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Vandier (J.) Manuel d'Archeologie egyptienne, vol.1-3 only in 5 (of 6 in 11), 1952-58 ~ Dechelette (J.) Manuel d'Archeologie Prehistorique, Celtique et Gallo-Romaine, vol.2, 5 & 6 only in 8, second edition vol.2 part 1, 1924-13-10-34 ~ Picard (C.) Manuel d'Archeologie Grecque, 4 vol. in 8 including index, 1935-66 ~ Cagnat (R.) & V.Chapot. Manuel d'Archeologie Romaine, vol.1 & 2, 1917-20 ~ Contenau (G.) Manuel d'Archeologie Orientale, 3 vol., 1927-31 ~ Beuchat (H.) Manuel d'Archeologie Americaine, 1912 ~ Diehl (C.) Manuel d'Art Byzantin, 2 vol., second edition, 1925-26 ~ Marcais (G.) Manuel d'Art Musulman, 2 vol., 1926-27, plates and illustrations, original printed wrappers, uncut, rubbed, one or two vol. broken, 8vo, Paris (31).

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Varenius (Bernhard) Geographie Generale, 4 vol., 13 folding engraved plates, marginal paper fault D2 vol.I, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with double morocco labels, 12mo, Paris, chez Vincent & Lottin, 1755.

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Ventris (Michael) and John Chadwick. Documents in Myceanaean Greek, Cambridge, 1956 ~ Lorimer (H.L.) Homer and the Monuments, 1950 ~ Clavier (M.) Description de la Grece de Pausania, 5 vol., contemporary calf-backed boards, one spine defective, Paris, 1814-21 ~ Nilsson (Martin P.) The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its survival in greek religion, Lund, 1950 ~ Michel (P.-H.) De Pythagore a Euclide: Contribution a l'Histoire des Mathematiques Preeuclidiennes, Paris, 1950, some plates and illustrations, some annotations in pencil, the first two original cloth, the last two original wrappers, a little rubbed; and 25 others, Greek and Roman archaeology, mostly French, 4to & 8vo (34).

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Wallerius (Jean Gostchalk) Mineralogie, ou description generale des substances du regne mineral, 2 vol., 4 folding engraved plates, very lightly water-stained in upper margin, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, a little rubbed, a few wormholes to spines, 8vo, Paris, 1753.

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[Cochin (C.N.)] Recueil de Quelques Pieces Concernant les Arts, half-title, woodcut title vignette, contemporary ink inecription and very small hole to front free endpaper, [Barbier R87e], Paris, chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1754; bound with Cochin (C.N.) and Jerome Charles Bellicard. Observations Sur les Antiquities de la Ville D'Herculanum, 27 engraved plates, including 4 folding, 3pp. advertisements at end, Paris, chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1754, 12mo

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Corneille (Pierre) Theatre, 12 vol., half-titles, 35 engraved plates, occasional light browning and a little light water-staining, contemporary calf, gilt, gilt compartments within raised bands, slightly rubbed, [Cohen de Ricci 255], 8vo, [Geneva], 1764.

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L'Aulnaye (Francois Henri Stanislas de) Thuileur des Trente-Trois Degres de l'ecossisme du Rit Ancien, Dit Accepte ..., additional engraved title, 14 engraved plates including 1 folding, Paris, chez Delaunay, 1813; bound with Recapitulation de Toute la Maconnerie, ou Description et Explication de l'Hierogyphe Universel du Maitre des Maitres, 2 original masonic watercolours heightened in gold, "Orient de Memphis, XXXVIIIMDCLXXXXII", plates to the first part bound at the end, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo

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Addison (Joseph), Richard Steele and others. The Spectator, 8 vol., frontispieces, neat ownership inscription on upper edge of titles, contemporary calf, some spine edges peeling, gilt spines, faded, for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 ~ Boccaccio (G.) Le Decameron, vol.I only, plates vol. contemporary calf, 1777, 12mo

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Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, 38 engraved plates, advertisements, some light foxing and soiling, lacking No.V, No.3 lacks p.9-16 of advertisements and 1 folding leaf of advertisements, with 1f. of advertisements loosely inserted, No.8 lacks 2pp. advertisements and 18pp. Mechi's Catalogue of advertisements at beginning, No.19-20 lacks 1f. advertisements at end, original pictorial wrappers, some soiling, rubbed, chemise and slip case, [Hatton and Cleaver pp.129-160], 1838-39; and duplicates of No.3 and No.19-20, 8vo (20).

