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From Paris - numéro IV - September 1910
Book ID: 2133More details Price: £75.00
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From Paris - numéro V - October 1910
Book ID: 2132More details Price: £75.00
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From the Holy Mountain.
A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East.
London: Harper Collins, 1997. First edition. Signed by author on the title page. In near fine unclipped dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Under dust jacket the cloth boards are spotless and the gilt title is bright. No foxing. Internally too everything is clean and bright. "It is a rich and gripping blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with a thread of black comedy." The author retraces the footsteps of monks John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist through eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the West Bank and southern Egypt. x, 484 pp.
Book ID: 2228More details Price: £30.00 -
Frozen Estuary and other paintings of the Divine Ordinary.
London: L-13 Press, 2012. An immaculate limited, numbered and signed First Edition of this work (limited to 113 copies). This is copy #19/113. Signed with Childish's Hangman signature to the front board. Half black cloth with pale green boards and a tipped on title illustration. Frontis photograph of Childish. Introduction by Harold Rosenbloom. Designed to accompany the exhibition at Chatham Dockyard rather than illustrate it, this beautifully produced book presents cycles of oil paintings, watercolours and studio photographs made during Childish's residency at Chatham Dockyard, 2011 - 2012. As new condition. 176 pages. 215 x 245 mm (8½ x 9¾ inches).
Book ID: 2823More details Price: £275.00 -
Fungus the Bogeyman. Plop-Up Book.
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. First edition in this format. Hardback laminated colour illustrated boards. Unpaginated. Covers are clean with minimal handling. All but one of the pop-ups are working perfectly, and showing little sign of use. One end of a string of bats has become detached. This would be easy to repair. 275 x 200 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches).
Fungus the Bogeyman is a character created by British artist Raymond Briggs. The story follows one day in the life of this fabulous character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. A fantastic pre-curser to the likes of Shrek!
Book ID: 2717More details Price: £30.00 -
Gala de bienfaisance. Fête artistique et patriotique Les Fastes Belges
donnée au Théâtre royal de la Monnaie, à Bruxelles, le dimanche 13 mai 1928 en soirée et le lundi 14 mai 1928 en matinée et en soirée.
Bruxelles: Vromant, 1928. First edition. Beautiful brown calf binding with marbled boards and endpapers. In marbled slipcase. With two beautiful colour / gold embellished illustrations, and several other b/w full page illustrations. The slipcase has some light wear to the corners, the book is in excellent condition, both inside and out. 51 pages. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8¾ inches). Belle reliure en veau brun à plats et gardes marbrés. Dans un étui marbré. Avec deux belles illustrations couleur/or embellies, et plusieurs autres illustrations pleine page n/b. L'étui présente de légères usures aux coins, le livre est en excellent état, tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur. 51 pages. 280 x 220 mm
Book ID: 2660More details Price: £65.00 -
Galerie des Femmes Vertueuses ou lecouns de Morale a l'usage des demoiselles.
Paris: Le Prieur, 1817. Third edition. An attractive French book, with lessons for young ladies. Frontispiece and 15 full page plates each with 2 illustrations. Contemporary half calf with burgundy label. blue wash boards. A little cracking to the label but still attractive. Internally clean and tidy with just a touch of darkening to the pages. 396 pages. 165 x 105 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches). Troisième édition. Un livre français attrayant, avec des leçons pour les jeunes filles. Frontispice et 15 planches à pleine page avec chacune 2 illustrations. Demi-veau contemporain avec étiquette bordeaux. planches à laver bleues. Un peu de fissuration à l'étiquette mais toujours attrayant. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé avec juste une touche d'assombrissement des pages. 396 pages. 165 par 105 mm
Book ID: 3509More details Price: £50.00 -
Galerie des Personnages de Shakspeare reproduits dans les Principales scenes de ses pieces
Book ID: 3837More details Price: £100.00
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Gallery to Shakspeare's Dramatic Works in outlines. Complete in One Volume.
Erlaeuterungen der umrisse von Moritz Retzsch von C.A. Boettiger & Carl Borromaeus von Miltitz.
Book ID: 3483More details Price: £250.00
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Gedenkblatt des Zentralverband der Zimmerer und verwandter Berufsgenossen Deutschland
Book ID: 4284More details Price: £80.00
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Gedichtjes en Zangen
Book ID: 4255More details Price: £80.00
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GEDICHTJES voor de lieve jeugd. Met gekleurde plaatjes.
Gouda: B. Van Goor, 1865. Vierde (4th) edition. Complete with six hand coloured plates by Trap (author unknown). Date is approximate. Scarce edition - copies of the 3rd and 5th appear in libraries with dates of 1854 and 1875 respectively. So estimate this circa 1865. Original brown buckram with gilt titles and decoration to front and rear boards. Binding is cracked to the paper, although the string is holding well. A little darkening and edge wear to the pages. Some small coloured cuts stuck to the front end paper. 80 pages. 160 x 110 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3383More details Price: £75.00 -
Gemaehlde [Gemälde] des Polygnotos in der Lesche zu Delphi.
Nach der Beschreibung des Pausanias gezeichnet von F. u. I. Riepenhausen
Book ID: 3480More details Price: £280.00
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General Sir Arthur Cotton; His Life and Work by his daughter Lady Hope,
with some famine prevention studies. Portraits, maps and illustrations.
Calcutta: The Institution of Engineers (India), 1964. First Thus. Biography originally printed by Hodder & Stoughton in 1900. Reprinted here by The Institution of Engineers (India) to honour Sir Arthur Cotton - the Father of Irrigation. In dark green hardback boards, with gilt titles to spine. Frontis portrait, and several other b/w photos. Also a fold-out map of of the Godavari Delta, and in a pocket the the rear of the book, a large folded map of Irrigation and Navigation of India. Boards and book all in very good condition. 530 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3987More details Price: £30.00 -
Geographie Moderne: Barbarie/ Desert de Barbarie / Nigritie
A hand coloured map of the Sahara desert & North Africa - Also showing Southern Europe
Book ID: 1755More details Price: £85.00
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Geographie Moderne: De la Guinee / Du Congo / De la Cafrerie / Île de de Madagascar
A hand coloured map of the African coast - Upper Guinea, Madagascar, the Gold Coast etc:
Book ID: 1756More details Price: £90.00
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Geographie Moderne: Empire du Mogol / Siam / Cochin Chine & Camboja
A hand coloured map of the Mogul Empire, India & South East Asia (Thailand & Vietnam).
Book ID: 1753More details Price: £90.00
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George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Hop-o'-my-thumb and the seven-league boots.
Edited and illustrated with six etchings.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1865. Hardback three quarter dark leather with marbled boards, with matching endpapers. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. No date but circa 1865. Date of publication suggested by the Bodleian Library. Scarce in this format. Fairy tale by Charles Perrault, rewritten and illustrated by Cruikshank. Boards slightly rubbed. Original soft covers are bound in. Six illustrations with tissue guards. 30 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates. Slight rubbing to the edges of the spine. The binding has split to the inside rear hinge, so that the book block falls away - but is still held in place (see photograph). Front end paper is reinforced with archival tape. 180 x 140 mm (7 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3936More details Price: £180.00 -
George Cruikshank's Omnibus.
Illustrated with one hundred engravings on Steel and Wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition. Hardback in quarter brown leather with buckram boards, with gilt title to spine. Complete. Boards are slightly rubbed. Internally the pages are darkened, and there is some foxing. Overall fair to good. 300 pages. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3942More details Price: £100.00 -
Gestes. Suivis de Paralipomènes d'Ubu.
Book ID: 4135More details Price: £350.00