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Vany. Paris Strip-Tease, Theatre de l'Etoile, ... les strip-teaseuses internationales les plus sexy!, a stripper exposes her stockinged leg beside a diminutive sketch of the Arc de Triomphe, 570 x 395mm., light handling creases, Paris, SIPA, c.1960; with an unlettered Circus poster depicting 2 exotically adorned performing camels, on a bright yellow ground, 800 x 600mm., light handling creases, other minor defects at sheet edges, Paris, Imprimerie Aussel, 1949 (2).
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Lipsius (Justus) De Militia Romana Libri Quinque ... Editio nova, folding plate, head of title restored, , 1598; Analecta sive Observationes Reliquae ad Militiam et hosce Libros, 1598; Poliorceticon sive de Machinis, Tormentis, Telis libri Quinque, 1596, 3 works in 1 vol., devices on titles, engravings in the text, many full-page, ownership inscription on title and endpaper, contemporary vellum, sketch of arms on cover, (Adams L-782, 760, 797), 4to, Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana
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Hodges (C.C.) Hexham and its Abbey, 8vo, gilt cloth, illus., 1919; Steel (J.W.) Historical Sketch of the Society of Friends in Newcastle and Gateshead 1653-1898, 8vo, gilt cloth, illus., 1899; Bruce (J. Collingwood) Hand-book to the Roman Wall, 8vo, original soft covs., illus., 1885; and other books and pamphlets on local history. (25)
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Mrs Louisa Galton (late 19th century), Two sketch books containing approximately thirty-three watercolours and pencil sketches of landscape subjects, including Lake Constance, Tunbridge Wells, Cannes, Kempton, Boulogne, Scarborough, Richmond, etc, each leaf 12.5 x 17.5 cm most dated and inscribed, one sketch book bears paper label with artists' name, and dated 1862-85
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Pyne, J.C. - Note and Sketch book, ca. 1878, Oblong 8o, contemporary calf, Pyne was an officer in the 54th Regiment and this work chronicles the regiment's trip over to India on H.M.S. Jumna and Pyne's subsequent observations of the Indian sub-continent, many of the sketches watercolour or pencil and ink, a series of mathematical notes at the rear as well as various descriptive notes interspersed throughout. Pyne, H.B. & J.C. - Old Sketches copied by J.C Pyne for H.B.P., Aden, Bound at the jail, May 1886, 4o, sketches of Parisian life and also a series of sketches on life and customs of late 1880s Brazil, including a pencil sketch of ships off Rio Janeiro harbour, two loose letters, one from H. Pyne to his mother dated Sunday 22nd December 1878 from an army depot in the India sub-continent and the second from J.C Pyne to his brother H.B. Pyne from Paris dated April 17th 1885, both letters with coloured illustrations.
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The Land We Live In. A pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British Empire, London, Charles Knight, tall 4o, ca. 1890, 3 volumes, 3 maps, one double-page and 91 plates, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces. Together with a six volume set of' 'Our Own Country' (London, ca. 1870), and 2 other works in 3 volumes.
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John Ryan (1925-1992), THE ASGARD RETURNS, signed lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse, oil on board, 28 by 38cm. 11 by 15in. Inscribed as follows: "This was the yacht designed by Colin Archer of Norway in the early nineteenth century and given to Erskine Childers by his prospective father-in-law, Dr. Osgood of Boston (Mass.) as a wedding present. It was involved in the landing of guns in Ireland in 1914. Returned to Howth, Co. Dublin having been purchased by the Irish Government in 1962. Now preserved in Kilmainham Museum Dublin. Childers wrote the classic The Riddle of the Sands and was executed in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. I painted this from a sketch I made at the time from a boat outside Howth Harbour.", Euro 1,200-1,500 (IR £900-£1,200 approx.)
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Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Works, portrait, few ff. slightly creased, bookplate, ownership signature, contemporary morocco, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, London and New York, 1894 ~ Thackeray (W.M.) The Paris Sketch Book and Art Criticisms; The Great Hoggarty Diamond; Ballads and Contributions to Punch 1842-1850; Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch 1843-1854, frontispieces, illustrations, original limp kid leather, n.d. [c.1920]; and 10 others, Literature, 8vo & 12mo (15).
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Mueffling (Friedrich Carl, Baron) A Sketch of the Battle of Waterloo, FIRST EDITION, folding plan, Brussels, 1833; Reville (A.) Tablettes Chronologiques de l'Histoire de France, folding map, Paris, 1833, 2 works in 1 vol., later half calf ~ Foy (General M.S.) Histoire de la Guerre d'Espagne et du Portugal sous Napoleon, vol. 1 & 2 only, folding map, later calf-backed cloth, Paris, 1829; and 6 others, miscellaneous, 12mo & 8vo (9).
