COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG Official Guidebook & Map price fifty cents Containing a brief History of the City and Descriptions of more than One Hundred Dwelling-Houses, Shops & publick Buildings, fully illustrated. Also a large Guide-Map.

Williamsburg Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg Inc 6th edition 1968 Text illustrations throughout + large folding colored Map. . Octavo orange pictorial paperback (tips sl.rubbed) xix +108pp multi folding colored map (loose as issued).

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Book number: A74467

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: guidebook illustrated history historic America

COLOURS

Printed in Spain, Watson/Susaeta Ediciones 1989 1990 Color pop-ups (4) . Octavo pictorial boards (tips slightly bumped) (8pgs) (not in Montanaro).

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Book number: J51403

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop up childrens illustrated

COMPENDIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL GRAMMAR exhibiting a brief survey of the terraqueous globe : and shewing, the situation, extent, boundaries, and divisions of the various countries, their chief towns, mountains, rivers, climates, and productions; their governments, revenues, commerce, and their sea and land forces; likewise, the religion, language, literature, customs, and manners of the respective inhabitants of the different nations: and also, a concise view of the political history of the several empires, kingdoms, and states. Embellished with maps.

London, W.Peacock 1795 Hand colored in outline Folding Maps (12 + frontis) by Russell . Duodecimo red roan gilt (spine quite chipped down at head/foot & heavily rubbed/tips worn) All Edges Gilt xxii+404pp +(4p index) 2 leaves nearly loose but clean and square. Nice 19th century inscription on FEP. All folding maps crisp and untorn with outline coloring. Maps: Chart of the world - East Indies - Spain and Portugal - France - Italy - Netherlands - United Provinces - German Empire and Switzerland - Prussia and Poland - Dominions of Russia - Sweden, Denmark and Norway - Great Britain and Ireland - States of America.

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Book number: V68561

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: geography maps

A.L.O.E. (pseudonym of Charlotte M. Tucker (1821-93))

THE CONVICT'S CHILD or The Helmet of Hope.

London, Gall & Inglis 1874 not later than by inscription) Color frontispiece. . 140x90mm blue decorated cloth with fancy gilt cover panel with red lettering (tips rubbed/sl fraying to head and foot of spine) All Edges Gilt 60pp. Presentation inscription from East Fen Sunday School Christmas 1874 to George Baumber. Lacks rear fly leaf else neat and tight.

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Book number: J70327

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: moral juvenile poverty workhouse Victorian

CORONAL,or Prose, Poetry and Art

London, Religious Tract Soc. 1858 Color printed plates (8) by Kronheim using the Baxter process incl. views of Niagara Falls & Loch Ness + flower bunches & humming birds . Small octavo red gilt cloth (faded/tips worn/1" tear to lower hinge) All Edges Gilt iv+251pp lacks REP & bookseller & binders stamp/ticket on EP & blank, minor foxing but mainly to margins. Short articles on Niagra Falls, humming birds, water lilies etc.

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Book number: V59400

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: color plates illustrated gift book

CORONATION EXHIBITION 1911 at Great White City Shepherds Bush.

London, n.p. 1911 illustrated by Stereographs by Underwood & Underwood . 180 x 120mm colored paper cover with Britannia holding the flag & the crown with scenen in background. 10pp including the lower cover with G.N.R [railways] routes from major cities to King's Cross station giving the duration of journey from each. Also inclusive tours for Holiday visits with Admission to the Coronation Exhibition.

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Book number: J75753

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Coronation exhibition

COURAGE. Thoughts of great minds concerning true courage.

