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Item #67397 The Last of the Arctic Voyages; Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S....

Belcher, Capt. Sir Edward.

Item 67397The Last of the Arctic Voyages; Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in Search of Sir John Franklin, during the Years 1852-53-54. With Notes on the Natural History, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas Bell, J. W. Salter, and Lovell Reeve. In Two Volumes.

Printed in the UK. Lovell Reeve. 1855. First edition. Cloth over boards. Two volume set. Hardcover cloth (green) over boards. 8vo. Pagination: volume I -- xx, 383 pp; volume II -- vii, 419 pp. Illustration: 9 full colour engraved plates, 3 b/w engraved plates, 1 b/w engraved map, and 22.....

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Item #67283 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca. In Three Volumes. Sir...

Burton, Sir Richard F.

Item 67283Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca. In Three Volumes.

Printed in the UK. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans. 1855. First edition. Leather and paper over boards. Hardcover 1/4 leather (red morocco) over paper (marbled) over boards. 8vo. Pagination: volume I - frontis, xiv, [1], 388 pp; volume II - frontis, iv, 426 pp; volume III - frontis, x, [1], 448.....

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Item #67421 The Migration of Symbols. Count Eugene Goblet D'Alviella, Sir George Birdwood

D'Alviella, Count Eugene Goblet; and Birdwood, Sir George.

Item 67421The Migration of Symbols.

Printed in the UK. Archibald Constable and Co., 1894. First English edition. Cloth over boards. Hardcover cloth (green) over boards. 8vo. xxiii, [5], 277 pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved plate frontispiece, five b/w engraved plates, and 164 b/w in text engraved figures. Gilt ornament of the footprints of Buddha.....

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Item #67627 Norse Fairy Tales. Sir George Dasent

Dasent, Sir George.

Item 67627Norse Fairy Tales.

Printed in the UK. Collins' Clear-Type Press, ND [c.1930s]. No edition marks (suspected first thus). Paper over boards. Hardcover illustrated paper over boards. 8vo. 60 pp. Illustrated with 4 full colour, full-page plates (including frontispiece), and numerous b/w in text drawings. Lightly foxed. Pages clean and bright. Binding is strong.....

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Item #67267 The Signboards of Old London Shops. A Review of the Shop Signs employed by the London...

Heal, Sir Ambrose.

Item 67267The Signboards of Old London Shops. A Review of the Shop Signs employed by the London Tradesmen during the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. Compiled from the author's collection of contemporary trade-cards and billheads.

Printed in the UK. B. T. Batsford. 1947. First edition. Leather and cloth over boards. Hardcover 1/2 leather (red morocco) over cloth (red) over boards. 4to. [10], 220 pp. Illustrated with 5 full-page b/w engraved plates showing London street views in 1750, and hundreds of b/w engraved plates of shop.....

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Item #67645 The Lay of the Last Minstrel; A Poem. Sir Walter Scott

Scott, Sir Walter.

Item 67645The Lay of the Last Minstrel; A Poem.

Printed in the USA. C. S. Francis and Company. 1854. New edition. Cloth over boards. Hardcover original publisher's brown cloth over boards. 12mo. 249, [4] pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Title and extensive floral ornaments stamped in gilt on spine. Gilt coat of arms, and.....

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Item #031358 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIR GAWAINE AND LADY BAILLIE, SOTHEBY'S, LONDON, MAY...

Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie.

Item 031358PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIR GAWAINE AND LADY BAILLIE, SOTHEBY'S, LONDON, MAY 1 2013

London, UK: Sotheby's. 2013. Paperback. 215 lots listed, all in illustrated in color. 4to.

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Item #21594 Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs. And Some Other Datable Material. a Handbook. J...

Addis, J, M. ( Sir John Addis )

Item 21594Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs. And Some Other Datable Material. a Handbook

London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978. Hardcover. Hardcover in complete dj. 190 pp. Full illustrated in b/w. 4to.

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Item #8241 The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White...

Addis, Sir John

Item 8241The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze Red

Hong Kong: City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1975. 1st. Pictorial Boards. 96pp. 132 b/w and colour illustrations. Bumps to head and tail. 8vo.

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Item #26414 Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident. Edited By Colonel Sir James Edward...

Alexander, Colonel Sir James Edward

Item 26414Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident. Edited By Colonel Sir James Edward Alexander

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. Hardcover. Hardcover. Rebound in deep blue cloth with spine lettering gilt and s[pine ruled in gilt; new endpapers. xiv, 350 pp. + 24 pp. catalogue. Illustrated with 2 engraved plates; map; engraved title-page vignette; line drawings in text; engraved tailpieces, and initial letter.....

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Item #7156 Jacob A. Riis Photographer & Citizen. Sir Alexander Alland

Alland, Sir Alexander

Item 7156Jacob A. Riis Photographer & Citizen

London: Aperture, 1974. 1st. Cloth. 220pp. Numerous full page b/w photographs. Bibliography.Price clip. 4 nicks, 5 large closed tears, wrinkling and a crease to dj. Oblong 4to.

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Item #26188 The Journal of Jeffery Amherst: Recording the Military Career of General Amhesrt in...

Amherst, General Sir Jeffery; Webster, J. Clarence

Item 26188The Journal of Jeffery Amherst: Recording the Military Career of General Amhesrt in America from 1758 to 1763

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1931. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Hardcover. Blue cloth with small gilt cover medallion; spine lettering gilt with head & foot ruled in gilt. xxiv + 341 pp. Illustrated with b/w plates; colour frontispiece portrait of Amherst by Sir Johhua Reynolds. Edited, with introduction & notes, by J. Clarence Webster.....

