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Smith (Adam), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, with a life of the author, an introductory discourse, notes and supplementary dissertations by J R McCulloch, first McCulloch edition, 4 vols, 19th century full calf, labels, 1828.
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Prescott (William H), Works, 12 vols, finely bound in full brown calf, red and green labels, marbled edges, 1879. (12)
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Arthur (Captain Sir George), The Story of the Household Cavalry, vol I and vol 2 (a third volume was published 17 years later), large paper copy, original half red morocco, 1909.
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Lloyd's Register of Yachts 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1937, 11 vols, obl 8vo, original green cloth, fine copies with the stamp of Lionel de Rothschild. (11)
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Handbook of the 40-50 HP Rolls-Royce Car (Phantom III) with Instructions Book for the 16/22 hp Napier Cars type 64; and 6 other motoring.
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Humboldt (Mary de), Views in Nassau in the Vicinity of Kronberg From Sketches Taken in the Autumn of 1834, 12 plates, little foxing, original cloth ack boards, Ackermann, 1841, 2 copies.
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Fenton (Mr), International Monetary Conference in Paris in August 1878, Proceedings and Exhibits, original cloth, Washington, 1879; together with Nicholson (J Shield), Principles of Political Economy, second edition, 3 vols, 1902; with Gilbart (J W), The History, Principles and Practice of Banking, 2 vols, half brown calf, 1882; and 1 other. (7)
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De Quincy (Thomas), Works, fourth edition, 16 vols, finely bound in full brown calf, dark brown and green labels, marbled edges, A and C Black, 1878.
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Lecky (W E H), A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, fourth edition, 8 vols, full maroon calf, decorated in gilt, marbled edges, 1888.
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Jewitt (L), The Ceramic Art of Great Britain, 2 vols, first edition, 1878; Passavant, Raphael of Urbino, 1872; Heaton, Antionio Allegri da Correggio, 1876; Wilson, Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1876; Wornum, Life and Works of Hans Holbein, 1867; 6 vols, all finely bound in full calf, all edges gilt by Leighton.
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Barante (M de), Lettres et Instructions de Louis XVIII au comte de Saint-Priest, first edition, Paris 1845, finely bound in full maroon calf; Lamartine (A de), Oeuvres, 4 vols in 2, half red morocco, Paris, 1825; and 12 other French titles in bindings.
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Lesage (Alain-Rene), Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, a fine copy on vellum paper, plates in early state, 4 vols, finely bound in full red morroco, spine decorated in gild, one corner little worn, all edges gilt, Didot Jeune (1795).
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Ouida (La Ramee Marie Louise de), Novels, 17 volumes bound in matching half brown calf, marbled boards, top of one volume little worn, Chatto and Windus.
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Stevenson (Robert Louis), Works, Edinburgh edition, 32 vols, edition limited to 1205 numbered sets, original cloth, T and A Constable, 1816.
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Macdonald (George), Works of Fancy and Imagination, first edition, 10 vols, fine set in original green cloth, Strahan and Co., 1871.
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Rousselet (Louis), India and Its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal, folio, original red cloth, top of spine little worn, but a fine copy, Bickers and Son, 1878.
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Shelley (Percy Bysshe), Works in Verse and Prose, now first brought together with many pieces not before published, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, 8 vols, original blue cloth, Reeves and Turner, 1880.
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Albu (Israel), A Word in Due Season, Relating to the Divine Service, full morocco, published by the author, 1853; together with eleven other Jewish titles. (12)
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The First Book of Moses Called Genesis in Hebrew and English, the music accents after the manner of Pranselo's with critical and grammatical on the Hebrew by A Alexander, 4 vols, book of Genesis, Exodus, Liviticus, Numbers, finely bound in contemporary half green morocco, an early edition with the English text opposite the Hebrew, not found in Barlow and Moule, A Alexander, 5545 (1784).
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D'Israeli (Benjamin), Earl of Beaconsfield, Novels and Tales, 11 vols, complete, Hughenden edition, finely bound in blue morocco for Sotheran, 1900.
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Chamberlain (Arthur B) Hans Holbein the Younger, 2 vols, original cloth, 1913; together with Ludwig (G) and Molmonti (P), Vittore Carpaccio La Vie et L'Oeuvre du Peintre, half red morocco, Paris 1910; and four others.
