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Chateau-Lyon (D'Aquin de)<P> ALMANACH LITERAIRE, OU ETRENNES D'APOLLON Paris, 1785. Sm. 8vo. Engr. title device. Cont. mottled calf. G...

Percy (Thomas)<P> RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY 1784. 4th edn. 3 vols. Forntis. Engr. title vignettes. Front free endpapers loose. Cont. ...

Hawkins (Sir John) <P> PROBATIONARY ODES FOR THE LAUREATSHIP 1785. Half-title. Mod. boards. Printed label. £80-100

Milton (John)<P> PARADISE LOST. Ills: after Sir J.B. Medina 1688. 4th edn, 1st illustrated. Folio. Engr. port. frontis & 12 plates. Occasi...

Shakespeare (William)<P> COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES 1904. Folio. Facsimile of 1685 edn. Port. frontis. Ink stamp to title verso. Partl...

Dickens (Charles)<P> SPEECHES LITERARY AND SOCIAL [1870]. 1st edn. Orig. wraps bound-in. T.p. spotted. Cont. cloth gt. Pemberton (T.E.)<P&g...

Le Sage (Alain Rene)<P> THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE Trans: B.H. Malkin. Ills: R.Smirke, 1809. 4 vols. 4to. L.P. copy. India proof...

Burns (Robert)<P> THE COMPLETE WORKS. Philadelphia, n.d. [ca 1886]. 6 vls. Etched plates, maps, text-ills etc. Orig. cloth. Leather title labe...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan)<P> THE PARASITE, 1894. 1st edn. 1st issue. Sm. 8vo. 2 half-titles. Engr. title page. Orig. printed wraps. A little we...

Dickens (Charles)<P> THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Ills: S. L. Fildes, 1870. 1st edn. Port. frontis. Added engr. title. 12 plates. Advt. leaf at...

Haggard (Sir Henry Rider)<P> COLONEL QUARITCH, VC. 1888. 1st edn. 3 vols. Half-titles. Private owner's stamp to front endpaper. Orig. prin...

Kipling (Rudyard)<P> SOLDIERS THREE. Allahabad & L. 1890. No. 1 in the Indian Railway Library. Orig. printed wraps. Some chipping at head ...

James (Henry)<P> EMBARASSMENTS. 1896. 1st edn. 1st issue [1250]. Half-title. Title in red-black. Booklist. Orig. cloth gt. with blind-tooled a...

Waugh (Evelyn)<P> ROBBERY UNDER LAW: THE MEXICAN OBJECT-LESSON 1939. 1st edn. Orig. cloth gt. Sl. spotting of edges. In d/w with a few small t...

Amis (Martin)<P> THE INFORMATION, 1995. ltd edn (206/350). Signed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth gt. Slip-case. £40-50

De La Mare (Walter)<P> THE CAPTIVE NY, 1928. Ltd edn. [600]. Signed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth-backed boards. POEMS 1906. 1st edn. Ha...

[detective fiction] Brand (Christianna)<P> THE THREE CORNERED HALO, 1957. 1st edn. Inscribed by author on f.f.e.p.<P> Clipped d/w. Allin...

Pym (Barbara)<P> THE SWEET DOVE DIED, 1978. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w A FEW GREEN LEAVES, 1980. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. Gellhorn (Martha)<P>...

Fowles (John)<P> A MAGGOT, 1985. 1st edn. Signed by author on title.<P> Unclipped d/w. Waugh (Evelyn)<P> OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN, 1...

Brookner (Anita)<P> FAMILY AND FRIENDS, 1985. Ltd edn (172/250). Signed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth-backed boards. Glassine wrap. Fore...

James (Henry)<P> A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS, 1913. 1st English edn. Port. frontis. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. Auden (Wystan Hugh) & Mac...

Eliot (Thomas Stearns)<P> ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH BY SOAME OF OXFORD. Merton College Freshmen, 1914. Approx. 29.5cm x 36cm. Eliot appears with 19 ...

MacBeth (George)<P> THE COLOUR OF BLOOD, 1967. 1st edn. Signed by the author of f.f.e.p. and with the signatures of Iris Murdoch, John Bayley ...

Hughes-Stanton (Blair) & Gantillon (Simon)<P> MAYA Trans: V & F. Vernon. Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. Ltd edn. (466/500). Wood engr. ...

[Golden Cockerel Press] Scott (Walter Sidney) <P> HARRIET & MARY. L. 1944. Large 8vo. Ltd edn. (166/500). Port. frontis. Partly untrimmed....

Lawrence (Thomas Edward)<P> THE MINT 1955. 4to. Ltd edn. (813/2000). Partly untrimmed. Cockerell endpapers. Orig quarter blue morocco gt. T.e....

