London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. First edition. Small 4to. (1), 45, 118 ff., plus leaves 70b, 70c and 70d, bound without the final blank and the succeeding two errata leaves as often. Recent period style full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt device repeated to the panels, a handful...

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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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Eton: Printed for T. Pote, 1766. Second edition, small 8vo, xiv, 392 [i.e. 402] pp. Endpapers with some browning. Contemporary gilt ruled sheep, somewhat marked and scuffed, rebacked with a maroon label.

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Florentiæ [Florence]: Apud Iuntas [Giunta], 1552. First separate edition. 8vo. (12), 96, (2) pp, bound without the final blank as often. Later, probably 18th century full calf, spine with raised bands, blindstamped decoration to the boards, the early ownership inscription of a Danto Maria di Franco del Besso to the...

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London: Constable & Company, 1930. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 286, (2) pp. Illustrated in colour throughout, including several maps of wine regions, publisher's addenda - a Bacardi cocktail tipped in to page 25, a 2 cm strip neatly cut from the top of the half title. Original cloth backed boards...

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Norimbergae (Nuremberg): Wolfgangi Michahellis, 1708. First edition. Small 4to. (viii), 102 pp. Contemporary full vellum, gilt lettered morocco label, the 19th century armorial bookplate of Cecil Deedes to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 6 folding plates of fossils, all finely engraved by Johann Georg Puschner. Slight wear to the spine...

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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847-48. Twenty volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in volume I, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, slightly sunned, some occasional rubbing, several corners with light wear otherwise a very good set.

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London: George Routledge, 1851. 12mo, (3)-286, (4 advertisement) pp. Ink signature to title, brief pencilled inscription to the next leaf, upper joint slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary cloth, gilt titled spine, some marks and rubbing. A scarce issue of "Sense and Sensibility" published in Routledge's Railway Library, not noted in...

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Oxford: The Clarendon Press, (1965-2002). "The Pilgrim Edition". Twelve volumes. V and VI reprints "with corrections", the other volumes first printings. Publisher's red cloth, dust jackets, the attractive pictorial bookplate of Mary Assumpta College, Kensington to the front free endpaper of volume I. 12 frontispieces. A few old adhesions to...

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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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London: Richard Bentley, 1856. Small 8vo. (iv), 424 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and richly decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece and engraved title, both dated 1833. The head of the upper joint neatly...

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii), 308; (viii), 306, (6) pp., a few gatherings unopened. Publisher's blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early armorial bookplate of a Henry Birkbeck to the front pastedowns and his lightly pencilled ownership inscription to the...

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