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# 46649

HULBURD, Percy (ed.)

English Love Lyrics

Selected and Edited, with an introduction by Percy Hulburd. London : Walter Scott Ltd. c.1900, A charmingly bound copy, most probably a gift or token of love from Moyra Brodick’s future husband General Sir Henry Charles Loyd. An eye catching, rose-festooned Bumpus binding in good condition. Beautiful spine in 5 panels, a little sunned, incorporating …

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# 47037

[ADAMS, Marcus]

Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph (“Elizabeth R”), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, on its original plain card mount signed in fountain pen in the bottom margin by both Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth R) and Prince Philip (Philip) with the date 1955 in between the two signatures; the photograph is in fine condition; the royal signatures are both strong and …

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# 46365

ALBUQUERQUE, Alfonso de (c. 1453 - 1515)

Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque, capitão geral que foi das Indias Orientaes em tempo do muito poderoso rey D. Manuel, o primeiro deste nome.

Lisbon : Regia Officina Typografica, 1774. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary speckled calf, ruled in blind, spines with gilt rule and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, private ex-libris book labels to pastedowns, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; xliv; 343; large folding map of the Indian Ocean; …

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# 45890

POZZI, Michel

[WW1; ARTIST’S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l’humanité [à la] Marne

Paris : M. Pozzi, 1917. The first of 12 examples made by the artist; as far as we can ascertain, the only one extant. Folio (380 x 285 mm), artist’s original binding of full vellum, the upper board with artist’s manuscript calligraphic title, along with his monogram, name ‘M. Pozzi’ and ‘Paris 1917’ in red ink, …

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# 46389

TOBIAS, R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) and MARCY, Mary E.

Women as sex vendors, or, Why women are conservative (being a view of the economic status of women).

Chicago : Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, 1918. Small octavo (170 x 130 mm), publisher’s olive green papered boards with black lettering to front (boards heavily rubbed and marked; corners, edges and spine worn); half-title with early gift inscription ‘Violet Wilson from Otto Elsner’; pp. 59; front hinge cracked, occasional pencilled marginalia (presumably by Violet …

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# 45939

TOMES, Robert

The Champagne country

New York : George Routledge, 1867. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (boards a little marked, slight bumps to head and foot of spine), pp. xv; [blank]’ 231; [blank]; (8 – advertisements), slight edge wear to pp. xiii-xiv, else a fine copy, internally clean. The first book in English on Champagne. A charming guide to the Champagne region …

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# 46472

[DEFOE, Daniel 1660-1731, attributed]

The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern.

In two parts. Part First containing, a state of the Devil’s circumstances, from his expulsion out of heaven, to the creation; with remarks on the several mistakes concerning his fall. Part Second containing his more private conduct down to the present times; his government, his appearances, his manner of working, and the tools he works …

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# 46412

WELLS, Charles (1838-1917)

The literature of the Turks. A Turkish chrestomathy, consisting of extracts in Turkish from the best Turkish authors (historians, novelists, dramatists, &c.), with interlinear and free translations in English, biographical and grammatical notes, and facsimiles of ms. letters and documents.

London : Bernard Quaritch, 1891. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slightly sun-faded); front pastedown with ex libris of [Lt. Colonel Victor] de Guinzbourg, pp. xix, 275, 4; texts in Turkish in Perso-Arabic script, with parallel translations and editorial notes in English; binding firm, clean throughout, …

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# 46391

HOULDER, J. A.

[MADAGASCAR] Ohabolana, or Malagasy proverbs, illustrating the wit and wisdom of the Hova of Madagascar. Parts I and II

/ collected, translated, and arranged by J.A. Houlder ; with translations into French by Henri Noyer ; edited by James Sibree. Faravohitra, Antananarivo : Printed and published at the press of the Friends’ Foreign Missionary Association, 1915-1916. First edition (first printing). Two volumes bound in one, octavo (220 x 145 mm), red cloth over red papered …

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# 46413

[PERRON, Joseph or JETTÉ, Jules, attributed]

[ALASKA; JESUIT MISSIONS] Canotlé Rannaga Kelékak. Délochét Roka.

[Canticles, hymns and catechism in the Deg Xinag language]. At head of title: A.M.D.G. (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam). Winnipeg, Manitoba : Free Press No-Rodeneletekteyar, 1904. Square duodecimo (140 x 110 mm), original limp black pebbled cloth, pp. 54; a fine example. A Catholic hymn book in the Deg Xinag (or Deg Hit’an; formerly, Ingalik) language, …

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# 46001

BEDDOME, Captain R. H. (1830 - 1911)

The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency

Madras : printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. First edition. Quarto, half crushed morocco over cloth, edges scuffed, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, rebacked, marbled endpapers, title page, notice to subscribers, pp. [I – creased]; xv; [blank]; 88; vii (index), extensively illustrated with 271 lithographed line illustrations of ferns, a few contemporary …

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# 45900

[NOTT, Henry] HOWE, William; CHISHOLM, Alexander; BARFF, John

[BIBLE. TAHITIAN] Te Bibilia moa ra, oia te faufaa Tahito e te faufaa apî ra : iritihia ei parau Tahiti.

Lonedona : Neia e R. Clay, Sons, e O. Taylor ma, na te Taieti Bibilia i Beritani e te mau fenua atoa i faatupuhia i Lonedona ra i te Matahiti 1804. [London : R.Clay & Sons and O. Taylor, for The British and Foreign Bible Society], 1878. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), …

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# 45981

BULLER, Walter Lawry, 1838-1906; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912

Manual of the birds of New Zealand

Wellington : George Didsbury, Government Printer, 1882. Octavo, gilt-lettered binder’s cloth (corners bumped, wear to head and foot of spine), pp. xii; 107; [blank]; iii (list of publications); [blank], illustrated with 39 black and white lithographs on tinted blocks, previous owner’s name to endpaper, a couple of occasional spots of foxing, internally clean. Sir Walter …

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# 45778

PARIS, Gaston; WAHLUND, Carl (trans.); LARSSON, Carl (illustrator)

Sagan om Rosen

/ efter den af prof. Gaston Paris i Paris den 24 November 1893 till prof. Adolf Tobler’s i Berlin Silfverbröllop utgifna fornfranska dikten “le Conte de la Rose”, i originalets versmått öfversatt af Carl Wahlund. Illustrerad af Carl Larsson. Stockholm : Kung. Hofboktryckeriet, Iduns Tryckeri, 1899. Quarto (260 x 220 mm), in a contemporary deluxe binding by …

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# 45823

APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552); FRISIUS, Reiner Gemma (1508-1555)

Cosmographia

Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Lovanienses Medicum & Mathematicu[m] insignem, … … Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. Small quarto (230 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum envelope binding with (possibly later) calf ties; front and rear endpapers with extensive relevant early notes in Dutch on the astrolabe and calculations of the sun’s …

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# 45925

CHAMBERS, Sir William (1726 - 1796)

Desseins des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustenciles des Chinois

Gravés sur les originaux dessinés à la Chine. Auxquels est ajoutée une description de leurs temples, de leurs maisons, de leurs jardins, etc. Londres, l’auteur, A. Millar & J. Nourse, 1757. First edition, published simultaneously in French and English editions the same year. Folio (535 mm tall), papered boards with title label to spine, pp. …

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