Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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London: Printed by J. Davis, 1793. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 241, (1) pp, 6 folding plates - five of Athens and one of Palermo, some subtle repairs otherwise a very good clean copy recently bound in quarter roan, marbled sides, black morocco spine label. Setting out from Palermo, Bisani travelled...

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(Paris & Jura: The Trianon Press, 1965). Limited edition, no. 358 of 380 copies from a total edition of 426, 4to. 8 plates followed by (10) pp of text. Original brown quarter morocco, t.e.g., marbled sides and slipcase, spine sunned with some mild wear to the slipcase ends, otherwise very good.

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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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Amstelædami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Walters, 1699. 8vo. (vi), 544 pp., lacking the final 14 pages. Recent half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Frontispiece, title vignette, 2 folding maps of the world and 12 illustrations in the text, some full page. Dampstaining to the rear...

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London: Printed by M. Flesher for Robert Allot, 1629. Second edition. 4to. (viii), 339, (1), 61, (3) pp, including front and rear blanks. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, renewed period style red gilt lettered label, modern bookplate to the inner cover along with a much older inscription, another...

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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: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-28. Medallion edition, twenty-two volumes, 8vo. Each volume with a frontispiece, many photographic, some light foxing to early leaves in most volumes, a handful of upper hinges with minor cracking. Original gilt titled blue cloth, mild rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a good bright set...

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London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue, fifth thousand. 8vo. x, 502 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, endpapers and all edges marbled, early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Folding table. Some mild rubbing to the extremities, very...

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(Harmondsworth): Penguin Books, (1963). 8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis "...Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g.

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London: Collins, (1990). First edition, 8vo, 416 pp. 21 colour and over 150 black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, very slight sunning of spine, near fine. New Naturalist series no. 76.

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London: John Murray, 1882. Second edition, fifth thousand, two volumes, 8vo. 43 illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled green cloth, very mild rubbing to corners otherwise a lovely set. Freeman 883.

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