The Story of Bexhill.
Bexhill-on-Sea: F.J. Parson, Ltd., 1971. First edition, large 8vo, xx, 212 pp. Black and white maps and plans in the text. Gilt titled buckram, d.w. with some mild creasing and marks, very good. More about The Story of Bexhill
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William Adams. The Pilot-Major of Gillingham, the first Englishman who Discovered Japan.
Gillingham, (1934). First edition, small 8vo, 40 pp. 3 plates, light spotting to early leaves. Original printed wrappers, signed by Major W.W. Grantham, who contributed a Foreword, on the upper wrapper, some light marks otherwise very good. Adams served aboard a Dutch merchant fleet, and found favour with the Shogun... More about William Adams. The Pilot-Major of Gillingham, the first Englishman who Discovered Japan
The Travels of... Translated with Revisions and Notes from the Arabic Text Edited by C. Defrémery and B.R. Sanguinetti by H.A.R. Gibb.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000. First edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Illustrations and maps. A bright set. A complete set comprising volumes 110, 117, 141, 178 & 190 of the Hakluyt Society's second series. More about The Travels of... Translated with Revisions and Notes from the Arabic Text Edited by C....
India.
Bombay: Thacker & Co., (1945). First edition, 4to, (vi) pp, followed by 100 black and white photographic plates, price to the title page increased slightly in ink, old repair to the upper hinge. Cloth, d.w. creased with loss and significant strengthening with tape. More about India
Near East.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. First edition. 8vo. viii, 149, (1) pp. Publisher's orange cloth, yellow lettered to the spine and upper board, the book label of the historian and writer James Pope-Hennessy to the front free endpaper and a handwritten note "To James with love from Cecil" mounted to the... More about Near East
Index to the Victoria History of the County of Bedford.
London: Dawsons, (1972). 4to, (viii), 61, (1) pp, red cloth, a fine copy. More about Index to the Victoria History of the County of Bedford
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 about The Pleasures of London. Translated and annotated by W.H. Quarrell
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 about From Pharaoh to Fellah. With Illustrations by Georges Montbard. Engraved by Charles Barbant
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 about Persian Pictures. With a Preface by Sir E. Denison Ross
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 about Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839
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 about Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (Now Colonel) Lumsden; with...
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, see also pp 43-45. More about Sussex. Painted by Wilfrid Ball
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 about York. Described by... Pictured by E.W. Haslehust
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 about Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Arctic Islands and the Hudson Strait on Board the...
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 about Cornwall Illustrated in a Series of Views... (Shell Guide
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 about Into China
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 about Mediæval Leicester
A Picturesque Tour Through Part of Europe, Asia, and Africa: Containing many new remarks on the present state of Society, remains of ancient edifices, &c. With Plates, after designs by James Stuart... Written by an Italian Gentleman.
London: Printed by J. Davis, 1793. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 241, (1) pp, 6 folding plates - five of Athens and one of Palermo, some subtle repairs otherwise a very good clean copy recently bound in quarter roan, marbled sides, black morocco spine label. Setting out from Palermo, Bisani travelled... More about A Picturesque Tour Through Part of Europe, Asia, and Africa: Containing many new remarks on the...
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 about The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn
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 about The Pyrenees: a Description of Summer Life at French Watering Places
Tallis's Topographical Dictionary of England & Wales.
London: L. Tallis, [1860]. Two volumes, 8vo, (viii), 812; (ii), 813-1582 pp, with an engraved frontispiece and title in volume I, plus 58 coloured double page maps - "Drawn & Engraved by J. Archer", contemporary half calf, later marbled sides, spines rubbed with slight loss to the black morocco labels. More about Tallis's Topographical Dictionary of England & Wales
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 about A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part...
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 about The Perambulator in Edinburgh. With Pictures by E.S. Lumsden
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 about Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays...
Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. With a New Introduction by P.A.S. Pool and Charles Thomas.
East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing in collaboration with Cornwall County Library, 1973. Folio. xxii, xvi, 464 pp. Publisher's black buckram, gilt to the spine an upper board, the bookplate of Peter E. Leach to the verso of one of the front flyleaves, dust jacket. 37 illustrations comprising a folding map... More about Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. With a New Introduction by...