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The New Survey of London Life & Labour. Forty Years of Change...
(BOOTH). SMITH, Sir Hubert Llewellyn (Editor).London: P.S. King & Son, 1930-35. First edition, nine volumes, 8vo, volume IV and VII being map volumes. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Charles Booth in volume I. The map volumes containing 13 folding maps, plus 13 folding maps and a folding chart in the text volumes as well as further.....
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Poemata Latina. In quibus Continentur, Sex Libri Plantarum, Viz. Duo Herbarum, Florum...
COWLEY, Abraham.Londini [London]: Typis T. Roycroft, 1668. First edition, 8vo, (xxxiv), 420 pp. Portrait frontispiece. 19th century quarter parchment, somewhat marked and with some scuffing to the upper board, red morocco label. A posthumous collected edition - Cowley having died the year before - with a life by Thomas Sprat, his.....
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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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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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Map of England And Wales, Constructed for the Use of the Schools...
ARROWSMITH, S.London: C. Smith. 172 Strand. Jan. 1st, 1851. Overall dimensions 165 x 130 cm. Very large map of England and Wales printed over four conjoined sheets mounted on linen and fixed upon original wooden rollers, printed brief title label to upper roller. Original colour demarcating the counties. Slight fraying to.....
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The Origin of Species... [with] The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are...
DARWIN, Charles.London: John Murray, 1878, 1877, 1877, 1875. Four volumes, mixed editions. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green full calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red spine labels, the other compartments richly gilt, endpapers and all edges marbled , the early book label of a Walter Palmer of "The Acacias.....
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Near East.
BEATON, Cecil.London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. First edition. 8vo. viii, 149, (1) pp. Publisher's orange cloth, yellow lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket, inscribed by Beaton on the front free endpaper "To Hugh Francis, without whose help...", an autograph letter signed from him also affixed to the verso of.....
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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 Maze Maker.
AYRTON, Michael.New York: Bantam Books, (1969). Paperback edition, small 8vo. (x), 277, (1) pp. Limited edition, no. 30 of 50 copies with a custom made cover, signed and pasted on by Ayrton. Handwritten postcard from Ayrton also loosely inserted. Some mild bumping to the top of the upper wrapper, otherwise fine.....
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French Country Cooking. Line drawings by John Minton.
DAVID, Elizabeth.London: Dorling Kindersley, (1987). Limited edition, no. 47 of 450 copies signed by the author, small 4to, (ii), 224 pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Pictorial boards, d.w., price clipped, spine slightly sunned otherwise very good.
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The Complete Novels of... With an introduction by J.C. Squire.
AUSTEN, Jane.London: William Heinemann, (1928). 8vo, xiv, (iv), 1421, (1) pp. Faint creasing to the half title. Recent red half morocco, t.e.g., an attractive copy.
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Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (Now...
BELLEW, H.W.London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7.....
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