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|SOLD BEFORE SHOW| The world’s most famous fishing book, this copy is produced duplicating an 1897 edition from John Lane, the Bodley Head Ltd edited by Richard Le Gallienne and the 1676 text is the last to be revised by Walton, now with modernised spelling.

London, Edward Stanford, 1879. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, very good in bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, lemon china clay endpapers, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown. 'Third Edition', preceded by a paper in the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria's 1878 annual report and reprinted by Sands & McDougall, as THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON, in the same year. Author’s presentation copy.

1970 (First Edition, Second Printing) This edition is a valuable piece for collectors due to its historical context, author’s inscription, and well-preserved condition. It remains an eloquent and fully documented account of the Native Americans’ plight during the 19th century, making it a significant addition to any collection.

One of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization.

From: "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Oceanie" Atlas zoologique, Oiseaux, plate 24 and 25. 1842 STIPPLE ENGRAVINGS JEAN-CHARLES WERNER (painted by) (Paris 1798-1856) After LOUIS LE BRETON (Douarnenez 1818-1866) Superb and very detailed pair of stipple engravings from Dumont d’Urville's "Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie": An exquisite image of a brown Kiwi with two detail sketches of a feather, and his Skeleton depiction with two detail sketches of the crane and beak. Two superb images of New Zealand's national bird. Very attractive contemporary hand colouring. Sold as a pair.

Florence, G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, two pages roughly opened, original white boards with original spine paper label lettered in orange, Lawrence's phoenix motif to front cover in orange, edges untrimmed, in decorated dustwrapper: a fine copy. First edition: limited to 810 numbered copies on hand-made paper.

This bound book and scroll offer much fascinating detailed information on one of the schools of Japanese archery (弓道), Heki-ryū (日置流), which originated in the late 15th century.

Hugh McCrae. The Du Poissey Anecdotes An inscribed presentation copy to his father with pages of manuscript

Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched. Loosely inserted is an ALs, dated 24 September 1932, from Eric Gill to the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, whose wife's signature is on the upper free endpaper of Volume I. $25,000.00

Limited Edition [St James Park Press, London, 2022]; [vi], 124pp + limitation page; folded plain grey, textured card covers glued to string bound page block, illustrated card dustjacket; in perspex slipcase. Ten colour plates with spectacular linocut illustrations by Hugh Ribbans. Limited to only 140 copies [this being #124]

by Raimund von Stillfried Impressive, large format, hand-coloured, albumen photo of four Japanese sumo wrestlers in their kesho-mawashi along with a refereee (gyoji). This wrestler second front left is also in an individual photo by Stillfried. [Yokohama]. Raimund von Stillfried. c1875. 24.9 x 19cm. In very good condition with only minor age wear. Mounted on card.

This first edition of “French Provincial Cooking” by Elizabeth David, published by Michael Joseph in 1960, is a renowned culinary classic. It features a hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on a red background, and a pictorial design on the front board. The book includes a rare first impression English dust jacket, now protected by an archival cover. The text is clean with slight age-toning and minor stains on the fore-edge.