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SIR HENRY RAEBURN – A SELECTION FROM HIS PORTRAITS

£20.00

RATHER FADED SPINE AND RATHER WORN BOARDS OTHERWISE VERY GOOD CONDITION GILT DECORATION ON FRONT BOARD. INCLUDES 14 PORTRAITS.TITLE PAGE PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK WITH BLACK AND WHITE ENGRAVING.

Author: HENLEY WILLIAM ERNEST
Place, Publisher, Date: EDINBURGH ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS 1890
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SIR HUMPHRY DAVY`S PUBLISHED WORKS

£16.00

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP.

Author: FULLMER JUNE Z.
Place, Publisher, Date: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1969
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SIR ISAAC NEWTON: A BIOGRAPHY

£18.00

2ND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED. FACSIMILE REPRINT. NEAR FINE COPY IN GREY AND CREAM BOARDS. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ISAAC NEWTON. TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING HIS WORKS.

Author: GRAY G.J.
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, DAWSONS OF PALL MALL, 1966
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: NEAR FINE
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SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S TABLES FOR RENEWING AND PURCHASING THE LEASES OF CATHEDRAL-CHURCHES AND COLLEGES – SIGNED BY THOMAS ASTLEY

£500.00

SIXTH EDITION FINE COPY IN A RECENT FULL LEATHER BINDING. 32mo (3.5 by 5.5 inches). MABBUT’S BOOK COMPRISES 108 PAGES INCLUDING A ONE-PAGE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED BY ASTLEY. IT IS BOUND WITH ‘THE MONY’D MAN’S POCKET-BOOK BEING TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST (102 PAGES). INTERESTINGLY NEWTON’S BOOK HAS A NOTE FROM ASTLEY POINTING OUT THAT THERE IS A ‘SPURIOUS EDITION OF THE BOOK WHICH IS VERY IMPERFECT AND CONSEQUENTLY A GREAT ABUSE AND IMPOSITION TO THE PUBLIC’. TO DISTINGUISH THE CORRECT AND GENUINE COPIES ASTLEY HAS EXAMINED THE BOOK AND SIGNED THE BACK OF THE TITLE PAGE. ALSO THE TABLES OF INTEREST ARE SIGNED BY ASTLEY AS A GUARANTEE OF THEIR ACCURACY. HE STATES THAT IF THE TABLES SIGNED BY HIM ARE FOUND TO BE IN ERROR OF A PENNY HE WILL ‘GIVE A PERFECT AND CORRECT COPY IN THE ROOM OF IT’. THE FRONT PASTEDOWN HAS THE AMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF THOMAS HOLME OF HOLME HALL (CUMBRIA). A FINE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE ITEM.

Author: MABBUT GEORGE
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, THOMAS ASTLEY, 1742
Binding: FULL LEATHER
Condition: FINE
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SIR ROGER DE COVERLY

£13.00

VERY GOOD WITH SLIP CASE. INCLUDES WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH

Author: ADDISON JOSEPH, STEELE SIR RICHARD, BUDGELL EUSTACE
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON FOLIO SOCIETY, MCMLXVII
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SIR SAMUEL MORLAND DIPLOMAT AND INVENTOR 1625-1695

£12.00

FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD IN DUSTWRAPPER.

Author: DICKINSON H. W.
Place, Publisher, Date: THE NEWCOMEN SOCIETY, 1970
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS: ARCHITECT TO GEORGE 111

£35.00

A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. RICHLY ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR. CONTAINED IN A SLIPCASE.

Author: HARRIS JOHN AND SNODIN MICHAEL (EDITORS)
Place, Publisher, Date: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE
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SIX PLAYS

£30.00

LIMITED EDITION PUBLISHED EXCLUSIVELY FOR SUBSCIBERS TO THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY COLLECTION OF THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME. SILK ENDPAPERS AND BOOKMARK. FULL BROWN LEATHER RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION. A FINE COPY OF A HANDSOME BOOK. TRANSLATED BY EVA LE GALLIENNE.

Author: IBSEN HENRIK
Place, Publisher, Date: PENNSYLVANIA, FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1977
Binding: FINE
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SIX TRAGEDIES

£30.00

LIMITED EDITION FINE COPY IN FULL GREEN LEATHER SILK ENDPAPERS AND BOOKMARK. A.E.G. RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION. A FINE COPY OF A HANDSOME BOOK.

Author: RACINE JEAN
ISBN: FRANKLIN LIBRARY
Place, Publisher, Date: PENNSYLVANIA, FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1982
Binding: FINE
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SIXTH INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PRIVATE PRESSES (LETTER PRESS)

£18.00

SPIRAL BOUND CARD COVERED. 199 PAGES. ILLUSTRATED.

Author: WESTREICH ALICE AND BUDD (COMPILED BY)
ISBN: 0936300094
Place, Publisher, Date: CALIFORNIA, ERS, 1993
Binding: CARD
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SKETCH OF THE CHARACTER OF THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE

£75.00

OCTAVO VERY NICELY REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS CLOTH SPINE NEW ENDPAPERS . INCLUDES ONE PORTRAIT OF DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. BOUND IN IS ALSO THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE BY W R SPENCER. IN TOTAL 28 PAGES.

Author: ADAIR R.
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, WILLIAM BULMER, 1811
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SKETCHES & NOTES FROM A BIRD PAINTER’S JOURNAL

£20.00

FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD HARDBACK NO DUSTWRAP SLIGHT FOXING. WELL ILLUSTRATED BY RICKMAN.

Author: RICKMAN PHILIP
Place, Publisher, Date: EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE. LONDON. 1949
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD, NO DW.
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SKETCHES FROM NATURE WITH PEN AND PENCIL

£85.00

FIRST EDITION CROWN OCTAVO GREEN CLOTH STEM AND LEAF DESIGN IN GILT TO SPINE AND FRONT BOARD ALL EDGES GILT. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE ‘MARY HOWEY WITH CHRISTMAS LOVE FROM P AND M VERNEY’. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTORY AND COUNTRY SUBJECTS. ILLUSTRATED.

Author: VERNEY LADY
Place, Publisher, Date: DALDY, IBISTER AND CO., 1877
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SKETCHES OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE

£35.00

VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN BROWN CLOTH. TAKEN FROM 😯 EXAMPLES NOT HITHERTO ILLUSTRATED OF CHIEFLY 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH CARVED OAK. BOOKPLATE FEP.

Author: OGDEN W.M. SHARP
Place, Publisher, Date: JOHN HEYWOOD MANCHESTER B.T. BATSFORD LONDON. 1888
Binding: VERY GOOD
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SKETCHES OF ETON

£75.00

1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN BROWN LEATHER WITH MARBLED END PAPERS. PREVIOUS OWNER`S STICKER AND NEAT INSCRIPTION TO FEP. FOXING THROUGHOUT. DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY W. WIGHTMAN WOOD.

Author: CHATTOCK RICHARD S.
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, SEELEY, JACKSON AND HALLIDAY, 1874
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SKIING

£100.00

1ST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. BLUE COTH SPINE FADED SOME FOXING TO FIRST FEW PAGES AND PAGE EDGES. FRONT HINGE SPLIT OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. CONTAINS 23 PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

Author: LUNN ARNOLD
Place, Publisher, Date: 1913 EVELEIGH NASH, LONDON
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD