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Hindustani Selections with a Vocabulary of the Words. Prepared for the Use...

BALLANTYNE, James B.

London: J. Madden & Co.; Edinburgh: C. Smith and J. Braidwood. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (ii), 20, (4), 28, (48) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, original printed title label to the upper board with the handwritten note "Royal and Military Academy" to the lower edge, old pencilled ownership inscription to the.....

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On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the...

DARWIN, Charles.

London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue, fifth thousand. 8vo. x, 502 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, endpapers and all edges marbled, early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Folding table. Some mild rubbing to the extremities, very.....

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The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation...

DARWIN, Charles.

London: John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 365, (1, 1 advertisement, 1); (vi), 339, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and a folding plate. Original grey-green cloth, spines slightly dull, extremities a little rubbed. Freeman 437. Published the same year as the 41st thousand of the standard issue of.....

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Oryktographia Norica, sive Rerum Fossilium et ad Minerale Regnum Pertinentium, in Territorio...

BAJERI, Joh. Jacobi. (BAIER, Johann Jakob).

Norimbergae (Nuremberg): Wolfgangi Michahellis, 1708. First edition. Small 4to. (viii), 102 pp. Contemporary full vellum, gilt lettered morocco label, 19th century armorial bookplate of Cecil Deedes to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 6 folding plates of fossils, all finely engraved by Johann Georg Puschner. Slight wear to the spine label.....

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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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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By Boz.

[DICKENS, Charles].

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, first issue. Three volumes. Fine later bindings by Bayntun (Riviere) in red full morocco, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels (and dated at the foot), gilt decoration to the other compartments, portrait bust of Dickens and his signature reproduced in.....

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A Chronicle of the Kings of England, From the time of the...

BAKER, Sir (Richard).

London: Printed by E. Cotes, 1660. Third edition, folio, (x), 96, 197-232, 133-385, 384-454, 457-504, 405-430, 433-466, 447-[506], (4), 507-546, 457-458, (50) pp. Wood engraved frontispiece, backed onto old paper, the recto of which shows some scorch marks, lower section of the final leaf torn away, not affecting text. The.....

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Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuouamente Ristampato.

CASTIGLIONE, Baldessare.

Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding.....

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Two very Notable Commentaries the One of the Originall of the Turcks...

(CAMBINI, Andrea) [and GIOVIO, Paolo].

London: Printed... by Rouland Hall for Humfrey Toye dwelling in Paules Churche yearde at the signe of the Helmette, 1562. First English edition. Small 4to. (10), 32, 32-68, 99-100, 1-42, [3] ff. Six leaves (D3-E4) with slight loss to the lower corners just clipping the text, now sensitively repaired and.....

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The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla. or Le Paradis de la Reine...

BELL, Clive.

Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition, one of 400 copies. Small 4to. 25, (1) pp. Publisher's white boards, the upper cover with a design in black by Vanessa Bell, dust jacket plain but for lettering tot he upper panel. Frontispiece.....

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De Elocutione. [Title repeated in Greek].

[DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS].

Florentiæ [Florence]: Apud Iuntas [Giunta], 1552. First separate edition. 8vo. (12), 96, (2) pp, bound without the final blank as often. Later, probably 18th century full calf, spine with raised bands, blindstamped decoration to the boards, the early ownership inscription of a Danto Maria di Franco del Besso to the.....

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Map of England And Wales, Constructed for the Use of the Schools...

ARROWSMITH, S.

London: C. Smith. 172 Strand. Jan. 1st, 1851. Overall dimensions 165 x 130 cm. Very large map of England and Wales printed over four conjoined sheets mounted on linen and fixed upon original wooden rollers, printed brief title label to upper roller. Original colour demarcating the counties. Slight fraying to.....

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