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  • An elaborately carved seventeenth-century oak 'Bible box'.

    # 34286

    Maker unknown.

    An elaborately carved seventeenth-century oak ‘Bible box’.

    English (?) oak box with elaborately carved foliation in relief, 265 mm tall x 485 mm wide x 430 mm deep, with iron reinforcements to the corners of lid and sides of the box, two iron handles, the lid with the lettered ‘IHS KMD’ in relief and the front panel with carved date ‘ANO 1647’; …

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  • Brittany

    # 34212

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Brittany

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Mortime Menpes. …

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  • Greek pictures drawn with pen and pencil

    # 34142

    MAHAFFY, J. P.

    Greek pictures drawn with pen and pencil

    London : The Religious Tract Society, 1890. Quarto, pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, a few light stains), all edges gilt, patterned endpapers with prize label to pastedown, pp. 222 with numerous wood engraved illustrations, occasional light foxing, a very good copy.

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  • Fiji before Civilization ... Dawn of Civilization ... Advance of Civilization ... Glorious Result of Civilization

    # 15593

    Maker unknown.

    Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization

    [Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …

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  • Bruegel : The Complete Graphic Works

    # 34313

    BASSENS, Maarten et al.

    Bruegel : The Complete Graphic Works

    London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 250, illustrated. One of the greatest Netherlandish artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) is best known today for his paintings of peasant life. Yet it was above all through his exceptional graphic work that he achieved widespread fame during the 16th century. This luxurious …

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  • The Book of Kells

    # 34312

    MEEHAN, Bernard

    The Book of Kells

    London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 256, illustrated. New copy. The Book of Kells is one of the great treasures of medieval Europe. Produced around 800, it presents a text of the Gospels employing decoration that is not only extraordinarily rich and colourful but also, in places, deeply …

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  • Raphael

    # 33514

    FAIETTI, Marzia

    Raphael

    Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 400, illustrated. New copy in shrinkwrap. A tribute to the master of Urbino on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death.The most important exhibition devoted to the painter in 2020. Published in collaboration with the greatest museums in the world, this monograph …

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  • [JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland

    # 5235

    [BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von, Archbishop of Uppsala (1746-1803)

    [JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland

    Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and …

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  • The sleeping beauty. (De luxe edition)

    # 31904

    EVANS, C. S. (1883 - 1944); RACKHAM, Arthur (1867 - 1939)

    The sleeping beauty. (De luxe edition)

    Told By C. S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann; Philadephia :J. B. Lippincott, 1920. Quarto, quarter-vellum over gilt-decorated papered boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, some toning from the glue, illustrated endpapers, pp. 110, top edge gilt, exquisitely illustrated by Arthur Rackham; light offsetting as commonly found. The Edition …

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  • Our Christmas festivities

    # 33461

    J. T. WOOD (LONDON)

    Our Christmas festivities

    London : J. T. Wood, 1859. Die-cut paper, 162 x 162 mm, folding to form a miniature triangular shapebook, longest side 115 mm; printed recto and verso in gold, with 14 vignette lithographs illustrating various aspects of a traditional Christmas as enjoyed by upper and middle-class English families: the pantomime, Blind Man’s Buff, the mistletoe, …

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  • Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings

    # 32926

    KLIMT, Gustave (1862 - 1918)

    Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings

    Cologne : Taschen 2012. Folio, 485 x 338 mm (weighs 7.7 kgs), cloth in dustjacket, pp. 676, illustrated. New copy. During his lifetime, Gustav Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high. He stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarized and divided the art-loving world. The press and …

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  • The virgin sperm dancer (signed presentation copy)

    # 33240

    LEVY, William (1939 - )

    The virgin sperm dancer (signed presentation copy)

    An ecstatic journey, of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, of her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. Written by William Levy; designed by Anthon Beeke; photographed by Ginger Gordon. The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1972 (second printing 1978 in Bavaria, Germany). Folio, illustrated wrappers (edges rubbed, repair to head of …

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  • A selection of facts from the best authorities : arranged so as to form an outline of the geology of England and Wales

    # 33232

    PHILLIPS, William (1775 - 1828)

    A selection of facts from the best authorities : arranged so as to form an outline of the geology of England and Wales

    London : Printed and sold by W. Phillips, 1818. Octavo, half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label, contemporary ownership inscription to title page, pp. 20; folding map; 240; folding plate; folding table; (10). A very good copy. An early geological survey of England and Wales.

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  • Carte générale de l'Europe, ou l'on voit le départ et le retour du Capne. Cook, dans ses differéns voyages.

    # 32580

    HERISSON, Eustache ; BONNE, Rigobert

    Carte générale de l’Europe, ou l’on voit le départ et le retour du Capne. Cook, dans ses differéns voyages.

    Dressée par Hérisson, Eleve de Mr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. A Paris : chez Basset Md d’Estampes Rue Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, no. 670, 1802. Copperplate engraving, original outline hand colour, 525 x 755 mm (image), old folds as issued, a fine example. Map of Europe showing the departures …

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  • Otakar Ševčík, violinist and influential pedagogue: autograph note, signed, on a postcard featuring a portrait of himself. Sent from Prague, and addressed to a music critic in Berlin, April 1904.

    # 32733

    ŠEVČÍK, Otakar (1852-1934)

    Otakar Ševčík, violinist and influential pedagogue: autograph note, signed, on a postcard featuring a portrait of himself. Sent from Prague, and addressed to a music critic in Berlin, April 1904.

    Prague : Mojmír Urbánek, [1904]. Postcard, 91 x 141 mm; on the left side of the recto is a photomechanical process portrait of Ševčík from a photograph by V. Donát, with a printed caption ‘PROF. OT. ŠEVČÍK’ at top centre; the right side is occupied by an autograph note by Ševčík written in German in pen, …

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  • Chirograph of assignment of land in the Parish of Llanegwad & Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, Wales, from Richard Winwood Esq., Edmond Denton Esq., and Thomas Darry Esq., to Anthony Morgan Esq. and Elizabeth, his wife, Francis Martin Esq., and Anthony Luther Esq., for 250 pounds of silver. Dated 13 August 1655.

    # 32972

    Chirograph of assignment of land in the Parish of Llanegwad & Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, Wales, from Richard Winwood Esq., Edmond Denton Esq., and Thomas Darry Esq., to Anthony Morgan Esq. and Elizabeth, his wife, Francis Martin Esq., and Anthony Luther Esq., for 250 pounds of silver. Dated 13 August 1655.

    Manuscript in ink on vellum, 280 x 580 mm; written in a notarial hand; a legal copy (chirograph) of the original document; verso annotated in ink ’13 August 1655 / Llanegwad & Llanfynydd / Chyrograph of assine’; old folds, but clean and legible; unframed. A well preserved Welsh land indenture from the English Interregnum, or English Commonwealth, the …

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