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THE NEW CHURCH ANTHEM BOOK. One Hundred Anthems.
Compiled and edited by DAKERS, Lionel. · 1992
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
Music Department, Oxford University Press, 1992. Large 8vo., pp.xiii,578, blue hardcover, gilt; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
HISTORY OF THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
FITZGERALD, Major D.J.L. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. · 1952
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
Aldershot: Gale and Polden Ltd., 1952. Second impression, 8vo., pp.xv,615, blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; owner’s typed labels to front paste-down endpaper, rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in a rather attractive homemade dust-jacket.
THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY. A Farewell Edition Privately Printed for the Author by the Board of Directors of Konan University, Kobe, Japan.
ENRIGHT, D.J. · 1956
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
Kobe: Konan University, 1956. Signed, limited edition, no.71 of 400 copies, small 4to., pp.41, cream paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine and small gilt insignia to front board, handmade paper, b/w frontispiece portrait of the author with loose tissue guard...
SYRIAN ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS, OR ‘THE BOOK OF MEDICINES’. The Syriac Text, Edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation. [Set of Two Volumes:] Volume I. Introduction; Syriac Text. Volume II. English Translation and Index
WALLIS BUDGE, E.A. · 1913
£525.00 (€629.30 | $693.60 | ¥110,759)
London: Published under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913. 8vo., pp.clxxviii,614;xxv,804 red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jackets, which ...
THE ORNAMENTS DISCOVERED: A STORY, IN TWO PARTS.
[ROBSON, Mary]. ‘By the Author of Aunt Mary’s Tales’. · 1815
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London: William Darton, Jun., 1815. 12mo., pp.191,(xvii)adverts, quarter red roan, gilt, plain paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated 1830), rubbing to extremities, with wear to paper covering of boards...
EDWIN AND HENRY; OR THE WEEK’S HOLIDAYS: Containing Original Tales for the Improvement of Youth.
HUISH, Robert. · 1830
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
Derby: Thomas Richardson, n.d. (c.1830). Second edition, 12mo., pp.128, quarter red roan, gilt, with gilt decoration to spine, marbled boards, complete with engraved frontispiece and pictorial title and 7 further engraved plates; tear with loss to upper corner of p.65, with ...
LE LA FONTAINE DES ENFANS, Ou Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Les Plus Simples et les Plus Morales, Avec des Explications a la portee de l’Enfance, Orne de Six Gravures.
LA FONTAINE. · 1820
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
Paris: A la Librairie d’Education de Pierre Blanchard, 1820. 12mo., pp.180, full tree calf with black title label to spine, gilt, with gilt border to boards and gilt decorations to compartments, marbled endpapers and edges, engraved vignette to title, 4 engraved plates...
THE DOG OF KNOWLEDGE; OR, MEMOIRS OF BOB, THE SPOTTED TERRIER: Supposed to be written by Himself.
By the Author of Dick the Little Poney. · 1801
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
London: J. Harris, (1801). 12mo., pp.xii,183,(iii), backed in green roan, gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title; small pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light toning and foxing to prelims, internally fresh, ...
THE SHIP.
TAYLOR, Rev. Isaac. · 1831
£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)
London: John Harris, 1831. Second edition, square 12mo., pp.204, backed in red roan, gilt, green cloth boards, 16 engraved plates including frontispiece; ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and plates, light marking to cloth, light rubbi...
THE SISTERS OF THE CAVERN. An Interesting Tale, From the French of Madame de Herbster.
SMYTHE, E.A. · 1823
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
Boston: James Loring, 1823. 12mo., pp.106, black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, engraved frontispiece; toning and foxing to margins, wear to extremities of paper covering of boards, rbbing to boards, a very good copy.
SCENES IN RUSSIA; Describing the Manners, Customs, Diversions, Modes of Travelling, &c. of the Inhabitants of that Country: Also the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks and Kalmucs, and other Tartar Tribes.
[FRASER,C.M.?] · 1820
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London: E. Wallace, n.d. (c.1820) Fourth edition, 12mo., pp.iv,140, quarter green roan, gilt, marbled boards, engraved frontispiece and 13 further engraved plates; vestiges of ink ownership inscription (dated 1842?) to prelim blank, toning to prelims, foxing/toning to plates...
THE GOOD TIGER.
BOWEN, Elizabeth. Illustrated by: BLAKE, Quentin. · 1970
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition thus, large 8vo., pp.29, pale green hardcover, gilt, 22 dichromatic illustrations in orange and black; slight paper splitting to head and foot of front inner hinge, light foxing to edges, otherwise very good indeed, in price-clipped...
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF FISHES.
CONSTANTIN-WEYER, Maurice. Translated by: TURRELL, Ray. With drawings by A. Fraser-Brunner. · 1956
£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)
Richard Bell, 1956. 8vo., pp.150,(i), tan hardcover lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and plates; foxing to edges and endpapers, and lightly to prelims, else a very good copy, in complete and unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is creased and lightly chipped without los...
VALSE DES FLEURS. A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868.
SITWELL, Sacheverell. · 1980
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
York: The Fairfax Press, 1980. Limited edition, no. 68 of of 400 copies on Merkall mould-made paper, with two wood-engraved devices (at title and colophon) by Reynolds Stone and colour pictorial endpapers and slip-case design by Henry Moore, pp.xi,90, quarter blue cloth, gil...
THE PRINCIPLES OF MINING ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SOUTH KENSINGTON SYLLABUS.
TATE, William. · 1889
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
Sunderland: Privately published, and printed by Henry Mitchell, n.d. (c.1889). 8vo., pp.505,36 (Index), half claret morocco, gilt, brown cloth boards, b/w plates; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, edges and prelims, loss to lower corn...
THE EQUATORIAL RAIN FOREST: GEOLOGICAL HISTORY.
FLENLEY, John R. · 1979
£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)
London: Butterworths, 1979. 4to., pp.viii,162, pictorial hardcover, b/w figures; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. The History of its Building.
PHYSICK, John. · 1982
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
Oxford: Phaidon/Christie’s, 1982. Small 4to., pp.288, olive cloth, gilt, colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
PUBLIC HEALTH IN BRITISH INDIA. Anglo-Indian Preventative Medicine, 1859-1914.
HARRISON, Mark. · 1994
£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xviii,324, paperback, b/w figures; very good indeed.
THE WELSH COTTAGE. Building Traditions of the Rural Poor, 1750-1900.
WILIAM, Eurwyn. · 2010
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru/Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, published in association with Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 2010. 4to., pp.288, brown hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w plates; a fine copy, in very good+ unclipped ...
THE BLACK DOUGLAS.
DAVIS, I.M. · 1974
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London/Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. 8vo., pp.vi,184, black hardcover lettered in silver; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to extremities.