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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: ANSON, GEORGE: WALTER, Richard:
Price: £300.00
Publisher: London, John and Paul Knapton, 1748 2nd:
Seller ID: 81279
Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In full calf leather binding with red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. In contemporary leather binding by “Chalfont Bookbinders, Bucks.” Contemporary endpapers. Some tanning inside pages, some light foxing and handling marks to pages. Neat inscription to title page “Mick Pearson 1756.” Maps clean and bright, no tears. 548pp. Illustrated with a fold-out engraved frontis map and two large folding engraved charts at rear. 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: £75.00
Publisher: Leipzig / London Karl Baedeker / George Allen & Unwin / New York. Chas. Scribner's Sons. 1922 4th:
Seller ID: 76880
Sm.8vo. Hardback. Approx 6.5 x 4.5 ins.) Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Blind embossed decoration and rounded corners. Marbled edges. In very good condition. Minor rubbing to edges. Crease to front corner. Ends of spine rubbed. Slight crack to front hinge, else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 420pp; 134 maps (folding) & 12 plans. 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
Price: £225.00
Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett, 1876 1st edition:
Seller ID: 81040
Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Contemporary quarter bound maroon polished morocco leather and maroon cloth covered boards. Raised and black banding, gilt lettering and decorations to spine, line edging to boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Contemporary binding and endpapers. A couple of very minor handling marks to pages else a very clean and tight copy. Scarce 1st edition. 36200 + 16pp cat. With 8 B&W illlustrations, 7 full page plates, and a title-page vignette. View more info
Price: £250.00
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press, 1926 1st thus:
Seller ID: 77473
Hardback, approx 9.5 x 6.5 inches, in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt vignette and line decoration to boards. Top edges gilt, in scarce original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW spine slightly faded with darker patch to middle. Minor rubbing to edges, in protective sleeve.) Small bump to bottom edge of front board. Endpapers slightly darkened, else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. An excellent copy, with scarce dustwrapper. 650 pp. Illustrated with a Frontis portrait of the author in Persian dress, and large folding map at rear. 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
Price: £26.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1900 1st:
Seller ID: 80666
2 volumes. Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines and front, with gilt banding and vignettes. Top edges gilt. In very good conditions. Bright covers, some minor rubbing to corners and spine on vol.2. Some light foxing to endpapers. Plates all tissue guarded. Else very clean and tight copies. 391 & 407pp. Illustrated with B&W photogravure plates and many illustrations within text. 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: £50.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber, 1953 1st:
Seller ID: 80380
Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Green cloth with silver and blue backed lettering to spine. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrap (DW some minor fading , edges rubbed with some small tears. In protective sleeve. Not price clipped.) Some minor rubbing to cloth. Slight darkening to endpapers, else pages all very clean and tight. 198pp. Illustrated with 7 B&W 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