The American Family Home, 1800-1960.
Chapel Hill / London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1987. 21 x 26cm. 281 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.
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Basiliche Di Assisi. Musei E Monumenti.
Novara, Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1958. 26 x 20 cm. 164 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and B&W. Original pale green cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Very good condition book with poor dust jacket, now in protective jacket. Binding rubbed, bumped and occasionally discoloured. Edges dust dulled. Dust jacket shows significant paper losses and tears. Internally book is bright and clean.
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Buried Treasures. The Black and White work of Maxfield Parrish 1896-1905. Edited by Fershid Bharucha. Text by Rosalie Gomes.
San Francisco, Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992. 22cm x 28cm. 224 unnumbered pages, 208 pages of illustrations. Original, illustrated paperback (Softcover). Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.
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Memorials of the Cathedral & Priory of Christ in Canterbury. With Illustrations by Louis Weirter.
London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1912 16 x 22 cm, xxi, 489 pages. With Frontispiece and many B&W Illustrations throughout. Original dark blue cloth hard cover with with illustrations and title on spine. Fore and Tail edge deckle. Very good condition. Rubbing and bumping to corners, boards and spine. White title on spine rubbed off. All edges age darkened. Text block clean and bright. Front and rear hinges start to open, but binding still sound. Small amount of foxing to end papers.
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Dictionary of British Book Illustrators. The Thentieth Century.
First Edition. London, John Murray, 1983. 26 x 19 cm. 336 pages. With illustrations showing samples and styles of various book illustrators. Original black cloth with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally bright and clean.
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The Principles and Practice of Canal and River Engineering.
Third Edition. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1886. 25 x 16 cm. xiv, 406 pages. With 18 plates (including several fold-outs) and text illustrations. Original dark cloth with gilt title on spine. Dark end papers. Good condition. Binding shaky, but holding. Front hinge fully cracked. Rear hinge starting to crack. Binding rubbed and bumped. Spine ends slightly frayed. Edges and end papers age darkened. Ex Library. A few stamps (ink and blind) on title page (crossed out). Several pages with neat pencil underlinings and a few annotations. Otherwise internally bright and clean with interesting fold out maps.
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![[Michelangelo] Hall, Michelangelo - The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.](/images/thumbnails/81305AB.jpg)
Michelangelo – The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Photographs by Takashi Okamura.
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 2002. 30.5cm x 25.2cm. 239 pages. With 93 beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good in very good dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Some lines (ball point pen) on text pages. Otherwise bright and clean.
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Van Gogh: Original oder Fälschung? – Der Streit um die Sammlung Marijnissen. Aus dem Französischen von Michael Hein.
Hamburg, Rogerner & Bernhard GmbH & Co. Verlags KG., 2004. 22cm x 14.5cm. 240 pages. With beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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Portfolio de Photographies. Des Villes, Paysages et Peintures Celebres Rassemblees sous la Direction du Distingue Conferencier at Voyageur John L. Stoddard.
Chicago, The Werner Co. Not dated [1890 – 1900]. 27 x 34 cm. 260 unnumbered pages with photographs in B&W. Oblong half leather over marbled boards. Decorated end papers. Very good condition. Corners, boards and spine slightly rubbed and bumped. Some age darkening. A few minor closed tears. Minor foxing on some pages.
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A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475 – 1640. Volume 2: I – Z.
Volume 2 ONLY! London, The Bibliographical Society, 1976. 32 x 24 cm. xi, 494 pages. Original dark cloth with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket, now in protective archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. A little dust dulled. Some short closed tears to dust jacket. Internally bright and clean.
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Poussin Paintings. A catalogue Raisonné.
First Edition. London, Harlequin Books Ltd, 1985. 24cm x 29.5cm. 304 pages with 217 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Frontispiece slightly detached.
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Old English Plate. Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic: Its Makers and Marks.
Ninth Edition. London, John Murray, 1906. 23 x 15 cm. xxiv, 524 pages. With 131 Illustrations and upwards of 2,600 Facsimiles of Plate Marks. Original green cloth with gilt decorations and title on spine. Dark end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped and damp stained. Edges and end papers age darkened. One corner cut of front free end paper. Gift inscription in ink: ‘T.K.E.Lees from M.W.M. & G.B. Portman With very best wishes April 11th 1907’. Some pages uncut. Occasional foxing throughout.
