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Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus. With... drawings by Paul Nash...
BROWNE, Sir Thomas.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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Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel.
CLARK, William George.London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. Sole edition. 8vo. xiv, (ii), 344, (8) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, inscribed on the front free endpaper "The Rev. The Master of Trinity College with the author's kind regards". 5 maps - 4 full page another folding.....
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Corn Country.
(DAVID). WARREN, C. Henry.London: B.T. Batsford, (1940). First edition, viii, 136 pp. Black and white photographic plates plus a couple of paintings reproduced in colour. Elizabeth David's copy, with her booklabel and ten bookmarks saving places in the volume, nine of which are inscribed by her with the relevant details and page numbers.....
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The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation...
DARWIN, Charles.London: John Murray, 1878. Sixth edition, twentieth thousand. 8vo. xxi, (i), 458 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt to the spine A folding plate. Neatly recased, free endpapers slightly worn to the edges, light spotting at the front and rear, else very good. Freeman, 403. The second issue of the definitive.....
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Sense and Sensibility: A Novel.
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. "New edition," 8vo, xvi, (i), 331, (1) pp. Light foxing to early leaves, contemporary signature to fly leaf, marbled endpapers. Slightly later green half morocco, spine faded to brown. Published as volume I of Austen's works in Chapman and Hall's Select Library of Fiction. "Retains.....
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History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on wood by... The History...
BEWICK, T.Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1804. Two volumes, third edition of volume I, first edition of volume II, demy 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates. Contemporary calf,gilt banded spines with red and black labels, recent repairs to the joints. Tattersfield 1.16, 1.17...
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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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Genius Genuine, by Samuel Chifney, of Newmarket. A Fine Part in Riding...
CHIFNEY, Samuel.London: Sold only for the Author, 232 Piccadilly, [1795]. First edition. 8vo. 170 pp. (i-v), vi-vii, (viii-xi), 12-170 pp. Contemporary red full straight grained morocco, neatly rebacked to style, gilt tooled compartments with a gilt lettered green label. Some light wear and marking to the boards, occasional browning within, very.....
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The Parochial Topography of the Rape of Arundel, in the western division...
DALLAWAY, James.London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1832. Folio, (iv), viii, (vii)-xvi, 406, (2) pp. 18 plates, including 3 not listed - one of the latter the binder is directed to transfer to the volume on Bramber, plus six maps and plans, four of which are double page, one plate hand.....
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An Introduction to Geology, Illustrative of the General Structure of the Earth;...
BAKEWELL, Robert.London: J. Harding, 1815. Second edition, "considerably enlarged". 8vo. xix, (i), 492 pp. Nineteenth century tan half calf over plum cloth boards. Frontispiece, 3 plates of strata and a map of England - all geologically handcoloured, plus two black and white plates. Rebacked preserving much of the original spine, the.....
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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 Holy Bible, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the Rev. John...
(BIBLE).Lewes: Sussex Press, Printed and Sold by John Baxter, 1811. 4to, (vi, 1118, 188, 418, 4) pp, including the Apocrypha, and a Subscriber's List bound in at the end. Wood engraved title pages and 30 plates plus two maps hand coloured in outline, some light foxing at the beginning and.....
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