London, Ernet Nister /New York E.P.Dutton & Co. not later than 1906 by inscription colour plates {10] . 78 x 61mm blind-tooled cover with cream and olive on blue-green cloth [edges rubbed/corners sl.worn] 82pp printed in blue + red + black to all text pages with fine calligraphic initials and decorations. Inscription to pastedown

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Book number: V75745

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated short sayings

CREATURES OF LONG AGO: DINOSAURS

USA, National Geographic 1988 Pop-ups (6 doublepage) + 9 tab operated movements + rotating wheel + 6 lift the flaps ils by John Sibbick engieenrs J.Strejan & James R. Diaz . Square octavo pictorial boards (slight bumping to edges/tips & sl.rubbing to tips) (12pp) *One of the most complicated and difficult to find with all pop-ups and pull tabs working as in this copy (MONTANARO 62).

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Book number: J63385

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up movable

DANDY BOOK 1998

London, Thomson 1998 Two-colour cartoons throughout . Large octavo pictorial boards (tips sl.rubbed) unpaginated but complete and near Fine. Price not clipped & no ownership filled in.

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Book number: J63991

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens annual

DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY (reprinted from Spectator)

London, Macmillan Cranford series 3rd edition 1892 Illustrated by Hugh Thomson . BINDING of lovely gilt pictorial blue cloth octavo (tips slightly worn) All Edges Gilt 158pgs Blindstamped "Presentation Copy" on TP & with small neat inscription on margin of TP, EPs only are sl.browned else clean and V.G

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Book number: V55960

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated book

DEESIDE GUIDE descriptive and traditionary with photographs

Aberdeen & Edinburgh, Smith & Son/Menzies 1st edition 1885 Real mounted photographs (8) stuck into lettered plates . Small octavo ochre cloth gilt (tips worn/spine slightly snagged but neat and sound) (ii)+121pp Lacks map. Neat miniscule inscription on margin of TP dated 1885 some finger-marks but photographs in good condition. With later bookplate on FEP. The use of actual photos to illustrate books was costly and used for only a relatively short time in book production.

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Book number: V56963

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Scotland topography photography illustrated

[ John Barrow ]

DICTIONARIUM POLYGRAPHICUM Or the Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.

London, C.Hitch & C.Davis & S.Austen 1735 First Edition Frontispiece + 55 folding plates of art, carving, gilding, dying cloth, weaving, making ink, mixing colours and all forms of art. The first volume has an extra platetha is not numbered + 6 pages of . 2 volumes in mottled tan leather on 5 raised bands gilt rules to spine and covers & spine gilt titled [corners worn /spines rebacked ] All edges dyed red. Frontis.+ titlepage +[2p =Preface] + [555pp] + vol. II Titlepage + [520pp] + [4p = directions to binder + books for sale list] Coat of arms book plate to both pastedowns with name A. [Kells ?] Finch written in ink below the arms. Some off-setting or show-through to the last six leaves of both volumes else a crisp clean copy neatly rebackeed and with newer endpapers.

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Book number: V75923

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Comprehensive "how to" arts & crafts

L'ECOLE DES PERES, suivie de la Mauvaise Mere, Contes Nouveaux

Caen, France, P. Chalopin 1788 Woodcut of the two fathers surrounded by medallions of 6 youngsters. . Duodecimo paper wraps 40pp. Two stories on the upbringing of young people. In order to assure himself that his son who has been indulged by his mother does not waste his life has a trick played on him so that he ends up choosing the right young lady to be his wife. The second story about a mother who favors one child above all her other children and the problems this brings. A quite rare and early chapbook.

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Book number: V70505

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: chapbook French upbringing

EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

London, Grandreams Ltd 1994 Pop-up illustrations (6) . Oblong octavo pictorial boards text parallel to spine (12pp) one slight wrong crease else V.G

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Book number: J49255

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop up fairy tale

EVERY BOY'S ANNUAL

London, Juvenile Prod. 1948 approx) Color frontis + text illustrations by G.E. Lang and others . Large octavo cloth spined pictorial boards (tips worn/sl.marked but bright) 96pp Stories by Pearson, Smale, Fry et al. some quite politically incorrect + articles on Boxing World title fight of Freddie Mills, Diamonds, stamps, cars etc. + how-to-make & pictures strips, puzzles etc.

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Book number: J59176

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: annual