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![Image for Elegant Extracts. Poetry, 6 volumes; Prose, 6 volumes; Epistles, 6 volumes. Complete set of 18 volumes. [or 36 volumes in 18].](/assets/images/product/36180.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: £9,750.00
Publisher: John Sharpe, c. 1810.:
Seller ID: 36180
36 volumes in 18. 12mo. Uniformly finely bound in full contemporary straight grained morocco, ornately gilt on the spines and covers with a central lyre device to each board, all edges gilt. Contained in a purpose built brass inlaid miniature glass fronted cabinet bookcase, the moulded top centred by a brass inlaid lyre, matching the design on the bindings, over a glazed brass strung door, on ogee bracket feet, the whole 15 inches high. Each of the 18 volumes has a unique FOREDGE PAINTING of an English pastoral scene hidden under the gilt foredge. SPECIALIST SHIPPING WILL REQUIIRED - FURTHER I... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £180.00
Publisher: John Fairburn, [1804]:
Seller ID: 37030
8vo. pp. 20. Disbound, Very Good. Best was defended by William Garrow who was responsible for the introduction of the adverserial court system, insisting that all evidence should be thoroughly tested in court and introduced the phrase "presumed innocent until proven guilty". In this case he successfully defended Best who was shown to be a victim of an attempt at extortion. "A more horrid and dreadful attempt to ruin and destroy a worthy and highly respected character never was made; and a more satisfactory and honourable aquittal never was pronounced." William Garrow. View more info
![Image for [The Little Geographer] The Voyage Round the World, or a picturesque survey of the different nations that inhabit the world. Volume I. Europe; Volume II. Asia; Volume III. Africa.](/assets/images/product/39559.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: £1,800.00
Publisher: Nürnberg: sold by A. and C., c. 1805.:
Seller ID: 39559
3 volumes. 12mo. pp. 54; 45; 46. Original printed wrappers, woodcut designs to upper and lower wrappers. Very Fine. Seemingly descriptive guides to a map or series of maps, these instructional texts are full of facts and opinions of the different countries in each continent. Probably intended to include the Americas and Australasia it is not known whether the other volumes were published as no locations can be traced worldwide. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £200.00
Publisher: Farnham: Nichols & Sons, printers, Dec 15th, 1830.:
Seller ID: 39812
Single sheet, mounted, 340 x 210 mm. A rare survival of a provincially printed broadsheet, probably written by the local landowner at Crondall, Hampshire in response to disturbances over South East England which became know as the Swing Riots. “There is talk of Tithes and Taxes being against the Farmers and Labourers... The rich and thriving are the best friends of the Poor...” “That they have been very inconsiderate and improvident, and brought distress greatly upon themselves by too early marriages, which has increased the population beyond the demand for labour is the ... View more info
![Image for Twelfth Night Characters. [a conundrum game]](/assets/images/product/39824.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: £120.00
Publisher: c. 1850.:
Seller ID: 39824
18 of a probable 24 hand coloured character cards, each c. 83 x 50 mm. together with the answers letters A-L [no J included]; all mounted on paper, some still joined. These very rare parlour character/conundrum games were intended to be cut up and handed out to the guests to act out, or otherwise display their chosen character. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Ward Lock and Co., c. 1890.:
Seller ID: 39862
Single sheet map, 555 x 750 mm, folded. Presented with part II of “The Child’s Instructor.” View more info
By: N/A
Price: £195.00
Publisher: S. and J. Fuller, c. 1820.:
Seller ID: 39927
Hand coloured lithograph, 278 x 168 mm. A fine clean copy of this scarce humourous tale of the consequences of putting off marriage for prideful reasons. From age 16 - incipient palpitations towards the young ladies, through at 29, rails against the fair sex, 37 - indulge in every kind of dissipation, 48 - thinks living alone quite irksome... eventually resolves to have a prudent young woman as housekeeper and companion, gradually feels some attachment to her and becomes completely under her influence and at age 60 as he begins to feel ill, and “grows rapidly worse, has his will made in ... View more info
By: “ALEPH” [HARVEY, William Henry]
Price: £2,500.00
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]:
Seller ID: 38363
4to. pp. [6], 12 coloured maps, [4, publisher’s adverts]. Original cloth, rather rubbed and gutta percha perished with some slight chipping to the margins of the maps, not affecting the images. The introduction describes these caricature maps as the work of a "young lady... in her fifteenth year." The introduction itself and accompanying four lines of verse beneath each map are ascribed to "Aleph" on the title-page, but the book was in fact a posthumous work by William Harvey, wood-engraver, illustrator and writer of verse for children. The 12 chromolithographed, an... View more info
