Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers only, [c.1920]. Luristan edition, no. 303 of 1,000 sets, seventeen volumes, large 8vo. Frontispiece and several plates in each volume. Original grey cloth, t.e.g., spines with paper labels, browned and faded, spines ends a little bumped otherwise a good set.

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London: Edward Moxon, 1841. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 453, (1); x, 488 pp. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, gilt to the spines, blindstamped to the boards, contemporary ownership inscription to the half titles. 2 colour frontispieces, 10 lithographic plates and 1 folding map. Both volumes sympathetically rebacked with almost...

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London: Sold by C. Hitch..., W. Johnston... & by W.H. Toms, [1742]. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style with raised bands, gilt rules to the compartments, elaborate ownership inscription by a Samuel Thomas of St. James's, Bristol to one of the versos of the title page dated 1767. Engraved...

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London: Printed by J. Dillon, and Co., for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, 1799. Fifth edition. 8vo. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with double gilt rules, gilt lettered green label, gilt device of a bird to the other panels, the ownership inscription of a....

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London: Printed for J. Robinson and W. Payne, 1744. Second English edition. 12mo. (iv), 290 pp. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, renewed gilt lettered label to style, gilt tooling to other panels, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Expert repairs to head, tail and joints, a very good copy...

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. Forty-nine volumes bound in four, each individually paginated. Small folio. Quarter maroon morocco over matching boards, gilt lettered to the spine, ex-libris Victoria Institute, Worcester Public Library, with their shelf marks in gilt to the feet of the spines, bookplates to the front pastedowns...

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London: J. Bell, 1797. Three volumes. First English translation. Contemporary full speckled calf, spines with gilt rules, gilt lettered red title labels and dark green oval number labels, the later armorial bookplate of the Cobbold family of Ipswich to the front pastedowns of volumes II and III, all three volumes...

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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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Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959). First edition, first issue, 8vo, 225, (3) pp. Original paper wrappers, d.w., small closed tear to the top of the spine, light browning to the spine also, otherwise an excellent bright copy. The first issue with the green title border, but with the price crossed...

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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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London: Macmillan and Co. 1868 & 1872. Two volumes bound in one. "Alice" twelfth thousand, or the first issue of the sixth edition, "Looking-Glass" first edition, first issue. 8vo. (x), 192; (xii), 224, (2) pp. Slightly later red half morocco over matching cloth sides by Maclehose of Glasgow, spine with...

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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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