London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-28. Medallion edition, twenty-two volumes, 8vo. Each volume with a frontispiece, many photographic, some light foxing to early leaves in most volumes, a handful of upper hinges with minor cracking. Original gilt titled blue cloth, mild rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a good bright set.....

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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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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Limited edition, no. 1 of 365 copies, 4to, xvi, (ii), 236 pp. 94 black and white plates. Original teal cloth, maroon leather spine label, a fine copy. A British edition of 650 copies appeared the year before.

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Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1682. First edition, folio, (xiv), 323, (1) pp. Engraved title page and 137 plates, 21 of which are double page, later bookplate. Early 20th century half morocco, marbled sides, recent repair to the foot of the joints. A handsome copy of the first accurately measured.....

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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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London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but 1871]. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (xii), 224 pp. Recent red full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, gilt rules to the sides and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Black and white illustrations. Slight soiling to the first and.....

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London: James Wyld, [1850s]. Large folding map of southern England extending from Bristol across to just beyond Chatham and just north of Banbury down to the Isle of Wight, presented in two halves (each 149 x 95 cm, i.e. 149 x 190 cm if joined) made up from nine conjoined.....

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London: Thornton Butterworth [and] Hutchinson & Co., (1923-31) [and 1928]. First edition, first issue. Seven volumes. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spines, the "Criticism" with dust jacket. Frontispiece plus 48 maps, diagrams and tables and 10 plates plus 3 folding sketch maps, another 2 full page and.....

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Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1775. First edition. 4to. xiv, xiii (3), 283 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style with repairs to the corners of the boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, early ownership inscription to the head of the front free endpaper with an.....

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1950). 8vo, (ii), 253, (1) pp. Cloth, very mild browning to spine and edges, d.w. with some creasing and minor tears to edges, very minor loss to the top of the spine and top of the lower wrapper. First published by the Gnome Press in.....

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London: John Betts. 115 Strand (nearly opposite Exeter Hall), [c. 1860]. Map dimensions 75 x 62.5 cm, overall dimensions 77.5 x 64 cm. Folding map of Ireland with attractive original colour in block and outline demarcating the county boundaries. The whole dissected into twenty-four sections and mounted on linen, folds.....

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London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1885. Third edition. 4to. (iv) pp. Publisher's maroon half morocco rebacked preserving much of the original spine, gilt to the spine and upper board. 31 colour maps, 26 embossed in relief to illustrate altitudes; the five political maps of Europe, England, Scotland, Ireland and India.....

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