Viaggi e geografia

Commuters' Village. A Study of Community and Commuters in the Berkshire Village of Stratfield Mortimer.

CRICHTON Ruth · 1964 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

1964]. 8vo., with 14 plates on 8 and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.

Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the Journal of a Tour in India. NOTABLE ASSOCIATION XL COPY IN PERIOD ROAN

MUNDY Captain [Godfrey Charles] · 1832 · Island Books

£780.00 (€934.95 | $1,030.49 | ¥164,556)

John Murray, 1832. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces, 17 engraved plates and large folding map, THE MAP COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE, frontispieces and plates mildly spotted (mainly marginal); firmly and attractively bound in period red half roan, marble...

Washed by Four Seas. An English Officer's Travels in the Near East. With an Introduction by Sir Martin Conway. Illustrated by over 60 of the Author's Photographs. NEAR FINE COPY

WOODS Henry Charles · 1908 · Island Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

T Fisher Unwin, 1908. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates and very large folding map at end, free endpapers lightly browned; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, fore-edge faintly browned else a nea...

A Short History of the Borough of Sudbury, in the County of Suffolk. Compiled from Materials collected by W.W. Hodson. [Second Edition.] CRISP, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION

SPERLING C. F. D. · 18961905 · Island Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Printed by B. R. Marten, Sudbury, 1896 [1905]. Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 13 plates and folding pedigree; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, expertly recased, a very...

The Big Red Train Ride. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

NEWBY Eric · 0 · Island Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, double-page map in the text and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LENGTHY HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE: 'It would be a qui...

Slowly down the Ganges. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

NEWBY Eric · 0 · Island Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Hodder & Stoughton, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates, 16 monochrome plates and 3 maps (one double-page), neat inscription (in addition to author's) on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, top and fore-edge lightly age-soile...

Simen. Its Heights and Abysses. A Record of Travel and Sport in Abyssinia, with some Account of the Sacred City of Aksum and the Ruins of Gondar. NEAR FINE COPY OF MAYDON'S RAREST WORK

MAYDON Major Hubert Conway · 1925 · Island Books

£520.00 (€623.30 | $686.99 | ¥109,704)

HF & G Witherby, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 22 plates on 11, 5 maps in the text and large folding panorama on japon; green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, top and fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine cop...

History of Serbia. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY

TEMPERLEY Harold W.V. · 1919 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

G Bell & Sons, 1919. 8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece map coloured in outline; brown ribbed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.

Staffordshire Windmills. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

JOB Barry · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Midland Wind and Water Mills Gorup, [Birmingham], [1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With the printed errata slip mounted on front wrapper. Includes detailed gazetteer of sites. Blythman 228.

Monumental Brasses of Berkshire (14th to 17th Century).

MORLEY H.T. · 1924 · Island Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Reading, 1924. 4to., with a mounted frontispiece, title and text in red and black, and 118 pages of reproductions of rubbings; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. SUBSCRIBERS' COPY. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF MISS MARY BENTALL, A SUBSCRIBER TO THE ...

A Pattern of Islands [with] Return to the Islands. THE 'ISLANDS' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS; WITH PROMOTIONAL BAND

GRIMBLE Arthur · 0 · Island Books

£224.00 (€268.50 | $295.94 | ¥47,257)

John Murray, [1952-57]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignettes, several illustrations in the text and 2 maps (one double-page) on green stock, small signature on front free endpaper of first volume; original blue-green cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and...

A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Matlock, Dovedale, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall etc. Two District Maps and Map of Dovedale. Eleventh Edition - revised. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

WARD LOCK RED GUIDE · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Ward Lock, [1934]. Sm. 8vo., Eleventh Edition, with folding map as frontispiece, plates, full-page map in the text and large folding map; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, top lightly age-marked else a a very good, bri...

Motherwell: an Outline History. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

GOODALL Ethel · 1982 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Motherwell District Libraries, Motherwell, 1982. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good bright, clean copy. SCARCE.

The Whitbread Library. [The set comprises 1: Whitbread's Brewery; 2: Your Local; 3: Inn-Signia; 4: The Brewer's Art; 5: Whitbread Craftsmen; 6: Inns of Kent; 7: Inns of Sport; 8: Receipts and Relishes; 9: Your Club; 10: Inn Crafts and Furnishings; 11: Word for Word.] THE WHITBREAD LIBRARY COMPLETE; WITH CHAIRMAN'S LETTER

WHITBREAD and Co. · 19471953 · Island Books

£360.00 (€431.52 | $475.61 | ¥75,949)

Whitbread and Co., [1947-1953]. 11 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, one or two volumes with neat signatures on endpapers; original ser...

The Romano-British Settlement at Thatcham-Newtown, Berkshire. NEAR FINE COPY

HARRIS W.E. · 1937 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Newbury, 1937. 8vo., with illustrations, plans and tables (a number full-page) in the text; wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the 'Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club'. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF G.C. DUNNING, ARCHAEOLOGIST,...

Sussex Depicted. Views and Descriptions 1600-1800. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

FARRANT John H. · 2001 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Sussex Record Society, [Lewes], 2001. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sussex Record Society, Volume 85.

The Danube Swabians. German Populations in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia, and Hitler's Impact on their Patterns. [Studies in Social Life X.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PAIKERT G. C. · 1967 · Island Books

£174.00 (€208.57 | $229.88 | ¥36,709)

Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1967. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text, tiny contemporary signature on front paste-down; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the small trade ticket of Parkers of Oxford on front...

Water Mill Sites in North Worcestershire. NEAR FINE COPY

PAGETT, ed. Tom · 1993 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Hagley Historical and Field Society, 1993. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

The Buildings of England. North Devon [with] South Devon. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

PEVSNER Nikolaus · 0 · Island Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Penguin, [1952]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations in the text and folding maps; original printed wrappers, first volume lightly browned at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean set. The first dustwrappers were not issued until 1954. Buildings of Eng...

The House of Whitbread. The Magazine of the Whitbread Group of Companies. Coronation Number. Volume 13. Number 1. NEAR FINE COPY

WHITBREAD GROUP OF COMPANIES · 1953 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Whitbread Group of Companies, 1953. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy,.