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1797. Unbound. Very Good. Original Etching and aquatint. Image size 175mm x 260m with borders. Window mounted and in very good condition.

Longman, 1841. Hard Cover. Good. KIRKSTALL ABBEY. An Historical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Account of Kirkstall Abbey; embellished with engravings, from original drawings, by W. Mulready, R.A., and C. Cope. Second edition. iv, 227, [1]p., frontispiece and 4 engraved plates. Nineteenth century dark red calf, with gilt stamp of Huddersfield College on the boards. Spine label chipped, and covers rubbed. 8vo. Longman. 1841.

Rutgers, 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ABIR-AM, P.G. Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives. Women in Science, 1789-1979. 365pp., illustrations. A good paperback copy. 8vo. Rutgers University Press. 1987.

Henry Clements, 1709. Unbound. Very Good. ADAMS, J. A Sermon Preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St Paul, before the Right Honourable Sir Samuel Garrard...Lord Mayor of the City of London. [2], 13, [1]p. A very good copy, disbound. 8vo. printed for Henry Clements. 1709.

Boston: E P Dutton & Co, 1860. Hard Cover. Very Good. The Distant Hills. An Allegory. W. Adams. With engravings from original designs by Chapman. Boston: E P Dutton and Co. 1860. A very good copy in original gilt lettered dark green cloth.

1870. Unbound. Very Good. c1870 - Aladdins Present To The Sultan. J. Gilbert. A very good pen and ink copy of this famous painting. Very good condition. 210mm x 150mm image size.

Skipton, 1862. Hard Cover. Very Good. FRIENDSHIP ALBUM. A mid 19th century album most probably kept by a female member of the Pearson family of Skipton, Yorkshire. Various tinted papers, 30 leaves used, the others remain blank., and with one pencil drawings, two engravings and a pasted in decorative scrap. Dark blue limp pebble grain cloth, gilt lettered ‘album', marbled end-papers. 185mm x 115mm. c1862. ~ Pieces include: "Woman - Lazy if tall / Cross grained if small / If handsome, vain / Shocking if plain.", Pearson, Jno., Skipton July 19th 1862. Other verses by M.H. Pearson, Mary Susan, M.J.W. (A transcription of Byron's The Year, dated Bingley Oct 1862), S.A.W, E. Sidney, Lizzie Sidney (Bingley Jun 3rd, 1861), To Barbara, J.P. Wilson, Maggie, Polly Anne, Alice (Ingleborough), a Pencil drawing initialled J.F.W., 1862., and a verse "Petticoat influence is a great reproach...", by Byron.

1905. Unbound. Very Good. Original collotype plate from Old Cottages, Farm-Houses, and other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District. Batsford. 1905. Image c4.5 x 6

ALFRED MALHERBE (1804-1865). - The Woodpecker Man.A fine original portrait, of Alfred Malherbe, titled and dated 1845.Alfred Malherbe was a French lawyer and judicial officer with a passion for natural history and a particular fondness for birds, which he collected from all over Europe. He was the president of his local natural history society in the Lorraine region of NE France and director of the museum in Metz for the last twenty years of his life.In the 1840s and 1850s, Malherbe published a number of books on Algerian and Sicilian birds and contributed articles to ornithological journals, including papers on newly discovered species in the Picidae family. His magnum opus - on woodpeckers - was published in four volumes between 1861 and 1863. The two text volumes outline the physical characteristics and classification history for more than 200 species of the Picidae family, half of which were discovered by Malherbe or first described in his detailed publication. The plate volumes feature more than… Read More

Suffolk Records Society, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper. Private owner's book-plate.

1876. Unbound. Very Good. 1876 - AlnwickCastle - pencil drawing. titled. Mounted on card. 68mm x 130mm.

1880. Unbound. Very Good. c1880 - Large Sepia Photograph. Image size c210mm x 275mm.

1962. Unbound. Very Good. ALVA. (Solomon Siegfried Allweiss) (1901-1973). Two small paintings of abstract figures, on card, sent to Sir Herbert Read as New Year cards in the early 1960's. Read had written the introduction to the book of Alva's recent paintings and drawings, in 1951. Provenance: acquired c20 years ago from a small collection of material by descent from the Read family. 184mm x 130mm & 182mm x 135mm. c1962-1963. ~ Painter and graphic artist Alva (né Siegfried Solomon Alweiss) was born into an observant Jewish family to traditional Galician parents in Berlin, Germany in 1901; he lived in Galicia until the age of ten. After leaving school, he began a career in commerce, then studied music at Stern's Konservatorium, Berlin (1919-1925), before turning to art, legally adopting the shortened form of his name, 'Alva', in 1925, studying painting in Paris in 1928 and exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne. In 1934 he travelled in Palestine, Syria, and Greece, and held his first solo exhibition in… Read More

1900. Unbound. Very Good. c1900. Ambulance Brigade Calcutta. 7 Original Photographs, mounted either side of a single sheet. Each identified. Sheet size 350mm x 265mm. Edge tear not affecting photographs.

1770. Unbound. Very Good. DRAPERS. Hand written receipt from Taylor Courtman [drapers], dated 24th May 1770, and recording the purchase of lining flannel and fine bays. Signed for Mr Courtman by one E. Palmer. 95mm x 159mm. 1770. ~ Taylor Courtman, the Strand, London, supplied goods to America and the colonies, and is listed as a subscriber to The American Negotiator: Or, The Various Currencies of the British Colonies. By John Wright. 1761.

1880. Unbound. Very Good. c1880 - Large Sepia Photograph. Image size c210mm x 275mm.

1880. Unbound. Very Good. c1880 - Large Sepia Photograph. Image size c210mm x 275mm.

1880. Unbound. Very Good. c1880 - Amiens Cathedral. Large Sepia Photograph. Image size c210mm x 275mm.

Cambridge, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. LUTHER AND CALVIN on Secular Authority. Edited by Harro Hopfl. 95pp. Paperback. (£20.99). Cambridge.1995.

1845. Unbound. Very Good. 1845 - York, St Margaret's. Original Lithograph Monkhouse & Bedford blank on the reverse. 228mm x 175mm - image size.