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Petit Journal Pour Rire.

Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured covers and additional monochrome drawings, caricatures, advertisements, etc. Paris. Le Propietaire- Gerant. Circa 1854-55. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured covers and additional monochrome drawings, caricatures, advertisements, etc... (Item #7431)
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Pilot Training Manual for the Liberator B-24 Bomber Aircraft.

Profusely illustrated throughout by colour and monochrome photographs, drawings, schematics, diagrams, foldout charts, etc. Published for Headquarters, Army Air Force- Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training. October 1944... (Item #7649)
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(Author Unknown) Album of Revolutionary Russia.

Illustrated throughout with full page monochrome photographic plates depicting leaders, participants and events concerning the Russian Revolution . New York. Russian Socialist Federation. 1919. The First Edition. Illustrated throughout with... (Item #8711)
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Bannister, M.A. Bristol T.C.69 Aircraft Division Class A- Lectures, Notes, Drawings, Diagrams, etc.

Spectacularly illustrated with exceptionally detailed and artistic pen and ink drawings, cut-away diagrams, charts, tables, etc in holograph. n.p. 1941. Spectacularly illustrated with exceptionally detailed and artistic pen and ink... (Item #6241)
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Borgomale, H.L. Rabino di. Coins, Medals and Seals of the Shahs Of Iran (1500-1941).

Illustrated with plates, folding tables and further tables in charts throughout. n.p. Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd. 1945. The first edition. Illustrated with plates, folding tables and further tables in... (Item #8148)
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Capron, Elisha S. History of California, From its Discovery to the Present Time... With a Journal of the Voyage From New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and Back, via Panama. With a New Map of the Country.

Illustrated with a folding coloured map. Boston. John P. Jewett and Company. 1854. The First Edition. Illustrated with a folding coloured map. 12mo. 5.0" x 7.5". Bound in original blind... (Item #8714)
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Dibdin,Thomas Frognall. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse of Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography.

Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings and mounted India proofs. With the example of printing in gold in Volume II however, lacking the rarely included "Presentation in the Temple"plate. London. W. Bulmer... (Item #8606)
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Disney, John. A View of Ancient Laws, Against Immorality and Profaneness; Under the following Heads: Lewdness, Profane Swearing, Cursing, and Blasphemy, Perjury, Prophanation of Days devoted to Religion, Contempt or Neglect of Divine Service, Drunkenness, Gaming, Idleness, Vagrancy, Begging, Stage-Plays and Players, and Duelling....

Cambridge. Corn. Crownfield and John Crownfield. 1729. The First Edition. Tall Folio. 9.0" x 14.25". Bound in full period gilt ruled calfskin. Gilt ruled spine compartments with raised bands. Gilt... (Item #8689)
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Donovan, Mike. The Roosevelt I Know: Ten Years of Boxing With the President- and Other Memories of Famous Fighting Men.

Illustrated throughout with full page monochrome plates depicting caricatures and drawings of memorable boxing people and events. New York. B.W. Dodge and Co. 1909. The Authorized Special Limited Edition. This... (Item #8501)
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Duruy, Victor. Histoire Des Grecs.

Illustrated with 14 brilliantly illuminated full page tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates and further by over 3400 gravure engravings, vignettes and 30 colour maps. Paris. Librairie Hachette. 1887-1889. New Edition. Illustrated with... (Item #8692)
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Fabyan, Robert. The New Chronicles of England and France, In Two Parts...

Illustrated by a fold-out copper plate engraved Frontis and a woodcut of a heraldic shield en texte. London. F.C. and J. Rivington et al. 1811. First Ellis Edition - the... (Item #8700)
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(fore-edge painting) Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

London. Henry Frowde. 1910. 8vo. (7.5" 5"). Handsomely bound by bumpus of Oxford in full blue polished calf skin. Rasied bands. Gilt titles. Elaborate gilt tooled inner-dentelles. a.e.g. This copy... (Item #7682)
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Frost, Robert. Collected Poems of Robert Frost.

