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Gumuchian et cie; catalogue XIV, manuscrits, incunables, beaux livres en tous genres, tres belles relieures, dix-huitieme illustres, medecine, sciences et voyages anciens, livres anglais avec planches coloriees.

Paris: Gumuchian & cie, no date [c. 1931]. Catalogue 14 (softcover). 8vo (26cm by 19cm), [v], 308pp. 48pp plates (planches), text illustrations. Original printed card wrappers. Covers a little rubbed and scuffed, contents a little thumbed. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. The catalogue lists 675 separate items.

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Book number: 30364

Catalogue: 3

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Hammersmith Constitutional Year Book for 1903 [bound with] Year Book for 1904 [bound with] Year Book for 1905-06.

Hammersmith: printed by W J Searle, 1903. A collection of ten pamphlets relating to the London Borough of Hammersmith, bound in one hardback volume. The book is octavo (21cm by 14cm), bound in green cloth, and is in good to very good condition (light staining of the boards, some light staining of the contents). With the bookplate of the Rt Hon Sir William Bull (MP of Hammersmith) to the front pastedown. The contents are as follows: (1) Rules of Hammersmith Conservative Association [1885], 8pp. (2) Rules for the Hammersmith Constitutional Club, 1886, 11pp. (3) Memorandum of the Hammersmith Constitutional Club [1886], 14pp. (4) Rules of the Hammersmith Conservative & Constitutional Association, 1893, 14pp. (5) Hammersmith Constitutional Year Book for 1903, 36pp. (6) Hammersmith Constitutional Year Book for 1904, 60pp. (7) Programme of the Hammersmith Garden Fete, June 30 1904, at the Grange, East Acton, 24pp. (8) Hammersmith Constitutional Year Book for 1905-06, 79pp. (9) Hammersmith Conservative Association Rules, 1905, 12pp. (10) Programme for Hammersmith Garden Fete, June 15th 1905, 24pp.

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Book number: 44680

Catalogue: 3

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Handelingen van het Thee-Congres met Tentoonstelling : gehouden te bandoeng van 21 tot 26 Juni 1924.

Weltevreden: G Kolff & co, 1924. Hardback. 8vo (26cm x 19cm), 369pp. 47 plates. Original limp green cloth binding, gilt titling to the spine, gilt titling and design to the front cover. The binding is heavily rubbed; apart from this fault, the book is in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. Text in Dutch.

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Book number: 53438

Catalogue: 4

[Robert Smith Surtees]:

Handley Cross; or, the Spa Hunt, a Sporting Tale [volume 1].

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First edition (hardback), volume 1 (of 3) only. 12mo (20cm by 12cm), viii, 328pp. 19th-century binding or green cloth. This book was formerly in a public substription library, with labels to the binding and the front endpapers, there is some foxing of the preliminary pages and the contents are a little thumbed. Overall, this book is in good condition. Please note that this is volume 1 only.

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Book number: 66181

Catalogue: 3

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The Handy Atlas and World Gazetteer.

London: Ward, Lock & co, no date [c. 1910]. Revised edition (hardback). 16mo (15cm by 10cm), viii, 120pp coloured maps, 160pp gazetteer. Original full green calf, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, all edges gilt. The binding is intact but scruffy (rubbed, sunned and scuffed); there is an ownership inscription else the contents are in VG condition. A good copy overall. Hard to date, but presumably pre-World War 1 as the Austria-Hungarian empire is shown.

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Book number: 69905

Catalogue: 3

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Hans Holbeins Madonna im Stadel (Der Bergermeister, sein Maler und seine Familie).

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2004. First edition (hardback). 4to, 208pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Original laminated boards. This copy is in very good condition. Text in German. ISBN 3937251456

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Book number: 28771

Catalogue: 2

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Happy Days [The Adventures of John and Topsy].

London: Juvenile Productions Ltd, no date [c. 1941]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 19cm), c. 64pp. Colour frontispiece, text illustrations. Original red cloth spine, colour illustration to the front board. The lower edges of the boards are rubbed, the text pages are tanned, one leaf has some chafing to the top edge, and there is a gift inscription (dated Xmas 1941). Overall, the book is in good condition.The original dustwrapper is present but is in fair condition only (front panel torn with loss). Contains the following stories: John, Topsy and the Raven; The Kidnapping of Jemima; The World's Greatest Circus; The Fun of the Fair. The frontispiece is similar in style to Arthur Rackham, but I have not been able to decipher the signature of the artist.

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Book number: 41386

Catalogue: 3

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The Helmut N Friedlander library [complete in two volumes].

New York: Christies, 2001.` 2 volumes. 4to, 449pp; 230pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original grey cloth, dustwrappers. Minor nick to the front endpaper of volume 1, else a fine set in near-fine dustwrappers. Volume 1 covers the first day (Monday 23 April 2001) and volume 2 covers the second day (Tuesday 24 April 2001).

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Book number: 8317

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Henri Matisse 1904 - 1917.

Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993. Second impression (softcover). 4to (30cm x 21cm), 524pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Original laminated card wrappers. This copy is in very good condition. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1993. Text in French. ISBN 2858507058

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Book number: 45325

Catalogue: 2

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Heralds' Commemorative Exhibition 1484-1934, held at the College of Arms, enlarged & illustrated catalogue.

London: The Tabard Press, 1970. Facsimile of the 1936 edition (hardback). 4to, 126pp. 55 plates (some in colour). Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (price-clipped, a little rubbed). ISBN 0901951293

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Book number: 26256

Catalogue: 3

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Heralds' Commemorative Exhibition 1484-1934, held at the College of Arms, enlarged & illustrated catalogue.

London: The Tabard Press, 1970. Facsimile of the 1936 edition (hardback). 4to (32cm by 26cm), 126pp. 55 plates (some in colour). Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0901951293

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Book number: 35488

Catalogue: 2

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Hereford: the Centre for the Wye Valley.

Cheltenham: Ed J Burrow, no date [c. 1925]. No edition stated (softcover). 12mo (19cm by 12cm), 78pp. Plates, 2 folding sketch maps. Original printed card wrappers. Covers lightly rubbed and creased, foxing to the edges of the text block. Overall, this copy is in good condition. Undated; I have estimated a date of 1925 becuase the quoted population of the city is taken from the 1921 census.

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Book number: 40525

Catalogue: 3

[Anne Manning]:

Heroes of the Desert; the story of the lives of Moffat and Livingstone.

London: Thomas Nelson and sons, 1887. New and enlarged edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 343pp, 8pp adverts. Frontispiece, text engravings (many of which are full-page). Original decorated green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding rubbed, some foxing and thumbing of the contents, ownership inscription (dated 1890). Overall, this copy is in good condition.

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Book number: 37734

Catalogue: 3

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Heroes of Peace and War : Lives and Actions of the World's Great Men.

London: Ward, Lock, Bowden & co, no date [c. 1920]. No editon stated (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), title, 350pp. Text illustrations. Original decorated brown cloth. There is some rubbing of the boards, light spotting to the edges of the text block, an ownership inscriptions to the front endpapers; overall, this book is in good plus condition.

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Book number: 61760

Catalogue: 3

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Hexham and Neighbourhood, including the central portion of the Roman Wall.

Edinburgh: J Menzies & co, no date [c. 1912]. No edition stated (softcover). 12mo (17cm by 11cm), pp71-132, 64-100 + adverts. Plates, folding map. Original stiff red cloth wrappers. There is some spotting to the edges of the text block and occasional pencil annotations; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 63086

Catalogue: 3