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Illustrated London News (The), vol. 1-17, 38, 39, 56, 57, 68, 69, 23 vol in all, plates, text-illustrations, original decorated cloth, rubbed, 1 vol. rebacked, 1 vol. hinge cracked, folio, 1842-1876; sold as a periodical, not subject to return.

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Muller (Max) Lectures on the Science of Language ...Third Edition, rubbed and marked, 1862 ~ Jack (Ian) Augustan Satire, Oxford, 1952 ~ Gorges (Sir Arthur) The Poems ...Edited by H.E.Sandison, frontispiece, plates, ex-library copy, Oxford, 1953 ~ Davie (Donald) Articulate Energy, 1955 ~ Burchfield (R.W., editor) A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, vol. I-III, only, of 4, Oxford, 1972-1982; and a quantity of others, academic, v.s. (006365 C.85).

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Trench (W. Steuart) Realities of Irish Life, third edition, frontispiece and plates, contemporary half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, 1869 ~ Read (Charles A.) The Cabinet of Irish Literature, 4 vol., some soiling, vol. I lacks front free endpaper, original decorated cloth, gilt, 1897 ~ Young (Robert M., editor) Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its Vicinity, colour frontispiece, Belfast and London, 1896 ~ Moody (T.W.) & J.C. Beckett. Queens, Belfast 1845-1949: The History of a University, 2 vol., dust-jackets 1959 ~ Jekyll (Gertrude) Old English Household Life, frontispiece and plates, 1925, original cloth; and 15 others, 8vo & 4to (24).

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Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The Kasidah (Couplets) of Haji Abdu Al-Yazdi, one of 250 copies, original cloth, rubbed, 4to, 1900 ~ Litchfield (Henrietta, editor) Emma Darwin, a century of family letters, 1792-1896, 2 vol., first edition, plates, library bookplates, original cloth, faded and rubbed, 8vo, 1915 ~ Hoffmann (William) With Stanley in Africa, first edition, plates, original clotgh, rubbed, frayed and browned dust-jacket, 8vo, 1938 (4).

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Holme (Charles, editor) The Brothers Maris (James, Mathew, William), 1907; Art in England during the Elizabethan & Stuart Periods, Special Spring Number, 1903; Old English Mezzotints, special Winter number,1910-11; Beauty's Awakening, A Masque of Winterand of Spring, 1899; The Gardens of england, in the Midland and Eastern Counties, 1908; The Gardens of England in the Northern Countries, 1911; L'Art Rustique in Italie, Paris, 1913; MOdern Etching and Engravings, 1902, ~ Nash (Joseph) The Mansions of England in the Olden Times, 1906, plates, illustrations, most original wrappers, some contemporary cloth, The Studio; and 10 others, The Studio, 4to (19).

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Kipling (Rudyard) Collected Verse, number 57 of 500 copies, signed by the publishers, t.e.g., all others uncut, original vellum, tanned, lacking ties, 1912 ~ Franklin (Benjamin) Memoirs of the LIfe and Writings, 6 vol., third edition, engraved frontispiece, plates, some folding, contemporary calf, gilt, spines damamged, covers detached, for Henry Colburn, 1818, 8vo & 4to (7).

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Housman (A.E.) A Shropshire Lad, 1927; Last Poems, 1922, inscription on front free endpapers, contemporary green calf, g.e. ~ Powys (T.F.) Mr. Weston's Good Wine, number 49 of 660 copies signed by the author, drawings by George Charlton, inscription on front free endpaper, original buckram, t.e.g., covers slightly stained, 1927 ~ Wren (P.C.) Sowing Glory, first edition, with the bookplate of the author and a signed presentation inscription by him on front endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, 1931 ~ Sykes (Christopher) Evelyn Waugh, a Biography, presentation copy with signed inscription by the author to Dudley Carew on title, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1975; and c.85 others, Literature, 8vo (c.90).