Illustrated with a photographic Frontis of Robert Frost. New York. Halcyon House. 1939. The Second Printing. Inscrcribed boldly in ink by Frost on title page. "Robert Frost-Bread Loaf-Vermont-1940". Illustrated with... (Item #8607)
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Gardiner, Frank William. Aviators Flight Log Book.

Washington D.C. Navy Department- Chief of Naval Operations. May 1944 - Sept 1945. Small 8vo. (7" x 5"). Bound in imprinted cloth over boards. Monthly flying log of ARM3c Frank... (Item #7683)
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Goldwater, Barry M. A Journey Down the Green and Colorado Rivers 1940.

Illustrated with a map and various drawings en texte. Phoenix. H. Walker Publishing Company. 1940. This Privately Printed Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is #236. Signed... (Item #8491)
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Grove, Sir George (Ed.). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889).

Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and musical notation en texte. London. Macmillian and Company. 1889. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and musical notation en texte. 4 volumes, complete as issued. Thick 8vo... (Item #8624)
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Guizot, M. The History of France.

Illustrated throughout with full page plate engravings and further vignettes en texte. London. Sampson Lowe, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 1883-1884. Illustrated throughout with full page plate engravings and further vignettes... (Item #8154)
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Horn, Walter and Born, Ernest. The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture and Economy of, and Life in a Paradigmatic Caroligian Monastery.

Illustrated throughout with over one thousand colour and monochrome photographs, drawings, plans, schematics, diagrams, etc. both full page and en texte. Included with this Deluxe Limited Issue is a facsimile... (Item #8662)
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Horne, Charles F. (Ed. ) The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East : with Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation - Translations, Bibliographies, etc. by the Leading Orientalists...

Illustrated with frontispieces and tissue - guarded duotone full page plates. New York. Parke, Austin and Lipscomb. 1917. Members Edition. Limited Issue consisting of 2000 numbered and registered sets of... (Item #8118)
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Lever, Charles. The Military Novels of Charles Lever.

Each volume with engraved frontis and half title in each volume by Phiz ( one vol. with Cruikshank illus. ) and a total of 50 plates throughout,42 by Phiz (... (Item #7103)
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Lever, Charles. The Military Novels of Charles Lever.

Illustrated throughout with full page plate engravings and further illustrations en texte by "Phiz" and George Cruikshank. London. George Rutledge and Sons. n.d. (circa 1885). The Edition De Luxe. Limited... (Item #8169)
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Lewis, Meriwether and Clark, William. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, Across the Rocky Mountains, Down the Columbia River to the Pacific in 1804-6. A Reprint of the Edition of 1814 to Which All the Members of the Expedition Contributed.

Illustrated with two Frontispieces and various full paged maps and one large folding map in rear pocket. New York. New Amsterdam Book Company. 1902. First Edition Thus. Illustrated with two... (Item #8634)
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Lodge, Edmund. Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biogrpahical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions.

Spectacularly illustrated with 240 tissue-guarded full page copper-plate engravings of historical personages, each with short textual biography. Most engravings marked as " Proof ". London. Harding and Lepard. 1835. Second... (Item #6996)
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Machiavelli, Niccolo. (Works of Machiavelli) Oeuvres De Machiavel.

Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait and two fold-out plates. Paris. Chez Potey. 1799. A new translation by Guiraudet. Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait and two fold-out plates. Nine... (Item #7591)
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Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de. L'Esprit des Loix, ou du Rapport que les Loix doivent avoir avec la Constitution de chaque Gouvernement, les Moeurs, le Climat, la Religion, & le Commerce, etc. A quoi l'Auteur a ajoute des recherches nouvelles sur les Loix Romaines touchant les successions, sur les Loix Françoises, & sur les Loix Féodales. Nouvelle Edition, Corrigee par l'Auteur, and augmentee d'une Table des Matiers, et d'une Carte Geographique, pour servir a l'intelligence des articles qui concernent le Commerce.

Illustrated with the scarce folding map of the world - Carte pour Intelligence... Geneva. Chez Barrillot et Fils. 1750. Nouvelle Edition. Illustrated with the scarce folding map of the world... (Item #7669)
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