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Erotic Ex Libris Exhibition (with signed bookplate, and unique leather binding)

Also signed by artists and curators, from the collection of Gordon R Smith
Dr Iva Tauferova, & Ing. Tatána Macurová (introduction)
Municipal Cultural Centre, Havirov, Czech Republic, 2002
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Memoires de Casanova (1955, unique leather binding & signed bookplates)

With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker
Casanova, edited by Rene Groos. Illustrated by Brunelleschi
Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Les Amores (1954, the artist's proof copy, and with signed bookplate)

Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat
Ovid, as Ovide, translated by George Vertut. Illustrated by Paul-Emile Becat
Editions Athena, Paris, 1954
£100.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, in a unique leather binding)

With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Spaddy, (pseud. Johannes Gros), illustrated by Berthomme Saint-Andre and DD. Bookplate signed by Lynn Paula Russell
A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princes of Forino, Ex-Benedictine Nun (1865)

Fourth edition of Caraciollo's convent scandal memoir Mysteries of the Neapolitan Cloister / Misteri del Chiostro Napoletano
Henrietta Caracciolo, otherwise Enrichetta Caracciolo
Richard Bentley, London, 1865
£450.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

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 Squiers, 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 Squiers, 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

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

RMS Aquitania: Original Pencil Plans/Sketches Attributed to Arthur J. Davis

With two original freehand pencil plans/sketches executed on the endpapers of Kipling’s Life’s Handicap (1913)
Rudyard Kipling, with the bookplate of architect Arthur J Davis
Macmillan, London, 1913
£300.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Original Artwork | Bookplate

G.Q.G. Secteur 1 (Signed first edition)

A French Great War history, signed by the author, Jean de Pierrefeu, to J J Frappa.
Jean de Pierrefeu
L'Edition Francais Illustree, Paris, 1920
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy | Bookplate

Lest We Forget, A War Anthology

1915, an early collection of WW1 verse
H B Elliott, editor, foreword by Baroness Orczy
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1915
£14.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate

Work and Wages (Signed copies)

Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'
Sydney J Chapman, with an introduction by Lord Brassey
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Association Copy | Bookplate

A Midsummer Memory

1910, limited edition, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Bookplate

Art and the Industrial Revolution

This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Francis D Klingender, edited and revised by Arthur Elton
Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1968
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate

German Romanticism and English Art

This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
William Vaughan
Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1979
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate

Sir John Everett Millais

This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Geoffroy Millais
Academy Editions, London, 1979
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate

Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts

with the bookplate of Sydney Burney by Lee-Elliott
Mrs Jameson
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1900
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Bookplate

Oeuvres de Crebillon

1812, in a Simier R. du Roi binding, and plates by Clement Marillier
Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
P Didot L'Aine, Paris, 1812
£30.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

Imagism, A Chapter for the History of Modern Poetry

A first edition of Stanley K Coffman's classic study
Stanley K Coffman
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951
£25.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Bookplate

The Patriots (Signed copy)

Signed by James Barlow
James Barlow
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1960
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Bookplate

A Frenchman in America (Signed copy)

1891, Signed by Max O'Rell in 1894
Max O'Rell, pseud of Léon Pierre Blouet, illustrated by E W Kemble
J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1891
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate

A Mirror to My Life (Signed copy)

Signed by Perle Hessing
Perle Hessing
Henry Holt, New York, 1988
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Bookplate

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