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Price: £14.00
Publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1912 fifth edition.:
Seller ID: 74356
Size approx 6 x 9 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt book design to front and lettering to cover and spine. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges and ends of spine and minor bumps to corners. Minor mark to rear. Inside some light foxing to page edges else a very clean and tight copy. 338pp. With Forty-Four b&w Illustrations. View more info
By: ADAMS BECK, L.:
Price: £48.00
Publisher: London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1927 1st:
Seller ID: 78723
Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Dark blue cloth with red lettering and line edging to front and spine. In original patterned dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW minor rubbing to edges, a couple of small nicks to corners and small nick to rear side nr bottom edge. In protective sleeve.) Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth. Some minor darkening to outer page edges else a very clean and tight copy. 253pp + 6pp cat. View more info
By: Anon:
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Tokyo, ca1940:
Seller ID: 82311
Hardback, 8 x 6 inches. Eastern ‘oriental-style’ fold-out binding, brown silk covers, paper title label to front board. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges around corners, inside pages and plates all very clean and tight. An excellent copy. 22pp. Illustrated with 10 hand-coloured silk plates on silk mountings. Characters include: Mang Mu Niang Niang, Shou Xin, The Gwai-Li, Han Zhong-Li, Iu Dong-Bing & others. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1894 new ed:
Seller ID: 80289
Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to front and spine, silver ship vignette to top corner. Brown endpapers. In very good condition. Slight fading to spine with some minor rubbing to ends. Inside pages clean and tight. Else a very clean and tight copy. 601pp + 1pp cat. With B&W photo illustrations including full-page plates. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London & New York, Atlantic Books, 1958 1st:
Seller ID: 78298
Hardback, 9.5 x 6 ins. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Blind embossed monogram to front. In illustrated yellow dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW rubbing to edges and some minor creases, spine slightly faded, small tear to rear. In protective sleeve.) Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth. Inside pages all very clean and tight. 535pp. 9 maps, 12 b&w plates including frontis. View more info
By: CAINE, W.S.:
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1890 1st:
Seller ID: 81013
Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. Dark green cloth with beveled boards, decorative gilt lettering and black pictorial designs to front and spine. All edges gilt. Green endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Some light rubbing to design on front. Inscription to half-title page “E.B. Rice, Served as a Sergent in the Rifle Brigade, during the Indian Mutiny, was present at Beige and Capture of Lucknow in 1858, and afterwards engaged on the North West Frontier of India,” then dated “10th November 1890” on first page. Frontis plate darkened ... View more info
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Charles Knight & Co., 1844:
Seller ID: 81746
2 Volumes. Hardbacks, 6 x 4 inches. Quarter bound black leather and blue-marbled paper covered boards. In very good conditions. Some rubbing to extremities; spines and ends, corners a little bumped. Some darkening and rubbing to boards. Neat pencil inscription to endpapers “S. Sewell.” Some minor light handling marks to pages else inside pages very clean and tight. 280, 283, 236 & 263pp. With B&W illustrations within text. View more info
By: Edward Lear
Price: £2,000.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society 2012 Limited edition Only 780 Copies Numbered 300:
Seller ID: 82460
Large book with full goatskin leather binding which is beautifully decorated with a thick gilt border. Gilt top edge. Imperial folio format measures 57cm x 49cm Introduction by David Attenborough and signed by him. In fine condition. Inside very clean & tight. The book is beautifully presented in a sturdy and attractive solander box. The box has shelf wear on the top front cover. 184 pages Stunning color reproductions of Lear prints. Printed on matt-coated wove paper, Set in Bodoni. 80 hand-coloured lithographs and one additional drawing in high-quality reproduction. Numbered No. 300 of on... View more info
By: FOUCAULD, Vicomte Charles de:
Price: £325.00
Publisher: Paris, Societe D’Editions Geographies, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1934 Nouveau Tirage (New print.):
Seller ID: 82224
Two Volumes. Large hardbacks, approx 12.5 x 9.5 inches. In dark green cloth covers with black lettering to front covers and gilt lettering to spines. Grey/blue endpapers. In very good conditions. Some minor shelfwear to covers; rubbing to ends of spines, some rubbing to edges. Some fading to spines and around edges of boards. Some light scratches to rear boards with small nick/chip hole nr bottom spine corner of front board on text vol. Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else very clean and tight copies. 495pp. Text volume illustrated with 4 full-page photogra... View more info
By: KAYE, M.M. (ed):
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Webb & Bower. Exeter. 1980 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 67759
Size 7.5 x 10.0 inches. In maroon leather binding with gilt to spine and front. Illustrated maroon endpapers. With pictorial dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge with small chips and tears. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 220pp. With colour illustrations and facsimile pages. The author was the daughter of the Resident in Delhi and joined her father at the Moghul Court, some ten years before the Indian Mutiny. Also included are pages from the ‘Delhie Book’ with illustrations commissioned by her father. View more info
