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Click here to subscribeThe Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, folio containing a collection of eighteen coloured Christmas card designs to include designs similar to the work of Robert Stewart etc., each card is mounted on a back board, the interior marked 'designed and printed by Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh', each is 20 x 13cm
LA FONTAINE, Jean de, Fable Choises..., ornees de figures lithographiques de Carle Vernet (12 including one coloured), Horace Vernet (5 including one coloured), et Hippolyte Lecomte (7), Paris Engelmann 1818, oblong folio, paper on boards, includes 24 plates and 22 fables, appears to be more like a selection than an odd volume, fables being selected from different books (1)
DUCATI DESMOSEDICI RR- MILEAGE AND DETAILS TO BE ADVISED - ONE OF ONLY 1500 MANUFACTURED AND SUPERBLY MAINTAINED. UNLIKE THE MAJORITY OF THIS MODEL, WHICH ARE NOW HELD IN PRIVATE "INVESTMENT" STORES AND AS SHOW PIECES, THIS PRESENT DUCATI IS PRESENTED IN USED AND VERY USABLE CONDITION- BESPOKE PAINTWORK IN ROSSI "No56" COLOURS AND WITH HAND MADE EXHAUST DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO SIMULATE A FULL GP SYSTEM- (AND IT DOES!) ORIGINAL EXHAUST PRESENT AND SET OF PLAIN RED DUCATI BODYWORK INCLUDED- -THIS MOTORCYCLE OFFERS A VERY RARE CHANCE TO PURCHASE ONE OF THE VERY FEW DUCATI DESMOSEDICI THAT ONE FEELS ONE CAN RIDE AS IT SHOULD BE RIDDEN.. V5C AND FOLIO OF PAST EXPENDITURE PRESENT. MOTOR CYCLE NEWS DESCRIBE THE DESMOSEDICI THUS -"There's no other way to describe the (200bhp) Ducati Desmosedici RR than as a MotoGP bike with lights; it really is that close to the real thing...."see images for history file etc.
DUCATI 1098 RR- IN FULL RS SPECIFICATION- AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE WITH A "COST NO OBJECT" FOLIO OF EXPENDITURE CURRENTLY SHOWN IN FULL TRACK LIVERY ( LAMBORGHINI GREY PAINT) BUT IS COMPLETE WITH ALL PARTS TO RETURN TO THE ROAD INCLUDING A SPARE SET OF "TROY BAYLISS" FAIRINGS, FULL LIGHTS, ROAD DISKS ETC. V5C PRESENT - NOT CURRENTLY MOT'D - SORN-see images for detail of currently held receipts and documents. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE FURTHER RECIPTS FOR EXPENDITURE HOWEVER WE DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE THESE IN HAND
dating: late 20th Century provenance: Paris, 'Ecole de Cavalerie contenant la Connoissance, l'Instruction, et la Conservation du Cheval', Reprint Paris, Paul Dupont. Folio with 276 pages with beautiful illustrations. In French. Number 100 of only 200 of this beautiful reprint. Cardboard hardcover with canvas back and golden title. In a slipcase. height 45.5 cm.
dating: provenance: Paris, 'Ecole de Cavalerie contenant la Connoissance, l'Instruction, et la Conservation du Cheval', A Paris, Rue S. Jacques. De l'Imprimerie de Jacques Collombat, Premier Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy - MDCCXXXIII. Folio with 276 pages with beautiful illustrations. In French. Leather hardcover, back and title in gold. height 44 cm.
dating: provenance: Paris, 'Ecole de Cavalerie contenant la Connoissance, l'Instruction, et la Conservation du Cheval', A Paris, Rue S. Jacques, Huart et Moreau, MDCCLI. Folio with 318 pages with beautiful illustrations. In French. Leather hardcover, back with golden title and decorations. height 44.5 cm.
