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Cruchley's Improved Environs of London.
CRUCHLEY, G.F.London: G.F. Cruchley, [c.1830]. Map dimensions 57 x 58 cm, overall 60.5 x 61.5 cm. Decorative folding map of London showing the extents from Cheshunt down to Banstead and Ranham across to Southall, original colour marking out the county boundaries, principal roads, parks and bodies of water, border mounted to.....
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The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. [with] Night...
(BLAKE, William). [YOUNG, Edward].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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The Travels of... Translated with Revisions and Notes from the Arabic Text...
BATTUTA, Ibn.London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000. First editions. Five volumes. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Illustrations and maps. A little light wear to the jackets with some spotting to those of volumes I-II, very good overall. A complete set comprising volumes 110, 117, 141, 178.....
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Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of...
ABBOT, Charles.Bedford: Printed and sold by W. Smith, 1798. First edition. 8vo. xii, 351, (1), (12) pp. Nineteenth century green half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered maroon label, recent bookplate to the front free endpaper, all edges marbled. 6 black and white plates. Rebacked preserving much.....
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The Book of Common Praier [sic], and Administration of the Sacraments... [with]...
(COMMON PRAYER).Oxford: At the Theater, 1675. Two works bound in one, 8vo, (viii, 96; 96) pp. Common Prayer lacking its frontispiece but extra illustrated with nine 18th century engravings, several mounted or with repair to the lower margin, 18th century manuscript to a rear blank recording three births. Contemporary calf, worn.....
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The Microscope Made Easy: or, I. The Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers...
BAKER, Henry.London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper and J. Cuff, 1743. Second edition, 8vo, (ii), xvi, 311, (13 Index) pp. 15 plates (11 folding) plus a folding table. Contemporary calf, minor loss to extremities, joints recently repaired. First published 1742.
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston.London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 498, (2), 32 catalogue pp. Publisher's beige pictorial cloth with detailing in gilt, black and red, an early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. 4 maps, of which 3 are folding, plus 4 plans in the text. Darkening to the.....
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Poemata Latina. In quibus Continentur, Sex Libri Plantarum, Viz. Duo Herbarum, Florum...
COWLEY, Abraham.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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Blake's Illuminated Books. [I] Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Edited...
BLAKE, William.Princeton University Press in conjunction with The William Blake Trust, 1991-95. First editions, US issue. Six volumes. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Profusely illustrated in colour. Occasional minor shelf wear to the jackets, very good overall, Identical to the British issue published at the same.....
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Elements of Botany; or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables... By......
BARTON, Benjamin Smith.London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1804. First British edition. 8vo. xii, (ii), 344, 35, (1) pp. Early beaded cloth, gilt lettered spine label, contemporary owner's initials to the head of the title page. 30 fine hand coloured plates. Some fading and wear to the spine, small split to the head.....
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Grandes Constructions. Béton Armé. Acier. Verre.
BADOVICI, Jean.(Paris): Éditions Albert Morancé, [1927]. First edition, 4to, (40) pp, followed by 54 plates, the text partly unopened. Held loose in the original pictorial covers with ties intact, gilt to the spine rubbed away, some light marking, overall a very good copy. Construction using reinforced concrete, steel and glass...
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A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, presenting under each...
BELL, James.Glasgow: A. Fullarton, 1834. Four volumes, 8vo. Folding general map and 44 smaller folding county maps, bound at the front of each volume. Contemporary inscription to fly leaves of Anne Turnell, Dallington Grange, who has numbered each map and written a list of them to each paste down. Some foxing.....
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