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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...