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Billingsgate Market.
A plate from the "Microcosm of London."
Book ID: 1724More details Price: £125.00
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Bladwijzer - NV Magazijn De Bijenkorf
Amsterdam: NV Magazijn De Bijenkorf, 1928. Attractive Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) design. 160 x 50 mm (6¼ x 2 inches). The letters SPG stand for Simon Philip Goudsmit, the founder of the Dutch department store chain 'De Bijenkorf' (The Beehive). Nicolaas Johannes van de Vecht was a Dutch watercolorist, draftsman and lithographer. He was a student at the Arts and Crafts School Quellinus Amsterdam and the State School for Arts and Crafts Amsterdam. In addition to watercolor painting, drawing and lithography, he was a book binding designer.
Condition: In a very good condition.
Book ID: 2487More details Price: £8.00 -
Briefwechsel des Beatus Rhenanus.
Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1966. Nice copy of this first edition thus - A Facsimile of the 1886 edition. Correspondence from Beatus Rhenanus. Collected and edited by Adalbert Horawitz and Karl Hartfelder. Red cloth with black label to spine. Gilt titles. Very good clean condition. Frontis portrait of Rhenanus. Very slight cracking to the top edge of the spine to the title page. Very small stamp to ffep showing this was a publisher's archive example. XXIV, 700 pages. 240 by 170mm (9½ by 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3234More details Price: £75.00 -
British Book Illustration Yesterday and Today
London: The Studio, Ltd, 1923. First Edition. Original beveled and blind stamped dark cloth hardback boards. Gilt stamped title and decoration to front and spine. Top page edges gilt. Boards only lightly rubbed. Neat gift inscription to half-title page. Pages a little age toned, and some foxing to first and last few, but overall in good condition. viii, 175 pp. 106 plates (16 of which are in colour). 295 x 205 mm (11½ x 8 inches).
Book ID: 2508More details Price: £30.00 -
Buffalo Bill and the Wild West
SIGNED
Book ID: 2761More details Price: £30.00
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Cage and Chamber-Birds.
Their natural history, habits, food, diseases, management, and modes of capture.
Book ID: 3885More details Price: £90.00
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Calendar of the Seasons 1878
Book ID: 4171More details Price: £200.00
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Candidatus rhetoricae seu Aphthonii Progymnasmata in meliorem formam redacta usumque redacta.
Antverpiae: Iuxta Exemplar Lugdūnī editum, 1668. Scarce early Antwerp edition. Full vellum binding. Lack final leaf / leaves. No listing in WORLDCAT or elsewhere, so uncertain how many pages are missing. Boards are rubbed and worn. Contents tight, a few page corners folded in. Manuscript notes to inside and back in Latin - dated 1698. Latin text throughout. Overall good. 398 pages present. 155 x 85 mm (6 x 3¼ inches).
Book ID: 3698More details Price: £120.00 -
Cantate Nummer der Lustigen Blätter.
21. Mai 1905. Special Nummer dem deutschen Buchhandel gewidmet.
Berlin: Verlag der Lustige Blätter, 1905. Original cardboard covers tied with string. Period colour and b/w illustrations and caricatures, plus advertisements from publishers, bookcase designers, paper mills, printers, bookbinders etc. 34 pages. Covers are darkened and slightly soiled. Internally the pages are evenly toned, but otherwise in a very good condition. Text in German. 300 x 220 mm (11¾ x 8¾ inches). Couvertures cartonnées d'origine liées avec de la ficelle. Illustrations et caricatures d'époque en couleurs et en n/b, plus des publicités d'éditeurs, de libraires, de papeteries, d'imprimeurs, de relieurs, etc. 34 pages. Les couvertures sont foncées et légèrement salies. À l'intérieur, les pages sont uniformément toniques, mais sinon en très bon état. Texte en allemand
Book ID: 2614More details Price: £28.00 -
Cardinal Richelieu and the Development of Absolutism.
Book ID: 4199More details Price: £35.00
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Carrousel de L'Ecole de Cavalerie 1908
Book ID: 4100More details Price: £35.00
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Catalogue des Livres Rares et Précieux composant la Bibliothèque de M E -F -D Ruggieri
Book ID: 4363More details Price: £30.00
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Catalogue des Livres Rares et Precieux Manuscrits et Imprimes provenant de la Bibliotheque de Feu M. Benzon
Book ID: 2735More details Price: £110.00
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Catalogue of Oxfordshire Seventeenth Century Tokens.
Oxford University Press / Ashmolean Museum, 1935. Scarce! First Edition. With 16 b/w plates. Bound in Reading Public Library's own embossed buckram hardback binding. With library plate to front pastedown. Pages are age toned, one or two have a small ink 'tick mark' to them - but overall in good shape. A great gift for the numismatist in your life! 48 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3221More details Price: £75.00 -
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Two parts in one volume.
Part 1. Alphabetical list of authors and titles & Part 2. Subject catalogue
Mansfield CT: Maurizio Martino, 1995. Limited to 150 copies. Facsimile of the 1918-1920 Cambridge University Press edition. In original green cloth with gilt title to spine. No dust wrapper, as issued. 587 pp. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8¾ inches). In very good condition. Pages clean and binding tight.
Book ID: 2090More details Price: £35.00 -
Catalogue of the Mycological Library of Howard A. Kelly.
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1924. First edition. Hardback, with quarter cloth spine. Gilt titles to spine. Half title, Title. Slip asking for corrections. Externally the book is in very good condition. Clean and tidy, with just a little bumping. Internally clean and tidy throughout. x, 260 pp. 285 x 220 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 2626More details Price: £50.00 -
Catalogue of the National Treasures of Paintings and Sculptures in Japan.
Kyoto: Daikokuya, 1915. First edition. Japanese floral cloth binding folder, with paper label title to front and secured with original bone clasps. Inside the book is bound in Japanese four hole stitched soft covers. 11 plates including frontis, and folding plan of Temples at Koya-san. Text in English, with index, and colophon in Japanese. All in very good condition. [4], 167 pp. 235 x 162 mm.
Book ID: 3696More details Price: £60.00 -
Catalogue raisonné ou énumération méthodique des espèces du genre rosier pour l'Europe, l'Asie et l'Afrique spécialement les rosiers de la France et de L'Angleterre
Genève: Librairié Ch. Mentz, 1877. Very attractive copy of this first edition Catalogue raisonné. A catalogue of species of Roses existing in 1877, Three quarters red leather with marbled boards. A little rubbing to the edges of the boards. Binding is clean and bright with just a little handling. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 348 pages, charts. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches). Très bel exemplaire de cette première édition du Catalogue raisonné. Un catalogue d'espèces de Roses existant en 1877, Trois quarts cuir rouge avec plats marbrés. Un petit frottement sur les bords des plats. La reliure est propre et brillante avec juste un peu de manipulation. Intérieurement propre et rangé partout. 348 pages, graphiques.
Book ID: 3623More details Price: £100.00 -
Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all kinds of Game.
London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin. First edition. Undated - but 1876. Hardback,in publisher's brown cloth boards. Titles and designs gilt stamped to front board and spine. Complete; including large folding plates to both the front and rear pockets. Plates and tables printed on both sides. Boards lightly rubbed at corners; overall in very good condition. vii, 215, [1] pages illustrations, 3 folded plates, 2 folded tables. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3907More details Price: £180.00 -
Christian Politics.
In Four Parts
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1409More details Price: £80.00