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Abercromby (Hon. John). A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a Chapter on the Languages of the Country, pub. Stanford, 1889, half-title, frontis., two folding maps and col. map at rear, b&w plts., orig. pale blue cloth, rubbed and sl. marked, 8vo. Presentation copy inscribed on first blank: "With the author's compliments". (1)
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Bartlett (W.H.). Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites, 5th ed., n.d., c.1848, frontis, title vignette, map, twenty-five steel engr. plts., plus seventeen wood-engrs., some foxing, full contemp. red morocco, gilt, corners and joints rubbed, a.e.g., together with Therry (R.), Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in New South Wales and Victoria, 1st ed., 1863, margins of section 2B slightly frayed, duplicate corrected leaf C1 loosely inserted, title page and few other leaves spotted, orig. blind stamped cloth, stained, spine faded and warped, together with Johnson (John Willes), Journal of a Tour through parts of France, Italy and Switzerland in the years 1823-4, 1st ed., 1827, uncut, marginal spotting, orig. cloth-backed boards, rubbed, spine damaged, and seven others, incl. Iceland and Japan, 8vo & 12mo (10)
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Bartram (William). Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws..., 1st London ed., 1792, eng. port. frontis., one folding eng. map (torn to fold) and seven eng. plts. (inc. 1 folding), minor marginal spotting, blind embossed stamp to title & plts., modern green qtr. calf, morocco label to spine, 8vo. Sabin 3870. (1)
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Birkbeck (Morris). Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois, 4th ed., pub. James Ridgway, 1818, 156pp., folding engraved map, hand-col. in outline, two leaves of pubs. ads. bound-in at rear, ink library stamp to title and map verso, recent qtr. calf gilt, slim 8vo. Sabin 5569. (1)
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[Burke, Edmund]. An Account of the European Settlements in America, 2 vols., 4th ed., with improvements, 1765, two folding eng. maps by Emmanuel Bowen, ex-lib. copy with oval indelible ink stamp to each title, final leaf of text, and each map (just touching image), recent qtr. calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels, 8vo. Sabin 9282. (2)
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Burton (Richard F.). Abeokuta and the Camaroons Montains, An Exploration, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1863, photo port. frontis. to vol. 1 and wood eng. frontis. to vol. 2, three wood eng. plts., lacks folding map, pages browned and brittle, orig. green cloth covered boards, detached and spines deficient, disbound 8vo. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2)
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Cunningham (Robert O.). Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia, made during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Nassau' in the Years 1866, 67, 68 & 69, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1871, five tinted litho. plts., sixteen uncol. litho. plts., folding map, all correct as list, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, inner joints cracked, minor wear to extrems., 8vo (1)
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Darwin (Charles, and others). Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, Between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe, 4 vols, including Appendix to Vol 2, 1st ed., pub. Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street., 1839, eng. frontis. to vols. 1 & 2, forty-four eng. plts. & plans, one folding map, without the eight loose maps originally contained in pockets, vol. 1 with lower margin of p.xv/xvi excised, occ. spotting and light offsetting, circular blind embossed library stamp to plts. and title pages etc., recent endpapers, contemp. marbled boards with vellum corners and recent calf spines, green leather labels to spines, 8vo. Contents: vol. 1. Proceedings of the first expedition, 1826-1830, under the command of Captain P. Parker King; vol. 2. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-1836, under the command of Captain Fitz-Roy; vol. 3. Journal and Remarks, 1832-1836/ by Charles Darwin. Sabin 37826. Freeman 10. (4)
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Deutsch (Leo. trs. Helen Chisholm). Sixteen Years in Siberia, Some Experiences of a Russian Revolutionist, 1st ed. in English, 1903, port. frontis and twenty-four plts., orig. cloth, rubbed, together with Lane (Rose Wilder), The Pecks of Shala; Being a Record of Centain Wanderings among the Hill-tribes of Albania, 1st ed., 1922, fldg. panorama and nine plts., orig. cloth, together with Heyfelder (Dr. O.), Transkaspien und seine Eisenbahn, 2nd ed., Hanover fldg. map, num. fldg. plts., browned, bound with L. Grahmer (D), Russland in Mittel-Asien, 1st ed., Leipzig, 1808, nine plts., contemp. half-calf, rubbed, and five others, travel, 8vo. (8)
