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A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex. Including...
DALLAWAY, James & CARTWRIGHT, Edmund.London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1815, 30, 32, 19. Four volumes, 4to. First two volumes (Chichester and Bramber) first edition, third volume (Arundel) "New Edition", plus the very rare first edition of the Arundel volume, large 4to. 83 plates - two double page and four in colour, 19 maps and.....
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The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from...
CERVANTES DE SAAVEDRA, Miguel.London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and R. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1742. First edition thus. Two volumes. 4to. xxxii, (xii), vi, (ii), 355, (1); xii, 388 pp. Nineteenth century full calf, the boards with gilt ruled panels with blindstamped decoration, rebacked to style in a......
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An Essay Upon Ways and Means Of Supplying the War.
[DAVENANT, Charles].London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 160 pp. Folding table with a couple of closed marginal tears, marbled endpapers. 19th century dark green half morocco, marbled sides, rather darkened, rebacked retaining almost all of the original backstrip. The oldest son of the poet and playwright William.....
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[Postcards].
BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS.69 postcards relating to Palestine, including multiples: 141. General Sir Edmund Allenby & General Baillout at Ismailia - x 4 142. The Imperial Camel Corps entering Beersheba - x 3 143. One of the 5 Wells of Beersheba as left by the Turks - x 4 145. El Arish redoubt.....
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The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations...
DARWIN, Charles.London: John Murray, 1881. First edition. 8vo. viii, 326, (2) pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and blind ruled to the boards, ownership inscription "Helen Fryer, 1881" to the head of the title page. 15 illustrations in the text. Neatly recased, light foxing to the front.....
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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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The Natural History of Orkney.
BERRY, R.J.London: Collins, 1985. First edition, first state. 304 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket with the original Duraseal protector in place, not price clipped. 20 coloured and 113 black and white illustrations. An attractive copy. New Naturalist series no. 70.
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William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job. The Engravings and Related...
BLAKE, William.London: The William Blake Trust, 1987. Limited edition, one of five special sets from a total edition of 387 copies. Four parts, each containing subdivisions of text volumes and/or portfolios of illustrations. Dark blue half morocco, the text volumes and solander boxes over marbled boards with gilt labels, the portfolios.....
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Sport in New Zealand.
CRADOCK, Lieut.-Col. Montagu.London: Anthony Treherne & Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 283, (1) pp. 8 plates. Original gilt titled pictorial green cloth, some very minor rubbing otherwise a handsome copy.
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Genius Genuine, by Samuel Chifney, of Newmarket. A Fine Part in Riding...
CHIFNEY, Samuel.London: Sold only for the Author, 232 Piccadilly, [1795]. First edition. 8vo. 170 pp. (i-v), vi-vii, (viii-xi), 12-170 pp. Contemporary red full straight grained morocco, neatly rebacked to style, gilt tooled compartments with a gilt lettered green label. Some light wear and marking to the boards, occasional browning within, very.....
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The New Survey of London Life & Labour. Forty Years of Change...
(BOOTH). SMITH, Sir Hubert Llewellyn (Editor).London: P.S. King & Son, 1930-35. First edition, nine volumes, 8vo, volume IV and VII being map volumes. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Charles Booth in volume I. The map volumes containing 13 folding maps, plus 13 folding maps and a folding chart in the text volumes as well as further.....
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When the Wind Blows.
BRIGGS, Raymond.London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. 4to. (40) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, the peace symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) drawn in ink to the verso of the front free endpaper by the original owner along with the handwritten date "Christmas '82", plus signed and dated (2008) by.....
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