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L[EVESON], H[enry] A[stbury]. "Wrinkles" or hints to sportsmen and travellers upon Dress, Equipment, Armament & Camp Life. London. Saunders, Otley, & Co., 1868. First edition. 8vo. [8], 294, 32pp. Title in red and black. With numerous engraved illustrations in the text and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and cocked, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, later bookplate of Rev. Alfred Hayman Cummings to FEP - pasted over earlier inked ownership inscription. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32260
[BENGAL SPORTS]. The Bengal Sporting Magazine. No. 18. - Vol. IV. New series. December 1, 1835. Calcutta. Printed & Published for the Proprietor of the Englishman Press by W. Rushton, [1835]. 8vo. ii, iii, [1], 177, [4], 28-34, 6pp. With three lithographed plates and three terminal leaves of advertisements. Original publisher's pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities rubbed, lightly marked, and creased, loss and remnants of sealing wax to upper wrapper, some loss to cracked spine, naive paper repairs to lower wrapper. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 31756
JORDANOFF, Assen. Through the overcast: the weather and the art of instrument flying. New York. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1939. First edition, third impression. Quarto. xii, 356pp. With a photographic frontispiece and illustrations throughout the text. Original publisher's bright blue cloth, lettered and stamped in silver. Corners a little bumped, boards lightly marked. Internally bright, with the presentation inscription to the FFEP: 'To Laurence Olivier, with my best regards, A Jordanoff'. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 31236
[TASMANIA]. The new album of 31 Tasmanian Views. [Hobart]. [J. Walch & Sons], [s.d., c. 1900] First edition. Oblong quarto. [14] leaves. Original publisher’s green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP, four leaves detached. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24163
STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur. The adventure of Wrangel Island. London. Jonathan Cape, [1926]. First English edition. 8vo. With a photographic frontispiece, a further fifty photographs, maps and reproductions, and a folding coloured map. Original publisher's green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Rubbed. Endpapers browned, armorial bookplate of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst to FEP More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23787
O'SHEA, John Augustus. Romantic spain: A Record of Personal Experiences. London. Ward and Downey, 1887. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xiii, [1], 311, [1]; ix, [1], 317pp, [1]. Contemporary red half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, red cloth boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title of Vol. II, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33044
[REDDING, Cyrus]. The pictorial history of the county of lancaster: with one hundred and seventy illustrations and a map.. London. George Routledge, 1844. First edition. 8vo. [4], 238, xlviii pp. With an engraved folding map and 170 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled dark green half-morocco, green cloth boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplates of Conservative politician Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel (1856-1929) to FEP, blind-stamp of Manchester-based bookseller Simms to FFEP, map foxed, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33000
TWAMLEY, Louisa Anne. The annual of british landscape scenery. An autumn ramble on the wye. London. W. S. Orr and Co., [1839]. First edition. 8vo. 152pp, [4] With an additional engraved title page, a further 19 engraved plates, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Attractively bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, later book-label of Douglas Heber Hill Grainger to FEP, plates foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32420
SHAKESPEAR, Major Henry. The wild sports of india: with detailed instructions for the sportsman; to which are added remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses, and the formation of light irregular cavalry. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Second edition, much enlarged. 8vo. xv, [1], 365, [3], 16pp. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Modern salmon pink cloth, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine.Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of William Scott Curtis to FEP, occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32259
ALDIN, Cecil. Time I was dead: Pages from My Autobiography. London. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 389pp, [1].With a coloured frontispiece, eight coloured plates, 16 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Modern green calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31657
[DEVONSHIRE]. The Two Widecombe Tracts, 1638 giving a Contemporary Account of the great Storm, reprinted with an introduction. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1905. vi, [4], 37pp.

[Bound with:] Richard Peek of Tavistock: His three to one, The Commendatory Verses and the Play of dick of devonshire. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1905. [4], x, 100pp.

[And:] CLAYDEN, Arthur W. The history of devonshire scenery: an essay in Geographical Evolution. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1906. [6], 202pp. With a photogrpahic frontispiece and a further 42 photographic plates.

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£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31020
WOOD, G. Arnold. The voyage of the Endeavour. Melbourne. Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1933. 8vo. 116pp. Original publisher's limp orange cloth, ruled and lettered in black. Extremities rubbed, marked, damp-stained and sunned. Bookplate and ink-stamp of George Lowe to FEP, lightly stained. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23620