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Binding. Levesque, Catherine. Le Triomphe de la Croix, Paris 1668. 8vo., cont. French red morocco gilt with arms and initials on sides, a.e.g. According to a pencilled note in the hand of the Comte de Lignerolles this is the dedication copy to Marie-Therese d'Autriche. Bookplate of G. Nordback
see illustration
£1000-2000
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Lauremberg, Peter. Horticultura; Apparatus Plantarius Primus, 2 parts in one, Frankfurt 1706. Small 4to., orig. vellum. Engraved titles, plates and text illustrations (text browned)
£300-500
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Paschal, Carlo. Regis in Sacro Consistorio Consiliarii et Apud Rhaetos Legati Coronae, Paris 1610. Narrow 4to., cont. red morocco gilt, a.e.g.
£150-200
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Buffon, Comte G.L.L. Natural History, Barr's Edition, 16 vols., 1808 - 10. 8vo., cont. calf gilt (some wear to spines, one defective). Engraved plates (16)
£200-300
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Buffon, Comte G.L.L. Histoire Naturelle, 38 vols., Paris c. 1770. 12mo., cont. mottled calf. Engraved plates (38)
£300-500
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Eragny Press. Steele, R., ed. Some Old French and English Ballads, 1905. One of 200 copies on paper. Printed in red and black. 8vo., orig. boards (spine just split). Presentation copy inscribed to Auguste Lepere by Lucien Pissasrro
£200-300
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Eragny Press. Rossetti, C.G. Verses, 1906. One of 185 copies. 8vo., orig. boards (spine split). Presenetation copy inscribed "To Nelun & Surya Sena from Esther & Lucien Pissarro Many Happy Returns of the 'Great Day' "With related ALS from Esther Pissarro loosely inserted
£200-300
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Mayer, Luigi. Views in Egypt…, Thomas Bensley, 1804. Second Edition, Folio, later half maroon morocco. 48 hand coloured plates
see illustration
£400-600
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Maillard, Charles Thomas, Cardinal de Tournon. Nouvelles de la Chine, Recues a Rome par la Voye d'Espagne, n.p., 1711. 12mo., modern boards
£80-120
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Audebert, J.B. Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis, Paris 1798 - 99. Folio, cont. diced Russia gilt (upper cover detached, some wear). 2 uncoloured plates and 60 printed in colours and finished by hand (lacks plate le vari, occasional foxing and light staining at edges. Bookplate of Chester Library
see illustration
£1000-2000
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Gregory IX, Pope. Decretales. [Paris] B. Rembolt [1507]. Large folio, old calf, modern reback, new endleaves). Printed in red and black (some damage to title and staining to edges of first 2 gatherings)
£300-500
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Melville, Herman. Typee. Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Marquesas Islands, 1846. First issue. 8vo., blue diced calf gilt (stamp on title)
£200-300
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Voltaire, F.M.A.de. Lettres Ecrites de Londres sur les anglois et Autres Sujets. Basle 1734. 8vo., later qtr. calf (title soiled and with names)
£100-200
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Gaignol, Claude. Heures Nouvelles. Dedicated to the Duchess of Aiguillon, Manuscript, 1754. 8vo., cont. French red morocco gilt, a.e.g, pink silk endleaves. Early ms. bookplate and later bookplate of A. Brdemann
see illustration
£1000-1500
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[Allix, Pierre]. Reflexions sur les cinq livres de Moyse…, Londres 1687. 8vo., cont. black morocco gilt, and 4 others, bindings (5)
£200-300
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Malingre, Claude. Histoire des Dignitez Honoraires de France, Paris 1636. 8vo., cont. vellum. John Evelyn copy with JE bookplate from Christies' sales in 1977 - 78
£200-300
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Cook, James and James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. 3 vols., Text only, Dublin 1784. Engraved portrait - Cook, James and George Forster. A Voyage Round the World, 4 vols., Dublin 1777. 6 engraved plates (lacks chart). 8vo., cont. calf (worn). W.a.f. (7)
£100-150
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Charlevoix, P.F.X. de. Histoire de L'Etablissement, des Progres et De la Decadence du Christianisme dans L'Empire du Japon, 3 vols., Rouen 1715. 8vo., cont. calf (2 spines with loss at heads) (3)
£300-500
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Buffon, Comte G.L.L. Three sets of Histoire Naturelle, 23 vols., v.y. 19th c., (worn, dampstained). W.a.f. (23)
£100-150
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Naumann, J.A. Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas, ed. Dr. Carl Hennicke. 12 vols., Gera-Untermhaus [1895 - 97] 1905. Folio, orig. half cloth boards. Chromolithographic plates (12)
£500-700
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Rabelais, F. Les Oeuvres. Anvers 1573. 16mo., cont. calf spine gilt (some wear). Title within woodcut border. With another volume (2)
£200-400
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Hippocrates. Opera Omnia, ed. Anutio Foesio. Frankfurt, Wechel, 1596. 8vo., cont. vellum (binding and text browned)
£200-400
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Polydore Vergil. Anglicae Historiae 2 vols., Ghent, Cornelius Manilius, n.d. (c. 1556 - 57). Small 8vo., old half vellum (possibly lacking final leaf in vol 2). W.a.f. (2)
£80-120
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Aesop. Vita et Fabulae…, Paris, Antonio Bonnemere 1535. 8vo., cont. blind tooled pigskin (wear to spine, a few scribbles on title).
