Viaggi e geografia

Salisbury Plain. Its Stones, Cathedral City, Villages and Folk. Illustrated by Dora Noyes. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH

NOYES Ella · 1913 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Dent, 1913. 8vo., First Edition, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 11 mounted coloured plates, 4 smaller mounted coloured illustrations, and 7 monochrome illustrations in the text, free endpapers faintly browned; green cloth, upper board and b...

The Surrey Hills. With Photographs by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

POUCHER W.A · 1949 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Chapman & Hall, 1949. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 97 fine plates; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. A detailed table of the author's photographic data is i...

The History and Antiquities of Lambeth. [First and Sole Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

TANSWELL John · 1858 · Island Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Frederick Pickton, 1858. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece, title and dedication in red and black, 15 engraved plates on 11, and 6 engraved illustrations (including two armorial bearings), several type-facsimiles and full-page table in the text, title reinforced ...

Joseph Arch (1826-1919). The Farm Workers' Leader.

HORN Pamela · 1971 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Roundwood Press, Kineton, 1971. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first full-length biography

Nicholls's Forest of Dean. An Historical and Descriptive Account [with] Iron Making in the Olden Times. [New Edition, With an Introduction by Cyril Hart, Senior Verderer pf the Forest of Dean.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

NICHOLLS Rev. H.G. · 0 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

David & Charles, Dawlish, [1966]. 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and folding map; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much needed reissue of Nicholls's two classic studies, first published in 1858 and ...

An Abridgement of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. Including an Abridgement of Captain Furneaux's Narrative…To which is added a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole…And an Extract from Forster's Introduction…. The Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF

COOK Captain James · 1788 · Island Books

£860.00 (€1,030.85 | $1,136.18 | ¥181,433)

Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, some light offsetting to title; contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, new red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy in sym...

The History of the Isle of Wight; Military, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Natural: to which is added a View of its Agriculture. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY SPECKLED CALF

WARNER Rev. Richard · 1795 · Island Books

£405.00 (€485.46 | $535.06 | ¥85,442)

Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies [and another], Southampton,D 1795. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with engraved folding map as frontispiece (two short tears expertly repaired), and 2 engraved plates (one folding); contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked to style...

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset. Volume Two. South-East. Part 2. [THIS VOLUME ONLY.]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS ENGLAND. · 1970 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

HMSO [for] Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1970. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontspiece, title in red and black, very numerous plates, illustrations and plans in the text, and folding maps in rear pocket; original series binding of grey buckram, upper boa...

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset. West [with] South-East [with] Central [with] North [with] East. [Complete set.]. HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF DORSET: NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS ENGLAND. · 1970 · Island Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

HMSO [for] Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1970. 5 vols. in 8, roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontspieces (some mounted and in colour), titles in red and black, very numerous plates, illustrations and plans in the text, and numerous folding maps in rear pock...

The Buildings of England. Cornwall. BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST PEVSNER

PEVSNER Nikolaus · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Penguin, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 91 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text, half-title faintly browned; original printed wrappers, backstrip minimally chafed at head else an unusually bright, clean copy. THE FIRST ISSUE O...

Holcombe Court. A Bluett Family Tudor Mansion. With a Preface by Nigel Wiggins. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SCOTT-FOX Charles · 0 · Island Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

Privately Printed, [2012]. 8vo., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text, 6 folding pedigrees, folding chart of armorial bearings and printed endpapers; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ...

Map of Roman Britain (Third Edition). Scale: Sixteen Miles to One Inch. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

ORDNANCE SURVEY · 1956 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Ordnance Survey, Southampton, 1956. Roy. 8vo., Third Edition, with very large folding coloured map folded and mounted at end; original printed and laminated wrappers, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.

Windmills in Lambeth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

SHORT Michael · 1971 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

London Borough of Lambeth, 1971. Folio, First Edition, with photographs, illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Blythman 268.

Proud Petworth and Beyond. Photographs from the '20s and '30s by George Garland. NEAR FINE COPY

JERROME Peter · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Window Press, [Petworth], [1981]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.

Stories of Bournemouth and its Hinterland. Hardy Country. Wiltshire Downs. New Forest. Immaculate Centres of Romance. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SMITH C. Leslie W. · 1977 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Privately Printed, [Faversham], 1977. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and coloured endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Life in Cornwall. Early Nineteenth Century [with] Mid- Nineteenth Century [with] Late Nineteenth Century [with] End of Nineteenth Century. [Complete set.]. Being Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper. Selected and edited by R. M. Barton. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

BARTON, ed. R. M. · 1997717274 · Island Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

Dyllansow Truran [and] D Bradford Barton, Truro, 1997-71-72-74. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; cloth (black/blue tweed/green tweed/brown respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises: Early ...

Windmills in Sussex. Illustrated and Data collected by A. Foord Hughes. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

FOWELL G. M. · 1930 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Walker's Galleries, 1930. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and numerous coloured and monochrome plates and photographs; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Walker's Quarterly Nos. 29-30. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Blythman 212.

South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17.. Edited by Peter King. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SHACKLETON Sir Ernest · 0 · Island Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Century, [1991]. 4to., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent modern edition of ...

The Stane Street. A Monograph. Illustrated by William Hyde. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

BELLOC Hilaire · 1913 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Constable, 1913. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 15 fine plates, 22 sketch-maps in the text and folding map coloured in outline; original tan boards, upper cover blocked with road map and lettered in d...

London Topographical Record. Vol. XXXIII. Edited by Sheila O'Connell. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

O'CONNELL, ed. Sheila · 2025 · Island Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London Topographical Society, 2025. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and folding coloured map as loose insert; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publicati...