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Morton (Thomas) A CATHOLIKE APPEALE FOR PROTESTANTS 1610. Folio. Engr. initials. Ex-library, with ink stamp to verso of title. Cont. calf. Upper board

Guilliadus (Claudius) IN EVANGELIUM SECUNDUM JOANNEM Paris, 1550. Folio. Woodcut device on title. Initials. Cont. signature on title. Ex-library with

Beveridge (William, Bishop of St. Asaph) THE WORKS.... 1720. 2 vols. Folio. Fldg. port. frontis. Titles in red/black. Ex-library, with stamps to verso

Foxe (John) ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, CONTEYNING THE ACTES AND MONUMENTS.... 1576. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Black Letter. Woodcut ills. & Engr. title t...

[Papal Bull] BOLLA.......GREGORIO X1V. CONTRA CHI SCOMMESSE SOPRA LA VITA & MORTE O SOPRA LA FUTURA ELECTIONE DEL PONTEFICO ROMANO. Rome, 1591. ...

Kitto (John) THE GALLERY OF SCRIPTURE ENGRAVINGS [1847]. 3 vols in 2. 4to. 192 engr. plates. Cont. half calf gt. a little scuffed. Some wear to head o

Appianus Alexandrinus ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM PUNICA, SIUE CARTHAGINIENSIS, PARTHICA etc. Paris (Estienne), 1592. Folio. Text in Latin & Greek. Wo...

Langius (Joseph) FLORILEGIUM MAGNUM SEU POLYANTHEAE.... Lyon, 1681. Folio. Engr. title page & with cont. signatures. T.p. torn at lower margin w...

Sadeler (Aegidius) SYMBOLA DIVINA & HUMANA Prague [G. Nigriaus?], 1601-03. 3 vols in 1. Fo. (Includes: SYMBOLA VARIA DIVERSORUM PRINCIPUM as vol...

Strabo RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM LIBRI XVII. Amsterdam, 1707. Folio. Added engr. title. Vignette. Woodcut initials. Ex-library, with stamp to lower margin

Fazelli (Tomaso) LE DUE DECHE DELL' HISTORIA DI SICILIA Trans: R. Fiorentino Venice, 1574. 1st Italian edition. 4to. Woodcut title device, initi...

Machiavelli (Niccolo) THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE. 1680. Folio (with the LETTER TO BUONDELMONTIUS bound-in). Ex-library, but unstamped. Some light foxing.

Ingelo (Nathaniel) BENTIVOLIO AND URANIA 1682. 4th edn. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Engr. frontis. Woodcut devices to title pages. Ex-library, with stamp to f

Sidney (Sir Philip) THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S ARCADIA Ed: Mrs Stanley 1725. Folio. Engr. t.p. device & headpieces. Ex-library, with stamp t...

Fabyan (Robert) THE CHRONICLE.....OF ENGLAND AND OF FRAUNCE [ca 1542]. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Black Letter. Woodcut title to vol 2. Vol. 1 lacks Ai. Vol

Bacon (Sir Francis) THE HISTORY OF THE RAIGNE OF KING HENRY THE SEVENTH 1622. 1st edn; 1st issue. Folio. Port. frontis & engraved title. Ex-libr...

Raleigh (Sir Walter) THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD. Ills: after R. Elstrick 1614. 1st edition, 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Engr. frontis and title port. 8 do

Speed (John) THE HISTORIE OF GREAT BRITAINE UNDER THE CONQUESTS OF THE ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES AND NORMANS 1623. 2nd edn. Large folio. Added hand-col. e

Wilkins (John) AN ESSAY TOWARDS A REAL CHARACTER, AND A PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE 1668. 1st edn. Folio. License leaf. Engr. arms on title. 3 plates. 2 fl

Bacon (Francis) DE AUGMENTIS SCIENTARUM Leiden, 1645. 12mo. Engr added title and woodcut device. Some light staining. Possibly lacking one leaf. Cont.

Astle (Thomas) THE ORIGINS AND PROGRESS OF WRITING. 1784. 1st edn. 4to. Half-title. Dedication before title. 30 (of 31) engr. plates. Some fldg. some

Hogg (James) SONGS BY THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD Edin. & L. 1831. 1st edn. 12 pp booklist at front. Authors' name inserted on t.p. Orig. boards, r...

Rogers (Samuel) POEMS 1852. 2 vols. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Lord Glenely on blank leaf before frontis. vol 1. Engr. frontis &a...

Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Scondat, Baron de) DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS Paris 1820. 4 vols. Cont. half calf, blind-tooled. Plus 2 others, French l...

Clemens (Samuel Langhorne, "Mark Twain") THE WORKS. 1899-1900. 22 (of 25) vols. Ltd edition [600]. Signed twice by the author on limitatio...

