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# 50854

BARKER, Ernest (translation.)

The Politics of Aristotle

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1968 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket, pp. lxxvi; 411, a fine copy. Sir Ernest Barker’s translation and commentary is the definitive English framework for understanding Aristotelian political theory.

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# 50463

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1902. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine ruled, light wear), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 332, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. This is copy …

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# 50382

HEYLYN, Peter

Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …

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# 50457

[Société M. O. Wolff]

[IMPERIAL RUSSIA] St.-Pétersbourg et ses environs : guide pratique illustré. (With an extra map, issued only to conference delegates)

At head of title: Conférence Internationale des Horaires des Trains a St.-Pétersbourg pour le service d’hiver 1899-1900. St.-Pétersbourg & Moscou : Société M. O. Wolff, Imprimeurs-Editeurs-Libraires de la Cour Impériale, 1899. Small octavo (185 x 130 mm), original red cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt (nice and bright); half-title leaf, photographic frontispiece, title-leaf, …

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# 50489

BUTCHER, S. H. and LAND, A. (translators)

The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose

London : Macmillan, 1919. Octavo, presentation prize binding of full vellum, lettered in gilt, from Chigwell School, lightly marked, top edge gilt, others uncut, presentation inscription from the Headmaster to the front free endpaper, pp. xxiv; 428, a very good copy of this classical work in Greek literature.

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# 50545

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

Brittany

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

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# 50454

THEVET, André (1516-1590):

Portrait of Sappho of Lesbos

“Sapho Lesbienne Poetrice” (caption). Copperplate engraving measuring 170 x 140 mm (image); 370 x 230 mm (sheet), letterpress in French surrounding the image, extracted from André Thevet’s Les Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens (Paris, 1584). A fine example of Thevet’s iconic representation of the classical Greek poet Sappho ( …

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# 50601

MITCHEL, John (1815 - 1875)

The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)

Author’s edition. Glasgow : Cameron & Ferguson, circa 1900. Octavo, half calf over green cloth (rubbed and scuffed), spine with gilt bands, gilt-lettered red morocco title label, marbled endpapers with bookseller’s ticket of A. H. Spencer, Melbourne, pp. vi; 220, internally clean. A later printing of Mitchel’s 1861 treatise criticising British policy during the Great …

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# 50552

BUNBURY, Alisa et al.

From Paris with love : the graphic arts in France 1880s-1950s

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated. ‘Paris’s extraordinarily creative milieu is shown by the many movements that emerged in and around the city, including Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism. Presented here is an array of prints, posters, drawings, and artists’ books from the period 1880s to 1950s …

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# 50538

DOBSON, Margaret

Block-cutting and print-making by hand : from wood, linoleum and other media

London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1930. Octavo, decorated cloth printed in black and red, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. xx; 183; (21 – advertisements), extensively illustrated in colour and black and white reproductions of modernist woodcuts and linocuts, including a number from the Technical School in Napier, New Zealand.

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# 50276

STERNE, Laurence

Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.

Traduction de Emile Blemont. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris : Librairie Artistique, 1884. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue morocco by Canape R.D., filed in gilt with ornamental gilt corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at edges, ruled gilt dentelles with ornamental detail, marbled endpapers, …

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# 50298

The Wurtemburg Electro Plate Co.

The Wurtemburg Electro Plate Co. Brass and Nickel Plate Dept. Goeppingen Trade Catalogue 1922

Goeppingen : The Wurtemburg Electro Plate Co. 1922. Quarto, gilt-lettered limp cloth (creased and worn), decorated endpapers, frontispiece illustration of the factory, pp. [viii]; 183, extensively illustrate with hundreds of images of domestic household goods, prices, many of which have been manually updated, or sheets inserted with new price. A dazzling array of brass and …

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# 50356

VOLTAIRE

Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.

Préface d’Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l’aquatinte par d’Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil, 1925. Quarto, finely bound by Riviere in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, some silver fishing and retouching to …

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# 50344

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

Paris (deluxe edition)

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (a few light marks, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut; endpapers foxed; pp. xii, 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards; occasional foxing, a very good copy of the edition de luxe, limited to 500 …

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# 49953

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CLANVOWE, Sir Thomas

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale

London (Hammersmith) : Kelmscott Press, 1896. Small quarto, publisher’s Holland-backed boards, the linen spine with edge wear and traces of handwritten title, printed blue papered boards (a few small spots), bookplate for Harry Mansfield to from pastedown, printed in black and red, one of 300 copies printed on paper (an additional 10 copies were printed …

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# 49992

MAUPASSANT, Guy de

Le vagabond.

Lithographies en couleurs par Steinlen. Paris : Société des Amis des Livres, 1902. Small folio, magnificently bound in full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, gilt rules and fillets, spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt (a little rubbed on the bands), full morocco doublures with gilt rules and morocco fillets, …

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