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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London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to.....

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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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London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1926). First edition, 8vo, viii, 312 pp. Original red titled blue cloth, rebacked with new endpapers, retaining the original, slightly worn, backstrip.

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London: Henry Washbourne, 1841. Second edition, 8vo, viii, 85, (1) pp. 20 hand coloured plates. Original cloth, rebacked with new endpapers and retaining the original, rather darkened backstrip. Originally published a few years earlier as "The Organs of the Senses."

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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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Londini [London]: Typis T. Roycroft, 1668. First edition, 8vo, (xxxiv), 420 pp. Portrait frontispiece. 19th century quarter parchment, somewhat marked and with some scuffing to the upper board, red morocco label. A posthumous collected edition - Cowley having died the year before - with a life by Thomas Sprat, his.....

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London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue. 8vo. vi, 374, (4) pp. Recent green half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and a gilt device repeated to the others, top edge gilt. 7 Heliotype plates and 21 engravings in the text.....

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London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue, fifth thousand, 8vo, x, 502 pp, bound without the advertisements. Folding table, leaf N2 (pp. 267/8) with some marginal loss and old tape repairs. Modern green half calf, marbled sides and endpapers. Freeman 376. First published the previous year. The first issue.....

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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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Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, 1791. Second edition, 8vo, x, 483, (1) pp. 212 engravings plus 107 tailpieces and one further engraving, later bookplate of the author Eric Quayle. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Tattersfield.....

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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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