Europe
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# 50278
MALORY, Sir Thomas; BEARDSLEY, Aubrey
Le Morte d’Arthur. The birth life and acts of King Arthur of his noble Knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the San Greal, and in the end le morte Darthur with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all.
The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style, embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. London : Dent, 1927. Quarto: striking gilt …
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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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# 14845
COXE, William (1748-1828)
Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.
To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. London : J. Nichols, 1780. First edition. Quarto, full polished calf (a couple of scuffs to the boards), spine extensively decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title label, expertly rebacked, folding frontispiece map of the Russian …
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# 50129
GILLRAY, James (1756 - 1815)
Consequences of a successful French invasion
No. 1. Plate 1st. “We come to recover your long lost liberties” – Scene. The House of Commons. London: James Gillray, March 1st 1798. Etching printed in sanguine, on paper watermarked 1794, 319 x 361 mm, trimmed to just within the plate line, to small chips lower edge (one detached and held in place with …
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# 19684
LINDHARDT, Knud
Europe’s Gay Gateway. See wonderful Copenhagen via SAS
[Copenhagen : Scandinavian Airlines System, circa 1956]. Offset lithograph, 970 x 720 mm, printed lower left ‘Printed in Denmark – Interprint A/S Stosv 1860’, light handling marks, else fine. A fabulously kitsch 1950s travel poster for the Danish capital, designed by Knud Lindhardt. The poster was issued in two sheets in mirror image, of which …
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# 49991
GUYOT, Charles; RACKHAM, Arthur
Le printemps sur la neige, et d’autres contes du bon vieux temps
Illustrations de A. Rackham. Paris : l’Editions d’Art, 1922. Quarto, finely bound in half crushed levant morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, the spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornamentation and contrasting morocco leather inlays, small chips to head and food of spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, …
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# 49987
ROBERTS, W. H.
The British wine-maker, and domestic brewer.
A complete, practical, and easy treatise on the art of making and managing British wines and liqueurs: also domestic brewing. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, and London : Whittaker and Co., 1838. Third edition. Octavo, publisher’s cloth, paper title label to spine, hinges cracked, pp. 12 (critical notices to the earlier editions), title leaf, xii (the …
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# 49989
SEYMOUR, H. D.
Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof : being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bordering provinces; with notices of the naval, military, and commercial resources of those countries
London : John Murray, 1855. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth (split to upper joint, chips to head of spine), binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to yellow endpapers, frontispiece engraving, pp. xxiv; 361; five folding maps and plans, 32 (advertisements, dated January 1855), a good copy. A detailed account of the Crimea (Ukraine, Russia) published for …
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# 50001
HARTING, James Edmund
Rambles in search of shells, land and freshwater
London : John van Coorst, 1875. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth, lettered in blind on upper board, lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner’s name to endpaper, coloured frontispiece, pp. viii; 110; (2 – advertise.), nine further handcoloured plates. A fine copy of this work on British conchology.
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# 50003
POOLE, Joshua
The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.
Containing a collection of all the rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and themes, alphabetically digested. London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second edition (first published in 1657). Octavo, finely bound in nineteenth century full vellum by Seton & Mackenzie, contrasting red morocco …
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# 49999
de CHATELAIN, Madame (translator)
Tales and fairy stories by Hans Christian Anderson
Illustrated by Henry Warren. London : George Routledge, 1853. First edition, second issue of this English translation (some issues have the date of 1852). Duodecimo, half calf over marbled papered boards (recased, the original spine laid down, edges rubbed), bookplate to front pastedown, pp. iv; 401, engraved plates with tissue guards, internally fine, a very …