air Cdre A. C. Deere, DSO, OBE, DFC; Sqn Ldr B. H. Drobinski, DFC; Flt Lt J. H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, GCB, DSO, OBE; Gp Capt T. P. Gleave, CBE; Wg Cdr N. P. W. Hancock, DFC; Sqn Ldr C. Haw, DFC, DFM; Cdr R. C. Hay, DSO, DSC, RN, Ret`d, ; Gp Capt C. B. F. Kingcome, DSO, DFC; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Cdre A. R. D. MacDonell, CB, DFC; Sqn Ldr M. J. Mansfield, DSO, DFC, AFC; Wg Cdr A. G. Page, DSO, DFC; Wg Cdr P. L. Parrott, DFC, AFC, Gp Capt D. F. B. Sheen, DFC; Wg Cdr F. M. Smith, DFC; Wg Cdr J. E. Storrar, DFC, AFC, AE; Wg Cdr G. C. Unwin, DSO, DFM. A Very rare signed folio in excellent condition. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Battlefront folio The Battle of Britain mixed media product by the public record office the wallet contains 12 facsimiles of key original 1940 documents, relating the story of the Battle of Britain from the viewpoints of Winston Churchill, the RAF commanders and individual pilots, and a boy living in the East End during the Blitz. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
First edition/first printing (1985), book in good condition dust jacket has foxing. The first major collection of Robert Capa's photographs after twenty years, 262 images from the camera of one of the most important and gifted photographers of the 20th century. The book spans his entire career, from his first published photograph of Trotsky in 1932 to his last photograph taked moments before his death in Indochina in 1954. Size: Folio Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.
[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes Complete Stories & Novels (The Adventures; The Memoirs; The Return; His Last Bow; The Case-book; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Valley of Fear), Folio Society, London, 1993, cloth, illustrations, in two slip-cased sets (one still shrink-wrapped), octavo.
[HISTORY] Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of. The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle... , by Maxwell, London, 1667, full speckled leather (re-backed), small folio (broad fore-edge stain throughout; some manuscript amendments to text).
[HISTORY] Digges, Sir Dudley. The Compleat Ambassador: or Two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious Memory; comprised in Letters of Negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham,... Together with Answers of the Lord Burgleigh, by Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, London, 1655, full leather (scuffed; joints cracked; corners, spine ends and lower edges worn), title page printed in red and black, small folio (lacking frontispiece; pagination faulty: some pages mis-numbered, pp.231-232 used twice, without pp.415-418 and 435-438 but with matching catchwords and probably no loss).
[HISTORY] Herbert of Cherbury, Edward, Lord. The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, by Clark for Herringman, London, 1683, full leather (boards detached), engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, small folio (lacking spine label; frontispiece with inner edge tears and verso repair; ex library).
[HISTORY] Diodorus, Siculus. The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, in fifteen books. The first five, contain the Antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the Islands, and Europe. The last ten, An Historical Account of the Affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, and other Parts of the World, to which are added, The Fragments of Diodorus that are found in the Bibliotheca of Photius..., made English by G. Booth, of the City of Chester, bound as one, by Jones for Awnsham & Churchil and Castle, London, 1700, full leather, the spine in compartments gilt and with a black title label, folio (upper cover, front free endpaper and title page detached).
[HISTORY] Fiddes, Richard. The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, second edition, corrected by the author, for Knapton et al., London, 1726, together with Collections [of documents], bound as one, full leather (scuffed; joints cracked), engraved portrait frontispiece, a further seven engraved plate illustrations, two of them folding, folio.
[HISTORY] The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation of Algernon Sidney, Esq; for High-Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the King, and Intending to raise a Rebellion in this Kingdom, Before the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys, Knight and Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England,... 1683, for Tooke, London, 1684, lacking covers, small folio (edges chipped; final leaf torn and loose, with losses, not affecting text).
[HISTORY] Baker, Sir Richard. A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans Government Unto the Death of King James... Whereunto is added The Reign of King Charles the First, with a Continuation of the Chronicle,... To the Coronation of His Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second, fourth edition, for Ranew & Robinson, London, 1665, full leather (re-backed; upper joint partially cracked), engraved title page, folio (ex library; lacking frontispiece; with some marginal annotations).
[HISTORY] Rushworth, John. Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618, and ending the Fifth Year of King Charles, Anno 1629, by Newcomb for Thomason, London, 1659, later quarter leather, engraved portrait frontispiece, two further engraved plate illustrations (one folding), small folio (frontis. and title page with peripheral losses and laid down to support sheets; lacking final two leaves of index; some marginal annotations).
[HISTORY] Rushworth, John. Historical Collections, the Second Part, containing the Principal Matters which happened from the Dissolution of the Parliament,... 1628/9 until the Summoning of another Parliament,... 1640, by J.D. For Wright, London, 1680, full leather (re-backed), engraved portrait frontispiece, two further engraved plate illustrations, small folio (ex library: lacking all after p.884).
