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Views of the English Lakes. With Map by W. & A.K. Johnston and Descriptive Letterpress.

By: N/A

Price: $424.54

Publisher: London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson and Sons:

Seller ID: Books012434

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

32 pages, 2-page map, twelve plates in colour with tissue guards, list of plates at rear [complete]. No date of issue specified. Measures 5.75 x 3.75 inches. Cloth rubbed and nicked; foxing to text and map; the plates are pristine. Binding is sound.
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The Original Bath Guide, Containing an Essay on the Bath Waters, with a Description of the City, and a Variety of Useful Information

By: N/A

Price: $555.16

Publisher: Bath, Meyler & Son: 1856

Seller ID: Books012436

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

191, [1] pages; with folding frontispiece, large folding map of the city (2-inch closed tear), eight engraved plates, and a folding map of five miles around Bath. No specified date of issue. Head of first page: The Original Bath Guide, Enlarged and Improved. Ownership inscription dated 1856 on front free endpaper. Leaves evenly toned; binding is sound.
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The Little Painter

By: N/A

Price: $281.25

Publisher: Philadelphia, Janentzky & Co.:

Seller ID: Books013336

Binding: Paper wraps

Condition: Very Good

Eight leaves, with colour plate on left and black & white facing for the owner to colour... which they did not. Right corners of front cover and lower corner of first leaf chipped. Uncommon; likely early 1870s, with Janentzky & Co. at 1125 Chestnut Street.
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Twenty Caricature Plates to Illustrate the Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell

By: N/A

Price: $406.25

Seller ID: Books013353

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Title on upper board in gilt: Rowlandson's Caricature Etchings illustrating Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Originally printed by E. Jackson 1786, this is the mid 19th century re-issue. Burgundy cloth portfolio worn, lacking ties, and lacking title page and list of plates. The 20 plates are present, loose as issued, with occasional light toning and thumbing.
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The Fables of Aesop [limited ed. in slipcase]

By: Aesop

Price: $2,445.30

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1909

Seller ID: Books010102

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Cream cloth with gilt; top edge gilded, others untrimmed. Light handling to cloth, and foxing to spine. Interior clean and free of inscriptions; tanning to free endpapers. Number 481 of 750 issued, signed by Detmold. 25 gorgeous plates. The original slipcase is sturdy and complete without splitting: long ago covered in patterned book-covering paper (similar to thin wallpaper) that appears to be stuck to the slipcase only along fore-edges.
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The Fables of Aesop

By: Aesop

Price: $489.85

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1909

Seller ID: Books012448

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xvi, 152 pages, and all 23 plates with captioned tissue guards. No stated date of issue. Light fading to spine; extremities rubbed - particularly along top half of the rear joint. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, by Thomas Bewick

By: Aesop

Price: $593.75

Publisher: Newcastle, E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son: 1823

Seller ID: Books013333

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

xxiv, 376 pages. Half leather over ribbed lilac cloth: light rubbing. With the thumb-print leaf receipt for this demy octavo, copy number 682. Clean and sound; no inscriptions. 8.5 x 5.75 inches
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Why The Chimes Rang

By: Alden, Raymond Macdonald

Price: $71.85

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1909

Seller ID: Books011990

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged. Profusely illustrated. Jacket with foxing, shallow chips, and tears. Soiling to endpapers; old inscription to front. Lower margin of one page soiled and a small chip off top corner of same leaf. Binding is sound.
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Rhoda Colville - Rhymes for Alex; as well, the invitation to the tribute dinner held by the Annapolis Valley Hospice Foundation

By: Alex Colville memorabilia

Price: $65.31

Publisher: Wolfville, Annapolis Valley Hospice Foundation: 2005

Seller ID: Books008908

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

two items:"Rhymes for Alex" 8pp. 8vo. saddle stapled card covers, hand printed by Gaspereau Press in an edition of 400 copies and the invitation from the Hospice Foundation advertising the event with Colville's 1996 image "Black Cat"
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A Shady Hobby

By: Bennett, Jean Frances

Price: $23.78

Publisher: Milwaukee, WI, The Bruce Publishing Company: 1944

Seller ID: Books006481

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

71 pages. An introduction to the craft of silhouette cutting. Clean and unmarked in sturdy binding.
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Bento's Sketchbook

By: Berger, John

Price: $84.91

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 2011

Seller ID: Books012278

ISBN: 0307379957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

167 pages. First printing. "How does the impulse to draw something begin?". No inscriptions.
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Bruno Bobak: The Full Palette (signed)

By: Bernard Riordon ed.

