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An R & J Beck Ltd., London, No.22626, lacquered brass monocular microscope, lenses, slides and accessories, together with books on the microscope including Wright (Lewis), 'A Popular Handbook to the Microscope'; Wells (A Laurence), 'The Microscope Made Easy'; Davies, 'On Mounting Microscopic Objects'; Cooke (M.C.), 'One Thousand Objects for the Microscope...'; Hogg (Jabez), 'The Microscope', along with a glass protective display dome.
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ART REFERENCE A collection of works on artists and art history, to include: RUSKIN John. Modern painters, new ed., 6 vols. 8vo., 1897; THORPE W.A. A history of English and Irish glass, 2 vols., 4to., 1929; WOLTMANN A. & WOERMANN K. History of painting, 2 vols., large 8vo., 1880-87; STRAITON Arthur. The English interior, folio, [1920]; MUTHER R. The history of modern painting, 3 vols., 4to., 1895-96 and 7 others [21]
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GARDENING A collection of works on plants and gardening, to include: ELGOOD G.S. & JEKYLL G. Some English gardens, new ed. (5th impression), folio, 1910; SOWERBY J.E. & JOHNSON C.P. British wild flowers, 8vo., 1902; WRIGHT W.P., editor. Cassell's dictionary of practical gardening, 2 vols., 4to., [n.d.]; BROWN J. & NISBET J. The forester, 2 vols., 6th ed, 8vo., 1894; THOMPSON R. The gardener's assistant, new ed. By William Watson, 6 vols., 4to., 1913 and [23]
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MOULE Thomas Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales: the drawings made ... by Robert Garland ... 3 volumes, engraved titlepages to each vol., numerous mounted engraved plates on india paper, original morocco, edges rubbed, some instances of spotting, 4to. on large paper, London: Effingham Wilson, 1836-38. French cathedrals by B. Winkles from drawings taken on the spot by R. Garland with an historical and descriptive account ... Mounted engraved plates on india paper, uniformly bound with the above, some occasional spotting, 4to. on large paper, London: Tilt, 1837 and another [5]
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SEEBOHM Henry A monograph of the turdidae or family of thrushes ... edited and completed by R. Bowdler Sharpe ... 1st edition, 2 volumes, port. frontis., 149 hand coloured plates, full blue morocco, the covers panelled with elaborate gilt floral borders within gilt filets, with the arms of Edward 4th Baron Sherborne on the upper covers, the spines decorated gilt within compartments, inner gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with the bookplate of Sherborne Library, offsetting from the port. frontis. to the titlepage of vol. 1, some instances of light spotting, folio, London: Sotheran, [1898] -1902 [2] Note: Nissen *** 852
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Brookes (R.). The General Gazetteer; Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Containing a Description of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Forts, Seas ..., in the Known World, 8th ed., 1794, six folding eng. maps (World, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America), recent half calf gilt, a little faded on spine, 8vo, together with Jones (H.M.), Modern Geography, comprising a Concise, Clear, and Entertaining Account of the all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, etc., Leeds, 1830, eng. frontis. and addn. eng. title, three (of 4) folding eng. maps (Asia, Africa and America), lacks map of Europe, half map of Asia missing, map of Africa extensively repaired, num. eng. plts., contemp. tree calf gilt, recently rebacked, thick 12mo (2)
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Christie (Ella R.). Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand, pub. Seeley, Service, 1925, b&w plts. from photos., ads. at rear, spotting to fore-edge, orig. cloth, sunned at spine, 8vo, together with Judson (Ann H.), An Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire, 1823, folding map, small tear to title, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, some wear to joints and spine ends, 8vo, plus Younghusband (Sir Francis), Wonders of the Himalaya, 1924, frontis., map, ads. at rear, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, and 3 others miscellaneous travel (6)
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Gleichen (Count). With the Mission to Menelik, 1st ed., 1898, photogravure frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear (repaired with tape), orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, ex-lib copy with paper label to upper cover and oval stamp to foot of spine, together with Aitchison (C.U.), A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads relating to India and Neighbouring Countries, vol. XIII, containing the Treaties, etc., relating to Turkish Arabia, Aden and South Coast of Arabia, Somaliland, R. Shoa, and Zanzibar, pub. Calcutta, 1909, large folding map contained in rear pocket, later half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, plus Pearce (Major F.B.), Zanzibar, the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa, 1st ed., 1920, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, and three others, all 8vo (6)
