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WITHDRAWN TIPPING, H. Avray. Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720), Country Life 1914, first edition, numerous illustrations, w...

ARCHER, John Wykeham. Vestiges of Old London, A Series of Etchings from Original Drawings, London: David Bogue 1851, 37 plates, worn half morocco,...

RALPH, Benjamin, and others (editors). The School of Raphael; or, the Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting. London: John Boydell, ...

ROBERTS, David (illustrator) and George Croly (text). The Holy Land : London 1855, vol. 3 & 4 (only), many tinted lithograph plates (many loose an...

BALLET. ANTHONY, Gordon. Russian Ballet, camera studies...with an introduction by Arnold Haskell, London: Geoffrey Bles 1939, 1st edition, 96 tipp...

BALLET & OPERA. [BILIBIN, Ivan Nathalie Gontcharova, Michel Larionow et al]. Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. 3rd Season: June-Se...

CRAFTS. A quantity of circa 170 issues of Work, the Illustrated Weekly Journal of Handicrafts, dated circa 1905 to 1908, London: Cassell & Co. Ltd...

BOUTET DE MONVEL (illus.) FABRE, Ferdinand. Xavière, Paris: Boussod & Valadon 1890, first edition, full page & in text photogravures, teg, orig. c...

NESBIT, Edith. The Waves Whisper: Original Poems, London: W. Hagelberg, nd, half-title with verso chromolithograph frontis. signed fF, chromolitho...

LADYBIRD. WORVILL, Roy. Exploring Space, Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd. 1964, 1st edition, dj, orig. tan boards with blue lettering/pictorial...

ILLUSTRATED and MISCELLANEOUS. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE. Vols XXVI 1883 and XXXIII 1886/7, London: T. Fisher Unwin, num. illustrations, half morocco s...

ILLUSTRATED. LYDON, F. A. (illustrator). Gems from the Poets, Illustrated, London 1860, blindstamped red cloth gilt, large 8vo; FRANCIS, J. G. Bea...

HERGÉ (Remi, Georges Prosper). The Adventures of Tintin, four ex-library UK firsts, The Crab with the Golden Claws 1958, The Secret of the Unicorn...

CHILDRENS & ILLUSTRATED. EDWARDS, Monica. The Midnight Horse, Collins 1949; No Mistaking Corker, Collins nd; Hidden in a Dream, The Childrens Book...

BENATAR, Molly (illustrator). Ten children's novels, including some with her bookplate; comprising: ELIAS, Edith L. Four Works, including: Margare...

A. & C. BLACK (pub.) MENPES, Mortimer. Whistler as I knew him, 1904; HUISH, Marcus B. Happy England, 1904, illustrated by Helen Allingham; HARDIE,...

CHILDREN'S. [BANNERMAN, Helen]. The Story of Little Black Mingo, third edition, London: James Nisbet, n.d., publisher's pictorial cloth, 36 colour...

PUPPETS & DOLLS. WHANSLAW, Harry William. Everbody's Marionette Book, London nd, col. frontis. detached, cloth, losses to spine of dustjacket, thi...

BINDINGS. SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Waverley Novels, with Introductory Essay & Notes by Andrew Lang, 24 vols., pub. Macmillan, c. 1900, b&w plts., t....

ARNOLD, Thomas James. Reynard the Fox, after the German version of Goethe, London: John C. Nimmo,1887, 12 proof engrs. on India paper by Joseph Wo...

FRENCH LITERATURE & BIOGRAPHY, including Victor Hugo novels, circa 1900, cloth, 8vo; BINDINGS, mainly calf or half calf, 63 running cm; another 3...

GONCOURT, Edmond & Jules. La Femme au Dix-Huitieme Siecle, Paris 1887, illus., brown cloth gilt, 4to; four others in French, 4to or large 8vo; and...

MUSSET Alfred de. Œuvres Complètes Illustrées, Paris: Libaire de France 1928-29, 10 vols., frontis pieces and plates by Charles Martin, contempora...

LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Paris: Chevalier 1792, 2 vols., 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, 84 engraved plates, half-tit...

MERCURY, Freddy (born Farrokh Bulsara). The Solo Collection, London: Mercury Songs Ltd. 2000, foreward by Brian May, illustrated with numerous pho...

OSTROVSKY, Alexander Nikolayevich. Snow Maiden. A spring tale in 4 acts with a prologue. Artist V. M. Vasnetsov. Moscow: State Publishing House of...

[VON ARNIM, Elizabeth] by the author of 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden'. Twelve Works, London: Macmillan/ Heinemann/ Smith, Elder. The Adventure...

SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, London: Longman, & Edi...

HARRISON, Walter. A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their...

AUSTRALIA. STONE, Carolyn R. and Pamela Tyson. Old Hobart Town and Environs 1802-1855, Victoria 1978, illus., pubs. black cloth, 4to; HAWKINS, J. ...

