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Views of Bournemouth, Hants. From Sketches by H.D. [Harriet Daniel.] The Profits will be in aid of the Funds for Schools and School-houses at Bournmouth.
Lithographed, Printed, and Published by Dickinson & Co., 114, New Bond Street, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Oblong folio; title and four hand-coloured lithographs with very large margins, in modern blue leather box. Scarce complete.
A view looking towards Bournemouth, Dorsetshire, with St Peter's Church to the left and the sea to the right. [&] A view of Bath Road, Bournemouth; the original town baths on the right and Belle Vue Boarding House to the left. [&] A view looking south towards Bournemouth with St Peter's Church to the left and sailing boats seen out on the sea. [&] A view looking west towards Bournemouth from the other side of the bay with sailing ships and larger merchant vessels in the bay, a tall-ship's mast seen over the hill to the right. After sketches by Harriet Daniel. Bournemouth was part of Hampshire until 1974. Abbey: Scenery 51.
[Ref: 61626] £900.00
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Extrait du Procès-Verbal de l'Assemblée Génerale du Duché de Bouillon. Du 18 Février 1791.
A Evreux, de l'Imprimerie de J.J.L. Ancelle, Imprimeur de son Altesse Sérénissime Monsigneur le Duc Régnant de Bouillon. 1791.
4to pamphlet, stitched. pp. (32). Front and back sheets soiled, some spotting.
A transcript of a general assembly in the Sovereign Duchy of Bouillon in 1791, in which Duke Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne reaffirmed his independence from Revolutionary France. In 1794 the French Revolutionary Army invaded the Duchy, deposing the new duke Jacques Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne, absorbing Bouillon into France. In 1815 Bouillon became part of the Duchy of Luxembourg and is now part of Belgium
[Ref: 61347] £160.00
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[Satire of the Oxford Movement] The Protestant House That Jack Built.
[Illustrated by George Cruikshank.]
Clayton and Son, 265, Strand [n.d., c.1845]. Prince Two-Pence.
Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 8, with nine wood-engravings. Glue stains on front page, old patch on back page, nicks to edges.
An anti-Catholic satire, with particular reference to Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-82) and the Oxford Movement. Led by High Church figures Pusey and John Henry Newman, the movement argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy. After Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845, members of the Oxford Movement became known as Puseyites (here caricatured as 'these stupid and blind Pusey-Cats').
[Ref: 61354] £90.00
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Portraits of the Whole of the Royal Family, Engraved from the Original Pictures By Her Majestys most gracious permission to whom they are Humbly Dedicated by her Dutiful And Obedient Servant E. Harding.
Nash del. Greig sculp. Hopkins del. M.A. Bourlier sc. S.r W.m Beechy del. Cheesman sc. Lawrence del. Madame Le Brun del. Muller del. Geremia sc. Fodd Sculp. Gainsborough pinx.
Published by E. Harding N.o 100. Pall Mall. 1806.
Folio with board covers and leather spine with gilt. 21 very fine stipple plates printed in colour, included in front is a prospectus for Nash's Views of the chapel of St. George's at Windsor Castle, with list of subscribers verso. On paper watermarked 1802, large margins.
Portraits include: George III (1738-1820), Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), George IV as the Prince of Wales (1762-1830), Caroline of Brunswick as the Princess of Wales (1768-1822), Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817), Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia Duchess of York (1767-1820), William IV as the Duke od Clarence (1765-1837), Charlotte Princess Royal as Duchess (Queen Consort) of Württemberg (1766-1828), Prince Edward Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1829), Princess Augusta Sophia (1768-1840), Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), Ernest Augustus King of Hanover as the Duke of Cumberland (1771-1851), Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), Prince Adolphus Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), Princess Mary Duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857), Princess Sophia (1777-1848), Prince Octavius (1779–1783), Prince Alfred (1780-1782) and Princess Amelia (1783-1810). Abbey Life 298.
[Ref: 61627] £820.00
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[The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to The Queen, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.]
[Printed at Birmingham by John Baskerville, 1774.]
Large folio, rebound in half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. [iv], with 29 engraved plates (of 34), each with a page of letterpress in English and Latin. Lacking title, one leaf of preface, plate list, plates 30 to 34, with text; plates 1, 2, 6, 8 trimmed into image at top by binder; plate 24 with long tear repaired; damp stains and toning throughout.
A scarce but incomplete example of the first edition of William Hunter's study of the uterus, with photographs of the missing pages. William Hunter (1718-1783), a Scottish anatomist, physician and and obstetrician. He worked with the artist Jan Van Rymsdyk to produce this work, one of the greatest achievements in the history of medical illustration.
[Ref: 61558] £1,450.00
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