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DIRECTORY OF YORK AND NEIGHBOURHOOD
Including All Villages Within Six Miles of York. Containing the Private and Commercial Residents (Alphabetically Arranged), Court Directory, The Trades Classified, Coloured Map of Yorkshire (North and East Ridings). Historical Notes, Local Intelligence, &c.
London: Printed and published by George Stevens, 1885. 8vo., pp.662, rebacked with original spine laid down, brown cloth, gilt, adverts to start and end of volume, double-page map in colour; area of loss to lower inner corner of A2 (advert leaf), foxing to prelims, with toning to front endpapers, rubbing and light wear to extremities, light sunning and vertical crease to spine, a good copy of this scarce title, with original endpaper adverts pasted in.
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DUNDEE AND DUNDONIANS SEVENTY YEARS AGO:
Being Personal Reminiscences of an Old Dundonian.
Dundee: James P. Mathew & Co, 1892. Small 8vo., pp.80, brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, with stamped black border, unlettered spine; light paper-splitting to inner hinges, light rubbing to extremities, internally clean, a very good copy.
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EASTWARD BOUND: TRAVEL AND TRAVELLERS, 1050-1550.
Manchester University Press, 1550. 8vo., pp.xv,270, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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EDWARD LEAR’S INDIAN JOURNAL.
Watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear, 1873-1875.
London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1953. First edition, 8vo.,pp. vi,240, burgundy cloth, gilt, colour and half tone illustrations, b/w figures, colour frontispiece; two ownership autographs to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and to edges of text block, with light toning to margins, boards lightly speckled with some damp stains, otherwise very good, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and chipped along upper margin.
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY YORK: CULTURE, SPACE AND SOCIETY.
Borthwick Text and Calendar 30.
York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 2003. Oblong 4to., pp.x,93, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; very good indeed.
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English Surnames Series I: YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING.
London: Phillimore & Co, 1973. 8vo., pp.xiv,314, hardcover, gilt, b/w maps and a fold-out map; very light spoiling to fore-edge, a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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FEDERATED AUSTRALIA.
Photographs Depicting the Scenery, the Cities, the Industries, and Interesting Phases of Australian Life. Gems of Natural Beauty in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Southern Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania.
London: Charles Taylor. Oblong 4to., pp.17-160, red cloth lettered in black, b/w plates throughout (printed rectos only); title creased with slight chipping to upper edge, gutter visible between pp.17/18, partial cracking to front inner hinge (apx.4cm at foot), slight loss to lower corner of rear paste-down endpaper, 2cm closed tear to lower margin of front free endpaper, light partial sunning, splash-marks, and surface soiling to cloth, a sound copy. [apparently as published because other copies also begin with pagination beginning at 17 following title - no pages removed.] one plate torn withou loss, a good copy
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HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN NORTHERN ITALY.
Comprising, Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona, The Italian Lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, The Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes.
London: John Murray, 1877. Fourteenth edition, 8vo.,pp. xlix,566, red cloth, gilt, b/w fold-out maps, fold-out map to rear pocket; slight cracking to inner hinge where paper endpapers slightly worn, hinge otherwise firm, ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, occasional light foxing to margins, edges of fold-out map to p.526 chipped, lightly rubbed and toned to extremities and spine, small stain to rear board, an unusually nice copy. No dust-jacket.
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BRIDLINGTON.
Bridlington: Printed for the author and sold by G. Furby, 1821. First edition, 8vo., pp.iv,176, green quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, original publishers printed label to spine, black lettering, black ink ownership inscription dated from 1840 on front free endpaper, very minimal foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, light foxing to upper and lower boards, very slight wear to extremities, overall a very pleasing, fresh copy.
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HISTORY OF DUNDEE;
Being an Account of the Origin and Progress of the Burgh from the Earliest Period; Embracing a Description of its Antiquities, Topography, Public Works and Buildings, Manufactures and Commerce, Municipal, Educational, and Charitable Institutions, With Biographical Sketches of Eminent Men. A New and Enlarged Edition.
Dundee: John Durham, 1874. 8vo., pp.xvi,419,xxxiii,8, uncut, recased, preserving the original heraldic brown cloth, gilt, recased, folding frontispiece map; tear to first fold of frontispiece, light foxing to prelims/Index, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, with slight bubbling to cloth over spine, a very good copy.
