There are 297887 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeSCOTLAND HAMMERED COIN 1 BAWBEE MARY I (1542-1567)OBVERSEA CROWNED THISTLE, 'M' TO THE LEFT AND 'R' TO THE RIGHT.LETTERING: MARIA D G R SCOTORVM TRANSLATION: MARY, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, QUEEN OF SCOTS REVERSECROWN IMPALED UPON A VOIDED SALTIRE, FLANKED BY A CINQUEFOIL ON EACH SIDE.LETTERING: OPPIDVM EDINBVRGI TRANSLATION: TOWN OF EDINBURGH
Louis How - Narcissus, The Harbor Press 1928, illustrated by Walter Dorwin Teague, numbered 112/385, together with Laurence Binyon -=Brief Candles, with six engravings by Helen Binyon, signed by both and numbered 90/100, leather binding, also R. Crashaw - Musicks Duell, wood engravings by Philip Hagreen, London 1935, one of 500 copies. (3)Condition report: Overall good condition
Michael Hamburger- Trees, illustrated R Samaraweera, Embers hand press 1988, signed by both, 49 of 226 copies, 23cm high, together with Count Potocki of Montalk - Meilerie, Cuckoo Hill Press 1972, one of 170 copies, also The Quest for Holden Ingots, Aliquando Press, 2004, numbered 15 of 40 copies, also Portbke Pleasures by a Margot Coatts, Libanus Press 1992, 198/250, and Tryphema Pruss, by Walter Hoyle - illustrated Olive Cook, Previous Parrot Oress 1999, signed by both, numbered 102/148. (5)
Signed R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj, American, 1932 - 2007. "For Fear." 1967. Serigraph/mixed media. Signed and numbered in pencil. No 36 from a limited edition of 70. Printed at Kelpra Studio, London. Prints from or artist's proofs of this edition may also be found in the Tate Museum (30/70, Reference P07057), The Philadelphia Museum (Accession number 2017-69-11), Hirshhorn Gallery (AP, Accession No. 82/70) and the British Museum (AP, object no. 2010,7062.130.7). Kitaj was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but spent much of his life in London.Image Size: 19.75 x 32.5 in. Overall Framed Size: 21 x 34 in. Framed behind plexi.
BEECHEY, Frederick William: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: preformed in his Majesty's Ship Blossom in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. In Two Volumes. H Colburn and R Bentley, 1831, First octavo edition, same year as the Admiralty edition in quarto. Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. With 23 plates and 3 maps. Contemporary half calf, rubbed. (2)
NATURAL HISTORY: Goldsmith, O: A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, in 2 volumes. Blackie, 1855. With frontis and coloured engraved title page to each volume, plus 71 Plates (36 hand coloured). Cont. half leather, rubbed and hinges cracked; occasional small stain; LYDEKKER, R: The Royal Natural History, five volumes of six, bound in two. 1893-96, With 12 coloured plates in each volume (60 in all). The index is bound in vol.1; volume 4 defective: lacking pages: 193-240. Later boards; Spectacle de la Nature, or Nature Display’d, Vol. 3 only. 1743, With a frontis plus 32 Plates (31 folding). Cont. half leather, later spine & new endpapers; The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 2 vols. in 1. C Knight, nd, c1880. With a coloured frontis to each vol. & numerous text illustrations. Defective copy: Some pages torn with loss; covers detached. (6)
RALEGH, Sir Walter [RALEIGH]: History of the world in five books. L, For R White, et al, 1666. With an extra engraved title page and “The mind of the front”. Folio, PP: A-E4, (xxxix)Contents, (i)blank, (iv)Double page map, 1-651, (iii) blank, 1-320, (iv)Double page map, 321-776(Finis), (ii)To the reader, (xxvi)Chronological Table, (xxx)Alphabetical Tables, (i)Colophon, (i)blank. The second table ends with part of letter “t”, hence missing?? The Colophon reads: “London, printed by William Stansby for Walter Burre, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the Sign of the Crane, 1617”. Recently rebound in half leather. Occasional small stain and tear; (SOLD A/F NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. You can make an appointment to view this lot)
Shaw, G F & Dr. Goldsmith: The Panorama of Nature, or a Comprehensive View of Natural History and Botany, R Edwards, nd. [1817] The plates are dated 1815-1816. Complete in one volume. 4to. PP: 812+80 Plates, 78 are in contemporary hand colouring. Cont. half leather; rubbed and hinges cracked; one plate frayed at the edges and two with a small tear to bottom margin; otherwise a clean copy with only the Museum bookplate and no stamps. Provenance: Leicester Museum Reference Library (Most of their books only have their bookplate and no stamps)
