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A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, presenting under each...
BELL, James.Glasgow: A. Fullarton, 1834. Four volumes, 8vo. Folding general map and 44 smaller folding county maps, bound at the front of each volume. Contemporary inscription to fly leaves of Anne Turnell, Dallington Grange, who has numbered each map and written a list of them to each paste down. Some foxing.....
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Italian Food. Drawings by Renato Guttuso.
DAVID, Elizabeth.(Harmondsworth): Penguin Books, (1963). 8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis "...Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g.
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The Player of Games.
BANKS, Iain M.London: Macmillan, (1988). Limited edition, no. 76 of 201 copies, (viii), 309, (1) pp. Maroon cloth, slipcase with a colour illustration to one side, faint rubbing to the slipcase otherwise an excellent copy.
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War Speeches. Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning;...
CHURCHILL, Winston S.London: Cassell and Company, 1943-50. Mixed editions. Nine volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes of the war speeches in publisher's blue cloth, the post-war volume in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, three volumes with early inscriptions, dust jackets, early Singapore bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper of "Victory".....
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The Microscope Made Easy: or, I. The Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers...
BAKER, Henry.London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper and J. Cuff, 1743. Second edition, 8vo, (ii), xvi, 311, (13 Index) pp. 15 plates (11 folding) plus a folding table. Contemporary calf, minor loss to extremities, joints recently repaired. First published 1742.
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Hindustani Selections with a Vocabulary of the Words. Prepared for the Use...
BALLANTYNE, James B.London: J. Madden & Co.; Edinburgh: C. Smith and J. Braidwood. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (ii), 20, (4), 28, (48) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, original printed title label to the upper board with the handwritten note "Royal and Military Academy" to the lower edge, old pencilled ownership inscription to the.....
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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 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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French Country Cooking. Decorated by John Minton.
DAVID, Elizabeth.London: John Lehmann, 1951. First edition, 8vo, 247, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w. designed by John Minton with loss to the top of the spine and top edge and much milder loss to other extremities.
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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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Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: being a New Set of County...
CARY, John.London: Printed for John Cary, 1787. First edition, 4to. Engraved title and dedication, plus 46 maps on 47 sheets - the West Riding of Yorkshire being over two sheets, some light foxing. Modern gilt titled brown buckram, a very good copy. The first printing of Cary's popular atlas - Chubb.....
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Mount Zion, or In Touch with the Infinite.
BETJEMAN, John.London: The James Press, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, 57, (1) pp. Dedication leaf and 7 full page illustrations on pink paper, text on light blue paper with light marginal browning throughout, some other small illustrations, with the initials of the writer and artist Wilfrid Blunt on the fly leaf, Betjeman's.....
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