The Oxford Library Sale

A group of nine mid 20th century monochrome portrait photographs by K Photostudio Tokyo, Lenare, London, Harrods, Ariga Tokyo, in folder (9) ...[...

Marangoni (Tranquillo) (1912-1992)'Friuli' 1951. A set of 25 'Xiografie' (wood engravings) with further in text plates. Ltd ed. 722/1000 Edizione ...

After Francesco Bachiacca. 'I Mesi Dell'Anno dell' Arazzeria Fiorentina'. A group of four coloured printed panels on linen (210 x 370mm) Ltd ed. 6...

Barriviera (Lino Bianchi) (1906-1985)Vedute di Napoli. Banco di Napoli 1957. Five engravings signed in pencil on the mounts. Image size 265 x 380m...

Il Torcoliere, publisher Rome. Five engravings by Renzo Vespignani, Arnaldo Ciarrocchi, Bruno Caruso, Alfio Bostrenghi, Lino Bianchi-Barriviera, a...

'Campi Philegraei, Ossvazioni sui vulcani delle Due Sicilie comunicate alla Reale Società di Londra da Sir William Hamilton'. illustrate con tavol...

'Il Mappa Mondo di Fra Mauro' Roberto Almagià, Istituto Poligrafico Dello 'Stato Libreria Dello Strato. Fo. with dedication to Sir Ashley Clarke 9...

D'Onfrio (Cesare). Le Fontane di Roma. Staderini, Rome 1957. 281/? red cloth in slip plus Mezzanotte (P) and Bascapè (G.C.). 'Milano. nell'arte e ...

Canaletto Desegni, Terisio Pignatti. Ed. La Nuova Italia Firenze c1980. Fo. with presentation card, Brown cloth. plus seven Art Reference titles d...

Hermanin (Frederico) 'Il Palazzo di Venezia', La Libreria Dello Stato 1948. 1 vol. Fo. blue cloth plus 'Leggi Criminali Venete, Giovanna e Arturo ...

Ariosto (Ludovico) Orlando Furioso. Electa Instituto Editoriale. Milan 1967. Printed dedication to Ashley Clarke. Fo. 3 vols in slip cases (3) .....

Constable (W.G.) Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768). 2nd Ed. J.G. Links. Revised. Clarendon Press Oxford 1976. 2 vols. 8vo. d/w plus ei...

Piranesi, Magnificenza di Roma, Edizioni il Polifolio, Milano 1961. Large Fo. red cloth. plus Versailles; Charles Mauricheau-Beaupré. lge Fo. plus...

Antonini after Francesco Panini 'Veduta principale della Villa Lante in Bagnaja (440 x 640mm) plus a group of four 19th century monochrome prints ...

J.W. Oddie. 'Santa Maria della Salute', watercolour, late 19th century, with Agnew label verso (165 x 250mm) in gilt frame plus a watercolour of '...

Murray (John) Publishers. Handbooks for Travellers in Northern Italy 1842., Central Italy 1843 and Southern Italy. (Octavian Blewitt) 1853. maps l...

Hare (Augustus J.C.) Walks in Rome. 2 vols. 8vo. Daldy Ibister, London 1876 plus a collection of c20 titles relating to Rome and it's history, mix...

Okey (Thomas) 'Venice and Its Story'. Nelly Erichsen, W.K. Hinchcliff and O.F.M. Ward. Illus. Dent London 1903. gilt dec. binding plus a collectio...

Venetian Villas by Guiseppe Mazzotti, Carlo Bestetti, Rome 1957. d/w in vellum box with ties plus eleven further relating titles in slip cases (12...

Touring Club Italiano Attraverso L'Italia. 21 vols Milan (1938-1968. Illustrated. Twelve bound in white cloth, Nine in blue card, some fading and ...

Italy interest: An electic collection of c50 titles relating to the Art and Cities of Italy, in mixed condition (c50) ...[more]

Alinari; Venezia. A group of five monochrome albumen prints of Venetian scenes titled (425 x 310mm), mounted and a red cloth folder (1+) ...[more]

A group of c24 Italian metal presentation medallion badges, coins, most cased (c24) ...[more]

Vestey Entwistle 1970s wooden box inset polychrome mosaic panel decorated with the Lion of Venice with presentation inscription (220 x 140mm) plus...

An Indian embossed rectangular copper panel decorated two figures mounted on mythological tapir like animal beneath a palm tree (350 x 470mm) ......

Valabrega (C). Storia Della Musica Italiana. A set of ten long playing vinyl records plus Britten (Benjamin) 'Peter Grimes', Decca Records X 3 in ...

BBC Transcription Services: A collection of 50 long playing vinyl records. Aldeburgh Festival etc., in original sleeves ...[more]

After Blaeu (G & J) - An old map of China with cartouche and coat of arms, framed (420 x 490mm) ...[more]

Shotter Boys (Thomas). Original Views of London. Twenty six reproductions of the original lithographs in 2 vols. with text by James Laver. Fo. Cha...

