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Musset, Alfred de : Oeuvres de Alfred de Musset: Poésies 1828 - 1833: Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie, Poésies diverses, Spectacle dans un fauteuil, Namouna. Paris: Lemerre. 404p sm navy blue leather with spectacular fresh gilt edges, leather cracked between spine and front board, inner hinge still intact, corners bumped, gilt lettering on spine, tri-coloured ribbon marker, beautiful marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles, vignette on title page, faint foxing on some pages, binding firm, pages clean and unmarked, very well preserved copy, VG PKM 118941 £24
Molesworth, Mary Louisa ; Crane, Walter [Illustr]: Herr Baby. London: Macmillan 1890. 223p red decorative cloth, frontispiece with tissueguard, stamp on inner board and title page: "B A Abel Solicitor, 51 Burton Street, Nottinham" shelfwear otherwise good PKM 118665 £10
Molesworth, Mary Louisa ; Baumer, Lewis [Illustr]: The Blue Baby and Other Stories. London: Chambers 1905?. 272p pictoral pink cloth with gilt, blue and yellow illustration, extensive publisher's catalogue at rear, presentation label on inner board, shelfwear to boards, otherwise clean and unmarked, VG PKM 118653 £10
Molesworth, Mary Louisa : Leo's Post Office and Brave Little Denis. London: Chambers 1912. 73p blue pictoral cloth, presentation bookplate, binding a little weak, interior clean and unmarked PKM 118640 £15
Molesworth, Mary Louisa ; Barnes, Robert [Illustr]: Robin Redbreast a Story for Girls. London: Chambers 1892. 291p mustard pictoral cloth, 36 page publisher's catalogue in back with 13 full-page engraved plates, ffep missing, endpapers pink with bird design, ink inscription, interior clean and unmarked with no foxing PKM 118634 £10
Cassell : Cassell's Encyclopaedia of General Information. Special Edition. London: Waverley Book Co 1900. 10 volume set in textured, blind stamped burgundy cloth with five raised bands on spine, stamped design in panels with gilt lettering and decorations, marbled endpapers and edges, colour frontipieces with tissue guard, coloured maps and plates and numerous full-page engravings,very minor wear to head and foot of spine and corners, otherwise a fine and very attractively bound set PKM 118553 £95
Boyle, Andrew : The Everyman Encyclopaedia: Complete in 12 Volumes. London: Dent 1913. This set is bound in Everyman's quarter pigskin and brown cloth library binding. It is NOT ex-library, interior is clean and unmarked, cloth boards are in fine condition, rich brown pigskin spines have gilt lettering and decoration, some wear to head and foot of spines, a very robust and attractive set in excellent condition PKM 118549 £140
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von : Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. Mit acht Bildern in Lichtdruck nach den Original-Oelgemälden von Arthur Freiherr von Ramberg, und Text-Zeichnungen von Wilhelm Weimar. Jubiläumsausgabe. Berlin: Grote 1896. 67p large quarto red cloth, beautiful copy with elaborate floral pattern in gilt, green, red and brown on front cover, all edges fresh gilt, corners bumped, head and foot of spine torn, neat inscription on ffep in black ink from 1903, b&w plates, illustrations, pages with floral frame along edges, hardly any foxing, binding firm, pages clean, very well preserved copy, VG PKM 117672 £42
Temple, William ; Nicklin, J A [Introduction]: Essays of Sir William Temple. London: Blackie. (Red Letter Library) 331p limp red leather with bright gilt decoration on front cover, this and the rest of the binding is in the Art Nouveau, Glasgow Style and was designed by Talwin Morris, ribbon marker, gilt top edges, slight wear to head and foot of spine, slight foxing to edges of first few pages, binding tight, laid in advertisement for the Red Letter Library Prose Series, overall Very Good condition PKM 117083 £35
Gaty, H F K [Ed]: Aunt Judy's Annual Volume. London: Bemrose 1884. 764p buff cloth with elaborate gilt and brown decorations, gilt edges, colour frontispiece by Randolph Caldicott, many other illustrations by various artists, dark green patterned endpapers, firm binding, ink inscription, a very good copy PKM 117080 £30
Gatty, Mrs Alfred [Ed]: Aunt Judy's Christmas Volume. For Young People. Vol 3, No 18. London: Bell & Daldy 1867. 378p red cloth with extremely elaborate stamped decorations in gilt and black, many illustrations, frontispiece engraving, tp missing, binding tight, a Good copy PKM 117079 £20
