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BEN NICHOLSON - PAINTINGS, RELIEFS, DRAWINGS. Volume I.

Introduction by: READ, Herbert. · 1955

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Lund Humphries, 1955. Reprint (first published 1948; this volume covers work from 1911 to 1948), 4to., grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates; mildly ex library, with inkstamp and residue of removed bookplate to front free endpaper, ...

THE LITTLE ROEBUCK.

Pictured by: LOSSOW, Frederic. Rhymes by: TROJAN, J. Translated by: ROTHWELL, J.S.S. · 1874

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London: Griffith and Farran, 1874. First edition, pp.16, printed to rectos only, each with hand-coloured illustrations and accompanying rhyme (15 colour illustrations), pictorial paper-covered boards backed in red cloth; contemporary ink inscription, dated 1874, to front fre...

A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.

Extracted from Dr. Lingard’s History of England and Dodd’s Church History. Including the Notes and Documents Appended to the Latter by the Rev. M.A. Tierney. With Notes and Prefatory Remarks by Vindicator. · 1851

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: C. Dolman, 1851. 8vo., pp.xiv,127, brown cloth; toning to free endpapers, loss to lower corner of rear free endpaper, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with evidence of removed label across spine, and rubbing to front board, a good working copy.

THE SCIENTIFIC ORIGINS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM. Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League.

GASMAN, Daniel. · 1971

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London/New York: Macdonald/American Elsevier, 1971. 8vo., pp.xxxii,208, turquoise cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 4 b/w plates; light mottling to spine, a very good copy, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket.

ARTISTS’ PIGMENTS c.1600-1835. A Study in English Documentary Sources. Second Edition.

HARLEY, R.D. · 1982

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London: Butterworth Scientific, 1982. 8vo., pp.ix,236, black hardcover, 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations; tiny handwritten ownership autograph to head of front paste-down endpaper, and owner’s handwritten catalogue number to head of front free endpaper, light shelfwe...

THE COPERNICAN ACHIEVEMENT. UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Contributions: VII.

Edited by: WESTMAN, Robert S. · 1975

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Los Angeles/London: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, 1975. 8vo., pp.xvi,405, blue cloth lettered in silver; a very good, clean copy, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which is worn and torn to extremities, and now in a protective cover.

GEORGE FORREST. Plant Hunter.

MCLEAN, Brenda. · 2004

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Woodbridge, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2004 First edition, 4to., pp.239, colour and b/w illustrations throughout; light spotting to half-title, tiny spot to title, otherwise a bright clean copy in a very good dust-jacket, with a small nick to the head of the spine, now ...

INVESTIGATION OF THE MOTION OF HALLEY’S COMET FROM 1759 TO 1910.

COWELL, P.H.; CROMMELIN, A.C.D. Under the direction of: CHRISTIE, Sir William Henry Mahoney. · 1910

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Edinburgh: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Neill and Co., Limited, 1910. Folio, pp.84, cloth with printed paper title label to spine; crease and large closed tear to lower margin of final leaf, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy.

TALES OF PASSED TIMES WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.

PERRAULT, Charles. Decorations by: AUSTEN, John. · 1922

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

Adelphi: Selwyn and Blount Ltd., 1922. First edition, rare in dust-jacket, 8vo., pp.63, blue paper-covered boards with inlaid pictorial plate, colour frontispiece and pictorial title, colour and b/w illustrations, including double-page colour plate; light partial toning to e...

NATURAL SOURCES OF POWER. The ‘Westminster’ Series.

BALL, Robert S. · 1908

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908. 8vo., pp.xvi,348,(8)adverts, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, including folding plate; front free endpaper cropped, with owner’s handwritten catalogue number to half title, upper corner of front board bumped, ...

BRITISH BARRACKS 1600-1914. Their Architecture and Role in Society.

DOUET, James. Opening chapter by SAUNDERS, Andrew. · 1998

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

English Heritage/The Stationery Office, 1998. 4to., pp.xviii,222, black cloth, gilt, owner’s handwritten catalogue no.s to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight bruising to lower corners of boards, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

SAINT LEONARD OF SUSSEX.

CROOKSHANK, A.C. · 1922

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London: Arthur H. Stockwell, n.d. (c.1922). Small 8vo., pp.(iii),56, bevelled brown cloth, gilt, b/w plate; ink gift inscription, dated 1922, to front free endpaper, light toning to free endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, fresh copy.

FORCE IN NEWTON'S PHYSICS. The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeeth Century.

WESTFALL, Richard S. · 1971

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Macdonald & Co, 1971. 8vo.,pp. xii,579, green hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light foxing to upper edge, slight spotting to front board, otherwise very good in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, toned to spine with slight soiling, w...

MAGISTRI SALERNITANI NONDUM COGNITI. A Contribution to the History of the Medical School of Salerno. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum London, Research Studies in Medical History, No.2.

CAPPARONI, Pietro. Foreword by: POWER, D’Arcy. · 1923

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1923. Large 8vo., pp.(viii),68, pictorial blue cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece and 27 b/w plates; sellotape stain to inner margins of frontispiece/title, handwritten ownership markings throughout (including to all plates and t...

ACCOUNTABILITY IN ATHENIAN GOVERNMENT.

ROBERTS, Jennifer Talbot. · 1982

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.xi,270, grey cloth lettered in silver; pale foxing to edges, otherwise fresh and near-fine, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.

MANDA.

HALE, Kathleen. · 1952

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: John Murray, 1952. First edition, small 4to., pp.(ii),30, pictorial paper-covered boards, colour pictorial title, colour and b/w illustrations on alternate double-pages throughout; 1.5cm closed tear to upper LH corner of front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers, ligh...

THE MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF DUNDEE. Compiled from Original and Authentic Documents and Records in the Archives of the Town, and other sources; and Embellished by Plans of Ancient and Modern Dundee and Barbour; Engraved Views of Public Buildings; and Fac-Similes of Historical Documents hitherto unpublished.

YEAMAN, James. · 1873

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Dundee: Dundee Advertiser Office, 1873. Tall 8vo., pp.xvi,327, textured pictorial red cloth, gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and maps (including folding plates); ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, two 1cm closed tears and small n...

MARVELS OF POND-LIFE. Or, A Year’s Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-Bears, and Polyzoa.

SLACK, Henry J. · 1878

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. Third edition, 8vo., pp.xii,147, pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, b/w in-text figures; foxing to prelims, small closed tear to fore-margin of front free endpaper and ...

MRS. FOX’S WEDDING.

Retold by: CORRIN, Sara; CORRIN, Stephen. Illustrated by: LE CAIN, Errol. · 1980

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First edition, oblong squat 4to., pp.(30), glazed pictorial boards, colour frontispiece, colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout; a very good, clean copy.

INTERESTING AND REMARKABLE PLACES; With Historical and Topographical Descriptions.

MACKENZIE, C.

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London: John Reynolds, 8vo., pp.viii,296, pictorial textured red cloth, gilt, decorative borders in blind, pictorial spine, a.e.g., illustrated with 250 engravings, including b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates; light foxing to margins, wear to extremities, a g...