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Augustin Haguette, de Saint-Denis, Départment de la Seine [Didot le jeune, Paris printer] 4to: viii + 47 pp. Disbound. On foxed paper with occasional light staining. On the title-page Haguette is described as 'Bachelier-ès-lettres; ex-Officier de santé des armées; ancien Elève de l'Ecole pratique et des hôpitaux civils de Paris.' 'No. 9.' in manuscript at head of the title-page.... |
£40.00 | |
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Bombay v Calcutta cricket week, 1884-1885 [Indian cricket; English cricketers in victorian India; the Raj; Lewis Carroll; Tenniel] Both photographs 23.5 x 18.5 cm, mounted on the sides of a leaf of discoloured paper removed from an album. Both in good condition, one with light fading to the extremities. Both pictures are elaborately-planned and well-executed. The first, filling the whole of the photographic paper, is... |
£100.00 | |
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Cécile Aubry Les vacances de Lumineux petit cheval de cirque. PRESENTATION COPY: inscribed on half-title 'Pour Louise | avec mon bien amical souvenir - | Cécile Aubry'. 32 pages, quarto. In printed coloured boards, with decorated endpapers. llustrated by Aubry in colour (one double-page and nine full page) and black and white (five vignettes) and red (... |
£60.00 | |
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Charles Cochelet Author of "Naufrage du Brick francais la Sophie, et captivite des naufrages dans le desert de Shara . . ." (published Paris 1821). One page, folio. IN FRENCH. He has the honour of sending them a copy of his book (as above) with his respects. He describes himself as "ancien payeur general en... |
£100.00 | |
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Charles Teste Two pages, folio, chipped with small loss of letters (e.g. the end of "Tribune"), mainly clear. He says: "Mon nom a figure ces jours-ci dans le moniteur et par suite dams plusieurs autres journaux de la capitale. Cette publicite m'oblige a parler de moi . . . Je me vois compris parmi ceux qui... |
£250.00 | |
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Davis & Harvey, auctioneers [Stanislaus Vincent Henkels, compiler of catalogue and auctioneer] [GEORGE WASHINGTON; WASHINGTONIANA] Octavo, 111 pages. 1098 lots. Six plates. Stitched and unbound. Addendum slip. In remains of original green printer wraps, with both covers loose and heavily chipped. On aged paper, with chipping to a handful of leaves. Partially unopened, and with damage to the last two leaves through clumsy... |
£50.00 | |
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Frederic Madden (1801-1873), scholar and librarian 2 p. ., [3]-16, [2] p. 22 cm, beige wraps chipped and worn, and partially detached, fair condition. Notes: Facsimile of Shakespeare’s autograph on t.-p.; "Reprinted from the Archaeologia, vol. XXXVII, pp. 113-123, with some corrections." It includes a 2pp. list of related books (Shakespeariana)... |
£25.00 | |
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Henry J. Wood, musical conductor, founder of The Proms. Photograph, head and shoulders, signed Fayer, c.19 x 23cm, with border and simple black frame. Inscribed below photograph: "To Miss Holden/ Nov: 1941 Sincerely Yours/ Henry J. Wood". |
£150.00 | |
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Henry Laxton, Victorian architect and author [Regent's Park; The Royal Botanic Society] Proposed plan for 'THE GARDENS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK.' One page. On wove paper roughly eleven inches by nine wide. Dimensions of image roughly five and a half inches by six and a quarter wide. Good clear image on aged paper with slight wear to extremities. Attractive representation, above initialed key describing twenty-seven of the Gardens'... |
£45.00 | |
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Hon. Russell Benedict, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York [The American Art Association] Octavo: 261 unpaginated pages. In original printed wraps. Internally sound and clean, in stained and creased wraps. Unobtrusive ownership mark of Myers & Co. of London on front wrap. Fifty full-page facsimiles of title-pages, etc. Foreword by Benedict, followed by Resume, beginning, 'The... |
£60.00 |
