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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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Frankl (Ludwig Aug), Nach Jerusalem!, 2 vols, first edition, finely bound in full brown calf, Niesche Buchdruckerel, 1858.
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Rand, McNally and Co., Indexed Atlas of the World, folio work, spine partly detached, Rand, McNally, 1884.
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Smith (John), A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters in which is included a short biographical Notice of the Artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures, 9 vols, extra illustrated with approximately 200 plates, relevant to the artist and a letter from Van Dyck, full brown morocco, 1829-42.
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Levi (David) Translator, The Form of Prayers for the New Year According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews, volume I, seven copies in binding, various editions. (7)
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Moliere, Oeuvres de Moliere, nouvelle edition, par M Eugene Despois, 10 vols, half brown marbled boards, Paris, 1873.
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Levi (David), Editor, The Holy Bible in Hebrew and English, 5 vols, 2 sets, 1845; together with two other Hebrew English bibles. (14)
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Johnson (Captain Charles), A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, etc., Olive Payne, with frontis and 25 plates, folio, full tree calf, front joint cracked, 1736.
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Churchill (Winston S), Marlborough His Life and Times, first edition, 4 vols, vols 1, 2 and 4 with dust jackets, 1933-8.
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Cousin (M Victor), Madame de Sable, Didier, 1859, with 7 other works by Cousin, nicely bound in half maroon morocco; together with 4 works by A Cheruel, half red morocco; and 2 others, nicely bound. (14)
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Sladen (Douglas), In Sicily 1896-1898-1900, first edition, 2 vols, nice set in original cloth, Sands and Co, 1901; together with 4 other travel volumes. (5)
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Stephen (Leslie), A Dictionary of National Biography, vols I-LXIII, supplement, 3 vols, Index, Epitome and Errata, first edition, 63 vols, bound in matching half red morocco, all edges gilt, 1885-1904.
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Guillemard (F H H), The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea, 2 vols, coloured frontispieces, maps and plates, original blue cloth, John Murray, 1886.
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French Literature, a collection of 79 volumes bound in matching quarter calf.
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Tanski (J), Voyage Autour de la Chambre des Deputes, signed presentation copy to Baron Lionel de Rothschild, Paris, 1847; together with 24 other nicely bound French titles. (25)
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Jewish Opinion, The Bulletin of the League of Jews, 1919; and nine other Jewish titles. (10)
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Penzer (N M) Editor, The Ocean of Story Being C H Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara, 10 vols limited to 1500 sets, Chas J Sawyer Ltd, 1924-8.
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Carlyle (Thomas), History of Frederick II of Prussia, called Frederick The Great, 6 vols, first edition, finely bound in full green morocco, all edges gilt, 1858-65.
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Hallam (Henry), Letters from the North of Italy Addressed to Henry Hallam, 2 vols, half calf marbled boards, marbled edges, 1819; together with four other volumes similarly bound.
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica, fourteenth edition, 24 vols, original morocco back cloth, 1929.
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Raumer (Frederick von), Historisches Taschenbuch, 10 vols, full brown calf, labels, marbled edges by Leighton, Leipzig, 1850; together with 25 other German books in bindings. (35)
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Hardy (Thomas), The Dynasts, 3 vols, rebound in contemporary half vellum, leather label, 1904-39; together with Hood (Thomas), Works, edited by his son and daughter, 6 vols, half green morocco, marbled boards, E Moxon; and Hone (William), Every-Day Book and Year Book, 4 vols, half calf rubbed, 1838.
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Williamson (G C), Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, The Property of J Pierpont Morgan, limited to 150 copies, this copy 16, folio, original half morocco decorated in gilt, Chiswick Press, 1910.
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Lacroix (Paul), Louis XII et Anne de Brebange, large 8vo, half brown morocco, marbled boards; and six others similarly bound. (7)
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Armstrong (Sir Walter), Turner, edition limited to 350 copies on Japanese paper, this copy with a duplicate set of plates, 2 vols, folio, finely bound in matching full red morocco, spines decorated in gilt by Leighton, Thomas Agnew, 1902.
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Blanc (Charles), L'Oeuvre Complete de Rembrandt Decrit et Commente Catalogue Raisonne, 2 vols, folio, large paper copy with plates and illustrations, finely bound in full blue morocco, spine and covers decorated in gilt by Leighton, brown labels, A Levy, 1873.
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Saville-Kent, (William), The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its Products and Potentialities, 48 plates, 16 colour cromo plates, folio, original cloth, W H Allen, 1893.
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Moss (The Misses C and M), Tales of Jewish History, first edition, 3 vols, finely bound in full brown calf, labels, decorated in gilt, Miller and Field, 1843.
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Zurbriggen (Mattias), From the Alps to the Andes, being the autobiography of a mountain guide, first edition, nice copy; together with nine others on South America.
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Straus (Ralph) and Robert Bent, John Baskerville, A Memoir, copy no. 61 of 200, 4to, 1907; together with Nonesuch Bible, 3 vols, 1963; and four others. (8)
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Ruskin (John), The Stones of Venice with Illustrations Drawn by the Author, new edition, 3 vols, finely bound in full green morocco, decorated in gilt by Leighton, 1873.
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Loliee (Frederic), La Comtesse de Castiglione 1840-1900, finely bound in full brown morocco, 1912; together with fifteen other French historical works, finely bound. (16)
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Pyne (W H), The Costume of Great Britain, 60 hand-coloured plates, folio binding broken and worn, William Miller, 1808.
