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Les Chinois pendant une période de 4458 années (1854, second edition)
A French study of Chinese civilization, with three engraved plates
Hippolyte de Chavannes de la Giraudière
Alfred Mame et Cie, Tours, 1854
£45.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Poesies 1864–1869
A nice quarter leather binding of François Coppée's poetry, c1880
François Coppée
Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1880
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

The New Bath Guide (1807)
Christopher Anstey's satire of the Blunderhead family navigating Bath society
Christopher Anstey, published anonymously
John Browne, Bath, 1807
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Oeuvres Choisies; Poesies et Drames en Vers
c1920, a good selection of Victor Hugo's poetry
Victor Hugo, illustrated by Leopold-Lacour, preface by Gustave Simon
Bibliotheque Larousse, Paris, 1920
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Oeuvres de Maistre François Villon
1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.
Francois Villon, illustrated by Émile Bernard
Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated

Voyages en Amérique, en Italie, au Mont Blanc
c1920, Chateaubriand travels in America and the Ruins of Ohio etc, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College
François-René de Chateaubriand
Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
c1920, Chateaubriand travels from Paris to Jerusalem, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College
François-René de Chateaubriand
Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan (1907, first edition)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squires, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield
The Century Co, London, 1907
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Present-Day Egypt (1903)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squires, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield, illustrated by Paul Philippoteaux and R Talbot Kelly
The Century Co, New York, 1903
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

La Vie de Jésus-Christ (Volumes 1 & 3)
1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels
Bernardin de Montereul, revised by Jean Brignon
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Histoire des Révolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la République Romaine
1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome
L’Abbé de Vertot
Chez Barois, Paris, 1727
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire (1793–1795)
Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani
G Lenotre, pseudonym of Théodore Gosselin
Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

La Hollande Pittoresque: Voyage aux Villes Mortes du Zuiderzée
1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee
Henry Havard, illustrations by the author and van Heemskerck van Beest
E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875
£60.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1828)
A lovely half-leather copy of Samuel Johnson's philosophical romance
Samuel Johnson
John Sharpe, London, 1828
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume LXIV, January to June 1794
with 18 plates, all present
Sylvanus Urban, pseud. Edward Cave
John Nichols, London, 1794
£80.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism (1752)
Bolingbroke's political essays, including "on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First"
Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingb
A Millar, London, 1752
£60.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

The English Counties Delineated (1837 first edition)
Thomas Moule's topographical guide to the counties in two volumes, with 62 maps and engravings
Thomas Moule
George Virtue, London, 1837
£200.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated

The New British Traveller; or, a Modern Panorama of England and Wales
1819, volume 1, Bedfordshire to Cumberland, with 8 maps and 10 engraved plates
James Dugdale
J Robins, London, 1819
£70.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated

Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Leather Bound

The American Printer, Benjamin Franklin Bi-Centennial Edition 1923
Rebound in quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin
Various, cover design by George F Trenholm
Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1923
£60.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Greek History for Young Readers
1903, in a full leather prize binding from the Mary Datchelor Girl's School in Camberwell
Alice Zimmern
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Legends and Stories of Ireland (1832, 2nd edition)
Samuel Lover's tales from Irish folklore, ghosts and the supernatural
Samuel Lover, with six etchings by the Author
W F Wakeman, Dublin, 1832
£70.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Observations on Various Passages of Scripture (1808)
Clarke's Harmer, volume 3 only, with chapters on honouring the dead, Judea and Egypt
Adam Clarke, from the writings of The Rev Thomas Harmer
J Johnson, London, 1808
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Corona Benignitatis Anni Dei
1920. Paul Claudel's French poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hachette
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound

L'Annonce faite à Marie
1914, a French edition of Claudel's The Tidings Brought to Mary, in a half-leather binding by Hachette
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1914
£25.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
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