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DE HELIGE VLAM Het Sprookje van Stefan Partos.
Rotterdam. W. L. & J. Brusse, 1927. Hardback in original dust-wrapper. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Number 361 of a limited edition of 700 copies. Some browning to endpapers; two soft corner creases; small chips from the top outer corners of the wrapper; else a very good copy. Very scarce in wrapper.
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DE TIBIIS VETERUM et Earum Antiquo usu Libri Tres. Editio altera, figuris auctior.
Amsterdam: Henr. Wetstenium, 1679. Pictorial title, title, [18], 415, [5] pages. Illustrated with five double-page engraved plates, 22 single-page, and with five engravings within the text, the majority depicting musical instruments. Contemporary full calf. 13.6 x 8 cm. Binding just splitting at heel and head of spine; early name on title; names on endpapers; some light water-staining at top edge; else a very good copy.
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DER FREISCHUTZ TRAVESTIE: by Septimus Globus. With twelve etchings by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale whereon the German opera is founded.
London.C. Baldwyn. 1824. [iv], [1], 2 - 68pp. With 12 hand-coloured etchings by Cruikshank after drawings by Alfred Crowquill. Contemporary half morocco, gilt. t.e.g. One leaf has a closed tear, extending from the bottom margin into two lines of text (no loss); some light soiling and wear to corners; else a very good copy of the scarcest issue. See Cohn 36.
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DER PERSISCHE ORDEN und andere Grotesken. Mit acht Holzschnitten von W. N. Massjutin.
Berlin.Welt-Verlag. 1922. [9], 10-61pp. 8 woodcuts by W. N. Massjutin throughout including frontispiece. Original cloth-backed white boards with gilt device and title on front board. Small quarto. First edition. Some foxing to spine which is beginning to split; boards a trifle browned around the edges; lower corners bumped; endpapers and fore-edges browned; bookplate to front past-down endpaper; else a very good copy -internally clean and fresh.
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DIE INOCULATION DER LIEBE. Eine Erzählung. (Three works bound in one).
Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771, 1769, 1768. [5], [6] - 70pp. Engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette and tail-piece. 1769: WILHEMINE, ein prosaisch komisches Gedicht. Mit gudbigster Frenheit: [3], - 132pp. Engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, tail-pieces and illustrations. 1768: LOUIS, ober die Macht der weiblichen Lugend, eine Erzahlung.: [3] - 99 including title-page with vignette. Head-piece. Rebacked modern calf over original sheep with calf corners. Four raised bands to spine, gilt. All edges stained red. 8vo. First editions. Small pieces of an old paper label on front board; and corners a little bumped. A discreet manuscript "D" in ink in an old hand beside "Leipzig" on every title-page. Title and first few pages of "Louise" a little browned, else text clean and crisp throughout. Very good copies.Engraved by Geyser after Oeser.
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DRAKE'S DRUM and other Songs of the Sea. With Illustrations in Colour by A. D. McCormick, R.I.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, No date [circa 1910/20]. 144 pages. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in colour plates set within gilded pictorial borders. Original pictorial cloth gilt. 4to. Edition not stated. Some minor and very occasional spotting and marking; else a very good copy. This book is quite heavy and will incur extra postage; please contact us directly for a quotation.
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EARLY AMERICAN WROUGHT IRON. With three hundred and twenty plates from drawings by the author.
New York.Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928. Three volumes. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt. Quarto. First edition. This set has been used in a foundry and shows signs of wear. It bears the stamps of Hyder and Sons, Kent. There is a very worn wrapper to volume I, the flaps of which have been stuck to the book; there are spots of solder on the wrapper; there are finger-marks occasionally throughout all three volumes; some of the plates have pencil annotation and drawing. However, this is a good solid set.
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ELEMENTS OF ORTHEOPY : Containing a Distinct View of the Whole Analogy of The English Language; So Far as it relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and Quantity.
London: T. Payne and Son, 1784. [i-iii] iv-xxviii [1] 2-372pp, plus 4pp. addenda and 39pp. Index. Rebound [19th century] in marbled in half red morocco, gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. First Edition. Very minor spotting to fore-edges and to interior; some rubbing to corners, spine edges and boards. Else a very good copy.
