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ALBUM ... An untitled album of prints, being steel engravings of men of the day, seven hand coloured sporting plates showing twenty examples of working spaniels, greyhounds, etc. 24 exceptional hand coloured lithographs of "Beauties" , several very fine prints by Ackermann, etc. half calf, in poor condition, contents clean, paper size, 34 x 26 cms, no text, c1830s, With - BRITTON, John - The Fine Arts of the English School, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings, etc. half calf, spine defective, vignette border half title, large 4to, Chiswick Press, 1812.
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BIBLE - Illustration by Robert Dudley, Designed by Owen Jones, Original relievo calf, elaborately embossed with "rustic" border of interlaced branches with vine leaves and bunches of grapes, stout 8vo, text showing a degree of use, 1862.
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COMBE, William - Dr Syntax The Tour of Dr Syntax, heavily foxed, although the aquatints are printed on a better quality of paper than the text, first with Rowlandson hand coloured plates, plus two other Syntax books. 1812 (3)
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(COMBE, William) The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolice. A Poem, hand coloured title page with aquatint plates, twenty plates in total, half calf, lacking label, hinge weak, 8vo, published by J. Johnston, 3rd edition, 1820.
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FRIEDEL, Adam De, The Greeks Twenty-Four Portraits, 4 Parts in 1 volume, 24 fine uncoloured lithograph plates by J. Bouvier after de Friedel, on India paper, half calf, marbled boards, no titles, plate size 290 x 260 mm, folio, Blackmer, 633, 1825-26.
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HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert, Landscape with Original Etchings and Many Illustrations from Pictures and Drawings, original Morocco backed cloth, folio, Publisher Seeley & Co 1885.
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HOLME, Charles, edited, Early English Portrait Miniatures, 67 plates many are coloured, 4to, original cloth, 1917, with five others on miniatures and other art reference works.
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INDIAN MICA PAINTINGS... A collection of eight Indian watercolours depicting all ways of Indian life, various sizes, mid 19th Century, paintings depicting large processions are particularly fine and detailed.
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McKAY, William and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, 69 plates, original cloth, folio, John Lane, new edition with supplement and index, 1914; with Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of English Mezzotint Portraits, from circa 1750 to circa 1830, 30 plates, original cloth, folio, 1902.
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SALMON, William - Palladio Londinensis; or, The London Art of Building. In Three Parts ... The whole illustrated with 54 copper plates, to which is annexed - The Builder's Dictionary : calf worn. 41 plates and tables inc. 8 folding two torn, three detached. 4to. 5th ed. 1755. * sold with all faults not subject to return.
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WILLINS, Edward Preston - Some of the Old Halls and Manor Houses in the County of Norfolk , 50 lithograph plates, original bevelled blue cloth with lettering in gilt on the spine and upper cover, small area of damage on one edge, folio, *a good sound copy
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HOGARTH, The Works of William Hogarth; in a series of engravings... a comment on their moral tendency by the Rev. John Trustler etc, steel engravings throughout, rebound in quarter calf, 4to, 1833.
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JONES, Owen - One Thousand and One Initial letters, Designed and Illuminated. Chromolithograph title-page, 26 of letters, one of numbers. Original cloth title in gilt on upper cover. Tall folio. Printed by Day & Son. 1864.
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JONES, Owen - The Preacher, Design and Illumination on thirty-four chromolithograph card leaves by Owen Jones, carved' wooden covers, morocco spine. also designed by Owen Jones, 4to, Longmans, 1849.
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JONES, Owen - The Psalms of David Illuminated by Owen Jones One Hundred chromolithograph illuminated pages. Ownership title hand painted in illuminated style " Emma Bobson, 1863" on the f.e.p. Original relievo calf elaborately embossed. Large folio. Day & Son. ( 1861/2)
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LEADENHALL PRESS : London Cries: with Six Charming Children ... text by Andrew W. Tuer. Illustrated inc. colour after Rowlandson. org. half cloth paper covered boards, title label on upper cover, large paper signed proofs, folio, n.d - with Pearson, Edwin, Banbury Chap Books and Nursery Toy Book Literature ... with Impressions from Several Hundred Original Wood-Cut Blocks ... (etc). org. printed paper covered boards with white buckram spine, only 500 small copies, 4to, Arthur Reader, 1890. With - Egan, Pierce - The Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through Life In and Out of London, red cloth a little damp marked with skiver spine, hand coloured frontispiece (damaged along the fore-margin), 35 hand coloured plates after Robert Cruikshank. Reeves & Turner.1887.
