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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London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Limited edition, no. 48 of 104 sets signed by the printer Charles Whittingham, five volumes - with the Life in four volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles plus 44 plates, contemporary signature to paste downs, mid-20th century catalogue slip for this set tipped.....

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Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce.

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London: Putnam, (1937). First edition, 8vo, (x), 416 pp. Recent red full morocco, a lovely copy. The true first edition, the book being written in English and only later translated into the author's native Danish. The American first edition appeared under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twelfth thousand. 8vo. (xii), 224, (4) pp. Later red full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered labels, gilt to the other compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership signature to the half title. Frontispiece and 49 illustrations. Occasional mild spotting, very good.....

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London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7.....

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London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. First edition. 8vo. viii, 149, (1) pp. Publisher's orange cloth, yellow lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket, inscribed by Beaton on the front free endpaper "To Hugh Francis, without whose help...", an autograph letter signed from him also affixed to the verso of.....

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London: William Phillips, 1822. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), lxi, (3), 58, (2), 59-470, (2) pp. Recent dark green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label, early ownership inscription of a W. Parry to the head of the title page. Geological frontispiece map of England and Wales plus a long hand.....

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(Paris): Éditions Albert Morancé, [1927]. First edition, 4to, (40) pp, followed by 54 plates, the text partly unopened. Held loose in the original pictorial covers with ties intact, gilt to the spine rubbed away, some light marking, overall a very good copy. Construction using reinforced concrete, steel and glass...

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London: G.W. Bacon & Co., Limited, 1910. Second edition. 4to. (iv), (4), 20, 16, 4, 2 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the upper panel, rebacked to style. Frontispiece illustrating the "flags of all nations", 6 full page maps including individual maps of the north and south polar regions.....

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New York: Private Circulation, 1882. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), 275, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the dedication leaf to the chemist Sidney G. Thomas and his sister, Lilian, with her and her husband's bookplate to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine sunned with some wear to.....

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Kantabrigia [Cambridge]: Ioannou Phieldou [John Field], 1665, 1664. Two works in one volume, 12mo, xxxvi, 126, (2, ii), 115, (3), 117-171, (1) pp. Marginal loss to O6 in the second work without loss of text, contemporary signature to the title page of the first work. Contemporary calf, a little worn.....

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