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HISTORIA AUGUSTA PAPERS.

SYME, Ronald. · 1983

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.(vi),238, navy cloth, gilt; corners of front board very lightly bumped, otherwise clean and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and inner margins.

SHIPYARD PRACTICE AS APPLIED TO WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION.

MCDERMAID, Neil J. · 1911

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911. 8vo., pp.(iv),328, navy cloth, gilt, b/w plates and diagrams; toning to endpapers, light marking to boards, spine slightly rolled, rubbing to extremities, a good copy, without dust-jacket.

BUILDING THE HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY: HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY 100, 1885-1985. Hull City Museums Bulletin Number 17.

1985

£9.99 (€11.98 | $13.20 | ¥2,108)

Hull: Hull City Museums, (1985). 8vo., pp.32, paperback (stapled wrappers), b/w illustrations; marking to pale wrappers, a good+ copy.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. Fourth Edition, (Now First Published Separately) With Additions, and Illustrative Remarks Upon the Scenery of the Alps.

WORDSWORTH, William. · 1823

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 12mo., pp.iv,144, printed paper wrappers, b/w folding map as frontispiece; light foxing to folding map and to title, two short tears (without loss) to the map, front wrapper has surface loss (rubbed) for apx. 7.5 x cms at ...

PATERSON’S TWENTY-FOUR MILES ROUND LONDON, WITH REFERENCE TO SEATS OF NOBILITY AND GENTRY.

[PATERSON, Daniel]. · 1800

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London: Bowles and Carver, (c.1800). c.1797 Hand-coloured copper engraved map in twenty sections, 665 x 665mm, linen-backed, in original marbled slipcase with printed title label to front and advertisement to rear; light soiling to reverse, else very good, slipcase worn to e...

H.M. YACHT BRITANNIA 1954-1997.

MORROW, Commodore Anthony (editor)

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Southsea, Hampshire: Bishops Printers Limited, n.d. 4to., pp.unpaginated, navy hardcover, colour and b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in vg lightly shelfworn unclipped dust-jacket.

THE JAPANESE ENTHRONEMENT CEREMONIES. With an Account of the Imperial Regalia.

HOLTOM, D.C. · 1928

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Tokyo: The Kyo Bun Kwan, (1928). 8vo., pp.x,146, grey cloth library binding, gilt, folding colour frontispiece, 2 further folding colour plates, 28 b/w illustrations; mildly ex library, with acquisition no. in gilt to spine, attractive library bookplate to front paste-down e...

SAN SEBASTIAN 1934.

PAGES, Eduardo (ed.). · 1934

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

(1934). 4to., pp.(x)adverts,unpaginated plates,(x)adverts, paperback (pictorial card wrappers), colour and b/w plates, many of which folding; wear to extremities of wrappers, with partial tear to spine, internally clean, a good+ copy.

THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOLUME XXV.

1920

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd., 1920. 8vo., pp.viii,479, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates and one plate in colour; armorial bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small ink inscription to rear free endpaper recto, ...

THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOLUME XXXII.

1936

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd., Leeds, 1936. 8vo., pp.ix,516, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; occasionally pencil-marking to margins, o/w very good.

THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOLUME XXXVI.

1944

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Printed for the Society, (1944). 8vo., pp.v,508, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; lacks title page, light foxing to endpages, label worn, light wear to head and tailbands, light creasing to wrappers, o/w very good.

TWENTY FIVE BINDINGS: Designed by Edgar Mansfield and Realised by James Brockman.

Seven Sculptures by, MANSFIELD, Edgar. With an introduction by, JONES, Trevor, and a note by, BROCKMAN, James. · 1993

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,060)

Frenich, Foss, K.D. Duval, 1993. Limited edition, of 500 copies, Oblong 8vo.,pp.24,(30)plates, paperback, colour plates, colour fold-out, b/w frontispiece; slight toning to margins, lightly sunned to spine and lightly creased to extremities, with a small adhesive mark to re...

MEMORIALS OF TWO SISTERS, SUSANNA AND CATHERINE WINKWORTH.

Edited by SHAEN, Margaret J. [The niece of Susanna and Catherine Winkworth]. · 1908

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,341, navy cloth, frontispiece portrait of Catherine Winkworth with tissue guard, portrait of Susanna Winkworth with tissue guard; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light wear to head and tail...

GLITTERLAND: Dress-Up Book. Entirely New 2 Dressing Dolls with Lots of Exciting, Dazzling, Costumes. A Tower Press Glitter Book, No.1093.

1950

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Tower Press, c1950 Oblong 8vo., pictorial covers, staples to rear cover, b/w illustrations, 2 colour plates with glitter decoration; toning to margins, crease to rear cover, rusting to staples (slightly staining rear wrapper), otherwise very good.

JOLLY JOCK: Dancing Doll Illusion. SECRETS OF MAGIC: Tricks for Anyone and Everyone.

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

12mo.,pp.14, pamphlet, with b/w figures and loose leaf explaining the ‘Amazing Dancing Doll Illusion’, plus a cut out figure blocked in red, blue and yellow with moveable legs; light indentation marks to cover of pamphlet, otherwise near-fine, in a brown paper enve...

A PASSAGE TO CHINA. Colin Campbell’s Diary of the First Swedish East India Company Expedition to Canton, 1732-33. (Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis - Humaniora 37).

Edited by: HALLBERG, Paul; KONINCKX, Christian. · 1996

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Goteborg: Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, 1996. 8vo., pp.liv,260, pale grey hardcover lettered in black and brown, 20 colour and b/w illustrations and maps; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

AUTUMN LEAVES.

Selected, written and arranged by, NESBIT, E. With pen & ink drawings by, BELLINGHAM SMITH, H.

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Groombridge & Sons, 12mo.,pp. unpaginated, pictorial card wrapper, b/w and sepia illustrations and frontispeice; toning to margins and light off setting, creasing to lower corners to front and rear near hinge, with partial tearing to hinge and slight loss to hea...

ENGLISH FURNITURE FROM CHARLES II TO GEORGE II. A Full Account of the Design, Material and Quality of Worksmanship Of Walnut and Mahogany Furniture of this Period; and of how Spurious Specimens are Made. With more than 260 Illustrations from examples in the Collection of Percival D. Griffiths.

SYMONDS, R.W. · 1980

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Antique Collectors’ Club, (1980). Limited edition of 1500 copies, 4to., pp.xviii,269, brown faux suede, gilt, b/w plates and illustrations; lightly sunned to spine and front upper margin, else fine.

AN ACCURATE MAP OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. (Folded linen-backed map in marbled slipcase). Divided into its Hundreds, and laid down from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved Modern Maps, with various Improvements. Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to its Natural Produce, Trade, Manufactures, and present state of its Principal Towns.

BOWEN, Emanuel. · 1767

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Robert Sayer, c.1767. Folding map in 16 sections, hand-coloured in outline, linen-backed, housed in a marbled slipcase, with small printed label to front panel; toning and light foxing to map, slipcase worn, else very good.

FOUR GREEK PLAYS. Andromache, Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah.

RACINE, Jean. Translated with introduction and notes by, KNIGHT, R.C. · 1982

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cambridge University Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.xv,223, paperback; light toning to margins, sunning and light creasing to extremities, otherwise very good.