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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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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With... Illustrations by R. Seymour...
DICKENS, Charles.London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition, 8vo, iii-xiv, (ii), 609, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Engraved second title, frontispiece and 41 plates, the plates in their early states without captions and with Phiz's replacements for the two suppressed Buss plates. Some foxing and browning to the plates.....
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A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex. Including...
DALLAWAY, James & CARTWRIGHT, Edmund.London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1815, 30, 32, 19. Four volumes, 4to. First two volumes (Chichester and Bramber) first edition, third volume (Arundel) "New Edition", plus the very rare first edition of the Arundel volume, large 4to. 83 plates - two double page and four in colour, 19 maps and.....
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Alle de Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe... De laatste Druk. Hier komen...
CATS, Jacob.Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen and François Halma; Utrecht: Wilhelm vande Water, 1700. Two volumes. Second edition. Folio. (28), 666, (10) [pp. 183-184 repeated and page numbers 343-348 omitted as usual, the text and signatures continual]; (18), 390, (6), 393-608, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary mottled full calf, spine with raised.....
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The Works of... (The Canterbury Tales. Minor Poems. Boece. Troilus and Criseyde...
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press... and published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1928. Limited edition, no. 77 of 375 sets, eight volumes, 4to. Some coloured illustrations in the margins, red initial letters and decoration. Small mark to the fore edge of volume I, barely affecting the page edges. Original.....
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Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (Now...
BELLEW, H.W.London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7.....
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Blake's Illustrations of Dante. Seven Plates, Designed and Engraved by...
BLAKE, William.London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Limited edition, no. 248 of 376 copies from a total edition of 440. Oblong folio. (14) pp. Publisher's brown quarter morocco over grey cloth sides, matching cloth slipcase. 7 plates and 11 further illustrations. An attractive copy.
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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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Our Coaching Trip. Brighton to Inverness.
CARNEGIE, Andrew.New York: Private Circulation, 1882. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), 275, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the dedication leaf to the chemist Sidney G. Thomas and his sister, Lilian, with her and her husband's bookplate to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine sunned with some wear to.....
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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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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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Select Colloquies, Out of... Pleasantly Representing Several Superstitious Levities That were crept...
ERASMUS, (Desiderius)London: Printed by R. Bentley... and R. Sare, 1689. 8vo, (ii blank, vi), 293, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, 20th century signature to the fly leaf and notes to a rear blank, 19th century to a front blank, small piece torn from another blank. 20th century brown cloth, slightly sunned. Wing.....
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