Travel & Exploration interest: 'System of Universal Geography', Thomas Bankes, London: J. Cooke, circa 1790. Folio. Featuring 22 engraved maps, many folding, and 89 engraved plates depicting natives, animals, customs/culture, costumes/fashion, human sacrifices. An 18th-century book dealing with Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The book provides information on a variety of subjects, from natural history to trade and commerce. It discusses voyages and navigators, 'from the celebrated Columbus, the first Discoverer of America, to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook'.
'The Turner Gallery: A Series of Sixty Engravings from the Principal Works of Joseph Mallord William Turner with a Memoir and Illustrative Text by Ralph Nicholson Wornum', London: James S. Virtue, no date but circa 1862 according to WorldCat. Folio, morocco leather binding with gilt lettering/decoration, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate, gauffered gilt page edges, complete with all sixty engraved plates plus engraved frontispiece portrait of Turner.
Gustave Dore Interest: 'The Dore Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings', by Edmund Ollier, London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, no date but circa 1890. Folio, in two volumes, half-leather bindings with contrasting title labels and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt, engraved frontispieces and plates with captioned tissue-guards (depicting scenes from Bible, Milton, Dante). (2)
'Desiderata Curiosa: Or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History', by Francis Peck, in two volumes, London: Printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand, 1779. Folio leather bindings with central gilt arms of Sir Simon R. B. Taylor, Baronet to upper and lower boards, armorial bookplates for the same, engraved frontispiece portrait and further plates throughout the text, marbled endpapers, rebacked, black title labels with gilt lettering and date to spines. (2)
'Plans, Elevations, Sections, and other Ornaments of the Mansion-House, Belonging to the Corporation of Doncaster', by James Paine, London: Printed for the Author, 1751. First and only edition, complete with all engraved plates as called for. Very rare and historically significant 18th-century English architectural book. Printed at Paine's own expense, the work records his designs and effectively promotes his architectural practice to prospective clients (this book launched Paine's career). The title page bears an engraved portrait of Paine after Francis Hayman. All plates are present, the double-page plates carrying two numbers each. Folio, untrimmed page edges, quarter green leather with paper covered boards, printed on laid/chain-lined paper, contemporary inscription to upper and lower boards (the title of the work to lower, the original owner to upper), owner inscription repeated to front paste-down endpaper (Richard Beaumont), more recent ownership inscription to one of the blank endleaves, and 'Rd Bt 1752' inscription to title page.
Railway / Engineering / Steam Library: Collection of 19th-century books comprising: 'Modern Marine Engineering Illustrated with Thirty Six Correctly Coloured Plates and Two Hundred and Forty Wood-Cuts', by N. P. Burgh, Engineer, London: E & F. N. Spon, 1867; 'Recent Locomotives', Enlarged Edition, New York: Published by The Railroad Gazette, 1886, folio, half-leather binding, illustrated throughout plus advertising; 'A Treatise on the Steam Engine in its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and Railways', John Bourne, London: Longman, 1846; 'Atlas of the Engravings to Illustrate and Pictorially Explain the Locomotive Engine in All its Phases', by G. Drysdale Dempsey, London: John Weale, 1856; 'The Engineer', bound volumes from January to June 1875 and July to December 1875, in one volume; 'The Patent Journal, and Inventors' Magazine', Vol.IV, 1847 to 1848, London: Barlow and Payne; 'Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, or Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway', Birmingham: 1838; 'The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer', by Samuel Smiles, London: John Murray, 1857; 'The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825-1925', E. L. Ahrons, 1927. a/f (9)
"Mappa Mundi" (The Hereford World Map), limited edition facsimile numbered 591 of 1000, produced for members of The Folio Society, printed on Neobond (a specialist material resembling vellum), mounted on canvas backing and supported by two battens cut from English oak, approx 142cm x 120cm, presented in wooden map box (London Fancy Box Company).
