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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS CHIEFLY RELATING TO THE HISTORY, ART, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF INDIA AND THE FAR EAST,
Followed by a small collection of Oriental miniatures, Drawings, Paintings, and some Arabic, persian, and Siamese MSS. (No.462).
London: Bernard Quaritch. Bookseller’s catalogue, 8vo., pp.119,(ix)adverts, brown printed wrappers, 22 single-page b/w plates plus one folding plate; surface soil to wrappers, rear wrapper with series of light creases to upper corner (last 3 plates have single crease to upper corners), small closed tear to fore-margin of 2 leaves of plates (not affecting printed area), otherwise very good.
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A GUIDE TO THE ROWNTREE AND MACKINTOSH COMPANY ARCHIVES 1862-1969.
Borthwick Texts and Calendars 22.
York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 1862. Large 8vo., pp.xiv,239, paperback; light shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean, a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF BREDENBURY AND ITS LANDED ESTATE.
Bromyard: Bromyard & District Local History Society, 1997. 8vo., pp.viii,197, paperback, b/w illustrations; very good+.
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A HISTORY OF THE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF YORK.
City of York Gild of Freemen, 1955. 8vo., pp.48, stapled wrappers, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ARCHITECTURE. Three Volumes.
Voume I: The Pioneers. Volume II: A Mature Art. Volume III: Bell and Beyond.
North Eastern Railway Association, 2001. Three volumes, the set, 4to.,pp. 184; 200; 256, pictorial hardcovers, b/w and colour illstrations, b/w figures, pictorial endpapers; sunned to spines, lettering visible, a very good, internally clean set. No dust-jackets.
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A SKILFUL MASTER BUILDER.
The Continuing Story of a Yorkshire Family Business, Craftsmen for Seven Generations.
York: William Anelay Limited, 1975. 8vo., pp.viii,72, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES, FORMERLY SITUATED ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE RIVER WITHAM:
Being the Substance of Certain Papers Read Before the Lincoln Topographical Society, in the Year 1842.
London: R. Spencer/Uppingham: C.W. Oliver. Small 8vo., pp.xviii,187,(iv)adverts, decoratively blindstamped red cloth, gilt; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light toning with occasional light foxing throughout, wear to cloth at head and tailbands (2mm loss at tailband, apx.5mms at headband), further small spots of wear to cloth at extremities, else very good.
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AN ACCURATE MAP OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. (Folded linen-backed map in marbled slipcase).
Divided into its Hundreds, and laid down from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved Modern Maps, with various Improvements. Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to its Natural Produce, Trade, Manufactures, and present state of its Principal Towns.
London, Robrt Sayer. 8vo.,pp. 16 linen-backed sections of map, folded to fit inside a marbled card pocket, printed label to front cover, overall toning and light foxing, staining to linen backing, pocket rubbed, a good+ copy.
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AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE EMBASSY OF THE DUTCH EAST-INDIA COMPANY, TO THE COURT OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, IN THE YEARS 1794 AND 1795;
(Subsequent to that of the Earl of Macartney.) Containing a Description of Several Parts of the Chinese Empire, Unknown to Europeans; Taken from the Journal of Andre Everard Van Braam, Many Years Chief of the Direction of that Company, and Second in the Embassy. Translated from the original of M.L.E. Moreau De Saint-Mery. With a Correct Chart of the Route.
London: R. Phillips, 1798. Volume II (of two) only, 8vo., pp.(iv),324, later textured claret cloth, gilt, speckled edges; foxing to title, a little foxing throughout, a few leaves with heavier foxing and small production fault (crease to upper corner) spine lightly sunned, with rubbing to extremities and some marking to boards, a good copy.
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AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT AND DELINEATION OF ABERDEEN.
Embellished with Beautiful Engravings of the Principles Bridges, Public Buildings, and Sacred Edifices in and about the City.
Aberdeen: James Johnston, 1822. Small 8vo., pp.xii,226,(i), patterned paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 17 further b/w plates; foxing to prelims, small closed tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper, wear to paper covering at extremities, including loss of approx. 3 x 1cm near foot of spine, else very good.
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AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO SCARBOROUGH AND ITS ENVIRONS.
York: James Schofield. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,192, black calf backed blue boards, extremities rubbed, amateur leather strip repair to front inner-hinge, toning and light occasional foxing throughout, a good, sound copy.
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AN HISTORICAL CURIOSITY: ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE WAYS OF SPELLING BIRMINGHAM.
London/Sheffield: J. Ward. 8vo., pp.22, printed blue paper wrappers; light surface soil and some staining to wrappers, internally clean, a good copy.
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AN OTTOMAN TRAVELLER.
Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi.
London: Eland, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxxviii,482, red hardcover, gilt, 6pp. colour plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ARGYLL, An Inventory of the Monuments, Volume Four: IONA.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 4to., pp.xvi,296, blue cloth, gilt, 4 folding plates to rear of volume, numerous b/w illustrations throughout; very good+, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has closed tear (and small crease) to foot of rear flap-fold, small closed tear to head of rear flap-fold, and light sunning to spine, else very good and now in protective cover.
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ARMENIA: Travels and Studies. Two volumes.
Volume One: THE RUSSIAN PROVINCES. Volume Two: THE TURKISH PROVINCES.
New York: Armenian Prelacy, 1990. Two volumes, the set, 8vo.,pp. xv,470; xi,512, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispieces, loose fold-out map to rear of volume one; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which are very lightly sunned to spines.
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BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW.
The Life and Times of George Butterworth.
Great Malvern: Cappella Archive, 2012. Second impression, 8vo., pp.ix,244, cream cloth with spine stamped in green, lettered in green to front board, frontispiece portrait, b/w illustrations; near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BEHIND THE WALL:
A Journey Through China.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. 8vo., pp.xix,352, quarter red cloth lettered in cream, pictorial boards, colour frontispiece and plates, b/w map; a fine copy, in thin card pictorial slipcase, which is lightly creased/bumped to extremities.
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BLESSED CITY:
The Life and Works of Edward C. Bairstow, 1874-1946.
York: William Sessions. 8vo., pp.xi,336, pictorial hardcover, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; author’s autograph to title, a very good, clean copy, in plain home-made dust-jacket (issued without dust-jacket).
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CEDARS, SAINTS AND SINNERS IN SYRIA.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1926. First edition, 8vo., pp.291, blue cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, 74 further b/w illustrations; closed tear to upper inner corner of p.143(/144), foxing to edges and endpapers, small (1cm) split to cloth at head of spine, slight marking to cloth, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT.
Notes and views in Egypt and Nubia, made during the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28: Chiefly consisting of a series of descriptions and delineations of the monuments, scenery, &c. of those countries; The views, with few exceptions, made with the camera-lucida.
The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxxii,588, backed in maroon cloth, gilt, pictorial boards, 160 monochrome plates (including folding plates); slight tone to edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, with two small nicks and creasing to front lower edge, else very good.
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