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# 43962

SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)

The Waverley Novels

Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1862- 83. Twenty-five volumes, duodecimo, half-calf over marbled boards (rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt bands and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, specked edges, engraved title pages, pagination various, a very good set. An attractive set of Scott’s widely popular novels of the Victorian period.

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# 42545

THE EVENING NEWS

The Evening News London “Tube Map”

London : George Philip & Son, c. 1910. Folding map, 50 x 61 cm, with map of London Tube stations recto, map of the tramways verso, printed in colour; some slight mis-creasing, edge discolouration, very short edge tears at folds; a very good copy, housed in printed card case. A rare early printed map of …

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# 44017

GREEN, Rev. Samuel G.

[ADELAIDE PRESENTATION BINDING] Pictures from the German Fatherland drawn with pen and pencil

London : The Religious Tract Society, [c.1880]. Folio, fine presentation binding of full Prussian blue leather, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornament, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt illustration and motto of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide to upper board; marbled edges and endpapers, presentation prize label from …

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# 21818

MEGGITT, J. C.

Japan across Siberia, Russia and Germany. Impressions of a tour.

Cardiff : Western Mail and Echo Ltd, 1935. Octavo, lettered boards, pp. 80, illustrated. A series of articles reprinted from the Western Mail & South Wales News, including the Chinese of Penang and Singapore, fashion in the Straits, Hong Kong and Shanghai, farming in Japan etc. Folding map tipped-in at rear.

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# 15728

MANLEY, Admiral Isaac (1755 - 1837)

A set of books from the library of Admiral Isaac Manley, the last surviving crew member on Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage

Paris and the Parisians, in 1835. London : Richard Bentley, 1836. Two volumes, octavo, publisher’s cloth (spines defective), pp. xv; 418; vii; 412; Manley’s armorial bookplate to front pastedown of volume 1 (bearing the family motto Manus hæc inimica tyrannis – This hand is hostile to tyrants), each volume signed on the title page ‘Admiral Manley’. Born in London …

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# 20078

DUREL, John (editor) [Queen's Binder B]

[FINE BINDING]. Liturgia, seu liber precum communium, et administrationis sacramentorum,

aliorumque rituum atque ceremoniarum ecclesiae, juxta usum ecclesiae Anglicanae una cum Psalterio seu Psalmis Davidis, ea functatione distinctis, qua cantari aut Recitari debent in Ecclesiis. London : excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam in Vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britain, 1670. Octavo, fine English ‘drawer-handle’ binding of elaborate …

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# 41666

LOUIS XVI, KING OF FRANCE & NAVARRE (1754-1793)

Royal ordinance signed by Louis XVI. Versailles, January 1787.

Manuscript in ink on parchment, 320 x 250 mm; a royal ordinance approving a property exchange between an aristocrat and an educational institution; dated at Versailles, January 1787, the document bears the signature of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, in the lower margin: ‘Louis’, with the phrase ‘par le Roi’ immediately below; some …

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# 41409

DISTRICT RAILWAY

Improved District Railway Map of London

London : W. J. Adams & Sons, 1880. Second edition. Large folding map, 66 x 108 kms, printed in colour, folded as issued (a couple of splits along the folds), in illustrated paper wrappers (light edge wear). Scarce early railway map of London. ‘This is a geographic style railway map on linen and card, issued …

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# 40169

Anon.

Miniature calendar for the year 1810

[France : s.n.], 1810. Miniature book (45 x 80 mm, full straight-grained morocco with gilt border, housed in matching morocco slipcase with the word Souvenir lettered in gilt (lower edge with short split), text block neatly detached, folding letterpress calendar on two sheets for the year 1810, the leaves comprising stiff erasable cards lettered with …

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# 16114

VALENTINI, Agostini

I Freschi delle Loggie Vaticane inventati da Raffaele Sanzio

Illustrati per cura di Agostino Valentini. Rome : Agostino Valentini, [1855]. Folio, publisher’s illustrated papered boards (slightly marked but very good), engraved title page, pp. 42; [2]; 41 steel-engraved plates illustrating Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Some very light, sparse foxing, else a very good clean copy.

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# 41101

GUERNSEY, Countess of

[QUEEN CAROLINE AFFAIR] Fairburn’s genuine edition of the death-bed confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne H*******

: developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added the Q—-‘s last letter to the K—, written a few days before her M——‘s death, and other authentic documents, never before published. London : Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1821. First …

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# 40941

FIFE, Kirsty

Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music

[Leeds] : Kirsty Fife, 2016. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. ‘Move Under Yr Own Power, a zine about women and queers making DIY music in the UK. The zine is 72pp, black and white riso printed, A5 with a rad centrefold illustration. It’s mainly interviews and an introduction. The zine comes with a link …

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# 39609

French School

Portrait of a young Chevalier wearing the Collar of the Order of Saint Michael, his hand resting on his sword hilt.

French School, late 16th century. Oil on panel, 655 x 470 mm (octagonal); originally part of a larger work; a vertical split running the length of the panel has an old expert repair on the reverse; housed in a recent frame. A beguiling sixteenth-century French portrait of a member of the Order of Saint Michael. The Order …

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# 40550

[BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von, Archbishop of Uppsala (1746-1803)

[JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland. (First English edition)

Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and …

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# 40359

PONTISSALIENNE (PARIS)

[ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général … Distillerie Pontissalienne … Fabrique d’Absinthe Supérieure.

Pontarlier, Doubs: Distillerie Pontissalienne, [circa 1900]. Small octavo (150 x 105 mm), maroon faux crocodile-skin textured stiff card wrappers, gilt lettering to the front; 20 pp, chromolithographic pastedowns with Art Nouveau designs by the celebrated lithographers A. Waton of St. Etienne, title page and text in red and black, double-page halftone plate at centre; a superb …

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# 28091

[THOMSON, John (1837-1921) (photographer) and Adolphe Smith HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]

Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with …

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