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Index to the Victoria History of the County of Bedford.
London: Dawsons, (1972). 4to, (viii), 61, (1) pp, red cloth, a fine copy. More
The Pleasures of London. Translated and annotated by W.H. Quarrell.
[London]: Privately Printed by Witherby & Co., 1940. First edition thus, 8vo, 166 pp. Original green cloth, very slight bumping to extremities, near fine. Adapted from Beeverell's "Délices de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irelande", originally published in 1707 with a second edition in 1727. More
H.C.P. Bell. Archaeologist of Ceylon and the Maldives.
(Denbigh): Archetype Publications, (1993). First edition, large 8vo, (vi), vii, (i), 318 pp. Black and white illustrations, 5 maps - 2 folding - at the end. Autograph letter from Bethia Bell loosely inserted, separate inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., slight bumping to the top of the wrapper otherwise fine..... More
From Pharaoh to Fellah. With Illustrations by Georges Montbard. Engraved by Charles Barbant.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1888). First edition, large 8vo, (x), 187, (4), 4 advertisement pp. Black and white illustrations, owner's inscription to title page. Original gilt titled dark green cloth, some light rubbing otherwise very good. More
Persian Pictures. With a Preface by Sir E. Denison Ross.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, (1928). First edition, 8vo, 198, (2) pp. Original gilt titled green buckram, minor rubbing to head of spine, near fine. More
Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839.
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..... More
Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (Now Colonel) Lumsden; with an Account of the Country and People.
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
Sussex. Painted by Wilfrid Ball.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907. Second reprint, 8vo, (x), 198 pp. 75 coloured plates with captioned tissues plus a folding map at the end, slightly later inscription to fly leaf, later bookplate to paste down. Original decorative blue cloth, top edge gilt, some mild rubbing, very good. Inman 78..... More
York. Described by... Pictured by E.W. Haslehust.
London: Blackie and Son, 1911. First edition, large 8vo, 64 pp. 12 coloured plates and a plan of York Cathedral in the text, decorative endpapers. Original gilt decorated publisher's maroon morocco, a.e.g., some very slight fading to edges otherwise a handsome copy. "Beautiful England" series. More
Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Arctic Islands and the Hudson Strait on Board the C.G.S. "Arctic" 1906-1907.
Ottawa: Printed by C.H. Parmelee, 1909. First edition. 8vo. iv, 127, (1) pp. Contemporary blue buckram, gilt lettered to the spine. Photographic portraits of Bernier and Louis Philippe Brodeur plus 45 photographic plates. Fading to the spine and head of the upper board, very good. The first and rarest of..... More
Cornwall Illustrated in a Series of Views... (Shell Guide).
London: The Architecural Press, 1935. Second edition, 8vo, 64 pp. 4 coloured maps and 8 plates plus illustrations in the text. Spiral bound in the original photographic card covers, some rubbing to corners. The first Shell Guide. More
Into China.
London: Collins, 1940. First edition. 8vo. 314, (2) pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates, all black and white photographs, plus a full page map. Wear with losses to the edges of the jacket, fading to the cloth, else a decent copy. More
Mediæval Leicester.
Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1920. Limited edition, no. 31 of 1,000 copies, 8vo, xii, 232 pp. Later full speckled calf, gilt lettered spine label with the initials "C.R.W." in gilt to the upper board. 19 plates. Very good. More
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906. First English edition, two volumes, 8vo, (xii), 476; (vi), 554 pp, frontispieces and 14 plates, booklabel partly removed from both paste downs, original dark green cloth, a little rubbed, t.e.g. Perkins p56. More
The Pyrenees: a Description of Summer Life at French Watering Places.
London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1867. First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 326, (2), 4 advertisement pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and engravings in the text, some full page, plus a map, contemporary inscription to the top of the engraved title, armorial bookplate. Original gilt titled cloth with bevelled edges, spine..... More
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat. From Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.
London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. 4to. iv, 88 pp. Later dark brown half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt rules and lettered to the compartments. A folding plate and 3 folding charts. One of the latter shaved to the neatline along the lower edge, all the..... More
The Perambulator in Edinburgh. With Pictures by E.S. Lumsden.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1926). Limited edition, no. 135 of 200 copies signed by the Author, large 8vo, 179, (1) pp. 16 plates, free endpapers browned. Original half vellum, t.e.g., some minor marks, very good. More
Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Habitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most Remote Antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, Exemplified and Proved by Monuments Now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language.
London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition. Folio. Later black full morocco, bands to spine, gilt lettered to one panel. 37 illustrations comprising a folding map, a full page map, a folding plate, 24 full..... More
The Bible in Spain, or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the peninsula.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1890. Third edition thus, 8vo, xx, 394 pp. Engraved illustrations, light foxing at the beginning and end, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, to paste down. Contemporary tree, gilt arms, borders and spine, red spine label, a few minor scuffs, a...... More
The Wind of Morning. The autobiography of...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Third impression, 8vo, 240 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, inscribed on the title page from the author, dated 1977. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. More
The River Column. A Narrative of the advance of the river column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and its return down the rapids. With maps by Major the Hon. F.L.L. Colborne.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 291, (1), 4, 24 advertisement pp. Three folding maps, one with closed tears to the inner margin, slightly later inscription to half title, some occasional foxing. Original maroon cloth, spine slightly sunned and rubbed, with an old ink..... More
Highways and Byways in North Wales. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Third reprint, 8vo, (xvi), 474 pp. Black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Lindisfarne College, Westcliff-on-Sea. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with a black label, gilt arms to upper cover, some rubbing to spine and extremities. More
Delineations, Historical and Topographical, of the Isle of Thanet and the Cinque Ports: Illustrated with engravings by William Deeble.
London: Printed for the Proprietors, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Vignette title pages, a map and 104 engraved plates, lacking a plate ("Ancient Brass in Birchington Church") listed in volume I but with an extra plate ("East Cliff, Thanet") not listed at page 96 of the same, marbled endpapers..... More
The Beauties of the Isle of Thanet and the Cinque Ports.
London: W. Marshall, 1830. Sole edition. Small 8vo. (iv), 147, (5); (iv), 192, (4) pp. Uncut in original green pebbled cloth, gilt lettered brown leather spine labels, small old bookseller's catalogue description affixed to the front pastedown, a few pencilled annotations in an old hand. Folding map, 2 engraved title..... More