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Relating to Blyton (Enid) A page of original watercolour artwork "Noddy Says..." with alphabet border and characters from Blyton's books, by Harmsen van der Beek, 27.5 x 22cms (unframed) (purchased at the auction of original Noddy Artwork, London, May 2000. £30 - 50
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Mackenzie (E.) A Descriptive and Historical Account of... Newcastle upon Tyne... Volume I [all published], 4to, old leather, engraved plates, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1827, from the library of Charles Catcheside Warrington. £30 - 50
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A Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick... Second edition, 8vo, boards, folding engraved frontispiece and plates, Alnwick, 1822. £100 - 150
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Hutchinson (W.) The History of the Following Places in Northumberland, 4to, half calf, engraved plates, Alnwick, Catnach, [n.d.]. £100 - 200
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Dixon (David Dippie) Upper Coquetdale, 4to, morocco-backed cloth, frontispiece, plates, copy no. 21 of 200 deluxe copies, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1903, bookplate of R. Oliver Heslop. £100 - 200
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Richardson (M.A.) The Borderer's Table Book, 8 vol in 4, 8vo, cloth, illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1846. £80 - 120
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Mackenzie (E.) An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View... of Northumberland... Second edition, 2 vol, 4to, red half calf, frontispieces and plates, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1825. £50 - 80
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Rose (T.) Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland Illustrated, 4to, half morocco, engraved title-page, plates, 1832; Boyle (J.R.) Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, 4to, cloth, frontispiece, plates & illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1890; Boyd (Julia, ed.) Bewick Gleanings, small 4to, half morocco, portrait, engraved plates, illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1886, and 6 others (9). £100 - 200
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The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, 1888 [-1891], 4 vol, 4to, half morocco (vol 1), printed wrappers (vol 2-4), frontispieces, illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, [1888-91], with 10 separate reprinted issues (14). £40 - 80
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Northumberland County History Committee, A History of Northumberland, 15 vol, 4to, red cloth gilt, plates and illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne & London, 1893-1940. £300 - 400
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Taylor (James) The Pictorial History of Scotland, 2 vol, 8vo, half calf, g.e., additional engraved titles, frontispieces, plates, maps, 1859.
£80 - 120
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Mackenzie (E.) An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland... Second edition... 2 vol in 1, 4to, half calf, engraved frontispieces and plates, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1825. £50 - 100
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Brand (John) The History and Antiquities of... Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 vol, 4to, contemporary diced russia, engraved frontispieces, title-pages and plates, 1789. £200 - 300
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Rose (T.) Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, Illustrated... by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, &c., 4to, half calf, engraved plates, additional engraved title-page, 1832. £50 - 100
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Hutchinson (William) A View of Northumberland with an Excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland, 2 vol, 4to, later half calf, engraved title-pages and dedication leaf, plates & illustrations, folding table, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1778, bookplate of H. C. Embleton. £80 - 120
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[Drake (Francis)] An Accurate Description of the Cathedral and Metropolical Church of St Peter, York... Second edition, with additions, 12mo, sheep, 13 (of 14?) folding engraved plates, [ESTC T60999], York, 1783, early ownership stamp of Mr James Dale on flyleaf, bookplate of J. Blackwood Greenshields. £40 - 80
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Hodgson (John) A History of Northumberland, 3 parts in 6 vol, 4to, cloth-backed boards (1 vol), modern boards, illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1820-58. £40 - 80
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Brand (John) The History and Antiquities... of the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 vol, 4to, modern half calf, engraved frontispieces, title-pages and plates, 1789. £100 - 150
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Greenwood & Co., Map of the County of Northumberland, contemporary calf box, in 6 sheets, backed on linen, hand-coloured, 15 December 1828. £100 - 200
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Raine (James) The History and Antiquities of North Durham, folio, half morocco, uncut, engraved portrait and plates, illustrations, 1852. £70 - 100
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Surtees (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 4 vol, folio, modern cloth, engraved plates, ex-library copy with stamps, 1816-40. £200 - 300
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Rivière (Lazare) The Practice of Physick in Seventeen Several Books, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, early manuscript lists of contents and medical receipts in Latin and English on front pastedown and tipped in at end, [ESTC R31179], London, J. Streater, 1668. £200 - 300
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Ogilvie (John) The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific, 3 vol, large 8vo, contemporary calf, frontispiece, illustrations, Glasgow, Edinburgh & London, 1856, and one other (4). £30 - 50
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Langley (Batty) New Principles of Gardening... Second edition, 4to, blond calf, 26 folding engraved plates of garden and maze designs, extra-illustrated with 42 hand-coloured botanical plates 1739.
The additional plates are from various sources, including the Encyclopaedia londinensis and Flora danica.
See illustration £2000 - 3000
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The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 3 vol, 8vo, contemporary calf, half titles, engraved frontispiece and additional title-pages, plates, 1790, bookplate of Sir William H. Cooper, Bart., and 2 others (5). £80 - 120
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Hume (David), Tobias Smollett and Edward Farr, The History of England, 3 vol, large 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved portraits, one additional engraved title-page, plates, [1850].
£40 - 80
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Hume (David) and William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, 4 vol, large 8vo, half morocco, frontispiece and plates, [c. 1880?].
£30 - 50
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Dolby (I. E. A., ed.) The Journal of the Household Brigade for the Year 1862 [1864-66, 1868-71 & 1873], 9 vol, 8vo, red and blue cloth gilt, frontispieces, plates, [1862-73]. £50 - 80
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Bismarck (Friedrich Wilhelm von) Bismark's Tactics and Manoeuvres of Cavalry, translated from the German by Major N. Ludlow Beamish... Second edition, 8vo, half morocco, 23 engraved plates (some folding), errata leaf at end, 1830. £50 - 80
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Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 vol, [c. 1790]-1797; The Antiquities of Scotland, 2 vol, 1797; The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vol, 1791-97, 4to, uniform half calf, engraved frontispieces, title-pages, plates & maps (12).
£400 - 600
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Spengler (Oswald) The Decline of the West, 2 vol, 8vo, cloth, [n.d.]; The Bhagava Gita, Translation by Juan Mascaro... Illustrations by Anna Bhushan, large 8vo, cloth-backed pictorial boards, slipcase, colour frontispiece & illustrations, The Folio Society, 2011 (3). £50 - 100
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Beerbohm (Max) Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story, 12mo, cloth, 1911, first edition. £20 - 40
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, facsimile illuminated manuscript by William Morris, 12mo, red morocco gilt, slipcase, copy no. 245 of 850, Oxford, 1981.
William Morris made this manuscript of the English translation of the Rubaiyat in 1872. According to a facsimile note on the manuscript of 1908 some of the figures in the borders were designed by Edward Burne-Jones. £50 - 100
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Buchan (John) Montrose, 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket, portrait, 1928; Sir Walter Scott, 8vo, cloth, portrait, 1932; Oliver Cromwell, 8vo, boards, portrait, 1934; The King's Grace, 1910-1935, 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket, colour portrait, 1935; Augustus, 8vo, cloth, portrait, 1937; Memory Hold-the-Door, 8vo, cloth, portrait, 1940, all first editions, with 2 others by Buchan (8). £80 - 120
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Kingsley (Charles) Westward Ho!, 1889; Hypatia, 1889; Alton Locke, 1890; Two Years Ago, 1890; Hereward the Wake, 1890, 8vo, cloth, printed labels on upper covers, advertisements at end of each vol (5). £30 - 60
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Dickens (Charles) The Personal History of David Copperfield, 8vo, half calf, engraved frontispiece & additional title from a later edition, illustrations, [n.d.], first edition. £40 - 60
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Wesley (John) The Works... Third edition. With the Last Corrections of the Author, 16 vol, 8vo, contemporary russia gilt, g.e., engraved portrait, 1829-31, presentation inscription from Woodhouse Grove School to the Rev. James Brownell, 16 October 1835, on flyleaf. £100 - 150
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Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 4 vol, 8vo, calf, Oxford, 1863. £30 - 50
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Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 3 vol, 4to, roan leather gilt, plates, Cambridge, 1830; another edition, 4to, black morocco, Oxford, 1852 (4).