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Markham (Clements R.). A History of the Abyssinian Expedition. With a Chapter Containing an Account of the Mission and Captivity of Mr Rassam and his Companions, by Lieut. W.F. Prideaux, 1st ed., 1869, half-title present, five maps, 52pp. pubs. ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, some wear to spine and inner joints cracked, 8vo, together with Rassam (Hormuzd), Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia; with Notices of the Countries Traversed from Massowah, through the Soodan, the Amhara, and back to Annesley Bay, from Magdala, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1869, frontis. to each, wood engs., some folding, plus folding map contained in rear pocket of vol. 1, pubs. cat. at rear of each, some spotting and marginal soiling, orig. cloth gilt, worn and insect-damaged, all 8vo (3)
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Drake (James). The Picture of Birmingham..., pub. J. Drake, Birmingham, 1825, folding hand-col. eng. map, eng. plts., orig. boards, joints worn, 12mo, together with Birmingham, The Stranger's Guide to Modern Birmingham, with an Account of its Public Buildings..., its Show Rooms and Manufactories..., pub. R. Wrightson, Birmingham, 1825, folding eng. map (horizontal closed tear repaired to verso), eng. plts. (inc. some folding), orig. boards with recent calf spine, 12mo, with Smith (William Hawkes), Birmingham and its Vicinity, as a Manufacturing & Commercial District, pub. London & Birmingham, 1836, eng. frontis. and numerous eng. plts., near contemp. half calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus five others similar (8)
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Elyard (S. John). Some Old Wiltshire Homes Illustrated by S. John Elyard..., 1894, numerous b & w plts. and illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, folio, together with Jones (Sydney R. Jones, illust.), The Village Homes of England, edited by Charles Holme, pub. The Studio, 1912, b & w illusts. and col. plts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, spine near detached, large 8vo, with Holme (Charles, edit.), Old English Mansions, Depicted by C. J. Richardson, J.D. Harding, Joseph Nash, H. Shaw & Others, pub. The Studio, 1915, b & w plts., title-page spotted & browned, contemp. half straight grain sheep, joints and spine rubbed, large 8vo (3)
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Maps. Moll (Herman), Africa, c.1715, uncoloured engraved map showing the sea currents, approx. 200 x 265 mm, together with Wilkinson (R., pub.), The World from the Discoveries & Observations made in the Latest..., 1808, engraved twin-hemisphere map, approx. 230 x 440 mm, and Johnston (A.K.), West India Islands, c.1850s, engraved map, hand coloured in outline, approx. 490 x 600 mm, plus Greenwood (C. & I.), A Map of the County of Middlesex, July 4th, 1829, hand coloured engraved map with vignette views of Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, approx. 540 x 660 mm, plus Bellin (Jacques Nicolas), Carte de l'Isle de la Jamaique, 1758, hand coloured engraved map, approx. 215 x 320 mm, and many others similar, incl. Creighton, Cary, etc. (approx. 39)
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Tyndale (William, trans.). The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Published in 1526. Being the First Translation from the Greek into English, by... William Tyndale. Reprinted Verbatim: with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by George Offor, 1836, eng. port. frontis., recent gilt dec. maroon morocco with raised bands, 8vo, together with Demaus (R.), William Tyndale A Biography..., new ed., revised by Richard Lovett, 1886, port. frontis., b & w plts. inc. some folding, modern qtr. calf, gilt dec. spine with morocco label, 8vo, with Mozley (J.F.), William Tyndale, 1st ed., 1937, port. frontis., modern qtr. calf gilt, red morocco label, 8vo, plus four others, inc. three with recent qtr. leather bindings (7)
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Andrewes (Lancelot). A Learned Discourse of Ceremonies retained and used in Christian Churches, printed for Charles Adams, 1653, eng. port. frontis., contemp. sheep, worn with upper cover det., small slim 12mo, together with Carles (Thomas), A Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church in Gloucester, upon St. Georges Day, on which day His Most Sacred Majesty Charles the Second was most solemnly crowned, printed by T. R. for Peter Dring, in 1661, without the woodcut port., as often, 23 pp., including title, small hole to final leaf (just touching one or two letters), 19th c. cloth-backed boards, small slim 4to (Wing C583 (2 locations only) (2)
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Charles I. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, printed for R. Royston, 1649, royal arms on recto of first leaf (explanation leaf), title page printed in red & black, folding eng. frontis. and single-page eng. port., text close trimmed, a.e.g., early 19th c. dark navy straight-grain morocco, slightly rubbed to extrems., 12mo (1)
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Dallington (Sir Robert). Aphorismes Civill and Militarie: Amplified with Authorities, and exemplified with Historie, our of the First Quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine, Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613, first and final blanks present, engr. port. of Prince Charles on title-page verso, decorative woodcut initials, name on title-page, some slight browning, contemp. calf, unlettered, slightly rubbed at extremities, sm. folio. First Edition. S.T.C. 6197. Includes "A Briefe Inference upon Guicciardines Digression", with a separate title-page and pagination, but continuous register. A good, unsophisticated copy. (1)
