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The Abu Album, 1895-96. Mhow, India: Herzog & Higgins, [1895-96], oblong 4to, 43 mounted photographs, with 2 additional photographs at the end including one of 2 schoolgirls' cricket teams, morocco. PRESENTATION COPY. RARE. With a related map. (2)
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£700 - £1,000
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£2,000
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ALBUM - An album of crests, monograms and other decorative armorial devices laid down on c.80 vellum leaves, elaborate painted borders, [mid-late 19th-century], 4to, attractively bound in contemporary red morocco gilt with clasp.
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£200 - £300
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£260
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ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935, illustrator). Old Inns, London, 1921, 4to, 16 mounted coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards (lightly stained, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 166 OF 380 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
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ALEXANDER III (1845-94) - Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de leur Majeste's Impériales l' Empereur de Toutes les Russies, St. Petersburg, 1883, folio, coloured lithographed plates, preserving wrappers, with the EXCEPTIONALLY RARE limitation leaf.
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£3,000 - £5,000
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£2,000
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AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel (1921-2002, illustrator). Some Birds and Mammals of North America, London, 1971, folio, 16 coloured plates, original quarter morocco. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 505 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With a companion work on South America. (2)
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£200 - £300
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£80
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ANGAS, George French (1822-86). Portraits of the New Zealand Maori, Wellington, 1972, folio, 49 coloured plates, original old-style half morocco gilt. NUMBER 167 OF 750 COPIES.
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£100 - £150
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£45
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ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French, 1816-1923, including Ruskin, Whistler, Lucien Pissarro and others. (12)
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£1,500 - £2,000
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£1,100
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ARTISTS - A collection of c.24 letters by artists, mainly French and Italian, 1795-1870 and [n.d.], including Canova, David, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Thorvaldsen and others. (c.24)
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£2,000 - £3,000
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ARTISTS - A collection of c.50 letters by predominantly French artists, mainly France, 1878-95, and [n.d.], several addressed to the art dealers Allard and Noel or Messrs Tédesco frères. (c.50)
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£1,500 - £2,000
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AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, inscribed, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", boards. A MANUSCRIPT COMPILED IN 1722 BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. RARE.
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£2,000 - £3,000
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£5,500
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BAKST, Léon (1866-1924, illustrator). The Designs of Léon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess, London, 1923, 4to, portrait of Bakst by Picasso, 54 coloured plates by Bakst, original vellum-backed boards. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. NUMBER 385 OF 1,000 COPIES.
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£500 - £800
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£600
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BAWDEN, Edward (1903-89, illustrator). Life in an English Village, London, "The King Penguin Books" [No. 51], 1949, 8vo, 16 full-page coloured lithographed illustrations by Bawden, original decorated paper boards. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
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£70 - £100
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£120
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[BELL, Vanessa (1879-1961)] - Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Nov. 8th to Jan 15th 1910-11, London, Grafton Gallery, [1910], 8vo, 38-page exhibition catalogue, wrappers. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY VANESSA BELL ON THE WRAPPER.
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£400 - £600
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£2,600
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BENTHAM, Jeremy (1748-1832). Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains. ... To which is added, a Letter to Adam Smith, London, 1787, 8vo, contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION.
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£2,000 - £3,000
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£4,200
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BIBLE, in English - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, London, Robert Barker, 1613 [New Testament dated 1614], 4to, genealogies, 2 woodcut titles (laid down), contemporary half calf. With the "she" reading in Ruth 3:15.
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£300 - £500
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£850
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BIBLE, in English - The Most Superb Folio and Self-Interpreting Bible, Bungay, 1812, folio, engraved plates, contemporary calf, the spine elaborately decorated in gilt (rubbed). With another related book. (2)
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£70 - £100
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£60
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BINDING - A fine illuminated manuscript in German on two vellum leaves, with wide painted decorative borders, folio (420 x 310mm), VERY FINELY BOUND in contemporary highly elaborate panelled armorial morocco with garnets. Please see the full description.
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£500 - £800
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£500
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BINDING - Archibald ALISON (1792-1867). History of Europe, London, 1870-76, 2 works bound in 21 volumes, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary polished half calf, the spines gilt with dark blue and burgundy morocco lettering-pieces. (20)
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£300 - £500
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£350
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BINDING - Biblia, dat is de Gantsche Heylige Schrifture. Amsterdam, 1837, 12mo, attractively bound in full 19th-century Dutch tortoiseshell, highly elaborate gilt clasp, gilt edges.
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£150 - £250
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£240
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BINDING - Charles DICKENS (1812-70). A Christmas Carol, London, 1915, small 4to, 12 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in red morocco, the covers with figures of Scrooge in morocco onlays, slipcase. First Rackham trade edition.
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£400 - £600
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£850
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BINDING - Charles WELCH (1848-1924). History of the Tower Bridge and of other Bridges over the Thames, London, 1894. 4to, plates, VERY FINELY BOUND by Zaehnsdorf in elaborate scarlet morocco. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (bookplate).
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£500 - £800
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£320
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BINDING - Chris SCARRE (b.1954, editor). Past Worlds. The Times Atlas of Archaeology, London, 1989, folio, FINELY BOUND BY SALLY LOU SMITH in contemporary morocco, book box.
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£400 - £600
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£420
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BINDING - Henry B. WHEATLEY (1838-1917). London Past and Present, London, 1891, 3 volumes extended to 9, 8vo, COPIOUSLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf in morocco gilt. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (bookplate). (9)
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£400 - £600
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£500
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BINDING - Henry B. WHEATLEY (1838-1917). London Past and Present, London, 1891, 3 volumes, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND by Bickers & Son in full crushed morocco gilt. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (morocco bookplate). FIRST EDITION. (3)
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£200 - £300
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£320
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