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Edwards (H. Sutherland). Captivity of Two Russian Princesses in the Causasus: including a Seven Months' Residence in Shamil's Seraglio, 1st English ed., 1857, eng. port. frontis., single-page plan, folding b & w map, contemp. half maroon morocco gilt, very slightly rubbed (generally a good copy), 8vo (1)
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Gillespie (Major Alexander). Gleanings and Remarks: Collected during many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and within the Upper Country; with a Prefatory Account of the Expedition from England, until the Surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, under the joint Command of Sir D. Baird, and Sir Home Popham, 1st ed., Leeds, 1818, double-page eng. map of South Africa and a double-page eng. chart of Rio de la Plata, untrimmed, orig. boards, skilfully rebacked preserving orig. printed label, with modern cloth slipcase, 8vo (1)
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Golden Cockerel Press. A Compendium of the East. Being an Account of the Voyages to the Grand Indies made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland. Now Published for the first time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English Translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Ashley Gibson, 1937, six double-page plates, map endpapers, orig. linen-backed silk boards, small folio. Limited edition 282/300, signed by the Editor. (1)
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Greig (E.H.). A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe islands in the summer of 1854, pub. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, wood eng. vignette to title, ten tinted litho plts. & one tinted litho vignette, (one plt. folding and several heightened with watercolour), one single-page eng. map, some scattered spotting, a.e.g., blue moirâ silk endpapers, late 19th c. red morocco with elaborate gilt dec. to spine & boards, slightly rubbed to upper joint, tall 8vo (1)
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Hakluyt (Richard). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or Over-Land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth..., 3 vols. in 2, 1st ed., 1598-1600, black letter text, woodcut initials, Cadiz section to volume one (pages 607-20) present in reprinted form of c.1720, without map (as usual), some light waterstaining, fore-edges charred and darkened, upper corners rounded-off, sometimes touching page nos. and running titles, modern full red morocco (by Edmund Worrall, Birmingham), profusely gilt, thick folio. Sabin 29595, 29597 & 29598. From the Library of Hagley Hall, with bookplate to front pastedown of first volume. (2)
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Hall (Captain Basil). Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828, 3 vols., 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1829, folding hand-col. map (with closed tear and repaired to verso), folding table, single-page woodcut plan of the Mississippi, recent amateur half leather, black sheep title labels to spines, 8vo in 12's. Sabin 29725. (3)
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Landor (A. Henry Savage). In the Forbidden Land, An Account of a Journey in Tibet Capture by the Tibetan Authorities Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release, new ed., 1899, frontis. and b & w illusts., folding map at rear, orig. pict. cloth, 8vo, together with Lock (Charles G. Warnford), The Home of the Eddas, 1879, folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, with Murray (Hugh), The Travels of Marco Polo, Greatly Amended and Enlarged..., Edinburgh, 1844,folding map frontis. (soiled & lined to verso), addn. eng. title, folding eng. map, later cloth, small 8vo, plus two others (5)
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Loskiel (George Henry). History of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Indians in North America. In three parts...., Translated from the German by Christian Ignatius la Trobe, 1794, lacks map, ink name stamps to upper margin of title, slight spotting and browning mainly to initial leaves, recent qtr. calf gilt, 8vo. First English translation of Loskiel's account of missionary activities between 1735 & 1787 among Native American tribes living to the west of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Sabin Sabin 42110. (1)
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Moll (Herman). A System of Geography: or, A New & Accurate Description of the Earth in all its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography, and Maps of Every Country..., 1st ed., 1701, lacks eng. frontis., title printed in red and black, forty-two eng. maps to text, (inc. 10 maps of the Americas), eng. plan of Strasburg to text and two planetary engs. to text, approx. 100 leaves at rear with minor worming to lower margins, some light damp staining, modern purple morocco, folio. Both the double hemisphere map and the map of California, New Mexico, etc., show California as an island. Phillips 536. (1)
