Ceylon - Woodhouse, L.G.O. & G.M.R. Henry. The butterfly fauna of Ceylon: Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1942. First edition, 4to, map and 50 plates, 37 coloured, contemporary cloth, occasional light foxing, rather rubbed; Deraniyagala, P.E.P.The tetrapod reptiles of Ceylon: Ceylon: 1939. Volume 1 only [all published], large 8vo, 24 photographic plates, later red calf gilt, occasional very light spotting; Sanderson, G.P. Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India. London: 1878. 8vo, plates, maps, contemporary half calf; Wall, F. Ophidia taprobanica or the snakes of Ceylon. Colombo: H.R. Cottle, 1921. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, original cloth (4)
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Ceylon - Woodhouse, L.G.O. & G.M.R. Henry. The butterfly fauna of Ceylon. Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1942. First edition, 4to, 50 plates, 37 coloured, coloured map, contemporary cloth, slightly marked; Baker, Samuel W. Wild beasts and their ways. London: Macmillan, 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, some spotting, spines slightly faded; Tennent, J.E. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon. London: 1861. 8vo, 10 plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Cave, H.W. Golden tips. London: 1904. Third edition, 8vo, illustrations, original cloth gilt; The Prince of Wales` Eastern book. London: [c.1922]. 8vo, original cloth (6)
After C and J Greenwood, "Map of the County of Leicester", published 1830, a similar map of the County of Rutland and "A New Map of the County of Leicester Divided into Hundreds", printed for C. Smith 1801, all unframed, another Greenwood Map of Leicestershire, framed, 63cms x 74cms, (26" x 29") and another of Rutland, mounted, but unframed, (5).
A map of the County of Derby, from an actual survey made in the years 1824 and 1825 by C. & I. Greenwood dedicated to the Nobility, Clergy and Gentry of the County, inset of Chatsworth House, coloured engraved folding map in sections on paper and linen, marbled end papers, 154cm x 122cm, in slip case. The above map is one of a series of all England & Wales surveyed from scratch by Christopher & John Greenwood from 1818 to a scale of 1 inch:1 mile (except Yorkshire which was reduced to .75 ins.:1 mile to get it all in). It took until 1834 to complete, and a comprehensive atlas was then produced, although individual maps were published (as here) as they came out. The two worked in opposition to the OS and completed their survey a lot quicker, their counterparts taking until 1873.
John Speed (1552-1629), a two-page map, The Countie of Nottingham Described, the Shire Townes Situation and the Earls Thereof Observed; published, performed by John Speede and are to be Sold in Popes Head Alley by John Sudbury and George Humble, Cum Privilegio, with pictorial cartouche, inset town plan for Nottingham, coats-of-arms for John Mowbray, Rich D of York and others, 40cm x 53cm, framed
A New Map of the Countries Extending from the Adriatic to the Gulf of Finland intended to exhibit the present seat of war between the belligerent powers, by John Carey, 181 The Strand, July 12th 1813, 82cm x 83cm; George III map of ninety miles by seventy five in which Chesterfield is the centre, comprising the counties of Derby and Nottingham, part of the counties of York, Lincoln, Rutland, Leicester, Salop, Chester and Lancaster, by John Tuke, land surveyor, published September 10th 1798 by W Darton & J Harvey, London 65cm x 77cm, paper backed onto linen, card case; Gilbert`s New Map of the World, 1839, 47.5cm x 94cm (3)
An interesting WWI official map of the Western Front, dated 5.11.18, entitled "Confidential, Not to be reproduced, Serial No 120, Enemy Order of Battle, Western Front, 5.11.18", showing the German Army Groups and the Allied Armies of which 6 are shown as "fit" out of a total of 191, produced by "Printing Co RE W.O.B/2292", 19½" x 23½", in glazed frame. GC
A rare, well detailed French hand coloured map of the East coast of America, 1778, pub by the "Depot General de la Marine" for the service of the King`s Ships, with navigational points and lines in the Atlantic and topographical details of N. Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, N & S Carolina and Georgia, 25" x 36". GC (folding creases, small edge tears not affecting the text)
MUROE (DAVID HOADLEY) The Grand National 1839-1931, Heinemann 1931, cold.frontis. 18 sepia plates and folding map, orig. dec. cloth; PORTLAND (DUKE OF) Memories of Racing and Hunting, Faber and Faber 1935, b/w illusts. orig. blue cloth; FLETCHER (J S) History of the St Leger Stakes 1776-1926, Hutchinson n.d.c 1926, 4 cold. plates and 21 b/w photographs and illustrations, light foxing to fore-edge, orig. green cloth gt. dec.; and six related titles (9)
Ginever (Edwin D.) The Parish and Priory of Lenton, Nottingham 1930, title vignette, illus. folding map at rear, yapp cover; Lincolnshire Pub Co. Forgotten Lincoln - A History of the City from the Earliest Times, 2nd ed. Lincoln 1897, eng frontis and sparsely throughout, orig. cloth, faded (2).
Tait (M) Yorkshire Its Scenes, Lore and Legends, Leeds 1888, folding map frontis, and nine to rear, orig. dec brown cloth; Andrew (William) Bygone Derbyshire 1892, orig. blue cloth gt. Hollingworth (r.) Mancunlensis or An History of the town of Manchester, 1839, dec. half-title, and map, orig. cloth; Montgomery (James) Greenland and other poems, London 1819, half calf A pamphlet Hunts To Fresh ??? from a Member of the University of Cambridge, second edition London 1797; Universal Pamphleteer The Life of the Duke of Marlborough ... to which is added the Mysterious Menace, Jones (Edw Pub) A List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal ... In the Parliament began at Dublin 1703, (a pamphlet), two further titles (9).
World War II Prisoner of War Interest, A World War II Wartime Log for British prisoner Flight officer Norman Lampard No 623 Squadron. shot down on the night of 18th November 1943 and confined to Stalag. Luft I. Barth, Germany. the log contains photographs, map, pencil sketches of a Hawker Typhoon, and a Handley Page Halifax bomber, barracks layout, signatures of other RAF prisoners, and other ephemera, the outer boards of the book covered with a luftwaffe linen pennant.
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