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A VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF DERBYSHIRE WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ANTIQUITIES

£80.00

VOLUME 2 ONLY (OF 2). FULL TREE CALF (BUT FRONT BOARD DETACHED). TWO PLATES AS CALLED FOR A NICE CLEAN COPY TIGHTLY BOUND APART FROM DETACHED BOARD. 464 PAGES

Author: PILKINGTON JAMES
Place, Publisher, Date: DERBY, DREWRY, 1789
Binding: FULL LEATHER
Condition: GOOD
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A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO

£13.00

FIRST PRINTING FINE COPY IN A SPLASHED SLIP CASE. A TRAVELLER’S TALE FROM MEXICO.

Author: BEDFORD SYBILLE
ISBN: FOLIO SOCIETY
Place, Publisher, Date: FOLIO SOCIETY. LONDON. 1990
Binding: FINE
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A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO: A TRAVELLER`S TALE FROM MEXICO

£12.00

FINE COPY IN SLIP CASE. A TRAVELLER’S TALE FROM MEXICO. INTTRODUCTION BY BRUCE CHATWIN. ILLUSTRATIONS BY VAL BIRO.

Author: BEDFORD SYBILLE
Place, Publisher, Date: FOLIO SOCIETY. LONDON. 1990
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE
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A VOYAGE ROUND THE COAST OF GREAT BRITAIN

£27.00

FINE COPY IN FINE SLIPCASE.EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY C.J. SHEPHERD AND PREFACE BY ROBERT MACFARLANE.

Author: DANIELL WILLIAM
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 2008
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: INE
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A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS M, DCC, XL, I, II, IV.

£1,000.00

GEORGE ANSON LATE LORD ANSON COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF A SQUADRON OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS SENT UPON AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH SEAS COMPILED FROM HIS PAPERS AND MATERIALS BY RICHARD WALTER M.A. CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE CENTURION IN THAT EXPEDITION. TWO VOLUMES CROWN 8vo FULL ELEGANT MOROCCO BINDINGS IN TAN GILT BY PAUL DELRUE FOLDING MAP. A VERY HANDSOME SET.

Author: ANSON GEORGE
Place, Publisher, Date: EDINBURGH. GAVIN ALSTON. 1776
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.

£1,200.00

SECOND EDITION THREE VOLUMES. VOLS. 1 AND 11 WRITTEN BY COOK VOL. 111 BY JAMES KING. THIS SET CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT BUT NO PLATES. VOLUME 1: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION (lxxxix); LIST OF PLATES( PLATES NOT PRESENT); 421 PAGES. VOLUME 2: TITLE PAGE; CONTENTS; 548 PAGES. VOLUME 3: CONTENTS 558 PAGES INCLUDING 7 APPENDICES. ALL VOLUMES REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET. THE TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 3 APPEARS TO BE A PHOTOCOPY AS IS THE FOLLOWING PAGE. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES OF VOLS. 1 AND 11 BUT OVERALL A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS SCARCE WORK WITHOUT THE PLATES AND OFFERED AT AN ATTRACTIVE PRICE. PICTURES AVAILABLE.

Author: COOK JAMES
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON. A NICOL. 1785.
Binding: CARD COVERS
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD. PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS THE RESOLUTION AND ADVENTURE, IN THE YEARS 1772, 1773, 1774 AND 1775.

£1,600.00

FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. THIS SET CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT BUT NO PLATES. VOLUME 1: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; LIST OF PLATES( PLATES NOT PRESENT); 378 PAGES. VOLUME 2: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; 396 PAGES. BOTH VOLUMES REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. VOLUME 1 IS GENERALLY CLEAN WITH OCCASIONAL FOXING. IN VOL. 1 PAGE 375 HAS A SMALL HOLE WITH LOSS OF ABOUT FOUR WORDS OF TEXT. VOLUME 2 HAS EVIDENCE OF WATER STAINING UP TO PAGE 160 (MAINLY IN THE WIDE MARGINS WITH LITTLE IN THE TEXT) THEREAFTER A BRIGHT COPY. OVERALL A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS SCARCE WORK WITHOUT THE PLATES AND OFFERED AT AN ATTRACTIVE PRICE. PICTURES AVAILABLE.

Author: COOK JAMES
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON. STRAHAN AND CADELL. 1777.
Binding: MARBLED BOARDS
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A WINTER IN INDIA

£110.00

SECOND EDITION. VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH. GILT TITLES. ALL EDGES GILT. LACKS F.E.P. WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Author: BAXTER W.E.
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, CASSELL, 1883
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A WORLD CHECKLIST OF BIRDS

£16.00

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP.

Author: MONROE, JR. AND SIBLEY CHARLES G.
ISBN: 0300055471
Place, Publisher, Date: 1993, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN AND LONDON
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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A WRITER’S NOTES ON HIS TRADE

£50.00

FIRST EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY H M TOMLINSON. LIMITED TO ONLY 700 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY TOMLINSON THIS BEING NUMBER 280. A VERY GOOD IN QUARTER BUCKRAM WITH ORANGE BOARDS AND A DUSTWRAPPER.

Author: MONTAGUE C. E.
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1930
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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AARSSKRIFT 1891 (SIGNED COPY WITH LETTERS)

£100.00

SMALL QUARTO 78 PAGESRED CLOTH (FADED) SOME FOXING TO PRELIMS. BUT VERY GOOD DANISH TEXT FROM THE LIBRARY OF SIMON BERNSTEEN THE DANISH PRINTER WITH TWO MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM BERNSTEEN (2 PAGES AND 3 PAGES). ALSO TWO BUSINESS CARDS FROM BERNSTEEN AND HIS BOOKPLATE TO THE REVERSE OF THE FEP. DEDICATION FROM BERNSTEEN TO H. W. FINCHAM THE AUTHOR ON BOOKPLATES DATED 1894.

Author: FORENING FOR BOGHAANDVAERK
Place, Publisher, Date: KJOBENHAVN, P G PHILIPSENS, 1891
Binding: CLOTH
Condition: VERY GOOD
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ABANDON IN PLACE

£20.00

1ST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. BASED ON THE NEBULA AWARD – WINNING NOVELLA.

Author: OLTION JERRY
ISBN: TOR
Place, Publisher, Date: NEW YORK, TOR, 2000
Binding: FINE
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ABBOTSFORD

£35.00

1ST EDITION IN GREEN CLOTH BOARDS. GILT TITLES TO FRONT BOARD AND SPINE. A VERY GOOD COPY WITH SMALL DAMAGE TO EDGES OF BOARDS. LIGHT FOXING ON END PAPERS. TWENTY FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY WILLIAM SMITH Jr. PREVIOUS OWNERS NAME STICKER ON FEP.

Author: SMITH WILLIAM & W.S. CROCKETT
Place, Publisher, Date: A. & C. BLACK, LONDON. 1905
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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ABELARD AND HELOISE

£12.00

SECOND IMPRESSION VERY GOOD COPY IN A GOOD SLIPCASE. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY RAYMOND HAWTHORN. THE STORY OF HIS MISFORTUNES AND PERSONAL LETTERS.

Author: RADICE BETTY (TRANSLATED BY)
Place, Publisher, Date: FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON. 1978
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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ABELARD AND HELOISE

£12.00

FIRST FINE COPY IN A MARKED SLIPCASE. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY RAYMOND HAWTHORN. THE STORY OF HIS MISFORTUNES AND PERSONAL LETTERS.

Author: RADICE BETTY (TRANSLATED BY)
ISBN: FOLIO SOCIETY
Place, Publisher, Date: FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON. 1977
Binding: VERY GOOD
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ABSTRACT AMERICA

£50.00

QUARTO. A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. 390 PAGES. A SCARCE BOOK.

Author: HENRY MAX
ISBN: 9.78022E+12
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, JONATHAN CAPE, 2008
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE