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London: The King Penguin Books, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. London: The King Penguin Books, 1953. First edition. Very Good/near fine. King Penguin # 64. One of many King Penguins we have in stock, many in as issued condition Minor abrasions to unclipped d.j., slight split between text and plates, one plate with a mark but otherwise in good condition

Slimbridge, Glos.: International Waterfowl Research Bureau, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo, pp. 368, pictorial card covers, creased and rubbed, very small tear to top rear cover, interior with owner's name and address label to title page, some handling marks to early pages, thereafter clean and crisp, binding tight. Scarce. Proceedings of the Third Technical Meeting on Western Palearctic Migratory Bird Management, held at the Biologische Station Rieselfelder Munster, Federal Republic of Germany, 12-15 October, 1982.

New Haven: Peck, White and Peck, 1861. New edition, revised and enlarges. . Hardcover. Good. New Haven: Peck, White and Peck, 1861. New edition, revised and enlarges. Good. Quarter leather over green cloth, bottom portion (1/5th) of spine missing, remainder worn, splits to hinge at the top, interior with tanned endpapers, some foxing and tanning to page tops, ink owner's signature and date (1862) to ffep, otherwise a good copy with sound binding

London: His Majesty's Staitionery Office, 1931. Hardcover. Good +. London: His Majesty's Staitionery Office, 1931. First edition. Good +. Red cloth boards a little scuffed, owner's name to cover and title page, interior clean and with sound binding.

Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd., 1955. Paperback. Very Good. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd., 1955. First edition. Very Good. A review copy with slip from publishers. Some tanning to spine and extremities of covers, interior clean.

London: HMSO, 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. thick 12mo, pp.3 pages of advertising, xxxv, 1024, 3 pages of advertising, original red cloth with gilt lettering, much rubbed and marked, water damaged, gilt lettering to tanned spine, corners bumped, top of spine pulled, interior with usual discolouration of pink advertising pages, owner's name to fep, first thirty or so pages with water stains to fore edge, otherwise interior is largely clean and bright, top and fore edges dull, boards a little loose but the binding is sound. The owner was M.R. Leeson Marshall, 4 R.M.F..

London: Intelligence Branch, War Office, 1885. No Binding. Very Good. Coloured lithograph on linen, approx 26 1/2 x 37 1/4 inches (67 x 95 cm), has been folded into eighteen, some staining to the reverse on one section which doesn't impinge on the main part of the map, otherwise bright, crisp and clean. Contains inset of 'Khartum and Environs'; originally issued in September 1884, this revised version was produced in February 1885, just after the death of General Gordon in Khartoum. Rare.

Dublin: A.& A. Farmar, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo, pp. xvi,318, in publisher's gilt decorated and lettered blue cloth, title and editor on red reserve to spine, blue cloth slip case which has a few very light marks, interior as new, limited edition, this being No. 82 of 100, with each surviving Master and Matron signing the reverse of the half title and the owner, Dr George Henry, Master of the Rotunda from 1981 to 1987, signing the ffep, binding tight.

Dublin: A.& A. Farmar, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo, pp. xvi, 318, publisher's blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, red reserve for title and editor on spine, bright, interior with an inscription on half title but as new thereafter, special limited edition, this being No. 13 of 100, each surviving Master and Matron has signed the back of the half title, binding tight. This was awarded to Dr George Henry (Master of the Rotunda 1981-87) for the Falkner Lecture delivered in 2003 to which the inscription refers.

London: Methuen & Co., 1900. Reprint . Soft cover. Fair. The author. 8vo, pp. 144, pictorial yellow, orange and black cover, the spine faded, creased and with losses to top of spine, interior with tanned pages, occasional foxing and some light handling creases, a few corners folded, binding sound.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. First UK edition. Fair/poor. D.j. heavily tanned, tears and losses, interior better but some foxing marks, spine leans but binding is sound.

Cambridge: Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Good +. Cambridge: Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, 1936. First edition. Good +. Some fading to spine of original red cloth, gilt lettered and with a nedallion of Boulton at base of spine, owner's signature to ffep otherwise interior largely clean, some very minor foxing to foredge, binding tight but a little cocked, a bright copy.

Baltimore, Co. Cork: Baltimore Press, 2002. Reprint . Soft cover. As New. 4to, pp. 209, errata, in green stiff card covers with gilt lettering, a facsimile of the 1867 edition. As new.

Dublin and Cork: Cork University Press, 1927. Paperback. Good. Dublin and Cork: Cork University Press, 1927. First edition. Good. The notes were presumably under the tutelage of O'Rahilly who held the professorship of Celtic language at Cork University between 1929 and 1935. Cover a little ragged, interior with some yellowing, particularly opening and closing pages, ink owner's name (a lady studying at Cork University) to ffep and extensive notes throughout in same hand.

London: The King Penguin Books, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London: The King Penguin Books, 1953. First edition. Fine/fine. King Penguin # 62 The merest chip to top of spine of unclipped d.j., clean, bright and virtually as issued

Manchester: S. Johnson and T. Johnson, 1838. Hardcover. Good. Manchester: S. Johnson and T. Johnson, 1838. Reprint. Good. A scarce printing of this book for S. Johnson in Manchester and T. Johnson in Liverpool 'and all other booksellers'. Blind decorate cloth cover bumped and worn, corners bumped, interior with some pencil marginalia but otherwise crisp and clean, binding sound.

Dublin: Printed by Joseph Hill for J. Williams, W Hallhead, E. Cross, D. Jenkin, L. Flin, W. Gilbert, T. Walker, W. Wilson, L. White, J. Beatty, and R. Burton, Booksellers., 1780. First thus . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, pp. I (xiv), 274; II (vii), 311, errata, original full leather with title and volume number to second of six panels separated by raised bands, , chipping to tops and bottoms of spines, cracks at hinges and on the spine of Vol I, some small loss of leather to rear of Vol II, corners bumped and chipped, interiors lacking ffeps, engraved portrait frontispiece (after in Vol I with a copied Garrick signature above image, faint pencil address on fep of Vol II which ends with 'Cork' in ink, some foxing and staining to pages but perfectly presentable, small paper loss to bottom corner of page 3/4 in Vol I, not affecting text, binding is fragile to Vol I, sound to Vol II. Issued the same year as the first edition in London.

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1857. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, pp. xxviii, 551, original blind stamped grained black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, mildly rubbed, corners a little bumped, very mild foxing to prelims and closing pages, otherwise largely clean throughout, fold-oiut map crisp, top edge dust-dulled, binding tight. Weitbrecht was a member of the Church Missionary Society and this memoir covers his time in the Burdwan district of West Bengal. A good, clean, first edition copy of this scarce book.

London: John Murray, 1932. Hardcover. Good +. London: John Murray, 1932. First edition. Good +. Bright original blue cloth with gilt lettering, interior with small owner's name to fep, some occasional foxing but largely clean, binding tight, slight bow to back cover.

London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1807. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo, pp. I, 432, II, 500; full blind and gilt decorated leather, gilt lettering to spine, leather rubbed and worn in places and with some surface damage, interiors with marbelled end papers, some damp damage to opening and closing pages, some toned pages but text otherwise generally clean, with three engraved portrait illustrations, bindings sound.