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BREVAL, John, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, relating chiefly to their Antiquities and History, collected upon the spot and several tours since the year 1723; and illustrated by upwards of 40 copper plates, from original drawings... etc, 2 vols, 42 engraved plates, folio, full calf rubbed, printed for H. Lintot 1738. (2).
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GOMBERVILLE, Marin le Roy sieur de, The Doctrine of Morality Revealing Human Life... translated T.M Gibbs, 103 copper plates, folio, full calf worn, 1721..
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ATKYNS, Sir Robert - The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, Illustrated with seventy four copper plates, County map, 6 plates of coats of arms, 64 Double-page bird's eye views, full calf, re-backed, split at the head of the spine, folio, Second edition, 1768.
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BESLEY'S Views in Devonshire, 30 steel engraved views, oblong 8vo, original cloth, very worn, contents loose, circa 1850s, with one other (2).
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BRITTON, J. & BRAYLEY, E. H. - Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated in a Series of Views, quarter calf, 2 vols. bound in one, 2 maps with vignette views, 2 eng. title-pages, 4to, 138 views (two to a page), half crimson morocco, 1832. (1)
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GILPING, William, Observations on the River Wye, in several parts of South Wales, &c relative chiefly to the picturesque beauty made in the Summer of the year 1770, 14 tinted aquatint plates, 8vo, contemporary calf, 1782; with The Cambrian Traveller's Guide in every direction, containing remarks made in many excursions in the principality of Wales and bordering districts augmented by extracts from the best writers, 8vo, full gilt calf, printed for the editor Stourport, second edition, 1813; with Skrine, Henry, Two Successive Tours throughout the whole of Wales, with several of the adjacent English counties, fold in hand coloured map, paper covered boards, 8vo, 1812; with two others on Wales. (5).
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MANNING Samuel, American Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, original decorative cloth, 4to, RTS, n.d. with 4 others.
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THOMPKINS Charles, A Tour to the Isle of Wight, Illustrated with Eighty Views, two vols, sepia aquatints. tall 8vo.,re-bound in half morocco, printed for G Kursley, 1796 (2).
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(WEST, Thomas) - A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, eng. frontispiece a little ink stained, folding map, 8vo, Cont. speckled calf, 8vo, fourth edition, 1789. With - Combe, William - The Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque, 30 hand coloured aquatint plates. 8vo, full diced calf, third edition, Ackermann, 1813. With - Papworth, John - Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Illustrated by Twenty-one Engravings of Humorous Subjects, hand coloured aquatint plates, tear to title without loss, 8vo, full diced calf lacking label, Ackermann, second, 1813, With - a used copy of the second edition of Doctor Syntax.
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WHITE, J.T., The History of Torquay, lithograph, frontispiece, folding plate, half morocco, 1878, with seven others, mainly on Torquay (8).
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WILLIAMS, T. H - Views Illustrative of Scenery in the South of Devon,
5 parts - part one, 2 lithographs, part two, 5 lithographs, part (printed)two, 4 lithographs, part three, 4 lithographs, part four, 5 lithographs, original printed wrappers, very dog-eared, although well away from the printed surface, large folio, printed & published Cole & Co, Exeter.
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BAKER, Stewart, Indian Ducks and their Allies, thirty coloured lithograph plates, original half morocco, 4to, Publisher Bombay Natural History Society, 1908; together with four other leather-bound books (5).
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A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS, depicting scenes in Beirut, Madeira, Canton, of a Greek Policeman in complete costume, and an Egyptian water carrier, etc, all are titled in the mount, various sizes, with one watercolour of Spanish dancers by Alan Bowyer. (14).
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VUE D'OPTIQUE - A set of eleven prints including London and Blenheim, f & g.
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CEYLON, View near Point de Gallet, Ceylon, drawn by Henry Salt, engraved by D. Havell, large hand-coloured aquatint, 59 x 42 cm, framed and glazed, publisher William Miller 1809.
