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1920's Gazelle Rijwielfabriek Reclame
Dieren: Gazelle Rijwielfabriek, 1920s. Van 1899 tot 1905 werkte André Vlaanderen voor het architectenbureau Ed Cuypers. Daarna begon hij voor zichzelf en werkte hij aan veel advertentieopdrachten voor verschillende bedrijven. André Vlaanderen was tientallen jaren de grafisch ontwerper van de Gazelle-fietsfabriek. In 1925 ontwikkelde hij het Gazelle-logo, dat het bedrijf nog steeds gebruikt. Tijdens de jaren 1920 en 1930 was hij ook de auteur van verschillende kleine reclamestrips voor Gazelle.
Book ID: 2124More details Price: £45.00 -
400 Famous Cartoons from the Daily Mail, The Evening News, Sunday Dispatch
London: Associated Newspaper Ltd, 1944. Special autographed limited edition, in green buckram hardback with gilt titles. All page edges green. This is one of a limited run of 500. Caricatures and cartoons indicate published circa 1944 / 1945. Unpaginated approximately 186 pages. In a very good condition, appears almost unread. Signed to the title page by 5 of the illustrators - Illingworth, Neb, Harold Gittins, Moon & Lee. 160 x 230 mm (6¼ x 9 inches).
Book ID: 3025More details Price: £75.00 -
8 hand-coloured lithographs from Costumes Histoire et des Orders Religieux
Book ID: 3776More details Price: £55.00 -
A Apple Pie. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardback. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Red endpapers. An alphabet book for children using the picture story of an apple pie! Boards a little darkened and rubbed at fore edge. Overall quite good condition with no markings. 215 x 265 mm (8½ x 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3890More details Price: £150.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 History of Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art. With illustrations from various sources drawn and engraved by F.W. Fairholt.
London: Virtue Brothers, 1865. First edition. Original plum embossed and blind stamped buckram with gilt vignette to the front board and tigl titles to spine. Top edge of spine a little bumped, but in very presentable condition. Closed page edges are an orange red. brown end papers, with a little cracking to the paper hinge but holding well. Hotel library stamp to the front end paper (no other library marks). A touch of marking and the odd foxing spot, but in surprisingly bright condition. Two pages are slightly protruding from the rest of the text block. With a 32 page Virtue brothers catalogue to the rear dated January 1865. xvi, 494 [ii], 32. pages. 230 x 160 mm (9 by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3337More details Price: £50.00 -
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 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 sketchbook containing original pencil, ink and charcoal sketches
Book ID: 3289More details Price: £200.00 -
A Vanished World.
London: Allen Lane, 1984. Second printing of this fascinating photo-book. In hardback in brown boards, under original unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Elie Wiesel, himself a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. This book is illustrated with a comprehensive selection (180) of Vishniac's celebrated photographs of the Jews of Eastern Europe in the lead up to World War Two. Many of the photos are are full-page. The images were taken secretly, under difficult circumstances, between 1934 and 1939, and the negatives smuggled out sewn in to clothing etc. It is not an over statement to say that these photographs remain important to preserve for posterity unforgettable images of pre-war Jewish life. Unpaginated [96 pages]. 315 x 315 mm
Book ID: 3618More details Price: £40.00 -
A Window in Thrums
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. By the creator of Peter Pan. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
This copy was owned by Mrs Van der Poorten Schwartz - the wife of Dutch author Maarten Maartens. Almost certainly given to her by William Robertson Nicoll, who wrote anecdotes of 19th Century Literary history with T.J. Wise, and edited 'The Expositor' for Hodder & Stoughton.
Book ID: 2380More details Price: £100.00 -
Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas. Essays commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death. 1598 - 1998. With an introduction by Leon Voet.
Utrecht: Hes Publishers BV, 1998. First edition. Hardback in red publisher's cloth with tipped on colour portrait to front board, with gilt title to front and spine. Fully illustrated in b/w. Fascinating insights in to "the father of historical cartography". Text in English. 432 pages. In very good condition. 310 x 240 mm (12¼ x 9½ inches).
Book ID: 3864More details Price: £75.00 -
Adolf in Blunderland. A political parody of Lewis Carroll's famous story.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1940. Fourth edition. Hardback in original dust jacket. The BBC's broadcast of 'Adolf in Blunderland' received a tremendous reception, and in this version of the transcript has was been revised, and humorously illustrated by Norman Mansbridge. Hardback book with red cloth spine. Dust jacket has some nicks and is slightly soiled. Book is very clean inside. 60 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3662More details Price: £65.00 -
Adp Riot Tour. Limited Edition Distressed Riot Map
Jimmy Cauty. States Second Edition - 13th June 2016. This copy hand numbered #33 of limited number of 100. Please note: comes folded and in a deliberately 'distressed' condition. Each map has been hand-distressed and the deliberate tears may vary from ones shown in the images. 1030 x 750 mm (40½ x 29½ inches).
Book ID: 2486More details Price: £45.00 -
Aesop's Fables. Retold by Blanche Winder. With 48 colour plates.
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1924. First edition thus, as first with Rountree's wonderful illustrations. Green cloth hardback, with black lettering and colour illustration onlaid to the front board. The colour plates include full colour pictorial endpapers.
Including favourites such as, "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse", and "Crying Wolf". Complete with colour frontis and all plates. Has a prize bookplate to the front, dated 1927 - from 'Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls' in Leicester (UK). This school's emblem is also attractively gilt-stamped on to the rear board. 340, [4]pp. publisher's catalogue. A good copy, with some sun fading to the spine. Light general signs of use only.. 210 x 155 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).Book ID: 2678More details Price: £45.00