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EDWARD BAINES. 'History, Directory & Gazetteer ... Lancaster,' two vols, full calf, stacked joints, chipped and rubbed, lacks maps, WM. Wales & Co...

MARY H. KINGSLEY. 'Travels in West Africa. Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons,' original cloth, rubbed and staining, ex libris label to back bo...

RICHARD F. BURTON. 'Lake Regions of Central Africa, A Picture of Explorations,' original embossed cloth, corners turned in, ex libris label to pas...

DAVID LIVINGSTONE. 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,' original cloth, rubbed, spotting to colour frontis and title page, illustr...

Capt G. F. LYON. 'The Private Journal of.....The Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry,' half calf with gilt decorations o spine, engrave...

Capt McCLINTOCK. 'The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Late Sir John Franklin and His Companions,' origin...

EDWARD WHYMPER. 'The Ascent of The Matterhorn,' first edition, original cloth with gilt tooled Matterhorn to front board, maps and illustrations, ...

FRED BURNABY. 'A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia,' fourth edition, original cloth with extensive staining, maps and illustra...

MUNGO PARK. 'Travels in The Interior of Africa,' reprint, full leather with gilt tooled 'Westminster School' crest to front board, award label to ...

ALBERT SMITH. 'The Story of Mont BLanc,' second edition, original cloth, turned corners, rubbed and bumped, ex libris with ik stamp to title page,...

LEWIS CARROLL. 'The Hunting of the Snark,' first edition, seventeenth thousand, original pictorial loth, chips, rubbed and stained, contemporary i...

LEWIS CARROLL. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' fourteenth thousand, original cloth, chipped and stained, illustrated by John Tenniel, MacMilla...

ANGLING INTEREST. 'A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling,' full leather, damage to half title and title page, ex libris, B. Crosby and Co, Lond...

THOMAS ROSE. 'Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland Illustrated,' illustrated by Thomas Allom, full leather with gilt decorations and r...

RICHARD JAGO., 'Edge-Hill, Or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralized. A Poem in Four Books,' defective, rebound, lacks frontis, J. Dodsley, ...

CHARLES DIXON. 'The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands,' 4to, original pictorial cloth, colour illustrations throughout by Charles Wh...

HUGH THOMSON Illustrations. 'Quality Street. a Comedy in Four Acts,' by J. M. Barrie, limited edition, 59/1,000 signed by artist, original vellum ...

HUGH THOMSON. 'The Scarlet Letter. a Romance,' second edition, 4to, vg cloth with gilt decorations, spotting to edge of textblock, Methuen & Co, L...

MAURICE MAETERLINCK. 'The Life of the Bee,' fine original pictorial cloth, mounted illustrations by Edward J. Detmold, unclipped edges to leaves w...

LANCELOT ANDREWES. 'The Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine,' folio, full calf, engraved portrait frontis, loss to title page, some ink notes to mar...

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Interest. 'My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience,' second edition, half blue leather with ...

M. CLERY. 'A Journal of the Occurrences at the Temple, During the Confinement of Louise XVI, King of France,' rebound, frontis engraving, vg, Bayl...

F. F. ROGET. 'Ski-Runs in the High Alps,' first edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, frontis loose, cracked, clean textblock loosening, illustr...

ESTELLA CANZIANI Illustrations. 'Songs of Childhood,' by Walter De La Mare, limited edition, 41/310 copies, signed by De La Mare, unclipped dj, Lo...

J. S. LE FANU. 'Willing to Die,' original cloth, rubbed, blind stamp to endpaper, Downey & Co, London, n.d. (ca.1895); 'The Wyvern Mystery,' origi...

MACDONALD. 'Violin Songs and Other Poems,' small 8vo, green cloth, Daldy, Isbister, & Co, London, 1874; 'The Princess and Curdie,' new edition, pi...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Colonel Quaritch,' first edition, three vols, original cloth, rubbed with some staining, toning to edges of leaves, Longmans, G...

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 'Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751,' original green cloth, rubbed and bumped, f...

EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON. 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England,' three volumes in six parts, all with loose boards, uniform ful...

T. E. LAWRENCE. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom,' first published for general circulation, original cloth, unclipped dj, 'By Air Mail' tape applied to dj...

