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Horace.

by H I Pye

Green calf binding with black title plate, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Gilt 'Cambridge panel' on both boards. Marbled end papers and on all edges.
Hardcover. A lovely book from the Miniature Library Series published by W. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Co. Engraved title and frontispiece printed together. Very, very Good condition.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of... Read more about this item

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£101.00

Cradle Verses.

by GREENAWAY (Kate) and LOCKER (Frederick)

GREENAWAY (Kate) and LOCKER (Frederick):
Cradle Verses. 1880. Illuminated Manuscript of Four Poems by Frederick Locker, written by his own hand, with extensive illustrations in watercolors by Kate Greenaway. This charming book was prepared on commission for presentation on the birthday of Frederick Locker's wife, Jane. 24mo., [48] pages; presentation vellum binding with full watercolors on corners, titled: "Babies and Blossoms", all edges green. Housed in custom green morocco leather box,... Read more about this item

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£60,967.50

THE MYTHS OF CALIFORNIA ISLE [MINIATURE BOOK]

by Thomas, Frank J

(Ten Fingers Press. ) 1959- 1972. Fine with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 50 pages; Orig. Cloth & boards , paper spine label. Illus. Frank and Phyllis Thomas started Tenfingers Press in 1959. 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (70 x 55 mm) For twenty-one years, they produced limited edition books and ephemera on a hand press. Map of california as an island. Patterned dark brown cloth boards with flecks of gold. #71 of 200 lt edition. .

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£119.46

Toys

by Victoria and Albert Museum

Paperback. very good. Some wear and light creasing to cover. Interior is almost perfect.

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£10.53

The Three Bears #22 (Little Little Golden Book)

Book measures 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Little Little Golden Book. Miniature version of this favorite story. Unpagenated

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£19.51

A Christmas Parable

by Forgue, Norman W

Chicago, IL: The Black Cat Press, nd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red faux leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece, patterned endpapers. 50x39mm. 31pp. Limited edition of 200.

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£60.97

Portrait of a standing yong female with long hair holding a clip, signed: Raqm i kamineh (R)

by Safavid Isfahan school of painting

Painting. Very Good. No Binding. Signed by Illustrator(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Central panel: 17.5x6.5 cm. Leaf: 24.5x16.5 cm. illustrated with animal and floral motifs. The portrait is tiny signed at the mid-right: "Raqm kamineh R.". Ink drawing with gouache embellished with gold on paper.

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£16,258.00

MINIATURE BOOKPLATES: MOONLIT MAGIC

by Not Attributed

Running Press Book Publishers.. Fine with no dust jacket. [1993]. Hardcover. Miniature; Original illustrated box 2 7/8 x 3 3/8". Conatins about 20 color book plates sutiable for miniature books 1.5" x 2" . .

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£31.83

Christmas Nutshell Library (All 4 books are Signed by Hilary Knight)

by Hilary Knight

FIRST EDITION WITH ALL FOUR BOOKS SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT! Likely the ONLY such set listed anywhere in the world right now. Each book is signed differently, NONE are personalized, two are dated in 1992. Condition is a strong Very Good: pristine text & illustrations, the boards look like new. But some age-related foxing on endpapers, mild wear on dust jackets. Slipcase has original $2.95 price clearly visible and remarkably only mild wear. Simply a wonderful and unique set. Signed by author.

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£508.06

THOMAS EDISON'S KINETOSCOPIC RECORD OF A SNEEZE. [MINIATURE BOOK]

by Thomas A Edison

Putney, Vt.: Optical Toys. Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Card Covers. B&W Illustrations; 3" x 1 7/8"; Sneezing. Flip books. Toy and movable books -- Specimens. No linguistic content. Flip the pages to see Edison's movie of a sneeze. Worldcat locates just 2 copies. .

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£139.41

Les Jeunes Bienheureux.

by M. L'Abbe C... [Carron, Guy-Toussaint-Julien (1760-1821)]

First and only edition. Chez Louis Janet Libraire, successor de son pere. nd [c.1800]. 12mo. 212pp. Engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full red grained morocco, spine with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Boards with double gilt border rules, foliar and floral embellishment, edge tooling, inner foliar curlicues. All edges gilt, (gilding a little faded in places), green silk ribbon bookmark. Small area of surface loss to lower board (see... Read more about this item

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£150.00

Adam and Eve-Olution

by Brown, Ken

Seattle: The Real Comet Press, 1989. Pamphlet. Unpaginated flip book, 3.5x3 inches, all illustrations with no text, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition.

