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The Paris Law Courts Sketches of men and manners

The Paris Law Courts Sketches of men and manners

Illustrations: Several full pp. b/w reproductions from photos & engravings, also several woodcut and line drawn vignettes throughout, pp. yellowed with occasional foxing and getting brittle.
Condition: Average
Binding: 10×7”, pp. viii, 293, adverts. [2]; new binding with cover pasted, new sp., cover has gilt title with gilt images of 5 men, pp. yellowed with occasional foxing and getting brittle, edges thumbed.

Great Men Of India

Great Men Of India

Illustration: b/w prints of photographic images, both full pp and vignettes
Condition: Average+.
Binding: 9x 6”, pp. 640; orig. green cloth with gilt title to sp., label of previous owner to spine, self embossing to cover, deco. Epps., pp. brittle, top edges blue

The Poetical works of Longfellow

The Poetical works of Longfellow

Illustration: Several woodcut vignettes throughout the book, engraved frontis.
Condition: Average
Binding:19×12.5cm, pp.viii, 632; half brown morocco over green buckram, sp. rebacked, 5 raised bans to sp. with gilt title, sp. frayed and chipped in parts, red border to each pp., all edges marbled, marbled epps., personal inscription by E.K. G. & M. Fowler, March 8th, 1888.

Gems from the poets

Gems from the poets

Illustration: Several full pp. colored prints; all tissue guards have been torn, sl. foxing to pl., frontis, and title pp.
Condition: Poor+
Binding: 10×7”, pp.61; orig. Green morocco with 5 raised bands to sp., gilt title to sp., black dec. to cover, spine and cover worn, inner dentelles, last 2-3 pp. seem to be missing, occasional fingerprints, aeg. 

Universal Classic’s Library

Universal Classic’s Library

Universal Classic’s Library

Illustration: Illustrated with photogravures on Japan vellum hand painted reproductions and full-page portraits, printed tissue guards.

Condition: Average+

Binding: 23.7×16.4cm, orig. brown cl. with paper label to sp., edges sl. thumbed, teg, untrimmed, water- stains to some covers.

SIGNED B THE MG EDITOR ROBERT ARNOK

The Lady of the Lake

The Lady of the Lake

57 woodcut engravings, full pp. and vignettes, title pp., frontis., pp. sl. yellowed, else fine.

Condition: Good

Binding: 8.5×5.5”, pp. [7], 375; orig. blue buckram with elaborate gilt dec. to both front and back covers, engraved title, dec. to sp. with gilt title, blue ribbon bookmark, beveled edges, aeg, rebound, pp. yellowed.

Letters of the Empress Frederick

Letters of the Empress Frederick

Illustrations: 4 full pp. sepia toned photogravures with tissue guards, pp. brittle.

Condition: Average

Binding: 9×6”, pp. xxiii,493, [2]; orig. blue cl. with gilt dec. to cover depicting an eagle, gilt title to sp., pp. brittle, teg, edges thumbed.

Anna Karenina DAMAGED SPINE SEVERED

Anna Karenina

Illustrations: Several full pp. sepia toned watercolor prints, occasional pinholes.

Condition: Average, Spine Damaged

Binding: 8x 5.25”, pp. 769,glossary [4], adverts[16]; full brown buckram with gilt title and border to cover, gilt title to sp., pinholes, binding loose with pp. loose and separate, teg.

Illustrated Travels a record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure

Illustrated Travels a record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure

Illustrated Travels a record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure

with engravings from original Drawings by Celebrated artists

Illustration: Throughout with a large number of wood engravings, both full pp. and vignettes.

Binding: 12.4×9.4”, half buckram, orig. sp. rebacked, 5 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps., all edges marbled, text in double columns, pp. sl. yellowed.

Condition: Average/Spine frayed and chipping due to ageing

The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem

The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem

The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem

Illustration: 1 outlined folded map.

Condition: Average

Binding: 22×13.8cm., subscr. list, xxxvi, xxxiii-cccvlxii, 83, 507; full brown marbled boards with spine chipped off, covers loose, front cover of Vol.2 separate from spine but intact, text clean, stamp of ‘Eliza Peavey’ bookseller to inside cover, edges thumbed.

 

Medicinal Plants 4 Vol Set

Medicinal Plants 4 Vol Set

Medicinal Plants being descriptions with original Figures of the principal plants …and products of medicinal value

Illustration: 306 hand clrd. full pp. plates, each accompanied with text, pp. brittle, else fine.

Condition: Good

Binding: 24x17cm, orig. green morocco, 4 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps., cover and sp. frayed, few covers loose, pp. brittle, teg, sl. foxing.

Eastern Love

Eastern Love

Eastern Love

English Versions by E. Powys Mathers. Copper plate engravings by Hester Sainsbury and printed and hand colored by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd.

Illustration: Numerous hand colored line drawings, frontis, tissue guards.

Condition: Very Good

Binding: 9.2×6”, half peach cl. over black cl. with gilt figure to cover, gilt title to sp, teg, untrimmed, sp. and edges sl. frayed.

Russia Theophile Gautier and others

Russia Theophile Gautier and others

Russia Theophile Gautier and others

Theophile Gautier and others. Translated from the French with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East by Florence Macintyre Tyson

Illustration: A large number of sepia and b/w photogravures with printed tissue guards.

Condition : Good+

Binding: 20.6×13.4cm, pp.Vol 1: viii, 483, Vol 2:viii, 461; full red cl. with elaborate gilt eagle to cover, gilt title to sp., sp. ends sl. frayed, teg, binding sl. loose.

History of Indian Glass

History of Indian Glass

History of Indian Glass

Illustration: 4 clrd. full pp. printed pl., 26 text figs., 58 b/w full pp. printed pl.

Condition: Good+

Binding: 29x23cm., pp. xiii, [3], 212, xlviii of plates; full sky blue cl. with black title to cover and sp., dj torn and frayed.

India By Mortimer Menpes

India By Mortimer Menpes

India By Mortimer Menpes

Illustration: 18 full pp. clrd. reproductions of orig. paintings with tissue guards.

Condition: Good+

Binding: 8.9×6.5”, pp.xii, 216, adverts [4]; full red cl. with elaborate dec. to cover and sp. with gilt peacock and tree in blue and pink, cover and sp. faded in parts, pp. sl. yellowed, edges sl. thumbed, teg.

The Tabaqat-I-Akbari of Khwajah Nizammudin Ahmad

The Tabaqat-I-Akbari of Khwajah Nizammudin Ahmad.

The Tabaqat-I-Akbari of Khwajah Nizammudin Ahmad.

A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-Eighth year of the Reign of Akbar.

Volumes: Three. Vol 2,3 available

Binding: 25×15.5cm, pp. vii, 840; new leather binding, all edges marbled, pp. getting brittle, few pinholes, ribbon bookmark.

Condition: Average

The Soul Of Russia

The Soul Of Russia

The Soul Of Russia

Illustration: 15 full pp. clrd. Prints, occasional water staining to pl. margins.

Condition: Average

Binding: 9.75×7.25”, pp.xvi, 307; orig. white cl., portion of the sp. and cover rebacked very well, pictorial image stuck to cover, sp. discolored and stained, cover dirty, pp. yellowed, pp.113 torn in middle.