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Die Gesamte Möbelschreinerei – Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der kunstgewerblichen Form.
Leipzig, Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1902. 24.5cm x 18cm. 290 Seiten mit 276 Textfiguren. Zusätzliche 136 Tafeln. Original Hardcover. Sehr guter Zustand / Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Title in gilt on the cover and spine.
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Old Glass – European and American. With Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Ilustrations. [With a Chapter on Irish Glass / A Chapter on Waterford Glass / A Chapter on Dublin and Cork Glass].
London, Hodder & Stoughton, no year (c.1935). Octavo. XVI, 394 pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover [Grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine and embossed illustration on spine andfront board]. Original binding in very good condition with some strong signs of spotting and staining to the covers. Interior in very good condition. The binding still very firm.
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The ABC of Collecting Old English China. Giving a Short History of the English Factories, and showing how to apply Tests for Unmarked China before 1800.
Second edition. London, The London Opinion Curio Club, 1908. 23 x 15 cm. 142 pages with 75 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with minor external wear and some foxing.
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Deutsche Baukunst des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Old German Architecture. Ancienne Architecture Allemande.
[First Edition]. Koenigstein im Taunus, Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1920. 29 x 21 cm. xvi, 192 pages. With 200 photographs, mostly full page. Multi-lingual text: German, English and French. Original pale cloth with dark brown decorations and title on front board and spine. Brown end papers. Top edge dark coloured. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with some discoloration and staining. Top of spine frayed. Binding shaky, but holding. Gift inscription on half title, dated June 1930 (in German). Edges dust dulled and mildly foxed. Internally clean and bright.
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Dated Book-Plates. (Ex Libris). With a Treatise on their Origin and Development. Part 1: Dated Book-Plates prior to 1700. / Part 2: Dated Book-Plates of the Eighteenth Century. / Part 3: Dated Book-Plates of the Nineteenth Century to 1895. With about One Hundred Illustrations.
First Combined Edition. London, A.C. Black, 1895. 27 x 21 cm. 124 & 225 pages plus 22 pages Index. With B&W Illustrations, some full page. Original red cloth with gilt and blind decorations. Top edge gilt, other edges deckle. Very good condition. Professionally recased in 2018 using original boards and spine. New end papers. Edges and pages dust dulled. A few stains. A very nice copy.
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English Books with Coloured Plates 1790 to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of the most important Books illustrated by English Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography.
London, B.T. Batsford. 1987. 24 x 18 cm. vii, 424 pages. Original grey cloth with gilt title on spine. In original price-cipped dust jacket. Very good in very good jacket.
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The Manor Houses of England. Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones.
London, B.T. Batsford, 1910. 17.2cm x 26.4cm. Frontispiece, VI, 211 pages with many (nearly 100) wonderful sketches of Manor Houses in rural settings. (The Frontispiece is a beautiful original, coloured engraving of Grimshaw Hall in Warwickshire). Original Hardcover (illustrated blue cloth). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Excellent publication !
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French Flower Painters of the 19th Century – A Dictionary. Edited by Peter Mitchell.
London, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1989. 28.6cm x 25cm. 402 pages. With 55 beautiful illustrations, by some of our most recognized painters. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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Taos: A Painters Dream.
First Edition. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1980. 25.5cm x 28.5cm. 321, (1) with 60 colour illustrations and 255 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with original, price-clipped dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Dustjacket a little pale / Name of previous owner on the endpaper.
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The Principles of Practical Perspective; or, Scenographic Projection: Containing Universal Rules for Deliniating Designs on Various Surfaces, and taking Views from Nature, by the Most Simple and Expeditious Methods. To which is added, Rules for Shadowing, and the Elements of Painting. The whole treated in a Manner calculated to render the Science of Perspective and Art of Drawing Easy of Attainment to every Capacity.
First Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-One Plates. London, Printed for Samuel Leigh, in the Strand, 1815. 30 x 23.5 cm. xviii, 96 text pages and 51 Plates, as listed. Including one colour Plate (XXXIX) which is at times used as a Frontispiece, but is bound here in the correct position between pages 56 and 57. Dark green half calf over marbled boards. Dark red spine label with gilt title. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Binding severely rubbed and bumped. Corners worn with some material losses (see images), Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally dust dulled and mildly foxed. Small bookseller sticker on front pastedown.Name of previous owner in ink on verso of front free end paper.