£50 - 100
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Bridoul (Toussain) The School of the Eucharist, 4to, old calf-backed boards, lacking the initial imprimatur leaf, [ESTC R9439], London, 1687; [Patrick (J.)] A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church Relating to the Eucharist, advertisement leaf at end, lacking half-title, [ESTC R13660], London, 1688; [Clagett (W.) A Paraphrase with Notes... Upon the Sixth Chapter of St. John, initial imprimatur leaf, [ESTC R20612], London, 1686; [Payne (W.)] A Discourse of the Communion in One Kind, initial imprimatur leaf and final advertisement leaf, [ESTC R12583], London, 1687; [Dufour de Longuerue (L.)] A Treatise... Touching Transubstantiation, initial imprimatur leaf, [ESTC R37310], London, 1687; [Johnson (S.)] The Absolute Impossibility of Transustantiation Demonstrated, final advertisement leaf (in 1st state), lacking initial imprimatur leaf, manuscript notes in margins, [ESTC R1336], London, 1688; [La Placette (J.)] Six Conferences Concerning the Eucharist, half-title, lacking initial advertisement leaf, [ESTC R5182], London, 1687; Transubstantiation a Peculiar Article of the Roman Catholick Faith, [ESTC R10649], London, 1688; [Kidder (R.)] A Second Dialogue Between a New Catholick Convert and a Protestant, [ESTC R17457], London, 1687, 9 works in one vol, ownership inscription of Robert Watson, Newcastle, 2 December 1815.
A collection of nine pamphlets concerning the eucharist and transubstantiation, including one by Samuel Johnson. £200 - 300
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Acht-en-Dertig Konstige Zinnebeelden, 4to, later leather-backed boards, 38 engraved devices, Amsterdam, 1737.
See illustration £100 - 150
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Book of Common Prayer... Together with the Psalter, folio, contemporary blue morocco gilt, dentelle border, arms of George II on sides, g.e., remains of silk ties, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, ruled in red throughout, London, Thomas Baskett, 1754, red morocco gilt book-label 'Kensington Chapel, 1754' on front pastedown.
See illustration £800 - 1200
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Armstrong (John) The History of the Island of Minorca, 8vo, contemporary calf, folding engraved map and 2 plates, half title, 1752, first edition.
See illustration £150 - 250
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Beeckman (Daniel) A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, in the East-Indies, 8vo, contemporary calf, 2 engraved maps and 4 (of 5) plates, half-title, [ESTC T144361], 1718, first edition, bookplate of Rolle.
See illustration £300 - 500
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Sonnerat (Pierre) Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, 2 vol, 4to, contemporary calf, 140 engraved plates, half-titles, Paris, 1782, from the Society of Writers to the Signet, with gilt stamps on covers and inscriptions on title-pages, first edition.
See illustration £500 - 800
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Crawfurd (John) History of the Indian Archipelago, 3 vol, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispieces and 31 (of 34) plates (one coloured), folding map coloured in outline, half-titles, Edinburgh, 1820, from the King's Inn Library, Dublin, with stamps, first edition. £80 - 120
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Belcher (Sir Edward) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang... Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, 2 vol, 8vo, modern half calf, engraved frontispieces and 28 plates (some coloured), 4 (of 5) maps, 1848, from the Admiralty Library, with stamps on title pages. £200 - 300
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Keppel (Hon. Henry) The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy... Third Edition, 2 vol, 8vo, half morocco, one frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, 1847. £80 - 120
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Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie Antoinette, 2 vol, 8vo, vellum gilt, portrait, London, 1823, signatures of James Hamilton Lyon on title-pages.
£30 - 50
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Sitwell (Osbert) Sing High! Sing Low!, 1944; Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations, 1950; Winters of Content and Other Discursions, 1950; The Four Continents, 1954; Sitwell (S.) Spain, 1950; Portugal and Madeira, 1954; Sitwell (S.) and F. Bamford, Edinburgh, 1948, 8vo, cloth, dust-jackets, plates, first editions (7). £80 - 120
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