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..... More

London: Mathews and Leigh, 1812, 1813. Folio. (viii), iv, 23, (1) pp. Contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards, the upper cover featuring a publisher's printed title label, early ownership inscription to the front pastedown, another later gift inscription to the opposing free endpaper. Engraved second title with vignette plus..... More

London: Martin Secker, [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Publisher's red quarter morocco, t.e.g., faint sunning of spines otherwise an excellent set. More

London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. First edition. Small 4to. (1), 45, 118 ff., plus leaves 70b, 70c and 70d, bound without the final blank and the succeeding two errata leaves as often. Recent period style full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt device repeated to the panels, a handful..... More

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to..... More

London: J. Harding, 1815. Second edition. 8vo. xix, (i), 362 pp. Nineteenth century brown half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spine with a gilt lettered maroon label, blindstamped decoration to the other panels, later bookplate to the front pastedown. 5 plates - 4 hand coloured, including..... More

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. More

London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally..... More

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7..... More

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..... More

Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce. More

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. Folding map and 11 (of 12) 'chromoxylograph' plates plus 22 vignettes in the text, also lacking the folding map, armorial bookplates of Major-General Sir Edward Northey, late owner's booklabel pasted to the title versos. Mid-20th century boards, spines..... More

London: [I, II & IV] George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [III] Toronto: The Ryerson Press, (1933-1938). Four volumes, volumes I and IV first edition, volume II first reprint, volume III first Canadian edition, 8vo. Numerous maps, plans and facsimiles. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later maroon half..... More