The Lawson History of The America's Cup.
Boston. Thomas Lawson. 1902. The First Edition. This book was published for private distribution only in an Edition of 3000 numbered copies of which this is number 2495. Illustrated with.....
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The Chelsea Porcelain Toys : Scent-Bottles, Bonbonnieres, Etuis,Seals and Statuettes, made at the Chelsea Factory, 1745 - 1769, & Derby Chelsea. 1770 - 1784.
London. The Medici Society. 1925. Edition limited to 650 copies of which this is #375. Signed by the author. Illustrated with 47 full page tissue-guarded plates after water-colour drawings by.....
Dorcas Porkus.
London. Oxford University Press. 1942. The First Printing. Illustrated with evocative full page colour plates by Tasha Tudor. Square 24mo.(3.75"x4.5") Bound in Titled Yellow and white polka-dotted cloth over boards.....
Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Selections from his Letters to the Territorial Enterprise: 1865-1866.
San Francisco. Book Club of California. 1957. 1 of 400 copies. Printed by The Allen Press. Illustrated with a monochrome photograph of Twain (one of the first showing him with.....
Type Specimen Book and Catalogue.
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The Frenchwoman of the Century: Fashions-Manors-Usages.
New York. George Rutledge and Sons. 1887. First Edition. Illustrated with full page colour engravings after Water Colors by Albert Lynch. 4to. Bound in gilt titled pictorial cloth with t.e.g......
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Paris. Librairie de Firmin/didot. 1893. Number thirty five of a limited edition printed on Japanese vellum. Sumptuously illustrated with fifty colour lithographic plates and 300 further monochrome drawings en texte.....
Oeuvres Completes De Paul Verlaine.
Paris. A. Messein- Librairie Leon Vanier. 1903-1910. 6 volumes. 12mo (5" x 7.25"). Uniformly bound in 3/4 straight grain morocco and marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt titles. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g......
The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris, Now First Done Into English Verse...
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Anecdotes of Painting in England; With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Note on Other Arts; Collected by the Late Mr. George Vertue;...
London. The Shakespeare Press, by W. Nichol, for John Major, Fleet-Street. 1828. Illustrated throughout with full page Copper Plate Engravings. 5 volumes, complete as issued. 4to. 6.5" x 10.0". Lavishly.....
Donald Duck - 50 Years of Happy Frustration.
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Steel Ships Their Construction and Maintenance - A Manual for Shipbuilders, Ship Superintendents, Students and Marine Engineers.
London. Charles Griffin and Co., 1901. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with Photographs, charts, tables and a plethora of large foldi-out diagrams reduced working drawings. Thick 8vo. ( 9.0" x 6.0".....
Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
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Records of Whitecross Prison : Comprising Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Characters ; As well as many Curious and Graphic Delineations of Swindlers ... Episodes...Melancholy and Romantic Incidents of Prisoners and Other Extraordinary Reminiscences of Prison Life. By and Eye- Witness
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The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
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Captain Ben's Book- A Record of the Things Which Happened to Captain Benjamin J. Willard, Pilot and Stevedore, During Some Sixty Years on Sea and Land, as Related by Himself.
Portland. Lakeside Press. 1895. First Edition. This copy inscribed by the author in ink to front free end sheet. Illustrated throughout by monochrome photographs, drawings, etc. 8vo. (6.0" x 9.0").....
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New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1928. First Edition. This copy signed in ink by Pogany to half title page. This copy also includes a nine page publishers publicity insert.....
Willy Pogany's Mother Goose.
New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1928. Fourth Printing. Marvelously Illustrated throughout with high art deco, colour and monochrome plates drawings vignettes and decorations by Pogany. 8vo (8.5" x 6").....
An Elementary Treatise on Logic; Including Part I. Analysis of Formule.-Part II. Method. With An Appendix of Examples for Analysis and Criticism. And A Copious Index of Terms and Subjects.
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La Guerre Recontee par dos Generaux Commandants de Groupe D' Armees.
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The Gallery of Engravings.
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The Swiss Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Shipwrecked family on an Uninhabited Island Near new Guinea.
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