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HOLIDAY RAMBLES ON THE YORKSHIRE MOORS.
York: E.H. Pickering, High-Ousegate; Hope & Chapman, Castlegate, 1875. Small 8vo., pp.(iv),72, pictorial bevelled blue cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, with decorations in black, unlettered spine; crease to upper corner of p.45, and lower corner of p.54, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to cloth at head and foot of spine, a little light marking to cloth, else very good.
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HULL IN YE OLDEN TIMES: A Lecture on “Hull in Ancient Times”, Together with a series of Letters, To the “Eastern Morning News”, With extracts from the Johnson Manuscripts.
Hull, Eastern Morning News, Company Ltd. 8vo., pp.132, blue paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth; toning to endpages, rubbed and lightly worn to extremities, with small splits to cloth at head and foot of joints, a good copy.
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ILLUSTRATED TORONTO PAST AND PRESENT,
Being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book: Comprising its Architecture, Manufacture, Trade; its Social, Literary, Scientific, and Charitable Institutions; its Churches, Schools, and Colleges; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor and Resident. Together with A Key to the Publisher’s Bird’s-Eye View of the City.
Toronto: Peter A. Gross. 8vo., pp.384, bevelled green cloth, gilt, 60 lithographic plates (including frontispiece) with tissue-guards, marbled edges; lacks spine, front board loose, with front free endpaper absent, bevelled edges of boards heavily rubbed, with wear to corners, internally clean, now in acetate jacket, REBINDING COPY
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SCENERY ON THE LINE OF THE WHITBY AND PICKERING RAILWAY, IN THE NORTH EASTERN PART OF YORKSHIRE.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, And Longman, 1836. First edition, 8vo.,pp. viii,115, red cloth, gilt, b/w plates, b/w frontispiece; heavily foxed to endpapers, with lighter foxing and toning to margins throughout, cracking to inner hinge with webbing visible and some of the webbing coming away, however all contents are still firm, rubbed to extremities, toned to spine, lightly worn to head and foot of spine, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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INSTITUTES OF HINDU LAW;
Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Cullúca: Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil.
London: WM H. Allen & Co. Third edition with preface and index by Standish Grove Grady, 8vo., pp.xx,340, green cloth; owner’s neat pencil inscription to front endpaper, small closed tear to head of spine, two very small soil marks to cloth, one slightly bumped corner, o/w a very good copy.
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INTERESTING AND REMARKABLE PLACES;
With Historical and Topographical Descriptions.
London: John Reynolds. 8vo., pp.viii,296, pictorial textured red cloth, gilt, decoratibe borders in blind, pictorial spine, a.e.g., illustrated with 250 engravings, including b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates; light foxing to margins, wear to extremities, a good+, though attractive, copy, with spine rather bright.
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KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF LINCOLNSHIRE 1889.
London: Kelly and Co, 1889. 4to., pp.xviii,687,56, red cloth, gilt; lacks map, foxing to endpapers/prelims; rubbing and some wear to extremities (including 2cm break to cloth along lower joint), with light marking to rear board and some general surface soil to cloth, a good copy.
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LADY ANNE BLUNT. Journals and Correspondence 1878-1917.
Cheltenham: Alexander Heriot, 1986. First edition, 8vo., pp.526, burnt orange cloth, gilt, monochrome frontispiece, 14 colour plates, folding map to rear of volume; a couple of slight bruises to edges, a very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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LANCASHIRE. [Map]
London: Longman, Rees and Co./J. & C. Walker, 1835. Folding linen-backed map in 8 sections, hand-coloured, with decorative paper-covered boards; foxing to reverse, with light foxing and toning to map, very good.
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LONDON TO THE NORE.
London: A. & C. Black, 1905. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,260, pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, t.e.g., 60 colour plates, including frontispiece, with caption sheets, and 28 b/w head and tail pieces to chapters; ownership bookplate and inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers and edges, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has been reinforced with masking tape to reverse of folds, with small closed tears, chipping and slight loss to extremities, darkening to spine, and evidence of small label removed near foot of spine.
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