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Meg at Sea
London: William Heinemann, 1975. Scarce in a very good condition dust jacket. This is a reprint edition in hardback from 1975. Colour illustrated boards, dust jacket, and story line - all Jan Pieńkowski illustrations. The adventures of the witch Meg, her cat Mog, and their friend Owl, as they get shipwrecked on an island and have to be rescued. Book boards, unclipped dust jacket and contents all in very good clean condition. Unpaginated. 210 x 210 mm (8¼ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3778More details Price: £150.00 -
Mehling '67 /II
original signed abstract watercolour
Book ID: 3578More details Price: £350.00
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Mehling '77 BA 1
original signed abstract watercolour with gold embellishments
Book ID: 3576More details Price: £350.00
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Mehling '92 A.WB-A-/26
original signed abstract watercolour
Hofheim: 1992. Original watercolour on handmade paper. This sombre abstract work is a form of Informalism in charcoal grey tones and includes melted candle wax. All Mehling's work remained untitled, though the works do state the year of origin, usually the month and often the techniques used. This work was done in 1992. As Mehling was also a pharmacist in his earlier years, he enjoyed experimenting with mixing his own paints, pigments and inks. An original by "the German master of the small format" (Haudenschild + Laubscher 1968). In distressed metallic painted wooden frame, under glass, with heavy white mount. Signed in pencil to bottom left.
Frame: 445 x 365 mm (17½ x 14¼ inches)). Visible art: 255 mm x 185 mm.Book ID: 3577More details Price: £350.00 -
Mélanges botaniques ou recueil d'observations, mémoires, et notices sur la botanique. Volume I.
Contenant une Critique de cinq décades de Roses desséchées et la Monographie des céréales de la Suisse.
Book ID: 3477More details Price: £450.00
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Mémoire pour Me Robert-Antoine Lamarre, Curé de la Paroisse de Saint Pierre de Courcerault; contre Me Esprit-Louis Maris, Curé de la Paroisse de Saint Mars de Réno.
Alençon: Malassis le jeune, imprimeur du Roi, de Monsieur, Frere du Roi, & du College, 1780. Rare. Prémiere edition. Couverture souple. Etat : Très bon. Édition originale. 38 pages. 232 x 185 mm (9¼ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3656More details Price: £40.00 -
Mémoires d'un Eunuque.
Book ID: 3927More details Price: £220.00
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Memoirs of Lewis the Fourteenth.
Written by himself and addressed to his son. Translated from the French.
Book ID: 3949More details Price: £350.00
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Memoirs of the Count De Grammont.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, printed in USA. Rebound in full tan leather, with gilt title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. Text descriptions on tissue guards. Leather boards in a very good condition with minimal sign of handling. Light sporadic foxing. Pages rough edged. 230 pp. 245 x 175 mm (9¾ x 7 inches).
Memoirs written by Antoine [Anthony] Hamilton, who was the French nobleman's brother-in-law. Translated by Horace Walpole.
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Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie, by their Daughter.
Book ID: 2259More details Price: £125.00
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Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène ou Journal, avec Suite au Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène.
Book ID: 2729More details Price: £280.00
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Memorie Edificanti Della Vita Religiosa Del Servo Di Dio P. Carlo Odescalchi
Della Compagnia di Gesu. Raccolte da un Padre della Stressa Compagnia.
Edition: First Edition
Roma: Tipografia Salviucci: 1843. Green printed paper wrappers. Titles to front and rear panel. Decoration to spine. Text is entirely in Italian. The green paper wrappers have a little marking to them and a little edgewear, but are still very presentable. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of marking only. Overall a sound copy. Carlo Odescalchi (1785-1841) was an Italian prince and priest. He was Archbishop of Ferrara, and later Cardinal Bishop of Sabina and Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars. On several occasions he attempted to resign his posts and enter the Jesuits, but was refused permission by the Pope. Eventually in 1838 he was permitted to renounce his titles and join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). 143, [iii]. pp 143, [iii]. pp
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Mes voyages avec un poeme d'aragon et des lithographies de l'auteur.
Book ID: 3216More details Price: £120.00
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Metamorphoses of an American:
a cycle of youth 2003-2008
Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. First edition. Four volumes in grey slipcase. Hardbacks in navy blue cloth with b/w portrait laid on to cover of each. Ribbon book marks in each. Pictorial study of the physical and emotional development of Brad Kroenig's evolution from just a typical 'All American Boy' into a professional photographic model. B/w portrait photos throughout by Karl Lagerfeld. Slipcase a little handled but very good condition. Books in fine condition. Each book: 190 x 155 mm. Boxed set: 200 x 155 mm (7¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3454More details Price: £90.00 -
Mexico and the Americans
Book ID: 2075More details Price: £40.00
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Micky.
"Collection l'arche de noë".
Strasbourg: L.R.D.L, 1954. Charming colourful embossed silhouette story book for children. All about Micky the cat. Text in French. 16 pages. In very good condition. 270 x 195 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches). Charmant livre d'histoires colorées en relief pour enfants. Tout sur Micky le chat. Texte en français. 16 pages. Dans de très bonnes conditions. 270 × 195 mm
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Milton Abbey Dorsetshire - Architectural Report and photographs.
Book ID: 3090More details Price: £80.00
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Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-1199)
from 'Mirror of brave military guards in Kamakura' (Kamakura Buei Yoshi Kagami)
Edo: Fujiokaya Keijiro, 1844. Original woodblock print on mulberry paper. This is the centre panel from the colour woodblock triptych entitled 'Kamakura Buei Yoshi Kagami'. Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199. There was a film made in 1945 about his relationship with his brothers entitled Tora no O o Fumu Otokotachi: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail. In this print he is actually depicted with his famous tiger's tail! The other panels are not with this. It has rough edges and is delicate, with signs of reinforcement on the verso. 360 x 240 mm (14¼ x 9½ inches).
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Miniature Koran
Book ID: 4365More details Price: £250.00
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Miscellanea Pictica: Containing The History of the Picts.
Sir Robert Sibbald's Account of the Picts From the History of Fife and Kinross and a Description of Pictish Antiquities Remaining in Scotland & Northern Islands.
Edinburgh: D. Webster, 1818. In recent green buckram with gilt title to spine. Advertisement after title page is a message from D. Webster (the printer) starts "The first of these Tracts, generally known by the title of Maule's History of the Picts, is printed from the edition of Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh, 1706..." 116 pages. 225 x 130 mm (8¾ x 5 inches). Book and contents in a very good condition. Two neat ex libris to front pastedown. One is from the author J. L. Weir, and the other more modern is an attractive stamped version. This tract has also been ascribed to Sir James Balfour.
Book ID: 2586More details Price: £150.00