Masefield (John)<P> MIDSUMMER NIGHT [1928]. Ltd edn. (179/250). Signed by the author.<P> Partly untrimmed. Orig. japon-backed cloth. D/w...

Stevenson (Robert Louis)<P> AN INLAND VOYAGE Ills: N. Rooke 1912. Ltd edn (51/250). 12 mounted col. plates. B/w ills. Untrimmed. Occasonal spo...

Armstrong (Martin)<P> PORTRAIT OF THE MISSES HARLOWE 1928. ltd edn (207/500) Signed by the author.<P> Orig. dec. boards. Some staining o...

Fitzgerald (Edward)<P> POLONIUS: A COLLECTION OF WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES Portland, 1901. Ltd edn. [450]. Untrimmed. Orig. morocco backe...

Plato<P> CRITO : A SOCRATIC DIALOGUE Trans: H. Cary. Privately printed, Montagnola, for the Pleiad, Paris - 1926. Ltd edn. [114/575]. Partly

Lawrence (David Herbert)<P> THE MAN WHO DIED 1931. ltd edn. [2000]. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. over levelled boards. Powys (Lewelyn)<...

Coppard (A.E.)<P> FISHMONGER'S FIDDLE. 1925. Ltd edn. (9/60). Signed by the author.<P> Partly untrimmed. Orig. vellum, green leather...

THE BOOK OF GENESIS. Ills: F.C. Robinson, 1914. Ltd edn. (280/500). Mounted col. plates. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Clayton (Francis

Whistler (James Abbot McNeill)<P> THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES. L. [1890]. 1st authorised edn.<P> Ltd ( 100 for US & 150 for UK)...

Moore (George)<P> HAIL AND FAREWELL, 1925. 2 vols. Ltd edn. (368/780). Signed by the author.<P> Partly untrimmed. Orig. japon-backed boa...

Anon<P> THREE GIFTS. An Arab Love Story, 1928. Ltd edn. (334/1500). 5 col. ills. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth-backed pattern boards. Chalmers...

[Nonesuch Press] Melville (Herman)<P> BENITO CRENO Ills: E. McKnight Kauffer, 1926. Tall 4to. Ltd edn. (1650) numbered. Hand-col. ills. Partly...

Tomlinson (H.M.)<P> ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, 1930. Ltd edn. (296/1025). Signed by the author.<P> Port. frontis. Untrimmed and largely unopene...

[Nonesuch Press] Hotson (J.L.)<P> THE DEATH OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1925. B/w ills. Untrimmed & unopened. Orig. buckram gt. Voltaire (Fran...

Gray (Thomas)<P> ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD [ca 1946]. An anonymous sample of lettering entered for the Intermediate Examinatio

Ellis (Havelock)<P> KANGA CREEK. Golden Cockerel Pres, 1922. Orig. cloth-backed boards. D/w. The author's first work of fiction.<P> ...

Gogol (Nikolai Vasilievich)<P> THE OVERCOAT Ills: P. Annigoni, Verona, 1975. 4to. Ltd edn. [160]. Signed by the artist.<P> Etched plat...

Bannerman (David A. & W. Mary)<P> BIRDS OF CYPRUS Ills: D.M. Read-Henry & R. Green. 1958. 1st edn. Large 8vo. Fldg. map. Col. & b/...

Murphy (Robert Cushman)<P> OCEANIC BIRDS OF SOUTH AMERICA Ills: F.L. Jaques N.L. 1936. 2 vols. 4to. Col. & b/w plates. Text maps etc. Orig...

Butler (Arthur Gardiner)<P> BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS & EGGS Ills: F.W. Frowhawk n.d. [ca 1896]. 6 vols. 4to. 24 col. plates. B/w ils...

Jardine (Sir William)<P> THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMMING-BIRDS. Edin. 1833. 2 vols. 2 engr. ports. 2 hand-col. title vignettes. 64 hand-col pla...

Audubon (John James)<P> THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS.......FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA Ed: M.B. Davidson 1966. 2 vols. Large 4to. 431 col....

Adams (H.G.)<P> HUMMING BIRDS n.d. [ca 1860]. 8 hand-col. plates with tissue guards. orig. gt. pict. cloth sl. thumbed at spine. Ratcliffe (De...

Chapman (Abel)<P> RETROSPECT........Ills: J. Crawhall. 1928. 1st edn. 20 col. plates. B/w ills. Booklist. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. Sl...

Jefferies (Richard)<P> NATURE NEAR LONDON 1883. 1st edn. 32pp booklist. Orig. pict. cloth gt. Drummond (Henry)<P> TROPICAL AFRICA 1891. ...

