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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Langford, somerset. To be Sold by Auction, at langford inn, on saturday, May 30, 1840...three freehold tenements... [Bristol]. Printed at the Bristol Mirror Office by John Taylor, [1840]. Dimensions 170 x 210 mm. Single leaf handbill, edges uncut. Very slightly creased. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21424

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FIELDING, C[harles] H[enry]. Memories of malling and its valley: with A fauna and flora of Kent. West Malling. Henry C. H. Oliver, 1893. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 291pp, [1]. With half-title, a photographic frontispiece, two plates, and a folding map. 6pp booklet listing subscribers loosely inserted. Original publisher's blue buckram, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, loss to head of spine, slightest of splitting to upper joint. Decorated endpapers, light spotting to frontispiece and title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14916

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GIBSON, T. A. GIBSON, G. M.. Etymological geography; being a classified list of Terms & Epithets of most frequent Occurrence, entering, as postfixes of prefixes, into the composition of geographical names... Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, and Fraser and Crawford, 1840. Second edition. 12mo. xii, 163, [3], 2pp. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Original publisher's navy roan, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, splitting to upper joint. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14858

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PATERSON, Daniel. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales... London. Printed for T. N. Longman, 1796. Eleventh edition. 8vo. xxxv, [1], 390 columns, [1], 391-406pp. With an engraved folding map bound as frontispiece. Contemporary green morocco backed marbled boards. Heavily rubbed, splitting to upper joint, loss to head of spine. Wax spots to FEP, lightly foxed throughout. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13226

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CORBET, Henry. Tales and traits of sporting life. London. Rogerson and Tuxford, 1864. First edition. 8vo. [8], 202pp. With half-title and an extra engraved title with hand-coloured vignette. Lacking frontispiece. Original publisher's black buckram, lettered in gilt. Very slight wear to extremities. Hinges cracked, very short closed tears to gutter margins of additional title and title, leaves toned with occasional foxing. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13008

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NAPIER, James R.. On Pressure Logs for Measuring the Speed of Ships. [Glasgow]. From the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow., 1872. Offprint. 8vo. 14pp, [2]. With illustrations throughout. Original publisher's pink wraps. Soiling to part of upper wrap, internally clean and tight. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 9119

BERNAYS, Robert. "Naked Fakir". London. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1931. First edition. 8vo. 351pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with chipping to head of spine. Inked ownership inscription to FEP. Leaves lightly browned, spotting throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34863

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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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[BOOTH LINE]. Booth line: six weeks' cruise portugal madeira & the river amazon. Liverpool. The Booth Steamship Co. Ltd., [s.d.] 8vo. 29pp, [1]. With a chromolithograph frontispiece, one further terminal chromolithograph plate, numerous in-text photographic illustrations, several engraved maps, and an additional loosely inserted hand-coloured map of the River Amazon. Sewn, as issued, in original publisher's printed pictorial paper wrappers. Lightly rubbed, with spotting and browning to wrappers. Internally clean & crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34530

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MOTHERSOLE, Jessie. The Isles of Scilly Their Story their Folk & their Flowers. London. The Religious Tract Society, [1910]. First edition. Quarto. [2], xii, [1], 244pp, [1]. With an illustrated colour frontispiece and 24 further illustrations depicting the landscapes of the Scilly Isles. Original publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, slight spotting throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33395

UREN, J.G.. Scilly and the scillonians . Plymouth. The "Western Morning News" Co., Ltd., Printers, 1907. First edition. 8vo. [6], [5]-149pp, [3]. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, lettered in blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, some bumping to spine. With very light spotting and inked ownership inscription of 'Samuel Arthur' to title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33393

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LANCASTER, Charles. An illustrated treatise on the art of shooting, with extracts from the best authorities. [London]. [Printed by McCorquodale and Co.], 1889. First edition. 8vo. 221pp, [36]. With a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped and lettered in black. Rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Armorial bookplate of Robert Harvey to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32966

MARTINEAU, John. Letters from australia. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. First edition. 8vo. xvi, [2], 206pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, marked, and cocked, spine dulled. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32440

FREMANTLE, T. F. The book of the rifle. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. First edition. 8vo. xvii, [1], 544, 32pp. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 54 photographic plates, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, cocked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leave, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32086

WINANS, Walter. Hints on revolver shooting. New York and London. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. 8vo. [4], v, [1], 130pp, [2]. With a half-title, an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Lightly rubbed, a trifle dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32077

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HEPWORTH, J. [compiler]. Rochester and district. Sketch-guide to its geology, flora, & fauna. Rochester. Parrett & Neves, 1913. First edition. 8vo. 127pp, [1]. Original publisher's pictorial powder-blue wrappers. Rubbed and marked, some loss to head of sunned spine. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31556

GORDON, Jan. GORDON, Cora. Two vagabonds in the balkans. London. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1925]. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 236pp, [4]. With a coloured frontispiece, a further 11 coloured plates, 24 black and white plates, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's decorated light blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31516

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[REDDING, Cyrus]. An illustrated itinerary of the county of cornwall. London. How and Parsons, 1842. Large 8vo. vii, 264pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further four engraved plates, an engraved map, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green crushed morocco-backed brown moire cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30864

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PRESCOTT, H. F. M.. Once to sinai: The further pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri. London. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First edition. 8vo. 310pp. With a photographic frontispiece, a further seven photographic plates, and seven maps and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, spin sunned, cocked. Scattered spotting. Ink gift inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30406

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THORPE, T[homas] E[dward]. A Yachtsman's Guide to the Dutch Waterways: Including the Zuider Zee and the Friesland Meres. London. Edward Stanford, 1905. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 158pp. With two folding maps of Amsterdam and Rotterdam Harbour respectively, numerous small line maps in the text, and a large folding coloured map of Dutch Waterways housed in rear pocket. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29635