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'A Map of the Hundred of Ringslow, containing the Island of Thanet,' engraved map, hand coloured, framed and glazed, Hasted's Kent, circa 1797. 52...

MAPS. 'Dorsetshire,' by Robert Morden, later hand coloured, tide mark and toned, framed and glazed, circa 1695. 49cm x 59.5cm; 'A New Map of Linco...

MAPS. Two framed tripychs of early 20th century Greece and Italy, showing the North, Middle and south, in uniform frames. (2) ...[more]

'Brussels (Bruxelles),' Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, engraved plan of the city roughly centred on the Hotel de Ville, elevations...

AGATHA CHRISTIE. 'The Secret Adversary,' USA first edition, original cloth, ink inscription to endpaper, Grosset & Dunlap, USA, 1922; 'Cat Among P...

B. T BATSFORD. Three revised editions, with dust-jacket illustrations by Brian Cook - The Face of Scotland, British Hills and Mountains, The Engli...

GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. 'The Son of the Fisherman,' Signed by engraver Rosemary Roberts, 158/165, The Celtic Cross Press, North Yorkshire, 2002; STEV...

MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES. The Bathe - An Ecstacy, First edition limited to 500. Signed and inscribed by the author original cloth. London, Alexande...

SVEN BERLIN - Alfred Wallis Primitive, 1st edition, Nicholson & Watson 26 Manchester Square, 1949 and Johah's Dream, 1st edition, 1964 by the same...

GRAHAME GREEN. 'The Power and the Glory,' reprint, original cloth, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1942; 'The End of the Affair,' first edition, or...

MINING INTEREST and LETTERS. Correspondence (some handwritten copies) concerning a dispute of credit owed. The dispute lay between a Mr C. Harry a...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The St. Just Mining District,' by Cyril Noall, first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1973; 'Mi...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Archaeology and Landscape at the Land's End, Cornwall: The West Penwith Surveys 1980-2010,' by the Cornwall Archaeology Societ...

DINAH MARIA MULLOCK later Mrs CRAIK. 'An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall,' original cloth boards with St Michael's Mount gilt decoration, i...

Sir CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS. ' Observations on the Tin Trade of the Ancients in Cornwall,' rebound with 'Given by the Author to George Hicks (?) 1814,...

W. E. KNOWLES MIDDLETON. 'The History of the Barometer,' unclipped dj, Baros Books, Wiltshire, 1994; H. MILES BROWN. 'Cornish Clocks, and Clockmak...

GRANT R. FRANCES. 'Old English Drinking Glasses: Their Chronology and Sequence,' original green cloth, Herbert Jenkins, London, 1926 ...[more]

INUIT ART INTEREST. 'Tuvaq: Inuit Art and the Modern World,' signed and inscribed by editor Ken Mantel, colour illustrations throughout, card wrap...

NANCY SHEPPARD. 'Alitjinya Ngura Tjukurtjarangka: Alitji in the Dreamtime,' adapted and translated from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wond...

GERTRUDE JEKYLL. 'Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both,' original cloth with gilt decoration, 53 b+w p...

ARTHUR QUILLER COUCH. 'My Best Book,' signed by author, 164/300, original cloth, Fowey Cottage Hospital Bazaar, August 14th, 1912. ...[more]

LEW WALLACE. Ben-Hur: The Tale of the Christ,' original cloth, Ward Lock & Co, London; H. V. MORTON. 'In Search of South Africa,' first edition, u...

AGATHA CHRISTIE. 'Nemesis,' uncorrected advance proof, paper wraps, The Crime Club, 1971; 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas,' first edition, original cl...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar,' two volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj, card slip, illustrated throughout, Umd...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'COLORADO CACTI,' by Charles H. Boissevain and Carol Davidson, illustrated throughout, Abbey Garden Press, 1940; 'Brazil and Its ...

ALAN TRIST. 'The Water of Life: A Tale of the Grateful Dead,' signed by the author and illustrator Jim Carpenter, original cloth, unclipped dj, Hu...

GENE STRATTON PORTER. 'The Harvester,' first UK edition, original cloth, 4 tipped-in plates including frontispiece, repairs to presentation card b...

