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OGAWA Kazumasa, Murdoch James, Scenes from the Chiushingura and the Story of the Forty Seven Ronin, Tokyo 1892, folio wraps with 17 plates (1) £100 - 150
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OGAWA Kazumasa, A Model Japanese Villa, Tokyo 1899, folio wraps with 19 collotype photographic plates; Matsushima, folio wraps 6 collotype views (2) £100 - 150
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Japanese photo album, circa 1900, oblong folio, lacquered boards with 50 hand-tinted collotype photos, image size approx 27 x 20cm, 32 views including Tokyo, Yokohama and rural scenes, and 18 of people in everyday activities, in the style of OGAWA, probably by him or his contemporaries (1) £150 - 200
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BIGOT Georges, Croquis Japonais, Tokyo 1886, folio wraps, etched title and 19 plates, second etched title 'Le Jour de L'An and Japan', and 11 plates (1) £300 - 500
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WIRGMAN Charles (Ed.), Japan Punch, two different issues from May 1862, folio wraps, hand-stitched. This was Wirgman's first attempt to publish Japan Punch, which ceased, to be resumed again more successfully in 1865. Therefore these are scarce first issues (2) £100 - 200
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Folio album containing 14 Victorian illuminated sheets in medieval style, with calligraphy, illustrated borders and capitals in watercolour and gilt (some appear completely original, others on pre-printed outlines), with a watercolour, print and two photos (1) £80 - 120
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Victorian photo album, 4to, containing an assortment of 46 views (1) £60 - 80
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GOLDSCHMIDT Lucien and NAEF Weston J, The Truthful Lens, New York, Grolier Club, 1980, limited to 1000 copies, 4to cloth, fine copy in slipcase (1) £80 - 120
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HOME Charles (Ed.), Art in Photography, The Studio 1905; and Colour Photography, The Studio 1908, both volumes 4to cloth with tipped-in plates (2) £80 - 120
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19th century 4to album containing manuscript entries, watercolour and pencil sketches, and prints from 1830 onwards, and a collection of photographs of Euston Hall and Parsonage, and a portrait photograph of Lady Phipps (probably Countess of Mulgrave who died 1849). The photographs initialled MP on card mounts, possibly taken by Mary Phipps, daughter of the 5th Duke of Grafton, wife of Rev. A F Phipps, rector of Euston and son of Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave. Research indicates the calotype photographs were taken around 1845-1850. A few later photos are also included (1) £200 - 300
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Early 19th century album containing material collected and dated in the 1830s, including 98 handwritten slips granting admission to the House of Lords Gallery, signed by different issuing members; 70 postal covers signed by the senders, 10 wax seals and other signed ephemera, signatures include William Cobbett and Sir Robert Peel (1) £200 - 300
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Missale Ambrosianum ex decreto P11 1X PM Restitutum jussu 55 D.N. Leonis P.X111, recognitum Andreae Caroli, published Mediolani, Typis Jacobi Agnelli 1902, illustrated, Editio Typico, folio morrocco (1) £60 - 100
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Missale Gothicum secundam regulam Francisci Ximenii de Cisneros, Ludovicum Barbonium, Rome 1804, Apud Antonium Fulgonium Praesidium Facultate, folio morocco, gilt (1) £150 - 250
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CHAUCER Geoffrey, The Merchant's Tale and the Shipman's Tale, trans. into modern English by Neville Coghill, lithographs by Charles Mozley, limited edition of 1000 signed by artist, produced for John Deuss, large folio, 42 x 59cm, loose sheets in wraps in ribbon tied folder (1) £60 - 80
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BAINES Thomas, The Victoria Falls Zambesi River sketched on the spot... 1862, Bulawayo, Rhodesia Reprint Library 1969, large folio with portrait frontis and 11 colour views, fine in original cloth (1) £60 - 100
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BECKER Carl and HEFNER-ALTENECK Jakob Heinrich von, Kunstwerke und Geraethschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Frankfurt 1852-57-63, 3vols, folio, half morocco raised bands, rubbed at extremities, boards damp marked, content clean and sound, with 216 colour plates (3) £60 - 100