Gatty, Mrs Alfred [Ed]: Aunt Judy's Christmas Volume. For Young People. London: Bell & Daldy 1868. 379p brown cloth with very elaborate stamped decorations in gilt and black, many illustrations, frontispiece, ink inscription, hinges cracking, rear ep missing, well used but still useful copy PKM 117077 £16
Brazil, Angela ; Wylie, Jenny [Illustr]: Bosom Friends. A Seaside Story. London: Nelson 1925. 253p Grey embossed cloth with colour illustration onlay and blue lettering and decorations, colour frontispiece, bookplate on ep, spine slightly faded, slight wear to head and foot of spine, minimal bumping to corners, VG PKM 116964 £18
Keats, John ; Bell, Robert Anning [Illustr]; Raleigh, Walter [Introduction]: Poems by John Keats. London: Bell 1897. (The Endymion Series) xxiv 338p buckram cloth with grape design in green and purple, many pen & ink illustrations, decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, rough cut edges, some foxing, front ep faded, light shelfwear to extremities, overall VG PKM 116962 £68
Cooper, John Gilbert [Ed]: The Life of Socrates, collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato, and Illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Proclus, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus Gellius, and others. London: Dodsley 1750. Full leather with gilt stamped rules, 5 bands, gilt stamped title label, red front edges, frontispiece engraving and head of Chapter 1, endpapers and inner boards browing to edges, bookplate and owner stamp , hinges weakening and rear ep detached, interior excellent, binding firm PKM 114059 £185
Albertini, Carlo [Ed]; Petrarca, Francesco : Le Rime del Petrarca. Con note letterali e critiche del Castelvetro, Tassoni, Muratori, Alfieri, Ginguenè, etc etc. Scelte, compilate ed accresciute da Carlo Albertini da Verona, Vols 1 - 2. Firenze: Ciardetti 1832. cxxiv 367p 348p cliv red leather 8vo, beautiful set of 2 vols, fresh gilt lettering and ornaments on spine, stamped sm gilt floral design in all corners of front and back cover, upper edges gilt, elaborate gilt dentelles along the inside and on edge of book boards, minor shelfwear to covers, previous owner's bookplate on front inner board, engraved frontisp in both vols, roughcut pages, binding firm, several engravings, pages clean, very clear print, postcard of Petrarch's house laid in, sl foxing on title page and frontisp of Vol 1, very well preserved set PKM 114023 £128
Sannazaro, Jacopo ; Castiglione, Baldassare ; Fracastorius, Hieronymus et al: Poemata Selecta Italorum, qui seculo decimo sexto latine scripserunt, nonnullis adnotationibus illustrata. Oxford: Slatter & Munday 1808. xxxix 398p 12mo original vellum, front board curled, leather label on spine, bound with 3 metal studs, sm stain on front cover, beautiful blue marbled endpapers, previous owner's name plate on front inner board, 'ex libris G Mills Coll Magd Oxon' in sm neat ink and previous owner's inscription from 1903 on ffep, binding very tight, pages clean, clear printing, selection of poetry by Sannazarius, Castilionius, Fracastorius, Naugerius, Flaminus, Molsa, Vida, Archius, Bonfadius, Amalthei and Muretus, text in Latin, note on book laid in, wonderful copy, superbly produced and preserved PKM 113900 £340
Avebury, Lord : The Pleasures of Life. Parts 1 and 2. London: Macmillan 1907. iv 280p red leather with 5 bands, gilt lettering and arms, marbled endpapers and dentelle edges to inner boards, gilt top edges, presentation label on inner fornt board, bookseller label, small stain to front and some wear to extremities, overall VG PKM 113089 £17
Thompson, Francis : New Poems From Francis Thompson. London: Burns & Oates 1907. 223p maroon buckram cloth with Art Nouveau lettering and decorations in gilt, sunned spine but boards in excellent condition, rough cut edges, prev owner's name label on inner front board, a very nicecopy of this rare book PKM 113070 £20
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray : A Book of Sibyls: Mrs Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen. First Edition. London: Smith, Elder & Co 1883. 229p brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and black decorations, rear hinge cracked, rubbing to corners otherwise a very good, clean copy PKM 112988 £35
