London: R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 1677. 8vo. (20), 449, (3) pp. 8vo. Later half calf, rebacked with close matching, marbled boards, the earlier spine label preserved. Title page vignette plus two plates. Small closed tear to the.....

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twelfth thousand. 8vo. (xii), 224, (4) pp. Later red full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered labels, gilt to the other compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership signature to the half title. Frontispiece and 49 illustrations. Occasional mild spotting, very good.....

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London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Sole edition. Three volumes. 8vo. 19th century dark blue buckram, gilt lettered olive spine labels. A little light scuffing to the covers, very good.

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Kantabrigia [Cambridge]: Ioannou Phieldou [John Field], 1665, 1664. Two works in one volume, 12mo, xxxvi, 126, (2, ii), 115, (3), 117-171, (1) pp. Marginal loss to O6 in the second work without loss of text, contemporary signature to the title page of the first work. Contemporary calf, a little worn.....

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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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London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1934-1939. Four volumes, 8vo. Numerous maps, plans and facsimiles. Original plum cloth, gilt crest to upper covers, t.e.g., d.w.'s with some loss to the spine ends and some minor spotting, otherwise an attractive set. The curiously named "Limited Presentation Edition," which used up extant.....

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. 4to. (40) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, the peace symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) drawn in ink to the verso of the front free endpaper by the original owner along with the handwritten date "Christmas '82", plus signed and dated (2008) by.....

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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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Port Louis: R.W. Brooks, 1934. First edition, no. 135 of 150 copies, 4to, xx, (ii), 231, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 34 plates - 3 folding, plus a map to the front endpapers, contemporary signature to front blank. Original half sheep, some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good.

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(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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London: John Murray, 1859. First edition. 8vo. (iii-x), 502, 28 pp, bound without the half title but with all the advertisement leaves barring the final two. Early 20th century green full morocco, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, marbled endpapers, bookplate of K.F. Russell to the front.....

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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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