Lord BYRON. 'Prisoner on Chillon. a poem,' illuminated by W&C Hudsley, pages loose in embossed purple cloth, 1865; JOSEPH B. ROBINSON. 'In Memoriu...

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 'Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero,' first edition, fine tree calf binding, rebacked, steel and wood engravings by ...

NICHOLAS CULPEPPER. 'The Complete Herbal; .....English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic,' new edition, original embossed cloth, frontis engra...

EDWARD DAYES. 'The Works of the Late.....Containing an Excursion Through the Principal Parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.......Essays on Painting;...

ALFRED TENNYSON. 'Ode On the Death of The Duke of Wellington,' first edition, half title, uncut and stitched in original printed wraps, slight spo...

ELIZABETH ROBINS. 'Portrait of A Lady or The English Spirit Old and New,' first edition, card wraps, dedicated to Octavia Wilberforce, vg, publish...

E. M. FORSTER. 'Maurice,' proof's copy, card wraps, coffee stain to front wrap, begun 1913 finished 1914, dedicated to a happier year, Edward Arno...

GOLF INTEREST. 'Golfing Curios and The Like,' by Harry B. Wood, original cloth, chips and rubbed, slight water spots to front board, contempory in...

Sir CHARLES BELL. 'The Hand. Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design,' rebound, gilt edge to texblock, woodblock engravings througho...

P. G. WODEHOUSE. 'William Tell Told Again,' original pictorial cloth, illustrations in colour by Philip Dadd, toning to leaves, Adam and Charles B...

JANE AUSTEN. 'Emma,' red cloth gilt to design by Hugh Thomson, reprint, some toning to leaves as could be expected, MacMillan and Co, London, 1898...

BINDINGS. Thirty-one illustrated works with highly ornate gilt bindings by Hugh Thompson et al, including 'Silas Marner,' by George Elliot (1907),...

CHARLES DICKENS. 'The Letters of....,' second edition, fifth thousand, three vols, half-title with printed signature, Chapman and Hall, 1880-82; '...

CHARLES DICKENS. 'The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club,' first edition, rebound, illustrations by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne, toned and bro...

CHARLES DICKENS. 'A Tale of Two Cities,' first edition, first issue with p. 213 mispaginated as 113, 16 etched plates by H. K. Browne including ad...

HENRY FIELDING. 'Paquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times: Being The Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election; And a Tragedy call'...

Rev GEORGE CRABBE. 'The Works,' new edition, seven volumes, navy straight-grain morocco, gilt text edge, John Murray, London, 1820. (7) ...[more]

ROBERT SOUTHEY. 'Amadis the Gaul,' four vols, rebacked, interesting provenance being a mistress of George IV, original spine gilt 'Prince of Wales...

JOHN FRANKLIN. 'Journey the Shores of the Polar Sea,' four vols, formerly stock of Rowe's of Penzance, engraved frontis, John Murray, London, 1829...

P. G. WODEHOUSE and H. WESTBROOKE. 'Not George Washington,' first edition, first issue, original cloth with eight gilt circles, colour frontis, gl...

DANIEL PATERSON. 'New and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales,' tenth edition, two-page map to f...

ARTHUR AIKIN. 'The Natural History of the Year,' second edition, loose calf boards, fold out frontis engraving of earths rotation, J. Johnson, Lon...

ALMANACK. 'Rider's British Merlin,' leap year issue, green leather wallet binding, adulterated title page, R. Nutt, London, 1752. ...[more]

ROBERT SOUTHEY. 'Metrical Tales and Other Poems,' in a fine navy blue straight-grain morocco, gilt edge, ex libris label to pastedown, Longman et ...

W. M. THACKERAY. Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo,' first edition, rebacked, hand coloured frontis, Chapman and Hall, 1846; 'The Bo...

JAMES JOYCE. 'Ulysses,' first edition, 4to, lacks binding with Eric Gill bow, 1,485/2,000 copies, half title, toning to first 32 leaves, Paris, Eg...

JAMES JOYCE. 'Ulysses,' reprint, original green cloth with embossed bow to front board, John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1941; 'Chamber Music,' ...

HORSE RACING Interest. 'The Life of a Racehorse,' by John Mills, original pebbled cloth with pictorial gilt boards, blind stamp to free endpaper, ...

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