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Frederick Muller,, [1943]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at extremities. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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Steady, Boys Steady!. A Profound Study of the Royal Navy. With Drawings by Edgar Norfield. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by BENSTEAD C.R.
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Shallow Waters. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
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Hale,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps, small neat inscription on half-title; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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Antarctica Today and Tomorrow. NEAR FINE COPY
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University Press, Cambridge,, 1958. 8vo., First Edition, with large folding chart on japon; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. The author was Director of Scott Polar Research Institute 1949-1956. SCARCE. Spence 133.
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Palissy. The Huguenot Potter. A True Tale. WITH BINDER'S TICKET
by BRIGHTWELL C.L.
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Religious Tract Society,, [1858]. 12mo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations in the text, some very light and occasional age-staining, wanting free endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, case a little shaken else a bright, firm copy. With the binder's ticket of Lewis & Sons of Gough Square, London on rear paste-down, and 10pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The first appearance of this popular tale that was reissued many times across the last half of the nineteenth century. The engravings are uneven in quality; those signed by Geo. Meason are by far the best. The first edition is scarce.
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Maori Witchery. Native Life in New Zealand. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by BROWNE C.R.
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Dent,, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition, preliminaries, half-title, title and fore-edges lightly spotted, faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, neat contemporary signature on half-title; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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Episcopal Visitation of Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century. [Second Edition].
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Porcupine Press and Manchester University Press,, [1983]. 8vo., Second Edition; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1931, and now very uncommon in its own right.
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The Geology of West-Central Skye with Soay. Explanation of Sheet 70. Geological Survey of Scotland. STRONGLY BOUND IN BOARDS
by CLOUGH C.T.
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Printed for HMSO, Hedderwick & Sons, Glasgow,, 1904. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; strongly bound in boards, upper board with paper label, original printed wrappers (worn) preserved, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front wrapper and pocket on title. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and Somerset. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by COLLYNS C.P.
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Lawrence & Bullen,, [1902]. Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with 34 plates by Caldwell; original brown buckram, vellum back, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. The author of this classic account was a surgeon at Dulverton on Exmoor
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The Outdoor Monuments of London. Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials. NEAR FINE COPY
by COOPER C.S.
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Homeland Association,, [1928]. Roy. 8vo. on laid paper with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original green buckram upper board lettered in black gilt back a near fine copy. Nice copy of a standard reference
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The Outdoor Monuments of London. Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials.
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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.
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Ancient Landmarks of Bath. Or Notes of Pagan and Christian Antiquities in and around Aquae Sulis (Bath). [Sole Edition]. REMARKABLY CLEAN COPY
by DAVIS C.E.
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William Lewis, Bath,, 1864. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a fine folding engraved plan as frontispiece and another folding engraved plan; original decorative cloth richly blocked in blind, gilt back, a quite remarkably bright, clean copy. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
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Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. FIRST POCKET EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S CALF
by DICK C.H.
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Macmillan,, 1924. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text and large folding map; publisher's limp brown calf, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt top, brown silk marker, a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the scarcer titles in this much sought-after series. Spielmann & Jerrold, 60.
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Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. THE ORIGINAL EDITION WITH MAP CORRIGENDA
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Macmillan,, 1916. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text and large folding map (two neat repairs on inner surface); original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed map corrigenda slip mounted facing map, and 4pp series catalogue bound in at end. One of the scarcer titles in this much sought-after series. Spielmann & Jerrold, 60.
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Holy Trinity Weymouth. The Church by the Waterfront. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
by DOMONEY] [C. R.
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Parochial Church Council, Holy Trinity, Weymouth,, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs and illustrations; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces and United States Air Force History. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch and Lawrence J. Paszek [respectively]. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
by DORNBUSCH C.E.
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Arno Press, New York NY,, 1980. 8vo., blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Anniversary reissue of the original edition of 1958.
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Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces , including Privately Printed Personal Narratives. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch. GOOD, CLEAN COPY
by DORNBUSCH C.E.
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Hampton Books, Hampton Bays NY,, 1958. 8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-faded else a good, clean copy.
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A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. With a Preface by Cardinal Bourne. WITH THE FINE AGNUS DEI BOOKPLATE OF JOANNIS FLETCHER
by DURRANT C.S.
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Burns Oates & Washbourne,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous sepia-toned plates; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the fine large pictorial bookplate of Joannis Fletcher on front paste-down. The plate depeicts the Agnus Dei together with the arms of the Fletcher family. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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Kurds Turks and Arabs. Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq 1919-1925. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by EDMONDS C.J.
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Oxford University Press,, 1957. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 31 plates on 16, 2 large folding maps, a full-page map and 2 full-page plans in the text, and endpaper maps in orange; original buff cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its inscription on front board, small label scar on front paste-down, bookplate on half-title verso and neat blind stamp on title. THESE ATTRIBUTES NOTWITHSTANDING, THIS IS A REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF A PRACTICALLY UNOBTAINABLE WORK. With dustwrapper artwork by Anthony Gross. This important account covers the diplomatic and military history of the Mosul dispute between Great Britain and Turkey from 1918 to 1925, with a detailed appreciation from the author's own experiences as political officer and member of the Anglo-Iraqi delegation of the Committee of the League of Nations. In addition it contains much new information of the geography and…
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The Principles of Agricultural Entomology. With a Foreword by Professor V.B. Wigglesworth. FINE COPY
by EDWARDS C.A.
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Chapman & Hall,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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Molens in Limburg in Oude Ansichten. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
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Europse Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel,, 1977. Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in Dutch, with photographs and maps; green cloth, upper board with mounted illustration, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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