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Pocahontas. Or, The Nonparell of Virginia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1933. [Romantic legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.viii: 349: [1], blank. Elegantly bound in deep red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Includes a portrait of Pocahontas as a frontispiece with an attractive folded map inserted..... More
Summer in the Country.
London: George Routledge & Co., 1858. [Diaries] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first thus. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.viii; 216 [2]. With 45 engravings including a frontispiece after various artists, by the Dalziel Brothers. Contemporary green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt panelled decoration to boards..... More
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged, with Notes and Illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1866. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 827 [3]. Finely bound by HAYDAY in full black morocco, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt panelled decoration to boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins over plain endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... More
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter Naturalist. Edited by Hermann Hagedorn, under the Auspices ofThe Roosevelt Memorial Association..
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. [Big Game Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.xvi, 529 [1]. With illustrations, including a photographic frontispiece of the author, a map, and various photographs and sketches. Elegantly bound in full brown morocco, gilt to spine with 'big game' decoration to compartments, and gilt..... More
The Principles of Great Circle and Composite Sailing; a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, December 1853. With observations made from more recent voyages. [and] Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and Determination of Azimuths.
Liverpool [and] London: Printed for Private Circulation [and] Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1855 [and] 1854. [Navigation] PRIVATELY PRINTED, with a fifth edition copy of 'Tables'. A Presentation copy to AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD. Two pamphlets bound as one. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 30; iii-viii; 67 [5]. With a...... More
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