Dering (E.H.) THE BAN OF MAPLETHORPE L & Leamington, 1894. 1st edn. 2 vols. B/w plates. Monastic library stamps to title & first leaf of tex...

Hume (Fergus) THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB n.d. 6pp advts. Orig. printed wraps. Crease in upper cover. £50-70

Christie (Agatha) HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS 1939 [1938]. 1st edn. Half-title. Orig. printed cloth. £40-60

Graves (Robert) POEMS 1938-45. 1946. 1st edn. Orig. cloth. Unclipped d/w. Madge (Charles) THE DISAPPEARING CASTLE 1937. 1st edn. Unclipped d/

(Golden Cockerel Press) THE CHESTER PLAY OF THE DELUGE Ills: D. Jones Waltham St. Lawrence, 1927. 4to. Ltd. edn on hand-made paper, [234/275]. 10 full

Whitman (Walt) WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOMED Ills: C.R. Ashbee. L., Essex House Press, 1900. Ltd edn. [125] numbered. Printed on vellum. Ha

Laurence (John) A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE....HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING 1726. 1st edn. Folio. Engr. frontis. 2 plates. Ex-library, with stamps to title

Hartwig (G.) THE POLAR WORLD/THE SEA AND ITS LIVING WONDERS/THE TROPICAL WORLD 1874; 1873; 1877. 3 vols. Chromoxylographic plates, wood engr. plates...

Dykes (William Ricketson) THE GENUS IRIS Cambridge, 1913. 1st edn. Folio. 48 col. plates. Library stamp to verso of title. Partly untrimmed. Orig. Qua

Evelyn (John) SILVA: A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES Ed: A. Hunter. York, 1776. 1st Hunter edn. 4to. Plates as called for. Subscribers' list, with r...

Smith (Sir James Edward) & Sowerby (James) ENGLISH BOTANY. 1840. 2nd edn. Vol.7 only. 25 hand-col. plates. Cont. green half-calf. Crimson title ...

Wiseman (Richard) EIGHT CHIRURGICAL TREATIISES 1705. 4th edn. Folio. Half-title with licence on verso. Ex-library, with stamp to f.e.p. Cont. panelled

Wright (J.M.F.) A COMMENTARY ON NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA. 1833. 2 vols. Partly untrimmed. Ex-library, with stamps to titles. 19th Century quarter moro...

Sedgwick (James) A NEW TREATISE ON LIQUORS: WHERIN THE USE AND ABUSE OF WINE, MALT-DRINKS, WATER etc, ARE PARTICULARLY CONSIDER'D. 1725. Some sp...

Clarke (James Stanier) & McArthur (John) THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, K.B. 1809. 2 vols. Large 4to. Plates & plans as called for. Some m...

Tyrrell (Henry) THE HISTORY OF THE WAR WITH RUSSIA n.d. 3 vols in 1. 4to. 4 double-p. maps. Engr. plates. cont. half morocco gt. W.a.f. Gibbon (Edward

Day (St. John Vincent) PLATES AND NOTES RELATING TO SOME SPECIAL FEATURES IN STRUCTURES CALLED PYRAMIDS Edin. 1869. Folio. 15 engr. plates. Ex-library

[Drummond, Sir William and Walpole, Rev. Robert] HERCULANENSIA: OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL DISSERTATIONS. 1810. 1st edn. Large 4to. 3 engr. pl

Disney (John) MUSEUM DISNEIANUM, BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT MARBLES. 1846-49. 3 vols. Fo. 130 litho plates, some col. Ex-library

Panofka (Theodor) MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE GREEKS Ills: G. Scharf 1849. 4to. Engr. title & 21 plates based on Greek vase designs. Ex-library, ...

Barnes (William) NOTES ON ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE BRITONS 1858. 1st edn. Sm. 8vo. Half-title. 16pp booklist. A little very light spotting towards the

Stone (E. Herbert) THE STONES OF STONEHENGE 1924. 1st edn. 4to. Litho frontis. B.w plates & ills. Orig. cloth gt. £40-50

Layard (Austen Henry) NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS 1854. 6th edn. 2 vols. Fldg. map & plans. Engr. plates. Booklist in vol. 1. Partly untrimmed. Mod....

Peake (Harold) & Fleure (Herbert John) THE CORRIDORS OF TIME Vols 2-7. Oxford, 1927-1931. 1st edns. 6 vols. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. D/w torn w...

Russell (William Howard) A MEMORIAL OF THE MARRIAGE OF HRH ALBERT PRINCE OF WALES AND HRH ALEXANDRA PRINCESS OF DENMARK. Ills: R. Dudley [1864]. Folio

Fellowes (W.D.) HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF CHARLES THE FIRST 1828. 4to. Port. frontis & 40 engr. plates. Ex-library, with stamp to title, one or two...