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - A wet plate photograph of Weston Mill, Plymouth by W. Cox, 360 x 230 mm. 1858, Nov.
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INDIAN ALBUM CONTAINING MANY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS & EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS : A beautifully presented album, over one hundred and fifty original watercolours and other mediums, titled " The Ramblings and Adventures of an Indian Officer." Executed by Mark Batt Tanner, written on his retirement from the Bombay Army in 1856. Later after his death in 1897 it was restored by his brother Albert Tanner, Lt.Col. late Royal Fusilier's. The sketches record his travels and places he visited in India and Egypt between 1852 and 1885. Possibly of even more importance than the paintings are the approximate 50 albumen print photographs taken by M. B. Tanner, the earliest a group of six are dated 1851 these are of Cairo and monuments in the desert. As the pages turn there are revealed some fantastic examples of early photography all published in the 1850s. There are well over fifty large ( pages size 43 x 23 cms)original paintings mostly of obscure and little visited areas in India. Each image has accompanying hand-written detailed explorations." All are titled in ink with borders and signed M.Tanner. To quote from Albert, " I inherited this book of sketches from my brother Mark Batt Tanner ... it was then in a most dilapidated condition ... I rearranged, and had it newly bound, adding in my own hand writing extracts from his journal regarding his travels and some of the places he visited in the East between 1852 & 1885."
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JAPANESE LACQUERED ALBUM : A highly ornate album containing thirty-four photographs, several hand tinted, size 400 x 300mm. circa 1890, in superb condition, all contained in original worn brocade foldover box, lined in scarlet silk.
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SCRAP ALBUMS; a collection of seventeen albums with various bindings, contents include botanical watercolours, engravings etc. Date circa 1900. (17).
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SIDMOUTH- Very large Hand-coloured Aquatint of the Beach at Sidmouth with Bathing Huts, Peak Hill in the distance, with a cottage and coach and horses to the opposite corner, 89 x 28.5 cm, Hubert Cornish, delineated, some foxing, framed and glazed in an ornate ebony frame, circa 1820.
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( BOWYER, R) An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, during the last four years, comprising a series of views of the principal places ... (etc) 13 superb hand coloured aquatint inc. double page uncoloured map, full-page plate of facsimile signatures, original paper covered boards, with printed title-label on upper cover, lacks spine, large folio, printed by T. Bensley, 1816.
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CARTOON/ CARICATURE, 'A Table for Ministers', hand coloured plate, published by Thomas McKlean, 1832, f & g, with 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' published by Thomas Tegg, 1812, with 'The Old English Gentlemen pestered by servants wanting places', J Gillray, nd (3).
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CORNWALL... (Cornubia Cive Cornwallia), Jan Blaeu, hand coloured map, 51 x 40.5 cm, in an 'old' Hogarth frame, Latin text on verso, circa 1645, with Buck, S and N, South West view of Tremanton Castle, 37 x 18 cm in an 'old' Hogarth frame, 1734. (2).
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DORSETSHIRE: hand coloured map by Robert Morden, 420 x 360 mm, attractively hand coloured in Hogarth frame, circa 1695.
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ELK, drawn and published by Samuel Daniel, hand coloured aquatint, 46 x 33cm, 1807.
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HAYTOR GRANITE QUARRIES: a pair of hand coloured aquatints, "An Exterior View of the Haytor Granite Quarries". With "An Interior View of the Devon Haytor Granite Quarries." Size : 345 x 230 mm, engraved by Robert Havell, after J. Cartwright. F & G.
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PRINTS- Two Large Highly Decorative Copper Engravings of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake, 37 x 21 cm; together with a few others relating to the West Country.
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ROWBOTHAM, Claude, 1864-1946, Low Petergate, signed coloured etching, 19.5 x 14.5 cm.
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SOMERSETSHIRE: hand coloured map by Robert Morden, 420 x 360, in Hogarth frame.
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The New Post Office, Sackville Street, Dublin: engraved by R Havell & Son and published by Del Vecchio, hand coloured aquatint, 595 x 440 mm, f & g.
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Percy G.H. Fender cricket archive: After John Corbet Anderson. Sketches of the Surrey Cricketers. Sherman, Julius Caesar, Caffyn, Lockyer, tinted lithograph, framed and glazed, together with twenty book plate lithographs in five frames, (6).
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