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Antiquities.- Davis (Nathan) Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character...in the British Museum, discovered on the site of Carthage, first edition, ...

Antiquities & Archaeology.- [Bonomi (Joseph)] Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Museum of Hartwell House, first edition, 2 plates, one ...

Architecture.- Bolton (Arthur T., editor) The Portrait of Sir John Soane, R.A., 1927 § Swarbrick (John) Robert Adam & his Brothers, [c.1915] § Llo...

Architecture.- Donaldson (Thomas Leverton) A Collection of...Doorways, from Ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy, first edition, 26 engraved plat...

Architecture.- Gardens.- Brown (Jane ) The Art and Architecture of English Gardens, New York, 1989 § Bazin (G.) Paradeisos: The Art of the Garden,...

NO RESERVE Freeman (M.B.) The Unicorn Tapestries, New York, 1976 § Parry (Linda) William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement: A Design Source ...

Cartography.- [Ogilby (John)] Ogilby's Road Maps of England and Wales from Ogilby's 'Britannia', 1675, facsimile reprint, Reading, 1971 § Goss (Jo...

Davis (William) A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac, first edition, lightly browned, original boards, uncut, upper cover stained, reback...

Lettering & Typography.- Johnson (A.F.) Decorative Initial Letters, one of 500 copies, Cresset Press, 1931 § Lewis (John) The Twentieth Century Bo...

Loudon (J.H.) James Scott and William Scott, Bookbinders, 1980 § Ball (Douglas) Victorian Publishers' Bindings, 1985 § Searle (Ronald) Slightly Fo...

Papermaking.- Hughes (Sukey) Washi: The World of Japanese Paper, one of 1000 copies, tipped-in samples, illustrations, original cloth-backed board...

Strachan (W.J.) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d'Artiste, 1969 § Skelton (Christopher, editor) Eric Gill: The Engraving...

Cruikshank (George) Fashion. Dedicated to all the Town, second edition, 5 hand-coloured etchings by the author only (of 6), some staining, origina...

[Forrester (A. H.)], "Alfred Crowquill". Absurdities: in Prose and Verse, first edition, half-title, 13 hand-coloured etched plates, a few spots, ...

George (Stefan) & Karl Wolfskehl, editors. Deutsche Dichtung, one of 400 copies designed by Melchior Lechter, printed in red, blue and black with ...

Nicholson (William).- Kipling (Rudyard) An Almanac of Twelve Sports, colour device on title, 12 colour plates by Nicholson, pictorial advertisemen...

Rackham (Arthur).- Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, 1910 § Swinburne (A.C.) The Springtide of Life, 1918 § Ingoldsby (Thomas) The In...

Steinberg (Saul) The Art of Living, New York, [1949] § Durrell (Lawrence) Sauve qui peut, illustrations by Nicolas Bentley, 1966 § Brand New Monty...

[Surtees (Robert Smith)] Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853; "Plain or Ringlets?", 1860; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865; "Ask Mamma", contemporary...

Widor (Ch. M.) Vieilles Chansons pour les Petits Enfants, colour illustrations by M.B. de Monvel, ink inscription to front endpaper, original patt...

Perrault (Charles) Histoire de Peau d'Ane, one of 230 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed ...

Linguistics.- Ibn Wahshih (Ahmad bin Abubekr) Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained..., translated by Joseph Hammer[-Purgstall],...

Linguistics.- [Badcock (John)], "Jon Bee". Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life, f...

[West (William)] Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses..., folding etched frontispiece, engraved additi...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Poems...Modernized, edited by Robert Hengist Horne, first edition, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, Whittake...

[Abbott (Edwin A.)], "A Square". Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, first edition, half-title, illustrations by the author, ownership signatu...

Hardy (Thomas) ) Jude the Obscure, half-title, etched frontispiece, map (a little browned), 1896; Poems of the Past and the Present, [one of 500 c...

Jeayes (Isaac Herbert, editor) Letters of Philip Gawdy...1579-1616, original roan-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, spine slig...

Proust (Marcel) [Remembrance of Things Past], 12 vol., plates by Philippe Jullian, pencil notes to endpapers, original cloth, decorative dust-jack...

Lewis (Cecil Day) The Buried Day, 1960 § Cecil (David) Two Quiet Lives, pictorial title by Barbara Jones, 1948 § Gaunt (William) Arrows of Desire:...