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Monath (Peter Conrad, pub.). Sieben und dreysig K-pffer-Tabellen Sehens-und Merckwurdiger Sachen in des Heil. Rom. Reichs Stadt N?rnberg, n.d., c.1770, printed title and contents leaf, thirty-six copper eng. plts. containing 103 engs. in all incl. thirty seven views of Nuremberg, num. small costume plts., etc., lacking the double-hemisphere world map by Martin Behaim only, some marks and soiling, mostly to margins, one or two minor tears (without loss), recased with vellum spine and corners, remains of orig. boards laid down, slim folio. Not traced. Sold not subject to return. (1)
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Park (Mungo). Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, performed in the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797, with an Account of a Subsequent Mission to that Country in 1805, 2 vols., new ed., John Murray, 1817-16, half-titles to each, lge. folding eng. map hand-col. in outline, contemp. gilt dec. calf, some wear, spine labels lacking, upper cover of second vol. detached, 8vo, together with Livingstone (David and Charles), Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, 1st ed., John Murray, 1865, b&w folding wood-eng. frontis., wood-eng. plts. and illusts., lacking map at rear, contemp. half calf gilt with morocco label to spine, rubbed, thick 8vo (3)
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Perrot (Aristide Michel). Atlas Gânâral de France, new ed., pub. Paris, n.d., c.1840?, folding map of France and 86 eng. maps hand-col. at border, approx. 30 of these maps with markings and underlinings in an amateur hand, bound without a title page or other publishing information, contemp. morocco-backed boards marked "Atlas de France" in gilt on spine, rubbed, 12mo (1)
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Polack (J.S.). New Zealand: Being a Narrative of Travels and Adventures During a Residence in that Country Between the Years 1831 and 1837, 2 vols., 1838, folding eng. map and six eng. plts. (inc. frontis. to each vol.), few wood eng. illusts., orig. qtr. cloth with printed paper title labels to spines, board edges slightly rubbed and spines a little faded, 8vo (2)
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Saussure (Horace-Benedict de). Voyages dans les Alpes, Precedes d'un Essai su L'Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Geneve. 4 vols., Neuchatel, 1779-96, half-titles present, eng. view to title-page of each vol., folding eng. map, twenty-one eng. plts. (19 folding) and two folding tables, a.e.g., contemp. marbled calf, gilt dec. spines, joints and spines worn, 4to. Brunet V, 150; Graesse VI, 277. (4)
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Shackleton (Sir Ernest). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917, 1st ed., 1919, col. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, errata slip present before p.1, some browning of the text block (as often), orig. dark blue cloth, lettered and blocked in silver, in bright condition, 8vo. An excellent copy. (1)
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Sparrman (Anders). A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World: but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776, by Andrew Sparrman..., Translated from the Swedish Original, 2 vols., 2nd ed. corrected, 1786, eng. frontis., nine eng. plts. (few with closed tears to fore-edge margin and repaired to verso), folding map provided in facsimile, additional facsimile map and photo port. tipped into vol1, occ. spotting and few marks, contemp. tree calf, neatly rebacked with red morocco title labels to spines, 4to (2)
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Speed (John). The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain with The Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, 1976, Facsimile edition, pub. Jonathan Potter & Drayton Manor Publishing, 1991, b&w double-page map illusts. etc, t.e.g., orig. pubs. half maroon morocco gilt, contained in orig. matching drop-over bookbox, large folio. Limited edition 43/600. (1)
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Stafford (Lt.-Col. R.S.). The Tragedy of the Assyrians, 1st ed., Allen & Unwin, 1935, two folding charts, light spotting to edges, orig. cloth gilt, sunned at spine, 8vo, together with Forster (E.M.), Alexandria: a History and a Guide, 2nd ed., Alexandria, 1938, maps and charts incl. folding map at rear, orig. boards, rubbed and sl. marked, 8vo, and Watteville (H. de), Campaigns and Their Lessons, Waziristan, 1919-1920, pub. Constable, 1925, b&w plts. from photos., folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo (3)
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Vigne (G.T.). Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo. The Countries adjoining the Mountain-Course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North of the Panjab, 1st ed., 1842, litho., ports. and views, sketch map., large folding map in pocket to vol. 1 (with several sm. holes to folds), some light foxing, original blind stamped cloth, both rebacked, retaining orig. spines, (rear cover of vol. 1 replaced), 8vo,.
