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By: Arundale, F.
Price: £500.00
Publisher: London, Henry Colburn 1837: 1837
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 26617
Condition: Good
115pp. Frontispiece printed on Indian paper. Map, plan and 19 tinted lithographs (complete). The binding is waterdamaged but the very handsome plates are in good condition and tissue-guarded. Printing by Hallmandel. View more info
By: BATTY, Captain
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, R, Jennings, Poultry 1825: 1825
Book number: 3985
Condition: Very Good
4to, unpaginated, a large paper copy, 35 engraved plates, protected by tissue, bound in full straight grained morocco with a blind stamped border to the boards, and some gilt decoration. All edges gilt, slightly worn at hinges and edges, but solid; Very good View more info
By: Brook, Richard
Price: £295.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Farrah [1854]: 1854
Book number: 44228
Condition: Very Good
2 volumes in 1. lix., 348 ; title, 349 - 733, directions to binder. 100 hand coloured plates as called for. Hand coloured vignette title. Bound in a recent quarter dark green morocco with marbled boards. Some foxing, but still a pleasing copy. View more info
Price: £275.00
Publisher: London, John Murray 1833: 1833
Book number: 41328
Condition: Very Good
2 vols, [unpaginated]., Handsome dark red half morocco with slightly faded boards. AEG. 84 illustrations as called for. Corners bumped and rubbed, edges scuffed and rubbed. Very minor darkening to margins of pages, foxing to prelims. Generally very good and clean. View more info
By: Dielmann, J.
Price: £195.00
Publisher: Frankfurt A.M., Carl Jugel 1844: 1844
Book number: 35654
Condition: Good
n.d. [circa 1844] Litho title page in gold and green, and 17 steel engraving. All, except one of the engravings still has the original coloured paper tissue guards, but the plates are quite heavily foxed. In the original glazed paper printed boards, with cloth spine, the binding is shaken and loose, and the boards are rubbed. However, a scarce item. View more info
By: Escofet, Jose
Price: £250.00
Publisher: London, Stephanie Hoppen Limited 1990: 1990
Edition: Limited Numbered Edition
Book number: 58988
ISBN: 0951586807
Condition: Fine
No. 311 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Large folio measuring 55cm x 41cm. Publisher's full green cloth solander box with gilt leather title label onlay to front. Sixteen loose sheets, as issued. With twelve colour plates from paintings by Jose Escofet, each signed by the artist. Two leaves of text by Brenda Hyatt. In Fine condition. 0951586807 View more info
By: Finden ; Heath
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, James Reynolds 1848: 1848
Book number: 38483
Condition: Very Good
Unpaginated collection of 200 steel engravings compiled from various nineteenth century annuals. Pretty gilt ornamented full morocco binding. AEG. Minor foxing, slight wear to binding. Binding is 156 x 127 mm View more info
Price: £500.00
Publisher: Paris, Lallve Graveur:
Book number: 46779
Condition: Very Good
[8], xvi, 99 pp., 4pp plates plus 2 portraits and 2 engraved titles. Large paper copy. Beautiful nut brown full straight grained morocco binding by Sotheran's. Gilt ruled lines, and wonderful tooling to boards. AEG. A touch of wear to leather, slight dents to top edge. Scattered light foxing, but very good and clean internally. Vol 1 only. View more info
By: Hakewill, James
Price: £600.00
Publisher: London, John Murray 1820: 1820
Book number: 54728
Condition: Good
Unpaginated. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards very worn & rubbed with loss to marbled paper. Hinges split with text-block loose in case. Marbled endpapers. Extra-engraved title page. With 63 tissue-guarded full-page engravings. Descriptive text for each plate. Scattered foxing and staining. Plates complete. View more info
By: Ireland, Samuel
Price: £750.00
Publisher: London, Printed by C. Clarke and Published By R. Faulder and J. Egerton 1800: 1800
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 35667
Condition: Near Fine
xvi., 254, errata leaf. 21 sepia aquatints of the Inns of Court. Bound in a very pleasant full tan calf executed by Baytun Riviere. Black and red title labels, and compartments filled with a leaf and berry design. Gilt lines to the boards, with a leaf and berry design towards the corners between lines. Blind stamped vine-leaf border panel in the middle of each board. Gilt inner-dentelles, and all edges gilt, 236 mm tall. A beautiful volume. Samuel Ireland was the father of the Shakespeare forger W. H. Ireland. View more info
By: Kitto, John
Price: £350.00
Publisher: London, Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co.:
Book number: 41327
Condition: Very Good
2 vols, various paginations, n.d. circa 1850s. 3 vols bound as 2. Smart red morocco binding with raised decorative bands on spine, and red marbled boards and endpapers. Many steel engravings depicting various scenes complete with tissue guards. AEG. Bindings worn, particularly at edges, leather scuffed. One plate torn. Contemporary ownership sig on ffep. Very light and minor spotting, typically to verso of plates, generally very good and clean internally. View more info