Forskal (Petrus)<P> DESCRIPTIONES ANIMALIUM AVIUM, AMPHIBIORUM, PISCIUM, INSECTORUM, VERMIUM .......... ADJUNCTA MATERIA MEDICA KAHIRINA Ed: C...

Houghton (William)<P> BRITISH FRESH-WATER FISHES Ills: A.F. Lydon. 1884. Folio. 41 chromolitho plates. Engr. text ills. Minor spotting, mainly...

Gosse (Philip Henry)<P> THE AQUARIUM 1856. 2nd edn. 6 hand-col. litho plates. 7 b/w plates. 6pp advts. Orig. cloth gt. THE ROMANCE OF NATURAL ...

Jardine (Sir William)<P> THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RUMINATING ANIMALS Edin. 1835. Port. frontis. Hand-col. t.p. vignette & 33 hand col. plate...

Petrunkevitch (Alexander)<P> A STUDY OF AMBER SPIDERS, New Haven, Conn. 1942. 1st edn. 69 b/w plates. A little marginal staining towards rear ...

Greville (Robert Kaye)<P> ALGAE BRITANNICAE Edin. 1830. 19 hand-col. plates. A little spotting here & there. Cont. green half calf; gt. de...

Hulme (Frederick Edward)<P> FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS n.d. Series 1-5. 5 vols. 200 col. plates. Orig. pict. cloth gt. Sl. rubbed. (5) £150-200

Graf (Alfred Byrd)<P> TROPICA: COLOR CYCLOPAEDIA OF EXOTIC PLANTS AND TREES. New Jersey, 1986. 3rd edn. Thick 4to. Col. ills. Orig. cloth. D/w...

Landsborough (D.)<P> A POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH SEAWEEDS. 1857. 3rd edn. 22 plates, most hand-col. Occasional foxing. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. ...

Rhode (Eleanor Sinclair)<P> A GARDEN OF HERBS. n.d. [ca 1920]. Inscribed by the author.<P> Orig. cloth gt. Thompson (H.S.)<P> SUB-...

Mawe (John)<P> A TREATISE ON DIAMONDS 1813. 1st edn. 3 hand-col. engr. plates. Apart from one or two insignificant spots, an excellent copy in...

Whewell (William)<P> ASTRONOMY AND GENERAL PHYSICS, 1834. 4th edn. Advts. Light spotting. Cont cloth. Printed label. Some rubbing. Bonney

Fichte (Johann Gottlieb)<P> DESTINATION DE L'HOMME Paris, 1836. 2nd edn. DOCTRINE DE LA SCIENCE Paris, 1843. METHODE POUR ARRIVER A LA VIE...

Bland-Sutton (J.) & Giles (Arthur E.)<P> THE DISEASES OF WOMEN. 1902. 3rd edn. Engr. ills. Orig. japon-backed cloth gt. Maroon title label...

Gossip (Robert)<P> TURKEY AND RUSSIA (the Crimean War & the Russo-Turkish War). Edin. 1879. 4to. 2 fldg maps: 26 litho plates. Cont. half ...

Simpson (William)<P> THE SEAT OF WAR IN THE EAST. 1855. First series [De Luxe edition]<P>. Folio. Litho title with hand-col. vignette, l...

Duff (James Grant)<P> HISTORY OF THE MAHRATTAS Bombay, 1878. 2 vols. Advts on blue endpaper. Orig. cloth gt. A little rubbed & faded. (2) ...

[Riviere binding] Napier (Sir William Francis Patrick)<P> HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA. 1840-48. Mixed editions. 47 maps & plans as...

Cooke (Capt. C.H.)<P> HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE 16TH (Service) BATTALION NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, Newcastle, 1923. B/w ills. Fldg.maps etc. O...

Luard (John)<P> A HISTORY OF THE DRESS OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER 1971 (facs. of 1852 edn). Ltd edn. (400). B/w plates. Orig. cloth gt. Carman (W....

Bourriene (Louis Antoine Fauvelot de)<P> MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 1836. 4 vols. Engr. plates. Fldg maps. Cont. inscription to blank befo...

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, duke of)<P> DISPATCHES. Ed: Lt. Col. Gurwood, 1837-38. 14 vols, including Index. DISPATCHES, MINUTES, AND CORRES...

Walford (Edward)<P> THE COUNTY FAMILIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 1874. Large 8vo. Orig. cloth gt. Upper joint worn. Hesilrige (A.G.M.) <P>...

Barre (M.L.)<P> HERCULANUM ET POMPEI. Ills: H. Roux Paris, 1840. 8 vols (including the Musee Secret), tall 8vo. Over 700 engr. plates. Some li...

Gardner (Ernest Arthur)<P> ANCIENT ATHENS, NY. 1907. Fldg. maps. B/w plates. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Ferguson (William Scott)<P> HELLENIST...

