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By: N/A
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London. W & R. Chambers Ltd. 1907 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 68848
Size 4.75 x 7.25 inches. In blue cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front.. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Corners slightly rubbed and bumped. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Publisher’s compliments rubber stamp to main title page. A couple of small tears. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. 160pp. With b/w and colour photo plates and illustrations. Book intended for young readers with descriptions of peoples of other lands in language typical of the time. View more info
By: ( TIME LIFE FACSIMILE REPRINT ); BARRINGTON, George;
Price: £23.00
Publisher: Time Life Books, Amsterdam 1984:
Seller ID: 75170
8vo. (5.5 x 8.5 inches). Brown leather binding with raised banding to spine and Red / gold decororation and lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. In excellent, near fine condition. No inscriptions or marks. 472pp. Enriched with beautiful coloured prints. Folding map. Loosely laid in is a leaf by “Time Life Books” giving detailed information on the author and his life. “This leather-bound volume - lavishly illustrated and complete with two fold-out maps - has been photographically reproduced from the first edition published in 1810 and thus preserves the historical aut... View more info
By: ( TIME LIFE FACSIMILE REPRINT ); BURTON, Captain Sir Richard F.;
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Time Life Books, Amsterdam 1982:
Seller ID: 75233
2 volumes. 8vo. (5.5 x 8.5 inches). Brown leather binding with raised banding to spine and Red / gold decororation and lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. In very good condition. Some very light rubbing on spine. No inscriptions or marks. With colour illustrations and plans. 209pp. “This leather-bound volume - lavishly illustrated and complete with two fold-out maps - has been photographically reproduced from the first edition published in 1894 and thus preserves the historical authenticity of the work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities”. View more info
By: ( TIME LIFE FACSIMILE REPRINT ); PEARY, Robert E.;
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Time Life Books, Amsterdam 1985:
Seller ID: 75166
8vo. (5.5 x 8.5 inches). Brown leather binding with raised banding to spine and Red / gold decororation and lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. In excellent, near fine condition. No inscriptions or marks. With portrait, folding maps and numerous illustrations. 326pp. Loosely laid in is a leaf by “Time Life Books” giving detailed information on the author and his life. “This leather-bound volume - lavishly illustrated and complete with two fold-out maps - has been photographically reproduced from the first edition published in 1910 and thus preserves the historical... View more info
By: (ANARCHIS) BARTHELEMY, ABBE:
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, J. Mawman, Rivington, Cadell & Davies, Longman &c &c... 1817 5th:
Seller ID: 82033
6 volumes. Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Bound in light brown full calf leather with gilt paneled boards, red and brown leather spine labels lettered and numbered in gilt, with raised banding and extensive gilt decorations to spines. Speckled edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some darkening to spines, Some rubbing to edges and ends of spines. Soem minor handling marks to boards else clean and bright. Volume 1 is darkened on rear board with scuff mark to bottom 1/3. No penned inscriptions. Some mild foxing to pages throughout, some areas more heavily foxed. Else overall a very clean... View more info
By: (SCOTT, R. F.;)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London. The Folio Society 1964 1st thus:
Seller ID: 75895
Tall 8vo. 10 x 7 ins. Blue cloth with silver lettering and design to front. with hard card slipcase. In very good condition with good slip case, (sc, rubbing to edges and corners, ends of spine corners split.) 16 photo.plts; Map on endps; 322pp; View more info
By: AUHL, IAN:
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Linton Publications PTY. Limited. 1978 2nd edition.:
Seller ID: 70963
Size 7.25 x 9.75 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Brown endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded with small chips at ends. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 380pp. With b/w photographs, maps and plans The history of Tea Tree Gully in the Adelaide Hills, Australia. View more info
By: BAEDEKER, KARL:
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Leipsic, Karl Baedeker 1901 19th ed.:
Seller ID: 79624
Hardback, small 8vo, 6.5 x 4 inches. Red pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Embossed detailing. Rounded corners. Marbled page edges. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Cloth nice and bright. Two tiny splits at ends of rear hinge. Endpapers slightly darkened, minor tear to corner edge of folded map at front. Some slight darkening to folded maps/panoramas, the odd minor spot and handling mark else a very clean and tight copy. Illustrated with 59 Maps, 13 Plans, and 11 Panoramas. 530 pp; View more info
By: BECKFORD, William: BETTANY, G. T.:
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1891:
Seller ID: 80297
Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black lettering and blocked design on front and spine in ‘quarter-bound’ style, with pebbled effect on spine and corners. Decorative patterned endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to front board. Endpapers slightly darkened. Some minor darkening to title page from tissue guard, some minor spots to outer page edges, else a very clean and tight copy. 549pp. With B&W portrait and Full-page illustrations. View more info
By: CAMPBELL, J.F.:
Price: £95.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan, 1876:
Seller ID: 81728
2 volumes. Hardbacks, 8 x 5 inches. Cream pebbled cloth covers with gilt lettering to spines and silver ‘footprint’ designs to fronts. Black endpapers. In very good conditions. Some wear to covers; spines darkened, edges and corners rubbed with some bumps. Chips to ends of spines, repaired split to rear edge vol.1. Handling marks and darkening to cloth. A couple of old bookplabels to front endpapers “W.H. Smith Library,” and “London Institution, Finsbury Circus.” Endpapers cracked with some glue marks to front endp’s of vol.1. A couple of cracks betwee... View more info