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Farrell (M.J.) Red Letter Days, 7 colour plates, black and white text illustrations, 1933 ~ Baily's Hunting Directory, 9 vol., folding maps, 1904-23 ~ Evens (G. Bramwell) Out with Romany by Moor and Dale, plates, 1944 ~ Vesey-Fitzgerald (Brian) Rivermouth, illustrated by C.F.Tunnicliffe, 1949, original cloth; and 28 others, Countryside, 8vo (50).

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Dickens (Charles) The Nonesuch Dickens, advanced subscription and T.L.s loosely inserted, original cloth, tanned at spine and edges of covers, Bloomsbury, Nonesuch Press, 1937 ~ Darwin (Bernard) The Dickens Advertiser, illustrations, partially unopened, original pictorial cloth, 1930 ~ Dickens (Mamie) My Father As I Recall Him, plates, original cloth, gilt, tanned at spine and edges, Roxburghe Press, [1897] ~ Browne (Edgar) Phiz and Dickens, portrati frontispiece, plates, slight foxing, armorial bookplates, pencil inscriptions on front endpaper, original lcoth, gilt, rebacked, soiled, corners bumped, 1913 ~ Lewin (F.G.) Characters from Dickens, 20 plates tipped-in, leaves loosely inserted, original printed boards, soiled, spine reinforced with tape, 1912; and a small quantity of others, Dickensiana, v.s. (qty).

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Bibiena (Ferdinando Galli) L'Architettura civile preparata sú la geometria ..., first edition, engraved portrait only, lacks plates, woodcut tail-pieces, errata f, 3ff. with tears, corners water-stained, contemporary calf, defective, folio, Parma, Paolo Monti, MCDCCXI, [1711]; sold not subject to return.

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Builder's Dictionary (The) Or, Gentleman and Architect's Companion, 2 vol., engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary calf, worn, covers and endpapers detached, spine ends damaged, 8vo, for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1734.

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Croizette Desnoyers (Philippe) Notice sur les Travaux Publics en Hollande, 2 vol. including plates vol., original printed wrappers, rebacked, Paris, 1874 ~ Schayes (A.G.B.) Histoire de l'Architecture en Belgique, 4 vol., additional tinted pictorial titles and frontispieces, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, double morocco labels, Brussels, n.d. [1846] ~ Barnard (Maj.-Gen. J.G.) Report on the North Sea Canal of Holland; and on the Improvement of Navigation from Rotterdam to the Sea, 11 folding plates and maps, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, Washington, 1872 ~ Histoire de l'Architecture en Belgique, 3 vol., plates, many in colour, original rexine, Brussels, 1972-74; and 4 others, Miscellaneous, 4to & 8vo (14).

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Nash (Joseph) The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, 4 vol., 104 lithograph plates, including titles by Samuel Stanesby, some loose, inner hinges cracked, original cloth, gilt, extremities worn, head of spine of vol.III chipped, [Abbey, Scenery, 402], folio, 1869-72.

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Plantenga (J.H.) L'Architecture Religieuse dans l'Ancien Duche de Brabant, The Hague, 1926 ~ Vermeulen ( (F.A.J.) Handboek tot de Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Bouwkunst, 6 vol. including plates, 's-Gravenhage, 1928-31 ~ Wattjes (J.G.) Constructie en Architectuur van Winkelpuien, Amsterdam, n.d. [c.1926] ~ Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture, 1931 ~ Langenskiöld (Eric) Michele San Micheli, the Architect of Verona, Uppsala, 1938, plates, text illustrations, fifth mentioned original printed wrappers, rest original cloth; and 10 others, Architecture, v.s. (20).

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Robertson (W. Scott) The Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, plates, some double-page, 1 coloured, ex-library copy, book-plate, stamps, half calf, worn & marked, folio, 1880.

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Robinson (Peter Frederick) Designs for Ornamental Villas, second edition, 96 plates and engraved pictorial title, some slight foxing, front hinge cracked, bookplate, contemporary half calf, spine slightly stained, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to, 1827.

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Stratton (Arthur) The English Interior, plates, illustrations, original cloth, soiled, lacking spine, extremities frayed, [c.1920] ~ Bossert (H. Th.) Ornament, coloured plates, 4 lacking, original cloth, rubbed, soiled, spine ends torn, 1924 ~ Pichon (Baron Jerome) The Life of Charles Henry Count Hoym, limited edition, engraved plates, armorial bookplate of Heber Riginald Bishop, original half morocco over decorared silk boards, extremities worn, New York, 1899; and a quantity of others, Art, Literature, v.s. (qty).

