Barker (Matthew Henry) Greenwich Hospital, A Series of Naval Sketches, 1826; and others, illustrated (c.45)

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[Barker (Matthew Henry)] Greenwich Hospital, A Series of Naval Sketches, 12 hand-coloured etched plates by Cruikshank (without second state on india paper), wood-engraved title vignette and tail-pieces, light spotting and offsetting, contemporary calf, gilt spine, chipping to spine ends, covers detached, t.e.g., edges uncut, [Abbey Scenery 226], 1826 Mayhew (Henry) The World's Show. 1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys..., hand-coloured etched title and 9 folding plates by Cruikshank (1 or 2 trimmed slightly affecting caption, splitting to foldlines and faint spotting to verso), contemporary half-calf, splitting to backstrip, upper cover detached, 1851, rubbing to extremities, [1851] Balzac (Honore de) La fille aux yeux d'or, one of 100 copies on velin from an edition limited to 400, coloured drypoint illustrations by Jean Serri re, and an additional set of the illustrations (uncoloured), occasional scattered foxing, bookplate, contemporary half calf, spine sunned, edges uncut, Paris, [1942]; and others, illustrated, v.s. (c.45)

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