171. [Turner, William] Warrell, Ian.

Turner: The Fourth Decade: Watercolours 1820-30.

London, Tate Gallery, 1991. 21 cm x 26.9 cm. 72 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to page margins. Otherwise very clean and bright.

172. Lyles, Anne.

Turner The Fifth Decade : Watercolours, 1830-1840.

London, Tate Gallery Publications, 1992. 20.9 cm x 27 cm. 86 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

173. Nanthavongdouangsy, Viengkham.

Sinh and Lao Women.

Laos, Phaeng Mai Gallery, 2006. 19 cm x 26 cm. 98 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor wear to cover. Otherwise interior very bright and clean.

174. Thurber, James.

The Beast in Me and Other Animals. A New Collection Of Pieces And Drawings About Human Beings And Less Alarming Creatures.

London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1949. 14.3 cm x 22 cm. X, 340 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Good+ condition. Dustjacket in poor condition. Spine and cover stained and faded. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and edges. Otherwise, interior bright and clean.

175. [Sainsbury, Hester Margaret (Illustrator)] / Morand, Paul.

Earth Girdled. With Eight Woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury. Translated from the French ‘Rien que le Terre’ by Charles Emile Roche.

London, Alfred A. Knoff, 1928. 14.5 cm x 22.6 cm. 172 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket has minor edgewear. Minor rubbing to edges. Minor tanning to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Otherwise bright and clean. Binding strong.

176. Baldry, A. L.

The Wallace Collection at Hertford House.

London, Goupil & Co., 1904. 22.5 cm x 30.2 cm. 302 pages. With black & white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

177. Heininger, C.P. (Publisher).

Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, California – with Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay Islands, Stock Exchange etc. [Two Binding – Variations of the Fantastic original Tourist – Panorama of San Francisco / 12 years before the earthquake destroyed most of the buildings displayed in this Leporello / The Souvenir shows also a remarkable Birds Eye View of San Francisco ].

2 volumes ( 2 different editions of the same publications.) San Francisco, C.P. Heininger, 1889 / (ca.1898). 14.5 cm x 19 cm. 44 pages with illustrations (including bird’s eye view of San Francisco), 60-page-booklet with descriptions tipped into rear of the Leporello (the booklet cleanly detached but complete). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover Leporello / Accordion / Concertina – tourist publication with blindstamped emblemata “Eureka” to the rear board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear for the later edition. The Leporellos both in unusually, excellent condition. No fraying to the folds of the Leporellos. Binding of the 1889 edition is poorer, The Leporello and the booklet of this version are completely detached. A few tears and damages between the folds. Both interior of booklets are very clean. Overall very good condition and all illustrations are superfresh! Extremely scarce.

178. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.

The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech.

Two Volumes in One Volume (complete set). London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., c.1850 14.5 cm x 22.3 cm. Volume I: XVIII, 320 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. / Volume II: 304 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. Original Hardcover with gilt decoration on spine and cover. Recently professionally repaired and restored binding with new endpapers and the saved original bookplate / exlibris of J. Henry H.V. Lane of Kings Bromley in Staffordshire to the pastedown. Gilted edge. Rubbed and sign of wear on cover and spine. Overall very good condition with firm binding and clean interior. Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown. Inscribed on Augst 10,1879 by previous owner and embossed stamp marks by bookshop W.H.Smyth in London on endpaper.

179. 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).

180. Genovesi, Antonio.

Antonii Genuensis in regia Neapolitana Academia Antecessoris Elementorum Artis Logico-Criticae Libri V. [Elements of the Art Academy of Naples and Genoa and Anthony Antecessoris Logico-Criticae V.]

Editio Novissima ad Postremam Neapolitanam. Bassani, 1779. 8°. XVI, 352 pages. Softcover. With manuscript annotations on the last page. Binding rubbed and with tear to upper spine.