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Mostra Iconografica Gonzaghesca : catalogo delle opere.

Mantova: Palazzo Ducale, 1937. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm x 15cm), xxiv, 122pp + plates and index. Original patterned boards. Minor chafing to the extremities of the binding; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. A folding genealogy is loosely inserted. Text in Italian.

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Book number: 61910

Catalogue: 3

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Mr Cyril Maude and Miss Winifred Emery; a souvenir, The Playhouse, Northumberland Avenue.

London: The Playhouse nd [c. 1907]. A portfolio of 15 photographs of Cyril Maude and Miss Winifred Emery, housed in a red cloth case with gilt titling to the front cover. Each photograph measures 14cm by 9cm, and is mounted on card (the mounts measure 23cm by 18cm). Some of the card mounts are badly browned, but the photographs themselves are generally in good to very good condition (one photograph has some creasing to one corner). The cloth case is good to very good (a little rubbed). Overall, this set is in good condition. Most of the photographs are of Maude - there is one of Emery, and one of Maude and Emery together.

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Book number: 25983

Catalogue: 3

[William John Monson]:

Much Ado About Nothing; a drama in three acts (with apologies to the shade of William Shakespeare).

Oxford: printed for private circulation, 1908. First edition, limited to 100 copies (this copy number 3). 8vo, 20pp. Original grey cloth spine, printed boards. Binding lightly rubbed and scuffed, endpapers browned. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 21349

Catalogue: 3

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The Muse of Monarchy - poems by Kings and Queens of England.

London: Eric Grant, 1937. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), ix, 50pp. Original purple cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Some sunning of the binding, endoaoers foxed and dusty, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 43647

Catalogue: 3

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My Best Nude Study : 48 Photographic Studies.

London: George Routledge & sons, 1937. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 18cm), 19pp, 48 plates. Original purple cloth, dustwrapper. Endpapers foxed; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (a little rubbed, marked and chafed).

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 53097

Catalogue: 3

[Susan Warner]:

My Desire.

London: James Nisbet, 1879. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 464pp, 16pp catalogue. Frontispiece, plates. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt design to the front board. Chafing to the extremities of the binding, preliminary pages foxed, ownership inscription; overall, this book is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 57700

Catalogue: 3

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National Maritime Museum Catalogue of the Library, volume one, voyages & travel.

London: Hew Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968. First edition (hardback), volume one, covering voyages & travel. 8vo (25cm by 19cm), xi, 403pp. 8 plates, 2 folding maps. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is a little rubbed.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 47693

Catalogue: 3

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National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1826 - 1860, volume 1, A-L.

New York Historical Society, 1943. First edition (hardback), volume 1 (of 2) only. 8vo (24cm by 15cm), xv, 300pp. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Some rubbing of the binding, ownership stamp to the front free endpaper, else this book is in very good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 56291

Catalogue: 3

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The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1864.

London: John Murray, 1860. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xvi, 540pp. Contemporary brown calf boards, rebacked with a new brown cloth spine and new endpapers, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Boards rubbed, light foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, the book is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 47299

Catalogue: 3

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The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1924.

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), ix, 607pp. Two folding maps of eclipses in 1924. Rebound in green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. This book was formerly in a reference library, with a couple of discreet stamps, but the book is in nonetheless in very good condition overall.

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Book number: 66939

Catalogue: 3

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U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World, volume VII, Antarctic.

Washington: The Chief of Naval Operations, 1965. First edition (hardback). Oblong folio (34cm by 50cm), xv, 361pp. 232 charts. Original studded binding with grey cloth boards, gilt titling to the front board. Boards a little dusty, slight chafing to the leading edge of one leaf else contents VG.

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Book number: 45718

Catalogue: 3

[John Lee]:

A new guide to Cheltenham and its environs.

Cheltenham: John Lee, no date [c. 1834]. First edition (hardback). 16mo (17cm by 11cm), 319pp, 1pp errata, v [index], 1pp adverts. Folding plan of Cheltenham, folding map of the environs of Cheltenham, both mounted on cloth. Bound as issued in printed green boards, green cloth backstrip. The joints have split (and have been repaired), there are a few small inkspots to the front board, some light foxing of the maps, contents good to very good. Overall, this copy is in good condition. A rare guide in any edition; this copy collates as the first edition (and later editions are indicated as such on the title page).

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Book number: 34016

Catalogue: 3

[W P Reeves]:

The New Zealand Shipping Company's Pocket-Book.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition (hardback). 12mo (17cm by 11cm), x, 159pp. 16 colour plates, 6 reproductions from photographs, two maps, two plates of flags. Original dark blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt titling and design to the front board, top edge gilt. Light rubbing of the boards, small mark to the fromt board, scattered foxing of the contents; overall, this book is in good condition. Inman 675.

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Book number: 65099

Catalogue: 3

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Newquay & neighbourhood.

Newquay: Hartnoll Bros, no date [c. 1890]. No edition stated (hardback). Oblong 8vo (19cm by 25cm), 20pp plates. Original quarter red morocco, red cloth boards, gilt titling to the front board. Rubbing to the edges of the binding, chafing to the foot of the spine, bookplate to the front pastedown, contents a little thumbed; overall, this book is in good condition.

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Book number: 57800

Catalogue: 3

S M C [Sister Mary Catherine]:

And no Birds Sing.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 215pp. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Light tanning of the contents, gift inscription to the front free endpaper, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (lightly rubbed).

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 71344

Catalogue: 3