London: J. Harding, 1815. Second edition. 8vo. xix, (i), 362 pp. Nineteenth century brown half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spine with a gilt lettered maroon label, blindstamped decoration to the other panels, later bookplate to the front pastedown. 5 plates - 4 hand coloured, including.....

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London: Jonathan Cape, (1988). First edition, 8vo, 240 pp. Black and white illustrations, neat inscription to the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy.

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[London] In the Savoy: Printed by T.N. [Thomas Newcomb] for Henry Herringman, 1678. Second edition, folio, (iv), 734, (2, 17 index, 1) pp. Faint ink stamps of the Bradford Free Library to the first three leaves, title page with an old signature and several minor closed tears to the edges.....

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London: J. Madden & Co.; Edinburgh: C. Smith and J. Braidwood. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (ii), 20, (4), 28, (48) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, original printed title label to the upper board with the handwritten note "Royal and Military Academy" to the lower edge, old pencilled ownership inscription to the.....

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Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. First edition thus. 4to. (ii), 121, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped white cloth backed green boards, gilt lettered to the spine and upper cover, slightly later ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece tipped in, second title and 23 black and white plates. Occasional.....

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London: Hy. Washbourne, 1847. "New edition - enlarged". 8vo. iv, iv, iv, iv, iv, 402 pp. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt to the spine with further gilt devices to the boards, top edge gilt. Illustrated title and 31 plates (17 China, 14 India, all tinted lithographs) plus folding maps of.....

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Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1804. Two volumes, third edition of volume I, first edition of volume II, demy 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates. Contemporary calf,gilt banded spines with red and black labels, recent repairs to the joints. Tattersfield 1.16, 1.17...

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London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. 4to. iv, 88 pp. Later dark brown half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt rules and lettered to the compartments. A folding plate and 3 folding charts. One of the latter shaved to the neatline along the lower edge, all the.....

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New York: Bantam Books, (1969). Paperback edition, small 8vo. (x), 277, (1) pp. Limited edition, no. 30 of 50 copies with a custom made cover, signed and pasted on by Ayrton. Handwritten postcard from Ayrton also loosely inserted. Some mild bumping to the top of the upper wrapper, otherwise fine.....

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-58. First English edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan full calf, spines with raised bands, original red title labels with sympathetically renewed green author and volume labels, loss of gilt to the other compartments, all edges and endpapers marbled. Gift inscription to the.....

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1924). First edition, 8vo, 320 pp. Cloth, spine slightly sunned and with faint offsetting to the upper cover from the wrapper, minor loss to the spine ends and corners, a well preserved copy.

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Limited edition, no. 1 of 365 copies, 4to, xvi, (ii), 236 pp. 94 black and white plates. Original teal cloth, maroon leather spine label, a fine copy. A British edition of 650 copies appeared the year before.

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