London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1934-38). Four volumes, volumes I and II "new edition revised", volumes III and IV first editions. 8vo. Contemporary blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, likely a publisher's binding, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered or decorated to the panels, top edges gilt...

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London: Printed for W. Owen... and sold at the Pamphlet Shops at the Royal Exchange,... 1748. Third edition. 8vo. (vi), 9-58 pp. Later printed marbled wrappers. Very good. Cf. Moore, 129, with slightly different pagination, though this copy matches those listed on ESTC. First published in 1706 in Edinburgh in...

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Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1874. 8vo. (viii), 192 pp. Attractive near contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards by E.P. Dutton & Co., spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and with gilt flower devices inlaid with red to the other...

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London: George Allen, 1898. First edition thus, 8vo, xxvi, 504 pp. Black and white illustrations, some foxing to the frontispiece and title page, mild signs of a bookplate having been removed from the paste down. Original gilt decorated green cloth, a.e.g., light stain to the upper cover otherwise a very...

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London: J.M. Dent, 1897-8. Sixth edition thus, 10 volumes, small 8vo. 31 plates, some light browning, mostly to endpapers. Original light green gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt, gilt spines slightly darkened, minor rubbing to several spine tops.

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New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation & Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., [1975]. Limited edition, no. 40 of 1,000 copies, folio, (ii, viii), 12, (86) pp. Second title and 40 coloured plates. Original gilt titled light green cloth, still held in the original publisher's box, a fine copy. A fine facsimile...

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, 8vo, xiii, (i), 226, (2, 16 advertisement) pp. 48 plates and 3 maps, some foxing to the text leaves, contemporary inscription to half title. Original pictorial red cloth, spine sunned. A lively travelogue through Kenya and Uganda before journeying down the White Nile to Egypt. Woods A12.

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. Forty-nine volumes bound in four, each individually paginated. Small folio. Quarter maroon morocco over matching boards, gilt lettered to the spine, ex-libris Victoria Institute, Worcester Public Library, with their shelf marks in gilt to the feet of the spines, bookplates to the front pastedowns...

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Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. First edition thus. 4to. (ii), 121, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped white cloth backed green boards, gilt lettered to the spine and upper cover, slightly later ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece tipped in, second title and 23 black and white plates. Occasional...

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Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, (1995). Limited edition, one of 204 copies from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations, small booklabel to the top of the paste down. Quarter vellum, marbled endpapers, folding cloth case, a fine copy.

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London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue, fifth thousand. 8vo. x, 502 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, endpapers and all edges marbled, early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Folding table. Some mild rubbing to the extremities, very...

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London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860. Three volumes. Mixed edition, volume I first English edition and volumes II and III second English editions. viii, 316; (2), 360; (2), 368 pp. Attractively bound in recent mottled green half morocco over plain green cloth boards by Bayntun, spines with raised bands...

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