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Les Edifices Antiques de Rome. Dessinés et Mesurés tres exactement.
DESGODETZ, Antoine.Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1682. First edition, folio, (xiv), 323, (1) pp. Engraved title page and 137 plates, 21 of which are double page, later bookplate. Early 20th century half morocco, marbled sides, recent repair to the foot of the joints. A handsome copy of the first accurately measured.....
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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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The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran...
BAKER, Sir Samuel W.London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo, xxii, (ii), 596 pp. Two maps - one folding, portrait frontispiece and 23 plates, armorial bookplate. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, rebacked retaining the original backstrip, this slightly darkened and rubbed.
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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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Estimates from the East India Company. Ordered to be Printed 8th March...
(EAST INDIA COMPANY).1803. Small folio. (ii); 9, (3); (iv), 82, (4); (vi); (viii); 201, (1); (ii), 131, (1) pp., the pages also continuously numbered in contemporary manuscript (449, (1) pp.) with a corresponding handwritten index to the front of the volume. Recent brown half calf over old marbled boards, spine with raised.....
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Rebecca.
DU MAURIER, Daphne.London: Victor Gollancz, 1938. First edition, 8vo, 446 pp. Ownership inscription to paste down, light marginal browning throughout. Original black cloth, spine a little dull with a small mark otherwise very good.
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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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Balyn and Balan.
CLARKE, Graham.Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine.....
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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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A Treatise on Civil Architecture, in which that Art are Laid Down...
CHAMBERS, William.London: Printed by J. Dixwell. To be Had at the Author's House...; likewise Cadell, Nourse, and Wilson [et al], 1768. Second edition. Folio. (iv), iv, 86 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked and recornered to style, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, later owner's inscription to the.....
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The History of the Civil Wars of France: Written in Italian by.....
DAVILA, H.C. [Enrico Caterino].[London] In the Savoy: Printed by T.N. [Thomas Newcomb] for Henry Herringman, 1678. Second edition, folio, (iv), 734, (2, 17 index, 1) pp. Faint ink stamps of the Bradford Free Library to the first three leaves, title page with an old signature and several minor closed tears to the edges.....
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