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Portrait of a Man with Red Hair.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1925. First Edition (Indian and Dominions Edition - simultaneous with First). Beautifully coloured hardback rebind, with each colour made from inlaid coloured cloth. Good clean condition, with a touch of handling only. No titles to spine. Internally clean and tidy throughout with just a touch of darkening to the pages. xii, 264 pages. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 3338More details Price: £40.00 -
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.
Oliver Cromwell - portrait and biography abstracted from Lodge.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. An engraved portrait of Oliver Cromwell. Engraved by Walker, taken from the collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp. There is also an 18 page biography of Cromwell by Lodge - taken from his Portraits of Illustrious Personages - volume V. portrait & 75-92 pp
Condition: Although disbound, both the portrait and the biography are clean and tidy. There is a touch of darkening to the pages only. Now held in a protective cellophane packet. The biography largely has uncut pages. Overall a nice little piece.
Book ID: 1381More details Price: £5.00 -
Posters 1900.
Ramerding: Berghaus Verlag, 1985. Reprint. Original printed 1976. Large softback with illustrated colour covers. Contains 32 art nouveau posters - most of which are in colour. Posters from the likes of: Ludwig Sütterlin, Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Maria Mucha, William Bradley, Th. Th. Heine and Dudley Hardy. Covers a little rubbed at edges, but overall in very good condition. Unpaginated. 490 x 345 mm (19¼ x 13½ inches).
Book ID: 3709More details Price: £60.00 -
Posters of Health
Brussels: Therabel, 1996. Large softback, in pictorial covers. With over 390 fabulous colour illustrations. 296 pp. + index. 280 x 210 mm (11 x 8¼ inches). With the collaboration and an introduction by Pierre Julien. Vice-President of the International Academy of Pharmaceutical History. The Therabel Collection is continually updated, but comprises over 650 posters - from more than 17 different countries - on the history of Pharmacology, from 1840 to the present day.
Book ID: 2092More details Price: £30.00 -
Pour Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Book ID: 3937More details Price: £375.00
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Practical Wildfowling: A Complete Guide to the Art of the Fowler
With descriptions of the various birds usually met with. Second edition, revised and greatly enlarged.
Book ID: 4197More details Price: £30.00
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Praecipuorum Theologiae Capitum Enchiridion Didacticum
cum Appendicula Practica de Coena Domini Quibus accessit Symboli Apostolici,& Precationis Dominicae Expositio.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1934More details Price: £375.00 -
Prediche Quaresimali
del P. Maestro Felice Mattioli, da Gualdo Minor Convent. Theologo Dell' Altezza Serenissima di Ranuccio II. Duca di Parma, e di Piacenza &c. Contre Indici
Book ID: 1694More details Price: £650.00
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Presence du Cinema - Sadisme et Libertinage 6/7
Book ID: 3080More details Price: £40.00
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Prince Arumugam, the Steadfast Indian Convert.
Translated from the German of A. v. B.
Edition: First Edition
Freiburg im Breisgau: B. Herder, 1895. First edition. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. A title in the series: Tales of Foreign Lands. A Series of Illustrated Tales for the Young. Collected by the Rev. Jos. Spillmann. Illustrations by R. E. Kepler. A very good copy - A touch of darkening to the tan boards only. Pages are fractionally darkened only. pp. (vi). 86. 3 plates.
Book ID: 1078More details Price: £20.00 -
Prince Pertinax. A fairy tale.
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C, [1883]. Illustrated with twenty six beautiful tipped-in sepia drawings, including frontispiece, by Margaret L. Hooper and Margaret May. Undated, but estimated circa 1883.
Original blue-grey paper boards with a brown cloth spine. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾ inches). By the same author of "The House of Raby" and "Arbell," etc. Binding extremities are chipped and there is light wear to head of spine. Some damp staining to boards. Internally, tissue guard to frontispiece is crumpled; there is a small repaired tear to one of the front blank pages, moderate foxing to preliminaries, and a small repaired tear to page 87/88.Book ID: 2296More details Price: £130.00 -
Principes rationnels du lavis de relief;
application au dessin d'architecture et de machines à l'usage des dessinateurs et des candidats aux grandes écoles.
Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 1922. First edition. Soft covers are a little rubbed and age toned. Bottom of spine is beginning to tear. Internally clean. viii, 132 pages: illustrations, XVII plates, diagrams. 250 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches).
. Première édition. Les couvertures souples sont un peu frottées et vieillies. Le bas du dos commence à se déchirer. L'intérieur est propre. viii, 132 pages : illustrations, XVII planches, diagrammes. 250 x 165 mm.
Book ID: 4127More details Price: £48.00 -
Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.
London: T. Cadell, 1791. First Thus. An edition in quarto appeared in the previous year. A simple recent brown full calf binding, with no titles. This is an important work. Complete with the half-title and large folding map by James Rennell, to the rear. The map has in excellent condition, with small tear to outer edge (outside map frame). Binding and book in very good condition. Two New York Historical Society stamps to title. Some minor foxing and page toning.
xvi, 351 pp. + plate: map. 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).Book ID: 2294More details Price: £900.00 -
Prodigies and Prodigals - brought to you by Guinness.
Guinness (Printed by John Waddington Ltd), 1939. Original softback colour promotional booklet. Moral illustrated tales in doggerel rhyme. Undated, but circa 1939. First Edition. Designed for Guinness by S. H. Benson Limited. In a very good condition, with just a little darkening and bends to the very edges of the soft covers. Illustrated throughout by Anthony Groves-Raines. 20 pages. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3013More details Price: £40.00 -
Professor Max Burchartz zu seinem 70. Geburtstag gewidmet von seinen Freunden und dem Kollegium der Folkwangschule für Gestaltung.
Book ID: 2667More details Price: £30.00
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Profondeurs de L'Espagne.
Nouvelle edition ornée de 25 hors texte.
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937. New edition. Half leather with marbled boards with gilt titles and decoration to the spine. Nice clean binding in very good condition. The original soft covers are bound into the book. Clean and tidy throughout with black and white photographs of Spanish works of art. 232 pages + plates. 195 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches). Demi cuir à plats marbrés avec titres et décor dorés au dos. Belle reliure propre en très bon état. Les couvertures souples originales sont reliées au livre. Propre et bien rangé avec des photographies en noir et blanc d'œuvres d'art espagnoles. 232 pages + planches. 195 x 140 mm
Book ID: 3176More details Price: £40.00 -
Programma Stadsschouwburg
Rotterdam: Stadsdrukkerij, 1932. Theatre programme for a production of 'De Spooktrein' (The Ghost Train) by N.V. Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hoofstad-Tooneel (Rotterdam Theatre Association). Cover design by Rie Cramer. Includes period advertising and b/w photos of the actors. In a very good condition, slight rusting to staples. 20 pages. 195 x 170 mm (7¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 2551More details Price: £70.00 -
Programme - École Nationale du Cirque.
Annie Fratellini et Pierre Étaix présentent 'Le Nouveau Cirque de Paris'.
Book ID: 2562More details Price: £20.00
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Progress at Pelvis Bay.
London: John Murray, 1936. First Edition. Hardback in its original illustrated dust jacket. The detailed account of the metamorphosis of a fictitious seaside town from poverty stricken fishing village to flourishing resort. Osbert Lancaster uses his words and illustrations to enable the reader to follow the architectural changes. Dust jacket is age toned, particularly to spine. A small nick to jacket at head of spine. Illustrated endpapers with small previous owner's name to front. Inside pages very fresh and clean. Overall in good condition. 68 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3359More details Price: £30.00 -
Projecting Britain: Ealing Studios Film Posters.
London: BFI Publishing, 1982. Glossy hardback, First Edition. Fully illustrated in colour, with notes on each poster. Begins with a comprehensive introduction detailing the designers of the film posters, and their relationship to Ealing studios. Includes posters advertising: 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'; 'The Lavender Hill Mob'; 'Nicholas Nickleby'; 'Hue & Cry'; 'The Captive Heart'; 'Passport to Pimlico'; 'The Ladykillers'; 'Whisky Galore!' and many others. Boards have minor fading to top left of front. Book is in a very good condition. Appears almost unread. 67 pages. 210 x 210 mm (8¼ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 2663More details Price: £20.00