Aikema, Bernard and Brown, Beverly Louise.

IL RINASCIMENTO A VENEZIA e la pittura del Nord ai tempi di Bellini, Dürer, Tiziano. Per il Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali Giovanna Nepi Scirè.

Bompiani, 1999. 4to. 703pp. + [i]. Profusely illus. throughout in colour and b/w. Italian text. From the Library of Professor David Davies University College London, good in d/w. lightly faded to spine.
¶ Professor David Davies (1937–2022). David Davies joined the History of Art Department in UCL in 1967, one of its earliest staff members. A specialist in Spanish painting, in particular in the works of Velázquez and El Greco, on whom he published and curated exhibitions, he taught there for more than three decades until his retirement in 2001.

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Book number: 283476

Catalogue: ART: EUROPEAN ART

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Aikin, Arthur.

JOURNAL OF A TOUR Through North Wales and Part of Shropshire; With Observations in Mineralogy, and Other Branches of Natural History.

J. Johnson ..., 1797. 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. xvi + 231pp. + [i]. Explanation of the Plate + [viii] Folding frontis. section. Some light browning, partially repaired tear to pp.87-8, pp.23-32 with stain to head of leaves, modern e.ps., rebound in diced half calf with marbled boards, some wear.
¶ Arthur Aikin (1773-1854) chemist and scientific writer. The above is an account of a tour the author undertook with his brother Charles Rochemont Aitkin and another friend.

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Book number: 273436

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: WALES

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Aikin, Lucy.

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF KING JAMES THE FIRST.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ..., 1822. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xvi + 444pp. + x + 413pp. + [ii]. Engraved port. frontiss. Subscription Lib. bookplates and inscriptions, marbled e.ps., some light browning, contemporary polished calf with double gilt rule and blind fillet border to boards, some marking and several sm. portions lacking to boards, dec. gilt ruled compartments surrounding a gilt lyre, gilt lettered title labels.

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Book number: 256503

Catalogue: HISTORY: HISTORY

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Ainsworth, Leopold.

A MERCHANT VENTURER AMONG THE SEA GYPSIES. Being a Pioneer's Account of Life on an Island in the Mergui Archipelago.

Nisbet & Co., 1930. 1st Ed. xi + 279pp. 16 plates, map. With the ownership inscription of ‘F.N. Curtis May ...’, light age toning, original blue lettered fawn cloth, lightly dampstained.
¶ Casuarina Island.

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Book number: 288441

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: SOUTH EAST ASIA

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Ainsworth, William.

RESEARCHES IN ASSYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND CHALDÆA; Forming Part of the Labours of the Euphrates Expedition.

John W. Parker ..., 1838. 1st Ed. [iv] + 343pp. + 16pp. publ. adverts. Sepia litho. frontis. (stained), t.p. vignette, 6 cold. sections on 3 folding plates, 3 ills., [lacking folding map]. Light marginal browning, ex.-libris Godfrey Levinge, original gilt lettered blind embossed navy cloth, spine faded and chipped with loss intruding onto joints, nasty perforations to lower board.
¶ A geological study of the region.

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Book number: 288825

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST

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Aitchison, C.U.

A COLLECTION OF TREATISE, ENGAGEMENTS, AND SUNNDS, Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries. Volume II, [only of VIII]. Containing the Treaties, &c., relating to the N.W. Provinces, Oudh, Nipal, The Punjab and the States on the Punjab Frontier.

Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer Calcutta: Printed by G.A. Savielle ..., 1863. 1st Ed. xv + 439pp. 2 folding maps. Light browning, ex.-lib. with ink and perforated stamps to titlepage, occasional ink stamps, rebound in modern gilt lettered red cloth.

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Book number: 288842

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: CENTRAL ASIA

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Aitken, Richard and Looker, Michael. (Editors).

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN GARDENS.

OUP/Garden History Society, 2002. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xxx] + 697pp. + [i]. More than 300 b/w. ills. Ex.-libris Julia Trevelyan Oman, from the Library of Sir Roy Strong, very good in d/w.

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Book number: 272443

Catalogue: NATURAL HISTORY: GARDENING

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Akerman, John Yonge.

A NUMISMATIC MANUAL.

London: Taylor & Walton, 1840. 24pp. blank + [xvi] + 420pp. Vignette title page, 17 plates, many text ills. Plates and e.ps. sl. spotted, contemporary hand writing to first 3 pages of blank leaves, ex.-libris J.J. Reynolds, 4 ills. affixed to pastedowns, some very light marginal browning, upper hinge tender, half brown calf with marbled boards, rubbed, sl. paper loss to edges, sl. wear to corners, gilt ruled raised bands blind dec. compartments and gilt lettered black leather title label to sl. rubbed spine.
¶ John Yonge Akerman FSA (1806–1873) English antiquarian specializing mainly in numismatics who helped to form the Numismatic Society of London. He also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Pindar.

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Book number: 287846

Catalogue: ART: PRECIOUS METALS

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Albucasis.

ON SURGERY AND INSTRUMENTS. A Definitive Edition of the Arabic Text With English Translation and Commentary by M.S. Spink and G.L. Lewis.

Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. 1st Ed. 4to. [xvi] + 850pp. 196 figures. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, good in very sl. chipped d/w. lightly faded to spine.

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Book number: 286978

Catalogue: MEDICINE: MEDICINE

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(Album).

[EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPH/IMAGES ALBUM] Over 200 images of varying sizes.

, c.[1860-70s]. Sm. 4to. Mounted photographs, with letterpress in several hands. modern half leather with cloth boards.
¶ Images include some of paintings Guercina, Guido, Madonna del Sacco, Raphael, Cellini, etc., many beautiful buildings Uffizzi, Palazzo Vecchio, The Bargello, Duomo & Campile, Landscapes the Ascent of the Matterhorn, Ascent of Mt. Blanc, Lake of the Mont Cenis, Cannes, Pompei, Milan, Lake Como, Venice, Rome, Osborne Isle of Wight, Lygano, Valley of Chamonix, St Croce, Leghorn, Florence, Athens, ‘Calm Days at Cowes’ depicting many boats, Engadina Torquay, several family portraits, an adorable scruffy dog, etc.

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Book number: 287936

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: EUROPE

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(Album).

[MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM POST WORLD WAR II].

, C.180 b/w. photographs of varying size enclosed in contemporary leather photograph album with image of the Syphinx and two pyramids.
¶ Photographs taken in the Middle East, Egypt, Gibraltar, Lybia, and Malta. Including many group shots of soldiers, H.M.T. Empire Trooper, Royal Marines Tug of War, SGTS Club Tobruk, H.M.S. Tantivy & Dockyward, H.M.S. Newcastle, Entrance to Malta Harbour, Armistic Parade Benghazi Nov. 6th 1949, View of Malta, The El-Coefia Wanderers, H.M.S. Vanguard, Piquet Boat, Wharf, The Shores of Tripoli, View of Berka, ‘Wavell Arms’ NAAFI, Views if Malta, Views of Upton on Severn, Members of Hut 7, etc.

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Book number: 289194

Catalogue: NAVAL AND MILITARY: WORLD WAR II

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(Album).

[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].

, N.d. c.[1875]. Landscape 4to. 82 photographs of varying sizes between 13 x 20cm and 7 x 8cm. Some browning to decorative white card mounts, enclosed in contemporary boards, some loss to corners, rebacked in modern brown buckram, a.e.g.
¶ Views include Leaven Fifeshire, Ullswater, Grasmere, Haddon Hall, Chatsworth, Buxton, Manchester, Giants Causeway, Londonderry, Sligo Abbey, Limerick, Colleen Bawn Rocks Yorc Lake Killanwey, Dublin, Belfast, Pontpatrick, Castle Kennedy Near Stranman, Stramnaer, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Notre Dame Paris, Chillon, Zermatt, Loire, Zurich, Munich, Leipzig University, Dresden, Potsdam Palace, Berlin, Hamburgh, Rotterdam, Antwerp, York, Scarborough, Tynemouth, etc.

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Book number: 284888

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: EUROPE

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(Album).

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. 228 photographs and several colour images (including a Prussian Cavalry Officer and a Beefeater), coloured floral decorations between photographs to first few leaves and occasionally thereafter.

, 4to. 228 photographs approximately 8.5 x 8.5cm. affixed. Some light browning and aging to white card mounts, in contemporary album, minor marking and wear.
¶ Beginning with images of a large Danish? palace(s) (possibly one of Schloss Cumberland), several portraits of Crown Princess of Hanover Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale and her daughters, several portraits of Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland (1884-1958), a visit to London is documented with various images including a portrait of King Edward, an image of the Tower of London; the return to Austria with various informal portraits of the family on horseback, out for carriage drives etc, some faded; some images of Princess Olga on her eighteenth birthday July 11 1902; some distant images of ‘the arrival of Kaiser July’, Her Royal Highness Haus?, ‘three Danish gentlemen’, General Klueck, Count Schmedeff?, etc.

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Book number: 284903

Catalogue: HISTORY: HISTORY

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(Album).

POSTCARD ALBUM. 176 postcards mainly b/w.

, N.d. Enclosed in album, bubbled boards, some wear to extremities, split to head of upper joint.
¶ Depicting Chedworth villa, Magdalen church, Moroccan scenes, Zimbabwean scenes, Mont St. Michel, French architecture -chateaux, churches etc., Welsh ruins, castles, mountains, Anglesey, Garway, Llanthony, etc.

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Book number: 261721

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: EUROPE

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(Album).

POSTCARD ALBUM. 193 postcards with 133 in colour and 60 in b/w.; including 48 coloured cards of the Queen’s Dolls’ House.

, N.d. c.[1930s]. Sm. thick 4to. Enclosed in album, some minor marginal browning to leaves, gilt lettered buckram, some minor soiling and rubbing, head of upper joint split.
¶ Depicting fish, Bexhill-on-Sea, Pinner, Verulamium, Caves Cheddar, Milton’s Cottage, Dresden, Birds, Pevensey, Queen’s Dolls’ House, Monte Carlo, etc.

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Book number: 271109

Catalogue: ART: GENERAL COLLECTING

Keywords: ART; GENERAL COLLECTING