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ART & ARCHITECTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

Aldin, Cecil, illus by: Bachelors, & A Bachelor's Confessions, by Washington Irvine
Heinemann, 1989. 8vo, boards with plate laid down, 3 tipped in col'd plates, others mono. VG. £35.00

Beuys, Joseph, Editions.
Exhibition Catalogue. Collection of Reinhard Schlegal, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 1999. Fine. £18.00

St Ives & British Modernism.
Clarke, Jonathan, [1998]. 26cms x 22cms, card covers. Col'd plates. VG. £10.00

Dulac, Edmund, illus by: Stories from the Arabian Nights, Re-told by Laurence Housman.
Nottingham, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. n.d, ca 1920's. 4to, dec cl gt, sl worn d/w. 20 beautiful tipped in coloured ills by Dulac. £160.00

Fashion Plates in Colour: The Queen, the Lady's Newspaper, Jan 2-June 26 1869.
Vol XLV. 43cms x 29cms, hf cf on marbled boards. Mono & col'd ills, many full-page. Some pages worn at edges, o/w VG. £148.00

Hartnell, Norman, Silver and Gold.
Evans, 1955. 8vo, cl gt in d/w. Photos, drawings, glamorous col'd plates. The early career of the late maestro of the fashion world. VG. £25.00.

Hockney, David, A Print Retrospective 1961-99.
Exhibition 2000. 10 cards. Mint in folder. £5.00.

Hodgkin, Howard, Catalogue. Vol I: Small Prints.
Alan Cristea Gallery, 2001. Illus. Mint. £10.00

Hodgkin, Howard, Catalogue Vol II: Into the Woods.
As above. £10.00 Full colour plates in both

Horst P Horst. [Photography]
Exhibition Catalogue, 1992. Parallel German/English Text. Illus. £10.00

Jekyll, Gertrude & Hussey, Christopher: Garden Ornament.

Country Life. 2nd edn (revised), 1927. Large Folio (40cms x 28cms), green cloth with gt lettering on spine. Illustrated. VG. Price: £210.00

Latham, Charles: In English Homes.
Country Life, 1909, 3rd edn. Large Folio, 41cms x 28cms. Navy cloth gilt, a.e.g. Illustrated throughout with photos. VG. Price: £85.00

[Mackintosh, Charles Rennie] edited by Wendy Kaplan.
Glasgow Museums/Abbeville Press, Glasgow/New York 1996. 1st edn. 29cms x 26cms. Cloth in d/w. Fully illus. Fine. £40.00

Muybridge, Eadweard, The Human Figure in Motion.
Chapman & Hall, 1913. Landscape la 8vo, red cl gt. Fascinating photographic plates. Top jt loose o/w VG. £85.00

Nash, Paul, Book & binding design by. A song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch by Lemontov.

Aquila Press, 1929. Tall 8vo, exquisite binding in orange, cream and black pieced leather. No 43 of 750 copies on Balliol hand-made paper. Binding and format by Paul Nash. A beautiful copy in excellent condition. Russia's greatest poet next to Pushkin died fighting a duel over a lady when he was only 27. A 'Constuctivist' design, very influenced by Malevitch and Mondrian, scarce edition. £450.00

Nicholson, Peter, The Principles of Architecture.
Barfield, 1827. 3rd edn. 3 vols, recent hf red cf on marbled boards. Copper engravings throughout. Occ spotting o/w VG. £350.00

Strong, Roy, The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture.
RKP, 1969. La4to, cloth in d/w. Tipped-in col'd frontis, other ills & fld'g chart. Fine, in s/case. £95.00

Gardens Old & New, (Various authors): The Country House & its Garden Environment.
Newnes/Country Life, n.d [1920]. Large Folio. Beautiful pictorial cloth, sl bumped; aeg. VG. Price: £110.00

[Warhol, Andy, association copy] Wattjes Prof I J G, Constuctie en Architectuur van Winkelpuien. (Shop Windows) Odeon Style designs

Kosmos, Amsterdam, 1926. La folio, 24page intro with 48 Large plates in cloth folder, slightly worn. With the bookplate of Andy Warhol Dutch text. Contents in Excellent condition. £350.00

LITERATURE

Amis, Martin, Night Train.
Cape, 1997, 1st edn. Mint in d/w. £15.00

The Cabinet of Scottish Muses inc Ramsay, Fergusson et al.
Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd 1808. 8vo, cf, new flat sp. Eng'd frontis. VG. £65.00

Ramsay, Allan, Poems.
Cadell, 1800. 2 vols. Port frontis, fld'g facs letter. Recent full polished cf gt, sps gt, raised bands. VG. £155.00

Verne, Jules, The Tribulations of a Chinaman.
Sampson Low, n.d. ca. 1900. 8vo, pict boards. Eng's plates. VG. £85.00

SCOTTISH

Beattie, William, Scotland Illustrated.
Virtue, 1808. 2 vols. 4to, full cf, sps gt, raised bands, rubbed. A.e.g. Eng'd plates by Allom, Bartlett & McCulloch. Excellent condition with good clean plates. £285.00

Loder, John de Vere, Colonsay and Oronsay.
Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd. 1935. La8vo, t.e.g, uncut. Photo plates, fld'g tables. Author signed. VG. £245.00

Sinclair, Sir John, The Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VIII
Edinburgh, Creech, 1793. 8vo, new qtr cl on marbled boards. VG. £70.00

SCIENCE

Buck, John Watson, A Practical and Theoretical Essay on Oblique Bridges.
Weale, 1857. 2nd edn. 8vo, cl. Large fld'g plates.VG. £75.00

The Engineer: 3 vols 1891, Jul-Dec 548pages, 1906 Jan-June, 668 pages. 1906 July-Dec 668 pages, large folio vols well illust ship-building. (Mauratiania) etc locomotives £90.00 per vol

Hart, John, A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Oblique Arches.
Weale, 1839. 2nd edn. 8vo, cl gt. 20 col'd plates. VG+ £50.00

BOTANICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY

Johnson, C Pierpoint, illus by: British Wild Flowers, & Sowerby, John E
Van Voorst, 1876, La8vo, green cl gt, sp extra gt. New eps. Col'd frontis and colour ills throughout. VG. £65.00

Wood, Rev J G, Insects at Home and Insects Abroad.
Longmans Green, 1876. 2 vols. Pict cl gt. Lovely hand-col'd frontis to Vol I, o/w profusely ill with mono plates and ills in text. VG. £125.00

MISCELLANEOUS

Lodge, Edmund, The Peerage of the British Empire.
Saunders & Otley, 1850. La8vo, red cl ft, new spine, a.e.g VG. £55.00

 

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