Bensusan, S L : The Charm of Holman Hunt. Edinburgh: Jack 1900?. 48p unusual softcover, beautiful decorated parchment covering plain paper showing padded square with illustration, 4 further plates of artist's work, slight tearing and creasing to edges of parchment and two small pieces missing from front, ink inscriptio PKM 111970 £28
Bensusan, S L : The Charm of Rossetti. Edinburgh: Jack 1900?. 48p unusual softcover, beautiful, decorated parchment covering plain paper showing padded square with Rossetti's portrait of Mrs William Morris entitled "The Day Dream", 4 further plates by Rossetti: the Day Dream; Beata Beaatrix; Dante's Dream; The Bower PKM 111957 £35
Bensusan, S L : The Charm of Rembrandt. Edinburgh: Jack 1900?. 47p unusual softcover, beautiful, decorated parchment covering plain paper showing padded square illustration, 4 further plates, tearing and creasing to edges of parchment and two holes, ink inscription, rough cut edges, overall condition fair PKM 111745 £18
Bensusan, S L : The Charm of Gainsborough. Edinburgh: Jack 1900?. 47p unusual softcover, beautiful, decorated parchment covering plain paper showing padded square illustration, 4 further plates slight tearing and creasing to edges of parchment, ink inscription, rough cut edges, overall condition very good PKM 111734 £30
Reid, Mayne ; Harvey, William [Illustr]: Quadrupeds: What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys. London: Clark 1860. 167p purple pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine and elaborate gilt stamped title with elephant surrounded by palm trees, birds and snakes on front board, spine slightly sunned, gilt edges, binding firm, many b&w illustrations including tissue guard PKM 111731 £20
Bensusan, S L : The Charm of Burne-Jones. Edinburgh: Jack 1900?. 48p unusual softcover, beautiful decorated parchment covering plain paper showing padded square with Burne-Jones' "The Tower of Brass", 4 further plates slight tearing and creasing to edges of parchment, , ink inscription ,rough cut edges, overall condit PKM 111729 £30
Bensusan, S L : The Charm of Rossetti. Edinburgh: Jack 1900?. 48p unusual softcover, beautiful, decorated parchment covering plain paper showing padded square with Rossetti's portrait of Mrs William Morris entitled "The Day Dream", 4 further plates by Rossetti: the Day Dream; Beata Beaatrix; Dante's Dream; The Bower PKM 111694 £32
Tennyson, Alfred ; Shaw, Byam [Illustr]: Guinevere. London: Jack 1900?. 48p unusual paperback with parchment enfolding the paper cover and decorated with with green and black lettering and Art Nouveux design revealing illustrated padded medallion, in total, 4 rich, colour plates by John Byam Shaw: Indian-born British Pre-Raph PKM 111692 £45
Fisher, Fanny : Poems by Fanny Fisher. London: Fisher Unwin 1889. 554p red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle edging, very bright gilt edges, photographic frontispiece portrait with a shadow image on title page, binding tight, purple ribbon marker, so PKM 111044 £65
Bible : The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesties Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. London: Baskett 1716. large leather bible, good candidate for repair, spine and leather label broken in half, top end of spine absent, blindstamped covers rubbed, corners bent inwards, water stain on front inner board, very interesting contemporary review of 'the late Sir Will PKM 109811 £112
Stevenson, Robert Louis : Robert Louis Stevenson on Friendship and other Selections. New York: Dodge 1910. (Old World Favorites) 28p oblong format, beautiful green suede with gilt lettering and design on cover, green colour fading hence suede browning along edges and spine, green silk effect endpapers, first edition, neat ink inscription from 1913 on ffep, tipped-in frontisp, rough PKM 109808 £22
Rhys, Grace : A Celtic Anthology. London: Harrap 1927. 351p brown leather with elaborate gilt celtic design and lettering on cover and spine, first edition, covers bent outwards and detaching from spine, covers a little sunned, upper edges gilt, rough cut pages, binding still firm, nice and clean pages, VG co PKM 109805 £30
Byron, Lord : The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With engravings by the first artists. London: Virtue & Co 1860?. 614p heavy brown quarto cloth, elaborate gilt and black floral design to cover and spine, blindstamped back cover, several cream coloured stains on spine, bookblock detached from spine, corners and spine rubbed, large crease on back board shows evidence t PKM 109531 £82