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Audsley (W. & G.). The Prisoner of Chillon. Poem by Lord Byron. Illuminated by W. and G. Audsley, Printed & Published by Day & Son, 1865, text surrounded by ornately illuminated borders, richly chromolithographed by W. R. Tymms, printed on rectas only, orig. purple cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt to a central lozenge design, with red and blue cut-out paper onlays, spine lettered in gilt, lower cover blocked in blind, a.e.g., slightly loose in case, still fine (and stunning), folio. McLean, Design, p.133 "richly polychromatic, and richly muddled in its mixture of decorative styles, the total effect bring most attractive". See p.221 for binding. (1)
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Audsley (W. & G.). The Sermon on the Mount. Illuminated by W. and G. Audsley. Illustrated by Charles Rolt, [Day & Son, 1861], frontis and twenty-six pages, chromolithographed in cols. and gold by W. R. Tymms, each page mounted on thick card, within a double-line red rule, orig. brown cloth, with col. and chromolithographed cut-out paper onlays, blocked in gilt, lower cover in blind, a.e.g., now a little rubbed at extremities, folio. McLean, Design, p.133. McLean, Cloth, p.71. (1)
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Essex House Press. Prayer Book of King Edward VII, Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, 1903, printed in red and black, woodcut illusts. and decorations by C. R. Ashbee, cut by W. H. Hooper and Clemence Housman, rebound in half red morocco, gilt, brown cloth sides, edges untrimmed, 4to. 272/400 copies, printed on hand-made paper. (1)
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Hall (S.C., editor). The Book of British Ballads [First] and Second Series, 2 vols., Jeremiah How, 1842-44, 339 wood engr. vignettes after E. Corbould, A. Croquill, R. Dadd, W. P. Frith, W. B. Scott, J. Tenniel, H. J. Townsend and others, wood engr. borders and initials, some foxing, orig. white cloth, printed in blue and gold, now soiled and dull, large 8vo. McLean, Cloth, p.34. Roy, Illustrator and the Book in England, 61 "The great successes of the book.... are two excursions into the supernatural: Richard Dadd's" Robin Goodfellow", his one attempt at book illustration, and H. J. Townsend's "Glenfinlas"." (2)
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Sharpe (R. Bowdler). Sketch-Book of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations by A.F. & C. Lydon, 1898, col. frontis. and illusts., orig. pict. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, together with Adams (H.G. and H.B.), The Smaller British Birds, 1874, thirty-two col. plts., orig. pict. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, plus an 1894 edition of the same work, thirty-two col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and faded on spine, all large 8vo, together with other Victorian natural history, published Routledge, etc., mostly orig. cloth or printed boards (approx. 80)
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Moore (Henry). Sculpture and Drawings, with an Introduction by Herbert Read, 1st ed. 1944, authors signed presentation copy, inscribed on flyleaf 'For Malcolm Metheun Clarke, Henry Moore, December, 1944', frontis., tipped-in col. plts., num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth, somewhat soiled and worn on spine, 4to, together with Goodwin-Smith (R.), English Domestic Metalwork, pub. F. Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea, 1937, num. illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, and four others, various (6)
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Essex House Press. Comus, A Mask, by John Milton, printed under the care of C. R. Ashbee, at the Essex House Press, 1901, printed on vellum throughout, hand-col. woodblock frontis. by Reginald Savage, single large initial in gold, num. small initials hand-painted in red, colophon at end with hand-col. illust., remains of label to front pastedown, orig. full vellum with blindstamped decoration to upper cover, some minor marks, sm. 8vo . Limited edition 25/150. (1)
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Travel interest, mostly 20th c., but including some 19th c. vols, incl. The Indian Tribes of North America, by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 3 vols., new ed., 1933-34 (rebound in modern blue cloth), Tutira, The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station by H. Guthrie-Smith, 2nd ed., 1926, Fragments of Voyages & Travels, 1st-2nd series, six vols., by Captain Basil Hall, 1831-32, plus the two volume Alan Wofsy reprint of Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860, by J. R. Abbey, etc. (3 shelves)
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A patinated and lacquered brass small box sextant by 'Heath & Co Ltd, London', No.1465 and dated 1915, with pivoted filters and adjustable mirror operated via rack and knurled brass knob to exterior linked with silvered vernier scale, 6.7cm diameter; in original leather case impressed 'R. Stafford 1915'.
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