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THE ROHAN BOOK OF HOURS Bibliotheque National of Paris (MS Latin 9471) intro by Millard Meiss, Intro & Commentaries by Marcel Thomas 1973, 214mm x 298mm, 247 pages, list of plates 127, bound full red cloth, blocked in gold, London Thames & Hudson 1973, full red cloth slip case, pictorial front, THE GRIMANI BREVIARY reproduced from The Illuminated Manuscript belonging to the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, 124 x 286mm, 276 pages, + 110 colour plates, + 29 black and white illustration, London Thames & Hudson, 1972, No slip case, full mustard cloth, motif on front, blacked red and gold, spine gold (2) £50-60 | Nil |
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| 1667 | LES TRES RICHES HEURES, DU DUC DE BERRY, 1973, 2nd printing, 212 x 298mm, pp + 29 + 139 colour plates with commentaries facing page, full red cloth blocked in gold, London Thames & Hudson, in slip case, pictorial front, LES BELLES HEURES de Jean Duc de Berry, 1974, 1st edition, Millard Meiss & Elizabeth H Beatson, 180 x 244mm, 268pp + 120 colour plates, + 29 black and white, blue cloth blocked in gold, London, Thames & Hudson, 1974, in slip case with pictorial front, LES GRANDES HEURES De Jean Due de Berry, 1971, 1st edition, 320 x 430mm, Introduction And Legends by Marcel Thomas, + 183 pages including 110 full page plates in full colour, other plates in black and white, full red cloth blocked in gold, London, Thames & Hudson 1971, no slip case (3) £80-100 | Nil |
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| 1668 | THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS by Jack London, 1903, 1st edition, 136 x 196mm, pp XIV, + 322pp, + frontis piece, + 23 black and white plates from photographs, full red cloth, motif and lettering on front in gold, London, Isbister & Co Ltd, 15 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, spine faded (1) £125-150 | Nil |
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| 1669 | THE DANUBE, ITS HISTORY, SCENERY & TOPOGRAPHY illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, the views were taken expressly for this work by WH Bartlett 1840 1st edition, 230 x 250mm, portrait of De Beatle to face vignette, map of the Danube to face page one, + 230pp, + 6pp appendix, + 81 steel engraved plates, + map, + text illustrations, London Virtue & Co, black buckram on boards, gold blocked outer edges front and back, gold decorations on spine, slight rubbing, marble end papers, title and vignette foxed, other plates good (1) £150-180 | Nil |
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| 1670 | THE VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY by Captain Robert F Scott CVO. RN, 170 x 250mm, litho front's, + pp XX, + 556pp + 7 col plates and double page plate, + 118 illustrations some 2 to a plate b/w, + illustrations in text, + 3 maps one in pocket rear of book & erratum col plate facing pp308, dark blue cloth gold badge on front, blocked in gold, volume 2 front's of RE Scott, +pp XII, + 6 col plates, + double pp plates between pp68-69 and between pp 224-225, + 83 full page plates, + 2 maps, 1 impt at end of book, dark blue cloth with Scott's portrait in gold on front, and blocked in gold, London Smith Elder & Co, 15 Waterloo Place, second impression 1905 (2) £60-80 | Nil |
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| 1671 | SCOTTS LAST EXPEDITION Journals of Captain RF Scott, RN. CVO, 1913, 1st edition, 174 x 244mm, ppXXVI, + 633pp, + photogravure plates, fronts + 6, + 9 coloured, + panoramas 2, + f pp plates, 103 + map & chart in pk at end of book, volume 2 front's portrait of Edward A Wilson, col plates, + f/pp plates, 84 + 534 pages, blue cloth, blocked in gold, London Smith Elder & Co, 15 Waterloo Place, 1913 (2) £40-50 | Nil |
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| 1672 | THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA by A E Nordenskiold, translated by Alexander Leslie, 1881, 1st edition, 2 volumes, volume 2 160 x 230mm, portrait by G J Stodart of London + lithographed maps, 8, + woodcuts 166, + 524 pages, volume 1 160 x 230mm, portraits on steel by GJ Stodart litho maps 8, + woodcuts, 166, + errata, + 524 pages, original green cloth, blocked in gold, London, MacMillan & Co, 1881, in both volumes front and back inner hinges are extremely weak, broken through to the canvas, case rubbed on all corners, contents good (2) £40-50 | Nil |
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| 1673 | ST KILDA PAST & PRESENT by George Seton, Advocate M R Oxon 180 x 230mm, + XVIpp, + 346pp, 2 lithographed maps + 10 litho plates, William Blackwood & Sons 1878, 1st edition, black buckram on boards, blacked in gold, marble paper end papers, all edges blocked in gold (nice clean copy) (1) £100-125 | Nil |