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LAMB Charles, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, London c.1885, 1st edition, illustrated by C O Murray, engraved in colour by R. Patterson, 8vo cloth (1) £30 - 50
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E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle), Beauty and the Beast, London circa 1875, worn cloth, shaken, complete with 10 plates (1) £40 - 60
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Dulac Edmund illustrator, Tanglewood Tales, London 1918, first edition, 15 plates (1) £40 - 60
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DE POL John, Ireland Remembered, Madison, New Jersey 1982, wraps, limited to 100 with a signed engraving by De Pol enclosed (1) £40 - 60
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PEAKE Mervyn, Captain Slaughterboard, London 1945, BAWDEN Edward, Life in an English Village, 1949 Penguin Books (2) £30 - 50
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FREEMAN H.W. (Suffolk Author), Collection of his work including first editions of all his novels, a biography, two signed mss letters, and a recipe written out by him (16) £140 - 180
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BELL Adrian, Silver Ley, New York 1931 (this includes Corduroy, the two being first published in one volume in the US); The Cherry Tree, New York 1932, both volumes first American editions published Dodd, Mead & Co, in dustwrappers (2) £50 - 70
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HILL Graham, Life at the Limit, London 1972, 4th impression, signed by author on title page, dustwrapper (1) £30 - 40
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COLLODI C, The Story of a Puppet or Adventures of Pinocchio, London, Fisher Unwin, 1892 1st English edition, illustrated by Enrico Manzzanti, 8vo original cloth worn, spine browned, front blank cut out leaving approx 1cm, gift inscription on reverse of frontis vignette plate (1) £80 - 120
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FRANCK Richard (1674-1708), Northern Memoirs, calculated from the Meridian of Scotland..., to which is added The Contemplative and Practical Angles, London 1694, 8vo, green morrocco, raised bands, gilt title, a.e.g. gilt dentelles, marbled end papers (pp.39/pp304), front blank inscribed in ink 'Isaac Reed 1794, this book is very scarce. See the notice Mr Pennant takes of it and of the author in his Tour of Scotland 1769...', further pencil notes in Reed's hand on rear blank. Isaac Reed 1742-1807, English Shakespearean editor, writer and biographer (see CBEL), very clean copy (1) £1200 - 1600
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OINOPHILUS Boniface de Monte Fiascone, Ebrietatis Encomium; or, the Praise of Drunkeness..., London 1723, 12mo, later cloth binding, library label front paste down e.p. and stamp on title page (1) £150 - 200
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Works of Flavius Josephus, translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, London, Richard Sore 1702, folio old calf re-backed, engraved frontis, 2 plates and 2 folding maps (1) £100 - 140
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Book of Common Prayer, circa 1880, 12mo bound with ivory on boards and spine, white metal corners, clasp, and SJR monogram on front, in original silk-lined black morocco box (1) £50 - 70
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Book of Common Prayer, London, John Murray 1845, large 8vo, full embossed decorative leather, re-backed, Owen Jones decoration, illuminated capitals, chromo-lithographs (1) £50 - 70
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16th century hand-painted leaf and printed leaf with hand-painted capitals, possibly from a Book of Hours (Rouen 1510), both framed and glazed to each side (2) £400 - 500
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LYNDE Humphrey, Via Devia; the By-Way..., London 1630, 12mo, old leather re-backed, edges of preliminary pages repaired (1) £50 - 70
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BACON Francis, Letters... Written during the Reign of King James the First, London, Benj. Tooke 1702, first edition, 4to, calf, re-backed, lacks portrait, errata and advert leaf at end (1) £50 - 70
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KIRBY William & SPENCE William, An Introduction to Entomology, London 1818-1826, 4vols, 8vo, full calf, 2 engraved portraits and 30 plates, some coloured £80 - 120
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GENT A.S. The Gentleman's Compleat Jockey: with the Perfect Horseman and Experienc'd Farrier. London 1700. 12mo, old calf, repaired. (1) £500 - 800
