[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1577. 8vo, (xvi), 72, 134 pp. Printer's woodcut device to the title page, some light foxing, title browned with some small ink marks. Contemporary dappled calf with a central decorative blind stamped panel, a little worn, outer edge of lower cover darkened, recently rebacked with a....

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London: Printed for proprietors Bowles & Carver, 1810. Map dimensions 130 x 101.5 cm, overall 132.5 x 103.5 cm. Large folding map with original colour in block and outline demarcating the counties, ornate title cartouche to the upper right corner with an explanatory key adjacent, inset map of the Isles...

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London: Printed by J.M. for Thomas Dring, 1671. First edition, small 4to, (iv), 82, (2) pp. First and last leaf with marginal loss, subtly laid down, contemporary signatures of one Mary Howard to the title page, some occasional soiling. Handsomely bound in recent period style panelled calf. Behn's second play...

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(Dublin and London): The Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, (1986). First edition. Square 4to. xxviii, 402 pp. Publisher's russet cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and in blind to the upper board, dust jacket, with loosely inserted a ten line handwritten note from Beckett dated...

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London: John Betts. 115 Strand (nearly opposite Exeter Hall), [c. 1860]. Map dimensions 75 x 62.5 cm, overall dimensions 77.5 x 64 cm. Folding map of Ireland with attractive original colour in block and outline demarcating the county boundaries. The whole dissected into twenty-four sections and mounted on linen, folds...

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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847-48. Twenty volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in volume I, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, slightly sunned, some occasional rubbing, several corners with light wear otherwise a very good set.

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London: Collins, (1985). First edition, second state, 304 pp. 20 coloured and 113 black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, very mild browning to the top edge of the lower wrapper and the spine, near fine. New Naturalist series no. 70.

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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition, third impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, title and subsequent leaf, faint damp stain to the top corner of some early leaves. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, some restoration and a new label to the spine. Stung into...

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London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving...

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London: John Stockdale, 1806. Second Gough edition. Four volumes. Folio. Contemporary full calf, sometime rebacked to style, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered labels, gilt decoration to the other compartments, the ownership inscription of one Geoffrey Hignett dated 1906 to each of the front pastedowns with the discreet ticket of...

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London: Marcus Ward & Co., and Belfast: Royal Ulster Works, c.1875]. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, decorated in black to the upper board. A generic blank album enlivened by cut and mounted colour lithographs of 24 humming birds and 30 flowers, mostly captioned. Very good.

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London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth...

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