1650 |
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA OR A DICTIONARY OF ARTS Sciences and Miscellaneous Literature 1795-1811, 20 volumes which includes 2 vols of the 2nd book and a six volume supplement 1811-1824, the 26 cols contain some 542 engraved copper plates which covers a large number of the country's Sciences, Machinery + quantity of maps, there are many faults with the bindings, covers detached, labels missingetc, but fortunately most of the books have clean inners, only a small number are foxed, volume 10 states 540 plates and carries the date of 1797 making the plates and maps over 200 years old £200-250 |
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| 1651 | ALICE ADVENTURE UNDER GROUND being a facsimile of the original MS book, afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll with 37 illustrations by the author London Macmillan & Co and New York, 1st edn 1886, red cloth blocked in gold, inner front end paper removed, leaving about an inch pasted to half title leaf £60-80 |
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| 1652 | WATERLOO Seuet Du Conscript De 1813 by Erchmann-Chatrian Dix-Neuvienne edition, Paris A Hetzel Libraire editeur, half red calf, green cloth sides, marble end papers, THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL by Charles Dalton FRGS, front's and 3 more engraved plates, portrait on title page, half red calf, red cloth sides, marble end papers, blocked in gold, 2 vols £50-60 |
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| 1653 | ON MODERN ARMIES by Marshall Marmount, Duc De Raguse, translated by Caotain Lendy FGS FLS etc, London WO Mitcheell, military library, 39 Charing Cross, 1st edn 1865, THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL BONAPARTE in 1796-7 and 1800, by George Hooper with a folding map London Smith Elder & Co, 45 Cornhill, 1st edn 1859, red half, green cloth sides, marble end papers, blocked in gold, SUAKIN 1885 being a sketch of the campaign of this year by Majaor H Gambeier Parry, 2nd edn London Keegan Paul, Trench & Co 1885, half calf blocked in gold, red with black ripples cloth sides, marble end papers, 3 vols £75-100 |
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55 |
| 1654 | THE McARDLE PEERAGE by Evelyn Tempest Hodder and Stoughton, London 1910, half blue calf blocked in gold, blue with mottled black cloth sides, marbled end papers and all edges of leaves, THE THREE CLERKS by Anthony Trollope London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington St, new edition 1860, half green calf, marble sides, spine faded, marble end papers and edges of leaves, 2 vols £40-50 |
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| 1655 | LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER by CN & AM Williamson Methuen & Co, London 1st edn 1906, half blue calf, blocked in gold, cloth sides marble end papers, all leaves marble edges, 1 vol £25-35 |
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| 1656 | HISTOIRE D'UN CRIME by Victor Hugo 2 vols in 1, Paris, Calmann Levy Edituer 1877, half red calf, blocked in gold, marble sides and edges on leaves, MAITRE De FORGES by George Ohnet Paris Paul Ollendorff, edidteur 1882, 1st edn, half blue calf, marble sides, marble end papers and edges of all leaves, blocked in gold, CHARTREUSE DE PARME by De Stendhal Paris Calmann Levym editeur 1885, 1st edn, half calf, marble sides, black label, spine faded, slight damage foot of spine, 3 vols £60-80 |
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| 1657 | VOYAGES CHASSES ET GUERRES by Le Marquis De Compiegne Paris E Plon Et Cia, Imprimeurs-editeurs 1876, 1st end, half blue calf, blocked in gold, marble sides, marble end papers, 1 vol £20-30 |
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22 |
| 1658 | HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY by Arthur P Stanley DD, 6th edn with illustrations, London John Murray, Albemarle St 1872, half calf, marble end papers and all edges of leaves, spine faded, light rubbing, LOUIS XIV Et Sa Cour, portraits, judgements et Anecdotes, Paris Librairie De L Hatchette etc 1863, half red calf blocked in gold, cloth sides, marble end papers and all edges of leaves, 2 vols £30-40 |
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16 |
| 1659 | POEMS OF THE WAR AND AFTER by Vera Brittain, signed copy and inscribed by others with photograph of author and daughter, full cream cloth, green paper label, printed DJ, 1 vol £10-15 |
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32 |
| 1660 | THE ORIGINAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER almost wholly compiled from new materials supplying the numerous deficiencies and correcting the errors of preceding accounts, including also the original papers of the late Ralph Bigland esq, Garter Principal King At Arms by the Rev Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke MAFAS London printed by and for Nichols & Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet St & 25 Parliament St, sold also by Mr Hough & Messrs Washbourne & Son, Gloucester 1819, illustrated engraved plates, marble end papers, full calf, front cover loose and rubbed, 37 list of plates, 1 vol £150-200 |
