Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts

Auction 17166
Oxford
1 Dec 2009, starting at 10:30 GMT.
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POTTER (BEATRIX) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, PRIVATELY PUBLISHED FIRST EDITION
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POTTER (BEATRIX) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, PRIVATELY PUBLISHED FIRST EDITION
VANITY FAIR [Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares], 17 vol.
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VANITY FAIR [Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares], 17 vol.
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF A prodigal son returns; a king manacled by the neck, hands and feet (in stocks)
ELWES (HENRY JOHN) and AUGUSTINE HENRY The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, 8 vol. (including Index)
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ELWES (HENRY JOHN) and AUGUSTINE HENRY The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, 8 vol. (including Index)

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ADAMS (ANSEL) My Camera in Yosemite Valley. 24 Photographs and an Essay on Mountain Photography, FIRST EDITION
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ADVICE [BARNARD (JOHN)] A Present for an Apprentice: or, a Sure Guide to Gain both Esteem & Estate; With Rules for His Conduct to His ...
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ALBUMS
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ALBUMS
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ALBUMS A nineteenth century album
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ALBUMS A nineteenth century album
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ALBUMS A nineteenth century album
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ALBUMS, OXFORD "Sketches Round About Oxford, by J.T.B., 1886"
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ALBUMS, OXFORD "Sketches Round About Oxford, by J.T.B., 1886"
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ALMANAC, BINDING London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1791
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ALMANAC, BINDING London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1791
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ALMANAC, BINDING London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1836
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ALMANAC, BINDING London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1836
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AMERICAN COASTAL TRADE A collection of seven letters, bills of landing and an invoice relating to maritime trade along the south coast of New England, ...
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AMERICANA THAYER (WILLIAM M.) Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln
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ANGLING BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling. In Two Parts
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ANGLING BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea-Fish
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ANGLING BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea-Fish
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ANGLING BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling. In Two Parts
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ANGLING BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling. In Two Parts
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ANGLING BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling. In Two Parts
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ANGLING JACQUES (DAVID) The Development of Modern Stillwater Fishing
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ANGLING LUCE (ARTHUR ASTON) Fishing and Thinking
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ANGLING PULMAN (GEORGE PHILIP RIGNEY) The Book of the Axe: containing a Piscatorial Description of that Stream
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ANGLING TAYLOR (SAMUEL) Angling in all its Branches Reduced to a Complete Science
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ANGLING WADE (HENRY) Rod-fishing in Clear Waters by Fly, Minnow, and Worm. With a Short and Easy Method to the Art of Dressing Flies
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ANGLING WALTON (IZAAK) The Compleat Angler, NUMBER 99 OF THE EDITION DE LUXE, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JAMES THORPE
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ANGLING WALTON (IZAAK) The Compleat Angler, NUMBER 99 OF THE EDITION DE LUXE, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JAMES THORPE
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ANGLING WALTON (IZAAK) and CHARLES COTTON. The Complete Angler
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ANGLING WILLIAMSON (JOHN) The British Angler: or, a Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers
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ANGLING [VENABLES (ROBERT)] The Experienc'd Angler: or Angling Improv'd
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ARCHAEOLOGY, SAXON NEVILLE (RICHARD CORNWALLIS) Saxon Obsequies Ilustrated by Ornaments and Weapons: Discovered... in a Cemetery near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
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ARMS and ARMOUR MEYRICK (SAMUEL RUSH) and JOSEPH SKELTON. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, 2 vol.
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AVIATION DOLLFUS (CHARLES) and HENRI BOUCHÉ. Histoire de l'aéronautique
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AVIATION EIFFEL (GUSTAVE) The Resistance of the Air and Aviation. Experiments Conducted at the Champs-de-Mars Laboratory. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Jerome C. Hunsaker
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AVIATION Souvenir. Doncaster Aviation Meeting. Oct 15th to 23rd, 1909. The First Flying Meeting in England
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AVIATION Souvenir. Doncaster Aviation Meeting. Oct 15th to 23rd, 1909. The First Flying Meeting in England
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BADMINTON LIBRARY HUTCHINSON (HORACE G.) Golf
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BADMINTON LIBRARY HUTCHINSON (HORACE G.) Golf
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BEWICK (THOMAS) Works, 5 vol.
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BEWICK (THOMAS) Works, 5 vol.
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BIBLE, in Latin [Biblia utriusque testamenti], New Testament only
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BIBLE, in French, Geneva version La Sainte Bible... traduites en francois sur les textes Hébreu et Greu. Par les pasteurs et les professeurs de l'Eglise et de l'Academie de Genève, 3 vol.
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BIBLE, in French, Geneva version La Sainte Bible... traduites en francois sur les textes Hébreu et Greu. Par les pasteurs et les professeurs de l'Eglise ...
