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Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a preface and some account...
BLUNT, Lady Anne.London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in.....
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The History of China & India, Pictorial & Descriptive;...
CORNER, Miss.London: Hy. Washbourne, 1847. "New edition - enlarged". 8vo. iv, iv, iv, iv, iv, 402 pp. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt to the spine with further gilt devices to the boards, top edge gilt. Illustrated title and 31 plates (17 China, 14 India, all tinted lithographs) plus folding maps of.....
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Hindustani Selections with a Vocabulary of the Words. Prepared for the Use...
BALLANTYNE, James B.London: J. Madden & Co.; Edinburgh: C. Smith and J. Braidwood. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (ii), 20, (4), 28, (48) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, original printed title label to the upper board with the handwritten note "Royal and Military Academy" to the lower edge, old pencilled ownership inscription to the.....
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Elements of Botany; or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables... By......
BARTON, Benjamin Smith.London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1804. First British edition. 8vo. xii, (ii), 344, 35, (1) pp. Early beaded cloth, gilt lettered spine label, contemporary owner's initials to the head of the title page. 30 fine handcoloured plates. Some fading and wear to the spine, small split to the head of.....
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Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Handbook for Travellers by...
BAEDEKER, Karl.Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First edition, 8vo, lxiv, 590 pp. 40 maps and 78 plans. Original gilt titled red cloth, joint ends a little worn. Hinrichsen E244. The only edition produced; a facsimile eventually appeared in 1971.
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William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair...
(BLAKE, William). BUTLIN, Martin and PALEY, Morton D.Lavenham: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited edition, one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 150 copies. Folio. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's wine red half calf over black moiré silk, gilt lettered to the spine with a matching gilt lettered label to the upper board, slipcase in.....
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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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The Cornhill Magazine. Vol. I. January to June, 1860 [to] Vol. XX...
(CORNHILL MAGAZINE).London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860-1869. Twenty volumes. 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, endpapers and all edges marbled. Numerous black and white illustrations. Even fading to the spines, rubbing to the extremities, four volumes with neat joint.....
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The Works of... Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those...
COWLEY, Abraham.London: Printed by J.M. [John Macock] for H. Herringman [and] Printed for Charles Harper, 1688, 89. Two works bound in one, folio, (l), 41, (1), 80, (4), 58, 61-70, 154, 23, (1), 148; (xiv), 161, (1), (xx), 166, (2, 8) pp, complete despite some erratic pagination, and with the 8.....
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A Treatise on Civil Architecture, in which that Art are Laid Down...
CHAMBERS, William.London: Printed by J. Dixwell. To be Had at the Author's House...; likewise Cadell, Nourse, and Wilson [et al], 1768. Second edition. Folio. (iv), iv, 86 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked and recornered to style, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, later owner's inscription to the.....
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Bacon's Australian Atlas of the World. Containing... Maps, Letterpress Descriptions, Gazetter and...
BACON, G.W.London: G.W. Bacon & Co., Limited, 1910. Second edition. 4to. (iv), (4), 20, 16, 4, 2 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the upper panel, rebacked to style. Frontispiece illustrating the "flags of all nations", 6 full page maps including individual maps of the north and south polar regions.....
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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
BABBAGE, Charles.London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving.....
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