Price: £120.00
Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1910 1st:
Seller ID: 80417
Hardback, 10 x 7 inches. Orange cloth covers with black and gilt lettering to spine and black lettering with pictorial design to front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners. Some handling marks to cloth on front and back. Endpapers darkened with some mild foxing. Some foxing to pages immediately adjacent colour plates, Else inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. 324pp. Illustrated with six coloured plates and many B&W photo illustrations. Photogravure frontis portrait. By the Author of; “Tribes of the Nile Valley,” “... View more info
Price: £200.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, London. 1898 1st edition:
Seller ID: 82142
Two volumes. Size approx 6 x 9 inches. In original green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spines and with colour/gilt illustrated design to fronts and spines. In very good conditions. Nice bright copies. Volume I has slight lean. Endpapers mildly foxed, with a few small nicks on fore edge. Pages a little rough cut. Inside pages very clean & tight throughout. 320pp + 263pp. With a Map (rear v.2) and Two Hundred and Fifty illustrations. Photogravure frontis and 8 Coloured plates. 45 b&w full-page plates. View more info
Price: £320.00
Publisher: London, Parbury & Allen, 1823:
Seller ID: 80733
2 volumes. Hardback, 8vo. Approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound calf leather with marbled paper boards. Twin black leather spine labels lettered in gilt, with raised banding and gilt decoration to spines. Light brown endpapers, speckled edges. In very good condition. Some darkening and rubbing to spines, professional repair to front hinge on vol.1. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplates to endpapers “Reginald Arthur Catton.” Inside pages very clean and tight, some darkening to map in vol.1, small tear to folded edge. Some minor offsetting onto adjacent page from map in vol.2, else map clea... View more info
By: RITCHIE, Leitch:
Price: £385.00
Publisher: London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1848 1st:
Seller ID: 81248
Two Volumes. Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. In full calf leather bindings, with red and black spine labels lettered in gilt, with gilt decorations and raised banding to spine, gilt paneled boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good conditions. Some minor wear to binding; rubbing to spines, small chip to bottom of spine on vol.2, a couple of small marks and minor rubbing to boards. Minor glue repair between front endpapers vol.1, half-title and blank endpaper neatly removed. Else pages all very clean and tight throughout. 500 & 512pp. View more info
By: ROBERTS, DAVID:
Price: £1,000.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society 2010 Limited edition Only 1000 Copies Numbered 164:
Seller ID: 82459
Folio (50 x 35.5 cm). Orig. illust. cloth printed in black and gold with designs by Roberts. Preserved in matching orig. slip-cases. T.e.g. and with silk ribbon markers in both vols. In near fine condition. One slipcase very small light scuff. First blank page of first volume has small red mark. Inside very clean & tight. Complete with 247 coloured lithograph plates most of which are full-page, a portrait of Roberts and map. Both volumes numbered No. 164 of only 1000 sets published. NOTE: David Roberts was the first British painter to make an artistic expedition to Egypt and the Holy Land. View more info
By: ROTH, Cecil;
Price: £280.00
Publisher: London. Soncino Press 1929 1st thus edition:
Seller ID: 76712
Large hardback. Approx 10 x 7.5 inches. Full vellum binding with gilt design to front and lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some rubbing/darkening to edges of boards. Some small marks to edges of endpapers otherwise a very clean and tight copy throughout. Numbered 83/560. 91pp. With colour illustrations. View more info
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1915 (1st.):
Seller ID: 81041
Hardback, Tall 8vo. 10 x 7 inches. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering and designs to spine and front. In very good condition. Small nicks to cloth on corners and ends of spine, no penned inscriptions. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. A very clean and tight copy. 152pp. 15 mounted colour plates & many b&w text illustrations. First edition of this beautifully illustrated, lyrical memoir by a young author who died in the First World War. Contains stories of hunting adventure in the Himalayas and notes about the flora and fauna. This volume contains 8 stories: The Scape-Goat;... View more info
Price: £125.00
Publisher: London, Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1879 2nd ed.:
Seller ID: 79187
Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. Green beveled cloth covers, decorative gilt lettering to spine and front, with black and gilt pictorial designs to front and spine. Blind embossed panel to rear board. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Boards have been professionally re-bound and original cloth re-laid on spine. Corners bumped, edges rubbed. “H.V. Day, Dorchester” bookseller label to front endpaper. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Mild foxing to pages throughout. Plates bright and clean. Else a clean and tight copy. 387pp. 24 B&W plates including Coloured frontis plate. View more info
By: Unknown
Price: £1,200.00
Publisher: Pre 1800:
Seller ID: 81605
Softback, Original covers 26.5cm x 19cm. Some wear to covers. Some old worming holes. Please view photos. 554 pages, with maps and many Illustrations Including a rare early double page WORLD MAP showing California as an island and Australia connected to Antarctica. This fine map also has 4 vignettes of ships: Dutch, Japanese, Chinese & Korean, representing the trading vessels that were going into the restricted port of Nagasaki; a very detailed double page MAP OF JAPAN, from the tip of CHOSEN (Korea) to the tip of EZO (Hokkaido), which was not developed at this time; double page MAP OF EDO... View more info