Lot: 3
Bayle St.John selected works comprisng The Louvre, or Biography of a Museum, 1855; Purple Tints of Paris, 1854, 2 vols, few marginal pencil annotations; Adventures in the Libyan Desert, 1849; and vol.2 only of The Subalpine Kingdom, 1856; all First Editions in the original cloth bindings; three with ownership bookplates. Libyan Desert frayed at top of spine; boards of Purple Tints discoloured. (5) Also research notes on the author.
Lot: 50
John Fisher An Illustrated Record of the Retrospective Exhibition held at South Kensington, 1896, Chapman & Hall, 1897, 156 b/w plates, near fine; and Spielmann Souvenir of the Fine Art Section, Franco-British Exhibition 1908, b/w plates complete, gilt cloth, some wear, fine internally. 4to. (2)
Lot: 51
The Art Journal 1904, Virtue & Co, half-leather, gilt title, b/w & colour plates including etchings; The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, The Studio, 1906, 40 colour plates; Berthold Laufer Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, 1962 reprint in slipcase; Belgian Art in Exile, 1916, many tipped-in plates (most in colour); and related works. Modern Decorative Art in England with damaged spine; Painting in the Far East ex-library; others VG/Fine. (9)