[MISCELLANEOUS]. DICTIONARY Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: A Dictionary, Italian and English, first compiled by John Florio... , whereunto is added, A Dictionary, English and Italian, with several proverbs and instructions for speedy attaining the Italian Tongue by Gio. Torriano, now reprinted, revised and corrected by J.D., by R. Holt and W. Horton for R. Chiswell et al., London, 1688, nineteenth century hall calf, folio (the first 8 pp. of the dictionary and final p. in exceptionally neat replacement hand-written form, a manuscript note to the title verso stating 'The first Eight pages / of this Book & the last / page were restored in / writing by Iohn Thomasen / School Master of Tarvin / in Cheshire about the / Year 1726'; title trimmed and laid-down; upper joint with split ends; spine, corners and edges scuffed).
[ATLAS] Atlas of the Chinese Empire, containing separate maps of the Eighteen Provinces of China Proper..., and of the Four Great Dependencies, by Edward Stanford for The China Inland Mission, London / Shanghai, no date [circa 1908], maroon cloth gilt, twenty-three coloured maps (including Index Map; as called for), folio.
FOLIO SOCIETY - AGATHA CHRISTIE, two volume cased set "4.50 From Paddington" and "The Mystery of the Blue Train" 1990, together with P. G. Wodehouse "Short Stories" 1983 and "Leave It To Psmith" 3rd printing 1992, "The Best of Dorothy Parker" 5th printing 1999, also "Crime Stories From The Strand" and "Short Stories From The Strand" all in slipcases
FOLIO SOCIETY - EVELYN WAUGH, "Sword of Honour" three volume cased set, 1990, "Scoop", 1982, "Black Mischief" 1980 together with Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World", 1971, "The Best of The Raconteurs" second printing 2001, Nancy Mitford - "The Pursuit of Love", 1991 and "Love In A Cold Climate", 1992
FOLIO SOCIETY - EDWARD GIBBON - "THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE", eight volume set, 1983 - 1990, "Malory's Chronicles of King Arthur" three volume cased set 1982, "Herodotus", 1992, Desmond Seward - "The Monks of War", 2000, "Marcus Aurelius Meditations" 2002, and six other historical titles, all in slip cases (18)
FOLIO PRESS 1989 - ALEXANDER POPE - "THE RAPE OF THE LOCK", illustrated by lithography by Peter Forster, together with William Barnes - "Dorset Poems", engravings by William Barnes, both on Mohawk Superfine acid-free paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd. in Feincanvas cloth with Moiré silk sides and hand-marbled endpapers from Mitchell & Malik (2)
FOLIO PRESS - JOHN MILTON - "ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY & Other Poems" 1987, together with "Poems by Charlotte, Emily Jane & Anne Bronte" 1987, W. B. Yeats - "The Tower" 1987, and James Hogg - "A Memoir of Sir Walter Scott" 1987, all printed on Zerkall Rough Antique laid, acid-free, mould made paper and bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd., Edinburgh, with sides of Rackenmarmor Swedish hand-marbled paper and buckram spine and label. Also Izaak Walton - "The Life of Dr John Donne" 1988, on Van Gelder Old Dutch laid acid-free, mould made paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh with moiré silk spine and hand-marbled paper sides by Mitchell and Malik (5)
FOLIO PRESS - KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND (Translated and intoduced by) - "THE ANGLO-SAXON ELEGIES" 1988, with engravings by Hannah Firmin, together with Thomas Babington Macaulay - "Lays of Ancient Rome", both on Van Gelder Old Dutch Mould-made acid-free , antique laid paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh with moiré silk spine and hand-marbled paper sides from Mitchell & Malik (2)
FOLIO SOCIETY - CHARLES DICKENS 16 VOLUME SET, 1980s, each volume in individual slipcaseCondition Report: In very good condition over all. Minor scuffs on back of slipcase bottom on some, the odd very tiny scratch on a few slipcases, hardly noticeable. There are differences in tone to the colour of the spines - maybe very slight light fading due to position on bookcase? Oliver Twist is in a different colour much lighter slip case than all the others. However, nothing major, inside they are in pristine condition.
MARIES STOPES - A FOLIO OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK OF AND BY HER FAMILY, to include works by Charlotte Carmichael (Marie's mother) and by James Ferrier Carmichael (Charlotte's father, Marie's Grandfather). Works include:Three portraits of Charlotte Carmichael by her father, to include a drawing of her aged 7, another pencil drawing A/F and an oil painting on canvas together with a pencil sketch thought to be done around 1850, all have a description in Marie Stope's handwriting. A watercolour with the name Charlotte B. Carmichael on the back. Seven unsigned and unattributed watercolours, one with the date 1840 pencilled on the back. Several pencil architectural sketches signed Charlotte Carmichael and topographical pencil drawings dating to the mid 1800s signed or attributed to H. S. Carmichael E. S. Carmichael and Ellen Carmichael.A delightful 18th Century page of watercolour flower studies which says at the top "1st Drawings and Paintings from nature 1786", pencilled at the bottom is Ann Durward? (Ann Durward was James Ferrier Carmichael's mother).A charcoal sketch that appears to be by Marie Stopes herself ("Marie Stopes Lime Sketch 1¼ hrs")A sampler by Charlotte Brown 1801
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