Burnet (Gilbert) THE MEMORIES OF THE LIVES AND ACTIONS OF JAMES AND WILLIAM DUKES OF HAMILTON AND CASTLEHERALD, etc... 1677. 1st edn. Folio. Port. fro

Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer) LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL 1906. 1st edn. 2 vols. B/w pltes & ills. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. Sl. r...

Tomkins (Isaac) "WE CAN'T AFFORD IT!" THOUGHTS UPON THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND. 1835. 20pp disbound. Plus 3 others, related, by Tomk...

THE TRYAL OF EDWARD COLEMAN FOR CONSPIRING THE DEATH OF THE KING AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND. 1678. Folio. Licence leaf be

[Blue Books] REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 1835. Folio. Orig. printed wraps. Some wear to spine. RETURN: REAL PR

[Blue Books] A COLLECTION OF REPORTS - 1833-1903. AGRICULTURE, TRADE & INDUSTRY, MERCHANT SHIPPING etc. 8 vols. Folio. Orig. printed wraps. Some...

Mill (John Stuart) THREE ESSAYS ON RELIGION 1874. 1st edn. Half title. Advt. leaf. Orig. cloth gt. CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. 1861.

Gilpin (William) THREE ESSAYS: ON PICTURESQUE BEAUTY; AND ON SKETCHING LANDSCAPE 1792. Half-title. 7 aquatint plates. Ex-library with stamps to title

Holbein (Hans) PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII Engr: F. Bartolozzi & others. Ed. E. Lodge. 1828. Folio. 84 hand-c...

Young (John) A CATALOGUE OF PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS IN THE POSSESSION OF JOHN FLEMING LEICESTER. 1821. 4to. 69 engravings on 33 plates. Ex-library

Pinelli (Bartolomeo) RACCOLIA DI CINQUANTA COSTUMI PITTORESCHI Rome, 1809. Oblong folio. Engr. title. 50 etched plates. Some light marginal foxing. Ex

Raphael (Rafaello Sanzio D'urbino) A COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS BY R.CERACCHI AND OTHERS ca 1830. Oblong folio. Lacks title. 106 engr. plates. Som...

Mellerio (Andre) LA LITHOGRAPHIE ORIGINALE EN COULEURS. Ills: P. Bonnard Paris, 1898. Sm. 4to. Ltd edn. [1000] numbered. Frontispiece and wr

Bemrose (William) THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOSEPH WRIGHT, A.R.A. 1885. Folio. Ltd. edn. [100], numbered, signed by publishers. Port frontis. T.p. vignett

Cuitt (George) WANDERINGS AND PENCILLINGS AMONGST RUINS OF THE OLDEN TIME. 1855. Folio added title, 52 etched plates, other etchings mounted in letter

Burty (Phillipe) SONNETS ET EAUX-FORTES Paris, 1869. Folio. Ltd edn. [350]. Engr. title & 42 etched plates. Ex-library, with stamps to title

Lott (Ludwig) SAMMLUNG DER SCHONSTEN MINIATUREN DES MITTELALTERS (14th & 15th Centuries) Vienna, ca 1860. 72 chromolitho plates. Ex-librar

Lutzow (Carl von) & Graul (Richard) DIE VERVIELFALTIGENDE KUNST DER GEGENWART IN EUROPA AND NORDAMERIKA Vienna 1887-92. 3 vols. Folio. Etched &a...

Wilson (John W.) COLLECTION...EXPOSEE DANS LA GALERIE DU CERCLE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE DE BRUXELLES. Paris, 1873. Fo. Ltd edn. [1000]. Numbered. 68

Pope-Hennessy (John) ITALIAN HIGH RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE SCULPTURE 1963. 1st edn. 3 vols. 4to. B/w pltes. Orig. cloth gt. D/w's £60-80

Ruskin (John) MODERN PAINTERS Orpington, 1888. 6 vols. 4to. L.P. 90 engr. plates. Orig. cloth gt. Extremities sl. rubbed.(6) £80-100

Jackson (E. Nevill) THE HISTORY OF SILHOUETTES 1911. 1st edn. 4to. Frontis. & 8 silhouette plates. 72 b/w plates. Orig. cloth. D/w. Lister (Raym...