Price: £135.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Caldwell, Lloyd and Co. 1842: 1842
Book number: 36743
Condition: Very Good
xxvi, 586 pp, quarter antique calf with red morocco title label and marbled boards illustrated in b/w, some foxing internally. View more info
Price: £600.00
Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Brian Chester - Imprime 1989: 1989
Edition: Limited/Numbered
Book number: 53061
ISBN: 0731668936
Condition: Fine
Limited edition facsimile 508/1000 Library Edition. Two vols in one, 335 x 240 mm, 158 colour litho plates after Jacque Barraband 152 pp of plate descriptions, 2 sides of index, and 8pp of ornithological commentry on the plates. There is also a 4 pp. facsimile of a manuscript letter inserted. Green cloth as issued, with inset illus. title page on front board, gilt lettering. Fine copy 0731668936 View more info
By: Light, Major and P. DeWint
Price: £600.00
Publisher: London, Rodwell & Martin 1823: 1823
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 54605
Condition: Good
Unpaginated. Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt title lettering. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Boards rubbed with wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Early bookplate to front pastedown. Stain to lower edge of some leaves. Scattered foxing and light staining to page edges. Engraved title-page with vignette of 'Crater of mount Etna.' Sixty full-page engravings of scenes of Sicily, with tissue-guards. Final vignette of 'Sicilian Cottage.' Plates complete. List of plates bound in. Description of plates in English, with text in French on v... View more info
Price: £500.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, A Spese Dell'Editore 1754: 1754
Book number: 45207
Condition: Very Good
2 vols, [8], 543 [pagination runs consecutively through both vols]. Bound in a contemporary full calf with lovely gilt panels on spine and lines and borders on boards. AEG. Illustrated with frontispieces and engraved titles in both vols, along with 6 plates and 12 head and tail vignettes. Bindings rubbed and chipped at extremities, hinges cracked, some chipping and loss to corners and spines, headbands missing. Bookplate on pastedowns of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, text and plates good and clean. A classic eighteenth century illustrated French Rococo work. ITALIAN TEXT View more info
By: Maund, B.
Price: £2,000.00
Publisher: Paternoster Row, London, Baldwin Cradock & Joy 1827 [1825] onwards: 1827
Book number: 41458
Condition: Poor
10 vols, [various paginations], 240 beautiful hand coloured plates through these, the first 10 volumes bound in a bottle green half morocco with green marbled boards. Bindings are in largely fragmentary state, many vols are missing spines, and boards are frequently detatched. The contents, remain in very good clean order, particularly the plates which are bright and clean throughout. Volume 1 has the engraved title page correctly stating vol. 1, but has a title page dated 1827 obviously supplied by the binders at the time of binding. View more info
By: Micali, Giuseppe
Price: £400.00
Publisher: Firenze, Nella Stamperia Pagani 1810: 1810
Book number: 34474
Condition: Very Good
1 fold out map + Unpaginated collection of 70 copper engravings with a preface by Micali. Map detatched. ITALIAN TEXT. Engravings depict artefacts, dress, archeological sites associated with Roman history. Half vellum with marbled boards, red and green morocco labels, Bookplate on full title page covering a small repair which is probably the result of removing a library mark, boards rubbed, particularly at extremities, Vellum slightly browned and discoloured, Some plates are afflicted with minor foxing. Beautiful and striking book. 46 cm Tall View more info
Price: £450.00
Publisher: London, Seeley & Sons 1833: 1833
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 59992
Condition: Near Fine
486, (2) pp. Bound in recent antique half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & green leather title label. New endpapers. Internally clean. With eight full-page hand-coloured lithographs. View more info
By: Rees, Abraham
Price: £600.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown 1820: 1820
Book number: 41152
Condition: Very Good
[unpaginated] Plate volume from the Rees Cyclopedia. 61 b/w double page maps, AEG, Light foxing, particularly to the verso of maps, some slight discolouration and wear particularly to extremities of boards. Generally a handsome volume. View more info
By: RENNIE, James
Price: £600.00
Publisher: London, G. Henderson 1833: 1833
Book number: 774
Condition: Good
2 vols bound as 1, 1833 and 1834. All published. 55 plates including 52 hand coloured, 38 have four images on a page, 3 have two images on a page. Two engraved title pages. The binding is poor, and there is some offsetting and foxing. View more info