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The Kickleburys on the Rhine.
Second Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866. 18 x 14 cm. xv, 87 pages plus 12 pages publishers list. Illustrated. See images. Original dark cloth hard cover. Gilt titles and Illustrations. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Front joint started to crack. Both hinges cracked. Binding holding. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small bookseller label on front paste down.
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A Short History of English Printing 1476 – 1900.
Second Edition. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., 1915. 20 x 13 cm. xii, 276 pages. Original cloth. Hard cover. Paper label with title. Very good condition. Ex Libris (‘Lawrence Wallis’) on front paste down. Second spine label with book title pasted onto front free end paper. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean. Nice copy.
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The Story of St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral Armagh.
Second Edition. Gloucester, The British Publishing Company, Not dated. [c. 1940]. 19 x 12 cm. 32 pages. With B&W images and ads. Original dark red decorated stiff paper covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Name and address of previous owner inscribed. See images.
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English Children’s Books 1600 to 1900.
First Edition. London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1954. 24 x 19 cm. 255 pages. Illustrated in Colour and B&W. Original blue cloth in original price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket permanently mounted inside plastic jacket. Very good in very good jacket.
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Programme of the “Good Samaritan” Performance Promoted by Madame Sarah Bernhardt. In Aid of the French Hospital in London, and of Lord Lonsdale’s special Appeal for Funds for the Charing Cross Hospital, held at the London Coliseum Saturday Evening, October 11th, 1913. Under the most gracious Patronage of their Majesties the King & Queen & Members of the Royal Family.
[London], No publishing information, [1913]. 27 x 20 cm. 48 unnumbered pages, printed on heavy textured paper. With many tipped in photographs in B&W. Gilt decorations. Silk covered boards with gilt crest on front bopard. Hand cover. Text block held place by silk string. Gilt dentelles Good condition. Voards worn and dust dulled. Silk covers torn at the edges (see images). Internally dust dulled, otherwise in very good clean condition.
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La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso. Preceduta da un Discorso Critico Letterario di Ugo Foscolo, Ed Illustrata da Note Storiche.
Terza Edizione. Firenze, Felice Le Monnier, 1850. 17 x 11.5 cm. xx, 440 pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and edges. Black spine label with gilt title. Gilt decorations. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Ex Libris of previous owner on front past down (‘Josephine Martineau’). Internally clean. A nice copy in a very pretty binding.
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Muiredach. Abbot of Monasterboice 890 – 923 A.D. His Life and Surroundings. The Margaret Stokes Lectures, 1913.
First Edition. Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1914. 32 x 24 cm. xii, 85 pages. With eight Plates (complete) and Illustrations in Text. Quarter olive cloth over paper covered decorated boards. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.
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The English, Scotch and Irish Historical Libraries. Giving a Short View and Character of Most of our Historians, either in Print or Manuscript. With an Account of our Records, Law-Books, Coins &c. by W. Nicolson, Late Bishop of Carlisle to which is added a Letter to the Reverend White Kennet, D.D. in Defence of the English Historical Libray, &c.
A New Edition, Corrected. London, Printed for T. Evans and T. Becket, 1776. 29 x 23 cm. xii, 241 pages (English Library), (6), 114, (2) (Scotch Library), viii, 90, (2) (Irish Library). Library Binding. Dark cloth hard cover with red label on spine. Gilt title. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with some staining / discoloration (see images). Edges and end papers age darkened. Ex Library with a few small stamps on title page and verso of title page. No stamps internally. Occasional very mild foxing, but generally a bright and clean copy internally.
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Seeing Shelley Plain. Memories of New York’s Legendary Phoenix Book Shop.
First Edition. New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 23 x 15 cm. (8), 237 pages. With B&W Illustrations. Original cloth hard cover. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Top edge a little dust dulled.
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Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century with Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction.
First Edition. London, Chatto and Windus, 1882. 18.5 x 12 cm. xvi, 486 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth with gilt and black decorations and title on front board and spine. Appears to be recased, using new end papers. Very good condition. A little slant. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges age darkened. Ex Library with a few small stamps throughout.
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Ballads of Books. Books for the Bibliophile.
First Edition. New York, George J. Coombes, 1887. 16 x 10 cm. xiv, 174 pages. Small B&W Illustrations in text. Vellum with gilt decorations on boards and spine. Gilt title on brown spine label. Dentelles and marbled end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine age darkened. Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy.
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The Story of Wedgwood.
First Edition in this form. London, Faber and Faber, 1962 21 x 15 cm. 80 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Hard cover. In original dust jacket. Very good in fair dust jacket. Some shelf wear, rubbing anf bumping, Edges and end papers dust dulled and age darkened. A few small specks, but generally bright and clean. Dust jacket worn and age darkened, now in protective jacket.
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Modern First Editions: Points and Values: Second and Third Series.
First Limited Editions.289/1000 and 458/750. Two Volumes. London, W. & G. Foyle, 1931 & 1932. 23 x 14 cm. 2nd Series: xvii, 93 pages / 3rd Series: xxvii, 99 pages. Original black cloth with gilt titles on foreboards and spines. In original unclipped dust jackets (inside protective plastic jackets). Fore and tail edge deckle. Very good condition. 2nd Series inscribed by author on ffep. Printed on heavy stiff paper. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Some age darkening and dust dulling. Over all two very nice copies.
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English Monastic Life.
London, Methuen, 1904. 22 x 14 cm. xix, 326 pages plus 40 pages publishers list. Illustrated throughout, including foldout plans. Original red cloth with gilt titles on spine and front boards. Gilt decorations. Good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine faded, frayed and cracked. Water staining to many pages in the book, including frontispiece and title page. Edges age darkened. Internally clean with no annotations.
EUR 70,-- Order
London Pictures. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. With One Hundred and Thirty Illustrations.
First Edition. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1890. 27 x 19 cm. 223 pages with B&W Illustrations. Eight pages of publishers list. Orininal decorated cloth with gilt and blind decorations. Very good condition. Tight and clean. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Internally bright and clean.
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Printing. Some account of its invention, earlier writing forms, personalities and later developments in England.
First Edition, limited to 400 copies. This is copy 191, signed by the author. Self-published, December 1941. 32 x 21 cm. 33 pages. Several illustrations. Quarter vellum over paper covered boards. Gilt line decoration on boards and gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Mild rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.
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Report on Franciscan Manuscripts. Preserved at the Convent, Merchants’ Quay, Dublin. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of his Majesty.
Dublin, Printed for his Majesty’s Stationary Office by John Falconer, 1906. 24 x 15 cm. xii, 296 pages, x. Quarter black leather over green cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title and decorations on spine. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping to corners, spine and boards. Some fading / discoloration to boards. Browning to end papers. Internally very clean. Edges dust dulled. Small label glued to front paste down ( Waterford News – Printing and Binding Works)
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American Factory Production of Women’s Clothing.
First Edition. Limited Edition, copy no. 868. London, Devereaux Publications Ltd, 1947 24 x 19 cm, xvi, 251 pages with 24 full page plates. Original ‘velvet’ type dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Paper labels on front cover and spine. Binding seriously rubbed on corners and spine. Part of spine label missing. Internally very good condition. Minor amounts of foxing. Some age darkening.
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More Than Shadows. A Biography of W. Russell Flint R.A., P.R.W.S.
Signed by W. Russell Flint on half title. London & New York, The Studio, 1943. 16 x 24 cm, (8), 146 pages. With 136 Illustrations in Colour and B&W. Original blue cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt titles on spine Top edge blue. Very good condition. Some minor rubbing and bumping to corners and spine. Age darkened.
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Costume & Fashion. The Evolution of European Dress through the Earlier Ages. With Sixteen Full-Page Coloured Plates, Eight Half-Tone and over Three Hundred Line Drawings by the Author.
London & New York, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd & E.P. Dutton and Co. Inc., 1947. 19 x 25 cm, xv, 300 pages. Beautifully illustrated in colour and B&W throughout. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Book in excellent condition. Clean and tight. No annotations, but the name of the previous owner small on front paste down. Some foxing on end papers and edges. Dust jacket with just a little shelf wear, darkened and foxed. Dust jacket front corners both clipped. A very nice copy.
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