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Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1913. FIRST EDITION. 2 Large 8vo volumes. (10.2 x 8 inches). Illustrated with 2 maps, 8 colour plates and 260 illustrations from mono photographs by the Author. Some minor foxing to the blank reverse of the portrait frontis in volume one otherwise a bright and clean copy throughout. In the publishers dark blue cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines. Front panels with circular device in gilt, green, blue and silver with four illustrations alongside, all in gilt and within a shield border. In the rare original dustwrappers with dark blue lettering to spine and front panels with cut out holes on the front panels to show the circular emblem. Some very minor chipping to the edges of the wrapper for volume one, volume two's wrapper with a large thumb sized area of loss to the front panel and a little more chipping to the extremities. Overall a lovely tidy set of books kept in wonderful condition by the still very good original publishers dustwrappers.
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ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA
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ALBUM OF TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION MATERIAL. Printed and manuscript items; Photographs, letters, documents, drawings, Loose bank notes, printed views and maps. China, Russia, West Indies, Europe, U.S.A, Africa...
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NP. ND. . HAND TOOLED FINE BINDING. Large 4to. (7.4 x 5 inches.). A collection of maps, engraved views, bank notes, photographs and hand written letters, one detailing the writer's travels which accompanies the photo's. Engraved views and maps, some hand coloured, letters (one relating to travels across Kurdistan dressed as a Cossack, one an ill fated ships travels around the West Indies), documents, 2 signed etchings, one original pen drawing, early American passport (with small area of loss), and photos. ----- Attractive late 19th century or early twentieth century craft binding of full dark green morocco. Spine with decorative gilt border and emerald green morocco shamrock onlays. Boards with single gilt ruled borders. Each corner with circular design incorporating Fleur-de-lys and emerald green morocco onlays with gilt borders of Shamrocks. A similar design is in the centre of the board. The inner line of the border on both boards is decorated with morocco onlay and gilt shamrocks. Inner boards…
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AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION
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Chapman and Hall. London.,1850. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. One volume. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield. Publishers green cloth with elaborate blind stamped decoration on boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Circular fade marks to front board where the green has lightened. Coated yellow endpapers with publishers adverts. Small book label of Irish Bookshop, Moore's of Cork to front paste down endpaper. Some minor rubbing to binding and edges a bit bumped but overall a very good copy.:
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAMAN
by (COCHRANE). THOMAS. TENTH EARL OF DUNDONALD
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Richard Bentley. London. 1860/61. SECOND EDITION. 2 Volumes. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Illustrated with four charts (3 folding) in volume 2, complete. A bright and clean set in the publishers decorative original Navy Blue cloth bindings. Boards with elaborate blind-stamed designs. Spines decorated in blind and ruled & lettered in gilt. Light brown coated endpapers. Neat previous owners armorial bookplates, and another family member's name plate below, on each of the front paste-down endpapers. Some light spotting to the fore-edges and an off white mark to the spine of one volume otherwise a superior set in the uncommon publishers original cloth bindings. Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald (1775 1860) was a Member of the British Parliament and noted naval commander who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1814 he was imprisoned on a false charge of committing fraud at the London Stock Exchange and expelled from the Navy and Parliament. In 1832 he was pardoned and reinstated in the Royal Navy with the…
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An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. Including Cursory Observations made, and Information obtained, in travelling through that Ancient Empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary.: Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney.
by STAUNTON. Sir GEORGE
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Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. for G. Nicol. London. 1797. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Complete. - Two quarto text volumes (12 x 9.4 inches), and a folio atlas of plates (16.6 x 12.3 inches). ---- Both text volumes in contemporary full brown calf boards with decorative gilt borders. Re-spined in recent brown calf with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind, two red morocco labels, lined and lettered in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. The atlas volume bound in recent half brown calf. Spine with raised bands, each decorated in gilt. Compartments ruled in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Text volumes with engraved portrait frontispiece to each, 1 plate and 26 vignettes after William Alexander et al. in all, atlas with 44 engraved views, plans, plates and maps and charts, including large folding world map, 3 natural history subjects and 25 views. Some foxing and sporadic spotting to both text and atlas, a couple of the maps have professional…
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BEYOND THE CHINDWIN. Being an account of the adventures of Number Five Column of the Wingate expedition into Burma, 1943. ---- With a forward by Field-Marshall The Viscount Wavell. Viceroy of India
by FERGUSSON. BERNARD
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Collins. London. 1945. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 11 mono photos and 7 maps. Neat contemporary previous owner inscription on front free endpaper (Lord Milne from Col. Collins. 1945). Overall a very good copy in very good original dustwrapper with some minor rubbing to the edges but generally clean and bright. Overall very good indeed.
