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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 Second World War. The Gathering Storm. Their Finest Hour. The Grand...
CHURCHILL, Winston S.London: Cassell & Co., 1948-54. First editions. Six volumes. 8vo. Recent russet half morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, lion rampant device in gilt to the other compartments, top edges gilt. Numerous maps, some folding. An.....
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Near East.
BEATON, Cecil.London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. First edition. 8vo. viii, 149, (1) pp. Publisher's orange cloth, yellow lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket, inscribed by Beaton on the front free endpaper "To Hugh Francis, without whose help...", an autograph letter signed from him also affixed to the verso of.....
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The Book of Household Management; Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook...
BEETON, Mrs.London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, [c.1869]. 197th thousand. 8vo. xli, (ii), 1139, (1) pp., bound without the advertisements. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine and the gilt lettered maroon label, marbled endpapers, the front pastedown featuring an attractive gilt lettered label presenting the.....
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Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and...
"ALEPH". [HARVEY, William Henry].London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European.....
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G. Bradshaw's Map of Canals Situated in the Counties of Lancaster, York...
BRADSHAW, [George].Manchester: G. Bradshaw, 1830. Two large decorative folding maps of the northern and midland counties of England, both with bright original full hand colouring. I. Map dimensions 98.5 x 126.5 cm, showing the extents from Lancaster down to Nantwich and Tadcaster across to the Irish Sea; II. Map dimensions 131.....
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The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service recently achieved.
CHILDERS, Erskine.London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1904. Fifth impression, 8vo, xii, 336, (4 advertisement) pp. Four maps, with the folding frontispiece bound before the half title, some occasional light foxing, hinge marked from an old tape repair by the half title, armorial bookplate of Alexander David Seton of Mounie Castle, Aberdeenshire.....
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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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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With... Illustrations by John...
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twenty-ninth thousand. 8vo. (xii), 224, (4) pp. Contemporary half tree calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, early ownership inscription to the half title. Frontispiece and 49 illustrations. Covers worn, repairs to the joints, browning.....
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found...
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. "People's edition", 20th and 13 thousands, 8vo, (xii), 173, (1, xii), 208, (1, 3 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, original green cloth covers bound in at the end, some foxing, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in slightly later red morocco, t.e.g., covers with a striking.....
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Poems.
AUDEN, W.H.London: Faber & Faber, 1937. Second edition, third impression. 8vo. 89, (1) pp. Publisher's grey cloth, blue lettered to the spine, signed by Auden on the front free endpaper. Marking and wear to the cloth, else very good. Bloomfield and Mendelson, A2b. First published in 1930, the second edition originally.....
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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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