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Thornton's Bookshop ( W A & J S Meeuws ) ( ABA, BA, ILAB ) 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 Tel. (0044 ) (0) 1367 240056 Fax: (0044) (0) 1367 241544 or contact us via Skype (search for Meeuws Faringdon) |
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PRINTS and other works of ART We start with a range of hand coloured aquatints from Ackermann's A history of the university of Oxford etc.. |
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occupied by The Buttery 11-12 Broad street 1835 - 2002 2008, the bi-centenary year of Joseph Thornton's birth  |
Catalogue Faringdon - 2 Catalogue Faringdon - 3 Catalogue Faringdon - 4 Rare book Catalogue
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Complete collection of the Albums de la Pléiade Clairmont,
Christoph W. Classical Attic Tombstones
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last Costume ball in the Winter palace.
(1903)
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Afbeeldingen der Artseny-Gewassen, met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latijnsche Beschrijvingen Volumes I - VI + A. YPEY. Vervolg op de afbeeldingen der artsenijgewassen... Together 7 volumes. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1796-1813. In contemporary half calf with red leather title labels. The leather of the continuation volume has a slightly different colour. With 700 engraved hand-coloured plates. This is the Dutch edition of the German herbal "Icones Plantarum Medicinalium, Abbildungen der Arzneygewächsen" published by D.L. Oskamp , M. Houttuyn, and J.C. Krauss at Nuremberg.With the rare added "Vervolg" (= continuation) volume. The text and plates of the first 6 volumes were adapted from Johannes Zorn's Icones Plantarum Medicinalium. The Latin descriptions were taken from the thirteenth edition of Linné's Systema Naturae, which was edited by Gmelin. The Dutch text was taken from Houttuyn's Natuurlijke Historie. See: Pritzel 10678; Landwehr, Dutch books with colour plates volume 2; Stafleu, 3926; STC 18th cent. books in lib. of medicine; Plesch, p. 466; Stiftung für Botanik, 830; Nissen, 2203. £9500.00
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