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[ARCHERY] AN OLD TOXOPHOLITE.
The Archer's Guide...
London, T. Hurst, 1833.
Duodecimo, with three coloured plates; a very good copy in half red calf by Zaehnsdorf.
First edition: including a glossary of terms and phrases used in archery, with bibliographical references. The plates...
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BARTELL, Edmund.
Hints on Picturesque Improvements in Ornamented Cottages, and their Scenery...
London, for J. Taylor, 1804.
Octavo, with six tinted aquatint plates; a fine copy bound without the half-title in contemporary half green calf.
First edition of this influential series of three essays on the picturesque cottage. The first essay describes the...
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BLACKSTONE, William.
Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1775.
Four volumes, octavo, frontispiece portrait; attractively bound in old full tan calf, banded spines.
A beautiful early set, the seventh edition, of Blackstone's famous Commentaries.
Educated at Pembroke...
Printing and the Mind of Man, 212 (first edition).
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BOXALL, Arthur d'Auvergne.
Avignon.
1928.
Pencil drawing, 236 x 367 mm; fine, mounted.
A detailed landscape drawing by the Australian artist Arthur d'Auvergne Boxall (1895-1944).
The skilfully...
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BURNET, John.
Practical Hints on Colour in Painting.
London, John Carpenter, 1843.
Quarto, eight handcoloured engraved plates; a very good copy in original cloth-backed boards, paper titling label on...
Fifth edition of this beautifully-produced but practical guide to colour in painting, which uses works by old masters...
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FREIND, John.
The History of Physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century...
London, J. Walthoe, 1726.
Two volumes, octavo; titles within rules; a very good set in contemporary panelled calf, slightly worn and rubbed,...
Attractive early mixed set of this first history of medicine written by an Englishman, third edition of the first...
Garrison & Morton, 6378.
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HALE, Thomas.
A Compleat Body of Husbandry.
Osborne & Shipton, London, 1756.
Folio, coloured frontispiece and engravings throughout; an excellent uncut copy in recent half calf.
The first edition of a classic treatise on husbandry. The title-page states that the work encompasses 'Rules for...
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[KING, PHILLIP PARKER] PUISSANT, Louis.
Traité de Topographie, d’arpentage et de nivellement… [and] Supplément au second livre du Traité de Topographie….
Paris, Chez Courcier, 1807- 1810.
Quarto, two works bound in one, in total seven folding plates and one folding table, some pages age-toned but overall...
A fine volume containing rare first editions of two French works of surveying, said to be from Phillip Parker King's...
Brunet, V, 962 (1820 second edition only).
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KNIGHT, Charles (editor).
London, Revised and Corrected to the Present Time by E. Walford, M.A.
London, Virtue and Company, circa, 1875.
Three thick quarto volumes, engraved vignettes, full page plates, page-edges gilt; very good in contemporary red...
Beautifully illustrated collection of essays on the history of London bound in ornate handsome contemporary gilt...
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LUGAR, R.
The Country Gentlemen's Architect...
London, M. Taylor, 1838.
Quarto, with 22 engraved plates (eight double-page); some foxing and offsetting, but a very good, largely unopened...
A very charming, but practical, pattern-book aimed at the country gentleman who wished to construct villas which looked...
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