Topolski (Felix). Topolski's Chronicle. Vol 2 (1954) X 2, Vols 3 X 2, 4/5/6/7/8/9/12 (1955) plus 'The Blue Conventions' CBS publication, mixed use...

Hamerton (Philip Gilbert). 'The Graphic Arts' Seeley and Jackson, London 1882. Fo. vellum bound, plus Dore (Gustav) Illus. 'The Legend of the Wand...

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Folio Society: A group of seventeen publications including Thomas (Dylan), 'Under Milk Wood' and De Quincy (Thomas), 'The English Opium Eater', ni...

Children Books: Kate Greenway 'Language of Flowers', Walter Crane 'The Baby's Opera' and 'The Baby's Bouquet' plus ten other titles, all in used c...

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A 17th century Bible, Henry Hills and John Field, London 1660. Title pages, red lined with narrow foliate borders. 8vo. (156 x 101mm). No Apocryph...

A 17th century Bible printed by John Field Cambridge 1657. The general title page with classical architectural design and device Alma Mater Cantab...

A 17th century Bible printed by the Company of Stationers, London 1650. O.T. title page lacking. N.T. with engraved architectural design and Royal...

Caesar (Caius Julius). 'Commentariorum de Bello Gallico'. Elsevir c.1650. Lacks title page, medallion portrait, five engraved plates, two folding ...

Plautus (Titus Maccius). Comoediae, Superstites XX. Ludovic Elzevir, Amsterdam 1652. engraved title page (torn) Original full calf (110 x 60mm) pl...

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Tagore (Rabindranath) 'Stray Birds'. Macmillan 1917. Blue cloth. plus Lee (Laurie) 'The First Born' Hogarth Press 1964. d/w plus Woolf (Virginia)....

David (Elizabeth). 'A Book of Mediterranean Food'. 1st Ed. Lehman, London 1950. Cover design and decorations by John Minton, red speckled cloth. d...

Heath (Ambrose). 'Good Drinks'. 1st Ed. Faber, London 1939. d/w binding and title page by Edward Bawden. Fair condition, price corner cut plus Dar...

Orlik (Emil) (1870-1932)'Kleine Aufsatze'. IM Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1924 with dedication by the author to 'Frau, Dr, Hilde Maas' Sept. 1932, gr...

Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester 'Unless The Grain Die', Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Ignatius of Antioch; translated from the Latin and Greek ...

Bullett (Gerald). 'Poems in Pencil'. 1st Ed. Dent, London 1937. Powys (Llewelyn) 'Glory of Life'. Bodley Head 1938. d/w. Bone (Gertrude) 'Oasis' C...

Nonesuch Press:- Melville (Herman) 'Benito Cereno'. E McKnight Kanffer. Illus. London 1926. 870/1650, red cloth. plus five further Nonesuch public...

Cresset Press: 'The Poems of Francois Villon'. H B McCaskie. Translator. Edward Ardizzone Illus. 1946 plus fourteen further Poetry titles (15) .....

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Basu (Hella) German Calligrapher (b.1924) 'In the Beginning of Creation'. Genesis Chapter 1 verses 1-32 and Chapter 2 verses 1-4 from the New Engl...

Wadsworth (Charles) Illustrator. 'Root and Sky Poetry from the Plays of Christopher Fry' compiled and arranged by Charles E and Jean G Wadsworth. ...

Jones (Shirley) (b.1934). Welsh Printmaker, Poet and Writer. Red Hen Press (from 1983)'Words and Prints', the artist's first publication, Croydon ...

Jones (Shirley). 'Windows'. A set of five etchings and poems printed at Croydon School of Art and Design. Ltd Ed. 2/12 in five folders (385 x 330m...

Cameron (Duncan Young). Continental alleyway with clock tower, etching (270 x 150mm) plus Nicholson (William). Seated figure, coloured print, date...

Bogarde (Dirk). English Actor and Author (1921-1999)'A Postillion Struck by Lightning'. 1st Ed X 2 copies plus two further titles, all signed by t...

Greene (Graham). 'Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes'. Two plays. Bodley Head. Ltd Ed. 55/750. signed by the author. plus The Other Man. Simo...

Durrell (Lawrence). 'The Alexandria Quartet'. Faber & Faber. Ltd Ed. 126/500. Signed by the author, in slip case plus nine titles including Nonesu...

Fowler (W. Warde). 'Kingham Old and New'. Blackwell, Oxford 1913. Signed by the author plus seven further titles by WWF (two signed) plus nine Afr...

Ornithological Interest: Audubon (John James). 'The Original Watercolour Paintings for Birds of America'. 2 vols. Fo. Michael Joseph 1966. in sli...