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| 1674 | ST KILDA by Norman Heathcote, 1900, 1st edition, 150 x 228mm, 80 illustrations from sketches including 3 photo chrome plates + folding col map, 230 pages, Longmans, Green & Co 1900, green cloth, pictorial front blocked in gold (1) £50-60 | Nil |
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| 1675 | LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS An account of mammals of Manitoba by Ernest Thompson Seton, 2 volumes, 1911, 1st editions, 210 x 268mm, ppXXX, +673 pages + front's, + 46 plates, + fpp and other illustrations, 188, + 38 maps, partly an unopened copy, volume 2 100 plates, other illustration 267, maps 68, London Constable & Co Ltd 2 volumes 1909/10, red cloth on boards, blocked in gold, covers faded, cont's good, partly unopened set (2) £150-160 | Nil |
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| 1676 | THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1912, 1st English edition, 154 x 228mm, ppXVI, + 415pp, + frontispiece + 31 illustrations with another 125 pen & ink drawing with a number of maps, tipped in card from Mr & Mrs Seton, London Constable & Co Ltd 1912, rebound chocolate cloth blocked in gold and new end papers (1) £30-40 | Nil |
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| 1677 | IN DARKEST AFRICA by Henry M Stanley, 1890, 1st edition, in 2 volumes, 150 x 236mm, ppXV, + 529 pages front's, + 15 fpp illustrations, 6 portraits, + 53 other illustrations and a folding map to face first page of text, volume 2, 150 x 236mm, +pp XV, + 472pp + 1pp catalogue 38f/pp plates, other illustrations 40, + 3 maps London Sampson Low, Marst Searle & Rivington Ltd, bound brown pictorial cloth (2) £40-50 | Nil |
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| 1678 | SIBERIAN & OTHER FOLK-TALES by C F Caswell, 1925, 1st edition, 154 x 224mm, + 1056pp, + front's a map, full grey cloth, paper lettering label, printed dust wrapper, MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY by E Sibley, no date, 150 x 236mm, front's & 19 other plates, 456pp an untrimmed copy rebound half leather paper sides, 4 leaves, loose broken free of the sewing, THE WELL OF LONELINESS by Radcliffe Hall, 1928, 1st edition, 140 x 200mm, ppVI, + 506pp, Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York, black cloth, badly worn on spine, THE DIALOGUE OF SALOMON & SATURNUS by John M Kemble, MA, 1848, 1st edition, 150 x 224mm, ppVII, + 326, + Poetry of Codex Vercellensis, 1843, 100 pages, London for The Aelric Society, marble end papers, full polished calf, blind tooled with black label blocked in gold, rubbed on edges of covers (4) £50-60 | Nil |
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| 1679 | THE SAINTS EVERLASTING REST in four parts, by Richard Baxter, 1669, 176 x 226mm, XXXIIpp + 840 pages, frontispiece, London printed for Francis Tyton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet Street and Joan Underhill, rebound in half modern leather with modern end papers, marble sides (1) £40-50 | Nil |
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| 1680 | THE LEGENDARY LORE OF THE HOLY WELLS OF ENGLAND by Robert Chas Hope, 1893, 1st edition, 156 x 232mm, ppXXX + 222 pages printers Colophon, + 37 illustrations, London, Elliot Stock 1893, quarter brown cloth, green sides, blocked in gold untrimmed, spine torn, damp stained rear cover (1) £30-40 | Nil |
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| 1681 | TROY AND ITS REMAINS by Dr Henry Schliemann, edited by Phillip Smith BA, 1875, 168 x 236mm, ppXL = 371pp, + front's, + 4 maps and plans plus 1 map at end of volume + 20 plates + plates XXI to Lii with numerous illustrations in text, London, John Murray 1875, rebound modern quarter leather marble sides and modern end papers (1) £40-50 | Nil |
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| 1682 | DE BELLO TARTARICO HISTORIA by RP Martino Martinio, 1654, 73 x 120mm, 166 pages, +2pp, Facultus, approbatio censoris, symma privilegii, fold map dated 1654, full vellum (1) £125-150 | Nil |
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| 1683 | M ANN AEI LYCANI PHARSALIA SIVE DE BELIO CIVILI cafaris et Pompeii Kib X, 62 x 112mm, engraved title, 250 pages + 12 un-numbered, Anistelodamis 1636, full vellum (1) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 1684 | HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) 150 x 224mm, ppV, + 316 pages, full green cloth, blocked in gold, Secker and Warburg, London, 1938 1st edition, slight rubbing edges of spine and top and bottom edges front, page 91 has 10 words underlined in ink, internally otherwise quite good (1) £400-450 | Nil |
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| 1685 | BRITONS IN SPAIN The History Of British Battalion XVTH International Brigade by William Rust, 1939, 1st edition, 130 x 190mm, ppX + 212pp, + 6 maps, + 16 pages of illustrations between pp180/186, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd 1939, red cloth blocked in gold, front end leaf names of some who served with this Battalion, inner back cover more info (1) £40-45 | Nil |
