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Kenya Diary (1902-1906). With a New Preface by Elspeth Huxley. [Foreword by Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Lathbury. First Edition in Paperback]. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PAPERBACK

MEINERTZHAGEN Richard · 0 · Island Books

£74.00 (€88.70 | $97.76 | ¥15,612)

Eland Books, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece map and numerous plates; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Second edition of a Kenyan classic first issued in 1957. Huxley adds a frank and insightful Preface. Astonishingly, not recorded by Cross & Perkin.

William O'Brien and the Irish Land War. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

WARWICK-HALLER Sally · 0 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Irish Academic Press, [Dublin], [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT ...

Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. A Handbook of Inland Navigation for Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders and Others. Compiled, after a Personal Survey of the Whole of the Waterways, by Henry Rodolph de Salis. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE INLAND NAVIGATOR'S BIBLE

DE SALIS Henry Rodolph · 0 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

[Old House, Oxford] [2012]. 8vo., green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, green endpapers, a near fine copy. High quality facsimile reissue of the original De Salis edition of 1904.

Storrington in Living Memory. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

HAM Joan · 0 · Island Books

£112.00 (€134.25 | $147.97 | ¥23,629)

Phillimore, [Chichester], [1982]. 4to., First Edition, with and very numerous photographs in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Arguably the best of Ham's several books on Storrington and environs. VERY S...

Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I: The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Vol. II: The Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E. Wilson and the surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a Preface by Sir Clements Markham. NEAR FINE COPY

SCOTT Robert Falcon · 0 · Island Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.53 | ¥31,223)

John Murray, [1947]. 2 vols., 8vo., with portrait frontispieces, plates and 2 large folding maps; blue ribbed cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy. Crisp copy of a reissue of the original two -volume edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Spence 1071 (recording the first edi...

Bygone Fife from Culross to St. Andrews. Traditions, Legends, Folklore and Local History of 'The Kingdom'. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

WILKIE James · 1931 · Island Books

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,814)

Blackwood, 1931. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

Lancashire Characters and Places. FIRST [SOLE?] EDITION

NEWBIGGING T. · 1891 · Island Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Brook and Chrystal, Manchester, 1891. 8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on half-title; original cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean copy. Sold from the Royal Exchange Library, Manchester, with its ...

The Buildings of England. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

PEVSNER Nikolaus · 1973 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Penguin Books, [Harmondsworth], 1973]. 8vo., Second Impression, with double-page map as frontispiece, 99 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1967. UNCOMMON IN THIS CON...

Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Reading and Newbury. Popular Edition. Sheet 113 Scale: One Inch to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

ORDNANCE SURVEY · 0 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Ordnance Survey, Southampton, [1933]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 29 ins (approx. 59 x 74 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.5 cms), original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1919. This is the ...

Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Worcester. Popular Edition. Sheet 81. Scale: One Inch to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

ORDNANCE SURVEY · 0 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Ordnance Survey, Southampton, [1928]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 29 ins (approx. 59 x 74 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.5 cms), original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1920. This is the ...

The King's England. Sussex. Fully revised and edited by C.L.S. Linnell. Illustrated with new Photographs by A.F. Kersting. REVISED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

MEE Arthur · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Hodder & Stoughton, [1964]. 8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and double-page map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and...

Memorials of Wilton and other Papers. Edited, with some Additional Notes, by Edward Kite. 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED; SOUND WORKING COPY

NIGHTINGALE James Edward · 1906 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

George Simpson, Devizes, 1906. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, first and last few leaves mildly marked at extreme fore-edge; original blue buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, boards h...

Eton Songs. Set to Music by Joseph Barnby. Illustrated by Herbert Marshall. ETONIANA: NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY IN THEMED BINDING

AINGER Arthur Campbell · 1891 · Island Books

£445.00 (€533.40 | $587.91 | ¥93,881)

Leadenhall Press, 1891-2. Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; elegantly bound in green full morocco, sides with multiple frame b...

Sir Francis Drake. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

BENSON Edward Frederic · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John Lane Bodley Head, [1928]. 8vo., Third Impression, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps, fore-edge very lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a v...

Henry Hudson. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

POWYS Llewellyn · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John Lane Bodley Head, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps in red and black; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a very good, bright, ...

Sir Martin Frobisher. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

MCFEE William · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John Lane Bodley Head, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. The G...

A Calendar of Performances at the Orchard Street Theatre 1750-1805. Compiled by Heather Bryant [and many others]. With additional Material by Kathleen Barker. Edited by Arnold Hare. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

THEATRE ROYAL BATH. · 1977 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Kingsmead Press, Bath, 1977. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, signatures on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

An Act for allotting Lands in the Parishes of Broad Chalke and Chilmark. in the County of Wilts. FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED REFERENCE TO THE PARISH

ENCLOSURE ACT 1814 Act of Parliament · 1814 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

House of Commons, 1814. Sm. folio, 30pp, on laid paper, some light age-staining; disbound, a very good, crisp, legible copy ideal for framing and display. 54 Geo. III. Session 1813-14; granted Royal Assent 17 June 1814. GODDARD, p.74, RECORDS THIS ACT AS THE FIRST SEPARATELY P...

An Act for Inclosing Lands in the Tythings of East Overton and Lockeridge. In the Parish of Overton in the County of Wilts, and in the Hamlet or Tything of Fyfield in the same County. FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED REFERENCE TO THE PARISH

ENCLOSURE ACT 1814 Act of Parliament · 1814 · Island Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

House of Commons, 1814. Sm. folio, 34pp, on laid paper, with woodcut head-piece; disbound, a remarkably bright, crisp copy ideal for framing and display. 54 Geo. III. Session 1813-14; granted Royal Assent 17 June 1814. GODDARD, p.179, RECORDS THIS ACT AS THE FIRST SEPARATELY P...

An Act for Allotting Lands in the Parish of Durrington. And in the Tything of Knighton, in the Parish of Figheldean, in the County of Wilts. FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED REFERENCE TO THE PARISH

ENCLOSURE ACT 1819 Act of Parliament · 1819 · Island Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

House of Commons, 1819. Sm. folio, 26pp, on laid paper, with woodcut head-piece; disbound, a very good, clean, crisp copy ideal for framing and display. Goddard, p.108, records this act as the first separately published reference to the parish