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Kai-Shek (Madame Chiang), Landscapes, Orchid, Bamboo and Flower Paintings by Madame Chaing Kai-Shek, folio, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, fine copy, 1979
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Magalotti (Lorenzo), Travels of Cosmo (de Medici) The Third Grand Duke of Tuscany Through England during the reign of King Charles the Second (1669), 4to, with 40 plates, contemporary calf, front cover detached, J Mawman, 1821.
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Jameson (Mrs), Sacred and Legendary Art, finely bound in full brown calf, decorated in gilt, all edges gilt by Leighton, 4 vols; together with Hallam (Henry), View of the State of Europe in the Middle Ages, 3 vols, full calf, labels, 1848; and Hallam (Henry), The Constitutional History of England, 3 vols, full tree calf, marbled edges, 1867. (10)
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Turner's Annual Tour 1834 and 1835, with steel engraved plates, 2 vols, original morocco, little rubbed; together with The Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, 2 vols, portrait 1825; and nine others.
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Rodocanachi (E), La Femme Italienne a L'Epoque de la Renaissance sa Vie Privee et Mondaine, son Influence Sociale, folio, half blue morocco, original wrappers bound in, presentation copy to Alfred de Rothschild, Hachette, 1907; together with Temple (A G), Examples of French Art, 1 of 125 copies, 1898; and 1 other. (3)
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Molinier (Emile), La Collection Wallace, Meubles et Objets D'Art Francais des XVII et XVIII Siecles, folio, contemporary full blue morocco, decorated in gilt by Leighton, E Levy (Paris), Charles Davis (London).
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Murray (C), Editor, Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Chiswick Press, 1894; together with 3 others. (4)
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Stieler (Adolf), Hand Atlas, 95 maps, half morocco, worn, 1896; together with Atlas de Venezuela, 1971; and 1 other atlas. (3)
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Conway (Sir Willilam Martin), The First Crossing of Spitsbergen, first edition, original cloth, presentation copy to Lionel de Rothschild from Israel Gollanz, J M Dent, 1897; together with 4 others on travel. (5)
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Howard-Bury, (C K), Mount Everest - The Reconnaissance, 1921, original cloth, 1826; together with Fitz Gerald (E A), The Highest Andes, original cloth, 1899; and eight others on travel. (10)
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Walton (Izaak), The Compleat Angler, edited by G A B Dewar, Winchester edition, 2 vols, 1902; together with fifteen others on sport and natural history. (17)
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Shackleton (Sir Ernest), South - The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17, New Impression, 1919; together with Ross (W A), A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark and Sweden, second edition, original cloth, 1849.
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Wiener (Leo), The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, 1899; together with eight other Jewish titles. (9)
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Demoustier (C A), Lettres a Emilie sur la Mythologie, 6 parts in 2 volumes, plates, contemporary quarter calf, Paris 1809; together with Bouvier (A), Etude sur les Conditions du Developpement Social du Christianisme, inscribed presentation copy, half calf, Geneva 1851; and 1 other. (4)
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British Yachts and Yachtsmen, A Complete History of British Yachting From the Middle of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day, folio, original full blue morocco, edged rubbed, The Yachtsman Publishing Co., 1907.
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Landscape Annual 1831-1838, 8 vols, original green morocco, good copies.
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Beaumont (W Worby), Motor Vehicles and Motors, Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity, 2 vols, fine copies, in original cloth, 1900-1906.
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International Chalcographical Society 1893-4, 1895 and 1897, 3 vols, folio, original cloth, 1894-7. (3)
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Seidel (Dr Paul), Friedrich Der Grosse und die Franzosische Malerei Seiner Zeit, folio, Berlin; together with 41 other German cloth bound titles. (42)
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Graves (S R), A Yachting Cruise in the Baltic, folding frontis, 1862; together with six others on yachting and the sea. (7)
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Montesquieu (Charles Louis de), Oeuvres, Remarques, Noes, Refutations, Imitations par Mm Destut de Tracy, Villemain, D'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire, Condorcet et Bertolini, 8 vols, finely bound in 19th century full calf, spine and corners decorated in gilt, stamp at the bottom of the spine of volume I, Purgold Herring, 1822.
