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CHARLES WATERTON: His Habits, and Handiwork. Reminiscences of an Intimate and most Confiding Personal Association for nearly Thiry Years.

(Waterton). Hobson, Richard. · 1867

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: Whittaker & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1867. 2nd Ed. containing a considerable amount of additional matter. xxxii + 375pp. + [i] + [iv] critical notes. Frontis. Some sporadic light browning, occasional spotting, lacking p.xi-xii with list of ills., upper hinge sl. te...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR, ROME.

(Gibson). Matthews, T. · 1911

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

William Heinemann 1911. xiv + 255pp. + [i]. Colour frontis., 26 ills. E.ps. lightly browned, good in lightly soiled and sl. chipped d/w. browned and chipped to spine with some loss, t.e.g. rest uncut.

A HISTORY OF EGYPT. From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest.

Breasted, James Henry. · 1948

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Hodder and Stoughton 1948. 2nd Ed., Fully Revised. Large 8vo. [xxxii] + 634pp. Colour frontis., 186 figures mainly from photos., 13 maps including 1 folding. Some very light marginal browning, bookplate, top-edge of leaves sl. spotted, ownership signature, original silver lett...

FASHIONABLE PHILOSOPHY and Other Sketches. 1st Ed. [With] IN KEDAR’S TENTS by Henry Seton Merriman. Copyright Edition.

Oliphant, Laurence. · 18871897

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London/Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1887 [With] 1897. 2 vols. in 1. Sm. 8vo. [viii] + 150pp. + [ii] + 295pp. + [i]. Some very occasional sl. spotting, bound together in gilt lettered half blue cloth with marbled boards, some minor soili...

THE NOVELS AND SELECTED WRITINGS. Colonel Jack. Moll Flanders. Memoirs of a Cavalier. Captain Singleton. A Plan of the English Commerce. The Fortunate Mistress. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. A Journal of the Plague Year. Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe, Daniel. · 1927

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon 1927-8 Shakespeare Head Ed. 14 vols., complete. Some light browning and spotting to e.ps., edges of leaves sl. spotted occasionally intruding onto inner margins, ownership inscription, ‘A Plan of the English Commerce’ ex.-University...

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.

(Sheridan). Moore, Thomas. · 1827

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1827. 5th Ed. 2 vols. [xx] + 543pp. + [i] + iv + 492pp. Portrait frontis., folding facsimile letter. Some sporadic spotting throughout, frontis. spotted lightly offset and sl. waterstained at edges, folding letter spotted, bound in ...

ELEGANT EXTRACTS, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, Miscellaneous and Epistolary, in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons. Being similar in design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry.

[Anon]. · 1811

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London: Stereotyped and Printed by and for A. Wilson 1811. Stereotype Ed. 5 parts in 1. Thick 8vo. Title page + xvi + 6pp. + [ii] + 1060pp. + [ii] adverts. Ex.-libris Charles and Grace Booth, marbled e.ps. neatly repaired to hinges, edges marbled, contemporary double gilt rule...

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TABLE-TALK. To which is added Porsoniana. Edited by the Late Rev. Alexander Dyce.

Rogers, Samuel. · 1887

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

New Southgate: H.A. Rogers 1887. Large Paper Copy. viii + 371pp. + [i]. Engraved port. frontis., many engraved plates. Light marginal browning, some spotting and sl. staining to edges of some plates, new e.ps., upper hinge cracking, rebound in dark green textured cloth with br...

THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD EDITION OF SMOLLETT’S NOVELS. Roderick Random (2 vols.); Peregrine Pickle (4 vols.); Ferdinand Count Fathom (2 vols.); Sir Launcelot Greaves Together with An Atom (1 vol.); Humphry Clinker (2 vols.).

Smollett, Tobias. · 1925

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Oxford Basil Blackwell Publisher to Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford upon Avon 1925. 11 vols. E.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered green cloth, spines sl. faded and bumped, sl. soiling, upper joint cracked and spine to Launcelot soiled, t.e.g. One of Limited Editi...

HOST AND GUEST. A Book about Dinners, Wines and Desserts.

Kirwan, A[ndrew] V[alentine]. · 1864

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Bell and Daldy 1864. 1st Ed. xxii + 410pp. Dec. Initial letters and head and tail pieces. New e.ps., rebound in modern gilt lettered blue cloth with gilt bands to spine.

LODOWICK MUGGLETON. A Paper read before ye Sette of Odd Volumes, at ye 337th Meeting, January 27, 1915.