EGYPTOLOGY. NAVILLE, Edouard. The Store-City of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus, London 1885 32pp., frontis. & 12 plates (some folding)., 2 map...

MOUNTAINEERING. TOPFFER, Rodolphe. Premiers Voyages en ZigZag, ou Excursions d'un Pensionnat en Vacances dans les Cantons Suisses et sur revers It...

MOUNTAINEERING. Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, new edition, 1891, 4to; CLARK, Ronald W. and Edward C. Pyatt. Mountaineering in Britain....

MOUNTAINEERING. ULLMAN, James Ramsey, and others. Americans on Everest. The Official Account of the Ascent Led by Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, 1st ed., ...

CAREW, Richard. Survey of Cornwall; to which are added, notes illustrative of its History and Antiquities, by the late Thomas Tonkin, London 1811,...

HENSHALL, Samuel and John Wilkinson. Domesday, or an actual survey of South - Britain, by the Commissioners of William the Conqueror, completed in...

ETON COLLEGE. GRAY, Thomas. Poems and Letters, London: Chiswick Press 1863, mottled calf gilt, aeg, 4to; IDEM. Poems, Eton College Press 1894, ful...

DEVON. TORR, Cecil. Small Talk at Wreyland. [First, Second and Third Series, complete set]., Cambridge University Press 1918-21-23, first editions...

BAXTER, William. British Phaenogamous Botany ... British Flowering Plants, vols 1 to 5 (of 6), Oxford: by the author 1834-40, 2nd edition, numerou...

EVELYN, John. Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions, London: Printed for J. Walthoe, J....

NEW NATURALIST. Two Author Signed Works: BLUNT, Wilfrid. The Art of Botanical Illustration (no. 14), 1950, first edition, inscribed to ffep. 'for ...

SPORTING. SURTEES, R.S. Handley Cross. London: E. Arnold, [n.d.]. 2 volumes, coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, original red cloth gilt, some stainin...

BUCK, Samuel and Nathaniel. The East View of Dale Abby (sic), Near Derby, engraving [1727 or later from perspective views of the ruins of the most...

STARLING, Thomas (engr.). A Map of the Principal Rivers, their courses, countries, and comparative lengths, London: Baldwin & Cradock 1834; with a...

SATIRICAL PRINT. Change of Diet, A Ballad, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef of Old England, engraving, 1757 (or later impression), 27cm. x 17.5cm....

SCANDINAVIA. WELLS, Edward and James Moxon. A New Map of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, & Moscovy, hand coloured engraved map [1700 or later], title car...

UNITED STATES. A group of four hand coloured engravings published by J. & F. Tallis (c. 1842-1849): Military School, West Point, N.Y.; City Hall N...

MULLER, F. (engraver). Schlacht bey Focksan [The Battle of Focsani]; SCHUTZ, C. (engraver). Schlacht bey Martinestie [The Battle of Martinestie], ...

ORDNANCE SURVEY. Four 'popular' and two 'new popular' maps, 1 inch to one mile, refs. 120, 129, 130, 131, and 181, 186; with a Geographia 1 inch t...

JONES, John (engr.) after Henry Raeburn. The Right Hon. Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord Advocate of Scotland &c., Edinburgh: A.Lawrie circa 1790 o...

HONG KONG. HEATH, Sir Leopold George. Hong Kong &C. as seen from the anchorage, drawn by Lieut. L. G.Heath of HMS Iris 1846, Hydrographic Office o...

TANJE, Pieter (engr.) after Cornelis Troost, De Hollandsche Kraam Kamer [Dutch maternity room], engraving, 1757 or later, f&g, 39cm x 51cm. ...

BAYLY, John. Ruins of the Antient Archiepiscopal Palace at Otford in Kent, hand coloured engraving, circa 1780's, f &g, 25cm x 34cm. [from Edward...

CHESHIRE. Decorative map, a reproduction of Christopher.Saxton's Cestriae, f&g (glass cracked), 39.5cm x 51.5cm.

CARTOON SCRAPBOOKS. Two scrapbooks of 1970's newspaper cartoon cuttings including very many by Michael Cummings, along with John Emmwood and Mac (...

After VAN HOVE [Francine]. Three framed prints, nude studies, two circa 27cm x 35.5cm, one 31.5cm x 24cm. (3)

DEVON. Devoniae Comitat Rerumquae, coloured map, a later reproduction after Christopher Saxton and Remigius Hogenberg, framed, 43cm x 48cm.

WARD, George Raphael after Sir Francis Grant P.R.A. Henry, Third Earl of Harewood, coloured mezzotint, some spotting & creasing, f&g, 64cm x 71cm....

AUSTRALIA. Late 19th century photograph album, annotated to the 'Seales' family in Melbourne Australia, 109 portrait photographs and two landscape...

PHOTOGRAPHS. Early C20th photographs including Aden, Algeria, Italy, Stuttgart Spain, etc. 33cm x 25cm to 13cm x 10cm (16)