ABBIATICO, Mario. MODERN FIREARM ENGRAVINGS.

Tall 4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 284, with 67 coloured plates and 422 illustrations. [First edition] Italy: Artiche Italiane, 1980.

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ABBOTT, P.E. and TAMPLIN, J.M.A. BRITISH GALLANTRY AWARDS.

Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 359, illustrated throughout and with 4 colour plates. Guinness Superlatives, 1971.

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ABDY, Jane. THE FRENCH POSTER.

Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. 176, illustrated throughout, partly in colour. [First edition] Studio Vista, 1969.

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ADAM, Stephen. DECORATIVE STAINED GLASS.

Original wrappers. Unpaginated. 40 colour plates woth accompanying text. [First edition] Academy Editions, 1980.

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ADAMOVA, A. & GRECK, T. MINIATURES FROM KASHMIRIAN MANUSCRIPTS.

Original cloth gilt, slip-case (a little torn). Pp. 84, illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. Text in English and Russian. [First edition] Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1976.

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ADAMS, Elizabeth & REDSTONE, David. BOW PORCELAIN.

Tall 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 251, with 16 colour plates, 135 monochrome illustrations. [First edition] Faber, 1981.

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ADAMS, Len and Yvonne. MEISSEN PORTRAIT FIGURES.

4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 224, illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. [First edition] Leicester: Magna Books, 1992.

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ADHEMAR, Jean and JOURDAIN, F. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC.

Square small 4to. Original pictorial cloth, glassine wrappers. Pp. 145 with 128 plates, many in colour. [First edition] Editions Pierre Tisne, 1952.

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AHERN, John H. MINIATURE LANDSCAPE MODELLING.

Original cloth, dustwrapper (worn and rather defective in places). Pp. x, 133, with 56 illustrations. Flyleaves faintly spotted. [First edition] Percival Marshall, 1951.

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AKEHURST, Richard. SPORTING GUNS.

Large square 8vo. Original pictorial boards, dustwrapper (spine faded). Pp. 96, with 134 illustrations (many in colour). Light tape-marks to flyleaf. Octopus Books, 1972.

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AKEHURST, Richard. SPORTING GUNS.

Large square 8vo. Original pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper (spine a little faded, price-clipped). Pp. 96, with 153 illustrations in colour and black and white. Gift inscriptions on the flyleaf. [First edition] Octopus Books, 1972.

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AL SABAH, Altaf Salem Al Ali. KUWAIT TRADITIONS.

Square 4to. Original boards, dustwrapper. Pp. 135, illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition] Kuwait: AlSadu Weaving Cooperative Society, 2001.

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ALDRED, Cyril. JEWELS OF THE PHARAOHS.

Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 256, with 156 plates (100 in colour) and 37 text illustrations. [First edition] Thames and Hudson, 1971.

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ALEXANDER, Marc. PAINTERS FIRST.

Tall 4to. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. 208, illustrated in colour throughout. Associated ephemera loosely inserted. [First edition] Leader Books, 1995. The work of disabled artists - “In these pages you will read about the lives of artists representative of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists who have created their own worlds in form and colour for our enjoyment and inspiration.”

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ALLEN, John editor THE HUMILIATION AND EXALTATION OF OUR REDEEMER,

Small square 8vo. Original printed pictorial cloth, faded. Pp. 64, complete with 22 plates. [First edition] George Routledge & Co., 1856. Etched bookplate of M.Snape.

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ALSTON, J.W. HINTS TO YOUNG PRACTIONERS IN THE STUDY OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING.

Original cloth-backed boards, worn and creased. Pp. (iv), 67, (i), 15 (advertisements dated Dec.1 1808), with hand-coloured frontispiece (stained and a little defective) engraved title and 4 engraved plates (1 tinted). Title a little soiled, one text leaf stained and a little torn, a few pencilled annotations, rather loose in places. Scarce. Longman, Hurst etc., 1804 [but 1808].

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ALTON, Robert. VIOLIN AND ‘CELLO BUILDING AND REPAIRING.

Small 8vo. Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. (ii), 182, 16, with 82 text illustrations. Near-fine. William Reeves, 1969.

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AMEREDES, Harry. THE FANTASTIC BOOK OF CANES,

Large 8vo. Original wrappers. Pp. 114, illustrated throughout. Revised edition, Lancaster, PA: Fox Chapel Publishing, 1997.

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AMINI, Majid. ORIENTAL RUGS.

4to. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 128, illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. [First edition] Orbis Publishing, 1981.

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ANASTATIC DRAWING SOCIETY

Tall folio. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little soiled. Pp. 11, plus 54 plates. Flyleaf removed. Ashby-de-la-Zouch: printed for the Society by J.D.Hextall, 1859. Scarce. The plates were all made from drawings contributed by members of the Society. The object of the Society was “to delineate remains of Antiquity ... illustrative of the early and middle ages.” The plates, which were produced by a special process of transfer from zinc plates by Cowells of Ipswich, are similar in effect to proofs of steel-engraved plates on India paper.

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