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VOYAGES & TRAVELS. An entertaining account of all the countries of the Known world. Defcribing the different religions, habits. Tempers, customs, traffick, and manufactures. Of their inhabitants; the remarkable curiofities, amongft them, either of art, or nature; the great variety of ftrange land and sea-animals; extraordinary plants, minerals, etc. Adorn’d, occafionally, with cuts of the habits of the feveral people, uncommon animals, ceremonies, buildings, etc. all curioufly engraved.
London: R. Goadby, 1753. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp. 490, 18, reverse calf, mimic panelled calf boards, five raised bands, leather title inlay to spine, 13 of 14 b/w plates, contains: ‘A Voyage to Virginia in 1649’; several ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, foxing and light soil throughout, marginal damage to several plates, previous owner’s repairs to first plate, a large tear has been sewn up with white thread, gutter visible between some leaves, lacks pages 301-4, wear to boards, a good copy of this scarce volume.
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VOYAGING OUT. British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2019. 8vo., pp.304, grey hardcover, colour and b/w plates; new, in dust-jacket.
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W.H. AUDEN: THE MAP OF ALL MY YOUTH.
Early Works, Friends and Influences. Auden Studies 1.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,245, navy hardcover, gilt; slight spotting to top edge, very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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W.S.W. A VOYAGE IN THAT DIRECTION TO THE WEST INDIES.
London: Kerby and Son. 8vo., pp.v,135, brown cloth, gilt, 14 monochromatic plates including frontispiece; foxing to prelims, front inner hinge cracked, cloth split along upper joint, board still holding, contents slightly shaken with one section re-inserted and another with stitching loose and so slightly proud, otherwise a good copy.
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WALLPAPERS BY EDWARD BAWDEN PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS.
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WANDERINGS IN SPAIN.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.xxi,274,(2)adverts, uncut, cloth, gilt, wood engraved illustrations; foxing to free endpapers, light wear to head and tail bands, with chip to cloth at head of upper joint, light rubbing to cloth, o/w very good.
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WAR BOOKS. A Critical Guide.
London: Peter Davies, Limited, 1930. 8vo., pp.xiv,318, red cloth lettered in black; partial sunning to cloth (mottled sunning to spine, rear board, and - slightly - to front upper and fore-margins), else very good. No dust-jacket.
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WARNINGS AND CONSOLATIONS SPOKEN IN ST. BARNABUS CHURCH, PIMLICO.
London: J. and C. Mozley. First edition, small 8vo., pp.x,308, uncut, recased preserving original cloth, new endpapers, green cloth, gilt; light wear to original cloth at extremities, light rubbing to boards, a few light marks to cloth, internally clean, very good.
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WARP AND WEFT.
A Textile Terminology. Adapted and expanded from the Vocabulary of Technical Terms, 1964, with permission of the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. 4to., pp.xiv,216, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, with diagrams by the author; ex libris Penelope Walton-Rogers, with her bookplate to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, sunning at head and foot of spine, light partial sunning to boards, else a very good copy, in unclipped but chipped and edgeworn dust-jacket, with loss to head of spine.
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WARS OF THE ROSES The People, Places and Battlefields of the Yorkists and Lancastrians.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2023. 8vo., pp. 242, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; new, in dust-jacket.
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WATER TECHNOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Baltimore/London: John Hopkins University Press, 2001. 8vo., pp.xiv,238, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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WATSON'S ADVANCED TEXTILE DESIGN.
Compound Woven Structures.
London: Newnes-Butterworths, 1977. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),435, red cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; ex library, with stamps and stickers to prelims, else clean and very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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WEARING THE CLOAK.
Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times.
Oxford: Oxbow, 2012. Small 4to., pp.vii,144, pictorial glazed boards, colour and b/w illustrations; slight shelfwear, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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WEIBLICHE ELITEN IN DER FRUHGESCHICHTE: Female Elites in Photohistoric Europe.
Internationale Tagung vom 13. bis zum 14. Juni 2008 im RGZM im Rahmen Forschungsschwerpunktes.
Mainz: Verlag des Romisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2011. 4to.,pp. vi,410, pictorial wrappers, b/w figures; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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WEIHNACHT. Vierzehn Farbige Original Steinzeichnungen.
Wien: Burgverlag/Richter & Zollner, 1922. 4to., unpaginated, cloth-backed patterned pictorial boards, 14 lithographic colour plates, each preceded by a text-leaf, pictorial endpapers; gutter slightly visible between leaves, occasional slight creasing to upper corners, light wear to extremities, including small tears to cloth at head and foot of spine, and wear to paper along edges, a very good copy of this scarce Christmas volume, which is illustrated with artwork by the Youth Art Class at the Austrian School of Arts and Crafts at the Ostreiche Museum in Vienna.
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WENTWORTH CASTLE AND GEORGIAN POLITICAL GARDENING.
The Wentworth Castle Heritage Trust, 2012. 4to., pp.ix,198, paperback, colour plates; a fine copy.
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WEST KIRBY & HILBRE. A Parochial History.
Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, Ltd, 1928. First edition (scarce), 8vo., pp. xv,395, green hardcover, gilt, uncut, b/w frontispiece, many b/w illustrations; ownership signature to front free endpaper, occasional spots of foxing throughout text, rubbing to boards, a few small marks and a scratch to rear board, spine lightly sunned, gilt somewhat faded, overall a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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WESTERN MEDICAL THOUGHT FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES.
Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.vi,478, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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WESTERN TRAVELLERS TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
The West and Byzantium, 962-1204: Cultural and Political Relations. (The Medieval Mediterranean: People, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, Volume Ten).
Leiden: E.J. Brill. 8vo., pp.xiv,396, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and plates, 3 b/w maps; a fine copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ITS ESTATES IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1977. 8vo,.pp. xi,499, navy cloth, gilt, b/w tables; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaer, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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