List 164 - International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

426 DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 volumes plus index & epitome,
3 volumes supplement, 3 volumes second supplement and 1 volume errata. Together 71 volumes, original cloth gilt. Volume 63
[W-Z] replaced with volume 21 [also W-Z] from the 1965 edition (original cloth gilt, dustwrapper), short crack to one hinge of
a supplementary volume, otherwise a fi ne clean and bright set. [First edition] Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1912. £1,200.00
427 —— THE CONCISE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY Part II. 1901-1950. Being an epitome of the twentieth
century D.N.B. down to the end of 1950. Thick 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (spine a little darkened). Pp. 528. Oxford
University Press, 1961. £30.00
428 —— BLAKE, Lord and NICHOLLS, C.S. (editors). THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY 1981-1985.
Large 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. xiii, 518. Small stamp tippexed out on fl yleaf, otherwise a fi ne copy. [First
edition] Oxford University Press, 1990. £30.00
429 —— LEGG, L.G.Wickham (editor). THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY founded in 1882 by George
Smith. 1931-1940. Thick 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, spine a trifl e faded. Pp. xvi, 968. Stamps and inscriptions tippexed out on
endpapers. Oxford University Press, 1965. £25.00
430 DIRCKS, Rudolf (editor). SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN A.D.1632-1723. Bicentenary memorial volume published under the
auspices of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Thick 4to. Original buckram gilt, very faded. Pp. xvi, 280, illustrated
throughout with photographs and plans and including 13 colour plates. Joints just cracking, part of dustwrapper laid on to fl yleaf.
[First edition] Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. £140.00
A handsomely produced work, whose contributors include Alfred Gotch, Arthur Stratton, A. E. Richardson, Somers
Clark and A. Beresford Pite.
431 DISHER, Maurice Willson. THE LAST ROMANTIC. The authorised biography of Sir John Martin-Harvey. With a foreword
by D.L.Murray. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (a little worn). Pp. 270, with frontispiece after John Hassall, 34 plates and 11
text illustrations. [First edition] Hutchinson, no date. £30.00
432 DIXON, Joshua. THE LITERARY LIFE OF WILLIAM BROWNRIGG, M.D., F.R.S., to which are added an account of the
coal mines near Whitehaven: and observations on the means of preventing epidemic fevers. Original blue boards with paper
spine label, very rubbed. Pp. xiv, 240, (i, errata leaf). Very scarce. An excellent uncut, unsophisticated copy. [First edition]
Longman & Rees etc., and Whitehaven: A.Dunn, 1801. £375.00
433 DIXON, Pierson. PAULINE. Napoleon’s favourite sister. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (top edges a little chipped, priceclipped).
Pp. (x), 224, with 20 plates. [First edition] Collins, 1964. £20.00
434 DOBBS, Michael. CHURCHILL’S TRIUMPH. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 341. [First edition] Headline, 2005.
£15.00
435 DOBELL, Clifford. ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS “LITTLE ANIMALS”. Being some account of the father
of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these disciplines. Collected, translated, and edited from his
printed works, unpublished manuscripts, and contemporary records. Published on the 300th anniversary of his birth. Large thick
8vo. Original cream cloth, a little marked and stained. Pp. vii, 436, with 32 plates. [First edition] Staples Press, [1932].
£150.00
436 DOBIE, J.Frank. THE BEN LILLY LEGEND. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped) Pp. xviii, 237, with 10
illustrations. The life of “the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett”. [First edition, Hammond, 1952. £20.00
437 —— JAMES BOWIE, BIG DEALER. Reprinted from The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. LX, No.3. Original
wrappers. Pp. 23, with a printed leaf of Christmas greetings from the author and his wife. January 1957.
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£25.00