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BIBLE, in Latin, Vulgate. Biblia com postillis Nicolai de Lyra, Part 4
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BIBLE, in Latin, Vulgate Biblia com postillis Nicolai de Lyra, Part 4
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BIBLIOGRAPHY WILLEMS (ALPHONSE) Les Elzevier
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BIBLIOGRAPHY BENTLEY (G.E.) Blake Books
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BIBLIOGRAPHY HENREY (BLANCHE) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 vol.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKBINDING SULLIVAN (EDWARD) Decorative Book-Binding in Ireland, A Paper Read Before Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, NUMBER 30 OF 133 COPIES FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
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BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKBINDING OLDHAM (J. BASIL) English Blind-Stamped Bindings
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BILLIARDS WHITE (E.) A Practical Treatise on the Game of Billiards; Accurately Exhibiting the Rules and Practice Admitted and Established by the First Players of the Present Day
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BILLIARDS WHITE (E.) A Practical Treatise on the Game of Billiards; Accurately Exhibiting the Rules and Practice Admitted and Established by the First Players of ...
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BINDINGS MACAULAY (AULAY) Polygraphy or Short-Hand Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity
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BINDING MACAULAY (AULAY) Polygraphy or Short-Hand Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity
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BINDINGS XENEPHON. Opera, vol. one (of 2)
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BINDING XENEPHON. Opera, vol. one (of 2)
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BINDINGS (FREVILLE (ANNE FRANCOIS JOACHIM)] Vie des enfans célèbres, our modèles du jeue age, 2 vol.
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BINDINGS CLARENDON (EDWARD HYDE) Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, 7 vol.,
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BINDINGS COLLIER (JOHN PAYNE, editor) The Works of William Shakespeare, 8 vol. (of 9, without supplement volume)
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BINDINGS FENELON (FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, 4 vol.
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BINDINGS FENELON (FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, 4 vol.
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BINDINGS FLAUBERT (GUSTAVE) Oeuvres, 8 vol.
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BINDINGS HONE (WILLIAM) The Every-Day Book, 2 vol.
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BINDINGS HONE (WILLIAM) The Every-Day Book, 2 vol.
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BINDINGS Heures choisies des Dames Chrétiennes... tiré des manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siécle provenant du Cainet de M.H. Baudot
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BINDINGS Heures choisies des Dames Chrétiennes... tiré des manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siécle provenant du Cainet de M.H. Baudot
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BINDINGS MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON) The History of England, 5 vol.
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BINDINGS ROBERTSON (WILLIAM) The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, 4 vol.
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BINDINGS SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Works, 9 vol. (of 10, lacking vol.4)
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BINDINGS SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare, 8 vol.
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BINDINGS SHEPHERD (RICHARD) Miscellanies, 2 vol.
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BINDINGS The Paston Letters. 1422-1509. A.D... Edited by James Gairdner, 3 vol.
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BINDINGS WALPOLE (HORACE) The Letters, 9 vol., edited by Peter Cunningham
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BINDINGS WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) The Complete Poetical Works
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BLANK BOOKS and ALBUMS A collection of 8 blank albums and books
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BLANK BOOKS and ALBUMS A collection of 16 blank albums and books
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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Il Decamerone
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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Contes [Decameron], 10 vol. bound in 5
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BOSQUIER (PHILIPPE) Orator Terrae Sanctae, et Hungariae; seu sacrarum philppicarum in Turcarum barbariem
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BOSQUIER (PHILIPPE) Orator Terrae Sanctae, et Hungariae; seu sacrarum philppicarum in Turcarum barbariem
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BROWN (FORD MADDOX)
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BROWN (FORD MADDOX)
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CAMPEGIUS (THOMAS) De coelibatu sacerdotum non abrogando
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CAMPEGIUS (THOMAS) De coelibatu sacerdotum non abrogando
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CESCINSKY (HERBERT) English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vol.
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CHINESE INK BLOCKS A boxed set of 10 ink blocks
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON) The World Crisis 1911-1914, 5 vol. in 6
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON) The Second World War, 6 vol.
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON) The Second World War, 6 vol.
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COALMINING Indenture for the original lease of Tipton Coal Mines, dated 10th September 1784
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COOKERY UDE (LOUIS EUSTACHE) The French Cook; or, the Art of Cookery Developed in All its Various Br
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COOKERY UDE (LOUIS EUSTACHE) The French Cook; or, the Art of Cookery Developed in All its Various Branches
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COOKERY BEAUVILLIERS (ANTOINE) The Art of French Cookery
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COOKERY LECOURT (HENRI) La cuisine chinoise
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COOKERY LECOURT (HENRI) La cuisine chinoise
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COOKERY, WINE McMULLEN (THOMAS) Hand-Book of Wines, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical; with a Description of Foreign Spirits and Liquers, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
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COSTUME, CLASSICAL ROCCHEGGIANI (LORENZO) Raccolta di cento tavole rappresentanti i costumi religiosi, civili, e militari degli antichi Egiziani, Etruschi, Greci, e Romani tratti dagli antichi ...
