Barlaeus, Caspare, Cornelius Boyus, Jacobus Lydius & Jacob Cats.

FACES AUGUSTAE SIVE POEMATIA quibus Illustriores Nuptiae a nobili & Illustri viro D.Jacob Catsio…

Dordrecht {Germany], Matthias Havius 1643 charming text engravings [14 copperplates + 1 mounted as frontispiece to Part I] 3 signed S.V. Q. [Crispin Van Queborn] + handsome woodcut large figural, floral and foliated initals + smaller decorated initials an. Octavo 4 Parts in One Volume. laced through vellum binding with yapp fore-edge & with rubbed black stamped tree growing from a crown with initials CJH ? and motto on a plaque. This stamp to the cover is Very rubbed but there is a bookplate to endpapers with the same stamp in a bit better condition. Spine with ink title & date. [Vellum somewhat marked and dusty/Lacks all but a stub of ribbon ties] Titlepage with printer's mark pf woman holding a plume and with a lap full of books as the Dortrecht printer's mark + [60pp of Dedications, laudatory poems and privilege etc.] + 272pp + 149pp + [3p=blanks] + 32pp +198pp

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Book number: V75513

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated + poetry

Barlow,Jill

Calendar of the Registers of APPRENTICES of the City of GLOUCESTER, 1595-1700 (Record Series #14)

Bristol, B&G Archaeological Soc. 2001 . Arge octavo black cloth in blue dust jacket xxxii+343pgs, Mint condition.

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Book number: L62463

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: social history Gloucestershire

Barnard,Geo.

THEORY & PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATERCOLOURS

London, George Routledge & sons new edition 1871 chromoliths (26 as listed) by the Leighton Bros. + 69 woodcuts in the text. . lg 8vo blue decoratively gilt pebbled cloth (tips worn/spine rubbed & lower cover marked) All Edges Gilt 286pgs +[2p publisher's adverts.] Spine underlaid and new endpapers provided with cloth inner hinges.First edition was 1854 and this second edition is the first to be dedicated to Michael Faraday, D.C.L. & F.R.S. * landscape plates are mainly of Swiss and English views and also show the successive building up pictures and pigments.A strong clean copy.

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Book number: V75681

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: art

Barnett,S.A. (editor)

A CENTURY OF DARWIN

London, Heinemann 1959 Plates (6) + 55 text figures. . Octavo black cloth spine gilt rubbed (tips sl.bumped) xv +376pp 3 marginal library stamps and front end paper with 1.5" strip torn away. Text and all plates very clean and tight.

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Book number: A72721

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: evolution Darwin fossils genetics selection

Barrett, Mary Ellin

CASTLE UGLY

London, World Books 1968 Dust jacket by David Fawcett. . Octavo boards in dust jacket (hinge & edges of jacket rubbed/lower cover & flaps somewhat foxed) 224pp paper edge slightly tanned. *First book of by this author, the daughter of the composer Irving Berlin and the writer Ellin Berlin.

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Book number: F73516

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction

Barrie,J.M. (Hugh Thomson illustrated)

QUALITY STREET a Comedy in Four Acts

London, Hodder & Stoughton N D Color plates tipped onto tinted card with lettered & illustrated guards by Hugh Thomson . Quarto lovely pale blue overall pictorial gilt cloth upper cover & spine (spine sunned/lower sl.marked/head and foot of spine sl.fraying) (viii)+197pp+(1pp) first few and last few leaves with slight palest foxing else a lovely clean copy with pale move doublepage endpaper drawings (no inscriptions) and a very handsome production of the nicest of Hugh Thomson's work.

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Book number: V63964

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated comedy

Barron,Norman

DAIRY FARMERS'S VETERINARY BOOK

Ipswich, Farming Press 6th revised edition 1969 Plates and text illustrations throughout . Octavo boards in slightly edge-torn dust jacket (tips sl.rubbed) 252pp with folding doublesided frontis V.G+ in G jacket

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Book number: B52917

Catalogue: Botany and Natural History

Keywords: farming veterinary cattle diseases

Barrow,Isaac (1630-1677)

OF INDUSTRY in Five Discourses : Viz. in General, in Our General Calling As Christians, in Our Particular Calling As Gentlemen, in Our Particular Calling As Scholars

London, Brab.Alymer (Published by Archbishop of Canterbury) 1693 frontisportrait by Van der Gucht Michael Van der Gucht (1660-1725) . 160x92mm marbled roan blindruled to covers, professionally rebacked with gilt spine rules and red gilt lettered spine label [tips sl.worn] Portrait + titlepage + bookseller's advert after frontispeice. Small near contemporary inscription on frontespeice. +188p Richard Squibb owner's name to verso of Isaac Barrow portrait & charming bookplate to rear pastedown. Newer end-papers. *Isaac Barrow was a leading Cambridge Mathmetician and Royalist, who was a leading pioneer of calculating tangents. Antiquarian John Aubrey attriubtes Barrow`s death to an opium addiction. This books was published by John Tillotson (1630-1694) the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691-1694.

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Book number: V75119

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: 17th century anglican christian work ethic/morality

Barter-Snow, Laura A.

RUTH'S ROSES or what Some Girls did

London, Partridge 8th edition 1925 approx. Colour plate frontispiece + 2 black & white pictures. . Octavo red pictorial boards (rubbed edges) 126pp. Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Prize inscription to Evelyn Langton. Clean crisp copy. *Girls' story of the good influence of a friend who cures her friend's selfishness.

