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The Comprehensive Family Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments... with copious...
(BIBLE).London: Blackie & Son, [c.1850]. 4to, (xxii), 1475, (1), 72 pp. Frontispieces, engraved second titles, 57 plates and 9 maps. Owner's name at the front, marbled endpapers. Original gilt titled black morocco, a.e.g., some mild marks otherwise an excellent copy.
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The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men.
BYRON, Robert.London: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the ownership inscription of an Ianthi Zygounas dated July 1928 to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, mostly photographic and including many taken by the author. The.....
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Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II. Una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicæ Libellis.
BEVERIDGE, William.Londini [London]: Thomæ Roycroft, 1669. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 259, (4, 1 blank) pp. Tables in the text. Contemporary calf, a little rubbed with mild wear to three corners, neatly rebacked. A well respected clergyman who became Bishop of St. Asaph towards the end of his life and was a......
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Gli Costumi, le Leggi, et l'Usanze di Tutte le Genti, raccolte qui...
BOEMUS, Johann.[Vicenza: Michele Tramezino], 1543. 8vo, (ix), 180, (3) leaves. Woodcut to the title page and final page, early manuscript name inked out to the title page, some minor marginal soiling and marks, small piece torn from the lower corner of leaf A4, 19th century armorial bookplate to the rear paste.....
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Mythologiæ, sive Explicationis Fabularum, Libri Decem. In Quibus Omnia Propè Naturalis &...
[CONTI, Natale or COMES, Natalis].Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes [heirs of Andreas Wechelus], Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium, 1596. 8vo. (16), 1137, 54, 1138-1193, (1) pp. Early full vellum with yapp edges, lacking ties, spine with gilt ruled bands, contemporary hand written title to upper panel, a gilt device with the motto "Rinasce.....
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The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service recently achieved.
CHILDERS, Erskine.London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1904. Fifth impression, 8vo, xii, 336, (4 advertisement) pp. Four maps, with the folding frontispiece bound before the half title, some occasional light foxing, hinge marked from an old tape repair by the half title, armorial bookplate of Alexander David Seton of Mounie Castle, Aberdeenshire.....
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A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex. Including...
DALLAWAY, James & CARTWRIGHT, Edmund.London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1815, 30, 32, 19. Four volumes, 4to. First two volumes (Chichester and Bramber) first edition, third volume (Arundel) "New Edition", plus the very rare first edition of the Arundel volume, large 4to. 83 plates - two double page and four in colour, 19 maps and.....
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The History of the Great Plague in London, in the Year 1665...
[DEFOE, Daniel].London: Printed for, and sold by F. and J. Noble... 1754. Second edition. 8vo. (iii-iv), 376 pp., bound without the initial advertisement leaf. 19th century half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered label to one panel, armorial bookplate of Henry Fox Bristowe to the front pastedown. Repair to the head.....
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Scapa and a Camera. Pictorial Impressions of Five Years Spent at the...
BURROWS, C.W.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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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Robert Riviére & Son, [c. 1920s]. Six works in five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red half calf over cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and attractively decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Colour frontispieces. Some mild sunning and occasional mild rubbing.....
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With... Illustrations by R. Seymour...
DICKENS, Charles.London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition, 8vo, iii-xiv, (ii), 609, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Engraved second title, frontispiece and 41 plates, the plates in their early states without captions and with Phiz's replacements for the two suppressed Buss plates. Some foxing and browning to the plates.....
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A Book of Mediterranean Food. Decorated by John Minton.
DAVID, Elizabeth.London: John Lehmann, (1950). First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped but with the top of the upper flap clipped, old tape strengthening to the reverse of top edge with some subtle colour restoration to several spots. The Author's first book.
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