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The Comic History of Rome
A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., n.d..
Price: $175.00
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Folio. (11 by 14-1.2 inches). Original full brown leather tooled in gilt on the upper board. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With 28 finely executed illustrations of the treasures of the Royal Secret Vault (commonly called the Grune Gewolbe, or Green Vault,) in Dresden: 24 are finely detailed and colored chromolithographs, the remaining four are uncolored. All are mounted. The frontispiece is a mounted plate, possibly an albumen photograph, of an engraving of Johann Melchior Dinglinger. The celebrated goldsmith is holding the Bath of Diana (reproduced in color as Plate XXVIII). A text description by Major Baron von Landsberg precedes each plate. The upper hinge has been repaired, the corners renewed and the top inch of the spine replaced with matching leather. The binding is still presentable and the contents are fine. Quite scarce; the OCLC located no copies of this German edition and only three copies of the English edition of the same year. With the bookplate of coal magnate Edward J Berwind and likely from his library at The Elms in Newport.

Das Grune Gewolbe zu Dresden
Gruner, Ludwig
Dresden: C. C. Meinhold und Sohne, 1862.
Price: $2,500.00
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8vo. xii, 280pp. Contemporary half leather; spine gilt with titles and floral ornaments; marbles paper boards. With 49 engraved plates. 4 plates are or garden designs or ornaments; three of them are colored and all are moderately foxed. The remaininng plates are all of flowers, all are hand colored and two are folding plates. Many orchid species are represented. Most of the plates are in fine, unfoxed condition; in the few where there is foxing present, it is only a light spot or two and marginal. The tissue guard of one plate has partially stuck to the plate and the guard has torn; it can probably be removed without damage. THe binding is moderately worn but still presentable.

Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants: Volume the Fifth
Paxton, Joseph
London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1838.
Price: $1,500.00
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Eight parts in three large quarto volumes. Text watermarked 1811-1817. Contemporary binding of full English crimson straight-grained morocco. Spines in five compartments, intricately tooled in gilt; Boards similarly tooled as well as edges. In addition, Volume III has the arms of Trinity College, Dublin, blocked upon the boards in gilt and with a bookplate within inscribed to Thomas Barry dated 1820 and signed by Bas[il] Lloyd on behalf of the College and Senior Students. Marbled paper endpapers. With 100 fine handcolored aquatint plates by Sutherland, Bennett, Reeve, Baily and Havell after Samuel, Stephanoff, Cattermole, Wild and Westall. Aside from a few pin-sized, barely visible wormholes, this is an absolutely superb set. The contemporary binding is bright with only traces of rubbing at edges; the plates likewise fine and bright, with occasional light offsetting to facing text pages. It would be hard--perhaps impossible--to find a nicer set. Tooley 389. Abbery Scenery 396. Prideaux 348. British Coloured Books, 78.

History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. By. W. H. Pyne.: Illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists. In three volumes.
Pyne, William Henry
London: Printed for A. Dry, 1819.
Price: $15,000.00
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