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Photo of "Dorsetshire: Its Vestiges, celtic, roman, ..."
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WARNE, Charles. Dorsetshire: Its Vestiges, celtic, roman, saxon, and danish. The whole carefully classified, and the finest examples of each pointed out.... London. D. Sydenham, 1865. First edition. 8vo. [2], vii, [1], 56pp. With a hand-coloured map of Dorset's Roman roads as frontispiece. Original publisher's purple cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, with staining to upper board, spine and boards heavily sunned. Browning to endpapers. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35899
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[PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti]. Poetical sketches of scarborough... London. Printed for R. Ackermann, 1813. First edition. 8vo. [4], xv, [1], 215pp, [1]. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and a further 20 hand-coloured engraved plates. Finely bound by Bumpus (stamp-signed to rear turn-in) in later red crushed morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Bookplate of Sybil and Wallace Warner to FEP, scattered spotting, offsetting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 35732
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[TRAVEL]. Round the World Eastwards In 140 Days. [Sevenoaks]. [W. Wicking, Steam Printer], [1898]. First edition. Oblong. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board, denticulated fore- and bottom-edge. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Miss L. K. Dixon / With the Author's love / November 1898'. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31136
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ANDREWS, William. Famous frosts and frost fairs in great britain. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time. . London. George Redway, 1887. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is copy 37. viii, 91pp, [1]. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's? gilt-ruled navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, light staining to lower board, and chipping to head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Peter Dennis Anthes to FEP. ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35475
Photo of "Mr pickwick's pilgrimages"
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DEXTER, Walter. Mr pickwick's pilgrimages. London. Chapman and Hall Ld., 1926. First edition. 8vo. [2], xvi, 224pp. With half-title, a photographic frontispiece, and 49 further plates, largely photographic. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, and decorated in blind to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. A presentation copy, with the author's inked gift inscription addressed to 'My good friend in many Pilgrimages. A. E. Brookes Cross. Walter Dexter. 15 October 1926' to FFEP. Book-label of D. ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35282
Photo of "Jane austen and lyme regis"
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[AUSTEN-LEIGH, Richard Arthur. AUSTEN-LEIGH, Emma]. Jane austen and lyme regis. London. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd., 1944. Second impression. 8vo. vi, 58pp. With engraved maps to endpapers, portrait frontispiece of Jane Austen, five further photographic plates depicting relevant locations in Lyme Regis, and several in-text illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial printed paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with damp-staining to upper wrapper, and toning to spine and edges. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35900
Photo of "Picturesque palestine, sinai and egypt"
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WILSON, Sir Charles [editor]. Picturesque palestine, sinai and egypt. London. J. S. Virtue and Co., [1881-84] First edition. Folio. In 10 parts, as issued. With 42 engraved plates (including additional engraved title pages), two large colour maps (Palestine and Sinai and Egypt respectively) and hundreds of in-text woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, some bindings shaken, with leaves/plates detached. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29826
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ROBERTSON, M. Physical Geography. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1853. Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [8] leaves of maps. Pen and black ink, watercolour, over graphite, on wove paper. Contemporary buff wrappers, lettered in manuscript to upper wrapper. Extremities heavily worn and marked. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34432
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BROWN, John. Notes on an excursion into the Highlands of Scotland, in autumn 1818. Edinburgh. Printed for Ogle, Allardice & Thomson et al., 1819. First edition. 12mo. [6], 88pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's printed powder blue paper boards. Rubbed, spine worn, upper joint split, lower joint starting. Later inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33494
Photo of "The ascent of mount everest"
HILLARY, Sir Edmund. HUNT, Brigadier Sir John. The ascent of mount everest. [London]. Reprinted (by William Clowes and Sons) from The Geographical Journal, Vol. CXIX Part 4, December 1953, [1953]. First offprint edition. 8vo. [385]-399pp, [1]. With four leaves of photographic plates. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly creased and sunned, pencilled inscription to upper wrapper. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34847
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GARDINER, Rena. Portrait of dorset: the south-east. [Ghent]. [Printed at Graphius for] Design for Today, 2023. Oblong quarto. xxvi, [2], 150pp, [11]. With a terminal appreciation of Rena Gardiner and leaf of acknowledgements, lithographed title page and numerous in-text lithographed illustrations depicting the villages and towns of south-east Dorset. Original publisher's blue cloth, debossed paper lettering-piece to upper board, with original pictorial lithographed dust-wrapper. Lithographed endpapers. Housed, as issued, in a custom green cloth slip-case by Ludlow Bookbinders, and accompanied by two limited ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34375
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GARDINER, Rena. Portrait of dorset: the south-east. [Ghent]. [Printed at Graphius for] Design for Today, 2023. Oblong quarto. xxvi, [2], 150pp, [11]. Lithographed title page and numerous in-text lithographed illustrations depicting the villages and towns of south-east Dorset. Original publisher's blue cloth, debossed paper lettering-piece to upper board, with original publisher's pictorial lithographed dust-wrapper. Lithographed endpapers. Immaculate. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34374
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TAIT, John. John Tait's directory, for the city of Glasgow, villages of Anderston, Calton, and Gorbals; also for the towns of Paisley, Greenock, Port-Glasgow, and Kilmarnock, from the 15th May 1783, to the 15th May 1784... [Glasgow]. [Robert Forrester], [1871]. 8vo. 103pp, [1]. With an initial leaf of advertisements. Contemporary paper boards, marbled paper spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned, slight wear to extremities. Endpapers heavily browned. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34784
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[OXFORD]. A new pocket companion for Oxford ... with a plan of the university and city, and ... other plates.. Oxford. Printed for J. Cooke, near the Clarendon Printing-House, 1809. New edition. 12mo. 164pp. With an initial large folding plan of the university and city, and eight further engraved plates. Original publisher's powder blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, wrappers toned, with losses to spine and smaller losses to wrapper corners, chipping to edges. Recent bookseller's ticket of H.V. Day of Dorchester to foot of FEP. Leaves lightly browned, very light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22648