A Clearance Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books in Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts ...H. Sotheran & Company, 1884 - 332 pages |
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... fine portraits and engravings , 4to . mottled calf , 18s - Another copy , old half russia gilt , 16s 1830 NEW BATH GUIDE ; new edition , with Biographical and Topographical Preface and anecdotal Annotations by John Britton , with ...
... fine portraits and engravings , 4to . mottled calf , 18s - Another copy , old half russia gilt , 16s 1830 NEW BATH GUIDE ; new edition , with Biographical and Topographical Preface and anecdotal Annotations by John Britton , with ...
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... fine engravings , a number coloured ; 47 vols . 4to . of which 44 are bound in half calf , 2 in cloth , and the Index in half calf , £ 35 . 1770-1881 ANOTHER COPY , 1770 to 1871 inclusive ; with Catalogue of Library and 2 Indexes ( Vols ...
... fine engravings , a number coloured ; 47 vols . 4to . of which 44 are bound in half calf , 2 in cloth , and the Index in half calf , £ 35 . 1770-1881 ANOTHER COPY , 1770 to 1871 inclusive ; with Catalogue of Library and 2 Indexes ( Vols ...
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... fine large vols . thick 4to . half morocco extra , top edges gilt , £ 16 . 16s Paris , 1857 " It would be impossible to overrate the importance and interest of this grand work - the most com- plete of the kind that has hitherto appeared ...
... fine large vols . thick 4to . half morocco extra , top edges gilt , £ 16 . 16s Paris , 1857 " It would be impossible to overrate the importance and interest of this grand work - the most com- plete of the kind that has hitherto appeared ...
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... fine woodcuts after eminent Painters , and 2 etch ings by Lalauze , 2 vols . impl . 8vo . in one , new morocco , gilt edges , £ 1 . 128 - Or , new morocco super - extra , gilt edges , £ 2 . 2s BALLADS ( Political ) of the 17th and 18th ...
... fine woodcuts after eminent Painters , and 2 etch ings by Lalauze , 2 vols . impl . 8vo . in one , new morocco , gilt edges , £ 1 . 128 - Or , new morocco super - extra , gilt edges , £ 2 . 2s BALLADS ( Political ) of the 17th and 18th ...
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... fine plates of Plans , Elevations , Sections , and Details , 2 vols . royal 4to . half morocco , top edges gilt , £ 3 . 3s Paris , 1867 Comprises many of the best Country Churches , both during the Gothic Revival in France . Romanesque ...
... fine plates of Plans , Elevations , Sections , and Details , 2 vols . royal 4to . half morocco , top edges gilt , £ 3 . 3s Paris , 1867 Comprises many of the best Country Churches , both during the Gothic Revival in France . Romanesque ...
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Page 180 - LAYARD'S (AH) Nineveh and its Remains. Being a Narrative of Researches and Discoveries amidst the Ruins of Assyria. With an Account of the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan ; the Yezedis, or Devil-worshippers ; and an Enquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. Sixth Edition. Plates and Woodcuts. 2 Vols. Svo. 36s. Nineveh and Babylon ; being the Result of a Second Expedition to Assyria. Fourteenth Thousand. Plates. Svo. 21s. Or Fine Paper, 2 Vols.
Page 92 - DUNLOP (JOHN). -THE HISTORY OF FICTION : Being a Critical Account of the most celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age.
Page 161 - THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, as exemplified in Works of Art, with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament.
Page 133 - THE GRAPHIC ARTS: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and Engraving in Comparison with each other and with Nature.
Page 68 - These, the first numbers of a Cyclopaedia of Ancient and Modern Costume, give promise that the work, when complete, will be one of the most perfect works ever published upon the subject The illustrations are numerous and excellent, and would, even without the letterpress, render the work an invaluable book of reference for information as to costumes for fancy balls and character quadrilles." — Standard, "Destined, we anticipate, to be the standard English work on dress." — Builder. " Promises...
Page 55 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 284 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 6 - GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORIcal, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. The first, Containing an Analysis Of a General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America...
Page 282 - Portraits ; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century.