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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There...
CARROLL, Lewis.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901, 1902. Two volumes, first editions thus, 8vp. Photographic frontispiece portraits of Carroll and Newell plus 40 plates in each volume, decorative borders to the text, contemporary owner's signature to the fly leaves, later bookplates of the publisher Walter Kahoe. Original gilt titled parchment, t.e.g......
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The Holy Bible, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the Rev. John...
(BIBLE).Lewes: Sussex Press, Printed and Sold by John Baxter, 1811. 4to, (vi, 1118, 188, 418, 4) pp, including the Apocrypha, and a Subscriber's List bound in at the end. Wood engraved title pages and 30 plates plus two maps hand coloured in outline, some light foxing at the beginning and.....
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The Travels of... Translated with Revisions and Notes from the Arabic Text...
BATTUTA, Ibn.London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000. First editions. Five volumes. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Illustrations and maps. A little light wear to the jackets with some spotting to those of volumes I-II, very good overall. A complete set comprising volumes 110, 117, 141, 178.....
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Prolusions; or, select Pieces of antient Poetry, compil'd with great Care from...
[CAPELL, Edward].London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), xi, (i), 23, (1), 23, (1), 13, (3), 93, (15), 81, (3) pp. Some occasional foxing, marbled endpapers. Later gilt decorated black morocco, a.e.g., some faint rubbing, a very good copy. Including "The Wife" by John Overbury and.....
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In Patagonia.
CHATWIN, Bruce.London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First edition. 8vo. (iv), 204 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Map frontispiece and 8 pages of black and white photographs, map endpapers A little light spotting to the upper edges of the flaps, a lovely, bright copy.....
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An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The...
[BACON, Nathaniel].London: Printed for Mathew Walbancke at Grayes-Inne-Gate, 1647. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 323, (13) pp. Engraved second title showing a map of Britain, light damp staining to the first 5 leaves. Booklabel of Kimbolton Castle Library to the paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, spine dull, joints recently repaired with a......
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Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (Now...
BELLEW, H.W.London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7.....
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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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Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of...
ABBOT, Charles.Bedford: Printed and sold by W. Smith, 1798. First edition. 8vo. xii, 351, (1), (12) pp. Nineteenth century green half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered maroon label, recent bookplate to the front free endpaper, all edges marbled. 6 black and white plates. Rebacked preserving much.....
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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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Out of Africa.
BLIXEN, Karen.London: Putnam, (1937). First edition, 8vo, (x), 416 pp. Recent red full morocco, a lovely copy. The true first edition, the book being written in English and only later translated into the author's native Danish. The American first edition appeared under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.
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The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men.
BYRON, Robert.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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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