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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of...

BARTH, Henry.

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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A Few Chapters in Workshop Re-Construction and Citizenship.

ASHBEE, C.R.

London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth...

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The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation...

DARWIN, Charles.

London: John Murray, 1897. Forty-ninth thousand. 8vo. xxi, (1), 432 pp. Contemporary prize binding by Relfe Brothers for Framlingham College, red full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label to one panel and rich gilt decoration to the others, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and...

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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain...

BURKE, Edmund.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition, third impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, title and subsequent leaf, faint damp stain to the top corner of some early leaves. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, some restoration and a new label to the spine. Stung into...

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The Book of the Sword.

BURTON, Richard F.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition, large 8vo, (xl), 299, (1) pp. 293 illustrations in the text, some light marginal browning. Original grey cloth, recently rebacked in maroon morocco with leather corners also, covers a little marked, crossed swords design to upper cover. A pleasantly restored copy of one...

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[Arabian Nights]. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A....

BURTON, Richard F.

Privately Printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]. Sixteen volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces with captioned tissues. Original gold and silver decorated cloth, t.e.g., mild rubbing to the spines of volumes 8, 9 and 10 otherwise a handsome set.

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The Life of Mahomet. Translated from the French Original...

BOULAINVILLIERS, [Henri de, Comte].

London: Printed for T. Longman and D. Hitch and L. Hawes... and J. and J. Rivington, 1752. Third edition thus. 12mo. (2), iv, 294 pp. Contemporary full brown calf, gilt rules to boards, spine with raised bands, gilt rules to compartments else plain, the date written in ink in a....

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Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron: Containing an entire new edition...

(BYRON). NATHAN, I.

London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1829. Sole edition, 8vo, (iii)-xxxvi, 196, (12 advertisement) pp, bound without the half title. One illustration and 7 pages of facsimile manuscript, some occasional light foxing. Uncut in modern half calf, marbled sides, a very good copy. Wise II p93.

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War Speeches. Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning;...

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

London: Cassell and Company, 1943-50. Mixed editions. Nine volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes of the war speeches in publisher's blue cloth, the post-war volume in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, three volumes with early inscriptions, dust jackets, early Singapore bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper of "Victory"...

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The Collected Works of... My Early Life. My African Journey. The Story...

CHURCHILL, Winston.

The Library of Imperial History, 1973, 76. "Centenary Limited Edition", 34 volumes, no. 363 of around 1,750 sets, 8vo. Marbled endpapers, limitation bookplates in the first 7 volumes. Original gilt titled vellum, a.e.g, gilt arms to upper covers, some occasional light tanning of the vellum as is common otherwise an...

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Cruchley's New Plan of London Improved to 1827 Including East and West...

CRUCHLEY, G.F.

London: G.F. Cruchley Mapseller, (from Arrowsmiths) No. 38 Ludgate Street, 1827. Map dimensions 46.5 x 94 cm, overall 51 x 97.5 cm. Folding plan of central London showing the extents from Pentonville down to Walworth and East India Dock across to Hyde Park, original colour in wash and outline, dissected...

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Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several...

BORLASE, William.

London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition. Folio. Later black full morocco, bands to spine, gilt lettered to one panel. 37 illustrations comprising a folding map, a full page map, a folding plate, 24 full...

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