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Published 24 Oct. 2013
Title

Winnie The Pooh, , Now We Are Six,House At Pooh Corner

Authors

A.A. Milne

Description
Near Fine first edition of Winnie The Pooh in dustwrapper along with 1sts with no D/W of House of Pooh Corner and Now We Are Six
Publisher

Methuen

Date of publication:

1926,1927,1928

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

22/10/2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 15 Oct. 2013
Title

Tatler

Authors

Tatler

Description
A first edition of Tatler, dated 1709, part of three editions. Leather bound and in immaculate condition.. On the second page is written 'Elizabeth Heber'.
Date of publication:

1709

First edition:

no

Date of theft report:

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Published 15 Oct. 2013
Title

Cases of Controverted Elections

Authors

Douglas Sylvester

Description
Vol 1.1, leather bound and in immaculate condition.
Date of publication:

1778

First edition:

no

Date of theft report:

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Published 11 Sept. 2013
Title

Lord Edgware Dies

Authors

Agatha Christie

Description
First Edition, publishers cloth, no dustwrapper
First edition:

no

Date of theft:

Monday 9th Sep 2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 04 Sept. 2013
Title

Pair of 12-inch Table Globes: Terrestrial and Celestial

Authors

Gerard VALK (1652-1726) & Leonard VALK (1675-1746)

Description
Each globe 305mm (12 inches) in diameter, each comprised of two sets of twelve engraved hand-coloured gores and two polar calottes laid on a papier-maché and plaster sphere, each within an original graduated brass meridian ring, each mounted within an oak horizon ring with a printed paper ring, each supported on four baluster turned and ebonised columns united by cross-stretchers under the turned base, with four bun feet, each globe with fine pat ina, minor surface loss to globe gores with old, likely nineteenth-century, plaster restoration, some wear to printed horizon rings.
Date of publication:

1750

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

04/09/2013 2:30am

Date of theft report:

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Published 19 Aug. 2013
Title

Autograph Letters

Authors

Einstein
Freud
Einstein
Einstein
Geiger
Nelson
Voltaire

Description
Einstein TLS Princeton, April 23, 1935
Freud TLS Vienna, December 8, 1923
Einstein TLS Princeton, December 16, 1939
Einstein ALS Sonntag
Geiger ALS to Otto Hahn Berlin, February 27, 1915
Nelson DS N.p., April 19, 1804,
Voltaire ALS N.p., [June] 30, [1760]
First edition:

no

Date of theft:

17/18 August 2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 15 Aug. 2013
Title

Operetta dell’Ambascieria de Moschoviti, nella qual si narra il sito della provinicia di Moschovia, gli costumi ricchezze, il modo della religione & l’arte militar di quegli. Nuovamente tradotta di Latino in Lingua Volgare

Authors

GIOVIO [JOVIUS] (M. Paulo).

Description
First Italian edition. Woodcut title, depicting a Christian warrior with a banner and an eagle on an orb. 12mo. Late 19th century 'papier dominote' (patterned) boards, a few margins lightly water-stained, with some minor spotting to endpapers, but otherwise an outstanding copy given its age. 17pp. Rare.

<em>The first significant European description of Russia from the 16th century. The original latin edition (De legatione Basilii Magni Principis Moschoviae) was printed by Francesco Minizio Calvo in Rome in 1525. Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) was an Italian historian, physicist and doctor. This work is based on conversations with the Russian ambassador Dimitri Gerassimov at the court of Pope Clement VII in Rome. The papacy and the Habsbourg had frequently proposed to the Muscovites that they should join together against the Ottomans. Giovio's book was utilised by many travellers to Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries.</em>
Publisher

Bartolomeo detto l’imperatore,

Date of publication:

1545

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

08/08/2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 30 July 2013
Title

TIME FOR A TIGER

Authors

BURGESS, Anthony

Description
First edition. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in pictorial dustwrapper designed by R. F. Micklewright.
Publisher

Heinemann

Date of publication:

1956

First edition:

yes

Date of theft report:

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Published 30 July 2013
Title

THE MAN UPSTAIRS

Authors

WODEHOUSE, P.G.

Description
First edition. Original brown cloth with title stamped in blind on upper cover and in gilt with embellishments on the spine. A very good copy indeed that is bright and clean. Internally the poor quality paper shows noticeable foxing to the preliminary pages as usual, but clean throughout most of the book. An uncommonly nice example of one of the scarcest Wodehouse first editions.
Publisher

Methuen

Date of publication:

1914

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

Stolen at the beginning of June

Date of theft report:

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Published 16 July 2013
Title

DEAD MR NIXON

Authors

WHITE, T.H.; SCOTT, R. McNair

Description
First edition. Original blue cloth lettered in red. Armorial bookplate of Robert George Dalrymple Laffan to the front pastedown. A near fine copy, which is slightly cocked, but is bright and clean.

[27056]
Publisher

Cassell

Date of publication:

1931

First edition:

yes

Date of theft report:

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Published 05 June 2013
Title

The Naked Lunch

Authors

BURROUGHS, William.

Description
First edition. First issue with the green border on the title-page and the price ''Francs 1500'' on the rear flap of the dustwrapper. Small octavo. 226 pages. Wrappers. On the rear cover the price has been overstamped with ''NEW PRICE NF 18'', as noted by Maynard & Miles ''on some copies''. Fine in fine dustwrapper with one small nick. An impressive copy.
Publisher

Olympia Press

Date of publication:

1959

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

04/06/2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 03 May 2013
Title

Il Dante, con argomenti et dechiaratione de molti luoghi, novamente revisto et stampato

Authors

DANTE ALIGHIERI

Description
Reliure de l'époque maroquin havane, dos orné, plats ornés de filets dorés en encadrement, rinceaux et fleurons dorés, tr. dorés et ciselées (petit manque au dos)
Publisher

per Giovan. di Tournes

Date of publication:

1547

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

Entre le 25 et le 28 Avril 2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 06 March 2013
Title

The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes.

Authors

*BOOKS FOUND* HAMILTON, Alexander, James Madison & John Jay.

Description
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter Harrington are pleased to say that we have recovered our copy of the Federalist Papers, which was reported lost or stolen after the San Francisco book fair.
<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Bustamante and his crew, who carefully went through all the showcases used during the fair and found the book at the back of the recess of one of the display cases. Apparently another book also turned up during the search.
Publisher

J. and A. McLean,

Date of publication:

1788

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

17 February 2013

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Published 27 Feb. 2013
Title

Holy Bible (The Judas Bible)

Authors

Not applicable

Description
Darlow & Moule, revised by Herbert, and is probably no. 319: the general title dated 1613 (not present presumably) but New Testament dated 1611, the date given by the former vicar. Known as the 'Great She Bible'. Folio, approx 362 x 227mm.
Date of publication:

1611

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

Between 3 and 11 February 2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 15 Feb. 2013
Title

EVRIPIDIS tragoediae septendecim

Authors

EURIPIDES

Description
XVIIIth century half calf over coloured paper boards, calf label and gilt-lettered title on spine, raised bands. Entirely printed in Greek type. This is the first volume of Euripides: a second volume was published by Aldus the same year
Publisher

Aldus Manutius

Date of publication:

february, 1503

First edition:

yes

Date of theft:

01/02/2013

Date of theft report:

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Published 13 Feb. 2013
Title

Manuscript, one leaf, written in French.

Authors

Manuscript, one leaf, written in French.

Description
Manuscript, one leaf, written in French, ca 1839. A peace treaty that should put an end to the first Carlist War in the early 19th century.
Date of publication:

ca 1839

First edition:

no

Date of theft report:

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Published 08 Feb. 2013
Title

Enflammant le Courage de ses Cosaques

Authors

Daumier

Description
Daumier lithograph: Enflammant le Courage de ses Cosaques - il sera distribue aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur! DR no 2476, approximate size in frame 35cm x 43cm
First edition:

no

Date of theft report:

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Published 08 Feb. 2013
Title

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Authors

Goya

Description
Goya etching: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, approx size in frame 45cm x 35cm
First edition:

no

Date of theft report:

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Published 23 Nov. 2012
Title

'Ignavia' (a print of a cartoon of Lord North)

Authors

J Boyne

Description
A print of a cartoon of Lord North, size approximately A5, missing from Trinity College Oxford. The title is 'Ignavia', and it has the artist's initials J B - apparently this was J. Boyne.
Publisher

E Hedges

Date of publication:

1 February 1784

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

Not known

Date of theft report:

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Published 20 Nov. 2012
Title

King James Bible

Authors

not applicable

Description
A heavy leather-bound Bible which has sustained damage over the years and appears to have had extensive and well executed repair work, with excellent facsimile writing to replace lost text.
Publisher

Robert Barker

Date of publication:

1634

First edition:

no

Date of theft:

01/11/2012

Date of theft report:

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