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BRYAN PEARCE: THE ARTIST AND HIS WORK.

AXTEN, Janet. [Signed by the artist and the author] · 2000

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2000. Signed first edition, oblong 4to., pp.144, green cloth lettered in black, colour plates; light spotting to endpapers, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

RITES OF DURHAM, BEING A DESCRIPTION OR BRIEF DECLARATION OF ALL THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS, RITES AND CUSTOMS BELONGING OR BEING WITHIN THE MONASTICAL CHURCH OF DURHAM BEFORE THE SUPPRESSION. Written 1593. Publications of the Surtees Society Vol. CVII, for the Year M.CM.II.

1903

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

Durham/London/Edinburgh: Published for the Society by Andrews & Co., Whittaker & Co., Bernard Quaritch, and Blackwood and Sons, 1903. 8vo., pp.xxi,355, green cloth, gilt, 3 folding linen-backed plates to rear of volume; recased with new endpapers, neat ownership name...

COLERIDGE AND LIBERAL RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. Romanticism, Science and Theological Tradition.

NEVILLE, Graham. · 2010

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 8vo., pp.x,210, black hardcover, gilt; a very good copy indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

ART OF THE MODERN POTTER.

BIRKS, Tony. [Signed by Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Janet Leach, and Gordon Baldwin] · 1979

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

Country Life Books, 1979. Reprint, oblong 4to., pp.207, brown hardcover, gilt, colour plates; signed by four of the potters beneath their portraits, light toning to margins, light sellotape marking to margins of boards, rubbing to extremities, slight bruise to upper LH corne...

WILD FOOD FROM LAND AND SEA.

WHITE, Marco Pierre. [Signed copy]. Illustrations by Julia Whatley. Photographs by Norman Hollands. · 1994

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Ebury Press, 1994. Folio, pp.160, grey hardcover, gilt, colour plates and illustrations; signed by the author to front free endpaper, slight tone to fore-edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has crease and small closed tear t...

GEMS AND JEWELS, Their History, Geography, Chemistry, and Ana, from the Earliest Ages down to the Present Time.

DE BARRERA, Madame. · 1860

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London: Richard Bentley, 1860. 8vo., pp.xxxii,382, half leather, gilt, marbled boards; small heraldic emblem tipped in to front free endpaper, pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, loss to upper corner of p.5, occasional pencil annota...

THE YORK PROVINCIALE PUT FORTH BY THOMAS WOLSEY, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, IN THE YEAR 1518.

Edited and translated by: WOOLLEY, Reginald Maxwell. · 1931

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: The Faith Press, 1931. 8vo., pp.xvii,63 (versos - Latin text),63 (rectos - English translation), grey cloth, gilt; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper and small paper reinforcement to front inner hinge, toning and foxing to preliminary and closing l...

TOM WOOD: Yorkshire Artists III.

HILL, David; MORRIS, Susan. Foreword by, HAIGH, Arthur. · 1990

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Otley, Smith Settle, 1990. Oblong 4to.,pp. 117, beige cloth, red lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; signed by the artist, inscriptions from the artist and from Arthur Haigh, written on white labels to half title page, slight toning to margins of endpa...

PICTURES FROM 18TH CENTURY GREECE.

HOPE, Thomas (1769-1831). · 1985

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Athens, Melissa, for The British Council, Benaki Museum, 1985. Oblong 4to.,pp. 231, cream hardcover, gilt, monochrome and colour plates; light soling to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, w...

FOUR TALES FROM HANS ANDERSEN: A New Version of the First Four.

KEIGWIN, R.P. Illustrated with woodcuts by RAVERAT, Gwen. · 1935

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1935. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xi,76, blue cloth, with dark blue lettering to spine, colour frontispiece and b/w woodcut plates by Gwen Raverat; ownership gift inscription, dated 1941, to front free endpaper, foxing and toning to en...

SEEABLE SIGNS: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544.

ELJENHOLM NICHOLS, Ann. · 1994

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 1994. 8vo.,pp. xiv,412, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates and figures; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, light soiling to upper edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine a...

THE BLOOMSDAY BOOK. A Guide Through Joyce’s Ulysses.

BLAMIRES, Harry. · 1966

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1966. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,275, cloth, gilt; rubbing and light marking to cloth, light vertical crease to spine, internally clean, a good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has a couple of small nicks and tears to extremities, else ver...

A HALIFAX CIDER JAR. With an appreciation of the potter, Isaac Button, by Barry L. Sheridan, Keeper of Exhibitions, Calderdale Museums Service.

MORT, Graham. Illustrated by Mary Sara. [Signed by author and artist]. · 1987

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Castleford: Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987. Limited edition, one of 100 copies illustrated by this artist, and one of 800 copies overall, 8vo., pp.21,(i), quarter green cloth, gilt, marbled boards with printed paper title label, 6 tipped in b/w plates; with loose advertisement f...

JOHN TAVERNER, TUDOR COMPOSER.

JOSEPHSON, David S. · 1979

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.xvi,283, pictorial cloth, b/w plates; a very good, fresh copy. (No dust-jacket).

KING DAVID In the Index of Christian Art

Edited by: HOURIHANE, Colum. · 2002

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Princeton, University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xxvi,438, quarter brown cloth, gilt, paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece, 110 b/w illustrations; neat ownership plate to front paste-down endpaper, a near fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.

KINEMATIC RELATIVITY A Sequel to Relativity, Gravitation and World Structure

MILNE, E.A. · 1948

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.238, blue cloth, gilt; light toning to endpapers and edges, neat ink ownership inscriptionn to front free endpaper, faint marking to front board, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

A COMPANION TO JOHN OF SALISBURY.

Edited by: GRELLARD, Christophe. LACHAUD, Frederique. · 2015

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Leiden, Brill, 2015. 8vo., pp.ix,466, pictorial hardcover; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper and small inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a few tiny pencilled annotations within, light rubbing to head and foot of spine,...

THE OGRE. Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent.

DOUG, Scott. · 2017

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Sheffield, Vertebrate Publishing, 2017. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,178, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout, endpaper maps; very good indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing and slight peeling of laminate to extremities, but otherwise very g...

LUCIE RIE. Modernist Potter.

COOPER, Emmanuel. · 2015

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

China: Yale University Press, 2015. 8vo., pp.xv,328, beige hardcover, lettered in white, b/w frontispiece, 110 colour and b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOGIC.

KNEALE, William; KNEALE, Martha. · 1962

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. 8vo., pp.viii,761, blue cloth, gilt; from the library of D. Luscombe, with neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, spotting to top edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with foxing to margins, an...