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Book number: J74500

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: moral girls story

Bartrum,Douglas

RHODODENDRONS AND MAGNOLIAS

London, Garden Book Club 1957 Colour and b/w photographs as full page or several per plate. . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips rubbed/jacket with some edge loss but neat) 176pp. A clean tight copy.

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Book number: A72720

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: gardening flowering bush flowers natural history

Basil the Great, Saint, Archbishop of Caesarea

OMNIA D. BASILII MAGNI Archiepiscopi Caesareae Cappadociae, quae ad nos extant, Opera, iuxta argumentorum congruentiam in Tomos distincta quatuor, ab Iano Cornario medico physico Zuiccaviensi interpretata, iterumq[ue] recognita & castigata, ac duobus libris contra Eunomij apologeticum aucta: quorum ordinem & catalogum versa pagina docet.

Basel, H. Froben (1501-1563) 1552 Large Froben printer's device on titlepage, historiated woodcut initials throughout. . Four Volumes in One, large folio bound in blind-stamped pigskin (dated 1564 with initials I.D.F.H.) on bevelled wooden boards with metal clasps (lacking one clasp) each board has 16 small marginal panels of biblical scenes and four larger central stamps of Justice, Fortitude etc with legends under each, spine on four raised double bands with MS title and shelf mark "Basilius 39", some small worm holes, tips worn. Title page + catalogue +[6] +787pp with colophon "Basiliae apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium anno M.D.LI" (1551) +[21]pp index +[3]pp blank with large Froben device on last page. Bookplate with coronet initials dated 1913, inscription "Ex bibliotheca Johannis Mathon Lugd. Bat." with MS devices on free endpaper & another inscription on titlepage. Collated complete (&4, a-z, A-M6, N8, O-Z, Aa-Ss6, Tt8, Vv-Xx6) with pagination continuous, each of 4 vols has divisional titlepage (see Adams B340). Crisp and clean throughout but with quite extensive worming of pages near front and back of book. *NB large heavy book, so extra shipping/postage costs.

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Book number: V48030

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: religion theology dated binding

Bassanville,Madame la Contesse de + [M.Ch.de Ribelle

LA MORALE AMUSANTE contenant l'histoire de ce gu'il y a dans une boite de joujoux et les Peches mignons d;un engant gate

Paris, Amable Rigaud 1861 (according to Bibliotheque Nationalle) Hand colored plates [15 each with 2 scenes per plate] + 10 pictorial tailpieces Conniep?, Andrew, & Timms etc. . Octavo cloth spined pictorial boards [edges worn/spine faded/tips covered with plastic] Half title + Title +part title with long gift inscription +120pp First 4 leaves inserted on stubs + plate at p41 with repaired tear without loss and reinserted at the gutter. Newer endpapers and first part-title cut down without touching pinted area.

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Book number: P75345

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: hand color french moral stories

Bates,Clara Doty

ON THE WAY TO WONDERLAND

Boston USA, D. Lothrop & Co. 1885 Color illustrated with text panel to each page except the frontis. & titlepage which are red illustrated only. . Octavo very worn chromolith covers (corners rounded & some paper loss to edges of covers) 18 leaves. Stab sewn throughout as originally issued. Tears & repairs (with No taping) mainly to margins and only two leaves have an upper corner with minor loss intruding into edge of illustration. Other pages with corners rounded and tears without paper loss. SCARCE.

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Book number: J70003

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: verse familiar tales nursery rhymes children

Baudouin, I [usually spelt BAUDOIN]

EMBLEMES DIVERS representez dans cent quarante Figures en Taille-douce, enrichis de discoours Moraux,Philosophiques,Politiques, & Hystoriques PREMIERE PARTIE

Paris, Jean Baptiste Loyson 1659 full-page copperplate engravings (65 of 67 -the missing plates are laid in in facsimile) Emblems are numbered but number 52 IS SKIPPED & it is also omitted in the contents list ) Many plates are signed Briot or Marie Briot. 8vo speckled roan on 4 raised bands spine gilt (edges and corners worn (abime)/hinges held by cords/missing half of the lower compartment and quite some leather loss along hinges however covers are still well attached) Frontispiece + titlepage +(10p=Preface) +(8p contents) +half title to verso of first emblem.LACKS emblem 5 and the text on its recto. plate 19 is damaged but verso is blank at this point so no loss of text. Page 249 faces plate 19 and is stained where the damage was repaired but is still well readable. Plates are numbered from 1 to 68 but there is no number 52 and the contents list also omits any number 52 but the pagination & signatures follow through without a gap. The title has an ownership partly crossed through and a bookplate seems to have been removed from the pastedown.Some 8 leaves at the front have some marginal small wormholes and a corner is torn off page 339/340 just affecting 2 letters of the bottom line on each side. Usual foxing but also a few gatherings browned and two plates with ink marks.Chetham's Library says the plates are after Alciatus and also confirms that the number 52 is omitted.

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Book number: E75568

Catalogue: Fable and Emblem Books

Keywords: emblems French

Bauer, Erwin A.

HUNTING WITH A CAMERA a world Guide to Wildlife Photography

London, Winchester press 1st edition 1974 Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. . Large octavo black cloth (tips slightly worn/rubbed) 324pp V.G (no dust jacket). *Deals with cameras, accessories & photographic techniques.

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Book number: B51007

Catalogue: Botany and Natural History

Keywords: natural history photography