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Collector's Miscellany: The Iliad of Homer, Cresset Press, 1928. 1st. (Limited) Ed. No. 13/725. Folio, quarter Japanese vellum and buckram binding, gilt on spine, teg. Tolstoy L.: Anna Karenina, 1951. Vol. 1 only. 8vo. qtr. cloth binding. This appears to be a proof copy featuring only colour illustrations with manuscript annotations detailing fonts and format to be adopted. Together with two other titles.(Total 4 items £20 - £30
518 Westwood J.: The Cabinet of Oriental
Entomology - A selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects. 1848. Qto., cloth gilt. Three exquisitely detailed hand coloured engraved plates, plus one other uncoloured. Effectively this title was a promotional volume designed to advertise the proposed two volume work to be published with 42 plates. The book features the name of entomologist 'Harry Moore' in manuscript on the fep and a library label indicating the book came from 'The Henry Moore Collection'.
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A.L. Rowse Collection: The England of Elizabeth, 1950. Signed dedication from Rowse on the fep. together with several pieces of correspondence between A.G. Dickens and himself. Handasyde E. Granville the Polite, 1933 (scarce); Froude J.: Lord Beaconsfi eld, 1891. Both titles from Rowse's own library with pencilled annotations and notes. Together with Ollard R.: A Man of Contradictions, A Life of Contradictions, 1999.
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Blyton E.: Go Ahead Secret Seven, 1953. 1st. Ed. Five Go To Camp, 1954. Both 8vo Hb + Dj; No inscriptions. djs. not price clipped. £30 - £40
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Classics of Medicine Library: Celsus: De Medicina, (C. 50 A.D.) 1989; Jacobi A.: Intestinal Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, (1887) 1993; Osler W.: Principles and Practice of Medicine, (1892) 1978; The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare, (1561) 1951; Withering W.: An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses, (1785) 1979; Sparrman A.: The Diseases of Children and their Remedies, (1776) 1984. All titles 8vo in a fi ne, gilt faux binding, aeg with a silk register. (Total 6 items).
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.25: Chin Chin Kobakama (Translated into English by Lafcadio Hearn), Nd. C. 1910. Colour illustrations from woodblocks on crepe- de-chine paper folded 'concertina' style, bound with silk ties.
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Avray Tipping H.: Grinling Gibbons and the Wood-Work of His Age, 1914. 1st. Ed. Atlas folio, qtr. binding in faux vellum and grained wood. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographic plates & line drawings.
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