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The Second World War. The Gathering Storm. Their Finest Hour. The Grand...
CHURCHILL, Winston S.London: Cassell & Co., 1948-54. First editions. Six volumes. 8vo. Recent russet half morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, lion rampant device in gilt to the other compartments, top edges gilt. Numerous maps, some folding. An.....
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Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus. With... drawings by Paul Nash...
BROWNE, Sir Thomas.London: (Printed... at the Curwen Press), Published by Cassell and Co., La Belle Sauvage, 1932. Limited edition, no. 64 of 215 copies, folio, xx, 146 pp. 32 coloured pochoir illustrations - 14 full page, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later vellum with yapp edges, without the morocco.....
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Stieler's Atlas of Modern Geography. Adapted for the use of the English-Speaking...
(ATLAS).Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1909. Ninth edition, folio, (iv, 2), 236 index pp. 100 double page coloured maps bound on stubs, some light wear to the first and last few leaves with some professional restoration to the edges of the final two leaves, new endpapers excepting the fly leaf, some stains.....
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Elements of Botany; or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables... By......
BARTON, Benjamin Smith.London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1804. First British edition. 8vo. xii, (ii), 344, 35, (1) pp. Early beaded cloth, gilt lettered spine label, contemporary owner's initials to the head of the title page. 30 fine hand coloured plates. Some fading and wear to the spine, small split to the head.....
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An Introduction to Geology, Illustrative of the General Structure of the Earth;...
BAKEWELL, Robert.London: J. Harding, 1815. Second edition, "considerably enlarged". 8vo. xix, (i), 492 pp. Nineteenth century tan half calf over plum cloth boards. Frontispiece, 3 plates of strata and a map of England - all geologically handcoloured, plus two black and white plates. Rebacked preserving much of the original spine, the.....
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Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. With an Introduction by David Sylvester and a....
ADES, Dawn.London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. First edition. 4to. xii, 475, (1) pp. Bespoke designer binding of tan full morocco skilfully inlaid with panels of blue, russet, black and red in an abstract pattern, blind lettered vertically to the spine, top edge gilt, original printed covers bound in to.....
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Letters and Journals of... In My Hot Youth. Famous in My Time...
BYRON, Lord.London: John Murray, 1974-84, 1994. First edition, 13 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces in all but the index volume, two in colour. Cloth, d.w.'s, that to volume I slightly worn otherwise very good.
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The Travels of... Translated with Revisions and Notes from the Arabic Text...
BATTUTA, Ibn.London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000. First editions. Five volumes. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Illustrations and maps. A little light wear to the jackets with some spotting to those of volumes I-II, very good overall. A complete set comprising volumes 110, 117, 141, 178.....
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood by...
BEWICK, Thomas.Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, 1791. Second edition, 8vo, x, 483, (1) pp. 212 engravings plus 107 tailpieces and one further engraving, later bookplate of the author Eric Quayle. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Tattersfield.....
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
ADAMS, Douglas.London: Arthur Barker Limited, (1979). First edition, 8vo, 158, (2) pp. Cloth, second state d.w., a little rubbed with some loss to the spine ends and corners.
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A History of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
ACKERMANN, R. (Publisher).London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814. First edition, two volumes, 4to. 115 plates - a portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand coloured aquatints and 17 hand coloured engravings of the various gowns plus the 33 Founders plates, all in excellent condition. Frontispiece and one further plate plus the text in.....
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Blake's Illustrations of Dante. Seven Plates, Designed and Engraved by...
BLAKE, William.London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Limited edition, no. 248 of 376 copies from a total edition of 440. Oblong folio. (14) pp. Publisher's brown quarter morocco over grey cloth sides, matching cloth slipcase. 7 plates and 11 further illustrations. An attractive copy.
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