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The Trees of Old England: Sketches of the Aspects, Associations, and Uses of those which Constitute the Forests, and give Effect to the Scenery of our Native Country.
London: F. Pitman, 1868. [Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 96 [2]. With occasional in-text engravings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and blind decoration to boards. Dark brown coated endpapers. Browning throughout. Light rubbing to cloth. Some marks and soiling to upper board. Very good. More about The Trees of Old England: Sketches of the Aspects, Associations, and Uses of those which...
A Bird in the Bush.
London: Country Life, 1936. [Ornithology] LIMITED AUTOGRAPHED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8]; 146; [2]. Number 189 of 550 copies SIGNED to the limitation page in black ink by both Young (Lord Kennet) and Scott. With 23 illustrations including a frontispiece, being a mixture of colour plates and in-text wood... More about A Bird in the Bush
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale and Co., no date [1919]. [Hops and Agriculture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 120. With 30 illustrations, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with gilt titles and price of 10/6 to spine. A presentation copy with the plate of W.H. and H. Le May, London Hop... More about English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar. Stereotyped verbatim from the last folio edition corrected by the Doctor.
London: Joseph Ogle Robinson, 1828. [Johnson's Dictionary] VINTAGE EDITION, reprinted in small print from the 1773 edition. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xii; 42 [2]; 1369 [1]. With a steel engraved frontispiece after the portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Introductory material printed in two columns; main text printed in three columns... More about A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are deduced from their originals, and...
Creatures of Other Days: Popular Studies in Palaeontology.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1896. [Palaeontology] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (20 x 14), pp.xxiv; 270. With 24 full page half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a brown label on spine, and further gilt... More about Creatures of Other Days: Popular Studies in Palaeontology
Cafe Lehmitz.
AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy. First published in... More about Cafe Lehmitz
Frank Auerback: London Building Sites 1952-62.
London: The Courtauld Gallery, 2009. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.128. Illustrated in colour and black and white. With exhibition fliers loose to preliminaries. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More about Frank Auerback: London Building Sites 1952-62
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in... More about British Pop
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