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[ARNAULD (Antoine)].
Apologie pour les catholiques,
contre les faussetéz & les calomnies d’un livre intitulé: La
politique du clergé de France fait premièrement en françois, &
puis traduit en Flamend. I. partie. Sur ce qui regarde la fidélité
que les sujets doivent à leurs princes; où l’on trouvera une ample
justification des catholiques à l’égard de la prétendue
conspiration d’Angleterre, par les procez mémes de ceux qu’on a
fait mourir pour ce sujet.
Liege, chez la Veuve Bronkart,
1682. Pages
(12), 552, 12mo, contemporary calf, fully gilt spine: three short
tears in title-page without loss of text, endleaves lifting, otherwise
a clean and very good copy. (6)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
529
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ASIATIC ANNUAL REGISTER.
The Asiatic Annual
Register, or, a view of the history of Hindustan, and of the
politics, commerce and literature of Asia, for the year 1800.
Printed for J. Debrett,
1801
FIRST EDITION, pages xxiv, 34; 150; 152; 59; 252; 88, pages 85-
88 being advertisements, with a 10-page subscriber list, 8vo,
neatly bound by Bumpus in red cloth, uncut, with paper spine
label: a fine copy
Crane & Kaye 30. The second volume in this important series: ten further
volumes were subsequently published.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FERGUSON (John).
Ceylon in
1884: the leading Crown Colony of the British Empire; with an
account of the progress made since 1803... Revised, enlarged,
and brought down to date, from “Ceylon in 1883”.
Sampson Low,
Marston...,
1884
With 18 plates (1 folding) and a folding table, pages xi, (1), 256,
amd tipped in printed slip regarding the illustrations, cr 8vo,
original cloth: little dull, but sound and very good.
Cheap copy of a scarce book in that it does not have the folding end
pocket map.
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SPALDING (Wm.).
Italy and the Italian Islands, from the
earliest ages to the present time. Third edition.
Edinburgh: Oliver &
Boyd (Cabinet series 29-30-31),
1845
With maps, etc., 3 vols, small 8vo, some foxing but very
good/nice in orig red cloth, gilt.
Characterised in the D. N. B. as “an admirable compendium”.
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VASI (Mariano) and NIBBY (Antonio).
Itinéraire instructif
de Rome et de ses environs redigé par feu M. Vasi. Revû, corrigé,
et augmenté d’après l’état actuel des monumens par le Professeur
A. Nibby.
Rome, chez M. Nicoleti,
1824
With 48 engraved plates and 2 folding plans, pages xxviii, 291, (1,
blank): (2), 295 - 612 (609-612 being adverts), 2 vols, large 12mo,
bound in 1, strongly bound in recent boards: with some light
marginal staining in places, but still a very good copy.
The second edition in French of Nibby’s revision of Vasi’s highly
successful guide.
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GOSSE (Philip Henry).
The Monuments of Ancient Egypt,
and their relation to the word of God.
SPCK,
1855
With many illustrations, pages xii, 285, (3, adverts), large 12mo,
original orange cloth, by Spencer & Son, with their ticket: a very
good copy.
First published 1847, this, the first of four books by Gosse on bible lands,
was intended to serve as a manual to the British Museum collection of
Egyptian antiquities and to show how they illustrate scripture history.
This, the last edition published, though entirely reset, is without textual
change.
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RUSSELL (Michael).
View of ancient and modern Egypt;
with an outline of its natural history. Sixth edition.
Edinburgh:
Oliver & Boyd(Cabinet Library series 3),
1844
With a folding map and full-page and other woodcuts, pp 460, (4,
blank), small 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: some minor fore-edge
foxing, but otherwise a very good to nice copy. (9)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
530
.
AUDSLEY (W. and G.).
Polychromatic Decoration as
applied to buildings in the mediaeval styles.
Henry Sotheran & Co.,
1882
With 36 chromolithographed plates, pages vi, (2), 32, folio,
original brown cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: neatly rebacked: a very
good to nice copy.
A “practical and suggestive guide” for architects and decorators - the first
of its kind in England, where fragmentary illustrations of mediaeval
ornament and new trends in polychromatic decoration had not yet been
married into a “contemporary” system. One of the last of the great
chromolitho pattern books, the plates beautifully printed by Firmin-
Didot.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
LIPSCOMB (Harry Curteis).
History
of Staindrop Church, (with illustrative lithographed drawings).
Whittaker & Co., (Durham printed),
1852. FIRST EDITION, with 9
tinted lithographed plates, pages vi, (2), 34, complete with the 2-
page subscriber list (accounting for 94 copies only), oblong 4to,
original red cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a small portion torn from one
tissue guard and the spine worn but the binding strong, otherwise
a clean, fresh and very good to nice copy.
An attractive and rather scarce account of a fine mediaeval church in Co
Durham, compiled by its vicar, assisted by J. A. Cory, the architect
responsible for the recent restoration of the building. This original edition
is not represented in NUC.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
531. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility [with:] Emma.
[and:] Mansfield Park. [and:] Northanger Abbey [and,
Persuasion] [and:] Pride and Prejudice.
Richard Bentley …
(Bentley’s Standard Novels 23, 25, 27, 28 and 30),
1833
FIRST ILLUSTRATED AND FIRST ONE-VOLUME
EDITIONS, each volume with additional engraved title-page,
engraved frontispiece and printed series title-page, 5 vols, small
8vo, contemporary deep olive green morocco, gilt, fully gilt
and lettered spines, top edges gilt: light endpaper foxing and
just a little elsewhere, the bindings just lightly rubbed but still
attractive, and otherwise a very good set, rarely found
complete.
Complete sets of the five Jane Austen vols in this series have become
notably rare.
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€1,500-€1,800 (£1,200-£1,440 approx.)
532
.
AUSTIN (Alfred).
The Poetry of the Period.
Richard Bentley,
1870
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages (8), 294, (2, blank), 8vo,
original green cloth, gilt: the inside joints cracked but the binding
strong though a little dull: a very good copy.
One of Austin’s earliest and best-known critical works, a collection of
eight essays which he had previously published anonymously in the
Temple Bar. Several of the essays attacked Browning, Swinburne,
Arnold, Morris, and, especially, Tennyson, dismissing them as
insignificant or indifferent poets ‘with no marks of greatness’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
STANHOPE (Elizabeth Still),
Countess of Harrington: - Hauff (W.).
From the German.
Freely translated. 1875.
Morgan 3796. Juvenile tales not in Osborne. NSTC has BL and O only.
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[STANHOPE (Elizabeth Still), Countess of Harrington].
Poems by E. S. H.
Henry Sotheran and Co., (Chiswick Press, printed
by Whittingham and Wilkins),
1874. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, pages viii, 67, (1), small 8vo, original mauve cloth:
the binding spotted with loss of lettering to spine, but sound and
strong and otherwise a fine, unmarked and unopened copy.
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[DE MILLE (James)].
Helena’s Household. A tale of Rome
in the first century.
T. Nelson and Sons,
1885. With frontispiece, pp
438, (10, adverts), 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: nice, fresh copy.
“An early novel that De Mille had the leisure to write with care - it was
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