[Blue Book] REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ART UNIONS 1845. Folio. Orig. printed wraps. Minor wear. An important report which went quite seriousl

MODERN MASTERS OF ETCHING 25 vols. Ca 1924-32. Oblong 4to. Includes; Whistler, Cameron, Brangwyn, Haden, Laura Knight etc. Some ex-library. Orig. boar

Kendall (Henry Edward) DESIGNS FOR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL HOUSES PAROCHIAL AND NATIONAL. 1847. Folio. Tinted litho added title. 20 litho plates, 10 tinted

Snell (H. Saxon) CHARITABLE AND PAROCHIAL ESTABLISHMENTS 1881. Folio. Litho frontis & plates, many double-p. Ex-library, but unstamped. Gutta pe...

Walmisley (Arthur) IRON ROOFS. EXAMPLES OF DESIGN. 1888. 2nd edn. Large 4to. 68 plates. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of plates. Orig. half morocco

Coney (John) BEAUTIES OF CONTINENTAL ARCHITECTURE 1843. Folio. 28 etched plates, some double-p. Mounted vignettes. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of

Anon THE CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND AND WALES n.d. [ca 1910]. 2 vols. 4to. Gravure plates. B/w ills. Cont. maroon morocco gt. (2) £30-50

Audsley (George Ashdown & Maurice Ashdown) THE PRACTICAL DECORATOR AND ORNAMENTIST 1892. Folio. 102 Chromolitho plates. Ex-library, with stamps ...

Dresser (Christopher) MODERN ORNAMENTATION 1886. 1st edn. Folio. 50 litho plates. Ex-library, with stamps to verso of title. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Min

Jackson (George) PART OF THE COLLECTION OF RELIEVO DECORATIONS AS EXECUTED IN PAPIER MACHE and CARTON PIERRE 1849. Folio. Engr. title & 63 plate...

Bielefeld (Charles Frederick) ON THE USE OF IMPROVED PAPIER MACHE IN FURNITURE...BUILDINGS...AND WORKS OF ART. [1840] Large 4to. 2 title pages. Vignet

Audsley (William John & George Ashdown) POLYCHROMATIC DECORATION AS APPLIED TO BUILDINGS IN THE MEDIEVAL STYLE. 1882. Folio. 36 chromolitho plat...

Townsend (W.G.P.) MODERN DECORATIVE ART IN ENGLAND. VOL. I. - FABRIC, WALL-PAPERS, LACE etc. 1922. 4to. Col. & B/w plates. Orig. cloth gt. Plus ...

Sugden (Alan Victor) & Edmonson (John Ludlam) A HISTORY OF ENGLISH WALLPAPERS 1925. 4to. Mounted col. plates. B/w ills. Ex-library, with stamps ...

Fischbach (Frederick) ORNAMENT OF TEXTILE FABRICS n.d. [ca 1880] Large folio. English text. 160 chromlitho plates on textured paper. Ex-library, with

Westman (Habbakuk) THE SPOON. 1845. 1st edn. 8 litho plates. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of title. Cont. quarter morocco gt. Joints rubbed. ...

Welch (charles) NUMISMATA LONDINENSIA. MEDALS STRUCK BY THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. 1894. 4to. B/w plates & tissue guards. Ex-library, with stamp...

[Coins and Medals] A COLLECTION OF SALE CATALOGUES 1783-92. Coins sold by Mr Gerard at Litchfield Street, Soho. 18 catalogues, bound in one volume, wi

Madden (Frederic William) HISTORY OF JEWISH COINAGE..... 1884. 1st edn. 1 fldg. plate. Text ills. Ex-library, with ink stamp to verso of title &...

Adamson (John), Combe (Taylor), Hawkins (Edward) & others MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS AND PLATES RELATING TO COINS. n.d. [ca 1833]. 4to. 77 engr. plate...

Simon (James) ESSAY ON IRISH COINS. Dublin, 1810. 4to. 12 engr. plates. Occassional light spotting. Ex-library, with stamp to title & verso of p...

Humphreys (Henry Noel) THE COINAGE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1855. 23 plates, some heightened in gold & silver. Some offsetting. Endpapers sl. foxed...

[costume plates] PRIME DU JOURNAL LES MODES PARISIENNES : COSTUMES HISTORIQUES FRANCAIS/COSTUMES SUEDOIS (and others, similar) Paris ca 1875. 2 vols.

Morison (Stanley) FOUR CENTURIES OF FINE PRINTING [1924]. Large folio. Ltd edn. [390] numbered. Illustrated throughout with collotypes & other b...

Beraldi (Henri) LES GRAVEURS DU XIX SIECLE. Paris, 1885-91. 12 vols in 5. Ex-library, with stamps to verso of titles. Orig. half morocco gt. Edges &...

Bosse (Abraham) DE LA MANIERE DE GRAVEUR A L'EAU FORTE ET AU BURIN Paris, 1758. Engr. frontis, dedication leaf and 21 fldg plates. Engr. headpie...

Anon A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING. L. 1770. 8vo. Engr. frontis. Text ills. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of title, first