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Goodman (Rabbi Tobias), Faith of Israel, Selected from Writings of the most Eminent Divine Philosophers and Commentators, pp228, finely bound in contemporary full red morocco, with spine and border decorations in gilt, printed for the author, 1834.
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Humboldt (Mary de), Views in Nassau in the Vicinity of Kronberg From Sketches Taken in the Autumn of 1834, 12 plates, little foxing, original cloth ack boards, Ackermann, 1841, 2 copies.
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Whewell (William), Indications of the Creator, first edition, full calf by Leighton; together with eleven other bindings, 1 cover detached.
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Robinson (Henry Crabb), Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence, first edition, 3 vols, finely bound in half red morocco, all edges gilt, 1869; together with McCarthy (Justin), A History of Our Own Times, 4 vols, finely bound in half brown morocco, marbled boards, 1881; and Arnold (Thomas), History of the Later Roman Commonwealth, 2 vols, full brown calf, green labels, fine copy, 1845. (9)
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Gavin (C M), Royal Yachts, limited to 100 copies, this copy 43, full morocco, 4to, 1932; together with Chatterton (E Keble), Old Sea Paintings, 4to, 1928.
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Batty (Elizabeth Francis), Italian Scenery From Drawings Made in 1817, with 60 plates, finely bound in contemporary full red morocco, decorated in gilt, Rodwell and Martin, 1820.
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Boraston (J H), Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches, 2 vols, text and maps, signed presentation copy from the author (Haig's Private Secretary) to Lionel de Rothschild, 1919; together with Dewar (G A) and Boraston (J H), Sir Douglas Haig's Command, 2 vols, presentation copy from J H Boraston to Lionel de Rothschild, 1923; with Boraston (J H), The Eighth Division in the War 1914-1918, signed presentation copy from the author to Lionel de Rothschild, 1926. (5)
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Tooke (Thomas), A History of the Prices and of the State of the Circulation from 1793 to 1837 also 1838-9, 3 vols, nice copies in original cloth, 1837-40; together with MacLeod (H D), The Theory and Practice of Banking, fifth edition, 2 vols, 1892; and 6 others on economics. (11)
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Roberts (W), Pictures in the Collection of J Pierpont Morgan at Princes Gate and Dover House, London, privately printed, large folio, coloured frontispiece and plates, full brown morocco decorated in gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 1907.
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Montgomery (Field Marshall), A History of Warfare, first edition, signed on the half title by the author, 1968.
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Van Dyke (Anthony), A Collection of forty-five 17th Century Portraits by Anthony van Dyke, later brown morocco.
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Orr-Ewing (Lord) Editor, A Celebration of Lords and Commons Cricket 1850-1988, edition limited to 80 copies in quarter morocco, signed by 43 of those who played Lords and Commons Cricket including some Lord's Taverners, fine copy in slipcase, 1989.
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Smith (John), A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 7 vols of 9, contemporary calf worn, with the bookplates of Sir Robert Peel to whom the book was dedicated, contemporary calf, worn, 1829-52. (7)
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Smith (Sir William), A Dictionary of Christian Biography, 4 vols, 1877; together with Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, 2 vols, 1875; and A Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols in 4, 1893, fine copies in original cloth. (10)
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Percy (Thomas), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vols, finely bound in full calf by Bedford, Henry Washbourne and Co, 1857; and six other bindings.
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Rubens (Alfred), A Jewish Iconography, limited to 500 copies, Jewish Museum, 1954; together with Roth (Cecil), editor, The Ritual Murder Libel and the Jew, Woburn Press. (2)
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Loti (Pierre), Oeuvres, a collection of 30 works published by Calmann-Levy, Paris, circa 1920, finely bound in matching contemporary full brown morocco, top edge gilt.
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Schrenk von Notzing (Jacob), Augustissi Morum Imperatorum, Serenissimorum regum, atque, archiducum illustrissimorum principum, nec nom comitum, baronum, nobilium gestarum succinctae descriptiones, folio, printed engraved title, portrait of Frederick II of Tyrol, Archduke of Austria, pp6 and 122 portraits by Dominieus Custos with letterpress on rear of 125 plates, full gilt stamped pigskin, with decorations in gilt in Italian style, first edition, although ostensibly a collection of portraits, this is in fact a catalogue of arms and armour owned by Archduke Ferdinand (1529-1595).
Note: The Coltesloe copy had 124 portraits, Cockle 928.
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