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Item #7146 Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy. Sir Walter Armstrong

Armstrong, Sir Walter

Item 7146Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st. Cloth. 236pp. Several b/w illustrations. Index. Bumps to haed and tail. 4to.

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Item #14734 Turner. Sir Walter Armstrong

Armstrong, Sir Walter

Item 14734Turner

London/NY: Thos. Agnew/Scribner's, 1902. 1st, Limited, Signed & Numbered. Cloth. x + 292 p. + plates. Red cloth with bevelled edges; title and spine lettering gilt; new endpapers at rear only. With 103 b/w illustrations, including approximately 80 full-page plates. Front hinge has been mended and reinforced (very neatly) with.....

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Item #4626 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Sir Walter Armstrong

Armstrong, Sir Walter.

Item 4626SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

London: William Heinemann, 1900. Hardcover. Vg.(damp-stain to cover, shaken). Folio, TEG; with 78 photogravures and 6 lithographic facsimilies in colour. Folio.

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Item #5639 The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation, Being The Life and Teaching of Gautama....

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Item 5639The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation, Being The Life and Teaching of Gautama

Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1932. Hardcover. Hardcover, cloth with pictorial inset set in silver. 182pp. Illustrated with 12 monochrome plates by Willy Pogany. Elegant ink inscription on fly-leaf; small bruise to front hinge, and slightly rubbed. 4to.

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Item #14352 Essays of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. Paraphrased in Blank Verse By the Right...

Bacon, Francis; White, Sir Thomas

Item 14352Essays of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. Paraphrased in Blank Verse By the Right Honorable Sir Thomas White.

Montreal: Privately Printed, 1945. 1st, Limited. Hardcover. Hardcover. 54 pp. INSCRIBED BY SIR THOMAS WHITE. Extremities rubbed, and top margin of one page a bit chipped when it was cut open (not affecting text). Edition limited to 500. 8vo.

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Item #6096 The Story of the Sun. Sir Robert Ball

Ball, Sir Robert

Item 6096The Story of the Sun

London: Cassell & Co. First pub'd 1893, this is the "Cheap Edition," 1897. This copy was presented to a student of Castle Hill School, The Avenue, Ealing W. as a prize, 1902. With 11 plates and numerous illustrations. Bound in blue leather gilt with raised bands on spine and elaborate.....

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Item #24313 A Description of Picairn's Island and Its Inhabitants. With an Authentic Account of...

Barrow, John, Sir (1764-1848)

Item 24313A Description of Picairn's Island and Its Inhabitants. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bonty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.

N. Y. Harper & Bros. 1836. Hardcover. Hardcover, original purple cloth; spine lettering gilt. 7 p. catalogue + 2 engravings + xii + 303 pp. Illustrated with 2 engravings. Cloth faded and rubbed, with light stain on rear board; foxing, esp. to endpapers and plates, and small chip to catalogue.....

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Item #24314 A Description of Picairn's Island and Its Inhabitants. With an Authentic Account of...

Barrow, John, Sir (1764-1848)

Item 24314A Description of Picairn's Island and Its Inhabitants. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bonty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.

N. Y. A. L. Fowle, 1900. Hardcover. Hardcover. Rebound in half-cloth and marbled boards; new endpapers; spine lettering gilt; top edge gilt. xii + 303 pp. Edges slightly tanned. An abridged version of Sir John Barrow's "Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty" 8vo.

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Item #24312 The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Causes...

Barrow, John, Sir (1764-1848)

Item 24312The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Causes and Consequences

London: John Murray, 1831. 5th Ed. Hardcover. Hardcover. Three-quarter leather & marbled boards; spine lettering gilt; spine ruled in gilt. xi + 356 pp. Illustrated with 6 etchings from original drawings by Lieut-Colonel Batty. Extremities rubbed, with some wear to corners; faint offsetting from plates, and some foxing to plate.....

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Item #29326 Lawrence Alma-Tadema. R. J. Barrow, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Barrow R. J

Barrow, R. J.;Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence;Barrow R. J.

Item 29326Lawrence Alma-Tadema

UK: Phaidon Inc Ltd, 2001. Hardcover. Hard cover with complete DJ 208pp. Aprox. 196 colour illustrations. 4to.

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Item #13161 Engravings of the Brain and Nerves. Sir Charles Bell

Bell, Sir Charles

Item 13161Engravings of the Brain and Nerves.

Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982. First Thus. Leather. 330pp. most color plates. 4to.

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Item #15073 The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House; The Book of the Queen's Doll's House Library. 2...

Benson, A. C.; Weaver, Sir Lawrence; Lucas, E. V. (editors)

Item 15073The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House; The Book of the Queen's Doll's House Library. 2 Vols. In Slipcase

London: Methuen, 1924. 1st, Limited, Numbered. xiv + 249; xiv + 384 pp. 2 vols. with COMPLETE DJs. Half-cloth and paper boards, with paper spine label; gilt-stamped crown, royal monogram (QM), and date (1924) on front cover; edges untrimmed. Illustrated with a total of 116 plates of which 32 are.....

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Item #24492 Drawings of William Blake: Ninety-Two Pencil Studies. William Blake, Sir Geoffrey Keynes

Blake, William; Keynes, Sir Geoffrey

Item 24492Drawings of William Blake: Ninety-Two Pencil Studies

NY: Dover Pubns, 1970. Paperback. 94 plates in b/w. Introduction & commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. 4to.

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