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Catalogue des Tableaux Modernes par Th. Couture, Diaz, J. Dupré, Ch. Jacque, Leys, Ricard, uvres capitales de Decamps ; aquarelles, sépias, dessins, par Decamps, Isabey, Leys, composant la collection Émile Gaillard, et dont la vente aura lieu à Paris, Galerie Georges Petit... 7 juin, 1904... commissaire-priseur me Paul Chevallier...
GAILLARD (Emile) · 1904
£69.88 (€83.76 | $92.32 | ¥14,738)
Paris: Imprimerie Georges Petit, 1904. Large 4to (365 x 285 mm), 40pp., 20 plates, 40 lots, finely bound by Hatchards in half green crushed morocco, spine gilt, uncut, head of spine chipped, corners bumped.
Catalogue des Tableaux Aquarelles et Dessins Composant la Collection Ch. Sedelmeyer. Quatrieme Vente. Comprenant les Tableaux, Aquarelles et Dessins de l'Ecole moderne et des Dessins anciens. Collection Ch. Sedelmeyer (Tome Quatrieme). Le mercredi 12, jeudi 13 et vendredi 14 juin 1907...
SEDELMEYER (Charles) · 1907
£51.60 (€61.85 | $68.17 | ¥10,883)
Paris: Galerie Sedelmeyer, 1907. Large 4to (340 x 285 mm), [4], 188, [2]pp., numerous plates, 285 lots, finely bound by Hatchards in half red crushed morocco, spine gilt, uncut, some light rubbing.
Collection de Madame S... Catalogue des Tableaux Modernes Importants et Aquarelles... oeuvre capitale de Fantin-Latour: La danse de l'Almée, dont la vente aura lieu à Paris, Hôtel Drouot... le 29 mai 1903... / Hôtel Drouot; commissaire-priseur: Maître Paul Chevallier... expert: M. Henri Haro, peintre-expert...
AUCTION CATALOGUE OF PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS. · 1903
£91.38 (€109.53 | $120.73 | ¥19,272)
Paris: [Hotel Drouot], 1903. Large 4to (325 x 255 mm), [4], 77, [1]pp., 26 leaves of plates, 91 lots, finely bound by Hatchards in half green crushed morocco, spine gilt, uncut, a very nice copy.
Scientific Swimming; Being a Series of Practical Instructions, on an Original and Progressive Plan, by which the Art of Swimming may be readily attained, with every advantage of power of the water.
FROST (John) · 1816
£639.63 (€766.69 | $845.04 | ¥134,900)
London: Printed for the Author, by Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1816. First edition, 8vo (228 x 135 mm), xvi, 49 [3]pp., with the final advert leaf, 12 folding copper-engraved plates showing the breast-stroke, swimming on the back, treading water, diving, etc., endpapers renewe...
A Candid Inquiry into the Education, Qualifications, and Offices of a Surgeon-Apothecary; the several branches of the profession being distinctly treated on, and suitable methodical forms annexed; Besides various other topics connected with the principal Office are also subjoined.
LUCAS (James) · 1800
£370.88 (€444.55 | $489.99 | ¥78,220)
Bath: Printed and Sold by S. Hazard, 1800. First edition, 12mo (173 x 97 mm), viii, 356pp., with two examples of engraved labels on different coloured paper (one affected by some sort of chemical reaction? which has faded the plate), two large fold tables of The Arrangement o...
A New Practical Grammar of the Spanish Language: in Five Parts... To which is Prefixed an English Grammar, for the use of Spaniards.
FERNANDEZ (Rev. Don Felipe) · 1797
£317.13 (€380.13 | $418.98 | ¥66,884)
London: Printed for W. Wingrave, 1797. First edition, 8vo (200 x 120 mm), [7], v-viii, v-viii, [1], 383, [1]pp., preface in English and Spanish on opposite pages; pages v-viii bear duplicate numbering, lacking A1 (advert leaf), nineteenth-century smooth half calf, marbled boar...
A Collection of Geological Facts and Practical Observations, Intended to Elucidate the Formation of the Ashby Coal-Field, in the Parish of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the Neighbouring District; Being the Result of Forty Years Experience and Research.
MAMMATT (Edward) · 1834
£854.63 (€1,024.40 | $1,129.09 | ¥180,244)
Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Printed and Published by W. Hextall; Published by Geo. Lawford, London, 1834. First edition, folio, xii, 101, [2, advert]pp., folding map of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch coal field, 7 folding lithograph profiles and sections of three coal pit shafts, 24 hand-colou...
15th January, 1802. West, and Wildmore Fens. To be Sold by Auction, at the Peacock Inn, in Boston, in the County of Lincoln. On Wednesday the 17th and Thursday the 18th Days of February next, in lots... One Thousand, Three Hundred, and Fifty-Six Acres of rich Pasture Ground, in the said West, and Wildmore Fens... On Wednesday 17th February, in Hilldike Hurn, in the West Fen, between Sibsey Willows and Sibsey Town, on the North Side of the Turnpike Road leading from Boston to Sibsey, near Hilldik
LINCOLNSHIRE. · 1802
£64.50 (€77.31 | $85.21 | ¥13,603)
Boston: Printed by Kelsey, 1802. Folio (337 x 210 mm), 4, [2]pp., docket title, disbound.
Catalogue of the Valuable Library Largely of French Literature in Handsome Bindings, Formed by the late Edward Arnold, Esq. of The Grove, Dorking.
ARNOLD (Edward) · 1929
£26.88 (€32.22 | $35.51 | ¥5,669)
London: Sotheby & Co., 1929. Small 4to, list of prices and buyers names loosely inserted, coloured frontis., 14 plates (3 coloured), orig. printed wrappers, 539 lots.
Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana.
BRESLAUER (Bernard H.) · 2005
£37.63 (€45.11 | $49.71 | ¥7,936)
Christies, New York. 2005. 3 Parts, price list to each part loosely inserted, coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. decorated stiff wrappers, 1639 lots. The auction catalogue of the magnificent bibliographical library of Bernard H. Breslauer. For almost six years he employe...
Hyperion: A Romance. Illustrated with Twenty-Four Photographs of the Rhine, Switzerland, and the Tyrol by Francis Frith.
LONGFELLOW (Henry W.) · 1865
£403.13 (€483.21 | $532.59 | ¥85,021)
London: Alfred William Bennett, 1865. First edition, small 4to (228 x 180 mm), x, [2], 270, [2]pp., title printed in red and blue, 24 tissue-guarded mounted photographs by by Francis Frith, fine impressions of the photographs, contemporary de-luxe red morocco by Leighton (unsi...
A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To which are prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. Harrisons Edition, with his Life of the Author.
JOHNSON (Samuel) · 1786
£1,343.75 (€1,610.68 | $1,775.29 | ¥283,401)
London: Printed for Harrison and Co., 1786. Large folio (430 x 265 mm), [1204]pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, supplement of additional words at rear, some light creasing and dust soiling to frontis., and title page, occasional light ...
The Trial at Large of Nicholas Wilkinson, Doctor Herd, and Henry Worswick, for the wilful murder of George Battersby, at Clithero, in the night of the 25th of March, 1773 : tried at the Castle of Lancaster, April 3d, 1778, before the Hon. Sir Henry Gould, Knight, one of the justices of his Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas.
WILKINSON (Nicholas) & Others. · 1816
£188.13 (€225.50 | $248.55 | ¥39,677)
Clithero: Printed by H. Whalley, 1816. First and only edition, 8vo (205 x 126 mm), 40pp., from the law library of Los Angeles County, with perforation stamp to title page, later library cloth-backed marbled boards. This edition not recorded by JISC.
Early Education; or, the Management of Children Considered with a View to their Future Character. By Miss Appleton.
[LACHLAN (Elizabeth) née Appleton. · 1821
£188.13 (€225.50 | $248.55 | ¥39,677)
London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1821. Second edition, large 12mo, viii, 424pp., cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine, a little rubbed. Elizabeth Lachlan was born Elizabeth Appleton in Bristol in 1790. She became a respected governess and later an inf...
An Essay on Shooting. The Various Methods of Forging, Boring, and Dressing Gun Barrels... The Whole Interspersed with Summary Observations on the Various Subjects of Sport.
MAGNÉ DE MAROLLES (Gervais Francois) · 1789
£403.13 (€483.21 | $532.59 | ¥85,021)
London: Printed for T. Caddell. 1789. Second English edition, xxix, [3], 313, [1]pp., with half-title, contemporary speckled calf, joints slightly cracked, green leather spine label lettered in gilt, a very nice copy. Second English edition of this translation of Essai sur...
Kunopaedia. A Practical Essay on Breaking or Training the English Spaniel or Pointer. With Instructions for Attaining the Art of Shooting Flying. In Which the Latter is Reduced to Rule, and the Former Inculcated on Principle. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817. Second edition, 8vo, xliv, 235, [1]pp., frontispiece. [Bound with:] Observations on Dog Breaking. By William Ford, Game Keeper to Sir John Sebright, Bart.
DOBSON (William), FLOYD (William) · 1821
£188.13 (€225.50 | $248.55 | ¥39,677)
London: Printed [Privately] for the Author, 1821. First edition, 23, [1]pp. 2 Works bound in one, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum tips, lower hinge cracked but holding firm, spine leather label lettered in gilt. The second work is privately printed for the ...
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
HAWKER (Lt. Col. P.) · 1830
£80.63 (€96.65 | $106.52 | ¥17,005)
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. Sixth edition, corrected, enlarged and improved, 8vo, xx, 480pp., lithographic frontispiece and 7 plates, illustrs., in the text, marbled endpapers, full contemporary hard-gained purple morocco, neatly rebacked with original...
Monckton; or, the Fate of Eleanor. A Novel: in Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed, a General Defence of Modern Novels, by the Author of Count di Novini.
NOVEL. [SANDS (James)] · 1802
£747.13 (€895.54 | $987.07 | ¥157,572)
London: Printed for G. and J. Robinson, 1802. First edition, 3 vols., 12mo (190 x 110 mm), [4], xxi, [22]-263, [1]; [2], 240; [2], 246pp., some minor worming to blank margins of prelims to vol. 1 & 3, light browning from turn-ins to corners of titles and terminal leaves, endpa...
Der Exakte Bucheinband. Der Gute Halbfranzband der Künstlerische Ganzlederband die Handergoldung der Einband mit Echten Bünden der Pergamentband. Nebst einem Beiwort: Entwurf des Bucheinbandes von L. Sütterlin.
KERSTEN (Paul) · 1923
£69.88 (€83.76 | $92.32 | ¥14,738)
Halle a.d. Saale: Wilhelm Knapp, 1923. Small 4to, [4], 143pp., 21 plates illustrating bindings, 4 plates with 32 actual samples of various paper, orig. wrappers bound-in, later cloth-backed boards. Paul Kersten on the technique of precision handbinding, bradels, full leather...
Catalogue of Books Selected from the Extensive and Valuable Library of J. P. Heseltine... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Thursday, March 17th, 1921.
HESELTINE (J. P.) · 1921
£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,534)
London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1921. Royal 8vo, 63pp., orig. printed wrappers, staples rusted, 739 lots.