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SCENES IN CHINA. Sketches of the Country, Religion, and Customs of the Chinese.

[SCHICK, Mrs. Henrietta (Hall)] · 1852

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. 12mo., pp.223,(i)Index, decoratively blindstamped green cloth with pictorial spine in gilt, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 12 further engraved plates; owner’s nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, with handwritten p...

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE RABBIT. An Account of the Life History and Social Behaviour of the Wild Rabbit.

LOCKLEY, R.M. · 1964

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. 8vo., pp.152, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 8 b/w plates and 16 in-text figures; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, else very good, in good price-clipped dust-jacket, which has closed tears and creasing to head of sp...

FREEDOM'S DEBT. The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752.

PETTIGREW, William A. · 2013

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.(vii),262, brown hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sun...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN JEWELLERY.

WILKINSON, Alix. · 1975

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Methuen, 1975. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lxi,266, paperback, 4 colour plates, numerous b/w plates to rear of volume, as well as b/w in-text figures; a very good copy.

ROMAN WAYS IN THE WEALD.

MARGARY, I.D. · 1948

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London: Phoenix House, 1948. 8vo., pp.287, red cloth lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece, b/w maps and plates, including folding map; mildly ex library, with stamps to prelims and closing leaves, partial sunning to cloth, and covered with adhesive plastic, a good copy, whic...

TRAVELS AMONG THE ARAB TRIBES INHABITING THE COUNTRIES EAST OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE, INCLUDING A JOURNEY FROM NAZARETH TO THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE DEAD SEA, And from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo.

BUCKINGHAM, J.S. [James Silk] · 1825

£1,695.00 (€2,031.73 | $2,239.33 | ¥357,592)

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition, 4to., pp.xvi,679, contemporary half calf with contrasting title label to spine, five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, folding frontispiece map, 28 engraved vignette illustrations to chapter heading...

INCREASING THE STRENGTH OF THE EYES AND OF THE EYE MUSCLES WITHOUT THE AID OF GLASSES.

RICHARDSON, Dr. R.A. · 1928

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Kansas City: The Eyesight and Health Association Publishers, 1928. Fourth impression (first published in 1925), 8vo., pp.199, textured black cloth, faded (gilt?) lettering to spine and to front board, b/w illustrations and two loose eye-test charts; ownership inscription to ...

SEVENTEEN STRING QUARTETS. Edition Eulenburg.

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Edited by Wilhelm Altmann. · 1967

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Ernst Eulenburg Ltd., n.d. Small 8vo., bound in half red roan, gilt, with orange cloth boards, marbled endpapers, b/w frontispiece portrait; ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso (dated 1967), leather...

THE LITTLE FLOWER SEEKERS, Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden, by Moonlight.

MULHOLLAND, Rosa. · 1873

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London: Marcus Ward and Co., (1873). First edition, square 8vo., pp.126, pictorial red bevelled cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, and pictured in black, with black lettering to spine, illustrated with 12 very attractive tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including fr...

THE JOINERS’ COMPANION TO A NEW SYSTEM OF HANDRAILING, NAMELY THE SQUARE CUT.

BANKS, Langley. · 1853

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Manchester: Privately published, and printed by Wilcock and Norbury, 1853. 4to., unpaginated, comprises 48 engraved plates with accompanying text, contemporary half brown calf with brown moire cloth boards, gilt-lettered to front board, unlettered spine with gilt-ruled compa...

CHINESE MUSIC. Read before the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, November, 1898. (Illustrated, Vocally and Instrumentally, by Natives and Foreigners). Repeated (by request) before the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society, January 4th, 1890.

RICHARDS, Mrs. Timothy. · 1923

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1923. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.40, paperback (red academic wrappers), b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; light foxing/toning to upper margins of prelims, slight sunning and surface soil to wrappers, slight crease to front wrapper, a ve...

SWORDS OF THE SAMURAI. The Splendours of Japanese Sword Furniture.

JISI, Lumir. Translated by Iris Urwin. · 1967

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Prague: printed by Knihtisk, 1967. Small 4to., pp.61(text),60, glossy pictorial hardcover, 60 b/w and colour plates; slight wear to edges, a very good copy.

THE HAUNTED GRANGE.

CHETWYND-HAYES, R. · 1988

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Wellingborough: William Kimber, 1988. First edition, 8vo., pp.184, blue hardcover, silver; toning to margins, a very good, clean copy, in very good+ complete and unclipped dust-jacket.

CHINA ON PAPER. European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century.

Edited by: REED, Marcia; DEMATTE, Paola. · 2007

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007. 4to., pp.ix,235,(ii), orange hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a fresh, fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

MALORY'S BOOK OF ARMS. The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur.

LYNCH, Andrew. · 1997

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. 8vo., pp.xx,169, brown hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

IMAGE WARS. Promoting Kings and Commonwealth in England, 1603-1660.

SHARPE, Kevin. · 2010

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xvii,665, black hardcover, gilt, with 99 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE STATESMAN'S BOOK OF JOHN OF SALISBURY. Being the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Books, and Selections from the Seventh and Eighth Books, of the POLICRATICUS.

Translated and introduced by: DICKINSON, John. · 1963

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York: Russell and Russell, 1963. 8vo., pp.xc,410, black cloth, gilt; ex library, with inkstamp to rear free endpaper, p.410, and to upper and lower edges, inkstamp to title verso, remains of removed bookplates to front free endpaper, and very slight evidence of removed s...

CAROLS.

Illustrated by BRICKDALE, Eleanor Fortescue.

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: Alexander Moring Limited, The De La More Press, n.d. First edition, small 4to., pp.43, cloth, gilt, a.e.g., 6 double-page colour plates and 6 further colour illlustrations, as well as inlaid colour plate to front board; toning to free endpapers, occasional thumb-mark...

ENCOUNTERS: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800.

Edited by, JACKSON, Anna; JAFFER, Amin. · 2004

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London: V&A Publications, 2004. 4to., pp.(x),395, black hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece and endpapers, b/w and colour illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

AFFECTIONATELY MARCEL. The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp.

Edited by: NAUMANN, Francis M.; OBALK, Hector. Translated by: TAYLOR, Jill. · 2000

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. 8vo., pp.406,(xvi), grey hardcover lettered in black, 16 b/w plates to rear of volume; a fine, fresh copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.