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£16.26

Bare Knuckles

by Lopez, Richard

Sacramento: 24th St. Irregular Press, 2003. [4p] 1.75x2 inches, poem in miniature booklet, stapled pictorial wraps in original 2.25x3.5 inch envelope with pictorial label attached announcing the poet's August 9th reading at The Book Collector. Poems-for-All #257. Miniature booklet in envelope scattered around Sacramento on buses, trains, in restrooms & coffee shops etc.

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£20.32

The Poky Little Puppy #1 (Little Little Golden Book)

by Lowrey, Janette Sebring

Book measures 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Little Little Golden Book. Some shelf wear and "A" present on the back cover. Miniature version of this very cute story is in Unpagenated,

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£767.38

Twas the Night Before Christmas [Artist Book]

by Moore, Clement Clarke [Binding: Jarmila Sobota]

Loket, Czech Republic: Jarmila Sobota, 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Miniature book object designed by Jan Sobota in 2012, completed in 2014. Laser cut page in the shape of a Christmas tree, each section straightened with green paper strips. Open binding technique allows for the book to be completely 'opened' and thus forming a standing Christmas tree. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full leather boards, die cut in shape of a Christmass tree, gilt... Read more about this item

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£264.19

Nissefilt med Filtenalen [Needle felting]

by Hansen, Birgitte Krag

Hardback. new.

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£71.49

English-French French-English Midget Series Dictionary

by Burgess & Bowes Ltd [Editor]

A very good+ red cloth bound softcover, completely revised and corrected.25.000 Words with Dialogues, ets. Containing Automobile Terms, Dialogues, Geographical and Christian Names, Photographic Terms, Etc.

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£73.51

Small Cuddly Toys

by Greenhowe, Jean

Hardback. fine. New/old stock.

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£16.22

The Twelve Days of Christmas

by Byrne, Marian (illustrator)

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England: The Final Score, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper boards, green cloth spine, frontispiece. 56x70mm. np. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 9 of 50.

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£60.97

Sonnets

by KEATS, John

London: Anthony Treherne, 1905. First Edition (thus). Flexible boards. Very good. Miniature (5cm x 7cm). A very good copy in the publisher's limp brown leather, stamped in blind. Rubbing to extremities and the binding a touch shaken, but a clean copy of this miniature book. All edges gilt,though the gilt is somewhat dulled. Appears to be genuinely rare; we note just three library holdings, all in the USA (Harvard, UVA, and Worcester PL [MA]).

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£162.58

Tacuinum sanitatis. Vollstandige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift Codex 2396 der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek

by Joachim Rossl, Heinrich Konrad

Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. 2 volumes in slipcase. The facsimile volume is bound in full calf with 5 raised bands and gilt design on spine and covers. 39 facsimile leaves with miniatures printed in color and gold and preliminary miniatures. The commentary volume is bound in patterned boards (hardcover) matching the slipcase. Text in German. 184 pp. Codices Selecti Vol. LXXVIII. This is number 603 from a limited edition of 925 copies of the ADEVA edition. .

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£345.92

Mickey's Christmas Carol #33 (Little Little Golden Book)

by Walt Disney

Book measures 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Little Little Golden Book. Miniature version of this very cute Christmas story. Unpagenated

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£19.51

Twentieth Century Dolls, From Bisque to Vinyl

by Anderton, Johana Gast

Hardback. fine. New/old stock with a little shelf wear.

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£28.41

Surname-i Vehbi. Surname: Sultan Ahmed'in Dugun Kitabi. Surname: An Illustrated Account of Sultan Ahmed III's Festival of 1720. [3 VOLUMES SET].

by VEHBİ (Text) & LEVNİ (Miniature) / Prep. by Ahmet Ertuğ, Doğan Kuban, Stefanos Yerasimos, Mertol Tulum

Istanbul: Ertuğ & Kocabıyık Publications, 2000. New. Hardcover. Cloth bdg. Hand-bound by experienced craftsmen in Switzerland. 24x38 cm. In Ottoman Turkish (facsimile), Turkish (transcription) and English. (3 volumes set): 352 p. (facsimile); 308, [2] p. (Turkish transcription); 51, [2] p. (English). Colour ills. First edition. Limited edition. This is a limited edition of 1500 copies handbound in distinctive Japanese cloth embossed with patterns selected from imperial Ottoman textiles and printed on... Read more about this item