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Francis Nicholson SCARBOROUGH, JULY 30 1821 Inscribed with titles, pencil, 33cm by 42.5cm ; and AT THE FOOT OF THE CASTLE ROCKS, SCARBOROUGH, 15 JULY 1823; ON THE ROAD FROM HACKNESS TO SCARBOROUGH, 3 JULY 1823; SCARBOROUGH, JULY 30TH 1822; two on one sheet, titled SCARBOROUGH CASTLE FROM THE NORTH, 7 JULY 1823 and FROM THE NEW DYKE, SCARBOROUGH; two on one sheet, VIEW OF GRAVEYARD (one graveyard signed F Nicholson 90! years), and CASTLE RUIN; and one other castle ruin sketch (7)
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Nicholson (William) E is for Executioner, original hand-coloured woodcut from An Alphabet, 245 x 195mm., trimmed to the black border, laid onto paper support, artist's signature impressed on a sheet fragment, attached to the reverse, 1898; with a coloured lithograph portrait sketch from A Book of Blokes, 1929 (2).
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Hardy (Thomas) The Return of the Native, 3 vol. in 1, first edition in book form, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles in vol. 2 & 3, lacking from vol. 1, sketch map frontispiece to vol. 1, marginal tear in vol. 2 Q7, some foxing & light stains, ink stamp in several margins, library leather-backed cloth, spine rubbed, [Purdy p.24; Sadleir 1113], 8vo, 1878.
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Stevenson (David) Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America, first edition, folding map, 14 plates, some folding, modern cloth, 1838 ~ Sganzin (M.I.) An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering, translated from the French ... Third edition, 6 folding plates, 1 loose, modern green half calf, Boston, 1837, Franklin Institute perforated stamps on titles, 8vo (2).
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Thurston (Robert H.) A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine, first edition, ink and pencil signatures on title, pencil markings and notes with sketch on rear free endpaper, 1878; The Materials of Engineering, 3 vol ... first edition, ex-Franklin Institute Library copy with perforated stamp on titles and labels, hinges of vol.3 weak, 1883; A Text-book of the Materials of Construction ... , ex-library copy with stamps and labels, edges brittle and chipped, 1885, illustrations, original cloth, rubbed; and another by Thurston, 8vo (6).
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Fellows (Sir Charles, traveller and archaeologist, 1799-1860) A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, first edition, [one of 50 copies], the author's own copy with his extra-illustrations, lithographed vignette titles, facsimile and 21 plates (1 engraved, the rest lithographed), with the lithographed titles and plates in two states (1 title and 10 plates hand-coloured), extra-illustrated by the insertion of an autograph manuscript title with a vignette in pencil, 11 original watercolours and 1 pencil drawing for the plates (1 watercolour not used), 1 watercolour of geological specimens and a rough pencil sketch (by Fellows?) for the watercolour (also present), partly heightened with white, of Fellows' triumphant planting of a baton at the summit of Mont Blanc by W.S. Hastings, 1 hand-coloured aquatint of De Saussure's ascent of Mont Blanc in 1787, with the original document certifying Fellows and Hawes as the thirteenth party to reach the summit of Mont Blanc, signed by Paijou Jean Francois, Sindic, Simon Goudett, guide chef, J. Barrier & all the guides on verso, 6 autograph manuscripts bound in: including: List of Ascents continued [&] Expences attending the Ascent, by Charles Fellows, 2pp., n.d., and commendations and observations on Fellows and the ascent of Mont Blanc signed by Edmund John Clark, 1p., 7th June 1828; Frederick Clissold, 1p., 11th April 1828; John Auldjo (geologist and Alpinist, 1805-86), 1p., 20th June 1828; William Hawes (ascended the summit of Mont Blanc with Fellows), 1p., 16th July 1828; David Wilkie, 1p., 3rd September 1828, very small stain to lower margins at end not affecting text or illustrations, Fellows' bookplate on front pastedown, watered silk rose doublures, sumptuously bound in near contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt, title on upper cover "Ascent of Mont Blanc 1827", g.e., skilfully rebacked preserving original gilt spine, [Meckly 71, Meckly lists the above as copy 1 in his Appendix, Census of Copies of Fellows' "Narrative" ... with Coloured Plates; Neate F18], 4to, [Privately Printed], 1827. *** A unique copy. Arguably the most desirable work on Alpine mountaineering to be offered for sale in recent years.
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Sue (Eugene) Les Mysteres de Paris, 4 vol., 2 A.Ls.s. one by the author, another from the Secretariat general, Ministere de la Marine, original pencil sketch of the author tipped-in on front endpaper, ink drawing loosely inserted, plates, illustrations, bookplates on front endpapers, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in, 4to, Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1843-4.
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-. Kararygaskar (D.G. G.D. Arch.) Sketch Suggestion of Residence for Rao Bahadur Mahajani at Poona, front and side elevations, ground and first floor plans, on one sheet, pen and ink, with watercolour, over pencil, 435 x 625mm., signed, with architect's address and date, lower right, Bombay, 1933.
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