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The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. [with] Night...
(BLAKE, William). [YOUNG, Edward].London: The Folio Society, 2005. Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title.....
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Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China. Being Description and...
BAHR, A.W.London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to.....
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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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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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The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men.
BYRON, Robert.London: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the ownership inscription of an Ianthi Zygounas dated July 1928 to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, mostly photographic and including many taken by the author. The.....
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Cruchley's Improved Environs of London.
CRUCHLEY, G.F.London: G.F. Cruchley, [c.1830]. Map dimensions 57 x 58 cm, overall 60.5 x 61.5 cm. Decorative folding map of London showing the extents from Cheshunt down to Banstead and Ranham across to Southall, original colour marking out the county boundaries, principal roads, parks and bodies of water, border mounted to.....
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First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration of Harar.
BURTON, Richard F.London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856. First edition, 8vo, xl, (ii), 648, 24 advertisement pp. 4 fine coloured lithographs and 2 maps, the plates with some mostly marginal soiling, original endpapers with advertisements bound in. Modern red half morocco, black spine label. A famous account of Burton's journey to.....
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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Martin Secker, [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Publisher's red quarter morocco, t.e.g., faint sunning of spines otherwise an excellent set.
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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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Sketches of Ceylon.
BRUCE, Lydia Beresford.London: Printed by Cassell and Company, 1914. Sole edition, 4to, (6) pp, followed by 12 colour plates tipped in with captioned tissues. Original pictorial card covers bound in. Modern quarter cloth with marbled sides. Scarce - OCLC lists only one copy, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, with one.....
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The Book of Household Management; Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook...
BEETON, Mrs.London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, [c.1869]. 197th thousand. 8vo. xli, (ii), 1139, (1) pp., bound without the advertisements. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine and the gilt lettered maroon label, marbled endpapers, the front pastedown featuring an attractive gilt lettered label presenting the.....
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Danny the Champion of the World. Illustrated by Jill Bennett.
DAHL, Roald.London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition. 8vo. 206, (2) pp. Publisher's russet cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. Black and white illustrations in the text. Slight spine slant, a little light edge wear to the jacket with a small triangular surface loss to the foot of.....
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