London: John Murray, 1839. Eight volumes. 8vo. Contemporary purple straight grain morocco, spines faded to brown, twin olive gilt lettered spine labels, gilt decoration to the edges of the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled, armorial bookplate of Frederick Wildman Burnett to the front pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait and 8 engraved.....

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London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, [c.1869]. 197th thousand. 8vo. xli, (ii), 1139, (1) pp., bound without the advertisements. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine and the gilt lettered maroon label, marbled endpapers, the front pastedown featuring an attractive gilt lettered label presenting the.....

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London: James S. Virtue, 1861. Two volumes. 4to. (iv), 148; (ii), 146 pp. Near contemporary dark green half morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered to two compartments, richly gilt to other panels, gilt rules to sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Two title vignettes, 6 portraits.....

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London: C. Smith. 172 Strand. Jan. 1st, 1851. Overall dimensions 165 x 130 cm. Very large map of England and Wales printed over four conjoined sheets mounted on linen and fixed upon original wooden rollers, printed brief title label to upper roller. Original colour demarcating the counties. Slight fraying to.....

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1937. First edition, 8vo, (x), 341, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 16 black and white photographic plates. Original blue cloth, spine slightly sunned with some light marks otherwise very good. Embarking from Venice, Byron travels to Cyprus and visits Jerusalem, Syria and Iraq before reaching Iran, ending.....

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Norimbergae (Nuremberg): Wolfgangi Michahellis, 1708. First edition. Small 4to. (viii), 102 pp. Contemporary full vellum, gilt lettered morocco label, 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 label.....

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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution.....

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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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London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-28. Medallion edition, twenty-two volumes, 8vo. Each volume with a frontispiece, many photographic, some light foxing to early leaves in most volumes, a handful of upper hinges with minor cracking. Original gilt titled blue cloth, mild rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a good bright set.....

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London: William Phillips, 1822. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), lxi, (3), 58, (2), 59-470, (2) pp. Recent dark green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label, early ownership inscription of a W. Parry to the head of the title page. Geological frontispiece map of England and Wales plus a long hand.....

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-58. First English edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan full calf, spines with raised bands, original red title labels with sympathetically renewed green author and volume labels, loss of gilt to the other compartments, all edges and endpapers marbled. Gift inscription to the.....

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