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| 1686 | THE ESSAYS OR COUNCILS, CIVIL & MORAL by Sir Francis Bacon, 1696, a new edition with a table of colours of good and evil and The Wisdom Of The Ancients, 134 x 296mm, ppV + 167pp + VIpp + 21pp + IXpp + 16pp, + 123, London for F Newton, 1696, rebound modern leather spine, black lettering label, original polished calf sides (1) £75-100 | Nil |
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| 1687 | THE GENUINE REMAINS IN VERSE AND PROSE of Mr Samuel Butler, book plate Bridgewater library, 134 x 234mm, title page and list of subscribers, 27 pages + XIIpp including errata volumes 1 & 2, 429 pages Volume 1, Volume 2 134 x 234pp + XIpp IV page characters, preface, 512 pages, both re-backed modern calf, red lettering label fully blocked in gold, old polished calf sides retained (2) £60-80 | Nil |
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| 1688 | BUTLERS HUDIBRAS IN THREE PARTS by Zachary Grey, 2nd edition, 1764, 140 x 210mm, ppXIV, ppXXXVI, preface, engraved plate facing title page, engraved plate facing canto II, 424pp + 11pp to index Volume 1, 9 engraved plates, Volume 2 140 x 210mm, pp 446 + 24 pp index both volumes printed London for 14 publishers, both re-backed, elaborately blocked in gold on spines, Modern, original calf sides retained (2) £75-100 | Nil |
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| 1689 | OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIVER WYE and parts of South Wales & c in 1770 by William Gilpin MA, 1789, 2nd edition, 158 x 240mm, ppXVI, 152 pages, 17 Aquatint plates, London for R Biamire in The Strand 1789, untrimmed copy with a dark brown ripple leather blocked in gold (1) £45-55 | Nil |
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| 1690 | THE HISTORY OF MELANESIAN SOCIETY by WHP Rivers FRS in 2 volumes, 170 x 240pp XII, + 400 pages + 8 illustrations + 25 plates, + 5 maps in text 1 map at end of volume, volume 2 640 pages including index + 2 pages CU Press Catalogue, + 1 map pp499, Cambridge University Press 1914, light blue cloth, motifs and lettering, blocked in gold (2) £50-60 | Nil |
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| 1691 | PRIMITIVE CULTURE by Edward B Taylor in 2 volumes, 1871, 1st edition, 152 x 230mm, ppX, + 453, volume 2 152 x 230mm, ppVII, + 426pp + 32pp Mr Murray's List Of Works London, John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1871, full modern red leather, green lettering, labels blocked in gold, spines decorated in gold (2) £80-100 | Nil |
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| 1692 | MELANESIAS OF THE S.E. SOLOMON ISLANDS by W G Ivens MA, 1927, 1st edition, 166 x 250mm, pp XIX, + 529 pages + 3 colour and 18 half tone plates and numerous illustrations in the text, blue cloth, blocked in gold, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd 1927, THE PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS OF SCANDINAVIA by Sven Nilsson, 1868, 3rd edition, 158 x 232mm, ppLXXIX, + 272pp + 16 plates + 2 in text, London Longmans, Green & Co 1868, quarter green calf, blue labels blocked in gold, marble sides (2) £70-100 | Nil |
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| 1693 | THE CRUISE OF THE ROSARIO AMONGST NEW HEBRIDES & SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS by Albert Hastings Markham, 1873, 1st edition, 146 x 220mm, ppXVI, + 304pp + Frontispiece, + 16 illustrations with map at end of volume, London, Sampson Low, Marston Low & Searle 1873, full black leather (simulated) spine profusely blocked in gold, sides blind tooled, marble end papers (1) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 1694 | THE SOLOMON ISLANDS AND THEIR NATIVES by HB Guppy MR. FRS, 1887, 1st edition, 168 x 256mm, frontispiece, a map, + ppXVI, + 348 pages, + 10 litho plates, London, Swan, Sonnenchein, Lowrey & Co 1887, blue cloth vignette and front lettering blocked in gold, also spine, CORAL GARDEN AND THEIR MAGIC by Bronislaw Malinowski, 1935, 1st edition, 170 x 240mm, ppXXXV, + 500pp, + frontispiece with 3 maps, 116 illustrations and 24 figures, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1935, Volume 2 pp XXXII, 350pp, printers Colophon on last leaf end of volume 2, quarter white cloth, green cloth sides blocked in gold (3) £75-100 | Nil |
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WITH SEAPLANE AND SLEDGE IN THE ARCTIC by George Binney, 1925, 1st edition Leader, Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 164 x 240mm, 287 pages with 40 pages of illustrations frontispiece London, Hutchinson & Co 1925, blue cloth spine faded, shield on front, spine, blocked in gold, inscribed copy RE Priestly from the author (1) £40-50 |
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