Crawford, F Marion : Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome in two Volumes, Vols 1 - 2. London: Macmillan 1898. x 332p ix 344p beautiful blue cloth, complete set of 2 vols, gilt bands and gilt illustration of St Peter's on front covers, gilt lettering and sm library shelf label on spines, Girton College bookplate with cancellation stamp in red ink, 'bequeathed by M PKM 109521 £26
Blackmore, R D : Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. With coloured illustrations specially prepared for this work: Landscapes by Charles E Brittan, figure subjects by Charles E Brock. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co 1920?. (Boots the Chemists) 520p bright blue cloth, beautiful fresh gilt lettering and gilt floral design on front cover and spine, edges of spine just a little rubbed, pages rough cut, colour frontisp tipped in, lovely colour plates tipped in, sl foxing on some pages, firm binding, PKM 109508 £24
Vaughan, C E : English Literary Criticism. London: Blackie 1903. (Warwick Library of English Literature) 219p dark blue cloth with attractive gilt and white stamped lettering and Art Nouveaux design, minor rubbing to corners, discrete library marks, very good copy PKM 109335 £34
Gurney, Russell Emelia : Dante's Pilgrim's Progress; Or, 'The Passage of the Blessed Soul from the Slavery of the Present Corruption to the Liberty of Eternal Glory.' With notes on the way by Emilia Russell Gurney. London: Stock 1893. xvi 420p green half calf with elaborate gilt design on front cover, gilt winged design on back cover, gilt lettering on spine, spine sl grubby, top end of spine torn, corners sl bent in, cloth starting to peel off along edges to leather spine, endpapers w PKM 108981 £20
Canonici Facchini, Ginevra : Due giorni in Ferrara. Istruzione per agevolmente pervenire alla cognizione delle opere tutte letterarie e di belle arti quivi raccolte, corredata di molte cognizioni utili egualmente al culte Viaggiatore, che al cittadino Ferrarese. Ferrara: co' Tipi di Gaetano Bresciani 1819. 110p sm 24mo elaborate tooled leather with fresh gilt bands around front and back covers, gilt dentelles, gilt floral decoration and lettering on spine, marbled endpapers and matching edges, spine breaking at top and bottom but still firm, sm library shel PKM 108925 £120
Priestley, J B : The Happy Dream. An Essay. Andoversford: Whittington Press 1976. slim booklet in half cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and yellow marbled paper sides, an ex library copy with the front endpaper removed and stamps to half title and back of title page, printed on excellent paper, one of 400 copies only printed, PKM 105122 £10
Unknown : The Pepys Library. Cambridge University Press 1980?. 18p booklet, frontispiece, sepia plates, description of the library, chronology of Pepys' life, VG PKM 105063 £7
Justinian : Corpus Juris Civilis. Digestum Novum Seu Pandectarum Iuris Civilis Tomus Tertius. Ed. & Commentary by Contius, Gothofredus, Cuiacus etc. Lugduni: Horatius Cardon 1612. Large vol in original green suede type binding with floral ornaments to boards, old title labels on spine, simple rule to boards, spine and boards with minor defects, peeling, rubbing. Emblematic publisher's device "De forti Dulcedo", old library stamps, PKM 105029 £240
Smith, Datus : Guide to Book Publishing. Revised edn. Seattle: Washington University Press 1989. 268p hb w/ white dj, as new, appendix, further reading, index, seminal text, VG PKM 98231 £22
Marlowe, Christopher : The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. London: Folio Society 1993. 74p black/red hb, as new, cloth binding and gilt lettering on spine, attractive illustrated cover design, frontispiece, introduced by Charles Nicholl, wood engravings, quatercentenary edition, VG+ PKM 98225 £18
Encyclopaedia Britannica : Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ninth Edition. 25 Vols, plus New Vols. Making up the Tenth Edition. With Volume of Maps and Volume of Index. (Together 36 vols) London: A & C Black 1898 - 1902. together 36 volumes bound in half calf, very ornate spine with three compartments with floral décor gilt, small library labels to spine, the tiny paper ones giving shelfmark and "do not take out", the edges are marbled, vol 15 has spine detached and worn, PKM 97287 £640
