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Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China. Being Description and...
BAHR, A.W.London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to.....
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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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Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a preface and some account...
BLUNT, Lady Anne.London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in.....
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Bathers and Dancers. The white line and silhouette engravings of... with an...
BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John.(Wakefield): The Fleece Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 180 copies from a total edition of 206 copies, tall 8vo, 25, (73) pp. 47 illustrations, 5 tipped in, accompanying printed slip from the publisher loosely inserted. Quarter vellum, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy.
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Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several...
BORLASE, William.London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition, folio, xvi, 464 pp. Two maps - one folding - and 25 plates - one of these also folding, plus 10 illustrations in the text, early owner's signature.....
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La Plante. Cent vingt planches et héliogravure d'après des détails très agrandis...
BLOSSFELDT, Charles [Karl].Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. Forty-first thousand. 8vo. (x), 192 pp. Contemporary red full calf by Bickers and Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label, the other compartments gilt decorated, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, later owner's name neatly signed to the front flyleaf. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by.....
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Bacon's New Chart of the World. Mercator's Projection.
BACON, G.W.Manchester: G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., [c.1906]. Map dimensions 92 x 118 cm, overall 94 x 120 cm. A large folding colour printed chart of the world, decorated with 46 flags across the upper edge, six tables of data to the lower edge, a larger inset map of the British.....
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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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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
[CHAMBERS, Robert].London: John Churchill, 1847. Sixth edition. 8vo. iv, 512 pp. Later quarter brown calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label. The top inch of the title page neatly excised and subtly restored, mild sunning to the spine, very good overall. First published anonymously in 1844 for.....
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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 Life of Samuel Johnson, Together with The Journal of a Tour...
BOSWELL, Samuel.London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Limited edition, no. 48 of 104 sets signed by the printer Charles Whittingham, five volumes - with the Life in four volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles plus 44 plates, contemporary signature to paste downs, mid-20th century catalogue slip for this set tipped.....
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week.All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association