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The Survey of Cornwall. And an Epistle concerning the Excellence of the...
CAREW, Richard.London: B. Law and J. Hewett, 1769. Small 4to, (ii), xxv, (v) pp, 159, (8) ff, 13, (1) pp. Early manuscript list of "Arms of the Cornish Gentry" to two final blanks, both with some damp staining to the top corner but not affecting the text leaves. Modern black morocco.....
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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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The Book of Beauty.
BEATON, Cecil.London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition. 4to. xii, 67, (1) pp. Pink beaded cloth backed white boards, these decorated with large gilt circles, early pencilled gift inscription. Colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text plus 27 photographic portrait plates. Slight sunning to the spine, two small marks to the cloth.....
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston.London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 498, (2), 32 catalogue pp. Publisher's beige pictorial cloth with detailing in gilt, black and red, an early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. 4 maps, of which 3 are folding, plus 4 plans in the text. Darkening to the.....
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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Robert Riviére & Son, [c. 1920s]. Six works in five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red half calf over cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and attractively decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Colour frontispieces. Some mild sunning and occasional mild rubbing.....
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated...
BIBLE:Bible: London: Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, and by the Assignes of John Bill; Genealogies: [N.p.], 1639; 1638. 8vo. Bible: A1-Z7 [lacking Z8 plus leaves Aa1-Bb8 and Cc1], Cc2-Cc7 [lacking Cc8], Dd1-Dd3 [lacking Dd4-5], Dd6-Gg8 [lacking Hh1-8], Ii1-Nn3 [lacking Nn4-5], Nn6-Pp5 [lacking Pp6], Pp7-Yy3 [lacking Yy4.....
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The Trinity College Apocalypse. [with] An Introduction and Description by Peter H....
(APOCALYPSE).London: Eugrammia Press, 1967. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 600. Two volumes. Folio. Facsimile bound by Zaehnsdorf in period style gilt tooled full vellum, housed in plain black slipcase, introduction (56 pp.) bound in red cloth, gilt to upper cover, loosely inserted is the original prospectus for the.....
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The Works of... (The Canterbury Tales. Minor Poems. Boece. Troilus and Criseyde...
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press... and published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1928. Limited edition, no. 77 of 375 sets, eight volumes, 4to. Some coloured illustrations in the margins, red initial letters and decoration. Small mark to the fore edge of volume I, barely affecting the page edges. Original.....
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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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Certamen Religiosum: or, A Conference Between the late King of England, and...
[BAYLY, Thomas] and CARTWRIGHT, Chr[istopher].London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally.....
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Scapa and a Camera. Pictorial Impressions of Five Years Spent at the...
BURROWS, C.W.London: Published at the Offices of Country Life, Ltd., 1921. First edition. 4to. xx, 144 pp. Publisher's khaki boards, black lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket with black and white photographic illustration mounted to the front panel, signed by Burrows on the title page, supplied with an.....
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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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