By: ABBOTT, Lieut. George [of 15th Regiment Native Infantry]
Price: £1,250.00
Publisher: Printed by Engelmann, 1827.:
Seller ID: 39456
Oblong folio. pp. engraved title page with vignettes, engraved dedication to General Lord Combermere, 1 [account of the capture of the fort and explanation of the plates], 1 [list of subscribers]; 11 full page plates, all on india paper, all printed versos only. Unbound, lacking wrappers. Margins a little chipped, front cover and verso of final plate soiled. Fewer than 80 subscriptions listed [40 to the East India Company]. Three locations are listed: BL and two U.S. institutions. View more info
By: ABERNATHY, James
Price: £35.00
Publisher: William Clowes, 1863.:
Seller ID: 37026
8vo. pp. 38, [4], 4 large folding plates. Separately published and paginated offprint from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. XXI. Session 1861-2. Disbound, Very Good. View more info
Price: £65.00
Publisher: English Text Society, 1888.:
Seller ID: 36768
8vo. pp. lxxx, 331. Later half morocco, Very Good. View more info
By: ALLOM, Thomas
Price: £450.00
Publisher: W.S. Johnson, 1850.:
Seller ID: 38669
8vo. pp. 32. Plain paper wrappers, Fine copy. 6 page historical introduction followed by a description of the 26 elements of the panorama. Allom exhibited a 'Polyorama' or Panorama somewhere in London; a series of paintings made after his tour of the Bosphorus which also led to the illustrations for his well known book with steel engravings. Whether the same illustrations were used is unclear and most records seem to have been lost. There are a few fleeting references in articles and books on panoramas and the Getty hold a small broadside advertising the exhibition. There appears t... View more info
By: AMERICAN EXPRESS
Price: £2,500.00
Publisher: The American Express Co., Inc., c. 1930.:
Seller ID: 38822
695 x 520 mm. An attractive coloured folding map of Peking with the original printed envelope. An uncommon map of Beijing showing the differnt areas and streets in some detail with captions in English and Chinese. View more info
By: AMIS, Martin
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Cape, 1981.:
Seller ID: 39645
1st Edition. Near Fine in dust wrapper. View more info
By: ANON
Price: £125.00
Publisher: no publisher or printer, c. 1875.:
Seller ID: 39900
8vo. pp. [24], printed rectos only. Each page illustrated and printed intaglio. Original printed wrappers, split along the spine and a little chipped. A comic poem about employment as a banker’s clerk. View more info
By: APPERT, M.
Price: £650.00
Publisher: Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1812.:
Seller ID: 38732
2nd Edition. 8vo. pp. xxv, 164, [2, publisher’s catalogue]; folding plate as frontispiece. Original boards, paper spine, paper title label a little chipped but an excellent copy. With a Cortachy Castle book ticket; name of C. Ogilvy, Airly Castle on title page. A pioneering work on food preservation written by the founder of the first food bottling plant in the world. View more info
Price: £6,500.00
Publisher: The Estate of Edward Ardizzone, 2006.:
Seller ID: 36947
bronze, approximately 6.5 inches high x 7 inches AN EXTREMELY RARE ITEM FROM AN EDITION OF ONLY 3 Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979) was a popular and successful artist and illustrator who is highly regarded. His illustrated figures are instantly recognisable and this fine bronze statue is typically Ardizzone. He became interested in sculpture when he was working at Camberwell School of Art in the late 1940s and early 1950s where he was friendly with Karel Vogel, head of the sculpture department. Vogel was at that time making a series of small terracottas. Aridizzone liked the idea of small sculpt... View more info
By: ARDIZZONE, Edward illustrates
Price: £1,250.00
Publisher: Cassell, 1939.:
Seller ID: 39638
1st Edition. Just a little wear to the head of the spine otherwise a better than usual copy of a title which is uncommon in nice condition. Colour lithographs by Ardizzone. View more info
Price: £3,500.00
Publisher: Engraved by Stephen Pyle, 1799.:
Seller ID: 38825
Engraved on 8 sheets with outline colour, each sheet c. 550 x 760 mm, folded once. Contemporary calf, recent reback. A few minor marginal tears but a Very Good copy. Printed on a scale of 1 inch to 1 mile, this was the first large scale map of the county. View more info
Price: £7,500.00
Publisher: A. Arrowsmith, 2nd January, 1816.:
Seller ID: 38483
Large engraved map, full original wash colour printed on 9 sheets, dissected and made into 4 sheets, mounted on linen. 240 x 267 cm [at largest extent], original calf case. Some old damp marking and some of the sections starting to lift from the linen backing. This monumental wall map of India published based on route surveys was the largest to be published before those later based on Trigonometrical Surveys. View more info
