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The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla. or Le Paradis de la Reine...
BELL, Clive.Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition, one of 400 copies. Small 4to. 25, (1) pp. Publisher's white boards, the upper cover with a design in black by Vanessa Bell, dust jacket plain but for lettering tot he upper panel. Frontispiece.....
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A History of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
ACKERMANN, R. (Publisher).London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814. First edition, two volumes, 4to. 115 plates - a portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand coloured aquatints and 17 hand coloured engravings of the various gowns plus the 33 Founders plates, all in excellent condition. Frontispiece and one further plate plus the text in.....
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A Treatise on Civil Architecture, in which that Art are Laid Down...
CHAMBERS, William.London: Printed by J. Dixwell. To be Had at the Author's House...; likewise Cadell, Nourse, and Wilson [et al], 1768. Second edition. Folio. (iv), iv, 86 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked and recornered to style, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, later owner's inscription to the.....
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Les Edifices Antiques de Rome. Dessinés et Mesurés tres exactement.
DESGODETZ, Antoine.Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1682. First edition, folio, (xiv), 323, (1) pp. Engraved title page and 137 plates, 21 of which are double page, later bookplate. Early 20th century half morocco, marbled sides, recent repair to the foot of the joints. A handsome copy of the first accurately measured.....
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Marlborough. His Life and Times.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1934-38. Four volumes. Mixed impressions, 4th, 2nd, 1st and 1st impressions respectively. Publisher's variant cloth, gilt lettered to the spines. Numerous maps, plans and facsimiles. Uneven sunning to the cloth, spotting to the top and fore edges, else very good. Woods, A40(a). Langworth.....
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
DARWIN, Charles.London: John Murray, 1879. Second edition, 13th thousand, 8vo, xvi, 693, (1), pp. 78 illustrations in the text, mild cracking to the upper hinge. Original dark green cloth, small patch of rubbing to the upper cover otherwise a very good copy. Freeman, 951.
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Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Handbook for Travellers by...
BAEDEKER, Karl.Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First edition, 8vo, lxiv, 590 pp. 40 maps and 78 plans. Original gilt titled red cloth, joint ends a little worn. Hinrichsen E244. The only edition produced; a facsimile eventually appeared in 1971.
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Balyn and Balan.
CLARKE, Graham.Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine.....
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French Country Cooking. Line drawings by John Minton.
DAVID, Elizabeth.London: Dorling Kindersley, (1987). Limited edition, no. 47 of 450 copies signed by the author, small 4to, (ii), 224 pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Pictorial boards, d.w., price clipped, spine slightly sunned otherwise very good.
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[Greek Text - Book of Common Prayer. The Psalms of David]. Biblos...
(COMMON PRAYER).Kantabrigia [Cambridge]: Ioannou Phieldou [John Field], 1665, 1664. Two works in one volume, 12mo, xxxvi, 126, (2, ii), 115, (3), 117-171, (1) pp. Marginal loss to O6 in the second work without loss of text, contemporary signature to the title page of the first work. Contemporary calf, a little worn.....
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Travels in Arabia Deserta. ...with a new preface by the Author, and...
DOUGHTY, Charles M.London: Jonathan Cape & the Medici Society, (1924). Two volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 623, (1); xiv, 690 pp. 9 plates, illustrations in the text and a large coloured folding map in a pocket at the end of volume I. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter from the author, on his headed.....
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(The Prayer Book of Edward VII) The Book of Common Prayer, and...
(COMMON PRAYER).New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. 4to, (xiv), 386, (2) pp. Publisher's black full morocco recently rebacked in black leather, the spine with raised bands, both boards with a large gilt device featuring several crowns and a central garland, this incorporating some pink and blue detailing, much worn, embossed endpapers.....
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