A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO
£13.00FIRST 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 |
A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO: A TRAVELLER`S TALE FROM MEXICO
£12.00FINE 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 |
A VOYAGE ROUND THE COAST OF GREAT BRITAIN
£27.00FINE 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 |
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS M, DCC, XL, I, II, IV.
£1,000.00GEORGE 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 |
A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.
£1,200.00SECOND 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 |
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.
£1,600.00FIRST 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 |
A WINTER IN INDIA
£110.00SECOND 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 |
A WORLD CHECKLIST OF BIRDS
£16.001ST 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 |
A WRITER’S NOTES ON HIS TRADE
£50.00FIRST 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 |
AARSSKRIFT 1891 (SIGNED COPY WITH LETTERS)
£100.00SMALL 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 |
ABANDON IN PLACE
£20.001ST 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 |
ABBOTSFORD
£35.001ST 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 |
ABELARD AND HELOISE
£12.00SECOND 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 |
ABELARD AND HELOISE
£12.00FIRST 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 |
ABSTRACT AMERICA
£50.00QUARTO. 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 |
ABSTRACT OF THE ANSWERS AND RETURNS MADE PURSUANT TO AN ACT…INTITULED, ‘AN ACT FOR TAKING AN ACCOUNT OF THE POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND OF THE INCREASE OR DIMINUTION THEREOF’.
£500.00THREE VOLUMES FOLIO FROM THE LIBRARY OF NEW COLLEGE OXFORD. NEW ENDPAPERS AND REBOUND IN GREY CARD AND GREEN CLOTH. A VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT SET. VOLUME 1:ENUMERATION ABSTRACT liv pp 560. VOLUME 2: ENUMERATION ABSTRACT pp 561-1067. VOLUME 3: PARISH REGISTER ABSTRACT pp 500 WITH 17 DOUBLE PAGE FOLDING MAPS AND ONE SINGLE PAGE PLAN OF LONDON. A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET WHICH WEIGHS 8.3 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST.
| Author: | PARLIAMENT |
| Place, Publisher, Date: | HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1833 |
| Binding: | HARDBACK |
| Condition: | VERY GOOD |