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BISMARK. And the foundation of the German Empire
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G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York.,1901. Reprint. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated with Frontis, folding map and 25 mono plates. Fine copy, finely bound in contemporary full red calf. Spine with raised bands, each with wavy gilt line. Green title label, gilt. Compartments fully decorated and double ruled in gilt. Double gilt ruled border on boards. turn ins tooed in blind. Front board with gilt arms of Merchant Taylor's School. Marbled endpapers. School prize label on front paste down. All edges marbled .A beautifully bound copy.:
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BLACKBIRDING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Or, The first White Man on the Beach
by CHURCHWARD. W(illiam) . B(rown)
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Swan Sonnenschein & Co. London. 1888. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). 8 full page mono plates. A couple of the plates have small ink marks to the margins, not affecting the image at all. Overall a veyr good copy in publishers blue cloth with black and gilt illustration to the front board in between gilt lettering and black double ruled lines at the top and bottom. Spine illustrated and lettered in gilt. Yellow endpapers. Cloth is a bit rubbed and the spine is darkened, although the gilt still very visible. Overall a very good copy of this interesting book. Purports to be the reminiscences, noted down by the author, of an old negro at Apia, the first "white man", i.e. British subject, established in the group.
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CAMBRIDGE. As it was and as it is today
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B. T. Batsford, Ltd. London. 1941. SECOND EDITION, originally published in 1940. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated with colour frontis, decorative title page and 129 mono photo plates. Both sets of original map endpapers bound in at the rear. Bound in early half dark blue Morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Blue plain endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bound for Harrods. Binding a bit bumped and rubbed but still attractive.
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COOK'S VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD. For making discoveries towards the North and South Poles. With an appendix
by COOK. Capt. JAMES.; Anderson. G. W. Abridges
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Printed by Sowler and Russell. Manchester.,1801. SCARCE EARLY MANCHESTER PRINTING. 8vo. viii,566pp,+ Directions to the Binder leaf. This abridgement , by G. W. Anderson, was orignally published in 1799. Six full page engravings, including portrait frontis of Cook. Complete. Previous owners named scratched out on the title page, without any loss to the page. Bound in contemporary full reversed calf. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Red title label, ruled and lettered in gilt. Loss to the top f the spine, exposing the headband, which is loose. 2 inch chip to the top of the front blank endpaper. Overall avery good copy in an early calf binding. :
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A DISSERTATION ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE PRIORY OF GREAT MALVERN, In Worcestershire
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Printed for J.G & F. Rivington, London & sold by Ridge, Worcester.,1834. FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION. 4to. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR - "To Col.Bainbridge/With the authors best regards" on front paste down. Errata slip loosely inserted. Litho frontis and one litho illustration in the text, both with original tissue guard. Original paper covered boards with litho illustration to front board. Spine heavily chipped. Four holes to front board, penetrating through to the first few pages. Boards rubbed and bumped to edges. Foxing throughout. A good copy of a scarce work.:
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EGYPT AND THE SUDAN
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Simpkin Marshall,ltd.London.,1929. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with 27 maps and plans, one with small amount of selotape repair to edge. Publishers red cloth,lettered in gilt. Very good copy in the original rare red paper dustwrapper, printed in black. Creasing and rubbing to edges. Some chipping with loss to top of spine and small piece of front panel. Overall a near very good example.:
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EGYPT AND THE SUDAN.
by COOK'S TRAVELLERS HANDBOOKS. ; ELSTON. ROY
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Simpkin Marshall, ltd. London. 1929. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated with 27 maps and plans, one with small amount of sellotape repair to edge. Publishers red cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good copy in the original rare red paper dustwrapper, printed in black. Creasing and rubbing to edges. Some chipping with loss to top of spine and small piece of front panel. Overall a near very good example.
