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BANNERMAN (D.A.) The Birds of the British Isles. First Edition, 12 vols. many coloured plates (by George Lodge), with captioned guards; d/wrappers (

BUFFON (Comte de). Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere . . . First Edition, 22 various vols. (ex. 44 & atlas). contemp. calf, gilt-decora

COUNTRY LIFE - 25 various vols. from volumes 1 - 38. illus. throughout, mostly clothbound, folio. 1897-1915. * the commencing years of this famous

ACOSTA (Fr.Jose de) Histoire Naturelle et Moralle des Indes, tant Orientalles qu'Occidentalles . . . traduite en Francaise (from the Castillan) p

OLD LEATHER - a goodly number of volumes.

CONTINENTAL OLD LEATHER - mostly 18th & 19th cents.

RACINE (J.) Oeuvres de Jean Racine . . . publiees par M. Petitot. 5 vols. (in 4). old gilt & blind-decorated calf, marbled e/ps. & edges. Paris, 1

WILSON (C.), editor. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. First Edition, 4 vols. pictorial engraved & printed titles, 34 steel-engraved plates, n

The SPEAKING PICTURE BOOK. A New Picture Book with Characteristical Voices. Foorteenth (sic) Edition. decorated title, 8 colour-printed plates with a

OLD CLOTH; incl. some juvenile; mostly late 19th / early 20th cents.

CHURCHILL (W.S.) The River War: an historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan . . . new and revised edition. photogravure portrait frontis.

DUBOIS (U.) & BERNARD (E.) La Cuisine Classique . . . a pictorial lithographic & 2 printed titles, 38 lithographed plates & a facsimile, errata lea

GOWER (Lord R.S.) Sir Thomas Lawrence . . . with a catalogue of the artist's exhibited and engraved works, compiled by Algernon Graves. Limited Edi

VUAFLART (A.) & BOURIN (H.) Les Portraits de Marie-Antoinette: etude d'iconographie critique. Limited Edition, 2 parts bound together. 61 plates & a

EXTRACTS; Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining in Prose . . . intended to assist . . . young persons to . . . useful and ornamental knowledge.

LODGE (E.) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. (new edition), 12 vols. (in 6). many engraved plates; later 19th cent. red morocco,

JESSE (J.H.) Memoirs of the Court of England . . . 10 vols. engraved plates, chocolate half morocco & marbled boards, gilt tops & marbled e/ps. Bo

SHAKESPEARE (Wm.) The Pictorial Edition . . . edited by Charles Knight, 8 vols. pictorial engraved titles & num. other engraved illus.; contemp. re

BYRON (Lord) The Works of . . . with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore . . . 16 vols. (ex. 17). pictorial engraved & printe

GIBBON (E.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (new edition), 8 vols., with additional notes by William Smith. portrait, 12 fold

WISLON (H.) Harriette Wilson's Memoirs of Herself and Others. 3 vols. 14 copper-engraved plates; earlier 20th cent. half morocco & marbled boards, g

BEERBOHM (J.) Wanderings in Patagonia or Life among the Ostrich-Hunters. First Edition. 2 wood-engraved plates, some text illus. & a coloured map; l

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS - mostly leatherbound quartos.

TALLIS'S History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851 . . . pictorial engraved & printed titles