Viaggi e geografia

A Maritime History of Rye. [First Paperback Edition]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

COLLARD John A. · 1985 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Privately Printed, Rye, 1985. 8vo. First Edition thus, with frontispiece, numerous plates and illustrations, and 16 maps (a number folding); original pictorial wrappers, a very good clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE

Old Westminster Bridge. The Bridge of Fools. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

WALKER R.J.B. · 0 · Island Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

David & Charles, Newton Abbot, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

County Borough. The History of Burton upon Trent-1901-1974. Part I: Edwardian Burton. Part II: 1914-1974. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

STUART Dennis · 1975 · Island Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Charter Trustees of Burton upon Trent, Burton upon Trent, 1975-77. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, and maps and pictorial endpapers; cloth (red/blue respectively), upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine set...

Monastic Sites from the Air. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

KNOWLES David K. · 1952 · Island Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

University Press, Cambridge, 1952. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with title in blue and black, 138 fine photographs (the majority full-page) in the text and a full-page map, free endpapers lightly spotted; original blue buckram, gilt back, bevelled boards, a very good, bright cop...

The Manor and Parish Church of Hampstead and its Vicars.

KENNEDY J. · 1906 · Island Books

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

Mayle, 1906. 8vo. First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and large folding map at rear; grey cloth, faux-vellum back and corners, gilt back, uncut, case a little shaken else a good sound copy.

Most Wonderful Machine. Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

McGAW Judith A. · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, [1987]. 8vo. First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Accounts of the Roberts Family of Boarzell, Sussex c. 1568-1582. Edited by Robert Tittler. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

ROBERTS FAMILY · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Sussex Record Society, Lewes, [1977]. 8vo. First Edition, inked scribble on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sussex Record Society Vol. 71.

The Mystery of the Coventry Cappers. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

KING Peter · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Continuum, [2001]. 8vo. First Edition, with frontispiece, facsimiles in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The Company and Fellowship of the Gild of Cappers and Feltmakers is one of the few remaining merchant guilds ...

Cornish Feasts and FolkLore. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

COURTNEY M.A. · 1890 · Island Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Beare & Son, Penzance, 1890. 8vo. First Edition, title browned; original plum cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, copy. With the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite on front paste-down....

Daybreak in Livingstonia. The Story of the Livingstonia Mission, British Central Africa. Revised with an Introduction by Robert Laws. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY

JACK James W. · 1901 · Island Books

£122.00 (€146.24 | $161.18 | ¥25,738)

Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1901. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 plates, double-page plan and large folding coloured map (neatly repaired at fold); original green cloth, upper board blocked a...

The Stone Circles of the British Isles. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BURL Aubrey · 1976 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Yale University Press, 1976. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, diagrams and plan in the text; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Nice copy of the standard reference.

The History of East Grinstead.

HILLS W. H. · 1906 · Island Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

Farncombe, Lewes, Eastbourne and East Grinstead, 1906. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers and half-title lightly spotted; original red cloth, gilt back, boards unevenly sunned, short tear in lower joint (but binding entirely sound), backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly leg...

Waters of Arun. With Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

ALLCROFT A. Hadrian · 0 · Island Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Methuen, [1930]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and numerous maps (2 folding on japon), neat contemporary inscription on half-title; green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ...

Going Back. [The Princeton University Football Team 1933-34]. PRIVATELY PRINTED

MURRAY JNR A.G. · 1934 · Island Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1934. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; orange cloth, upper board lettered in black with title and facsimiles of team signatures; backstrip lettered in black, covers lightly age-soi...

Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

BUTLER Lionel · 0 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Michael Joseph, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (a number full-page) and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Covers all the main monastic sites remaining in Britain, to...

The Place-Names of Roman Britain. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

RIVET A.L.F. · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Batsford, [1982]. 4to., Second Impression; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of the definitive record.

Burford Past and Present. [Revised Edition].

GRETTON Mary Sturge · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Faber, [1945]. 8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates; cloth, gilt back, covers just a little faded else a very good, clean copy. The work appeared originally in 1920, with another edition in 1929.

The Early History of the North Riding. BRIGHT COPY IN PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING

EDWARDS William · 1924 · Island Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.53 | ¥31,223)

A Brown & Sons, 1924. Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates and illustrations in the text, and folding map at end; publisher's deluxe binding of full blue crushed morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked w...

Moor Park: The Grosvenor Legacy. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

PEDRICK M. · 1989 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Riverside Books, [Rickmansworth, 1989]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout, and large folding coloured map in pocket at end; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-cas...

The Story of Bisham Abbey. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

COMPTON Piers · 1979 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Thames Valley Press, Bath, 1979. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.