Viaggi e geografia

The Woollen Industry of South-West England.

PONTING Kenneth G. · 1971 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

[Bath, 1971]. 4to., First Edition, with 55 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and small stamp on verso of title.

The Illustrated London News Book of London's Villages.

ALDOUS Tony · 0 · Island Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Secker & Warburg, [1980]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Harrogate College 1893-1973.

HEWLETT Dorothy · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Harrogate College, Harrogate, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; armorial cloth gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Easebourne. Its Church and Priory. NEAT FINE COPY

HINKLEY] [H. · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

[Privately Printed, Easebourne], [1948]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 plates on 2 as frontispiece, and 12 plates on 6; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.

East Anglian Reminiscences.

GOODWYN E.A. · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Boydell Press, Ipswich, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

The Court of Burgundy. [Translated by Malcolm Letts. Second Edition].

CARTELLIERI Otto · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 24 plates and a large folding pedigree, some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the s...

All Change. Kingston, Surbiton & New Malden in the 19th Century. SIGNED COPY

SAMPSON June · 1985 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

[Privately Printed, St. Luke's Church, Kingston upon Thames, 1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text, small inscription on front inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY F...

A History of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company of the City of London. History of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company of the City of London.

WARNER O. · 1964 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

[Privately Printed, 1964]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a double-page coloured plate and 16 monochrome plates on 10; pictorial boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, black top, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY O...

[List of Prehistoric, Roman and Pagan Saxon Antiquities in the County arranged by Parish, in] The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. No. CXX. December 1913. Vol. XXXVIII. SCARCE SPECIAL NUMBER: GODDARD'S ANTIQUITIES

THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE · 1913 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Printed for the Society by C.H. Woodward, Devizes, 1913. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped covers, uncut, backstrip lightly worn (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean, firm copy. The entire number is devoted to Goddard's 'Li...

Picture of Worthing. To which is added an Account of the adjacent Villages, and the Rides and Excursions in its Vicinity. Second Edition. Greatly enlarged, and embellished with plates. In two Volumes. FIRST SEPARATE ACCOUNT OF THE TOWN

EVANS John · 1814 · Island Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

Printed and Sold by William Phillips, Worthing, [and others in London], 1814. 2 vols., in 1, 12mo., Second and Best Edition, with large folding copper-engraved plate and engraved plate coloured by hand as frontispieces, 2 engraved maps (each finely coloured by hand) and a lar...

The Buildings of England. Shropshire. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PEVSNER Nikolaus · 0 · Island Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

Penguin, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with double-page map as frontispiece, 101 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly dust-soiled at backstrip. Buildings of England, BE...

Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast.

FIELDING Xan · 0 · Island Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

Secker & Warburg, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates and rear endpaper map; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE ag...

The Heraldry of Canterbury Cathedral. Volume I. The Great Cloister Vault. Part II. April, 1939.. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

MESSENGER Paymaster Commander A .W. B. · 1939 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Office of the Friends [of Canterbury Cathedral], Canterbury, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, with 17 plates on 8; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE. Bennett, p.61.

The Outdoor Monuments of London. Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials.

COOPER C.S. · 1928 · Island Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

1928]. Roy. 8vo., on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate, neat stamp on obverse of frontispiece and title, and neat stamp on margins only of some plates.

Parish Law: or, a Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks and all Others concern'd in Parish Business. Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF

SHAW Joseph · 1739 · Island Books

£188.00 (€225.35 | $248.38 | ¥39,650)

In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for F. Cogan at the Middle Temple Gate Fleet-Street, and J. Nourse at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, 1739. 8vo., Fourth Edition, on laid paper, title and text partly in black letter; eighteenth century full calf, sides wit...

A Municipal History of Eastbourne 1938-1974. Foreword by Francis H. Busby. SIGNED COPY

ASPDEN J.C. · 1974 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

[Eastbourne Borough Council, Eastbourne, 1974]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 21 plates on 10; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a small quantity of relevant ephemera (including ...

Kentish Sources. IV. The Poor. A Collection of Examples from original Sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centur.

MELLING (ed.) E. · 1964 · Island Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Kent County Council, Maidstone, 1964. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bennett (Supp), p.238.

Suddeutschland. Oberrhein, Baden, Wurttemberg, Bayern, und die Angrenzenden Teile von Osterreich. Siebenundzwanzigste Auflage.

BAEDEKER Karl · 1901 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1901. Sm. 8vo., Twenty-Seventh Edition, with 48 coloured maps (13 folding, 16 double-page and 19 full-page), 9 full-page plans, a large folding coloured map at end and rear endpaper map; original limp red cloth lettered in gilt, gilt back, marbled edges...

The Story of Old Whitehall. With a Note of the Whitehall Rooms and the Hotel Metropole. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

BRERETON Austin · 1912 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Gordon Hotels, 1912. 8vo., on laid paper, with frontispiece and 16 plates; original wrappers, sewed as issued, embossed in gilt, backstrip a trifle worn else a remarkably clean copy. SCARCE.

The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales). 680 COPIES WERE PRINTED

SMITHERS, ed. Leonard C. · 1894 · Island Books

£84.00 (€100.69 | $110.98 | ¥17,716)

J.S. Nichols, 1894. 8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black; pictorial cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly pulled at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 680 COPIES