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Viollet-Le-Duc (Eugene Emmanuel) Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise du XIe au XVIe Siecle, 10 vol., contemporary half morocco, one cover detached, one spine defective at head, Paris, 1867-68 ~ Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 2 vol., engraved portrait and plates, offsetting, contemporary diced calf, one cover detached, 1825 ~ King (Thomas H.) The Study-Book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art, 4 vol., modern cloth, Edinburgh, 1893, plates and illustrations, some spotting, ex-library copies with stamps, rubbed; and another on architecture, v.s. (17).

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Art Journal (The) 4 vol. 1870, 1876-77, 1879, engraved plates and illustrations, g.e., first listed in half morocco, worn at extremities, inner hinges cracked, all others in full morocco, tooled, spine title and cover vignette blocked in gilt, folio, 1870-90.

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Caldicott (J.W.) The Values of Old English Silver and Sheffield Plate, library cloth, 1906 ~ Jarry (Madeleine) The Carpets of Aubusson,one of 600 copies, original cloth, dust-jacket laminated, Leigh-on-Sea, 1969 ~ Cescinsky (Herbert) Chinese Furniture, original cloth, 1922 ~ Foley (Edwin) The Book of Decorative Furniture, 2 vol., library half morocco, 1910, plates and illustrations, some colour, ex-library copies with stamps, rubbed; and 11 others, applied arts, 4to (16).

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Carter (John) Specimens of the Ancient Sculpture and Painting now Remaining in England, 2 vol. in 1, additional engraved titles and frontispieces, 115 engraved plates, many hand-coloured, slight off-setting, inner hinges cracked but firm, bookplate, contemporary red full morocco gilt, g.e., slightly rubbed, 1838; and 2 others, Art Reference, 4to & folio (3).

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Boehn (Max von) Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century, 3 vol., translated by M. Edwards, hand-coloured frontispiece, plates, some hand-coloured, illustrations, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, 8vo, 1909.

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Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (The). An Illustrated Journal, vol.V-VI, VIII, new series, engraved hand-coloured plates, illustrations, lace pattern inserts, some torn, index of vol.V torn, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, front cover of vol.V torn, 8vo, [1862-64].

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Lady's Monthly Museum ((The)) Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction, vol.I and XIV only, 20 engravings, 12 of which hand coloured, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, corners bruised, spines faded, 1798-1805 ~ Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (The). An Illustrated Journal, vol.XII-XIII only, engraved plates, some hand-coloured, illustrations, inner hinges cracked, contemporary half calf, worn at extremities, [1877-78]; and a quantity of 19th Century Fashion Periodicals, including circa 30 Lady's Monthly Museum, v.s. (qty).

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Libron (Fernand) & Henri Clouzot. Le Corset dans l'Art et les Moeurs du XIII au XX Siecle, number 627 of 775 copies, engraved plates, 12 of which hand-coloured, illustrations, tissue-guards with captions to plates, original printed wrappers, glazine dust-jacket, in slip-case lacking upper lid, Paris, 1933 ~ See (Raymonde) Le Costume de la Revolution a Nos Jours, plates, original wrappers, front cover detached, spine cracked, Paris, 1929 ~ Conversations Freund (Der). Modezeitung und Unterhalrungsblatt fur Gebildete Stande, 3 vol. only (1832, 1835, 1838), engraved plates, hand-coloured, illustrations, contemporary half calf, worn, spines damaged, front cover of second named detached, Hanau, 1832-38; and 2 others, Fashion, 19th Century Periodicals, v.s. (7).

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Price (Julius M.) Dame Fashion, Paris-London (1786-1912), coloured frontispiece, 180 plates, 153 of which coloured, t.e.g., others uncut, inscription on endpaper, green morocco-backed buckram, gilt, edges of covers tanned, 4to, 1913.

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Queen ((The)) The Lady's Newspaper, vol.53, 55, 57-59, 66, 69, 73-74, engraved plates, some hand-coloured, illustrations, g.e., original embossed cloth, gilt, some covers slightly warped, extremities worn, 1873-83 ~ Tatler (The). Vol. I-IV, illustrations, original cloth, soiled, titles and cover vignette blocked in gilt, 1901-2 ~ Sketch (The). Vol.1-8, 19-21, plates, some coloured, illustrations, original cloth, soiled, worn at extremities, 1893-98; and a quantity of Periodicals, including late 30's and early 40's Vogue (Beaton, Horst), folio (qty).

