Southdown Songs & Idylls.
London: Unwin Brothers, 1909. First edition, 8vo, xii, 179, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf, dated 1916. Original gilt titled green cloth, t.e.g., faint sunning of spine otherwise a lovely copy. More
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A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Devon: Containing an Account of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads, Rivers... To which is Prefixed, a Copious Travelling Guide... Forming a Complete County Itinerary. Also, a List of the Markets and Fairs...
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [c.1820]. Third edition. 12mo. 316, (8) pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label. Frontispiece folding map with original outline colour plus two illustrations in the text. More
A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Berks: Containing an Account of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads, Rivers... To which is Prefixed, a Copious Travelling Guide... Forming a Complete County Itinerary. Also, a List of the Markets and Fairs...
London: Printed for C. Cooke, [c.1810s]. 12mo. 179, (1) pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, early book label to the front pastedown. Frontispiece folding map with original outline colour. More
Notices of Hastings, and its municipal rights.
[Lewes, 1862]. 8vo, (65)-206, 5-20 pp. 2 plates. Modern red quarter morocco. Extracted from the Sussex Archaeological Collections volume XIV, with a few pages concerning Hastings from another, unidentified general work on Sussex bound in at the end. More
Across Sussex with Belloc. In the Footsteps of "The Four Men".
Far Thrupp, Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1994. First edition. Large 8vo. x, 148, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt to the spine, prior owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, dust jacket, inscribed by the Copper on the title page. Slight sunning to the jacket spine, very good... More
The History of China & India, Pictorial & Descriptive;...
London: Hy. Washbourne, 1847. "New edition - enlarged". 8vo. iv, iv, iv, iv, iv, 402 pp. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt to the spine with further gilt devices to the boards, top edge gilt. Illustrated title and 31 plates (17 China, 14 India, all tinted lithographs) plus folding maps of..... More
Sport in New Zealand.
London: Anthony Treherne & Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 283, (1) pp. 8 plates. Original gilt titled pictorial green cloth, some very minor rubbing otherwise a handsome copy. More
Penguins, Potatoes & Postage Stamps. A Tristan de Cunha Chronicle.
(Oswestry): Anthony Nelson, (1999). First edition, large 8vo, 166, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations, a handful in colour, inscribed from the author on the half title. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. More
The Story of Some English Shires.
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1897. Limited edition, no. 136 of 150 copies. 312 pp. Publisher's full vellum with yapp edges, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, silk ties wanting, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed, the bookplate of an Arthur G. Soames. Frontispiece plus 98 black and..... More
The Victoria History of Wiltshire. Volume I. Part 2.
OUP, 1973. First edition, 4to, xvi, 281-499, (1) pp. Frontispiece plus other illustrations in the text, fly leaf neatly removed. Gilt titled red cloth, a very good clean copy. Containing archaeological data from the Palaeolithic to Saxon periods. More
Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 247, (1) pp. Frontispiece, owner's signature and ink stamp to front endpapers. Original red cloth, spine and upper cover slightly sunned. More
An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, Principally Designed for the Use of Emigrants.
London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 31 Poultry. 1824. 8vo. x, [ii], 207, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, recased and rebacked preserving original spine, original paper label, plain endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at head and foot of spine, paper browned throughout but more pronounced at front and rear..... More
Letters to the People of India on Responsible Government.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1918. First edition. Small 8vo. xx, 211, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. One sketch map of India. Fading to the spine, paper evenly toned, very good. More
The Parochial Topography of the Rape of Arundel, in the western division of the Country of Sussex. A New Edition by Edmund Cartwright. Vol. II part 1.
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..... More
Commentary on the Commercial Code of Japan.
London: Butterworth & Co.; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Volume II with a bookplate and a Library of Congress cancel stamp to the front endpapers. Original gilt titled red cloth, some rubbing and fading. Very scarce. A third volume was also published. More
Alps and Men. Pages from Forgotten Diaries of Travellers.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., (1932). First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, white lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 16 plates plus numerous illustrations and one map in the text, two further maps to the front and rear endpapers. Some mild wear to the edges..... More
The Golden Carpet. Published by Permission of the War Office.
(London): The Golden Cockerel Press, (1943). Limited edition, no. 283 of 500 copies, large 8vo, 128 pp. Portrait frontispiece, map endpapers. Original green quarter morocco, t.e.g., spine sunned, sides with some light foxing. Cockalorum 155. More
The Carafas of Maddaloni: Naples under Spanish Dominion. Translated from the German of...
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. First English edition, 8vo, xiv, 465, (1) pp. Frontispiece with some light spots, advertisements at both ends, slight loss to the outer edge of the first two leaves of advertisements, signature of Sir John Glubb "Pasha" to paste down. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt titled..... More
Gazetteer of the Delhi District (1912).
Gurgaon: Vintage Books, 1992. 8vo. (vi), x, 230, (6), cxxxi, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, private ownership book label to the front pastedown. Folding table plus 4 folding maps. Some minor edge wear to the jacket, else very good. More
American Notes for General Circulation.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. First edition, first issue. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii), 308; (viii), 306, (6) pp., a few gatherings unopened. Publisher's blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early armorial bookplate of a Henry Birkbeck to the front pastedowns and his lightly pencilled ownership inscription to the..... More
In the Wake. With a Foreword by Admiral Sir Edward R.G. R. Evans.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [c.1936]. First edition. 8vo. x, 310 pp. Publisher's red cloth, black lettered to the spine. A few marks to the cloth, slight fading to the spine, very good overall. The author's memoir of his time in the Navy. He notably served on board..... More
A History of Hale, Cheshire. From Domesday to Domitory.
Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son, for Hale Civic Society, (1972). First edition, 8vo, (xii), 164 pp. Black and white illustrations, folding map at the end. Cloth, d.w. browned. More
Travels in Arabia Deserta. ...with a new preface by the Author, and all original maps, plans and cuts.
London: Jonathan Cape & the Medici Society, (1924). Two volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 623, (1); xiv, 690 pp. 9 plates, illustrations in the text and a large coloured folding map in a pocket at the end of volume I. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter from the author, on his headed..... More
Travels in Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. New and definitive edition.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1943). Two volumes, large 8vo, 674; 696 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 8 plates and 2 folding maps. Gilt titled buckram of slightly different hues, fading to the lower cover of volume I, otherwise very good. "[I] have grown to consider it... a bible of its kind... The book..... More
