Amstelædami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Walters, 1699. 8vo. (vi), 544 pp., lacking the final 14 pages. Recent half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Frontispiece, title vignette, 2 folding maps of the world and 12 illustrations in the text, some full page. Dampstaining to the rear...

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London: H.S. Nichols, 1894. Library edition, 12 volumes, large 8vo. Half title and the final leaf of text in each volume browned, bookplates designed by Max Beerbohm of Granville Barker, actor, producer and playwright, later inscriptions to the fly leaf and the foot of each bookplate. Original black cloth, t.e.g......

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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (1934-38). Four volumes, volumes I and II "new edition revised", volumes III and IV first editions. 8vo. Contemporary blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, likely a publisher's binding, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered or decorated to the panels, top edges gilt...

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London: Sherwood, Jones and Co. 1820]. 8vo, (56) pp. 27 hand coloured lithographic plates (being no.'s 1-27 from 98 in total), one folding. Some mostly mild marking, marbled endpapers. Contemporary black half calf, marbled paper sides, defective and loose in places, spine ends worn. A part collection of plates from...

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London, 1808. Forty-four volumes (of 45), 12mo, lacking volume XII, or the seventh of ten volumes of the Spectator. 17 volumes with portrait frontispieces. Contemporary tree calf, gilt banded spines, sunned and with 12 volumes lacking their labels, all but 11 volumes also lacking their small roundels of green morocco...

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London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1903. Second impression, 8vo, xii, 336, (4 advertisement) pp. Four maps (1 folding), some occasional light foxing. Original black cloth, silver vignette to upper cover, rebacked retaining the original, slightly dull, backstrip.

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[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1577. 8vo, (xvi), 72, 134 pp. Printer's woodcut device to the title page, some light foxing, title browned with some small ink marks. Contemporary dappled calf with a central decorative blind stamped panel, a little worn, outer edge of lower cover darkened, recently rebacked with a....

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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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London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. [1916]. First edition. 4to. xvi, 194, (2) pp. Publisher's pale green buckram, gilt lettered and decorated to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 11 plates, all in colour and tipped in. The scarce jacket with some wear to the edges and...

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London: Thornton Butterworth, (1923-31). First edition, first issue. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spines. 1 frontispiece plus 48 maps, diagrams and tables and 10 plates. Minor wear to the head of volume I, slight fading to spine of volume IV, a very good set.

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Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine...

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Norimbergae (Nuremberg): Wolfgangi Michahellis, 1708. First edition. Small 4to. (viii), 102 pp. Contemporary full vellum, gilt lettered morocco label, the 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...

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