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John Murray, London., 1849. New edition of a book originally published in 1841. Octavo. pp viii, 160. Double-column text. Period school prize binding of polished tan calf with raised bands, gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers and edges. On the front pastedown is the engraved prize label of University College School whose gilt emblem is on the front and rear covers. The author, who is better known as an art historian and critic, travelled to Russia and Estonia to visit her married sister.Skilfully rebacked with original spine relaid. Some light foxing to prelims. Very good.

Collins, London., 1947. First U.K. edition. Octavo. A 192-page crime novel.Small spot to fore-edge. Free endpapers very slightly tanned. Very good in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with several nicks and small chips.

Collins, London., 1946. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 192 pages. A murder mystery set in Mexico City.Fine in very good indeed pictorial dustwrapper just a little rubbed at edges.

Hutchinson Radius, London., 1989. First U.K. edition. Translated by Ellen Esrock. Octavo. pp xii, 96. Wrappers - there was no hardbound issue.Fine.

Wells Gardner, Darton, London., 1903. First edition of this selection. Octavo. pp xxiv, 418. 51 black-and-white drawings, many of them full-page, by Hugh Thomson. Original burgundy gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt.Corners slightly bruised. Prelims and edges a little spotted. Very good indeed in the very scarce dustwrapper, based on Thomson's design and printed in gilt on purple paper, nicked, rubbed and creased at edges.

Macmillan, London., 1895. First edition thus: introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie; illustrated by Chris Hammond. Octavo. pp l, 382. Numerous illustrations. Elaborately gilt decorative covers. All edges gilt.Near fine. A very bright copy.

The Ashmolean Society, Oxford., 1844. First edition. Octavo. pp iv, 32. Original wrappers. The author calls for the Theory of Art to be taken more seriously in Britain, and for the establishment of a Professorship of Art.Covers slightly crinkled and nicked at the edges. Near fine.

James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London., 1892. First edition. Royal octavo. pp xx, 325. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Ancient Egypt through its archaeology, art, literature, religion, etc. Burgundy buckram decorated in gilt with Egyptian motifs. Top edge gilt.Slight spotting to endpapers. Faint traces of damp to covers. Bottom corners of covers a bit bumped. Very good indeed.

Moss Bros, London., [1936?]. First edition. Quarto. 24 pages. Pictorial card wrappers. Four full-page colour illustrations and drawings in the text by Lionel Edwards. An advertising brochure for the firm of outfitters.Faint spotting to title-page. Near fine.

Country Life, London., 1929. First edition. Quarto. Sixteen colour plates mounted on card leaves each of which has in the border a different reproduction of a drawing by Edwards. Marbled endpapers.Spine slightly darkened. Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, darkened at the spine and chipped at the head and tail of the spine.

Pierre Cailler, Genève., 1969. First edition. Square octavo. pp 29, [1] + 81 plates, several in colour and tipped in. Glossy card wrappers. Includes ''une biographie, une bibliographie et une documentation complète sur le peintre et son oeuvre''. The Belgian figurative artist and illustrator, born Nikolaas Mathijs Eekman, was known variously as Nico Eekman, Nic Eekman and Ekma.Number 6 of fifty de luxe copies with two laid-in original dry-point etchings signed and numbered (''Luxe 6/50'') by the artist. The etchings are in his fantasy-allegorical style which has strong echoes of Rackham's.Front cover slightly creased at bottom corner. Very good indeed. The etchings are in fine state.

The Fortune Press, Paris., 1929. First edition of this translation by Charles Hope Lumley. Royal octavo. 312 pages. One of 1125 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper, this being unnumbered. Colour illustrations by Beresford Egan. Black buckram-backed paper boards. Laid in is a Fuller d'Arch Smith catalogue of Fortune Press titles. On the front pastedown is a bookplate designed by Beresford Egan of a nude lady in high heels rather worryingly stepping on manuscripts and books.Gilt titles on spine a bit dull. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper.

Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London., 1822. Second edition. Octavo. pp xvi, 376. Hand-coloured frontispiece and thirty-five plates by Isaac Robert and George Cruikshank, also hand-coloured; three engraved folding plates of sheet music. Wood-engraved tailpieces. Fine early 20th century binding by Bayntun of Bath in full red morocco with raised bands, gilt rules and decorations, geometric pattern of gilt and black rules on covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. One of the great London books.Contemporary (1822) ownership signature on half-title and repeated on title-page. Fine. Attractive binding.

Oxford University Press, London., 1965. First edition. Issued as a Three Crowns Book. Octavo. 60 pages. Card wrappers - there was no hardbound issue. The Nigerian author's second book, a play featuring an African art student in London. Egbuna's political activities led to his imprisonment in 1965 and his later membership of the British Black Panthers.Spine faded. Covers slightly rubbed at the edges. Very good. Very scarce.

Tinsley Brothers, London., 1882. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 371. Preface by Edwin Arnold. Frontispiece and title-page drawing. Original turquoise blue cloth gilt decorated spine.Covers a little scuffed and darkened at spine. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Short tear at outer edge of front free endpaper. Very good.

Karl Baedeker, Leipzic., 1898. Fourth remodelled edition: ''The present combined edition has been completely revised and for the most part re-written by Professor Georg Steindorff of Leipzic...'' (from the Preface). Small octavo. pp cciv, 395. 22 maps, 55 plans and 66 views and vignettes.Presentation copy from Professor Steindorff, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''Seinem lieben John H. Gretton in herzlichen Freundschaft & mit dem Wunsche, das Buch neigt bald praktisch zu erproben. G. Steindorff, Neujahr 1898''. Georg Steindorff was at the time Professor of Egyptology at the University of Leipzig where he built the Egyptian collection into a true museum.Front inner hinge cracking. Covers a bit bumped at the edges and marked. Good. Inscribed Baedekers are scarce.

Charles Gilpin, London., 1849. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 370, [2] adverts. 8 tissue-guarded plates, six of which are hand-coloured. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and in blind. Contains the first printing of W.M. Thackeray's drinking song "The Three Sailors". In his diary, Thackeray, when he was in Rome, makes mention of "spending the night smoking with the Artist banditti" one of whom was Bevan who later wrote a book on smoking.Cloth at head and tail of spine a little frayed and with short tears to upper joint. Very good.

The Religious Tract Society, London., 1897. New edition, revised and partly re-written by Richard Lovett. Also includes a new 12-page section written by W.M. Flinders Petrie. Quarto. 192 pages. Blue buckram covers decorated in black and gilt; all edges gilt. Patterned endpapers.Spotting to prelims. Very good indeed.

Thos. Cook, London and Cairo., 1912. Twelfth edition, enlarged and considerably revised. Octavo. pp.xxiv, 1094. Illustrations, plans of temples; 2-page frontispiece map; folding map of the Sudan. Original limp brown cloth lettered and decorated with hieroglyphs in gilt. An immensely detailed guide intended for rather more than the average tourist. Contains an "Important Notice" on bakshish, which concludes: "Tourists should especially abstain from throwing money from the decks of steamers on to the landing stages or on to the bank of the Nile for the purpose of witnessing the scramble for the coins; such exhibitions are mischievous as well as degrading."Early ownership signature and what might be a shelf number on half-title page. Very good.

Thos. Cook, London and Cairo., 1902. Eighth edition. Octavo. pp.xxvi, 674. Illustrations, plans of temples; 2 maps (one double-page, one folding). Original limp brown cloth lettered and decorated with hieroglyphs in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. An immensely detailed guide intended for rather more than the average tourist. Illegible crayon squiggle on reverse of first map. Prelims slightly spotted. Very good.