Kay, Ernest [Ed]: Men of Achievement Volume One 1974. Cambridge: Melrose 1974. 1117p 4to format, bound in full morocco leather with all edges gilt, 5 bands to spine, splendid binding in splendid condition, VG, entries with photographs, VG+ PKM 97223 £28
Tiselius, Arne ; Svedberg, The : The Svedberg 1884 - 1944. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1944. bound in half calf or reindeer leather with wooden boards, leather lettered gilt on spine, minor cracking to leather, treated with preserving lotion has lead to darkening of some areas, superb binding from dark times PKM 97118 £20
Muspratt, S [Ed]: Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures. In Eight Vols. London: MacKenzie 1860. 8 vols in excellent original binding, a superb set without a blemish, many illus and engr plates, bindings firms without cracks or tears, endpapers nit stressed, paper not foxed, plates not spotted PKM 96916 £240
Philippi, Henricus : Generalis Synopsis Sacrorum Temporum (1624); Quaestiones Chronologicae de Annis Domini, Iulianis et Nabonassari et vera mundi iudaica (1630); Quaestiones Chronologicae et annis Nati et Passi Salvatoris (1630); Tractatus de Olympiadibus (1637); etc. Coloniae Agrippinae: Kinckium 1624. 135p, 154p, 108p, 29p, multiple titles by the same author bound together in full old calf with old MS labeling to spine, titlepages with publisher's arms, contains also Introductio Chronologica (72p no title page); Introductio Chronologica sive opusculum PKM 96717 £720
Scott, Sir Walter : Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Complete in One Volume. With All His Introductions and Notes and Various Readings, and the Editor's Notes. London: Cadell 1850. 823p Half leather with marbled boards and raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Many fine engravings. A little rubbing on spine but a very good copy with little foxing and good, tight binding. PKM 96660 £35
Campion, Thomas : The Lyrical Poems of Thomas Campion. Ed. Ernest Rhys. London: Dent 1900. (The Lyric Poets) xxxii 173p splendid little volume in petrol cloth with lavish gilt front, spine a bit dull, frontisp w/ tissueguard, nice copy PKM 94222 £16
Justice of the Peace : The Justice of the Peace and County, Borough, Poor Law Union, and Parish Law Recorder. Nice half leather set. 1902, 1904 - 1909, 1911, 1912. London: Richard Shaw Bond 1901 - 1912. decorative set in half leather, spines dry but will respond well to some nourishment, five bands to spine with title label intact, decorative set PKM 92313 £120
Cibber, Colley : Plays. A Bound Collection of the Following Plays in Early Editions: Apparition, Careless Husband, Double Gallant, Lady's Last Stake, Non-Juror. London: Tonson 1736. all with frontisp, all published 1736, boundin full calf with gilt rule to board and title label to spine "Plays", a neat firm copy very decorative PKM 92222 £56
Mello, Francisco Manuel de ; Melo, Francisco Manuel de : Segunda Parte del Primer Tomo de las Obras Morales de don Francisco Manuel [de Mello]. Vitoria del Hombre. Roma: Por el Falco y Varesio 1664. 485p, small 4to format, full calf binding with 5 bands, two labels to spine ("Manuel Obras Morales / Tom II"), spine well gilt, binding in excellent condition, all edges red, has never been much used at all, contains Vitoria del Hombre in 9 books, excelle PKM 91830 £360
Uhland, Ludwig ; Camphausen : Uhlands Gedichte mit Holzschnitten nach Zeichnungen von Camphausen, Closs, Mackart, Max, Schrödter, Schütz. Stuttgart: Cotta 1867. 560p sm 4to format, beautiful full calf binding with gilt dentelles to edges and inside boards, 5 bands to spine, spine elaboratly gilt, printed ornaments, all edges gilt, paper mostly clean, some minor spoting to initial pages, binding with minor scratch PKM 87533 £41.4
Marak, Julius ; Willmann, Eduard ; Scheffel, Joseph von : Waldeinsamkeit. - 12 landschaftliche Stimmungsbilder von Julius Marak. Radirt von Eduard Willmann. Mit begleitender Dichtung von Joseph Victor von Scheffel. Wien: Kaeser 1878. supersized folio, 12 large plates, many additional ornaments in the text, this copy have recently been carefully repaired with new endpapers (old silky endpaper still present) spine and margins of the boards have been re-done in red cloth, the plates are PKM 86502 £162