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Uzanne (Octave) Les Modes de Paris; Variations du Goût et de l'Esthetique de la Femme, 1797-1897, limited edition, 100 hand-coloured plates, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, original decorated wrappers bound-in, 8vo, Paris, 1898.

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W.B.L. The Corset and the Crinoline. A Book of Modes and Costumes, engraved plates, illustrations, original cloth, rubbed, gilt, extremities slightly frayed, spine darkened, corners bruised, 8vo, [c.1869].

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Walker (Mrs. Alexander) Female Beauty, as Preserved and Improved by Regime, Cleanliness and Dress, 11 plates, 10 of which hand-coloured each with overlay with cut-out, 4 loose, edges slightly creased, tanned, front hinge cracked, contemporary blind-embossed green marocco, spine faded, g.e., 8vo, 1837.

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Waugh (Norah) Corsets and Crinolines, plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, tanned, upper edge creased, tears to extremities, B.T. Batsford, 1954 ~ [Egerton (Mary Margaret, Countess of Wilton)] The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion, ...By a Lady of Rank, wood-engraved illustrations, armorial bookplate of Capt. George B. Martin, contemporary half calf over embossed cloth, worn at extremities, spine gilt, tear to upper edges of spine, 1846 ~ Hottenroth (Friedrich) Le Costume chez les Peuples Anciens et Modernes, new series, coloured plates, illustrations, original cloth-backed printed boards, worn at edges and extremities, spine edge torn, Paris, [c.1890]; and a quantity of others, Costume, Fashion, v.s. (qty).

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Armour. - Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush) A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour ..., 3 vol., first edition, additional engraved vignette titles, 80 etched and aquatint plates, 70 hand-coloured, hand-coloured initials to chapters, contemporary ink signature at head of engraved titles, occasional foxing, some offsetting, ex-library copy but plates unstamped, library half morocco, a little rubbed, large 4to, 1824.

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- . Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush) and Joseph Skelton. Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Arms and Armour ...at Goodrich Court, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, additional vignette titles, portrait and 150 plates, one double-page, errata leaf at end vol.2, some foxing, ex-library copy but plates unstamped, library half morocco, slightly rubbed, folio, 1830.

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Grant (James) The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland, chromolithographed frontispiece, 72 colour plates, double-page chromolithographed map, ex-library copy with stamps, original cloth, gilt, coat-of-arms on upper cover, t.e.g., a little worn, rebacked and recornered, new endpapers, folio, Edinburgh & London, 1886.

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Holt (Ardern) Fancy Dresses Described; or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls, fifth edition, 32 plates of 32, 15 of which chomolithographs, disbound, original cloth, gilt, soiled, extremities frayed, spine ends damaged, 1887 ~ Elegant Arts for Ladies, illustrations, upper edge of title clipped without loss, original embossed cloth, gilt, extremities frayed, [1956], 8vo (2).

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Perugini (G.) Collection Complete des Costumes de la Cour de Rome ..., 80 hand-coloured lithographed plates, foxed, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, gilt, g.e., rather worn, upper cover detached, Paris, 1852 ~ Calderini (Emma) Il Costume Popolare in Italia, limited edition, library cloth, Milan, 1946 ~ Foan (Gilbert A.) The Art and Craft of Hairdressing, fourth edition, original half morocco, rubbed, 1958 ~ Gorsline (Douglas) A History of Fashion, original cloth, 1953 ~ Sronkova (Olga) Gothic Woman's Fashion, library cloth, Prague, 1954, plates and illustrations, some colour, ex-library copies with stamps; and 11 others, costume and fashion, 4to (16).

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Pugin (Augustus Welby) Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume, second edition, chromolithograph additional title, 71 chromolithograph plates, a few double-page, 1 plain plates, few text-illustrations, few plates spotted, ex-library copy, stamps on title, margin of some plates and elsewhere, half morocco, rubbed and marked, folio, 1846.

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Curle (Alexander O.) The Treasure of Traprain: a Scottish Hoard of Roman Silver Plate, plates, some photogravure, illustrations, fingermark on title, original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, Glasgow, 1923.

