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MISCELLANEOUS BOOKSA COLLECTION OF 30 VOLUMES, MOSTLY WORKS OF ART REFERENCE including reference books on miniatures, jewellery, watches and gold boxes, and historical works; sold as a collection not subject to return For a full listing, please contact the department or see the online catalogue. Comprising: Byron. The poetical works of Lord Byron... the "Albion" edition. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1881], small 4to, black morocco retaining old spine Sir Herbert Maxwell. Sixty years a queen. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1897], 4to, half calf The Jewish Chronicle. Friday January 1, 1897-December 31, 1897. London: Asher I. Myers, 1897, 4to, cloth, binding slightly damaged G. Lacour-Gayet. Napoléon, sa vie, son oeuvre, son temps. Paris: Hachette, 1921, 4to, cloth Philip Guedalla. Napoleon and Palestine. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1925, 8vo, printed orange wrappers Leo R. Schidlof. The miniature in Europe. Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1964, 4 volumes, 4to, copy no. 495, dust-jackets Douglas Cooper. Great family collections. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965, 4to, cloth Domenico Angelo. The school of fencing. Lausanne: Edita S.A., 1968, oblong folio, copy no. 286, a facsimile of the 1765 London edition, half leather, slipcase Boris Kochno. Diaghilev and the Ballets russes. New York: Harper & Row, 1970, 4to, dust-jacket Howard Ricketts. Objects of vertu. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971, 4to, dust-jacket (slightly torn) G.C. Williamson. Catalogue of the collection of watches, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. Lausanne & Paris, [1972], folio, crushed red morocco Grandjean, Piacenti, Truman and Blunt. Gold boxes and miniatures of the eighteenth century [the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor]. London: for the National Trust, 1975, 4to, dust-jacket Twelve views of Kensington & Chelsea c.1695-1822. [London]: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 1975, plates and text in folding card portfolio Kevin Coates. Geometry, proportion and the art of lutherie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, 4to, dust-jacket, inscribed by the author Cedric Jagger. The artistry of the English watch. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988, 4to, dust-jacket Charles Scribner III. Peter Paul Rubens. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, 4to, dust-jacket A. Kenneth Snowman. Eighteenth century gold boxes of Europe. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1990, new edition, 4to, dust-jacket, upper hinge broken Bokhanov [and others]. The Romanovs, love, power & tragedy. London: Leppi Publications, 1993, 4to, dust-jacket Diana Scarisbrick. Chaumet, master jewellers since 1780. Paris: Alain de Gourcuff, 1995, folio, boards, folding box Terence Camerer Cuss. The Sandberg watch collection. Geneva, 1998, folio, armorial green morocco by Codina of Milan John Traina. The Fabergé case. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998, 4to, dust-jacket Kevin Coates. Fragments, pages stolen from a Book of Time. Venice: Arsenale editrice, 1999, 4to, parallel text in Italian and English, wrappers Katherine Purcell. Falize, a dynasty of jewellers. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999, 4to, dust-jacket Peter Ackroyd. London, the biography. London: Chatto & Windus, 2000, dust-jacket Sotheby's. Art at auction 2000-2001. London: Sotheby's, 2001, 4to, dust-jacket Tim Clayton & Phil Craig. Trafalgar, the men, the battle, the storm. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004, dust-jacket John Sugden. Nelson, a dream of glory. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004, dust-jacket The Times reference atlas of the world. London: Times Books, 2010, 4to, original boardsCondition ReportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate "