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Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer d. Jüng., 1809. First edition. 12mo. Contemporary quarter black paper over plain boards, the spine with title and decoration in gilt. Pale green endpapers. Illustrated with 11 engraved plates (5 folding) and one folding map of Siberia and Alaska. 356pp. Bookplate of the Hungarian author and psychoanalyst Paul Tabori (1908-1974) to the front pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing and minor chipping to the spine ends. The contents with a nineteenth-century ink stamp to the title page, light foxing to the preliminary pages and occasionally elsewhere, and some minor creasing to the edge of one of the folding plates are otherwise in excellent condition throughout - the engravings remaining bright and sharp. The Siberia and Alaska volume from the German geographer and zoologist Eberhardt Zimmermann's lengthy Taschenbuch der Reisen ("Handbook of Travel") series, published between 1802 and 1813, attractively illustrated with engraved plates… Read More

London: "Health and Strength" Ltd., [1909].. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original tan cloth with illustration of a cyclist in black to the upper board and titles in black to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with nine black and white photographic plates. 96pp. A good copy, the binding firm with a little wear to the spine ends and a touch of bumping to the corners. The contents with a small nick to the top of the blank margin of both the frontispiece and title page are otherwise in very good order. An uncommon early work on the practice of cycling, with a notable focus on racing, by the British track cyclist and Olympic Games 1908 gold medallist Clarence Brickwood Kingsbury (1882-1949).Only three institutional copies recorded by LibraryHub (Science Museum, Nat. Lib. Scotland, Warwick).

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited., 1920. Second edition. Small octavo. Handsomely bound by J. Bumpus & Co. of Oxford Street in contemporary full green morocco with decorative gilt tooling to the upper board and five raised bands to the spine, with titles in gilt. Elaborate decorative gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with a little toning to the spine and minor rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a school prize plate to the front pastedown (dated 1930) and a couple of minor spots of foxing to the margins of the frontispiece are otherwise in excellent condition and remain clean and bright throughout.

[Original artwork]., [1948-1954].. Twenty-six original drawings in pencil, ink, watercolour, and chalk (some double-sided), depicting scenes from Lambert's home and school life. The largest measuring 38 x 27.5cm. Condition is very good with the odd small tear, crease or minor mark here and there. A wonderful group of drawings documenting the preoccupations of a teenage girl during the late 1940s/early 1950s. Executed between the ages of 10 and 16, the drawings often focus on school activities, especially sports (tennis, hockey, and swimming), romance, and the female form, as well as including two intriguing images of girls exploring an attic full of books. Also present are some charming domestic portraits, including a striking self-portrait of Lambert herself.Thelma Lambert later became a professional author and illustrator of children's books, producing a sizeable output of work from the 1960s onwards.