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Travels in Greece: or an Account of a Tour Made at the...
CHANDLER, Richard.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press... London: Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson [et al], 1776. First edition. 4to. (iv), xiv, (ii), 304 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, retaining one of the original gilt lettered red labels, early ownership inscription, "Somerset Bridge Club," to the front free endpaper. 7 plates -.....
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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Robert Riviére & Son, [c. 1920s]. Six works in five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red half calf over cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and attractively decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Colour frontispieces. Some mild sunning and occasional mild rubbing.....
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Mythologiæ, sive Explicationis Fabularum, Libri Decem. In Quibus Omnia Propè Naturalis &...
[CONTI, Natale or COMES, Natalis].Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes [heirs of Andreas Wechelus], Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium, 1596. 8vo. (16), 1137, 54, 1138-1193, (1) pp. Early full vellum with yapp edges, lacking ties, spine with gilt ruled bands, contemporary hand written title to upper panel, a gilt device with the motto "Rinasce.....
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A Familiar Treatise on the Five Senses, Being an account of the...
BELL, Charles.London: Henry Washbourne, 1841. Second edition, 8vo, viii, 85, (1) pp. 20 hand coloured plates. Original cloth, rebacked with new endpapers and retaining the original, rather darkened backstrip. Originally published a few years earlier as "The Organs of the Senses."
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G. Bradshaw's Map of Canals Situated in the Counties of Lancaster, York...
BRADSHAW, [George].Manchester: G. Bradshaw, 1830. Two large decorative folding maps of the northern and midland counties of England, both with bright original full hand colouring. I. Map dimensions 98.5 x 126.5 cm, showing the extents from Lancaster down to Nantwich and Tadcaster across to the Irish Sea; II. Map dimensions 131.....
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Cary's New Pocket Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark:...
CARY, J.London: J. Cary, No. 181 Strand, Jany. 1, 1797. Map dimensions 30.5 x 60 cm, overall 41 x 61 cm. Folding plan of central London, original colour highlighting the bodies of water and the parks with a thin outline marking out the boundary of the City, dissected into 18 sections.....
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Prolusions; or, select Pieces of antient Poetry, compil'd with great Care from...
[CAPELL, Edward].London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), xi, (i), 23, (1), 23, (1), 13, (3), 93, (15), 81, (3) pp. Some occasional foxing, marbled endpapers. Later gilt decorated black morocco, a.e.g., some faint rubbing, a very good copy. Including "The Wife" by John Overbury and.....
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The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California. Das Neue Industriegelände in der...
BALTZ, Lewis.(New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974). First edition, 4to, (106) pp. 51 full page black and white illustrations, contemporary signature and an old inked price to the fly leaf. Cloth, with mild spotting, d.w. with light soiling and slight loss to the spine ends.
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Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuouamente Ristampato.
CASTIGLIONE, Baldessare.Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding.....
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Baigneuses. Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright.
BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John.Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, (1995). Limited edition, no. 6 of 30 specially bound copies signed by Christopher Buckland Wright, from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations. Gilt titled full vellum, folding cloth box, the.....
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The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. Or An Impartial Survey...
[ALLESTREE, Richard].London: R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 1677. 8vo. (20), 449, (3) pp. 8vo. Later half calf, rebacked with close matching, marbled boards, the earlier spine label preserved. Title page vignette plus two plates. Small closed tear to the.....
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The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from...
CERVANTES DE SAAVEDRA, Miguel.London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and R. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1742. First edition thus. Two volumes. 4to. xxxii, (xii), vi, (ii), 355, (1); xii, 388 pp. Nineteenth century full calf, the boards with gilt ruled panels with blindstamped decoration, rebacked to style in a......
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