By: COOK, CAPT. JAMES / KING, CAPT. JAMES:
Price: £2,000.00
Publisher: London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784 First printing, first edition in the rare larger quarto format.:
Seller ID: 81606
3 vols; Contemporary full calf boards, with attractive later matching leather spine, gilt titles & decorations with raised bands. All marbled edges & endpapers. Size 29.5cm x 24.5cm In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges of boards & corners. Volume II has small label lower front cover. Lacks one plate. With the armorial bookplate of Will Phillips in each volume on front endpaper. Inside some foxing with some offsetting. Volume I last pages 385 to 421 have small old worming hole top margin edge. Volume III two plater have a few nicks on protruding edges. Else generally clean... View more info
By: CROCKETT, S. R:
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, T. Unwin, 1894 6th:
Seller ID: 79523
Hardback 7.5 x 5 inches. Quarter bound red calf leather and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Green spine label, raised banding and gilt decoration. In very good condition. Top corners slightly nicked/chipped, edges and corners rubbed. Bookplate to endpaper “Emerson Bainbridge”, a couple of small handling marks else pages very clean and tight throughout. 419pp. View more info
By: DEPPING, J. B.:
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, N. Hailes, 1818:
Seller ID: 79085
Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. In Quarter-Bound maroon Leather binding, marbled cloth boards, gilt banding and lettering to spine. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and edges. Minor rubbing to boards. Hinges slightly cracked between endpapers. Frontis darkened and clipped along top edge, some foxing spots to plates, some handling marks and darkening to pages, some soiling to p11-12, Else a tight copy. 338pp. Illustrated with 4 b&w engraved plates. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Arnold, London 1935 (1st.).:
Seller ID: 51440
Blue cloth with gilt on spine. In very good condition. Nice bright binding. Corners slight bruised, with tiny chip top of spine. Japanese inscription on front endpaper. Pages rough cut. xxxiv+449pp Japanese Buddhism is a complementary volume to the author's 3 volume work Hinduism and Buddhism. This classic volume is described by Silberman in his bibliography Japan and Korea as "a standard and indespensable work. . . . Section I is a general description of Buddhist development and doctrine in India and China. Section II is a history of Japanese Buddhism and the last section is a discu... View more info
Price: £200.00
Publisher: London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1832 1st:
Seller ID: 82215
Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Polished calf leather binding with gilt and raised banding to spine with black leather label lettered in gilt. Gilt paneled boards. Speckled edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Spine darkened and rubbed with chip to bottom end. Scratch to front, rubbing to boards. Minor darkening to endpapers, some darkening and mark to title page. Some handling marks to inside pages, small spot to p39, and some dark foxing to p127. Else a clean and tight copy. 475pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis view of the Winter Palace St. Petersburgh. View more info
By: FAIRBANK, JOHN:
Price: £2.00
Publisher: Andre Deutsch 1976 (1st.).:
Seller ID: 54614
Bound in original cloth with dustwrapper. In very good condition. Num. b/w drawings. 254 pp. View more info
Price: £395.00
Publisher: London, John Murray, Charles Tilt, 1835:
Seller ID: 81323
3 volumes; Hardback, approx 9 x 7 inches. In maroon full morocco leather bindings, raised banding, gilt lettering and decorations to spines, gilt paneling and floral designs to boards. Yellow endpapers, all page edges gilt. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing to corners, thin chip to top of spine on vol.2. Some handling to boards. Slight cracks to hinges on vol.1. Bookplates to endpapers “Ronald Catchpole,” “John Nova Phillips.” Partial darkening to edges of endpapers in vols 1&3. Some slight foxing to title in v.2, some ever-so-slight darkening to some top ... View more info
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, John Murray, 1851 new ed.:
Seller ID: 80439
Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. In quarter-bound black calf leather binding, marbled paper boards, raised banding and gilt decoration to spine, with lettering to maroon leather label. Marbled edges and endpapers. In very good condition, corners slighly bumped ,some minor rubbing to edges. Bookplate to front endpaper “John Clements, Waterhouse Madden,” with stamp to first free endpaper “Ex Libris Charles Crofton Atkins.” Some light foxing to endpapers. Neat inscription to title page and page 1, “Sydney A. Mudden, Hillton.” Some very minor handling marks to pages else... View more info
By: INGSTAD, Helge;
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, 1966 1st edition:
Seller ID: 77223
Hardback, size approx 9.5 x 6 inches. Half bound in blue cloth to spine with gilt lettering, and paper covered boards. In original illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. Top page edges blued. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW in protective sleeve, rubbing to edges & corners, ends of spine nicked.) Some fading to cloth at ends of spine. Inside pages clean and tight throughout. 381pp. With many b&w photographs, diagrams and maps. View more info
Price: £48.00
Publisher: Lima, Imp. de “El Pais” Calle de Polvos Azules N.21, 1898 1st:
Seller ID: 81143
Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Half bound in polished dark brown calf leather to spine and pebbled maroon cloth boards. Gilt lettering and raised banding to spine. In very good condition. Later binding and endpapers. Rubbing to spine with chip to top end. Rubbing to boards and edges. Bookplate to front endpaper “Charles Crofton Atkins.” Some foxing to title and last page, inside pages tanned/darkened, some handling marks, small ink stain to page edges. One small hole in the bottom quarter of page block goes through every page and plate. Authors inscription and signature to rear of title... View more info