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  • A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.

    # 24084

    A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.

    London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the British armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.

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  • Watership Down (deluxe edition with original signed watercolour)

    # 51341

    ADAMS, Richard (1920 - 2016)

    Watership Down (deluxe edition with original signed watercolour)

    London : Paradine, 1976. Octavo, full crushed levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with gilt-illustrations and vignette to front board, light sunning to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 550 pp., numerous colour and black and white illustrations and folding colour map at rear, a fine copy, housed in the publisher’s marbled …

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  • The florist's directory; or a treatise on the culture of flowers;

    # 51367

    MADDOCK, James (1718 - 1786)

    The florist’s directory; or a treatise on the culture of flowers;

    to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soil, manures, &c. London : B. White & Sons; G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and T. & J. Egerton, 1792. First edition. Octavo, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated edges, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, engraved title page with …

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  • Outdoor ambrotype of Bradworthy Vicarage, Devon, dated 29 July 1862.

    # 43341

    [Photographer unknown]

    Outdoor ambrotype of Bradworthy Vicarage, Devon, dated 29 July 1862.

    Sixth-plate ambrotype, 72 x 58 mm (sight); in an elliptical brass mat with ormolu preserver (no case); fully contemporary inscription in ink to backing paper verso: ‘Bradworthy Vicarage, July 28th 1862’; a very sharp image; the original cover glass has a crack at upper right corner. Side view of the Bradworthy Vicarage, today a Grade II …

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  • Study of the House of Parliament at the Embankment '73

    # 51302

    O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)

    Study of the House of Parliament at the Embankment ’73

    Charcoal on paper, 212 x 299 mm (sheet) signed and title flower centre, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of the Palace of Westminster, London, by the Melbourne social realist artist.

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  • Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting

    # 47673

    PHILLIPS, Giles Firman (1780-1867)

    Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting

    Illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art. London : B. B. King, [1840]. Third edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (stained, wear to corners and head and foot of spine), presentation inscription to front free endpaper Alfred Large from James Hawkins August 26, 1853, frontispiece colour wheel chart, tissue guard (torn), illustrated title page, …

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  • Stanford's map of Scotland

    # 50809

    STANFORD, Edward

    Stanford’s map of Scotland

    London : Edward Stanford, circa 1885. Chromolithographed map, dissected and laid on linen in 48 panels, 123.5 x 104 cms, housed in publisher’s git-lettered purple slipcase (sunned and marked). London Atlas Series. A fine large format map of Scotland with an inset map of the Shetland Islands.

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  • [JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

    # 50103

    [BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von

    [JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

    Upsala : uplagde af Magnus Swederus … , 1777. First edition. Octavo, half-calf over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed, chipped at head of spine), flat panelled spine lettered in gilt, offsetting to endpapers, title with engraved vignette illustration of the Icelandic landscape and Geyser spouting water, ownership signature to front pastedown and small collector’s stamp …

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  • Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati ...

    # 51316

    [PROPAGANDE FIDE]

    Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati …

    [Rome : Propaganda Fide Press, 1793], Folio (360 x 230 mm), original decorative paper wrappers (upper wrapper almost detached, and lacking backstrip); ff. [1 blank], I-XXIII (i.e. 23 numbered leaves); printed on recto only and within an ornamental border; engraved arms of the Duke of Sussex at the head of title-page; verso of first blank …

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  • Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,

    # 50677

    VITZELLY, Henry

    Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,

    collected during numerous visits to the Champagne and other viticultural districts of France, and the principal remaining wine-producing countries of Europe. London : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1879. Octavo, half crushed morocco over cloth by Bayntun’s of Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled …

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  • All this and Bevin too

    # 50607

    CRISP, Quentin (1908 - 1999)

    All this and Bevin too

    With drawings by Mervyn Peake. London : Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small hole to upper panel, extending to a couple of leaves, lightly marked), pp. 28, illustrated by Peake. A very good copy. A satirical tract on enlistment into the military by English raconteur and queer icon Quentin Crisp. The …

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  • Athenian democracy

    # 50857

    JONES, A. H. M.

    Athenian democracy

    Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1969 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (a few spots of foxing), pp. viii; 198, extensive underlining in pen. From the library of Australian art academic Jenny Zimmer, signed by her on the endpaper.

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  • A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

    # 49386

    A rare fourteenth-century medieval coffret for a book of hours.

    [Catalonia, c.1345-1420]. Wooden coffret (or casket), 80 x 200 x 175 mm, covered with moulded and incised leather, metal mounts decorated with rosette details, three clasps, drop handles at either side, three hinges; lined with original tawed leather, stained pink; some portions of the leather with minor losses revealing the wooden structure beneath. This is …

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  • The Politics of Aristotle

    # 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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  • [WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower

    # 50551

    DE CASTELLA, Hubert (1825 - 1907)

    [WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower

    Translated, with preface and notes, by C.B. Thornton-Smith. Melbourne : Mast Gully Press, 1979. Limited edition of 750 copies (plus an additional 50 copies in quarter morocco by Bayntun of Bath), this copy out of series. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 75 pp, illustrated, a fine copy which may have slight edge wear or …

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  • World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    # 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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