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S. Pii V Pontificis Maximi jussu editum, et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate recognitum. Con l'Uffizio de'Morti, Sette Salmi ed altre diverse Orazioni. Venetiis: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana. 1758.8vo. (180x106mm) pp. [8], 405, [3]. Six engraved plates, one signed M. Heylbrouck and an engraved vignette to title page. Text in Latin and Italian. Contemporary Italian sheep, covers with elaborately tooled gilt borders, fan sprays at the inner corners. Centre of the boards have leaf motifs and two gilt oval frames with green morocco onlays bearing initials "G.P" (upper cover) and "A.P" (lower cover).

Paris: Gabriel Aubert. 1830-1835.Lithograph with hand colouring (255x190mm) by Eugene Forest. The image, from the satirical journal "La Caricature" shows a young woman with a roast bird on a plate about to open a door. A poor man is holding out his hand asking for food. She is clearly saying "On ne peut pas vous donner". The door opens to reveal a red-faced, rotund old woman sitting half asleep at a table with an open bottle of wine next to her.

London: Printed at C. Hullmandel's Lithographic Establishment. 1828.First edition, one of 150 copies. Large 4to 288x225mm. pp. [10], 147, [1 errata], 4pp adverts. 55 lithographed plates. Original green cloth, red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Corners worn, spine somewhat faded and with tears to head and foot. Stain on lower cover. Internally very good with some slight spotting and foxing in places. The plates are in particularly good condition.The text provides a selective study of various aspects of architecture - "Defensive architecture", "Architecture of the Middle Ages" and "Domestic Architecture of England".

London: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.First edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records.

A pencil drawing of a circus ringmaster and a trapeze artist hanging upside down on her trapeze. The drawing measures 275x192mm, mounted on white card and framed in black wood (406x327mm). A few spots of foxing but otherwise in excellent condition. Laura Knight was fascinated by the circus and produced many drawings on the subject. This drawing was clearly important for her as she gave it a title and it was (in 1988, long after her death) the title given to a collection of her drawings at David Messum's Gallery.

1974.A original painted glass panel depicting Onan designed by Alan Rose for National Lampoon's December 1974 Issue, Vol. 1, No. 57, entitled "The Judeo-Christian Tradition. The Joy of Sects". 483x358mm. The panel, which is painted to look like traditional church stained glass, shows the figure of a man surrounded by a gothic niche which itself is placed inside a pointed arch. Beneath the human figure is the word "Onan" which identifies the man and explains the leery grimace on his face and the white splashes that surround him.

London: Jonathan Cape. 2010 Square 8vo, 688pp, illustrated throughout with colour & B&W photographs, bound in yellow silk bookmark. Near fine in grey cloth with black-stamped titles to top board and spine. In near-fine illustrated slipcase.

Sorbonne: 1430 [1930].Subscriber's copy. Number 29. Tome 1 and 2 bound together in a single volume. 190x140mm. pp. 258, [6], [4], 259-577, [10]. Thirty seven coloured erotic illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. Smartly bound in green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

2012.Signed acrylic painting on paper of a silhouette figure of a naked man (290x225mm) in a white mount and framed in black (438x342 in the frame). The image is a simple one but typical of Gormley's exploration of and interest in the basic outline form of the human figure. It is painted in black with a lowering sky at the top of the paper so that the whole of the figure apart from the top of his head is set against a white background.

contenant les offices de tous les Dimanches et des principales Fetes de l'annee en Latin et en Francais extrait de Breviaire et du missel de Rome augmente du Commun des Saints approve par Monseigneur ‘Archeveque de Paris. Paris: Morizot, Libraire-Editeur. n.d. [1860s].Small 8vo. 140x90mm. pp. [iv], 668. Chromolithography frontispiece and twelve engraved plates. Beautifully bound by Charles Francois Capé in blue morocco, lavishly decorated in gilt with the monogram "A.M." at each corner of the covers, spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated and second compartment lettered in gilt, cream silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

n.d. [pre-1775].Original drawing of classical capitals and urns with lines of perspective. Pen and brown and black ink, pencil and grey wash on laid paper without visible watermark, ruled border in brown ink. Sheet 302x218mm, window mount 350x275mm. Very slight soiling and foxing but overall in excellent condition. A very good, and rare, example of a study for an important book on perspective. In 1775 Thomas Malton the Elder (1726-1801) published A Compleat Treatise On Perspective, In Theory and Practice; on the True Principles Of Dr. Brook Taylor.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, Charles Dilly and William Creech. 1787.First edition of the English translation. 8vo (210x125mm). pp. xx, 298, [2] advertisements. Engraved frontispiece by Charles Shervin. Early manuscript inscription of ownership on second free endpaper. Full tree-calf, decorated with gilt edges, spine with gilt bands and burgundy morocco label with gilt lettering. Extremities slightly rubbed, but otherwise a fine crisp copy. Bonnet’s philosophical defence of Christianity was originally articulated in his “La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l’état passé et sur l’état futur des êtres vivans” (1769) and “Recherches philosophique sur les preuves du christianisme” (1770).

