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(Code No. 4449)
Topffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846. (Attributed to.)
The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck : wherein are duly set forth the crosses, chagrins, calamities, checks, chills, changes, and circumgirations by which his courtship was attended : showing also, the issue of his suit and his espousal to his ladye-love.
No Date. [1841?]
London : Tilt and Bogue, Bradbury and Evans [printers] . 8vo, [14 x 23cm]. 81 of 84 plates (incl. title page.) : all illustrations no text (as issued). With all faults. Original full morocco gilt, rubbing with slight surface loss. .Very rare work. £300.00.
The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. It was published in comic book form as a supplement to that day's edition of Brother Jonathan, a New York, New York newspaper published by author John Neal (August 23, 1793 - June 20, 1876). It has come to be considered the first American comic book and, according to several Robert Beerbohm articles published in Comic Art Magazine and the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, the inspiration for an entire U.S. genre of nineteenth-century graphic novel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia. |
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(Code No. 4448)
Photograph Album of India and Iraq.
Date. 1915-18.
8vo, Image sizes 5 1/2 x 3 1/2ins to 3 1/2 x 2 1/2ins. 247 Photographs of India and Iraq, including the towns of Calcutta Baghdad & Samarra, showing images of the people and their trades and also the British and Indian soldiers after the defeat of the Turkish Army. Original album gilt, very good condition. £150.00
In a campaign aimed at taking Baghdad, the British suffered a defeat at Kut al-'Amarah in April 1916, but a reinforced British army marched into Baghdad on March 11, 1917. An administration staffed largely by British and Indian officials replaced the Ottoman provincial government in occupied Iraq, but Mosul remained in Ottoman hands until after the Armistice of Mudros (Oct. 30, 1918), which brought an end to the war in the Middle East. |
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(Code No. 4447)
Photograph Album of India + Negatives.
Rochester, New York. Eastman Kodak Co.
Date. 1915-18.
8vo, [5 1/2 x 7 1/2ins.] Negative's folder 12mo, [3 1/4 x 5ins.] 96 Photographs of Indian scenes and people, including 64 Towns shown:- Roorkee, Nasik, Bhagur, Deolali, Pashavar, Lucknow and Calcutta + 32 Images of People and their trades + 48 Negative photographs of India, housed in an Eastman Album. Image sizes, (approx), 3 1/2 x 2 1/4ins. £100.00 |
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(Code No. 4446)
9 Loose Prints of Steam Engines.
Date. ca1900.
The Railway Magazine.
Page sizes, (approx), 20 x 9 1/2 ins. Image size, (approx),18 1/2ins x 8 1/4 ins. 9 Large folding colour printed plates of British steam engines, by Alf Cooke of Leeds, some splits to folds and edges. Listing engine's details below images. £75.00 |
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(Code No. 4445)
CRUCHLEY, George.
Cruchley’s County Atlas or England & Wales, shewing all the Railways & Stations with their names, also the Turnpike Roads and Principal Cross Roads, delineated on a series of 46 County Maps.
Date. 1875
London. G.E. Cruchley. 8vo, [6 1/2 x 9 1/4ins.]. 47 Hand coloured lithographic English and Welsh County Maps. All but 9 maps split at the centre fold. Original cloth gilt, stitched repair to the hinges. Sold as a Working Copy only. £85.00 |
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(Code No. 4444)
Anon.
5 Watercolour Sketches of Towns in Switzerland.
One image dated,1888.
Page sizes 5 1/2 x 8ins to 9 3/4 x 6 1/2ins. Image sizes 7 x 4ins to 5 1/2 x 8 3/4ins. 5 Original Watercolour sketckes of Swiss towns. Thun, Berne, Oberusel, Thun, slight foxing and Vevey. On thick card. £170.00 |
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(Code No. 4443)
(Antique Sea Chart.)
Cook, James. Captain .(1728-79).
A CHART OF THE ISLANDS DISCOVERED IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF OTAHEITE IN THE COURSE OF SEVERAL VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD MADE BY THE CAPTNS BYRON, WALLIS, CARTERET & COOK IN THE YEARS, 1765, 1767, 1769.
Date. ca1780.
London, Alex Hogg. Page size, [15 x 10ins] Original copper engraved chart, crease mark. Shows routes of the three voyages. £50.00 |
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(Code No. 4442)
JOHNSON, Samuel.
THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. A Tale. + Dr. Langhorne. Solyman and Almena. An Oriental Tale.
Date. ca1820.
London. C. Cooke. 16mo, [4 x 6ins.] Pp 57, 56, 90 + Full page engraved copper plate + Many text engraved copper plates. Original calf gilt, hinges split. Still holding firm. £30.00 |
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(Code No. 4440)
BRADSHAW.