Hugo de Prato Florido. Sermones de sanctis, collation: A-B6 a-n8 o12+1 p-z8 [et]8 [con]8 A-D8 E6, double column, 254 ff. (of 255, lacking blank a1), B6 blank, 48-51 lines, Gothic type, capital spaces, 09 contemporary ink marginalia at head, A1 with tear at foot and small section missing from outer margin (both without loss of text), blank f. loose, worming to last few ff., worse to final 2ff. with loss of a few letters or words, some water-staining and spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers with triple filets forming an intersecting triple frame and circular floral and almond shaped fleuron stamps, lower cover compartments decorated with fleuron and foliate staff stamps, spine in compartments, soiled and rubbed, folio (270 x 193mm.), [Ulm], [Conrad Dinckmut], [1486].⁂ Rare at auction. These sermons are now attributed to the thirteenth-century Augustinian Evrardus de Valle Scholarum. It is interesting to note that the binding on our copy is very similar to that of the Bodleian copy referenced here, both of which were likely bound at the Benedictine monastery at Benediktbeuren. Literature: Goff H-514; HC 9010; Bod-in H-233; BSB-Ink E-135.
Demosthenes. Logoi duo kai exhkonta [graece]; Graecorum oratorum omnium facile principis orationes duas & sexaginta, & in easdem Vlpiani commentarios...Libanii argumenta, 2 parts in 1, collation: a, b, α-ω, A-T6, Υ8, aa-qq6, rr8, ss-xx6, yy4, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, Greek text, title and final leaf a little soiled, light marginal damp- or water-staining at beginning and end causing slight fraying to first few leaves, some worming, mostly marginal but affecting a few head-lines, generally a good copy with wide margins, 19th century half calf, spine gilt, title lettered in early hand along lower edge, rubbed, boards a little scuffed and with gouge to lower cover, spine broken, upper joint repaired, [Adams D261; STC German, 238], folio (334 x 225mm.), Basle, Johannes Herwagen, 1532.⁂ Following the first Aldine edition of 1504, but also including for the first time the commentaries of Erasmus, Guillaume Budé and others.
Livius (Titus) Le deche delle historia Romane, collation: X4 1-36 A-Z, AA-OO8 PP10 QQ-ZZ, AAA-GGG8 HHH6 III-OOO8 PPP6, Roman type, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of penultimate f, woodcut decorative initials, 36 and final f. blank, occasional spotting or marking, some light marginal staining, 19th century vellum, gilt, folio (327 x 201mm.), Venice, [Heirs of Luc'antonio Giunta], [March, 1547]. ⁂ Literature: Adams L1362; EDIT 16 CNCE 26894. Provenance: 'J. T. Coleridge, Torrington Square, May 24 1831' (Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), English judge, second son of Captain James Coleridge and nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Familiarium epistolarum libri XVI, edited by L.J Scoppa & F. Robertellus, collation: a8 b-z6 A-Cc6 Dd-Ee8, italic type, title with woodcut of a printer's shop, woodcut decorative initials, first few ff. chipped, wormholes in text, varying in number throughout, lightly browned, occasional staining, new endpapers, 17th century blind-stamped calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, folio (321 x 205mm.), Paris, [Benoît Prévost for] Jean de Roigny, 1549.⁂ Rare edition at auctionProvenance: 'Reverend Thom Mitchell, dona dedit, 1781, Lamington'; 'Samuel Wilden [Wildon], Qui dono ..., 1793' (ink inscriptions to title); 'Stephen Medcalf, Blundell's Bookshop, Lewes 6th March 1973' (ink inscription to new endpapers). Literature: Adams C1951.
Antiphonal.- Antiphonarium Romanum Juxta Breviarium ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum et Clementis VIII auctoritate recognitum, 2 parts in 1, printed in red and black throughout, woodcut headpieces and initials, attractive contemporary blind-stamped calf, metal clasps, central gilt arms removed from covers, head of spine worn and repaired, an attractively printed work, rare at auction, folio, Antwerp and Tournai, Hieronymus Verdussen and Adrian Quinque, 1622.
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