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HOWITT, Samuel. The british sportsman. London. Published and Sold by Edward Orme, 1812. New edition. Quarto. With 72 plates (plate 17 and 17*), including the frontispiece. Contemporary black half-morocco, black cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30325

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HOLMAN, H[erbert]. A handy book for shipowners and masters. London. G. Wilder & Son, 1891. Second edition. 8vo. [4], 155pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in black. A trifle rubbed, some water-damage, ink-spotting and marking to boards, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp, More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 16039

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[HOLDERNESS]. A series of seventeen views of churches, monuments, and other antiquities, originally engraved for "dade's history of holderness," now first published. Hull. J. Greenwood, 1835. First edition. Folio. [2]pp. 17 engraved views on 15 plates. Uncut in original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities worn, without lower panel. Occasional spotting/dampstaining. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30990

[HODDER-WILLIAMS, John Ernest]. Like English Gentlemen. London. Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. First edition. 8vo. 61pp, [3]. Original publisher's pictorial paper boards. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32563

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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HILLARY, Edmund, Sir. DOIG, Desmond. Expedicion al Himalaya (En busca del fabuloso Yeti, el "Abominable Hombre de las Nieves"). Buenos Aires. Editorial de Ediciones Selectas S. R. L., [1964]. 8vo. 336pp. With numerous monochrome photographic illustrations. Original publisher's grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Light rubbing/bumping to extremities, dustwrapper heavily worn, separated into component panels/flaps, with some browned naive tape repairs. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. Flat signed by Sir Edmund Hillary to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23425

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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

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HELME, Elizabeth. Instructive rambles in london, and the adjacent villages. Designed to amuse the mind, and improve the understanding of youth. London. Printed for T. N. Longman...and E. Newbery, 1798. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes, bound in one. [iii]-xii, 189, [2]; [iii]-viii, 169pp, [3]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. II; without half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbed, with some loss to spine and surfaces, splitting to upper joint. With a contemporary ink inscription (in two hands) 'Josiah Forster to Jane Birkbeck' to verso of ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 16078

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HEATH, Charles. Descriptive account of the kymin pavilion, and beaulieu grove, with their various views: also, the naval temple, with new notices of buckstone, a supposed druidical relique, near it: to which is added, lord nelson's visit to monmouth... Monmouth. Printed and sold by Him [Charles Heath], in the Market Place, [s.d., c. 1807-20] 8vo. [88]pp. Later rebacked with brown paper. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 35075

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[HEAD, Sir Francis Bond]. Bubbles from the brunnens of nassau, by an old man. Paris. Baudry's European Library, 1834. Third edition. 8vo. [4], 201pp, [3]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Slight loss to upper corner of preface leaf, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21779

HASTINGS, Warren. A narrative of the late transactions at benares. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1782. First London edition. 8vo. [2], iv, 132pp, [1] With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Later half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Armorial bookplate of Robinson of Rokeby to FEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 28678

[HANWAY, Jonas]. A journal of eight days journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. with miscellaneous thoughts...To which is added An essay on tea... London. Printed for H. Woodfall, 1757. Second edition corrected and enlarged. 8vo. In two volumes. [10], 348; [10], 375pp, [1]. With an engraved folding frontispiece to each volume. Recent crushed red morocco, tooled in gilt and blind. Scattered foxing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25152

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HANSSEN, Helmer. Gjennem isbaksen: atten år med Roald Amundsen. Oslo. Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co., 1941. Attende tusen [i.e. eighteenth thousand]. 8vo. 218pp, [4]. With seven photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed tan buckram boards, lettered in silver. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23451

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HALFORD, Frederic M.. Floating flies and how to dress them: a treatise on the most modern methods of dressing artificial flies for trout and grayling... London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. First trade edition. 8vo. [8], 136, [2], 32pp. With a half-title, nine coloured engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, a tipped-in errata slip, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original Publisher's green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. Armorial bookplate of Charles R. C. Hibbert and later book-label of F. Lucy, Uxbridge, to FEP. Inked inscription to head of ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 27138

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HADFIELD, P. Heywood. With an Ocean Liner (S.S. "Ophir" - Orient-Pacific Line) through the fiords of Norway. A Photographic Memento of Fortnight's Cruising. [London]. Printed by The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., [1905]. Quarto. With 58 photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25279

GURNEY, Joseph John. A winter in the west indies, described in familiar letters to henry clay, of kentucky. London. John Murray, 1840. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 282, 12pp. With an etched frontispiece, one further etched plate, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Early inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31194

GRINLING, C. H., INGRAM, T. A., POLKINGHORNE, B. C.. A survey and record of woolwich and west kent... Woolwich. Labour Representation Printing Co. Ltd., 1909. First edition. 8vo. viii, 526pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in dark green. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Endpaper browned, inked ownership inscription to FEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22178

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GRIERSON, Rev. Thomas. Autumnal rambles among the scottish mountains or pedestrian tourist's friend. Edinburgh. Paton and Ritchie, 1850. First edition. 8vo. [6], xii, 122p. With a lithographed frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper boardLightly rubbed, marked, spine sunned. Inked/pencilled ownership inscriptions to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29672

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[GRAHAM, Maria]. Voyage of h.m.s. blonde to the sandwich islands, in the years 1824-1825. London. John Murray, 1826. First edition. Quarto. x, [2], 260pp. With 14 engraved plates and an engraved folding map. Recent, antique style gilt-tooled navy half-morocco, marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 30266

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