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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - A fine illuminated manuscript on a single bifolium vellum leaf extracted from a prayer book, with exceptional decorative coloured borders heightened in gold, [?]mid- to late-15th-century, probably northern France, 210 x 285mm.
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£300 - £500
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£350
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450
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JAPAN - An album of 50 colour-tinted mounted photographs of Japan in a lacquer album, the photographs 195 x 250mm., the oblong 4to album 325 x 420mm., with a sepia photograph inset into the upper cover (some minor chipping), [c.1880].
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£200 - £300
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£350
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451
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JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language, London, 1755, 2 volumes, folio, lacking the title to vol. II, but supplied in modern facsimile, modern old-style calf. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. (2)
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£2,000 - £3,000
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£2,200
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452
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KELMSCOTT PRESS - William MORRIS (1834-96). A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1898, 8vo, illustration by Edward Burne-Jones, ornaments, holland-backed boards. ONE OF 525 COPIES. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY.
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£1,500 - £2,500
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£1,300
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453
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KNOLLES, Richard (1545-1610). The Generall Historie of the Turkes ... The Third Edition, London, 1621, folio, fine engraved title page, 28 portraits, illustration, contemporary calf (old repairs).
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£800 - £1,200
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£1,000
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453a
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LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930). The Rainbow, London, 1915, 8vo, original cloth. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES PRINTED FOR 'METHUEN'S COLONIAL LIBRARY'. cf. Roberts A7.
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£200 - £300
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£150
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454
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LEVASSEUR, Victor (1800-70). Amérique Septentrionale, Paris, [c.1845], hand-coloured engraved map of north America, pictorial borders, 290 x 430mm., framed and glazed. A record of the short-lived Republic of Texas which existed between 1836 and 1846.
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£400 - £600
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455
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LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Screwtape Letters, London, 1942. 8vo, Half title, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. RARE.
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£1,000 - £1,500
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456
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LONDON PANORAMAS - [Matthäus MERIAN (1593-1650), the Elder], attributed. London. [Frankfurt, c.1638]. Hand-coloured engraved panorama of London, 230 x 710mm., framed and glazed. With another smaller panorama of London. (2)
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£400 - £600
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£450
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457
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LONG, Frank Belknap (1901-94). The Horror from the Hills, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1963, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, first issue, without the copyright notice.
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£200 - £300
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£100
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458
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Shunned House, Athol, Mass.: The Recluse Press, 1928 [but please see the important note in the full description below]. Original publisher's black cloth gilt, modern book box. Joshi A5. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE.
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£2,000 - £3,000
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£1,000
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459
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937) - August DERLETH (1909-71). H. P. L.: a memoir, New York, 1945, original red cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "For Gordon Dewey - a memory of H. P. L. Cordially, August Derleth."
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£200 - £300
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£150
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460
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937) & August DERLETH (1909-71). The Lurker at the Threshold, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1945, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi I-D-i-20. RARE.
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£300 - £500
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£200
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461
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937) & August DERLETH (1909-71). The Survivor and Others, Sark City, Arkham House, 1957, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi p.190.
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£100 - £150
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£50
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462
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1943, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A17. RARE.
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£700 - £1,000
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£600
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463
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Dreams and Fancies, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1962, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Joshi A33.
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£200 - £300
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£100
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464
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Marginalia ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1944, 8vo, illustrations, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A19.
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£200 - £300
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£150
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465
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). Something about Cats and Other Pieces. Collected by August Derleth, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1949, 8vo, illustrations, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A25.
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£200 - £300
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£150
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466
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces by H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1966, 8vo, plates and illustrations, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Joshi A43.
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£100 - £150
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£50
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467
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Outsider and Others, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1939, 8vo, original cloth, facsimile dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of "the first major collection of Lovecraft's tales" (Joshi) and the first book printed by Arkham House. RARE.
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£1,000 - £1,500
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£700
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468
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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937). The Shuttered Room, Sauk City, 1959, 8vo, half tone frontispiece and 4 plates, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Joshi A32.
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£200 - £300
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£100
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469
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LOWELL, Percival (1855-1916). Mars and its Canals, New York, 1906, 8vo, photogravure frontispiece and 15 plates, modern full green morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.
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£100 - £150
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470
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). The Arte of Warre, translated by Peter Whitehorne, London, 1562, small 4to, (lacking a few leaves), old calf. THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH AND THE FIRST OF ANY WORK BY MACHIAVELLI TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
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£700 - £1,000
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£1,000
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471
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MANUSCRIPT TESTIMONIAL ON VELLUM - "An Address to the Venerable Stephen Creyke M.A. from the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of York." [York: c.1866]. Folio. A manuscript illuminated testimonial on 8 vellum leaves, original red morocco gilt (rubbed).
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£70 - £100
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£280
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