Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. First edition. 8vo. (xxiv), 382 pp. Recent speckled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered dark red label. Engraved folding map (Rothschild's second state, bound before A1 and without the distance scale and marking of degrees to the margins) plus a title vignette. Map...

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(1) London [but Geneva]: Imprinted... by the Deputies of Christopher Barker; (2) Printed by W. [Stansby] for the Company of Stationers, 1589. 4to bound in 8's. (ii), 433, (4) ff; 731-739 pp, [Matthew chapters I-XI supplied from a contemporary black letter Bible], 446, (448)-465, 467-554, (82) ff.; (10), 90, (6)...

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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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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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London: Edward Moxon, 1841. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 453, (1); x, 488 pp. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, gilt to the spines, blindstamped to the boards, contemporary ownership inscription to the half titles. 2 colour frontispieces, 10 lithographic plates and 1 folding map. Both volumes sympathetically rebacked with almost...

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(Paris & Jura: The Trianon Press, 1965). Limited edition, no. 358 of 380 copies from a total edition of 426, 4to. 8 plates followed by (10) pp of text. Original brown quarter morocco, t.e.g., marbled sides and slipcase, spine sunned with some mild wear to the slipcase ends, otherwise very good.

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London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790. Revised edition, 8vo, (viii), 422, (1 errata, 1) pp. One folding plate, armorial bookplate of Andrew Berkeley Drummond. Contemporary speckled calf, corners bumped, neatly rebacked retaining the original morocco label. A member of the East India Company, Craufurd was appointed to Madras in 1761...

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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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London: C. Rivington, 1735. First edition. 8vo. viii, 349, (3) pp. Recent full speckled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, gilt lettering to other panels, all edges gilt. Folding map frontispiece. The map title to the upper margin partially cropped, the lower margin shaved to the neatline...

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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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London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving...

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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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