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The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, with descriptions reprinted from the catalogue published in 1891 by the Science and Art Department of the South Kensington Museum, large folio, presentation copy to Alfred de Rothschild, half red morocco little rubbed, privately printed, 1898; together with Catalogue of the Collection de Jacques Doucet, 3 vols, wrappers, Paris 1912; and 1 other. (5)
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Say (Jean-Baptiste), Traite d'Economie Politque, cinquieme edition, 3 vols, finely bound in 19th century half red morocco, marbled boards, Chez Rapilly, Paris, 1826; together with Seigneux (Georges Hyde de), Precis Historique de la Revolution du Canton de Vaud et L'Invasion de la Suisse en 1798, 2 vols, matching red half morocco, with binders, ticket J Thompson, Lausanne, 1831. (5)
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Schnorr von Carolsfeld (Julius), Die Bibel in Bildern, folio, full dark green morocco, spine and covers decorated in gilt, all edges gilt by Leighton, Georg Wigands, Leipzig, circa 1890.
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Lemontey (P E), Historie de la Regence et de la Minorite de Louis XV, 2 vols, full calf, labels, 1832; together with 32 French titles in bindings. (34)
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Roger Miles (M L), Atelier Rosa Bonheur, 2 vols, folio, full blue morocco, decorated in gilt by Leighton, slight damage to one joint, Paris, George Petit, 1900.
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Wallace (Alfred Russel), The Geographical Distribution of Animals With a Study of Living and Extinct Faunas, first edition, 2 vols, fine set in original cloth, MacMillan and Co., 1876.
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Brulliot (Francois), Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, Marques Figurees, Lettres, Initiales, Noms Abreges etc., 3 vols in 1, 1832-4; together with Lampe (Louis), Signatures et Monogrammes des Peintres de Toutes les Ecoles, 3 vols, finely bound in full blue morocco by Wood, Bruxelles, 1895.
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Moris (Henri), Au Pays Bleu (Alpes Maritimes), edition limited to 100 numbered copies, Paris, folio, original half morocco, Paris (1900); together with Les Arts du Bois, Des Tissus et du Papier, rebound in cloth, 1883. (2)
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Heeren (A H G), and F A Ukert, Geschichte de Europqilschen St Staaten, 21 volumes, finely bound in full brown calf, decorated in gilt, labels in black and green, marbled edges, by Leighton?, Hamburg, 1830-40.
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Knight (Charles), The Pictorial History of England, Being a History of the People as Well as a History of the Kingdom, with woodcuts, 8 vols, full green morocco, decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, by Riviere, 1838-1844.
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Rock (Joseph F), The Ancient Na-Khi Kingdom of Southwest China, 2 vols, 4 maps in rear pockets, good set in dust-jacket, Harvard, 1947.
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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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Ascher (Rev B H), The Book of Life and Expression of the Tongue, second edition, full calf, 1861; together with eleven others of Jewish interest. (12)
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De Ricci (Seymour), A Catalogue of Early Italian Majolica in the Collection of Mortimer L Schiff, edition limited to 250 copies, this copy 90, half blue morocco, New York, 1927.
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Rashi, The Torah (in Hebrew) 5 volumes, 4to, contemporary speckled calf, decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, Zusmanesh, Amsterdam, circa 1760.
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Thorburn (A), British Birds, 4 vols, 1925; together with Witherby, The Handbook of British Birds, 5 vols, 1938; and Kirkman, British Bird Book, 4 vols, 1911. (13)
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Russell (William Howard), My Diary North and South, first edition, 2 vols, contemporary half blue calf, map, 1863; together with Young (Filson), Christopher Columbus and the New World of his Discovery, 2 vols, first edition, E Grant Richards, 1906; with Wallace (A R), Island Life, second edition, original cloth, 1895.
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Sue (Eugene), Histoire de la Marine Francaise sous Louis XIV, second edition, plates and maps, full brown calf, Paris, 1838, 5 volumes.
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Bouchot (Henri), L'Exposition des Primitifs Francais: La Peinture en France sous les Valois, folio, limited to 510 numbered copies, finely bound in full maroon morocco, with labels in green, decorated in gilt by Leighton, Bureaux de la Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1906.
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Johnston (Alexander Keith), The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, New Edition, folio, nice copy in original half morocco, 1896.
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Ward (F Kingdom), The Himalaya East of the Tsangpo, reprint from the Geographical Journal, inscribed presentation copy, 1934; together with Hudson (W H), Idle Days in Patagonia, first edition, original cloth, 1883; with Wallace (A R), A Wonderful Century, first edition, 1898; and 4 others.
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Heath's Book of Beauty for 1836, 1838, 1839, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1847, 1848, 1849, full maroon morocco, fine copies. (11)
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Levi (Editor), The Form of Prayers For the New Year According to the Custom of German and Polish Jews, 6 vols, full calf, 1823; together with Sola (Rev D A de), The Festival Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews, 6 vols, full calf, 1861. (12)
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De Salle (Rev D A), Translator, The Festival Prayers, According to the Ritual of the German and Polish Jews, 6 vols; together with The Pentateuch, Haftorahs and Prayers, matching full black morocco, all edges gilt, text in English and Hebrew, 1889-93. (12)
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French Literature, 50 volumes of finely bound French titles. (15)
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Berry (Miss), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Years 1783 to 1852, edited by Lady Theresa Lewis, first edition, 3 vols, finely bound in half red morocco, gilt edges, 1865; together with nine other bindings. (12)
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Alison (Archibald), History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, seventh edition, 20 volumes plus atlas volume, finely bound in brown calf, red labels by Leighton, vol 7 bound to match but different edition, fine set, 1847.
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