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Willis (Nathaniel Parker & Bartlett, William Henry). American Scenery; Or, Land, Lake and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature, 2 vols., n.d., c.1840's, vign. title to each, single-page eng. map, 117 steel eng. views, all correct as list, some minor spotting of prelims., contemp. red half morocco gilt, 4to (2)
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Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter). Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun, A Record of Pioneer-Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya, 1st ed., 1909, ex-lib. copy with some ink stamps, half-title, col. frontis., numerous b&w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, ad. leaf at end, new endpapers, orig. pict. cloth gilt, rebacked with orig. spine laid-down, 8vo. Neate W125. (1)
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Zschokke (Henry). The History of the Invasion of Switzerland by the French, and the Destruction of the Democratic Republics of Schwitz, Uri and Unterwalden, transl. by J.B. Briatte, with a Preface and Supplement by the Translator, 1803, eng. map frontis., recent half calf gilt with label to spine, 8vo (1)
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Bird (Isabella L.). Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels in the Interior, including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1880, fldg. map, wood-engr. frontispieces and text illusts., 32-page publisher's catalogue at end of Vol.2, orig. green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, a trifle rubbed at extremities, 8vo. (2)
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Bowring (Sir John). The Kingdom and People of Siam; with a Narrative of the Mission to that Country in 1855, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1857, chromo port. frontis. to vol. 1 & litho port. frontis. to vol. 2, folding eng. map, three folding facsimile documents, six chromo plts., one tinted litho and six eng plts., (correct as list), occ. scattered spotting, library ink stamp to verso of frontis. in vol. 1 & to half-title in vol. 2, recent half calf, together with a duplicate of vol. 2, bound in later qtr. morocco, all 8vo (3)
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Clark (Robert Sterling & Sowerby, Arthur de C.). Through Shen-Kan. The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9, 1st ed., 1912, sketch map frontis., six mounted col. plts., fifty-eight b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear (slightly spotted), orig. cloth, lettered in black, a little rubbed, 4to (1)
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Hakluyt Society. Cathay and the Way Thither, being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, transl. and ed. by Sir Henry Yule, new ed., revised throughout in the light of recent discoveries by Henri Cordier, 4 vols., 1915-16, port. frontis., large folding map, illusts., library markings to front pastedowns, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, spines faded, 8vo (4)
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Heco (Joseph). The Narrative of a Japanese; What he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years. Edited by James Murdoch, 2 vols., American-Japanese Publishing Association, San Francisco, [c.1950], plts., orig. cloth, gilt, a trifle rubbed, together with Satoh (Henry) Lord Hotta, The Pioneer Diplomat of Japan, 2nd ed., Tokio, 1908, orig. green cloth, gilt, a bright copy, plus Mutsu (Iso) Kamakura: Fact & Legend, 3rd and rev. ed., Tokyo, [c.1960], fldg. map, one col. and many other plts from photographs, orig. blue cloth, gilt, plus Stead (Alfred, editor), Japan by the Japanese; A Survey by its Highest Authorities, 1904, orig. red cloth, gilt, slightly soiled, plus De Benneville (James S.), Tales of the Tokugawa. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari. Re-told from the Japanese Originals, Philadelphia, 1917, col. frontis, fldg. map (torn at fold), orig. cream cloth, soiled, all 8vo. (6)
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Jagatjit Singh (H. H. the Raja-i-Rajgan, of Kapurthala). My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1903, pub. Hutchinson, 1905, photogravure frontis, fifty-six illusts., fldg. map, orig. cloth, slightly soiled and rubbed, together with Zabriskie (George A.), Perry's Expedition to Japan 1853-54, pub. Ormond Beach, Florida, 1951, limited to 750 copies, illusts., orig. cloth, d.j., plus Maclay (Edgar Stanton), A History of the United States Navy from 1775 to 1898, 2 vols., new ed., New York, 1898, plts., text illusts., half-morocco, a little rubbed, plus Seward (William H.), Travels around the World. Edited by Olive Risley Seward, New York, 1873, portrait, fldg.map, full-page and smaller wood-engrs., half-morocco, slightly rubbed, and one other, all 8vo. (6)
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Johnson (J, Surgeon in the R.N.). The Oriental Voyager; or, Descriptive Sketches and Cursory Remarks, on a Voyage to India and China, in His Majesty's Ship Caroline, Performed in the Years 1803-4-5-6. Interspersed with Extracts from the Best Modern Voyages and Travels..., 1st ed., 1807, large folding eng. map with closed tear & repaired to verso, folding table at rear, some spotting throughout, contemp. half calf gilt, slight wear at head & foot of spine and also to upper joint, 8vo (1)
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M'Leod (John, Surgeon). Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste to China, Corea, and the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of Her Shipwreck, 3rd ed., 1819, without half-title, b&w eng. port. frontis., five hand-col. aquas., folding eng. map, a few minor marks, a.e.g., contemp. full gilt-dec. calf, rubbed and scuffed to joints at head and foot of spine, 8vo (1)
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Reed (Sir Edward J.). Japan: its History, Traditions and Religions. With the Narrative of a Visit in 1879, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1880, fldg. map, sixteen wood-engr. or litho. plts., including reproductions from Japanese artists, wood-engrs. in text, orig. sage-green cloth, blocked in black and gilt, spines slightly sunned, still a bright copy, 8vo..
