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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Lavenham: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited edition, one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 186 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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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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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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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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London: Country Life, (1938). First edition, large 8vo, (vi, 64) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Paperback, with recent repairs to the spine, held in a modern black folding box.

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New York: Private Circulation, 1882. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), 275, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the dedication leaf to the chemist Sidney G. Thomas and his sister, Lilian, with her and her husband's bookplate to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine sunned with some wear to.....

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Printed at the Caxton Works, Bombay by G.W. & A.E. Claridge. Published by Sakharam Sadashiv Manohar, for the Proprietors of the Vividhakala-Mandir, Raopura, Baroda [Vadodara], [n.d.]. Small oblong 4to. (ii), (20) pp. Publisher's full morocco, gilt lettered to the upper cover, patterned coated endpapers, presentation inscription to "A. Menton Esq.".....

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London: Charles Griffin & Company, Ltd., 1904. First English edition. 4to. xvi, 628 pp. Contemporary maroon half morocco over matching cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others. 20 plates, 8 of them chromolithographs, and 94 figures in the text Some.....

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London: John Churchill, 1853 [but 1855]. Tenth edition, but the first with illustrations. 8vo. xii, 325, (1), (ii), lxvii, (i), (32) pp. Publisher's light brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, ownership inscription dated 1868 to the front free endpaper, a quotation neatly inscribed on the half title and.....

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Glasgow: A. Fullarton, 1834. Four volumes, 8vo. Folding general map and 44 smaller folding county maps, bound at the front of each volume. Contemporary inscription to fly leaves of Anne Turnell, Dallington Grange, who has numbered each map and written a list of them to each paste down. Some foxing.....

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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution.....

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