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A Complete, Scientific, and Popular Treatise upon Perspective, with the Theories of Reflection and Shadows. Illustrated with Twenty-Four Plates
Book ID: 3822More details Price: £500.00
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A Display of Heraldry:
Manifesting a more easie access for the Knowledge thereof than hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method; Whereunto it is now reduced by the study and Industry of John Guillim; Late Pursuivant at Arms. Bound with Analogia Honorum
Book ID: 1859More details Price: £480.00
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A Dissertation on the Antiquity and Use of Seals in England.
Collected by **** 1736.
London: William Mount and Thomas Page, 1740. Scarce first edition. In hard back neat burgundy coloured library cloth. Ex-library copy. With one full-page engraved plate showing seals, plus other engravings in text. Lovely deep impressions. [2],31,[1]pp. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Has expected library stamps, new endpapers. Tipped-in handwritten note to back of plate reads: This Tract is written by John Lewis author of the History of the Abbey of Faversham etc. Another small insert tipped-in to title page states: Purchased out of a donation of £250 given by George William Palmer Esq. to the Reading Free Public Library. One or two pages have been reinforced towards the spine edge. Light foxing, but overall in very good shape.Book ID: 2929More details Price: £175.00 -
A Doorway in Fairyland.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1922. First edition. Hardback in blue cloth with title and decorative mushrooms to front board. Cloth on spine is brown, otherwise in good shape. 220 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3797More details Price: £40.00 -
A French peasant woman in clogs holding a basket / Paysanne français en sabots tenant un panier
Book ID: 4229More details Price: £80.00
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A Ghost Story of Christmas. Being a Christmas Carol
Book ID: 4144More details Price: £750.00
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A Guinness Sport Folio
Guinness. Printed by John Waddington Ltd, 1952. As the slogan on the back cover says: There's nothing like a Guinness; except another! Softback colour promotional booklet, with the year divided in to various sporting activities by month. Undated, but circa 1952. First Edition. Designed for Guinness by S. H. Benson Limited. A few very small spots of foxing throughout, often barely visible. Otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout by Anthony Groves-Raines. 16 pages. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3005More details Price: £50.00 -
A Natural History of British Moths - 4 volumes.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. Four Volumes. Third Edition. Complete with 132 plates.Containing nearly two thousand specimens all coloured by hand. Original dark green decorated buckram. Slight fading / rubbing to the gilt. Handling to top and base of spine. Bump / crease to the front of Vol III (see images). Internally clean and tidy with slight foxing to the end papers. Morris is "best known by his works on natural history, which, although popular rather than scientific, had much literary value" (DNB). xvi, 253., iv, 180., iv, 233., iv, 5-322. pp. 260 x 160 mm (10¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2171More details Price: £350.00 -
A Newly Discovered Treatise on Classic Letter Design printed at Parma by Damianus Moyllus circa 1480
reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Stanley Morison
Paris: At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1927. First Edition. White spine with gilt titles. Blue/grey boards with gilt design. Internally clean and tidy throughout. An very nice copy. This edition of the Alphabet of Damianus Moyllus of Parma, consisting of 350 copies, of which 300 are for sale, all on Arches paper, with text in Poliphilus and Blado types has been printed by the Officina Bodoni, Montagnola Switzerland 1927. Unpaginated. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 3432More details Price: £225.00 -
A Noisy Book!
Aylesbury: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1971. First edition. Hardback blue cloth boards, inside the original unclipped dust jacket. Pre-school book that's simple and funny. 32 unnumbered pages. 235 x 205 mm (9¼ x 8 inches).
Book ID: 3659More details Price: £60.00 -
A Nude Study in Pastel
Book ID: 2751More details Price: £275.00
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A pair of Victorian miniatures of Pixies
Book ID: 3439More details Price: £480.00
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A Paris sous la botte des nazis - Un an - Victoire des Français en Italie; Huit mois de campagne vus par les correspondant de guerre.
Book ID: 4097More details Price: £150.00
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A Photo-Album of a World Tour.
A German family travel around the world.
Book ID: 3445More details Price: £680.00
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A photograph album featuring Egypt, Ireland and France.
55 silver gelatin tourist photographs.
Book ID: 3836More details Price: £125.00
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A Princess Comes to Our Town.
With 12 illustrations by Gertrude Lindsay.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. First edition. Gold blocked cloth case hardback binding. Lovely illustrations, including frontis. Boards have a little bumping and are slightly grubby / handled. Inside very clean. vii, 119 pp. 175 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).
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Book ID: 4195More details Price: £25.00 -
A private collection of photographs recording the Royal visits to the ideal home exhibition at Olympia in 1954
Book ID: 4031More details Price: £750.00
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A Series of Views Illustrative of Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture:
Sketched from nature and drawn on stone by Joseph Nash, pupil to Augustus Pugin. With letter-press descriptions by W.H. Leeds.
London: A. Pugin at his office, 1830. First Edition. Original buckram boards with leather spine and gilt titles. A touch of rubbing to the boards and the spine edges, but still an attractive copy. Slight fading to the edges of the boards.
Engraved title, title and a further 21 plates (so 22 plates including title), plus 20 pages of Leed's text. Some foxing /darkening to the plates. [iv], 20, [22] pp. 350 x 265 mm (13¾ x 10½ inches).Book ID: 2826More details Price: £400.00 -
A set of 12 Pharmaceutical advertising cards.
Book ID: 3446More details Price: £70.00
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A sketchbook containing original pencil, ink and charcoal sketches
Book ID: 3289More details Price: £200.00