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Schwartz (Henry B.). In Togo's Country. Some Studies in Satsuma and other Little Known Parts of Japan, pub. Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham, 1908, plts., text illusts., orig. buff cloth,blocked in red and black, fine, together with Diosy (Arthur), The New Far East, 1898, twelve plts. from special designs by Kubota Beisen, one other plt., map, orig. black cloth, blocked in gilt, plus Baxter (Katherine Schuyler), In Beautiful Japan. A Story of Bamboo Lands, pub. New York, Hobart Co., 1904, num. plts. and text illusts., orig. blue cloth, blocked in red and black, slightly rubbed, plus Bowen (Aylwin), In New Japan, 1932, map, twelve plts. from drawings by Harold E. Woodcock, orig. green cloth, d.j., and five others, 8vo and royal 8vo. (9)
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Smith (Rev. George). A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, 1st ed., 1847, double-page map, twelve litho. plts., four of them being tinted views, orig. maroon cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, spine sunned, 8vo. (1)
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Staunton (George Leonard). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 3 vols., Abridged Edition, G. Nicol, 1797, folding eng. map frontis. to vol. 1, two eng. folding maps and one folding table, occ. spotting, contemp. marbled calf, gilt dec. spines, lacking two title labels, minor wear to spines, 8vo (3)
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Wrong (George M.), The Earl of Elgin, 1st ed., 1905, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., folding map, 40pp. pubs. cat. bound in at rear, orig. cloth gilt, darkened on spine, together with Griffis (William Elliot), A Maker of the New Orient, Samuel Robbins Brown, Pioneer, Educator in China, America, and Japan, pub. 1902, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., orig. dec. cloth, a little faded on spine, plus Kuwada (Gonpei), Biography of Benjamin Smith Lyman, Tokyo, 1937, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., with separately printed Supplement loosely inserted, orig. cloth gilt, paper label to spine, all 8vo, and other misc. books of Japanese interest (3 shelves)
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Bagshaw (Samuel). History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire ..., Sheffield, 1851, without col. map, some browning and damp staining throughout, orig. cloth, worn and crudely repaired, 8vo, together with Bulkeley-Owen (Hon. Mrs.), History of a Selattyn Parish, pub. Oswestry, n.d., c. 1900, some spotting, upper hinge cracked and crudely repaired, partly uncut, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to, plus Rhys (John, ed.), Tours in Wales, by Thomas Pennant, 3 vols., Caernarvon, 1883, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus other Welsh and Welsh borders interest (12)
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Cary (John). Cary's Traveller's Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, showing the immediate route to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom, 1791, eng. title, advertisement and contents leaf, map of England and Wales, 42 full page eng. County maps printed back to back, folding map of Yorkshire torn across two sections, some contemp. annotations and markings, including the adding of further details to some maps, contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spine, rubbed, 8vo (1)
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Cooke (George Alexander). Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Salop. Containing an Account of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads, Rivers..., to which is Prefixed a Copious Travelling Guide..., [1805], folding hand-col. eng. map, four eng. views on 2 plts. (slightly spotted), modern qtr. calf gilt, 12mo, together with Pinnock's County Histories, The History and Topography of Shropshire; with Biographical Sketches..., printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, [1822],72pp., folding eng. map, wood eng. vignette to title page, modern qtr. cloth, 12mo, with Boscobel, Or, the History of His Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester, 3. Sept. 1651..., Reprinted and Sold by F. Houlston and Son, Wellington, Salop., 1822, eng. port. frontis., one folding plt., edges rough trimmed, orig. boards, spine repaired, 12mo, White (William), History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire..., 2nd ed., 1851,lacks map, ads. at rear, modern buckram gilt, thick 12mo, plus one other (5)
