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Geological Sketches and Observations, on Vegetable Fossil Remains, &c., collected in the...
CLAY, Charles.London: H. Johnson; Manchester: Bancks and Co.; Stalybridge: Davis, 1839. First edition, 8vo, 150 pp. Folding lithographic frontispiece and woodcut illustrations in the text. Recent half calf over contemporary marbled boards, the latter with light wear, otherwise very good. Uncommon. A pioneering surgeon, Clay was a committed bibliophile whose collection.....
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Danny the Champion of the World. Illustrated by Jill Bennett.
DAHL, Roald.London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition. 8vo. 206, (2) pp. Publisher's russet cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. Black and white illustrations in the text. Slight spine slant, a little light edge wear to the jacket with a small triangular surface loss to the foot of.....
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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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Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire...
COBBETT, William.London: William Cobbett, 1830. First edition. Small 8vo. (iv), 44, 45*-124*, 45-668, 12, (2), 24 pp. Later red half morocco over matching cloth boards, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered black label, marbled endpapers. Map. Occasional mild browning, very good overall. Bound with a 12 page catalogue of.....
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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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Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. With Illustrations by...
DICKENS, Charles.London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. First separate edition, large 8vo, (v-vi, iv), (229)-306, 420 pp, with the preface leaf bound in before the title. Engravings in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, s small closed tear with very slight loss to the top edge of the rear free endpaper. Original.....
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. Forty-first thousand. 8vo. (x), 192 pp. Contemporary red full calf by Bickers and Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label, the other compartments gilt decorated, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, later owner's name neatly signed to the front flyleaf. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by.....
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Poemata Latina. In quibus Continentur, Sex Libri Plantarum, Viz. Duo Herbarum, Florum...
COWLEY, Abraham.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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The Poetical Works of...
BYRON, Lord.London: John Murray, 1839. Eight volumes. 8vo. Contemporary purple straight grain morocco, spines faded to brown, twin olive gilt lettered spine labels, gilt decoration to the edges of the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled, armorial bookplate of Frederick Wildman Burnett to the front pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait and 8 engraved.....
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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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Ara Vus Prec.
ELIOT, T.S.London: The Ovid Press, 1919 [but 1920]. Limited edition, 108 of 220 copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 264 copies. 4to. 54 pp. Numbered by hand on page 10, signatures C and D also annotated in pencil. Finely bound in two-tone mustard and black morocco aping.....
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William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair...
(BLAKE, William). BUTLIN, Martin and PALEY, Morton D.Lavenham: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited edition, one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 186 copies. Folio. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's wine red half calf over black moiré silk, gilt lettered to the spine with a matching gilt lettered label to the upper board, slipcase in.....
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