London. 1866.A photograph album containing thirteen heavy card leaves into which are inserted (on each side of the leaf) four small 'carte de visite' photographs. There is a total of 104 photographs. Leaves measure 282x200mm and the photographs in their frames 84x50mm. On a blank preliminary is written in coloured ink with gold highlights: "Presented to Mr B.B.Toussaint by the Teachers & Friends of Holloway Ragged Schools with much esteem & regret at parting. Nov 1866". In a heavy green morocco binding decorated with relief patterns, with brass clasps. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers.

c1918.Black and white photograph (238x189mm) of Charlie Chaplin and Harry Lauder signed by both of them. Light creasing and some rubbing. Chaplin and Lauder were the leading comic performers of their day. They only appeared together in one short 1918 film (which is probably when this photograph was taken). Signed photographs of the two together seem to be extremely rare and we have been unable to trace another one. Sold with this photograph is another photograph of Lauder inscribed by him to "Margo" and a postcard with a printed sketch of Lauder.

San Francisco. 1979.Black and white photograph by Anita Corbin. Photograph measures 370x263mm in the mount which is 470x365mm. A small crease to the top right corner but otherwise in excellent condition. It shows Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg during a poetry recital. Orlovsky is centre stage, mid-declamation and with his arms stretched out. Ginsberg is sitting next to him quietly watching him perform. The photograph is pasted onto card and placed in a white card mount. On the back of the card is an inscription "To Peter, love and hugs Anita Corbin".

London Francis Frith and Co.. 1897.Photograph of Queen Victoria in her carriage outside St Paul's Cathedral during the celebrations for her Diamond Jubilee. Photograph measures 560x450mm (to top edge, top corners are rounded) in a cream mount and contemporary carved wooden frame (835x715mm). The photographs of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee were printed and published by Francis Frith and Co, the firm founded by the great travel photographer in 1859 and which quickly became one of the largest photographic companies in the world employing numerous photographers. Frith himself died in 1898.

London: Published for the Proprietor and sold by John Major et al. Printed by John Johnson. 1821-23.First issue Subscriber's (sic) Copy. Proofs No 99. In ten parts as originally issued. Printed on India paper. On the verso of the front free endpaper is the statement "Impressions of the Physiognomical Portraits cannot be considered as Proofs, unless they be worked upon paper having a Water-mark corresponding with the following figure: EW1821 (with a shield between the two letters)". Which these have. 305x230mm. Unpaginated.

Amsterdam: ex Officina Hadriani Schoonebeek. 1695.Only edition. 8vo. 180x112mm. [16], 240, [16]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait on verso of title page and sixty engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeeck. Slightly later full calf, borders in blind and gilt, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Turn ins decorated with gilt roll. All edges gilt with delicate gauffering. Internally near fine save for a closed tear to E7 (not affecting text).

London: Harrison & Co.. [1786].First edition. 205x260mm. One hundred engravings of country houses in England and Wales with, on the opposite page a brief description of the house. Bleinheim Palace gets four engravings and four pages of description. Tissue guards. Copper engravings by Birrell, Walker, Ellis, Fittler and others after Burney, Courbould, Dayes, Robert Nixon, Malton and others. Handsomely bound in red morocco. Upper and lower covers with a green morocco border on which is tooled, in gilt, a greek key design. Inside this is a further border of acanthus leaves.

London. Frederick Muller: 1945.8vo, 112pp, illustrated throughout with 4 colour lithographs by Michael Ayrton. Near-fine text block in very good condition. Illustrated cloth with some light shelf-wear and discolouration to extremeties.  A selection of memento-mori verse selected by Phoebe Pool and issued as part of the 'New Excursions into English Poetry' series. With the pen inscription of F.

Monmouth (N.J.): Printed at the press of the author, at Mount-Pleasant, near Middletown-Point. 1795.Third edition. 8vo. 205x120mm. pp. xv, [1], 455 [1, errata]. Bound without final two blank leaves. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, red morocco label lettered in gilt. Slight rubbing to edges and wear to corners. Foxing and browning (as usual for this edition of Freneau's work) but overall a nice copy of the expanded edition of the poems of "The Poet of the American Revolution". Front pastedown has the label of Christopher Clark Geest and the front free endpaper the library stamp of J.H.Hunt M.D.

Netherlands: Baa Books. 2023.Limited edition 19 of 250. 240x170mm. Unpaginated. 64 polaroids of flowers, one of the moon and one of a ginger cat and nine double page photographs of flowers. With a single page introductory essay. A new book in immaculate condition. Using a Polaroid 680 SLR found in a charity shop these images, "small meditations on colour, beauty and time" capture the fragile, fleeting beauty of flowers.