1- A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences in 2 vols. With 52 copper plates. L, J Coote, 1759, all plates present (31 folding). Cont. full calf; rubbed and hinges cracked; page 79/80 torn in the middle, without loss; 2- Gifford, John: The Complete English Lawyer. MacDonald and Son, for A. Whellier, 1824, 9th. edn. With a frontis. Cont. full leather, recased preserving the original spine; new endpaper; 3- Knight, C: Old England. 2 vols. nd, c 1860. Folio, original cloth gilt; 4- Lloyd, W: An Historical Account of Church-Government as It Was in Great Britain and Ireland, When They First Received the Christian Religion. Fletcher 1684, 2nd. Edn. Ex-Libra. Later half leather and new endpapers. Stamps to verso of title page and last page; 5- Hume, D: History of England in 2 vols. Plus vol.3 by H Clarke. R Evans, 1813. With 40 of 41 plates. Cont. full treecalf, rebacked with original spines; rubbed; corner of p763/4 in vol.2 torn with the loss of a couple of letters; 6- Complete history of Middlesex. C Ward, nd, With a folding coloured map; marbled paper only, no binding. (10)
1- Geography for Youth. W Lowndes, 1797, new edn. with 17 folding maps and 4 plates. Cont. full calf; rubbed and hinges cracked; lacking front endpaper and few maps with tears to folds; 2- The New Female Instructor; or Young Woman's Guide to Domestic Happiness. R Edwards, 1817. With a frontis, extra engraved title page, plus four plates only and one facsimile; also lacking pages 467-470 and supplied in facsimile. Cont. full leather with later spine and new endpapers; staining throughout; A/F; 3- The National Library of Universal Entertainment and Instruction, with 230 engravings. L, Mayhew, no date, C1840. Cont. half leather, rubbed; one page torn (without loss); occasional staining; 4- So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby. Longman, 1844. Cont. full leather; rubbed and hinges cracked. (4)
1- The Curiosities, Natural and Artificial, of the Island of Great Britain, in 6 volumes. printed for the proprietors; sold by R. Snagg, nd, [ca. 1775]. With a frontis plus 58 of 59 plates, lacking the “Dropping Well” plate in vol.4. Cont. half leather; rubbed and hinges cracked; the fore-margins of some pages trimmed, well away from the text; 2- BOYER, Abel (compiler): The English Theophrastus; or the manners of the age. Being the modern characters of the Court, the town, and the city. W. Turner, 1702. With a frontis, PP:(xiv), 1-144, 161-383, (i)advert. Mispagination, but complete. Cont. full panelled calf and later spine; 3- Gorton, John: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland. One volume only made up of a facsimile title page, list of maps (page cut out and laid down), plus 54 double-page MAPS. Recent ¾ leather and new endpapers. (Sold as a collection of maps); 4- Britton & Brayley: Topographical & Historical description of Northamptonshire. 1810, with a frontis plus 2 plates. Cont. half leather with later spine and new endpapers. (9)
GARDENING: 1- MILLER, P: The gardeners kalendar directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure gardens. Rivington, 1737m 4th. edn. with Index. With a frontis plate. Cont. full calf; rubbed & hinged cracked; 2- Thompson, R: Gardener’s Assistant, in 2 Volumes. Gresham, 1902. With 18 colour plates, 20 black & white plates, plus text illustrations. 4to. Leather backed boards; little rubbed; 3- Wright: Beautiful Flowers and how to grow them, in 2 volumes. Jack, 1909, With numerous colour plates; 4to. Original gilt pictorial cloth; 4- Green, T: The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Vol. 1 only, A-K. Liverpool, Nuttall, 1816, 1st. edn. 4to. With 55 plates (many hand coloured); 5- Bentham, G: Handbook of the British Flora, in 2 vols. 1865. Fully illustrated. Original cloth. (8)
CORNWALL: 1- GILBERT, C S: An Historical Survey of The County of Cornwall: To Which is Added, A Complete Heraldry of The Same; With Numerous Engravings. In Two Volumes. Plymouth-Dock, J Congdon, 1817-20, 1st. edn. Vol. 1 lacking one portrait, BUT with 2 extra portraits and an extra plate “View of castle of Trematon, in Cornwall” And Vol. 2 With 3 Extra plates. Cont. full leather; covers detached and endpapers torn; 2- WARNER, R: A Tour Through Cornwall in the Autumn of 1808. R Cruttwell, 1809, 1st. edn. Illustrated with a Sepia frontis plate plus rout maps in the text. Original plain boards and home made paper label; rubbed; first gathering a little loose. Plus one other. (4)
FALCONER, Hugh: Palaeontological Memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer with a Biographical Sketch of the Author. Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison, in two 2 volumes. R Hardwick, 1868, first edition. PP: lvi, 590, (i)Adv,+34 Maps & plates, including frontis; xiii, (i), 675, +38 plates + Frontis portrait. Later plain cloth with gilt lettering and museum number to spines. Leicester Museum bookplate to front pastedown, But NO STAMPS. (2) Provenance: Leicester Museum Reference Library (Most of their books only have their bookplate and no stamps)
Loading...
![RALEGH, Sir Walter [RALEIGH]: History of the world in five books. L, For R White, et al, 1666. With an extra engraved title p](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d666c29b-50dd-40ac-87d7-ada5010167f2/8f8ee624-c503-491a-ae50-ada5010d4dba/468x382.jpg)
