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THE WISDOM OF THE SANDS.

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. Translated by Stuart Gilbert from the French Citadelle. · 1952

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,350, red cloth, gilt, top edges red; light rubbing to extremities, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light wear and loss loss to extremities.

THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS FOR THE GARDEN, CONSERVATORY, AND STOVE. [Two Volumes:] Describing and Giving Explicit Cultural Directions for the Best and Most Striking Ferns and Selaginellas in Cultivation. Illustrated with Coloured Plates and Numerous Wood Engravings, Specially Prepared for this Work. Volume II. From Blechnum to Nothochlaena; III. From Ochropteris to Woodwardia, and Selaginella.

SCHNEIDER, George. · 1893

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London: L. Upcott Gill, 1893;1894. Volumes II and III only (of three), 4to., pp.viii,621,(ii);vii,457,(iii), decorative pictorial bevelled green cloth, gilt, a.e.g., colour frontispieces, colour plates, b/w plates and figures; light foxing, superficial paper splitting to inn...

MODERN BRITISH POTTERS AND THEIR STUDIOS.

WHITING, David. Photographs by GOLDMARK, Jay. · 2009

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, A&C Black, 2009. Signed by all featured potters, 4to., pp.159, black hardcover, silver lettering, colour plates throughout; relevant ink signature to each potter’s title page, a fresh and fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE ROMANS OF PARTENAY, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine: Translated from the French of La Coudrette (about 1500-1520 A.D.). Early English Text Society, Original Series, No.22.

Edited by SKEAT, Rev. Walter W. · 1899

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO, 1899. 8vo., pp.xx,287, uncut, paperback (printed wrappers); ink mark struck through the advertisements to rear wrapper and front wrapper verso, internally fresh, with shelf-wear to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.

TERRY FROST; PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND COLLAGES. [Signed by the artist] Arts Council/South West Arts 1976/77

Designed by: SANDREUTER, Emanuel. · 1976

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, The Arts Council of Great Britain and South West Arts, 1976. Square 8vo., pp.48, pictorial paperback, b/w frontispiece, b/w and colour plates; light sellotape staining to half title and p.48, else a very good fresh copy, with artist’s signed dedication inscript...

BEOWULF AND FOUR RELATED OLD ENGLISH POEMS. A Verse Translation with Explanatory Notes.

LEE, Sung-Il. Foreword by Robert D. Stevick. [Author’s presentation copy] · 2010

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Signed by the author, 8vo., pp.xxv,170, pictorial cloth, black lettering; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very slightly bruised to u...

ANCIENT MEDIEVAL MEMORIES. Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past.

COLEMAN, Janet. · 1992

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge University Press, 1992. 8vo., pp.xx,646, yellow hardcover, gilt; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, slight foxing to top edges, light bump to lower edge of front board, else fresh and near-fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

THE EGERTON VERSION OF MANDEVILLE'S TRAVELS. Early English Text Society, No. 336.

Edited by: SEYMOUR, M. C. · 2010

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxx,230, brown cloth, gilt, two colour frontispieces; a fine copy, in a fine and fresh unclipped dust-jacket.

CONFRONTING NATURE. The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection.

PINCH, Trevor. BOHME, G., ed. · 1986

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company (Kluwer), (1986). Reprinted, 8vo., pp.xi,268, glazed hardcover; very good indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.

RICHARD ROLLE: Prose and Verse.

OGILVIE-THOMSON, S.J. · 1988

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. xcvi,270, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

RICH AND POOR IN RENAISSANCE VENICE: The Social Institutions of a Catholic State, to 1620.

PULLAN, Brian. · 1971

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1971. 8vo.,pp. x,689, red cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, fold-out illustration and maps; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper and ownership autograph to front free endpaper, annotations and underlining to text and margins in ink, light t...

CHAUCER AND THE MAKING OF OPTICAL SPACE.

BROWN, Peter. · 2007

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Oxford, Peter Lang, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 377, paperback, b/w figures; a near-fine copy.

A HISTORY OF ENGLISH GLASS-PAINTING, With Some Remarks Upon The Swiss Glass Miniatures Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries.

DRAKE, Maurice. DRAKE, Wilfred. (illustrator) · 1912

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1912. First edition, folio, pp.x,226, uncut, original parchment-backed boards, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, b/w and colour plates; neat ownership bookplates to front paste-down endpaper, toning and foxing to prelims, a very good copy, in p...

GOUPIL.

Texte et images de SAMIVEL. · 1936

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris: Delagrave, 1936. First edition, folio., pp.vi,40, pictorial paper-covered boards, colour plates throughout, pictorial title; foxing to endpapers, toning to edges, toning to margins of boards, light wear to edges, a little light marking to boards, a very good copy.

THE FLEECE: A POEM. In Four Books.

DYER, John. · 1757

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 4to., pp.(ii),156, contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked with gilt-lettered red title label, five raised bands, and gilt decorations to compartments, later endpapers; engraved heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, wear to ...

CRAIGIE AITCHISON: PICTURES.

AITCHISON, Craigie; LAMBIRTH, Andrew. [Artist’s signed presentation copy.] · 2004

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Timothy Taylor Gallery/Waddington Gallleries, 2004 Exhibition catalogue, small 4to., pp.56, navy cloth, gilt, with small inlaid colour plate to front board, edges in purple, 29 colour plates; front free endpaper inscribed by the artist, a little light marking to fron...

THE PICTURE ALPHABET.

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Thomas Nelson And Sons, 8vo.,pp. 95, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, with occasional light foxing to margins and edges of text block, lightly rubbed to extremities, wit...

THE UNAPPROPRIATED PEOPLE: Freedman in the Slave Society of Barbados.

HANDLER, Jerome S. · 1974

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press, 1974. 8vo.,pp. xii,225, yellow cloth, gilt, b/w tables and figures; light foxing to edges of text block and to endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities wi...

COURTESANS AT TABLE. Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus.

McCLURE, Laura K. · 2003

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

New York, Routledge, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xii,242, paperback; a very good copy.

IN THE PENNINES.

BROOK, Peter. With SARA, Mary. · 1995

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Otley, Smith Settle, 1995. 8vo.,pp. 113, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; signed by the artist with inscription to half title page, light rubbing to corners of boards, otherwise near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. &...