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297
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CATHERINE OF SIENNA, Saint (1347-80). Lettere Devotissime della Beata Vergine Santa Caterina da Siena, Venice, 1562, 4to, contemporary vellum. With Francesco Patrizi's Della Poetica (Ferrara, 1586, 2 vols. bound in one, 4to, contemporary vellum. (2)
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£150 - £250
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£350
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298
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[RYVES, Bruno (1596-1677)]. Mercurius Rusticus: or, The Countries Complaint of the barbarous Out-rages Committed by the Sectaries of this late flourishing Kingdome, [Oxford], 1646, 8vo, engraved title, 19th-century morocco. FIRST EDITION.
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£200 - £300
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£140
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299
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[MERIAN, Matthäus (1593-1650, engraver)]. Topographia Galliæ, Amsterdam, 1662, parts I - III only (of 5), 12mo, engraved titles in parts I and III, 224 engraved plates, contemporary vellum. (3)
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£500 - £800
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£550
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300
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"MAZARINADES" - A collection of 30 pamphlets. Please see the full listing of titles and footnote below. (30)
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£70 - £100
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301
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HALL, Joseph (1574-1656). The Shaking of the Olive-Tree, London, 1660, 4to, folding engraved frontispiece portrait, modern calf, new endpapers. FIRST EDITION.
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£300 - £500
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£240
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302
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BREE, Charles Robert (1811-86). A History of the Birds of Europe, not Observed in the British Isles, London, 1863-64, 4 vols., large 8vo, 238 chromoxylographed plates, original red pictorial cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. (4)
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£200 - £300
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£280
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303
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BISHOP, Frederick ([dates unknown]). The Wife's Own Book of Cookery, London, [1856], 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece, title, folding plate and illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION.
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£50 - £80
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£90
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304
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MISCELLANY - Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, London, 1725, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf. With various other works in 65 vols. (67)
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£500 - £800
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£1,800
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305
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JONSON, Ben (1572-1657). Volpone, or The Foxe, London, 1616, 4to, stitched. Bound with other works by the same author.
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£200 - £300
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£550
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306
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JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). The Staple of Newes, London, 4to, 1631, stitched. Bound with another work by the same author.
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£200 - £300
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£300
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307
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STEINBECK, John (1902-68). Cannery Row, New York, 1945, 8vo, original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, second issue.
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£300 - £500
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£200
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308
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea, London, 1952, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With another by the same author. (2)
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£100 - £150
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£170
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309
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ORWELL, George (1903-50). Animal Farm, New York, 1946, 8vo, original green cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second or later issue. With 4 other books. (5)
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£100 - £150
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£280
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310
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POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000). Books Do Furnish a Room. London: Heinemann, 1971, 8vo, half title, original red cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 10 other books. (11)
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£100 - £150
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£280
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311
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BINDING - Anne Isabella Noel BLUNT (1837-1917) and Wilfrid Scawen BLUNT (1840-1922). The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare, [Newtown], The Gregynog Press, 1930, 4to, VERY FINELY BOUND in morocco by Denise Lubett. NUMBER 94 OF 275 COPIES.
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£700 - £1,000
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£1,700
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312
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BINDING - Francis GRIBBLE (1862-1946). The Court of Christina of Sweden, London, 1913, large 8vo, extra-illustrated, VERY FINELY BOUND in "Cosway"-style by Bayntun, the upper cover with an inset portrait miniature of Queen Christina.
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£500 - £800
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£850
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313
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BINDING - L' Office de l 'Eglise, Paris, 1741, large 12mo, VERY FINELY BOUND in highly elaborate mosaic cream calf gilt.
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£1,500 - £2,500
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£4,200
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314
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BINDING - Embroidered silver wire or bullion thread binding with densely-worked floral and foliate pattern over the whole surface, gilt edges, [?mid-17th-century], tall 12mo, containing notebook with blank leaves.
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£150 - £250
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£3,000
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315
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BINDING - Prayers and Meditations for every Situation and Occasion of Life, London, 1882, 12mo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary hinged Dutch tortoiseshell.
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£200 - £300
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£220
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316
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BINDING - Het Nieuwe Testament, 1819, tall 12mo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary Dutch tortoiseshell, gold clasp in the form of a lyre.
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£200 - £300
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£190
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317
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SHEFFIELD, Emma ([dates unknown], embroider). "Europe." Needlework sampler embroidered in colours on linen, 1842, 620 x 760mm.
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£200 - £300
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318
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L' Europa Geografico-Politica Veduta a Vola d' Oca, [Bologna, c. 1871], coloured lithographed political map, 465 x 665mm., framed and glazed. RARE.
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£1,000 - £1,500
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£3,200
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319
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ALBUM - Edward LEAR (1812-88). One-page autograph letter, signed, contained in an album containing c. 80 autograph letters from various recipients, clipped signatures and envelopes.
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£200 - £300
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£650
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320
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CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley George Benet (1886-1959). The Worst Journey in the World, London, 1922, 2 vols., large 8vo, 61 plates and maps, original hessian-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
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£1,000 - £1,500
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£1,600
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