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| 1661 | MV "EDEN BRIDGE" for H Clarkson & Co Ltd, London, England, Builder Sumitomo Shipbuilding & Machinery Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, an album of about 130+ or professional taken photographs showing in clear detail the complete construction of these ocean going tankers from the laying of the keel until its completion, the guests and hotels they were taken care of for the launching ceremony and the views of the huge vessel beginning its first sea journey, the photographs are a mixture of black and white in colour photographs with tissue guards, contained in purple coloured covers blocked in gold £40-50 |
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| 1662 | MV "SPEY BRIDGE" for H Clarkson & Co, produced in the same format as the "Eden BRIDGE" this album has a loose inserted invitation card with photographs of the invited people in a card album £40-50 |
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| 1663 | MV "AVON BRIDGE" produced in the same format as the previous two albums £40-50 |
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| 1664 | MV "AVON BRIDGE", a second album of this vessel exactly as the first 3 volumes in matching albums with a similar number of photographs and all in matching coloured albums £40-50 |
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| 1665 | PIGOT & CO's LONDON & PROVINCIAL NEW DIRECTORY for 1822/23 containing a classification of the merchants and traders of London and 280 of the principal cities, towns and seaports with a folding map, its bottom corner torn off but still attached to the title page, map itself complete except for weakness at the folding of the map, full calf, front cover detached, a few engraved plates at rear of book £60-80 |
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75 |
| 1666 | THE DEATHLESS STORY THE "TITANIC" by Phillip Gibbs, no date, a 40 page illustrated booklet without covers, this item appears to have been taken at the printing and folding stage of its production for as neighter staple or sewing marks on its spine obviously it was meant to have had a cover but this does not distract for the account it contains of the episode of the Titanics sinking and of those who survived the fate of others £20-30 |
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| 1667 | CRICKET a weekly record of the game being volume XIV January to December 1895, first account of Australia versus England, green cloth bound with a damp mark on rear cover, for Merritt & Hatcher, London at the home of cricket, 168 Upper Thames, St EC £60-80 |
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65 |
| 1668 | GEORGE MOORE 2 vols each one limited and signed by the author, In Single Strictness 842/1030 Heinemann 1922, Conversations In Ebury Street 640/1030 Heineman 1924 together with Heloise and Abelare vol 2 only privately printed for subscriptions only Riverside Press 1921 all w3ith dust wrappers (3) £40-60 |
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| 1669 | P G WOODHOUSE Hot Water, The Adventures Of Sally, Carry On Jeeves, Very Good Jeeves, The Code Of The Woosters, Ukridge & Laughing Gas, 7 vols, 4 with dust wrappers £30-40 |
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| 1670 | JOHN S KELTIE (edited by) The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans & Regiments, steel engravings and col plates throughout 5 vols, red cloth bindings gold blockwork, published by William Mackenzie, lacks title page to vol 1 £40-60 |
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| 1671 | REV THOMAS DUDLEY FOSBROKE an encyclopaedia account of The Ancient Remains in Africa, Asia & Europe, printed by and for JB Nichols 1828, half calf binding £80-100 |
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| 1671A | Thirty-eight volumes of Oxford Worlds Classics in blue and green cloth bindings | Nil |
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40 |
| 1672 | F EDWARD HULME, Familiar Wild Flowers (first series with coloured plates) Cassell Petter and Galpin, half calf bindings, 5 vols £40-60 |
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20 |
| 1673 | JOHN MILTON Miltons Paradise Lost, leather bound 1788 £20-25 |
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| 1674 | ERNEST H SHEPHARD, drawn from memory 1957 with dust wrapper and drawn from life 1961 with dust wrapper £20-30 |
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| 1675 | M EISSLER The Metallurgy Of Gold 2nd edition 1889, red cloth binding, gold blocked Harry Emanuel, diamonds and precious stones 2nd edn 1867 £30-40 |
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| 1676 | TERENCE DOHERTY The Anatomical Works of George Stubbs 1974, signed by the author, published by Martin Secker & Warbury 1974 £20-30 |
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14 |
| 1677 | C CHURCHILL, poems by 2 vols, leather bound, 3rd edn, 1766 (spines rebound) £30-40 |
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1678 |
DUGALD STEWART The Works of William Robertson 2 vols leather bound, gold block work, 1849 £30-40 |
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