Viaggi e geografia

Vectis Scenery. Being a Series of Original and Select Views exhibiting Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight. [Facsimile reissue.] 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED

BRANNON George · 0 · Island Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

[Robin G. McInnes, Bembridge], [2002]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved title-vignette, 40 engraved plates and large folding engraved map; green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, a fine copy in pu...

The Story of the C.W.S. The Jubilee History of the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited: 1863-1913. With three Diagrams illustrative of Economic History from 1860 to 1912 by G.H. Wood. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

REDFERN Percy · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Co-Operative Wholesale Society, [1913]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 103 plates on 83, 4pp facsimile, 10 illustrations (one full-page) in the text and 3 2pp tables coloured in outline, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and verso of frontispiece, title ...

History of Sandwich in Kent. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

BENTWICH Helen C. · 0 · Island Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

T F Pain & Sons, [Deal], [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original dove-blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS ...

The Purefoy Letters 1735-1753. Edited by L. G. Mitchell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PUREFOY [Elizabeth] · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, [1973]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Elizabeth Purefoy lived and worked for ninety years in the village of Shalstone, Buckinghamshire. Her letters provide a fascinating picture of life ...

Across Africa. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

CAMERON Commander Verney Lovett · 1877 · Island Books

£620.00 (€743.17 | $819.11 | ¥130,801)

Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates and facsimiles (a number folding), woodcut illustrations in the text and large folding coloured map in pocket at end of first volume; original navy cloth, upp...

A History of Macclesfield. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

DAVIES C. Stella · 1976 · Island Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

E J Morten, Didsbury, 1976. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates (one in colour) and plans in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, faintly spotted dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original MUP edition of 1961.

The Romance of a Chiltern Village, 5,000 BC to 1957 AD. [Medmenham, Buckinghamshire]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PLAISTED Arthur H. · 1958 · Island Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Village Bookshop, Medmenham, 1958. 8vo., First Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece, 10 plates on 5, 3 full-page plans and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author was sometime vicar of Medmenham and author of the stan...

L'Art Khmer. Les Grand Etapes de son Evolution. Avec une Preface de George Coedes. Deuxieme Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; WANTING ONE MAP

REMUSAT Gilberte de Coral · 1951 · Island Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,565)

Vanoest, Paris, 1951. 8vo., Second Edition, text in French, with 159 photographs on 64 plates, 8 plans in the text and 1 (of 2) folding map, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. WANTING MAP I: CARTE HISTORIQUE DE L'INDOC...

Le Décor et la Sculpture Khmers. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

MARCHAL Henri · 1951 · Island Books

£168.00 (€201.37 | $221.95 | ¥35,443)

Vanoest, Paris, 1951. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 263 photographs on 64 plates, and 109 illustrations in the text, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. Etudes d'Art et d'Ethnologie Asiatiques III. EXTREMELY...

A Guide to Heysham with a Description of its Antiquities. Illustrated with Photographs kindly supplied by W.O. Roper and Mrs. Baldwin Bent. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

TOMLINSON Miss · 1923 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

J.G. Wigley, Lancaster, 1923. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; printed wrappers, upper wrapper with mounted photograph (repeated in text), wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Mowbray's Guide to Oxford with Plan and Illustrations. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

OXFORD. · 1930 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Mowbray, Oxford, 1930. 8vo., with full-page photographs and double-page street plan in the text; wrappers printed in blue and black, sewed as issued, covers lightly browned else a near fine copy. With trade advertisements (a number illustrated) at front and rear. EARLY PRINTIN...

Lincolnshire Windmills. Part One: Post Mills and Part Two: Tower Mills. NEAR FINE COPY

WAILES Rex · 1991 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Friends of Heckington Mill [with[ Newcomen Society], Sleaford, 1991. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Blythman 297.

The Book of Abingdon. With Chapters on Early Abingdon by David Miles. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

HAMMOND Nigel · 1979 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Barracuda Books, Buckingham, 1979. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped du...

The Book of Braintree and Bocking. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

BAKER Michael · 1981 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Barracuda Books, Buckingham, 1981. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backst...

The Book of Campden. History in Stone. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

POWELL Geoffrey · 1982 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Barracuda Books, Buckingham, 1982. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; buff cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstr...

Holborn. An Historical Portrait of a London Borough. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

LEHMANN John · 1970 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Macmillan, 1970. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The Smugglers. Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft. Illustrated by Paul Hardy, by the Author and from old Prints and Photographs. NEAR FINE COPY

HARPER Charles G. · 1909 · Island Books

£94.00 (€112.67 | $124.19 | ¥19,831)

Chapman & Hall, 1909. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in green and black, title-vignette, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text, a few preliminaries lightly spotted; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, g...

Highways and Byways in Leicestershire. With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

FIRTH J. B · 1926 · Island Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Macmillan, 1926. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map on japon, tiny signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, upper hin...

Highways and Byways in Essex. With Illustrations by F.L. Griggs and S.R. Badmin. NEAR FINE COPY

BAX Clifford · 1939 · Island Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Macmillan, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text (a number full-page) and front and rear endpaper maps, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, ...

Kentish Fire. Foreword by S. Graham Brade-Birks. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

CLARK F. C. · 1947 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Adams & Son, Rye, 1947. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, tiny signature on front free endpaper; grey boards, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter crudely reinforced at corners. Bennett, p.206.