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The Hebrides. A Natural History.

BOYD, J.M. & I.L.

London: Collins, (1990). First edition, 8vo, 416 pp. 21 colour and over 150 black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, very slight sunning of spine, near fine. New Naturalist series no. 76.

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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, Now Entituled...

BURTON, Richard F.

Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers only, [c.1920]. Luristan edition, no. 303 of 1,000 sets, seventeen volumes, large 8vo. Frontispiece and several plates in each volume. Original grey cloth, t.e.g., spines with paper labels, browned and faded, spines ends a little bumped otherwise a good set.

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Alle de Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe... De laatste Druk. Hier komen...

CATS, Jacob.

Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen and François Halma; Utrecht: Wilhelm vande Water, 1700. Two volumes. Second edition. Folio. (28), 666, (10) [pp. 183-184 repeated and page numbers 343-348 omitted as usual, the text and signatures continual]; (18), 390, (6), 393-608, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary mottled full calf, spine with raised...

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Remarkable News from the Stars, or an Ephemeris... The Gentleman's Diary, or...

ALMANACS:

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1770. Twelve works bound in one volume, 8vo, 48 pp each, with the final gathering of the Gentleman's Diary bound in the middle of the Ladies' Diary. Titles and various other parts - tables, etc - printed in red and black, plus diagrams...

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A Few Chapters in Workshop Re-Construction and Citizenship.

ASHBEE, C.R.

London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth...

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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...

AUSTEN, Jane.

Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Recent green half calf, t.e.g., marbled sides, cloth sides, a fine set.

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[Arabian Nights]. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A....

BURTON, Richard F.

Privately Printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]. Sixteen volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces with captioned tissues. Original gold and silver decorated cloth, t.e.g., mild rubbing to the spines of volumes 8, 9 and 10 otherwise a handsome set.

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California.

COLTON, J.H.

New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1856. Map dimensions 36 x 26.5 cm, overall 43 x 34.5 cm. Folding map with original colour marking out the county boundaries, large inset plan of San Francisco to the upper right corner, original blind stamped red cloth boards, gilt lettered to the upper...

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The Woman in White.

COLLINS, Wilkie.

London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860. Three volumes. Mixed edition, volume I first English edition and volumes II and III second English editions. viii, 316; (2), 360; (2), 368 pp. Attractively bound in recent mottled green half morocco over plain green cloth boards by Bayntun, spines with raised bands...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

CARROLL, Lewis.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. Eighth thousand, or fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, some occasional spots, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later maroon half morocco, t.e.g., red cloth sides, spine, sunned, with gilt vignettes, a very good copy. Williams...

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The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing the...

[DARWIN, Erasmus].

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. Two volumes, volume I first edition, volume II third edition, 4to, xii, 212, (1), 212-214, 126, (ii); (iv), ix, (i), 197, (1) pp, directions to the binder slip bound in at the end of volume I. Frontispieces and 18 plates. Some minor spotting, but...

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Balyn and Balan.

CLARKE, Graham.

Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine...

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