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The Microscope Made Easy: or, I. The Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers...
BAKER, Henry.London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper and J. Cuff, 1743. Second edition, 8vo, (ii), xvi, 311, (13 Index) pp. 15 plates (11 folding) plus a folding table. Contemporary calf, minor loss to extremities, joints recently repaired. First published 1742.
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Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. With an Introduction by David Sylvester and a....
ADES, Dawn.London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. First edition. 4to. xii, 475, (1) pp. Bespoke designer binding of tan full morocco skilfully inlaid with panels of blue, russet, black and red in an abstract pattern, blind lettered vertically to the spine, top edge gilt, original printed covers bound in to.....
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Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel.
CLARK, William George.London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. Sole edition. 8vo. xiv, (ii), 344, (8) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, inscribed on the front free endpaper "The Rev. The Master of Trinity College with the author's kind regards". 5 maps - 4 full page another folding.....
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Alle de Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe... De laatste Druk. Hier komen...
CATS, Jacob.Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen and François Halma; Utrecht: Wilhelm vande Water, 1700. Two volumes. Second edition. Folio. (28), 666, (10) [pp. 183-184 repeated and page numbers 343-348 omitted as usual, the text and signatures continual]; (18), 390, (6), 393-608, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary mottled full calf, spine with raised.....
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A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, presenting under each...
BELL, James.Glasgow: A. Fullarton, 1834. Four volumes, 8vo. Folding general map and 44 smaller folding county maps, bound at the front of each volume. Contemporary inscription to fly leaves of Anne Turnell, Dallington Grange, who has numbered each map and written a list of them to each paste down. Some foxing.....
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The Chinese Drama, from the earliest times until to-day. A Panoramic Study...
ARLINGTON L. C.Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.
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Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several...
BORLASE, William.London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition, folio, xvi, 464 pp. Two maps - one folding - and 25 plates - one of these also folding, plus 10 illustrations in the text, early owner's signature.....
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The Miscellaneous Works of... Some Gospel-Truths Opened. A Vindication of Some Gospel-Truths...
BUNYAN, John.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1976-94. Thirteen volumes, 8vo. Contemporary signature to the fly leaf in volumes I, II, VI and IX. Gilt titled cloth, an excellent complete set.
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To Beauty. John Buckland Wright's work with Joseph Ishill of the Oriole...
(BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John). BUCKLAND WRIGHT, Christopher.(Upper Denby): The Fleece Press, (2006). Limited edition, one of 246 copies, 8vo, 56, (4) pp. 22 illustrations, 5 tipped in. Quarter cloth, marbled boards, folding cloth case, a fine copy.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Together with The Journal of a Tour...
BOSWELL, Samuel.London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Limited edition, no. 48 of 104 sets signed by the printer Charles Whittingham, five volumes - with the Life in four volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles plus 44 plates, contemporary signature to paste downs, mid-20th century catalogue slip for this set tipped.....
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La Plante. Cent vingt planches et héliogravure d'après des détails très agrandis...
BLOSSFELDT, Charles [Karl].Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce.
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The Cornhill Magazine. Vol. I. January to June, 1860 [to] Vol. XX...
(CORNHILL MAGAZINE).London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860-1869. Twenty volumes. 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, endpapers and all edges marbled. Numerous black and white illustrations. Even fading to the spines, rubbing to the extremities, four volumes with neat joint.....
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week.All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association