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Davies (Edward) Celtic Researches, on the Origin, Traditions, & Language, of the Ancient Britons, for the Author, 1804 ~ Hope (W.H.St.John) and George E.Fox. Excavations on the site of the Roman City at Silchester, Hants, in 1895, folding chromolithographed plates, 1896 ~ De Baye (J.) The Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, 1893 ~ Randall-MacIver (D.) The Villanovans and Early Etruscans, Oxford, 1924 ~ Keiller (Alexander) Windmill Hill and Avebury, Oxford, 1965, all but the last with maps, plates and illustrations, ex-library copies with stamps, the first two library cloth, the rest original, the last with dust-jacket, all rubbed; and 11 others, European archaeology, 8vo & 4to (16).

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Evans (Arthur J.) Scripta Minoa, 2 vol., 1909-52 ~ Brice (W.C., editor) Inscriptions in the Minoan Linear Script of Class A, 1961, plates and illustrations, ex-library copies with stamps, original cloth, vol.1 of the first laminated in plastic, vol.2 with frayed dust-jacket, rubbed; and 2 others, ancient greece, 4to (5).

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Furniture. - Litchfield (Frederick) Illustrated History of Furniture, 1892 ~ Clouston (K.Warren) The Chippendale Period in English Furniture, 1897 ~ Dilke (Lady) French Fuirniture and Decoration in the XVIIIth Century, 1901 ~ Strange (Thomas Arthur) English Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork & Allied Arts, inscribed by the author, [1901] ~ Simon (Constance) English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Century, 1905, plates, illustrations, original cloth, little rubbed; and 5 others, furniture, v.s. (10).

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- . Petrie (W.M.Flinders) The Funeral Furniture of Egypt, 45 plates at rear, original half cloth, slightly marked, edges of covers tanned, spine title gilt, 4to, 1937.

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Hobson (Robert Lockhart) The Wares of the Ming Dynasty, limited edition, rubbed & marked, 1923 ~ Lane (Arthur) French Faience, 1948 ~ Honey (W.B.) German Porcelain, 1947 ~ Litchfield (Frederick) Pottery and Porcelain, sixth edition, damp-stained, 1967, plates, some coloured, original cloth, the last three in frayed and marked dust-jackets; and 4 others on porcelain, v.s. (8).

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Holme (Charles, editor) Corot and Millet, With Critical Essays by Gustave Geffroy & Arsene Alexandre, special Winter number, numerous plates and illustrations, advertisements, The Studio, 1902-3; The Royal Academy From Reynolds to Millais, special Summer number, numerous plates and illustrations, advertisements, The Studio, 1904; Old English Colour-Prints, special Winter number, text by Malcolm C. Salaman, plates and illustrations, advertisements, The Studio, 1909-1; and 5 others including 3 special numbers by The Studio, original wrappers, folio (8).

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Kunz (G.F.) and Charles Hugh Stevenson. The Book of the Pearl, plates, some colour, one or two folding, ex-library copy with stamps, library cloth, 4to, 1908.

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Lemberger (Ernst, editor) Meisterminiaturen aus Funf Jahrhunderten, mounted colour plates, original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., 4to, Stuttgart, 1911.

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Lubbock (Basil) Adventures by Sea from Art of Old Time, 1925 ~ Heckstall-Smith (B.) Yachts & Yachting in Contemporary Art, 1925, limited editions, out of series copies, plates, some tipped-in colour, ex-library copies with stamps, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, the first faded, 4to (2).

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Meteyard (Eliza) Wedgwood and His Work, photographic plates laid-on, some leaves detached, tear to plate VIII, hinges cracked, original cloth, soiled, extremities frayed, folio, 1873.

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Osborne (H.) British Line Engraved Stamps. Twopence Blue: Studies of Plates 1 to 15, second edition, plates, ex-library copy with one or two stamps, original cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded, [c.1946]; and 6 others, numismatics, 4to & 8vo (7).

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Petrie (Sir W.M. Flinders) Seventy Years in Archaeology, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author, plates, browned and slightly foxed, original cloth, gilt, corners bumped, 8vo, [1931].

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Rackham (Bernard) The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, first edition, plates, some colour, ex-library copy with stamps, original cloth, t.e.g., cloth slip-case, a little rubbed, 4to, for the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, 1949.

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