(Antique Town Plans of Europe.)
Plans of the most important Cities and Towns of Continental Europe,
Date. ca1870.
London. 12mo [ 120 x 150 mm ]. 28 of 29 FOLDING TOWN PLANS plans. Plan 28 [Vienna] missing. Approx Image sizes 190 x 140 mm to 660 x 460 mm. Plans include, Amsterdam,(2cm split to fold), Antwerp, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Constantinople,Dresden, Florence,Frankfort, Geneva,Genoa,Ghent, The Hague, Hamburge, Lyons, Marsailles, Mayence, Milan, Munich, Naples, Ostend, Palermo, Paris, Rome, Triest, Turin, Venice, Verona, very good condition. Printed covers, some wear. £110.00
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(Code No. 4439)
Angas, George French.
(2 Antique prints of Maori Chiefs.)
Paratene Maioha, a Chief of Wangaroa, wearing the dog's-skin robe and Munga Kahu, Chief of Roto-aire, with Ko-mari his wife.
Date. ca1840.
London. Page size, 11 x 14 ins. 2 woodcut engraved prints of Maori Chiefs taken from the original drawings from life by George French Angas. £60.00 |
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(Code No. 4438)
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
The Conduct of the Understanding; by John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon.
Date. ca1850.
London, C. Daly. 16mo, [3 x 5ins.] Pp xiv 304. Including engraved frontis + Engraved vignette title + Addition title.all edges gilt. Original cloth gilt, rubbed. £35.00
Locke's interest centres on traditional philosophical topics: the nature of the self, the world, God, and the grounds of our knowledge of them. |
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(Code No. 4437)
Burns, Robert.
Poems of Robert Burns with a Glossary.
2 Volumes.
Date. 1881.
London. W. Kent & Co. 16mo, [3 x 4 1/2ins.] Pp 316,320, very good condition.All edges gilt. Original cloth, gilt, very good condition. £35.00
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(Code No. 4436)
Johnson Samuel.
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Volume 10, only.
Date. 1806.
Edinburgh. Bell & Bradfute. 12mo, [3 1/2 x 6ins.] Pp 321. Including , pp. 46, Political Tracts on Transactions respecting the Falkland's Islands [1771] + pp. 13, The Patriot; addressed to the Electors of Great Britain [1774] + pp. 50, Taxation-no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress [1775], etc.Original half calf gilt, rubbed. £40.00 |
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(Code No. 4435)
Articles of Agreements, Heads of Agreements and Sum-Contracts, Memorandum of Agreement and Indentures.
Date. 1859-87.
15 Welsh, etc, Railway Company Agreements for Working, (very good).
London. Railway Companies. 4to, [7 1/2 x 12ins.]
Vale of Clwyd Railway, Deed of Grant for Telegraphs, Irish Postal service, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, 2 x Denbigh and Ruthin Railway Company, 2 x Chester And Holyhead Railway Company, Oswestry and Newton Railway Company, Shewsbury and Welshpool Railway Company, Dundalk Greenore Railway Company , Mold & the Denbigh Railway Company, Carnarvon and Llanberris Railway Company ,and the Cambrian Railway Company. (Approx) 4 pp.,each. £120.00
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(Code No. 4432)
Fothergill, George A.
NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF A DOCTOR, SKETCH ARTIST AND SPORTSMAN.
Date. 1901.
York. John Sampson, Folio, [13 1/2 x 16ins.] Pp. xiv ,197pp., (ii, adverts). Many Black and white & coloured full page and text illustrations throughout, all large plates, loose, (perished gutta-percha binding) and outer edge of a few pages with marginial nicks, well away from the engraved area. Original cloth, poor. £90.00 |
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(Code No. 4434)
Anon:
Watercolour Sketch of a Blacksmith at Work.
Dated, March 1885.
England. Image size 13 x 8ins.Original Watercolour Sketch of a Blacksmith at Work with the tutor's comments on back of image. £40.00
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Code No. 4433)
Nouveau Larousse illustré.
(12 Military Antique Coloured Prints).
No Date, ca1870-80.
Paris. Page size, [10 x 13ins.]. 12 Chromolithographic, (colour printed), military engraved prints by Vignerot & Demoulin, of various countries, Sweden, United States (slight creasing), Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Romania, Spain, Italy, Britain, Russia, France and Portugal. All prints with the appropriate map on back of each image. £80.00 |
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(Code No. 4431)
IRELAND, W. H.
New and Complete History of the County of KENT.
4 Volumes.
Date. 1829.