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ELSIE AND THE CHILD. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929. Number 286 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Pochoir illustrations throughout. Original cloth. Slipcase. Spine of book slightly darkened; slipcase worn at head & heel; else a very good copy.
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EMIGKEIT Weltkriegsgedanken Über Leben Und Tod, Religion Und Entmicklunglebre.
Berlin.1915. [i-xi] 12-128pp. Original paper cover. Octavo. First Editon. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Herrn Hermann Sheffauer, and signed by Haekel, Fena 1915. Unopened. Light spotting to fore- edges. Slight soiling to paper covers. Otherwise a very good copy of a scarce book.
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EMPREINTES: Revue Périodique, Jean COCTEAU.
Brussels.l'Imprimerie des Sciences. 1950. [i-ii] 3-168pp.Illustrated throughout with photographs, letters and drawings. Paperback magazine May-July 1950 Original photographic dust wrapper of Jean Cocteau Portrait to front and to rear multiple black and white photographs of Cocteau. Octavo. Limited edition no: 1266 of 3,400. Bookplate to free endpaper. Small chip to front top edge of dust wrapper. Minor tearing to head and heel of wrapper. Else a very good bright copy.
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ENGLISH BOOK COLLECTORS, Edited by Pollard, Alfred.
London.Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Limited. 1902. [i-vii] viii-xviii [1] 2-448pp. 46 illustrations, including frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt. t.e.g. Quarto. First edition. Bookplate, some spotting to free endpapers. Light fading, and some rubbing to edges of spine. Boards a trifle soiled and rubbed. Else a very good copy.
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English Church Clocks 1280 – 1850 History and Classification.
London: Antiquarian Horological Society, 1971. Softcover. 128, [4] pages. Illustrated. Complete with Errata slip. First edition. Name on verso of front cover; else a very good copy.
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ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS. Illustrated from Drawings & Photographs by the Authors.
London: Spring Books, 1969. Hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is heavy; please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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ENGRAVED BOOKPLATES. European Ex Libris 1950 - 70.
Pinner. Private Libraries Association, 1972. Hardcover. Dark green cloth with original dust-wrapper. 176 pages. Limited edition, 2000 copies. Octavo. Two small tears in top front of dust-wrapper; else a fine copy.
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FURNITURE AT TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE AND LOTHERTON HALL. A catalogue of the Leeds collection in two volumes.
National Art-Collections Fund and the Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1978. Two hardback volumes in original pictorial dust-wrappers, and plain cardboard slipcase. First edition. Bookplate: "Ex Libris A. F. Lilley" to front endpaper in both volumes; else fine copies in like dust-wrappers.
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S MAGAZINE. Edited by Frank E. Smedley (Frank Fairlegh).
London.D(avid) Bogue. 1854. Two parts (all issued) bound, with their original wrappers, in a fine half morocco, gilt binding by Bradstreet's. With four folding and one full-page etched plates; plus one other full-page illustration and others within the text. All advert's present. Some light off-setting from plates and occasional minor staining; one closed tear affecting margin; light rubbing to spine edges; else a good set of this short-lived venture in a particularly handsome binding.
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GEORGE VI. THE SHOE AND LEATHER NEWS.
May 6th, 1937. Coronation issue. 142 pages. Illustrated throughout in colours and in black & white. Original semi-stiff wrappers. 30.5 x 22 cm. Corners a little creased and worn; else very good.
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GLEANINGS IN OLD GARDEN LITERATURE.
London.Elliot Stock. 1887. 263pp. Original green boards, gilt. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Spotting and faint staining to endpapers and to some fore-edges.
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GUB GUB'S BOOK An Encyclopedia of Food in twenty volumes. Note: Prof: Gub Gub Announces that Owing to the High Cost of Living the other 19 Volumes of this Great Work have been Temporarily Postponed.
London.Jonathan Cape. 1932. 160pp. Illustrated with two colour plates and six black & white. Original blue cloth. Original pictorial wrapper. Octavo. First U.K. edition. Presentation inscription from a mother on front flap of dust-wrapper; piece missing from the head of the spine of wrappers, with loss of lettering from first word of title; slight chipping from wrapper corners; else a very good copy.
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