London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and R. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1742. First edition thus. Two volumes. 4to. xxxii, (xii), vi, (ii), 355, (1); xii, 388 pp. Nineteenth century full calf, the boards with gilt ruled panels with blindstamped decoration, rebacked to style in a......

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London: Published at the Offices of Country Life, Ltd., 1921. First edition. 4to. xx, 144 pp. Publisher's khaki boards, black lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket with black and white photographic illustration mounted to the front panel, signed by Burrows on the title page, supplied with an.....

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London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. First edition. 8vo. viii, 149, (1) pp. Publisher's orange cloth, yellow lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket, inscribed by Beaton on the front free endpaper "To Hugh Francis, without whose help...", an autograph letter signed from him also affixed to the verso of.....

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London: P.S. King & Son, 1930-35. First edition, nine volumes, 8vo, volume IV and VII being map volumes. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Charles Booth in volume I. The map volumes containing 13 folding maps, plus 13 folding maps and a folding chart in the text volumes as well as further.....

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London: Methuen & Co., 1934-40. Six volumes. "Travels" and "King" second English editions, others first English editions. Publisher's cloth backed boards, illustrated to front covers, contemporary gift inscriptions to the same recipient in all but one volume. Coloured illustrations throughout, coloured endpapers. Wear to the extremities, the boards of 'Zephir'.....

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London: (Printed... at the Curwen Press), Published by Cassell and Co., La Belle Sauvage, 1932. Limited edition, no. 64 of 215 copies, folio, xx, 146 pp. 32 coloured pochoir illustrations - 14 full page, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later vellum with yapp edges, without the morocco.....

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Delf [Delft]: Abraham Jacobs, [c.1635]. 16mo, (x), 539, (3 blank) pp. Engraved title page, brief inscriptions to blank opposite. Recent full calf, very good. Originally published some 25 years earlier - the second edition of 1612 is the earliest extant, and a popular devotional work that was still in print.....

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London: Dorling Kindersley, (1987). Limited edition, no. 47 of 450 copies signed by the author, small 4to, (ii), 224 pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Pictorial boards, d.w., price clipped, spine slightly sunned otherwise very good.

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London: John Murray, 1878, 1877, 1877, 1875. Four volumes, mixed editions. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green full calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red spine labels, the other compartments richly gilt, endpapers and all edges marbled , the early book label of a Walter Palmer of "The Acacias.....

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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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London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in.....

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