£600-800
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Foix, Paul de, Archbp. Les Lettres…escrites au Roy Henry III, Paris 1628. 8vo., 19th c. qtr. red morocco - Barclay, John. Argenis. Leiden & Rotterdam Hackiana 1664; Archombrotus et Theopompus sive Argenidis…, the same 1669. 2 vols., 8vo., cont. calf gilt. Engraved title. With 10 other volumes (13)
£300-400
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Oronce, Fine. De Rebus Mathematicis hactenus desideratis, Libri IIII, Paris, Michael Vascosan 1556. Folio, cont. calf gilt (old reback, stained). Woodcut diagrams in text (crossings out on title)
£300-400
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Notitia Utraque cum Orientis tum Occidentis ed. S. Gelenius, Basle, Froben 1552. Folio, half calf (worn, rebacked). 106 wood engravings, Woodcut initials (final leaf repaired, title lightly stained with 2 crossings out)
£400-600
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Conciones sive Oratiiones ex Graecis Latinisque historicis excerptae. Geneva, H. Stephanus, 1570. Folio, cont. calf (binding worn, piece cut from title. Bookplate of Dr. John Keate (headmaster of Eton).
£100-200
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Lawrence, DH Lady Chatterley. Version Premiere Traduite de L'Anglais. Lithographies Originales en Couleurs de Schem. Limited Edition, Paris, Deux Rives 1956, Loose in cloth portfolio as issued - Toulet, P - J. Les Tendres Menages, Aquarelles de Jean Moral. "Maitresse", Editions Rombaldi, Paris 1944. No 32 of 40 on Hollande, 8vo., cont. half red morocco, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Hand coloured illustrations (2)
£300-400
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Goncourt, E. & J. de. Histoire de Marie-Antoinette, Paris 1878. Small folio, cont. qtr. blue morocco gilt, t.e.g. Coloured portrait frontispiece, illustrations by Giacomelli (portrait loose, some spotting to text). With 10 others, various (11)
£100-200
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A large quantity of hardback and paperback volumes including detective stories etc.
£50-70
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Miscellaneous art reference (a quantity)
£50-70
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Shakespeare (W) The Plays and Poems, 8 volumes first American Edition, Philadelphia 1795/6 most with bookplate of Nimrod H Moor and The Winters Tale from Shakespeare Folio 1632, in card binding together with Cervantes, Don Quixote; illustrated Gustave Doré, published Cassell Petter and Galpin and sundry leather bound volumes
£100-150
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A cast and wrought iron weather vane decorated with duck taking off from a pond, 183.5cm high
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A painted wooden garden bench and a wooden table
£80-120
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An Eastern rug, the field of trellis design within a plum coloured border, 150cm x 81cm and two other decorative rugs
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An Eastern prayer rug, the field of stars within a herringbone border, 113cm x 70cm and two other Eastern rugs
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A large Turkey carpet with stylised motifs in blue and green to a red ground within a multi-field border, 416cm x 473cm
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A mahogany drop-leaf table, circa 1800, with rectangular leaves on square chamfered legs, 122cm wide
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