London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to.....

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Venetiis (Venice): Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi Filium, 1554. 8vo. 240 ff., but 248 leaves in total with quires M1-8 and N1-8 both numbered 89-96. Later white sheep to style with a handwritten spine title, marbled endpapers with what appears to be a bishop's armorial bookplate, this possibly 19th century. Occasional.....

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London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 160 pp. Folding table with a couple of closed marginal tears, marbled endpapers. 19th century dark green half morocco, marbled sides, rather darkened, rebacked retaining almost all of the original backstrip. The oldest son of the poet and playwright William.....

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(New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974). First edition, 4to, (106) pp. 51 full page black and white illustrations, contemporary signature and an old inked price to the fly leaf. Cloth, with mild spotting, d.w. with light soiling and slight loss to the spine ends.

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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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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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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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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891. Third edition, 8vo, (xiv), 648 pp. 2 folding maps and 5 folding plates, including a hand coloured geological section, light staining to the top edge of the plates at the end as folded, hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled green cloth, mild.....

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London: Printed for John Cary, 1787. First edition, 4to. Engraved title and dedication, plus 46 maps on 47 sheets - the West Riding of Yorkshire being over two sheets, some light foxing. Modern gilt titled brown buckram, a very good copy. The first printing of Cary's popular atlas - Chubb.....

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London: The Folio Society, 2005. Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title.....

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London: John Murray, 1881. First edition. 8vo. viii, 326, (2) pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and blind ruled to the boards, ownership inscription "Helen Fryer, 1881" to the head of the title page. 15 illustrations in the text. Neatly recased, light foxing to the front.....

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. 4to. (40) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, the peace symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) drawn in ink to the verso of the front free endpaper by the original owner along with the handwritten date "Christmas '82", plus signed and dated (2008) by.....

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