London: Virtue. Demy 8vo [8.6 x 6.6 ins]. Pp. 712, xix. 713 xv. 698, xviii. 780 xiii (8, errata), foxing throughout and a few plates & text pages with nicks and fraying to margins. (3pp missing). Engraved vignette title page + 128 STEEL ENGRAVED VIEW PLATES by H. Gastineau, and others + 2 Folding Maps, splits to folds, (no loss). Contemporary half black calf gilt, rubbing. Gilt-tooled spine panels, slight split to one hinge and rubbing. £170.00 |
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(Code No. 4426)
Harmsworth.
Harmsworth's New Atlas.
Date. ca1920.
London. The Amalgamated Press Ltd. Folio, [11 x 15ins.] Pp xii, 572. No title, as issued. (Approx), 285 coloured World Maps with inset town plans, including maps of World War One. All maps with full page descriptive text. Original cloth, rubbed. Weight of book, 5kg. £80.00 |
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(Code No. 4425)
Victorian Photograph Album.
(114 Various Photographs).
Date. ca1890.
4to, [9 1/2 x 11 1/2ins.] (Approx) areas shown:- Cambridge (5), South Coast of England (62), Isle of Wight (7), North Wales (13), Scilly Isles (10), Misc' & family photographs (17). Pasted on to thick card. Image sizes 11 x 7ins to 4 1/2 x 4ins (approx). Some foxing. Photographers - Frith & Co, James Valentine and others. No Covers. £200.00 |
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(Code No. 4424)
Speed. John.
Title Pages.
(The Second Book containing the Principality of Wales.)
Date. 1676.
London. Basset and Chiswell, Page size 11 1/2 x 17 ins. Pp. 95 to 98. Original copper engraved title pages to the Welsh section of John Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" Guaranteed to be over 300 years old. £70.00
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(Code No. 4423)
Speed. John.
Title Pages.
(The Second Book containing the Principality of Wales.)
Date. 1611, 1st edn.
London. Printed by William Hall for Sudbury and Humble. Page size 10 1/2 x 18 ins. Pp. 95 to 98. Original copper engraved title pages to the Welsh section of John Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" Guaranteed to be over 350 years old. £80.00 |
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(Code No. 4422)
TYMMS, Samuel.
The Family Topographer.
Date. 1837-38.
London. J.B.Nichols & Son, 12mo, [4 1/2 x 7ins.] Pp. 39 & Map of Cumberland + pp. 28, & Map of Westmoreland + pp. 43, & Map of Lancashire + pp. 27 & Map of North Riding (Yorkshire) + pp. 30-51 & Map of East Riding (Yorkshire) + pp. 53-96 & Map of West Riding (Yorkshire). All maps engraved by Nichols, J. B. & Son, very good condition. Part unopened. Text and maps only, no title pages or covers. £130.00 |
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(Code No. 4421)
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638).
(Antique Map of Denbighshire and Flintshire.)
Denbigiensis Comitatus et Comitatus Flintensis.
Date. 1645.
Amsterdam. Image size [19 3/4 x 15 1/2ins.] Original hand coloured copper engraved map, slight marks. Latin text. £150.00
Dutch cartographer and printer. He studied astronomy and instrument making under the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The printing establishment he founded in Amsterdam was famed for its fine instruments, marine publications, globes and atlases, and especially for the folio atlas that he compiled. Blaeu designed new presses incorporating important innovations; his shop was recognized as one of the best in that period. The sons and grandsons of Blaeu continued his work. Ref. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. |
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(Code No. 4419)
Fosbrooke .T.D. Rev.
The Wye Tour, or Gilpin on the Wye, with Historical and Archaeological Additions, especially illustrations of Pope's Man of Ross.
Date. 1818.
Ross: W. Farror. 12mo, [4 1/2 x 6 1/2ins.] 1818. Pp. x, viii, 154, including portrait frontis. + map, very good condition. edges untrimmed. Dedication on front end paper. Original trade boards with printed paper label, some chipping. £90.00 |
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(Code no. 4420)Anon.A Picture of the Seasons; with anecdotes and remarks.Date. 1824.Dublin, Printed by William Folds & Son. 16mo, [3 1/2 x 6ins.] 1824. Pp. 180 + 6 full page woodcut engravings + many woodcut text illustrations. Dedication on front end paper. Original full calf gilt, rubbed with split to hinges. Still holding.
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(Code No. 4418)
Anon.
Victorian Scrap Book.
Date 1880-90.
4to, [10 x 12ins.] Original sketchbook, containing, 10 watercolour views + 11 Pencil sketches + 2 Aquatint prints, one with a nick into engraved area (1ins). + 4 Botanical watercolours, all by the same amateur artist? Image sizes, 11x 8 1/2ins to 3 1/2 x 4 1/2ins, (approx). Original half morocco, lacks spine. £130.00 |
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