CHARLES SIMPSON. 'El Rodeo,' first edition, signed label by author stuck to endpaper, original cloth, John Lane the Bodley Head, London ...[more]

Mrs ALFRED GATTY. 'The Book of Sun-Dials,' new and enlarged edition, rebound in quarter leather, George Bell and Sons, London, 1889. ...[more]

ART INTEREST. 'Lovis Corinth,' edited by Peter-Klaus Shuster et al, card wraps, The Saint Louise Art Museum, Tate Gallery, London; 'Oil Paintings ...

BRIAN NORTH LEE. 'British Bookplates: A Pictorial History,' signed and dated by the author, clipped dj, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1979; 'Lond...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'The Genus Daphne,' by Joseph J. Halda, illustrations by Jarmila Haldova, unclipped, illustrated throughout, SEN Dobre, 2001; 'Im...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'Wild Flowers of Yunnan and Central China,' by B. M. Walden and S. Y. Hu, signed by former Chief Executive of Hong Kong TUNG Chee...

GERTRUDE JEKYLL. Nine books on the life and gardens of Jekyll including 'Wall, Water and Woodland Gardens,' and 'A Gardener's Testament,' both pub...

GERTRUDE JEKYLL. 'Wood & Garden,' tenth impression, original cloth, 71 photographs, Longmans Green and Co, London, 1904; Roses for English Gardens...

HEINRICH HARRER. 'Seven Years in Tibet,' first UK edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953; F. M. BAILEY. 'No Passpo...

HUBERT B. DRYSDALE WOODCOCK and WILLIAM THOMAS STERN. 'Lilies of the World: Their Cultivation & Classification,' Clipped dj, original cloth, Count...

J. H. MAIDEN. 'Sir Joseph Banks: The "Father of Australia",' letters by the author to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer pasted in, original cloth ...

WILLIAM ROBERTSON. 'The History of Scotland,' vol one of two, full leather binding, foxed endpapers and sporadic foxing throughout, G. and A. Ewin...

ART INTEREST. 'Raffaello: The Paintings, The Drawings,' unclipped dj, Grange Books, Itay, 1998; 'Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, A...

ART INTEREST. Twenty six art books including 'Winslow Homer,' 'Artwork: David Gentleman, 'Mark Rothko,' and 'The Art of William Nicholson.' (26) ...

ELSA FELSKO. 'Portraits of Wild Flowers'. Unclipped dj, original cloth, 140 plates after watercolours, Bruno Cassirer, Oxford, 1958, vg; Together ...

BOTANICAL & HORTICULTURAL INTEREST. Ten hardbacks including the two volume 'Botanical Garden' by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, plus specialist on...

HORTICULTURE INTEREST. Eighteen volumes on the cultivation and growing of particular plants, all hardbacks with dj's, all with photos throughout, ...

E. H. Wilson. 'Plantae Wilsonae.....' Reprint edited by Charles Sprague Sargent, three volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj's, dj's slightly fade...

H. J. NOTIE. 'The Dapuri Drawings.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, The Antie Collector's Club and The Bombay Botanic Gardens, 2002, fine; 'Robert W...

ILLUSTRATION INTEREST. 'The Night Life of Trees.' Tara Publishing Bookcraft Series, Chennai, India, 2006, illustrated throughout, screen printed o...

C. OSCAR MORETON. 'Old Carnations and Pinks.' Original cloth, clipped dj, illustrations complete, George Rainbird Ltd, 1955, near fine. ...[more]

BLANCHE HENREY. 'British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800.' Three volumes, original cloth, Ord University Press, special edition...

BOTANY and HORTICULTURE. 'Genera Palmarum: A Classification of Palms Based on the Work of Harold E. Morre, Jr.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, illu...

'The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete.' Original boards, large format, colour photos throughout, University of California Press, 1992, vg; 'The Histo...

HORTICULTURE. 'Great Flower Books 1700-1900,' by Sacheverell Sitwell, H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1990, fine; With nine other large format picture bo...

HORTICULTURE and BOTANY. 'The Land of the Blue Poppy,' by Frank Kingdon Ward, first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, Minerva, 1973, vg; With t...

HORTICULCTURE and BOTANY. 'Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.' First edition, original cloth, clipped dj, Curwen Books, London, 1981, fine;...

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