Childe (V. Gordon)<P> NEW LIGHT ON THE MOST ANCIENT EAST, 1935. 1st edn. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. Plus 22 others, ancient history. (23) £...

Jarrett (M.G.) & Wrathmell (S)<P> WHITTON : AN IRON AGE FARMSTEAD IN SOUTH GLAMORGAN. Cardiff, 1981. 4to. B/w ills. Fldg. plans. Orig. clo...

Perrot (Georges) & Chipiez (Charles)<P> A HISTORY OF ART IN CHALDEA & ASSYRIA. 1884. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Col. & b/w plates. Engr. i...

Jeffereys (Nathaniel)<P> A REVIEW OF THE CONDUCT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES IN HIS VARIOUS TRANSACTIONS WITH MR JEFFERYS. Priva...

Lacroix (Paul)<P> XVIIme SIECLE INSTITUTIONS USUAGES ET COSTUMES. France 1700-1789. Paris, 1875. Tall 8vo. 21 chromolitho plates. B/w ills. Or...

Burton (Sir Richard F.)<P> THE BOOK OF THE SWORD. 1884. 1st edn. Large 8vo. B/w & engr. ills. Cont. cuttings and pamphlet pasted onto f.e....

[binding by White of Pall Mall] Sismondi (Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de)<P> HISTOIRE DES REPUBLIQUES ITALIENNE DU MOYEN AGE Brussells, 1838-...

Arnold (Thomas)<P> HISTORY OF ROME, 1871. 3 vols. Cont. gt. ruled calf. Gt. dec. spines in compartments. Contrasting labels. (3) £30-50

Motley (John Lothrop)<P> THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1875. 3 vols. Cont. tree calf, with unusual gt. border design, inner dentelles and sp...

<P> BRIEF OBSERVATIONS ON THE PUNISHMENT OF THE PILLORY 1814. Extract from THE PAMPHLETEER 16pp. Mod. quarter calf gt. over marbled boards. H...

[Wharton, Philip - Duke of]<P> THE TRUE BRITON nos. 1-45. June - November, 1723. In one volume, folio. Later vellum-backed boards. This journa...

Bolingbroke (Henry St. John - Viscount)<P> LETTERS ON THE SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM: ON THE IDEA OF A PATRIOT KING: AND ON THE STATE OF PARTIES. 17...

Puffendorf (Samuel, Baron)<P> OF THE LAW OF NATURE AND NATIONS Trans: B. Kennet. 1717. 3rd edn. Folio. Cont. panelled calf. A little scuffed. ...

THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND VOLS I - XXV; XXX & XXXI. Dublin, 1782 - 1794. 27 vols. in 22. Folio. Fldg tables...

Swinburne (Algernon Charles)<P> WILLIAM BLAKE: A CRITICAL ESSAY 1868. 2nd edn. Added hand-col. title, col. b/w plates. Cont. blue half calf gt...

Hayley (William)<P> THE LIFE OF GEORGE ROMNEY, ESQ. Chichester, 1809. 1st edn. 4to. Port. fronts. and 11 plates, mostly mezzotints. Sl. margin...

Stewart (Basil)<P> SUBJECTS PORTRAYED IN JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS 1922. 1st edn. Folio. 22 col. plates. B/w ills. some marking of 2pp near end. ...

Melville (Robert) & others<P> GRAHAM SUTHERLAND. 1950. 1st edn. 4to. Ltd. edn (2000). Col. and b/w ills. Orig. cloth. Graves (Algernon)<...

BARBIZON HOUSE RECORDS 1936 & 1937. Ills: F. Brangwyn. 2 vols. 4to. Reproductions of paintings & drawings sold from Barbizon House, London. ...

Harrison (J.E.) & MacColl (D.S.)<P> GREEK VASE PAINTING. 1894. Folio. Col. frontis, b/w plates. Ex-library. Orig. pict. cloth, worn at joi...

Walther (Ingo F.)<P> ART OF THE 20TH CENTUARY, Cologne, 1998. 2 vols. 4to. Col. & b/w ills. Near-fine in d/w. Slip-case. Leopold (Rudolf) ...

Cui Ru-zhuo<P> THE WORLD OF CUI RU-ZHUO. N.Y. 1984. Folio. Col. plates. Orig. cloth. D/w. Chongnian (Yan)<P> BEIJING - THE TREASURES OF ...

Barnes (Martin)<P> BENJAMIN BRECKNELL TURNER : RURAL ENGLAND THROUGH A VICTORIAN LENS, 2001. 4to. B/w ills. Near-fine in d/w. Tucker (An

Stillman (Damie)<P> ENGLISH NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE. 1988. 1st edn. 2 vols. 4to. B/w ills. Fine set in d/w's and slip-case. (2) £5...