Price: $96.19

Publisher: Frederiction, NB, Goose Lane Editions / Beaverbrook Art Gallery: 2006

Seller ID: Books013104

ISBN: 086492481X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

168 pages. As new, save for the signatures of Bobak and Riordon on title page.
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Image for Fabulous Blanco. Antonio Blanco: His Life, his Works, his Dreams. Including a series of 33 selected collaged-poems by the artist entitled: "Fragments of Enchantment"

Fabulous Blanco. Antonio Blanco: His Life, his Works, his Dreams. Including a series of 33 selected collaged-poems by the artist entitled: "Fragments of Enchantment"

By: Blanco, Antonio; D.H. Dhaimeler (ed.)

Price: $339.86

Publisher: Jakarta, Blanco Fine Arts Foundation: 1991

Seller ID: Books006567

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

137 pages. Well designed, with card covers, and texts in English, French and Indonesian. Profusely illustrated with photographs and art. This is not a signed copy. Includes the Ingrid Bergman endorsement. Excellent condition with no inscriptions; binding is sound.
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Pekoo, the Cat Who Talks / Pikou, le Chat Qui Parle

By: Brandis, Madzy Brender a

Price: $111.04

Publisher: Carlisle, ON, Brandstead Press: 1971

Seller ID: Books012629

Binding: Hardcover in Slipcase

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged. Number 22 of 250 copies of the limited edition. Localized foxing to endpapers. Spine nicked at head, foot, and centre. Binding sound; no inscriptions. Slipcase is sturdy.
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Image for Finden's Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings. [complete in two volumes]

Finden's Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings. [complete in two volumes]

By: Brockedon, W.

Price: $293.91

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1837

Seller ID: Books012451

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

Complete in two volumes, not paged, and with no date of issue specified. The latest date on the engravings is 1837. Top edge gilt. Rebound relatively recently, with new, and original endpapers. Occasional spot of foxing and light offsetting, but generally a very clean set. Complete with vignette title in each, and 64 and 60 engravings respectively, as called for.
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, with A Critical Account of His Works

By: Brown, John William

Price: $441.51

Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1828

Seller ID: Books010042

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xv, 256 pages. Fine unsigned late C19 binding in red leather, marbled boards, gilt to spine and top edge. Frontispiece evidently not bound in. A handsome volume, with Last Supper headpiece at p. 179.
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Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particulier: Oiseaux. [complete in 18 volumes]

By: Buffon, (Georges Louis Marie Leclerc) Le Comte de

Price: $1,532.59

Publisher: Deux Ponts, Sanson & Compagnie: 1787

Seller ID: Books009840

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

Deux-Ponts [Zweibrcken], 1785-1787. All 18 volumes in sound contemporary binding, half calf over speckled boards, morocco labels numbered in gilt I through XVIII though some rubbed or flaked; all edges red. Illustrated with 114 hand coloured copper plate engravings; collation complete. Various paginations; text in French. Each volume bearing the signature of one early owner with 1799 penned alongside in tome IV. A few early professional marginal repairs to end sheets of one volume; the occasional unobtrusive stain. A handsome set, purchased by its previous owner from Wheldon and Wesley. Shippi...
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Textile Painting. Silk, Velvet, Satin, Cotton, Linen and All Cloths

By: Campana, D.M.

Price: $54.34

Publisher: Chicago, D.M. Campana: 1945

Seller ID: Books006400

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

63 pages. Title page stamped with "Books are not returnable", small bookplate neatly removed from inside cover. Title on cover reads "The Teacher of Textile Painting"
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Klee Wyck

By: Carr, Emily

Price: $254.72

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1941

Seller ID: Books010407

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xi, 155 pages and four tissue guarded plates in colour. Top edge dusty, spine lightly sunned, cloth lightly stained. Small address plate to front pastedown, and ownership inscription to facing page; small stain to margin of frontispiece and small marginal stain to four pages. Binding is sound.
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The Stone Door

By: Carrington, Leonora

Price: $163.29

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1978

Seller ID: Books011292

ISBN: 0710088329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

118 pages. Jacket slightly taller than book with resultant curling along upper and lower edge; not price clipped and not sunned. Interior clean and unmarked.
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