Folio Society.- Radcliffe (Ann) The Complete Novels, 6 vol., wood-engraved illustrations by Sarah van Niekerk, original cloth-backed boards, toget...

Facsimiles.- Schedel (Hartmann) Chronicle of the World: The Complete and Annotated Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, introduction by Stephen Füssel, or...

Chesterton (G.K.) The Napoleon of Notting Hill, first edition, 7 plates by W.Graham Robertson and map, 22pp. advertisements at end, free endpapers...

Douglas (Norman) London Street Games, first edition, 1916; Old Calabria, second edition, 1920; Some Limericks, n.p., privately printed, 1929; In t...

Johnson (Pamela Hansford) This Bed Thy Centre, [the author's first book], slight damp-staining to inner margin at beginning, 193; Blessed Above Wo...

Stoppard (Tom) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, first edition, original wrappers with dust-jacket, lightly foxed and soiled, 1967 § Hughes (...

Yeats (William Butler) The Tower, first edition, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by Thomas Sturge Moore, pictorial dust-jacket, rubbed, u...

Agriculture.- Young (Arthur) A Course of Experimental Agriculture, 4 vol., first Dublin edition, half-titles in vol.1 & 4 (as called for), 2 foldi...

Trees & Forestry.- Evelyn (John) Silva, edited by A.Hunter, 2 vol., fourth edition, engraved portrait and 45 plates, 2 folding, light offsetting, ...

Food & Drink.- Cocktails.- Thomas (Jerry) How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion...[with] A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liqu...

Food & Drink.- Jameson & Son (John) & others, distillers. Truths about Whisky, second edition, 4 folding lithograph plates, occasional spotting, w...

Food & Drink.- Morewood (Samuel) A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs ... in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriati...

Food & Drink.- Practical Economy; or, the Application of Modern Discoveries to the Purposes of Domestic Life, second edition, half-title, modern b...

Games & Puzzles.- Hoffmann (Professor Angelo J. Lewis) Puzzles Old and New, 1893; King Koko, 1904 § Hutchison (G.A., editor) Indoor Games and Recr...

Hydropathy.- Short (Thomas) An Essay towards a Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Principle Mineral Waters of Cumberland, Northum...

Mathematics.- Kersey (John) The Elements of that Mathematical Art commonly called Algebra, vol.1 only [all published], second edition, a few conte...

Science.- Peregrinus de Maricourt (Petrus) The Epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt, Soldier concerning the Magnet, ...

Science & Medicine.- Casserius (Julius) Tabulae Anatomicae [&] De Formato Foetu Tabulae, 2 vol. in 1, limited edition facsimile reprint, original ...

Europe.- Wright (Rev. George Newenham) The Rhine, Italy, and Greece, 2 vol. in 1, engraved additional vignette titles and 71 plates by W.H.Bartlet...

France.- Boissel (T.C.G.) Voyage Pittoresque, et Navigation exécutée sur une partie du Rhône, réputée non navigable, first edition, half-title, en...

Italy.- Baretti (Joseph) An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, 2 vol., first English edition, 2 plates of engraved music, some light fox...

Mediterranean.- Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, first edition, map and 20 tinted lithographed plates, very occasional sp...

Russia.- [Masson de Blamont (C.F.P.)] Mémoires Secrets sur la Russie..., 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary ink signature and old ink stamp to titl...

Scandinavia.- Norse Antiquities.- Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord. Atlas de l'Archéologie du Nord représentant des Échantillons du l'Age de...

Scandinavia.- Norse Literature.- Johnstone (Rev. James, translator) Lodbrokar-Quida; or the Death-Song of Lodbroc, half-title, nineteenth century ...

Asia.- Veitch (James Herbert) A Traveller's Notes, spotted and soiled, ex-library copy with stamps, for private circulation, 1896 § Ll[oyd] (H.) H...

China.- Fortune (Robert) Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, second edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates...

China.- Ho (Waik-kam) & Judith G.Smith, editors. The Century of Tung Chi'i-ch'ang 1555-1636, 2 vol., Seattle & London, 1992 § Pirazzoli-t'Sersteve...

China.- National Palace Museum Taichung. Three Hundred Masterpieces of Chinese Painting in the Palace Museum, 6 vol. in 2, text in Chinese and Eng...

China.- Tchang (Mathias) Synchronismes Chinois, title foxed, C.R.Boxer's copy with his signature to front free endpaper, contemporary half cloth, ...

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