8471. Wootton, David / Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith etc.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1780-1996 / 1880-1997. [With many short biographies and listings of women illustrators].

2 volumes (complete set). London, Chris Beetles Limited, 1996-1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 543 pages includes hundreds of colour-illustrations. Original Softcover with colour illustrations on both front and back cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is the Price-list for the illustrations for their Sale on November 30th – January 25th 1996).

8472. Wordsworth, William.

Poems By William Wordsworth.

London, The Folio Society, 1970. 13 cm x 19 cm. 270 pages with illustrations. Hardcover / Original half-leather with brown gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight fading on cloth clovering and minor wearing on leather spine. Clean inside with solid binding.

8473. Wordsworth, William.

Selected Poems of William Wordsworth.

London, Oxford University Press, 1929. 9.5 x 15cm. (17), 569 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Minor signs of wear to spine and bumping to corners, otherwise very good condition. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford World’s Classics, No. 189].

8474. World – Ortelius, Abraham. (1527-1598).

Aevi veteris, Typus Geographicus.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Antwerp, Ortelius, 1590. Plate Size: 44 cm x 31 cm. Sheet Size: 53.7 cm x 38.5 cm. Original map. Very good, actually stunning, condition. Really clean and crisp. Generous margins. Reverse recto carries Latin text.

8475. World – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

The World on Mercator’s Projection – With Vignettes of London, Gibraltar, Constantinople, The Pyramids of Ghizeh, Niagara, Pont Neuf Paris and Vesuvius.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J.B. Allen. London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 34.7 cm x 26.5 cm. Sheet Size: 37.3 cm x 27.2 cm. In fair condition with tears evident. Slight browning and paper imperfections to outer margins.

8476. Worsøe-Schmidt, Lisbeth.

Forfatter i Danmark 1894-1994.

[No place], Dansk Forfatterforening, 1994. 17.2 cm x 23.9 cm. 293 pages. Black and white text illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners only slightly rubbed. Minor dampstain to lower corners (front endpaper- p.78). From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

8477. [Worth, Adam] MacIntyre, Ben.

The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief.

First US Edition. New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1997. Octavo. XI, 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Now out of print.

8478. Wosien, Maria-Gabriele.

Sacred Dance: Encounter with the Gods.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1974. 20.5 x 28cm. 128 pages, with 142 illustrations, 30 in colour. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Art and Imagination Series].

8479. Wrampelmeyer, Hermann.

Librorum manuscriptorum, qui Ciceronis orationes pro Sestio et pro Caelio continent, ratio, qualis sit, demonstratur. Dissertationem inauguralem ad summos in philosophia in Georgia Augusta rite assequendos honores.

Detmoldiae, Typis Meyetianis, 1868. 20 cm x 24.5 cm. 31 pages. Original cotton stitched bound hard board cover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear and tear mostly to the spine. Tanning to pages throughout. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Half size free end papers cleanly trimmed. Title written in hand in blue pen on cover. Two small pencil markings on cover also.

8480. Wren, M.K.

A Gift Upon the Shore.

Reprinted Edition. Lincoln, iUniverse, 2000. Octavo. 375 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.