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MINIATURE BIBLE, Dutch - Kern des Bybels. The Hague: A. de Groot en Zoonen, 1750. 42 x 30mm. Title lettered in black with woodcut device stamped in red, 7 woodcut plates and the text printed in red,…

MISCELLANY - Jean François FERNEL (1497-1558).  Consiliorum medicinalium liber. Exeius adversariis quadringentarum consultationum selectus. Nunc denuo fidelus & accuratius quam antea editus, & a quam…

MITFORD, John (1782-1831).  The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in The Navy. A Poem in Four Cantos. With Notes. London: Published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones (and others), 1819. 8vo (240 x 145mm). 20…

NELSON, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) - The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton; with a Supplement of Interesting Letters, by Distinguished Characters. London: For Thomas Lovewell & Co…

OXENHAM, Elsie Jeanette [pseudonym of Elsie Jeanette DUNKERLEY (1880-1960)] -  A Collection of 43 books comprising: The Abbey Girls (London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, [n.d. but a reprint], 8vo,…

POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943).  The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [October] 1903. 12mo (144 x 109mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 26 full-page coloured plates by…

PSALTER, in Hebrew - Psalterium. Leiden: "Ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium," 1595. 16mo (107 x 80mm). Title in English and Hebrew with woodcut printer's device, woodcut ornament…

SLAVERY - William WILBERFORCE (1759-1833).  A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders of Yorkshire. London: "Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for T. Cadell and W.…

The Lord of Hardivyle. An Historical Legend of the Fourteenth Century. [London:] "Printed for W. Trespass, No. 31, St. Martin's Le-Grand. J. Rider, Printer, Little-Britain," 1800. 12mo (190 x 110mm).…

VICTORIA, Queen (1819-1901).  A document on 2-pages, SIGNED at the head by Queen Victoria ("Victoria R."), appointing William Turner Thiselton-Dyer as a Fellow of the University of London, with a…

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66).  Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel. London: Chapman & Hall, 1945. 8vo (185 x 120mm). Half title (some leaves with short…

Condition Report:  Good useable condition, right leg coming away from the back panel, easily fixed.

Provenance: Acquired from Bonhams, London, 4th June 2008, lot 89. Previously owned by descendants of a Naval Attaché to the British Embassy in Singapore in the 1940s. C.A Llewelyn Roberts was the…

This lot evokes the popularity of mountaineering inspired memorabilia in Britain in the early 20th Century and was produced shortly after the British Mount Everest Expedition in 1938 led by Major H.W…

Condition Report:Discolourtion to the plastic case on one side, with historic cracks to the top back corner (see images. General wear and scratches consistent with age and use. We do not guarantee…

Large amount of water damage to the left and right sides, left side has peeled away from board, small rip under boys head, no sections of paper missing to the damaged side.