Primrose Cumming:

The Chestnut Filly.

London: Blackie & son, 1940. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 17cm), 190pp. 25 full-page b&w illustrations by Stanley Lloyd. Original brown cloth. This copy is a curate's egg; the binding is somewhat stained and discoloured, and the endpapers are browned, but the contents are clean and tightly bound. Suitable as a reading copy.

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Book number: 60987

Catalogue: 4

Very Reverend A P Purey-Cust:

The Heraldry of York Minster : a key to the history of its builders and benefactors [2 volumes]

Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1890, 1896. First edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 4to (34cm by 25cm), 412pp; 433pp. 20 colour plates, pus a map and several other illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spines, gilt titling and design to the front boards, top edges gilt. The bindings are intact but a little scruffy (rubbed and bumped, chafing to the foot of the spine of volume 1). The contents are clean and tightly bound. Suitable as a reading, working or reference set. Limited to 300 sets; volume 1 is numbered 34, volume 2 is numbered 146.

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Book number: 71236

Catalogue: 4

Lionel Cust [Introduction]:

Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages who died between 1714 and 1837.

Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1906. First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 23cm), 105pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original brown cloth spine, brown boards, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. Scuffing to the head of the spine, boards rubbed, foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block. Overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 65834

Catalogue: 4

Robert Needham Cust:

Linguistic and Oriental Essays written from the year 1840 to 1901, sixth series.

London: Luzac & co, 1901. First edition, sixth series (hardback). 8vo, xi, 485pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original orange/brown cloth. Titling dull on the spine, small label removed from the foot of the spine, bookplate to the front pastedown, endpapers browned, contents VG. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 28530

Catalogue: 4

Dale, Elizabeth:

The scenery and geology of the Peak of Derbyshire.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 16cm), viii, 176pp. Frontispiece, 82 illustrations (including some folding plates). Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding rather rubbed, light chafing of the endpapers, some spotting of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Please note that this book does not include the geological map that was issued with some copies.

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Book number: 59975

Catalogue: 4

Dan Michel, edited by Richard Morris:

Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, or Remorse of Conscience, in the Kentish Dialect, 1340 AD.

London: The Early English Text Society, 1866. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), c, 359pp. Folding plate. Rebound in the 20th century in unlettered brown cloth. Preliminary pages foxed and creased; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 57763

Catalogue: 4

Timothy Darvill:

Ancient Monuments in the Countryside; an archaeological management review.

London: Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission for England, 1987. First edition (softcover). 4to, viii, 188pp. 145 text figures. Original laminated wrappers. The front cover is rippled, there is some creasing of the preliminary pages, the contents are very good. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition. English Herutage Archaeological Report, number 5. From the library of Archaeologist Paul Ashbee, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. ISBN 1850741670

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Book number: 24234

Catalogue: 4

M L'Abbe Dassance:

Les Saints Evangiles [2 tomes].

Paris: L Curmer, 1843. Complete in two hardback volumes, no edition stated. 8vo (25cm x 17cm), 332pp; 372pp. Plates, text decorations. Bound in half black calf, green cloth boards, red morocco title labels to the spines, marbled endpapers and text edges. The spines are scuffed, and the preliminary pages are foxed; overall, this set is just about in good condition. The first volume has an extra-title and an illustrated half-title but no printed title; the second volume has a printed title and half-title, but no extra-title. Text in French.

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Book number: 67263

Catalogue: 4

Alphones Daudet:

Tartarin sur les Alpes.

London: D Nutt, 1889. Early London edition with French text (hardback). 12mo (18cm x 12cm), title, 365pp, 4pp table des matieres. With 150 illustrations by Aranda, de Beaumont, Montenard, de Myrbach & Rossi, engraved by Guillaume Brothers. Original green cloth. Binding rubbed, cocked and lightly shaken, lower joint repaired, short ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is in fair condition. Text in French (texte en francais).

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Book number: 33288

Catalogue: 4

Charles E Davis:

The mineral baths of Bath; the bathes of Bathe's Ayde in the reign of Charles 2nd.

Bath: William Lewis and son, 1883. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 19cm), 86pp, 28pp adverts. 2 plates (including a map of Bath). Original quarter gey cloth spine, grey paper-covered boards. Some rubbing and marking of the binding, some chipping of the backstrip, light foxing of the endpapers. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 57878

Catalogue: 4

R W Dickson:

The Farmer's Companion; being a complete system of modern husbandry, including the latest improvements and discoveries in theory and practice [2 volumes].

London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1812. First edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 8vo (24cm by 15cm), [iv], 947pp, 1pp adverts. 102 engraved plates (of 103). Contemporary full brown calf, black title labels to the spines. Please note that there are a number of condition issues with this set; the bindings are rubbed, the contents are foxed throughout, one plate (nunber 90) appears not to have been bound in, several of the folding plates (30, 40, 54, 82, 88, 103) are torn with significant loss, and several of the other folding plates are creased and/or torn. Includes the two coloured plates of grasses, although one of these (number 88) is one of the incomplete plates. Only in fair condition overall, but nonetheless this is a serviceable set of the first edition of an important work in the history of farming.

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Book number: 64477

Catalogue: 4

Dina Vierny, Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Pierre Cabanne & Bertrand Lorquin:

Raoul Dufy : un autre regard.

Paris: Fondation Dina Vierny - Musee Maillol, 2003. First edition (softcover). 4to (28cm x 23cm), 199pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Original laminated card wrappers. Please note that this book has been used as a working copy, and there is some ink underlining of the text in the preliminary essays. Otherwise, this book is in very good condition. Text in French (texte en francais). ISBN 291082635X

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Book number: 55778

Catalogue: 4

P H Ditchfield:

Memorials of old Oxfordshire.

London and Derby: Bemrose and sons, 1903. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), [xii], 252pp. 23 plates. Original while cloth, gilt motif to the front board, top edge gilt. Boards dusty, spine darkened, front inner hingr cracked, preliminary pages foxed. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 35275

Catalogue: 4

John Dix:

Local Legends and Rambling Rhymes.

Bristol: George Davey, 1839. First edition (hardback). 16mo (17cm by 11cm), xii, 132pp. 24 plates by A Pen. Original decorated green cloth, gilt titling and design to the spine, gilt design to the front board, all edges gilt. There is a repaired split to the spine, paraffin staining to the plates (mainly only affecting the margins), and some light foxing. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition.

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Book number: 49867

Catalogue: 4

Gustave Dore [illustrator]:

Oeuvres de Rabelais, tome premier.

Paris: Garnier Freres, no date [c. 1890]. Quarto edition, volume 1 (of 2) only. 4to (32cm x 26cm), xlviii, 584pp. Numerous illustrations by Gustave Dore. Publisher's binding of red cloth, gilt titling and design to the front board and the spine. The edges of the spine have split (and have been repaired), the corners of the boards are bumped, there is a bookplate to the front pastedown, and there is some scattered foxing of the contents. Only a fair copy overall, but the illustrations are all present and are generally in good condition.

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Book number: 51254

Catalogue: 4