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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. With original screen images designed by...
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.(Guildford): Circle Press Publications, (1978). Limited edition, no. 1 of 250 copies initialled by King, folio, (xii), 57, (3) pp. Vignette to title and 14 full page illustrations. Original blue cloth, darker blue cloth slipcase with very minor wear. Accompanying the book is a card folder containing 18 (of 20).....
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Near East.
BEATON, Cecil.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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An Essay on Electricity, Explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and...
ADAMS, George.London: Printed by J. Dillon, and Co., for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, 1799. Fifth edition. 8vo. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with double gilt rules, gilt lettered green label, gilt device of a bird to the other panels, the ownership inscription of a......
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Map of England And Wales, Constructed for the Use of the Schools...
ARROWSMITH, S.London: C. Smith. 172 Strand. Jan. 1st, 1851. Overall dimensions 165 x 130 cm. Very large map of England and Wales printed over four conjoined sheets mounted on linen and fixed upon original wooden rollers, printed brief title label to upper roller. Original colour demarcating the counties. Slight fraying to.....
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Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a preface and some account...
BLUNT, Lady Anne.London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in.....
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Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and...
"ALEPH". [HARVEY, William Henry].London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European.....
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The Practice of Pietie. Directing a Christian how to walke that he...
(BAYLY, Lewis).Delf [Delft]: Abraham Jacobs, [c.1635]. 16mo, (x), 539, (3 blank) pp. Engraved title page, brief inscriptions to blank opposite. Recent full calf, very good. Originally published some 25 years earlier - the second edition of 1612 is the earliest extant, and a popular devotional work that was still in print.....
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With... illustrations by John Tenniel.
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1871. 27th thousand, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., rebacked with the majority of the original backstip still present.
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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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Grandes Constructions. Béton Armé. Acier. Verre.
BADOVICI, Jean.(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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Bacon's New Chart of the World. Mercator's Projection.
BACON, G.W.Manchester: G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., [c.1906]. Map dimensions 92 x 118 cm, overall 94 x 120 cm. A large folding colour printed chart of the world, decorated with 46 flags across the upper edge, six tables of data to the lower edge, a larger inset map of the British.....
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Cary's New Pocket Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark:...
CARY, J.London: J. Cary, No. 181 Strand, Jany. 1, 1797. Map dimensions 30.5 x 60 cm, overall 41 x 61 cm. Folding plan of central London, original colour highlighting the bodies of water and the parks with a thin outline marking out the boundary of the City, dissected into 18 sections.....
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