(Muggleton). Williamson, Bro. George Charles. · 1919

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Imprynted for ye Author at ye Chiswick Press 1919. Slim 12mo. 84pp. Portrait frontis., 6 plates. Printed black lettered parchment wrapps. over card covers, some minor soiling and light browning to edges, spine lightly browned and sl. rubbed, uncut. Privately Printed Opuscula ...

EMIGRANTS GUIDE TO VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, More Properly Called Tasmania, Containing a Description of its Climate, Soil, and Productions; A Form of Application for Free Grants of Land; With a Scale Enabling Persons in Inland Towns, to Estimate the Expense of a Passage for any Given Number of Men, Women or Children, A List of the most necessary Articles to take out, and Other Information Useful to Emigrants.

Godwin’s · 1990

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

National Library of Australia 1990. Facsimile Ed. Thin 8vo. 4pp. + [iv] + 90pp. + 8pp. adverts. Folding plate, folding map. Brown soft half leather with suedette boards, gilt lettered spine and upper board. No. 216 of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies, of a Facsimile Edition, w...

A TREATISE ON MINERAL WATERS. Vol. 1 [only of 2].

Monro, Donald. · 1770

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Sold by D. Wilson and G. Nicol, in the Strand and T. Durham ... 1770. 1st Ed. xxiv + 475pp. Ex.-Birmingham Medical Institute with faint ink stamp to title page, light browning, in maroon institute lib. cloth, gilt lettered spine chipped with sl. loss. ESTC T58862 ‘ A variant ...

A SUMMER AND WINTER IN THE TWO SICILIES.

Kavanagh, Julia. · 1858

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Hurst and Blackett 1858. 1st Ed. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. v + 333pp. + [i]. + [iv] + 316pp. Engraved frontiss. and title pages (heavily foxed). Browning, ex.-lib. with ink stamps to verso of frontis. recto of title pages and first leaf of text, rebound in modern faux leather backed cl...

VOYAGES To the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &c.

Fanning, Edmund. · 1970

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Gregg Press, New Jersey 1970. Facsimile Reprint of 1838 4th Ed. Large 8vo. 324pp. Frontis. Ex.-libris Andrew David Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy, hinges sl. browned, good in original browned lettered cream hessian style pictorial cloth, some very minor soiling.

VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD. With Selected Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, etc., performed under the Command and Agency of the Author. Also, information relating to Important Late Discoveries; between the years 1792 and 1832 ...

Fanning, Edmund. · 1970

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Gregg Press, New Jersey 1970. Facsimile Reprint of 1833 Large 8vo. 499pp. + [i]. Frontis. Ex.-libris Andrew David Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy, hinges sl. browned, good in original browned lettered cream hessian style pictorial cloth, some very minor soiling.

THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in Philosophy, Morality and Religion. Now first Collected into one Volume.

Bacon, Francis. · 1827

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London: Printed for J. Langley ... and sold by Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper 1827. 12mo. [xii] + 259pp. + [i]. Port. frontis. Some sporadic light offsetting, e.ps. very lightly browned, lower leading corner of first and last couple of leaves sl. waterstained, contemporary grey c...

ESSAYS ON SEVERAL IMPORTANT SUBJECTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (1676).

Glanvill, Joseph. · 1979

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George Olms, Verlag Hildesheim New York 1979. Facsimile Reprint of 1676 Ed. [vi] + [xvi] + 66pp. + 56pp. 43pp. + [iii] + 28pp. + [ii] + 61pp. + [iii] + 58pp. Very good in original gilt lettered very pale grey cloth, some very minor fading. Collected Works of Joseph Granvill, ...

L’ALBUM DE LA GUERRE 1914-1919. Histoire Photographique et Documentaire Reconsituée Chronologiquement a l’Aide de Clichés et de Dessin Publiés par l’illustration de 1914-1921. Édition augmentée de Documents Inédits et comprenant de Nombreuses Reproductions en Couleurs, ainsi qu’un Texte Sommaire constituant un véritable Précis d’Histoire.

[Various]. · 1924

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,090)

Paris LIllustration 1924. 2 vols. Folio. [xviii] + 1311ppp. Profusely ills. and plates including many colour and many mounted. French text. Pp.391-4 and 403-6 adhered, occasional signs of adhesion elsewhere, half title to vol. 1 sl. torn, minor browning, morocco backed boards,...

AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC 1790-1870. A History, Geography, and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers etc. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge

Ward, R. Gerard (Editor). · 1966

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

The Gregg Press/Ridgewood N.J. 1966-7. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 8 vols. Profusely ills. throughout including many folding maps, 8 loose folding maps in slipcase with vol. 1. Ex.-libris Andrew David Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy, original pictorial linen, minor marking and wear.