The White Horse Bookshop in Faringdon, where we kept part of our stock since 2007,
sadly closed down on 19th December 2011. Please note that we would be more than happy to help
Faringdon residents with their orders for new books or searches for out-of-print titles.
Please phone 01367 - 240056 , Fax to 01367-241544,  E-Mail or write to us.
Maurits Cornelis Escher 
(1898 - 1972 )
Frogs
Postersize, about A-3, enlarged woodcut printed in green with Latin and Dutch texts. 
Latin at the top: Silentium omni strepitu maius. 
Dutch at the bottom: De kwakerschaar doorrijt den zomernacht om't zeerst; toch welft de stilte wijd, roerloos, en overheerscht. 
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Established in Oxford in 1835 - Member of the ABA since 1907
The Old Barn - Walnut Court - Faringdon, SN7 7JH
A small market town near the Cotswolds, about 20 miles from Oxford
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The last Costume ball in the Winter Palace (1903) 2 volumes. (Kostiumirovannyi bal v Zimnem dvortse ) Bi-lingual English-Russian edition.  £395

 
 
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New rare books catalogue 2011 / 4 part one
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Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Sitzungsberichte 
Listings in preparation
Plate from 
Monucla Histoire des Mathématiques
 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
The Library Shakspeare illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, 
George Cruikshank, and R. Dudley. 
3 Volumes. London : William Mackenzie, [1873-1875]

 

Vincent van Gogh 
the letters 
6 volumes

Heidenheim, Hanns H., Woodcuts of the Bible. 5 Volumes
5 volumes in folio. splendid edition, one of 300 numbered copies printed by hand from original woodblocks on hand-made Japanese paper. All prints signed by the artist/printer. Bound bloc-book type in oak-tanned cowhide, covers embossed from woodblock. Folder and slipcase covered in hand-made paper, main title and masthead of the volumes are also woodcuts. Düsseldorff, Ursus presse, 1965-1970. Splendid set. 
 

 
 

 Tolkien: Lord of the Rings. 
3 volumes  First edition 1954/1955

 

The Red Book
the art of psychology

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of the page for
sample pages of this 
wonderful book 


Old wallpaper
Broad street

Catalogue in preparation: Proceedings of the Prussian Academy 1922 onwards
Clairmont, Christoph W. Classical Attic 
Tombstones.  7 Text Volumes and One Plate 
Volume and Supplementary Volume. 
together 9 volumes £450
one set with some volumes with bumped corners 
(hardly noticeable) at £395

 
 
 
 

 

Vincent M. Holt 
Why Not Eat Insects ?
ISBN 0854550240
 
 
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PRINTS and other works of ART
Ackermann's A history of the 
university of Oxford etc..

Rare book Catalogues
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

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part three


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Latest catalogue: Acquisitions 2011

Siborne, Captain W.,
History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815. 
Containing Minute Details of the Battles of 
Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo.
By Captain W. Silborne. 2 Volumes + Folder 
with all the Battle Maps. (this folder of maps is 
usually lacking) 

Zabelin, I., (1820 - 1908 )
Moskva v eia proshlom i nastoiashchem. 
Roskoshno-illiyustrirovannoe izd., posviyashchennoe 
pamiyati I.E. Zabelina V izdani prinimaiut uchastie D. N. 
Anuchin i dr. Redaktsiia G. Balitskogo volumes I (1-2); II (1-2); IV 
(also marked 7) ; VIII, IX, X, XI, XII  in  fine new half leather bindings 
 
 

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John Ogden: Silken Dalliance. ISBN 978-085455-040-1  £17.99
( the 2nd volume in the trilogy; the 1st volume "On fire" also 
still available)

Helmut Ricke: Glass Art. Reflections of the Centuries. £12.50
 

Vincent van Gogh - The Letters.The Complete Illustrated 
and Annotated Edition. Six volumes slipcased with a 
CD-ROM of the letters in their original languages

Codex Sinaiticus A Facsimile.  Hardback, 832 pages, 
340 x 420mm, 822 colour illustrations £550.00 
weight about 20 lbs. 
A beautiful facsimile of the world's oldest Bible.

Jews and Slavs 21 volumes
 
 

 

 

Siborne text volumes


 


 

Part of our stock will be for 
sale at the 
White Horse Bookshop in 
Faringdon till the end of 2011
when this bookshop will be
closed down

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Why Not Eat Insects ?
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