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[Golf scene]
[Golf] ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON COPPER. Original painting of a golfing scene, twentieth century, unsigned. Presented in a decorative gilt frame. Image size approximately 19 x 39cm, total frame size 30 x 50cm. Some slight wear to frame. Fine. More
The Golfer's Manual. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the National Game of Scotland by 'A Keen Hand' and originally Published in 1857 and now Reprinted with an Introduction by Bernard Darwin.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood..... More
Family Secrets. or hints to those who would make home happy.
London: Fisher, Son and Co., no date [1843]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm). Brown half calf over brown cloth sides, gilt titles on darker brown calf squares to spine. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and half title page plus another twenty-five plates spread between..... More
A Book of Designs of Deep Sea Racing Craft. Issued Under the Auspices of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.
London: Ernest J. Day and Company, [1932]. FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto, pp.viii, 116. Bound in full dark blue Morocco with gilt emblem to upper board, later respine to style. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Introduction by Malden Heckstall-Smith, followed by 116 pages of plans. Some light spotting to prelims, some..... More
The Botanical Pocket-Book. With Observations on Some of the Rare Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1840. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.v; [1]; 179; [1]; [one of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green textured cloth with paper labels to spine and upper board. Hand-coloured folding plate of Dentaria Bulbifera facing title page. Bookplate of W. H. Hills to pastedown, some..... More
Die grosse feuersbrunst zu New-York, am 19. juli 1845. Vollständigste schilderung nach den berichten von augenzeugen und amerikan. blättern. Mit einer getreuen abbildung der explosion in Broad-street und dem namensverzeichnisse sämmtlicher abgebrannten und ihrer geschäfte.
Hamburg: Berendsohn, 1845. [History] Pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.28, original printed yellow covers. Frontispiece plate of the explosion at Crocker and Warren. Text in German. Short tear to upper, neat archival support to fold. Near fine. A remarkable survival. More
L'Historien Vertueux ou le Modele de l'Adolescence et de la Jeunesse. Dedie au jeune age.
Paris: Louis Janet, 1822. Sextodecimo. Bound in beige paper boards, all edges gilt. Binding shows wear, particularly to corners and spine ends. Text shows some spotting, including to illustrations. A calendar is printed at the rear. The title of one notable and worringly un-ironic plate is, roughly translated, "The charity..... More
The Life and Times of Dick Whittington: An Historical Romance.
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in original publishers cloth, rebacked; boards decorated with blind panelling, with gilt titles, and gilt portrait of Whittington and cat to spine; all edges uncut. With 22 illustrations. Binding is rubbed, gilt to spine somewhat faded. Text is clean, but illustrations show..... More
Neues Panorama Des Rheins Von Mannheim Bis Coln; and, The Rhine From Maynece To Cologne.
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative..... More
The Rocky Horror Show: Mask of Columbia.
Los Angeles: Michael White Productions, n.d. [1974]. EPHEMERA FROM ROCKY HORROR SHOW U.S. OPENING. Card cut out mask of Columbia, approximately 26cm x 19cm with removable eyes and mouth, printed with production notes printed on the rear. Produced as a promotional item for the U.S. opening at the Roxy Theatre..... More
Royal Kalendar and Court and City for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies for the Year 1829.
London: T.C. Hansard, 1829. Octavo. Bound in recent half brown calf over marbled paper boards, with raised bands and red label to spine. Binding is tight, and shows well. Internally clean, with ownership inscription written neatly on title page and repeated above the entry for the king. An invaluable assistant..... More
The Ruhleben Bye-Election - July 1915.
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which..... More
Scenes and Recollections. By the author of "The Gaol Chaplain."
London; Dean and Son. n.d. [1850's]. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's elaborately decorated red moire cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt and black to spine and boards. Light wear to extremities, strong bright and solid, some dulling to the gilt, most notably to the spine. Fraying to head of spine..... More
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
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The James Bond 007 Annual [1968].
Manchester: Published by World Distributors [by arrangement with Eon Productions / Glidrose Publications], 1968. [Film annual] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.93 (the pagination, as with all copies, is awry, beginning at p.4). Publisher's glossy boards without jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout including several colour photographs..... More
A Panoramic View From Bunker Hill Monument.
Boston, MA: Luther Stevens, c.1848. LARGE FOLD-OUT. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp. 16; [1], panoramic fold-out. Bound in publisher's dark green card boards, cloth spine, Victorian lettering and presentation of publisher's details printed in black to front cover, matching decorative border to rear. Some discolouration to front board and noticeable..... More
The Little Child's Gift; Illustrated by Emblematic Figures.
Boston, Munroe and Francis n.d. 112 x 138 mm. Publisher's yellow paper boards, pp. 64. Containing drawings and descriptions of numerous animals, insects and birds, plus several short stories and word games. Lacks lower board, upper corners rubbed, crack along hinge. Internally very good. Not in Osborne. More
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