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(Album). [EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPH/IMAGES ALBUM] Over 200 images of varying sizes. c.[1860-70s].
Sm. 4to. Mounted photographs, with letterpress in several hands. modern half leather with cloth boards.
Images include some of paintings Guercina, Guido, Madonna del Sacco, Raphael, Cellini, etc., many beautiful buildings Uffizzi, Palazzo Vecchio, The Bargello, Duomo & Campile, Landscapes the Ascent of the Matterhorn, Ascent of Mt. Blanc, Lake of the Mont Cenis, Cannes, Pompei, Milan, Lake Como, Venice, Rome, Osborne Isle of Wight, Lygano, Valley of Chamonix, St Croce, Leghorn, Florence, Athens, ‘Calm Days at Cowes’ depicting many boats, Engadina Torquay, several family portraits, an adorable scruffy dog, etc.
£75.00 [ref: 287936]

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(Album). POSTCARD ALBUM. 176 postcards mainly b/w. N.d.
Enclosed in album, bubbled boards, some wear to extremities, split to head of upper joint.
Depicting Chedworth villa, Magdalen church, Moroccan scenes, Zimbabwean scenes, Mont St. Michel, French architecture -chateaux, churches etc., Welsh ruins, castles, mountains, Anglesey, Garway, Llanthony, etc.
£50.00 [ref: 261721]

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EXHIBITION OF SWISS COLOURED PRINTS (Alpine Club). EXHIBITION OF SWISS COLOURED PRINTS lent by the Members of the Alpine Club and their Friends. December 1st to 30th, 1924 from 10 am. to 6 pm. ... 1924
1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 32pp. Colour frontis., 3 colour plates. Some sporadic light spotting, a couple of leaves unopened, original printed limp wrapps., some very minor fading to edges and spine.
£20.00 [ref: 273628]

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(Church). Church, E.M. SIR RICHARD CHURCH IN ITALY AND GREECE. Chapters in an Adventurous Life. William Blackwood and Son 1895.
1st Ed. x + 356pp. Port. frontis. Light browning, ex.-libris Frederick Sydney Parry and with his inscription to flyleaf, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt profile to upper board, corner sl. frayed, spine faded and bumped.
£30.00 [ref: 277428]

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MEMORIALS OF HENRY DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD. (Freshfield). MEMORIALS OF HENRY DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD. Privately Printed 1892.
ix + 127pp. 2 mounted photographic plates (one with a lengthy manuscript note in pencil referring to the circumstances of the image being taken etc.), 1 plate. Some browning, contemporary cloth boards with leather corners, amateur reback in modern similar leather, minor wear, gilt lettered title label to spine.
Presentation copy from the family, inscribed to head of title page ‘C.M.M. with love from E[leanor] C. F[reshfield] (sister) “my sorrow is my crown”’. With occasional marginalia in the same hand. Henry Douglas Freshfield, who died aged fourteen from Meningitis in 1891, son of Douglas Freshfield (1845–1934) British lawyer, mountaineer and author, and his wife Augusta Charlotte Ritchie.
£85.00 [ref: 273557]

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(Kane). Laurie, Bruce. THE LIFE OF RICHARD KANE. Britain’s First Lieutenant-Governor of Minorca. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses 1994.
1st Ed. 291pp. + [i]. 14 ills. Good in lightly rubbed d/w. faded to spine.
£40.00 [ref: 283046]

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RICHARD KANE. (Kane). Sloss, Janet. RICHARD KANE. Governor of Minorca. Foreword by Nicholas Parsons. Bonaventura Press, Tetbury 1995.
1st UK Ed. xii + 340pp. 24 ills. Good in d/w. faded to fore-edge and spine.
Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed - ‘For Paul Latcham with best wishes from the author.’
£40.00 [ref: 283043]

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(Metro Plan). PLAN PRATIQUE DU METRO. Mellottée Paris N.d. c.[1920s].
Colour map measuring 7 x 5.5 inches. Laid down on bi-fold printed card, with facing index. Minor splits to folds., handwritten address with ‘20 frs’ in ink to upper cover, some fading.
£15.00 [ref: 285287]

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SPORT IN EUROPE. Aflalo, F.G. (Editor). SPORT IN EUROPE. Sands and Co. 1901.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xii + 483pp. 54 plates and numerous text ills. from drawings by Archibald Thorburn, E. Caldwell, and E.F.T. Bennett and from photos. Some light browning, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt ills. to upper board, spine sl. faded and rubbed, with sm. nicks to head of joints, t.e.g.
Including Russia and Turkey. With chapters by W.A. Baille-Grohman, and E. Demidoff, etc.
£85.00 [ref: 285805]

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LA HISTORIA DE LA ISLA DE MENORCA. Armstrong, Mr Juan. LA HISTORIA DE LA ISLA DE MENORCA. Publicada en Londres en 1752 y 1756. Mahón Imprenta de Manuel Sintes Rotger 1930.
xxi + 241pp. + [vi]. 4 plates including 1 folding, folding map. Partially unopened, upper corner lightly creased, original wrapps., minor browning, and spotting.
£25.00 [ref: 283066]

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