Engelgrave, Heinrich : [Emblem Book] Lucis Evangelicae, sub velum sacrorum emblematum reconditae. Pars tertia hoc est Caeleste Pantheon sive Caelum Novum in festa et gesta sanctorum totius anni, selecta historia, & morali doctrina etc. Pars primus et posterior. Augsburg: Ioannem Busaeum 1657. 2 parts in one vol, allegorical engraved titlepage, typographical title (for each part, the first has a tiny library stamp), full pigskin binding on wooden boards elaborately blindstamped (corners sl worn), very decorative, two clasps present and working, PKM 86205 £1200
Voltaire : Contes & Romans. Texte etabli par Philippe van Tieghem. Vols 1 - 4. Paris: Roches 1930. (Les Textes Francais) 4 vols bound in 2, beautiful half morocco binding with gilt college arms to front, printed on watermarked paper (helmet), excellent set PKM 86204 £36
Prevost, Antoine Francois : Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescault, Texte de 1753, suivi des variantes de 1731, Ed. Maurice Allem. Paris: Garnier 1927. (Collection Selecta) 270p beautiful half morocco binding limited ed, this copy numbered 269 PKM 86203 £14.4
Du Fail, Noel : Propos Rustiques de Noel du Fail, suivis des Baliverneries, Ed. Louis-Raymond Lefevre. Paris: Garnier 1928. (Collection Selecta) beautiful half morocco binding with college arms in gilt to cover, limited ed, this copy numbered 95 PKM 86201 £14.4
Cellini, Giuseppe : La Vita di Benvenuto Cellini Scritta da lui Medesimo restituita esattamente alla lezione originale con osservazioni filologiche etc. Ed. B Bianchi. Firenze: Le Monnier 1866. 626p very nice half calf binding blue leather and barbeled boards, label; to spine, altogether a firm and tight and bright volume with a bookplate of John Paterson PKM 86200 £77.4
Harland, Henry : The Cardinal's Snuff - Box. London: Nelson 1910. 274p brown limp suede with gilt lettering to cover and spine, spine lettering dulled, scuffing to front patterned end papers, pages clean, VG PKM 86105 £18
Beheim-Schwarzbach, Martin : Die Krypta. Hamburg: Dulk 1935. bound in full plain vellum (pergament).46p imprint note signed in pencil by author, VG+, binding remarkable PKM 86028 £21.6
Molière, J B : Oeuvres Completes de Moliere. 6 Vols. Paris: Hazan 1929 - 193. 6 vols bound in dark blue half morocco with marbeled boards, spine lettered gilt direct, frontisp A Beloff, top edge gilt, one of 1200 numbered copies verge teinte de rives paper, numbered 251, original paper wrapper bound in, a lovely set, hardly used, t PKM 82670 £234
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von : Die Freiherren von Gemperlein. Erzählung. (Ecksteine der neueren Literatur. Unterhaltungsbibliothek für Anfänger des Stenographiesystems Stolze - Schrey. Bd 6) Berlin: Gerdes & Hödel 1905. 79p red cloth bright with superb art nouveau décor in gilt, printed lithographically in shorthand writing, VG PKM 82424 £12
Justinian : Corpus Juris Civilis. Volume 1. Digestus Vetus. Lugduni: Horatius Cardon 1612. large vol original green suede type binding with floral ornaments to boards, old title labels on spine, simple rule to boards, spine and boards with minor defects, peeling, rubbing. By the nature of its content his volume is the initial volume of the coll PKM 81373 £160
Montesquieu : Oeuvres Completes de Montesquieu. Tome Premier, Seconde. Paris: Belin 1817. 769p, 632p each contains two parts in one vol with continious pagination, this was a very nice full calf binding (spine well gilt, ornamental frame on all boards, dentelles) which has suffered detachment of one back board and absence / detachment of one s PKM 80573 £54
Hallam, Henry : Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. London: Murray 1839. 4 Vols, very nice full polished calf leather binding, with title and volume label to spine, one spine a bit dull, others well gilt, hinges firm, engraved bookplate Frances Mary Richardson Currer, gilt line to cover and fine ornament to edges of boards, a PKM 80572 £54
Corneille, Pierre : Ouvres completès. Suivies des oeuvres choisies de Thomas Corneille. Édition de Ch. Lahure. Vol 1, 3 - 5. Paris: Hachette 1857 - 186. 4 vols in quarter leather, binding in good condition, only one small tear to one spine, all edges polished gilt (very gilt!), a clean set with bookplate and minimal library markings, lacking volume 2 PKM 78998 £25.2
Schiller, Friedrich : Schillers Werke. Illustriert von ersten deutschen Künstlern. Herausg von I G Fischer. 4 Vols. Zweite Auflage. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1900. 4 Vols, 435p, 447p, 450p, 423p bound in red cloth with very elaborate gold ornaments, splendid binding, spine a bit dull, and one spine hinge at each vol detaching, front panel of vol 3 a bit dull, water silk endpapers, many illus and ornaments in the tex PKM 78504 £22
