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[Postcards].
BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS.69 postcards relating to Palestine, including multiples: 141. General Sir Edmund Allenby & General Baillout at Ismailia - x 4 142. The Imperial Camel Corps entering Beersheba - x 3 143. One of the 5 Wells of Beersheba as left by the Turks - x 4 145. El Arish redoubt.....
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With... Illustrations by John...
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twelfth thousand. 8vo. (xii), 224, (4) pp. Later red full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered labels, gilt to the other compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership signature to the half title. Frontispiece and 49 illustrations. Occasional mild spotting, very good.....
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Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II. Una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicæ Libellis.
BEVERIDGE, William.Londini [London]: Thomæ Roycroft, 1669. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 259, (4, 1 blank) pp. Tables in the text. Contemporary calf, a little rubbed with mild wear to three corners, neatly rebacked. A well respected clergyman who became Bishop of St. Asaph towards the end of his life and was a......
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Ten Little N*****s.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, (1939). First edition, 8vo, (ii), 252, (2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf almost completely faded. Original cloth, spine dull, rather marked, top of the upper joint with some wear. Published in the US as "And Then There Were None."...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With... illustrations by John Tenniel.
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1871. 27th thousand, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., rebacked with the majority of the original backstip still present.
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First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration of Harar.
BURTON, Richard F.London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856. First edition, 8vo, xl, (ii), 648, 24 advertisement pp. 4 fine coloured lithographs and 2 maps, the plates with some mostly marginal soiling, original endpapers with advertisements bound in. Modern red half morocco, black spine label. A famous account of Burton's journey to.....
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Bacon's New Chart of the World. Mercator's Projection.
BACON, G.W.Manchester: G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., [c.1906]. Map dimensions 92 x 118 cm, overall 94 x 120 cm. A large folding colour printed chart of the world, decorated with 46 flags across the upper edge, six tables of data to the lower edge, a larger inset map of the British.....
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Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and...
"ALEPH". [HARVEY, William Henry].London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European.....
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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: J.M. Dent, 1907-9. Six volumes, small 8vo. Coloured title page and 23 coloured plates in each volume, one plate in Pride and Prejudice with wear to the outer edge. Publisher's maroon quarter calf, t.e.g., gilt decorated spines a little worn with some minor loss.
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A History of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
ACKERMANN, R. (Publisher).London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814. First edition, two volumes, 4to. 115 plates - a portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand coloured aquatints and 17 hand coloured engravings of the various gowns plus the 33 Founders plates, all in excellent condition. Frontispiece and one further plate plus the text in.....
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The Land of Midian (Revisited).
BURTON, Richard F.London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution.....
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Gli Costumi, le Leggi, et l'Usanze di Tutte le Genti, raccolte qui...
BOEMUS, Johann.[Vicenza: Michele Tramezino], 1543. 8vo, (ix), 180, (3) leaves. Woodcut to the title page and final page, early manuscript name inked out to the title page, some minor marginal soiling and marks, small piece torn from the lower corner of leaf A4, 19th century armorial bookplate to the rear paste.....
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