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TAYLOR J.E., In and About Ancient Ipswich, Norwich 1888, 4to, half calf, edition limited to 350, 50 full page illustrations by Percy F. Stimpson (1) £50 - 70
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KIPLING Rudyard, Departmental Ditties, London, Thacker & Co 1897, 9th edition, limited deluxe large paper edition of 150 copies with two extra illustrations, 8vo, half vellum, a 4-page mss poem 'Diana of Ephesus' enclosed. Apparently this was never reprinted after the third edition £50 - 70
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KITCHINER William, The Cook's Oracle, London 1823, half green calf; The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1859, vols. 7 and 8 in one volume, half calf; and one other (3) £100 - 120
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PHILLIPS Stephen, Paolo & Francesca, London 1900, 8vo, rare binding by Miss M Marshall and Edith J. Gedye, their collaborative monogram M&G 1903 on rear dentelle, tan calf, raised bands, with gilt trefoil pattern (1) £200 - 300
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A circa 1810 John Rose Coalport Japan pattern dessert service, each piece decorated in the Imari palette and heightened in gilt with a willow tree and two blue rocks within a fenced garden, with radiating panel border, comprising; twelve dessert plates, five oval dishes, one kidney shaped dish, one square dish, one oval pedestal bowl, and a pair of plates (22) £800 - 1200
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An early 19th century Minton Amherst Japan pattern part tea service, comprising; teapot (riveted), twelve various teacups, ten various saucers, twelve tea plates, six various side plates, cream jug, slop bowl, pair of soup bowls, pair of square cake plates. Each decorated in the Imari palette, printed backstamp 'Amherst Japan No.824', some repairs, restoration and handling wear throughout £60 - 80
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An early 19th century Derby porcelain part dinner service, decorated in the Imari palette and heightened in gilt, comprising; 30 dinner plates, 13 soup bowls, pair of meat plates, vegetable tureen and cover, oval sauce tureen and cover on stand, pedestal circular sauce tureen and cover on stand, puce marks, circa 1784-1840 with a small number of later examples and many subtle variations between pieces £400 - 600
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A late Victorian Crown Derby earthenware strawberry dish, with cream jug, sugar and serving spoon, all decorated in the Imari palette and heightened in gilt, impressed mark verso, circa 1878-1900, w.27cm £80 - 120
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A Victorian George Jones bisque figure group, modelled as a standing maiden and child before a mirror adorned with cherubs, heightened in gilt, monogram seal to base, h.28cm £70 - 100
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A pair of Victorian George Jones bisque figures, modelled as seated maidens, one with attendant cat, all heightened in gilt, both with monogram seal marks verso, h.17cm £100 - 150
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A pair of Moorcroft MacIntyre glazed pottery twin handled vases, in the 18th century pattern, each with finely stylised tube-lined floral decoration, the borders heightened in gilt, printed MacIntyre Burslem England backstamp, and further green painted signature W. Moorcroft verso, h.25cm £300 - 500
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A Copeland Art Union of London Parian figurine 'Innocence', stamped to the plinth, h.42cm £200 - 300
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An extensive late 19th century Meissen porcelain part dinner service, comprising; 20 dinner plates, 10 side plates, 10 tea plates, 10 soup bowls, large oval meat platter, large circular bowl, three graduated oval bowls, fruit bowl, and twin handled gravy boat on integral stand, each decorated in bright enamels with sprays of flowers on a white ground and within gilt borders, underglaze blue crossed sword mark verso £1500 - 2000
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A Bing & Grondahl of Copenhagen porcelain six place setting dinner service, in the Seagull pattern, comprising; six dinner plates, six side plates, six soup bowls and covers on stands, meat plate, pair of vegetable tureens and covers, three cake plates, four comports, gravy boat, sauceboat, coffee pot, cream jug, lidded sugar, six coffee cans and saucers, and a pair of candle holders, each stamped and numbered verso, all heightened in gilt (52) £400 - 600
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