Ibsen, Henrik : Brand: A Dramatic Poem. Dent / Everyman 1913. bound in full burgundy calf with eloborate gilt panel to front and spine gilt, hinges and top of spine a bit rubbed, but still a bright & firm copy PKM 77766 £7.2
Belcher, John ; Macartney, Mervyn : Later Renaissance Architecture In England. A Series of Examples of the Domestic Buildings Erected Subsequent to the Elizabethan Period. London: Chiswick Press 1901. 2 large fol vols with very many excellent plates. Binding is red half calf over red cloth boards, spine well gilt, and excellent set in near perfect condition, binding firm and not faults to spine except a little superficial rubbing to hinges, combined we PKM 75776 £216
Holland, Philemon [Transl]: The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. Secon Edition. London: Adam Islip 1634. 2 vols bound in one, folio format, 29 prelim leaves unpag, 614p plus index, Vol 2 (The Second Tombe) has A 1-7, 632p plus index, title page to vol 1 laid down with minor wear but still bright, with old scribbles, title to vol 2 in better condition, large PKM 75443 £1400
Fitzherbert, Selina : A Chain of Prayer Across the Ages. Forty Centuries of Prayer 2000 BC - AD 1915. London: Murray 1918. 299p private brown half calf binding with vertical cloth strip to covers, gilt lettering to spine, edges a bit grubby but pages clean with index of authors, sources and subjects, VG PKM 74758 £8
Bremer, Frederika : The Twins and Other Tales. Translated from the Swedish by A Lady. Vol 8 of The Novels of Frederika Bremer. London: Clarke 1844. 234p half calf with black cloth and gilt lettering and ornaments to spine on red insert, covers and edges a little rubbed, edges worn with top back edge lost, binding firm, spine well kept, VG PKM 72963 £45
Bremer, Frederika : A Diary. Translated from the Swedish by E.A. Friedlaender. Vol 11 of The Novels of Frederika Bremer. London: Clarke 1845. 331p half calf with black cloth and gilt lettering and ornaments to spine on red insert, covers and edges a little rubbed but neat and clean copy, binding firm, spine beautifully kept, VG PKM 72962 £54
Bürger, Gottfried August : Gedichte. Leipzig: Reclam 1880. 310p index, half calf with green silk covers and gilt top edge, spine sunned and edges slightly worn, text fresh and clean, must have been a beautiful edition when fresh, still very pleasant and special PKM 72942 £8
Gessner, Salomon : Schriften. Three Volumes (of 5) only: 2ter, 3ter und 4ter Theil. Zürich: Orell Füssli 1770. 166p 166p 209p half calf with gilt lettering to spine, paper covered boards imitating tree calf binding, title vignette in front and other ornaments throughout volumes, edges slightly worn but otherwise very good copies, previous owner's decorative bookpl PKM 72935 £48
Furmanov, Dmitri : Chapayev. London: Lawrence & Wishart 1935. 335p pb, coloured pictorial cover (socialist soviet asthetic), some wear but firm and clean copy, VG PKM 67354 £9.9
Gardiner : Windfalls. Alpha of the Plough. London: Dent 1924. 256p green leather with gilt ornaments and lettering to front and spine, cloth pagemark, marbled end papers, spine sunned but copy hardly signs of use, beautiful copy, VG+ PKM 66761 £18
A R G : A Bunch of Pansies. Thoughts Gathered in the Garden of God. London: Mowbray 1912. 106p very small limp leather (9,6cm) with fleurs de lis blindstamp and gilt lettering, edges and spine scuffed, cover detached, binding pretty weak, edges browned, gilt top edging, pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 65422 £7.2
King George V : An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the Occasion of the Presentation of Addresses by Both Houses of Parliament to King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee. Cambridge University Press 1935. Unpaginated full morocco with gilt lettering on front panel ("Westminster Hall 9 May 1935" ), raised bands on spine, gilt edging, b/w frontispiece, one b/w photograph with tissue guard, pages clean and unmarked, VG+, special binding PKM 63861 £28
(No Author) : Hints on the Preservation of Health in Tropical Africa. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies 1949. 47p cloth (insecticide binding fresh), illus, VG PKM 14886 £9
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