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DICTIONARY ALTIERI (FERDINANDO) Dizionario italiano ed inglese. A Dictionary Italian and English, 2 vol.
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DOGS LAVERACK (EDWARD) The Setter: With Notices of the Most Eminent Breeds now Extant; Instructions How to Breed... Field Trials, Etc.
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DOGS LAVERACK (EDWARD) The Setter: With Notices of the Most Eminent Breeds now Extant; Instructions How to Breed... Field Trials, Etc.
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ECCLESIASTICUS DRUSIUS (JOHANNES) Sophia Seirach [in Greek] sive Ecclesiasticus, Graece ad exemplar Romanum, & Latine ex interpretatione
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ECONOMICS BOND (THOMAS) A Digest of Foreign Exchanges
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ECONOMICS CAMPBELL (JOHN) A Political Survey of Great Britain: being a series of reflections on the situation, lands, inhabitants, revenues, colonies, and commerce of this ...
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ECONOMICS CANNEY (MARGARET) and DAVID NOTT, compilers. Catalogue of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, 4 vol.
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ECONOMICS FORBONNAIS (FRANÇOIS VÉRON DUVERGER DE) Recherches et considérations sur les finances de France, 6 vol.
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ECONOMICS FORBONNAIS (FRANÇOIS VÉRON DUVERGER DE) Recherches et considérations sur les finances de France, 6 vol.
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ECONOMICS KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, FIRST EDITION
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EPHEMERA - VICTORIAN CARDS A collection of 29 Victorian Valentine and greetings cards
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EPHEMERA - VICTORIAN CARDS A collection of 29 Victorian Valentine and greetings cards
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FANTASCOPE BURY (T.T.) Fantascope
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FANTASCOPE BURY (T.T.) Fantascope
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EQUESTRIAN SOLLYESELL (JACQUES) The Compleat Horseman: Discovering the Surest marks of the Beauty, G
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EQUESTRIAN SOLLYESELL (JACQUES) The Compleat Horseman: Discovering the Surest marks of the Beauty, Goodness, Faults, and Imperfections of Horses... to Which is Added, a Most ...
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FENS and WATERWAYS [SMEATON (JOHN) and others] The Report of Mess. John Grundy, Langley Edwards, and John Smeaton, Engineers, Concerning the Present Ruinous State and ...
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FINDEN (WILLIAM and EDWARD FRANCIS) Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron... with [descriptions] by W. Brockendon, 3 vol.
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FINDEN (WILLIAM and EDWARD FRANCIS) Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron... with [descriptions] by W. Brockendon, 3 vol.
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FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS, BINDINGS Elegant Epistles, 14 vol. (only)
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FOX HUNTING SMITH (THOMAS) The Life of a Fox, Written By Himself, and Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman
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GENLIS (STEPHANIE) Arabesques mythologiques ou les attributs de toutes les divinités de la fable
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GILPIN (WILLIAM) Remarks on Forest Scenery, 2 vol.
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GYMNASTICS HARTELIUS (T.J.) Linie-och Estetisk Gymnastik
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GYMNASTICS KEHOE (SIM. D) The Indian Club Exercise
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GYMNASTICS KEHOE (SIM. D) The Indian Club Exercise
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HALL (CHARLES HENRY) Memoirs of the Life of Andrew Hofer
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HOWARD (HENRY CHARLES) The Encyclopædia of Sport, 2 vol.
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HOWARD (HENRY CHARLES) The Encyclopædia of Sport, 2 vol.
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HOWLETT (ROBERT) The School of Recreation: or, a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting. Riding. Racing. Fireworks. Military Discipline. The Science of Defence. Hawking. Tennis. Bowling. Ringing. Singing. Cock-Fighting. Fowling. Angling
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HOWLETT (ROBERT) The School of Recreation: or, a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting. Riding. Racing. Fireworks. Military Discipline. The Science of Defence. ...
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF A prodigal son returns; a king manacled by the neck, hands and feet (in stocks)
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES A fragment of a leaf
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES A fragment of a leaf
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ITALY - ROME
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ITALY - ROME
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JESUITS [SAUVESTRE (CHARLES)] Instructions secrètes des Jésuites, ou monita secreta Societatis Jesu
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JUDAICA CARPZOV (JOHANN GOTTLOB) Apparatus historico criticus antiquitatum sacri codicis et gentis Hebraeae
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