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The Life of Mahomet. Translated from the French Original...

BOULAINVILLIERS, [Henri de, Comte].

London: Printed for T. Longman and D. Hitch and L. Hawes... and J. and J. Rivington, 1752. Third edition thus. 12mo. (2), iv, 294 pp. Contemporary full brown calf, gilt rules to boards, spine with raised bands, gilt rules to compartments else plain, the date written in ink in a....

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A Manual of Mineralogy.

AIKIN, Arthur.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 263, (1) pp. Recent half speckled calf over marbled boards, twin gilt lettered red labels, the date in gilt to the foot of the spine, contemporary gift inscription to one of the front flyleaves. Very good. Arthur Aikin...

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An Essay on Electricity, Explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and...

ADAMS, George.

London: Printed by J. Dillon, and Co., for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, 1799. Fifth edition. 8vo. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with double gilt rules, gilt lettered green label, gilt device of a bird to the other panels, the ownership inscription of a....

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[The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated...

(BIBLE).

(London: Printed by E.T. for a Society of Stationers 1655) & London: Printed by A.M. for the Companie of Stationers 1653. 1655 & 1653. Two works in one volume, 8vo, (734; ii), 78 pp. The Bible lacking its engraved title page, some light browning, 18th and 19th century family inscriptions...

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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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Bowles's New Four-Sheet Map of England and Wales: Comprehending all the Cities...

(BOWLES AND CARVER). PATERSON, Daniel.

London: Printed for proprietors Bowles & Carver, 1810. Map dimensions 130 x 101.5 cm, overall 132.5 x 103.5 cm. Large folding map with original colour in block and outline demarcating the counties, ornate title cartouche to the upper right corner with an explanatory key adjacent, inset map of the Isles...

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Sense and Sensibility. A Novel.

AUSTEN, Jane.

London: George Routledge, 1851. 12mo, (3)-286, (4 advertisement) pp. Ink signature to title, brief pencilled inscription to the next leaf, upper joint slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary cloth, gilt titled spine, some marks and rubbing. A scarce issue of "Sense and Sensibility" published in Routledge's Railway Library, not noted in...

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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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Betts' New Map of Ireland Accurately Reduced from the Beautiful Six Sheet...

BETTS, John.

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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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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The Land of Midian (Revisited).

BURTON, Richard F.

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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Chorographia Britanniae, Or a New Set of Maps of All the Counties...

(BADESLADE, [Thomas]).

London: Sold by C. Hitch..., W. Johnston... & by W.H. Toms, [1742]. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style with raised bands, gilt rules to the compartments, elaborate ownership inscription by a Samuel Thomas of St. James's, Bristol to one of the versos of the title page dated 1767. Engraved...

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