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Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; containing Armorial Bearings, Fac Similes, Maps, and Military Plans.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. [War of the Spanish Succession] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. Containing 22 engraved maps, plans, facsimile letters, and armorial bearings. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Turquoise endpapers. Internally crisp..... More
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. II part I, containing Cambridgeshire.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. [Topography] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM WADE PORTEOUS. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.[2]; 296; xxii; [2]. With twenty six copper engraved plates, including a hand-coloured county map and one further hand-coloured plate. Blue ink ownership inscriptions of Mr. Wade Porteous, a notable book..... More
Heroes of Discovery: Livingstone, Park, Franklin, Cook, Magellan.
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1886. [Travel and Exploration] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 349 [3]. With an engraved portrait of each explorer. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration..... More
The Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. Including a Narrative of his Voyage to Tangier, Deciphered from the Short-Hand MSS. in the Bodlian Library, by the Rev. John Smith, A.M., Decipherer of "Pepys's Memoirs." Now First Published from the Originals.
London: Richard Bentley, 1841. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 37-456; pp.[4]; 367; [1]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author to volume I. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spines and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed, later endpapers. Some spotting but generally..... More
The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer.
London: John Murray, 1860. [Biography] Tenth thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 356; 32 of advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, embossed panelling to boards, gilt titles and gilt steam engine to spine. Includes portrait of Stephenson and illustrative woodcuts. With Edmonds and Remnants, London binder's ticket at rear. Binding is somewhat..... More
The Innocents Abroad. The Innocents abroad: a book of travel in pursuit of pleasure.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. [Travel literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 256; [xxviii]. Publisher's green cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, with some loss, blind stamped design to boards, brown coated endpapers. Advertisements at front pp.i-ii and rear pp.i-xxviii; 'Very Important New Books..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
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