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Cromwell (Thomas Kitson). Excursions in the County of Sussex: comprising brief historical and topographical delineations..., 1822, eng. frontis. and ten eng. plts. only (of 50), lacks county map, few pages a little loose, orig. qtr. cloth, 12mo, together with Bradshaw (George, publisher), Guide des Etrangers a Londres et ses Environs par Bradshaw, [1851],two folding eng. maps (one slightly browned & a little torn to upper margin), eighteen chromo. litho plts. and sixteen eng. views, one additional wood eng. illust. tipped-in, some browning, contemp. dark green qtr. morocco, gilt dec. spine, slightly rubbed to extrems., square 8vo (2)
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Domesday Book Studies. The Shropshire Domesday, 3 vols., pub. Alecto Historical Editions, 2 vols., 1987-90, large folding map, numerous col. and b & w illusts., facsimiles, etc., orig. qtr. cloth gilt in slipcase, folio, (limited edition 108/1000), together with Blakeway (Rev. John Brickdale), The Sheriffs of Shropshire, with their Armorial Bearings; and Notices, Genealogical and Biographical, of Their Families, Shrewsbury, 1831,orig. cloth, spine faded, folio, with Hughes (William), The Sheriffs of Shropshire, 1831 to 1886, with their Armorial Bearings; and Notices, Genealogical and Biographical, of Their Families: being a Continuation of the Reverand John Brickdale Blakeway's Work, (2 copies), Shrewsbury, 1886, orig. qtr. cloth, slim folio (4)
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Hemmingway (Joseph). Panorama of the City of Chester; containing ... a Visit to Eaton Hall, and a Notice of the Market Towns in the County; intended as a Pocket Directory ... Chester, 1836, two uncol. litho. plts., two eng. plts., pp.209-214 creased and torn, without loss, orig. cloth, printed label to upper cover, small 8vo, together with Hughes (Thomas), The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and its Environs, pub. Chester, 1856, steel eng. vigns., illusts. to text, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus Sulley (Philip), The Hundred of Wirral, pub. Birkenhead, 1889, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, darkened on spine and rubbed, square 4to, and other various topography, mostly Lancashire and area (37)
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Hutton (William). An History of Birmingham, 3rd ed., Birmingham, 1795, folding eng. map frontis., folding eng. plan, fourteen eng. plts., fore-edge margin of leaf M4 torn affecting a few letters, near contemp. half sheep, joints worn, together with An History of Birmingham, to the End of the Year 1780, 1st ed., Birmingham, 1781, folding eng. frontis. (lower margin excised affecting title, closed tear to image & repaired to verso), folding eng. plan and nine eng. plts. (inc. 1 folding), leaf Q torn and repaired, recent qtr. calf gilt, with A Journey from Birmingham to London, pub. Birmingham, 1785, eng. frontis., edges untrimmed, recent qtr. calf gilt, all 8vo (3)
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Hutton (W.). Remarks Upon North Wales, Being the Result of Sixteen Tours Through that Part of the Principality, pub. Birmingham, 1803, eng. frontis., three folding panoramic plans, each lined to verso, one plan torn with loss, edges untrimmed, modern buckram gilt, together with A Trip to Coatham, A Watering Place in the North Extremity of Yorkshire, 1810, eng. port. frontis., one eng. folding map (torn without loss), few minor marks & light staining, edges untrimmed, orig. boards with recent calf spine, with A Tour to Scarborough in 1803; Including a Particular Survey of the City of York, 2nd ed., 1817,eng. frontis. with offsetting to title, some spotting, recent qtr. calf, all 8vo (3)
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Pennant (Thomas). Some Account of London, 4th ed., with considerable additions, 1805, eng. and printed titles, folding b&w map of Old London, 109 b&w copper-eng. plts., incl. one or two folding, occn. minor marginal foxing, eng. bookplate of Thomas Munro to front pastedown, contemp. blind and gilt-panelled full calf, rubbed, recased with orig. spine laid down (upper joint some wear), 4to (1)
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