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GUIDO AND LITA. A Tale of the Riviera
by LORNE. THE RIGHT HON. THE MARQUIS OF. (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, 1845-1914)
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Macmillan and Co. London. 1875. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. (8.3 x 6.4 inches). Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page vignette and two other full page mono plates. Finely bound in late 19th/early 20th century arts and crafts style leather binding of full dark green Morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with three gilt dots. The compartments rule, lettered, and fully decorated with floral devices, all in gilt. Both boards with matching triple ruled borders and decorative floral, dot and ruled line design. Board edges with single gilt ruled lines. Turn-ins decorated with triple ruled lines, dots and floral devices, all in gilt. Plain green endpapers. All edges gilt. A lovely copy of this 19th century poem in a fine, highly attractive, but sadly unsigned by the binder, leather binding. Lorne was a Liberal politician, son in law of Queen Victoria, through his marriage to Princess Louise, and in 1878 was appointed Governor General of Canada by Disraeli. He wrote several books, including both travel…
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HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF AMERICA. From the earliest period to the present time. With descriptive sketches of the natural history of the north American regions. By James Wilson
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Oliver & Boyd. Edinburgh. 1833. SECOND EDITION. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.5 inches). Folding map and nine engravings by Jackson. A clean copy in original publishers brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Inner hinges cracking. Some gatherings still unopened. Spine a bit rubbed and with some chipping to the cloth at the top and bottom of the spine but still overall a near to very good copy. Scarce in original cloth.
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THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE. With an account of the decline of the Roman Empire, and a view of the progress of society. From the rise of the modern Kingdoms to the peace of Paris, in 1763. In a series of letters from a nobleman to his Son. A New edition, enlarged and greatly improved
by RUSSELL. WILLIAM
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G. G. J and J. Robinson......London. 1786. New edition. 5 volumes. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). Previous owners name written neatly on title pages. A very good set in contemporary full tree calf bindings. Spines ruled in gilt. Red title and circular number labels, gilt. The hinges are cracked and rubbed but all still holding. Top and bottom of spines with some minor loss and some rubbing but overall a good set.
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THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES IN MORTLAKE AND EAST SHEEN.
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R. W. Simpson and Co., Ltd. Richmond & Barnes. 1925. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.2 x 4.9 inches). viii, 86pp. Illustrated with frontis and 14 smaller engraved and photo illustrations in the text, a mixture of views, portraits and plans. Original publishers brown paper wraps with dark green lettering and design to front cover. The covers have one small crease to the front and are toned and marked but still very good, while internally the pages are very clean and fresh.
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A HISTORY OF NEW - YORK. From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty
by IRVING, WASHINGTON. ; using the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker
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Printed by Jules Didot, for Baudry. Paris. 1824. FIRST PARIS EDITION. Two volumes. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.7 inches). Vol. 1:xxxix, 344pp. - Vol. 2: viii, 312pp. Very good copies, untrimmed in the original publishers printed wraps. Neat engraved booksellers label (Langues etrangeres vivantes Bobee et Hingray, Libraries, Paris) stuck onto the front free endpaper of volume one. Edges untrimmed. Some creasing to the corners and minor loss to the paper on the bottom of the spines but overall a very good copy and uncommon in the original paper wraps.
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IAN HAMILTON`S MARCH. Together with extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland. A Prisoner of war at Pretoria
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Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1900. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Portrait frontis. Ten maps and plans (one folding). 32pp of publishers adverts dated 7/00 at end of book. Previous owners neat ink name written on the blank front free endpaper and some browning to the blank endpapers otherwise this is a tight, bright, and clean copy. Black coated endpapers with no cracking at all. Book feels firm and square. Publishers deep red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Spine with just a hint of fading but overall a much better copy than usually found. 5000 copies published 12th October 1900.
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AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE TRAVELS OF JAMES BRUCE, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile. Abridged from the original work.
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London. Printed for the Editor, and sold by all the booksellers in town and country. 1790. SECOND EDITION. 12mo. (7.3 x 4.5 inches). ix, 373pp. Bound without the half tile. Some minor browning but overall a very good copy in recent half brown calf binding. Spine with five raised bands, gilt. Red title label, Gilt. Marbled paper on boards.
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