London: Edward Moxon, 1841. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 453, (1); x, 488 pp. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, gilt to the spines, blindstamped to the boards, contemporary ownership inscription to the half titles. 2 colour frontispieces, 10 lithographic plates and 1 folding map. Both volumes sympathetically rebacked with almost...

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London: Printed for J. Robinson and W. Payne, 1744. Second English edition. 12mo. (iv), 290 pp. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, renewed gilt lettered label to style, gilt tooling to other panels, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Expert repairs to head, tail and joints, a very good copy...

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London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving...

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European...

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London: Macmillan and Co. 1867. Eighth thousand, or fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, some occasional spots, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later maroon half morocco, t.e.g., red cloth sides, spine, sunned, with gilt vignettes, a very good copy. Williams...

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Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick [&] Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797, 1804. First edition, two volumes, demy 8vo. 445 wood engraved illustrations, small blind stamps of the University of Bristol to the lower margin of the first two and final leaves in each...

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London: J. Bell, 1797. Three volumes. First English translation. Contemporary full speckled calf, spines with gilt rules, gilt lettered red title labels and dark green oval number labels, the later armorial bookplate of the Cobbold family of Ipswich to the front pastedowns of volumes II and III, all three volumes...

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London: Michael Joseph, (1960). First edition. 8vo. 493, (1) pp. Recent black full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, signed by the author on the title page. An excellent copy.

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London: John Murray, 1898. Sixth edition, 51st thousand, 8vo, xxi, (1), 432 pp. Folding plate, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary dark maroon half morocco, t.e.g., gilt spine slightly rubbed and sunned. Freeman 455.

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London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790. First edition, 4to, (iii)-xii, (5)-165, (1), 8 advertisement pp, bound without the half title. 30 folding plates, mostly showing ship manoeuvres, with some light browning and several pencilled annotations, edge of one plate soiled. Contemporary half calf, spine neatly restored retaining the original backstrip...

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(Wakefield): The Fleece Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 180 copies from a total edition of 206 copies, tall 8vo, 25, (73) pp. 47 illustrations, 5 tipped in, small booklabel to the top of the paste down. Quarter vellum, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy.

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New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation & Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd. [1975]. Limited edition, no. 40 of 1,000 copies, folio, (ii, viii), 12, (86) pp. Second title and 40 coloured plates. Original gilt titled light green cloth, still held in the original publisher's box, a fine copy. A fine facsimile...

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