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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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LONDON UND UMGEBUNGEN NEBST REISERROUTEN VON CONTINENT NACH ENGLAND.
Handbuch fur Reisende. Mit 4 Karten und 20 Planen. Neunte Auflage.
Leipzig: Verlag von Karl Baedeker, 1887. Ninth edition, pocket 8vo., pp.viii,332, red cloth, gilt, marbled edges, folding frontispiece Railway map of England and Wales, folding map of London loose, further maps and plans; small ownership inscription (dated 1910) to front free endpaper, closed tear to frontispiece, small chips to edges of frontispiece and loose map, light wear to extremities (especially at headband), light roll to spine, internally fresh, a good+ copy.
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LORDS OF THE ATLAS: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956.
London: Longmans, 1966. First edition, 318, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, pictorial endpapers; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with light surface soiling.
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LOVE-LETTERS OF A JAPANESE.
London: Stanley Paul and Co, 1911. 8vo., pp.(x),347,(2), uncut, pictorial ochre cloth, two ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, foxing to edges and fore-margins, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MAP COLLECTORS’ CIRCLE. No.44: THE PRINTED MAPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1773-1873. Map Collectors’ Series (Fifth Volume).
London: Map Collectors’ Circle, 1773. Large 8vo., pp.49,xxx(b/w plates), printed wrappers; extended closed tear to front wrapper, some loss to head of spine, upper corners of wrappers creased and lightly worn, internally clean, a good working copy.
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MINEHEAD IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. A History of the Parish, the Manor, and the Port.
Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, 1903. Limited edition, no.232 of 250 copies, 8vo., pp.xiv,468, uncut, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, folding map, b/w illustrations and plates; p.309/10 torn across (without loss), a little roughly cut, tobacco odour, rubbing/light wear to extremities, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MOGG'S NEW MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES, WITH PART OF SCOTLAND On which are Carefully Delineated the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, Railways, Rivers, Navigable Canals, Cities, Market and Borough Towns, and Principal Villages, Seats of the Nobility, Gentry, &c.; The Whole Compiled from the Most Recent Surveys and Topographical Works of Latest and Best Authority.
London: Edward Mogg, 1841. 48-piece folding linen-backed map, hand-coloured in outline, with railway lines shown in red, cased in marbled wrappers; light marking and finger-marking to margins, some light toning, else in excellent condition, in worn marbled card slipcase, with printed title label to side-panel.
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[MURRAY’S] THE HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPAIN.
Ninth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Part I. Madrid and the Castiles; The Basque Provinces; Leon; Asturias and Galicia. With Index and Directory for 1908. Part II. Estremadura, Andalucia, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre, and the Balearic Islands. With Maps and Plans. With Index and Directory for 1907.
London: John Murray, 1908. Two volumes, pocket 8vo., pp.xi,2,274,39,32 (adverts);vi,2,275-570,39,48 (adverts), red cloth, gilt, folding maps and plans; neat ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso of both volumes, a few annotations (mostly pencilled) to Part I., toning to adverts and to prelims of Part II., and to front endpaper map of Part I, with water-staining to fore-margin of rear board, affecting endpapers and last few leaves within, paper-cracking to front inner hinge of Part I., rubbing and slight wear to extremities, with uniform light sunning to spines, and with marking to front board of first volume, an otherwise clean and overall good+ set.
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NI BRAHMANES NI ANCETRES: Colporteurs musulmans du Nepal.
Nanterre, Societe d’ethnologie. 8vo.,pp.470, paperback, with pictorial dust-jacket, b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to endpaper and ownership inscription to title page, foxing to upper edge, a very good copy.
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NIDDERDALE; OR, AN HISTORICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF THE VALLEY OF THE NIDD, Including Pateley Bridge, Bishopside, Dacre Banks, Hartwith, Brimham Rocks, Stonebeck Down, Ramsgill, Stonebeck Up, Middlesmoor, Fountains Earth, Greenhow Hill, and the Stump Cross Caverns.
Pateley Bridge: Thomas Thorpe/London: T.T. Lemare, 1863. Pocket 8vo., pp.xii,231,(4)Appendix,(viii)adverts, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, a.e.g., decorative spine, 4 lithographs, including frontispiece with tissue guard; ink ownership inscription (dated 1883) to half title, light toning to prelims, light crease to front endpapers, overall very good indeed - a fresh, bright copy.
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North Eastern Railway Branch Lines: NORTH YORKSHIRE & CLEVELAND RAILWAY.
North Eastern Railway Association, 2015. 4to.,pp. 96, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w maps, colour frontispiece; sunned to spine and margins, otherwise very good.
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OSBALDWICK.
The History of a Suburban Village.
York: Osbaldwick History Group, 1980. 8vo., pp.(vi),128,(2), paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership gift inscription to half title, light foxing to top edges, crease to front wrapper, a good+ copy.
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OUTER CIRCLE: BIRMINGHAMS NO.11 BUS ROUTE.
Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2003. 8vo., pp. 160, paperback, many b/w illustrations; a clean very good copy indeed.
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PATERSON’S TWENTY-FOUR MILES ROUND LONDON, WITH REFERENCE TO SEATS OF NOBILITY AND GENTRY.
London: Bowles and Carver. Hand-coloured map in twenty sections, 665 x 665mm, linen-backed, in original marbled slipcase with printed title label to front and advertisement to rear; light soiling to reverse, otherwise near-fine, slipcase worn to extremities, with loss of apx.3cm x 1.5cms to head of RH side-panel, good only. J.Howgego. The Printed Maps of London,
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PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL MEDINAH AND MECCAH. [In Two Volumes].
Longman: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. Second edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xv,418;v,422, uncut, decorative blue cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black, chromolithographic frontispieces and 3 further colour plates with tissue guards, 8 dichromatic plates, drawn by R. Burton and lithographed by Hanhart, one b/w plate, folding map, 2 folding plans and one single-page plan; heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (both volumes), foxing to prelims and edges, light roll to spine of Volume II, rubbing to extremities, with small split to headband of Volume II and to foot of spine of Volume I, a very good set.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE WESTERN ISLES.
Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxvi,294, black hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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RECUEIL DES CARTES, PLANS, VUES ET MEDAILLES, POUR SERVIR AU VOYAGE DE LA TROADE.
Paris: Dentu. 4to., pp.14, contemporary half green calf, marbled paper-covered boards, 37 copper-engraved plates and maps; upper margin of the first plate has been trimmed by the binder, light wear to extremities of boards, rubbing to spine, a very good copy.
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ROMAN WAYS IN THE WEALD.
London: Phoenix House, 1948. 8vo., pp.287, red cloth lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece, b/w maps and plates, including folding map; mildly ex library, with stamps to prelims and closing leaves, partial sunning to cloth, and covered with adhesive plastic, a good copy, which is internally clean and very good.
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SCANDINAVIAN AND RUSS, Or By Way of the Baltic.
Being an Account of the Cruise of the S.S. St. Sunniva to the Northern Capitals, Illustrated with Map and Forty Original Photographs and Thumb-Nail Sketches.
London: Gay and Bird/Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1895. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,93, printed paper wrappers, b/w plates, folding frontispiece Cabin Plan, b/w map; closed tear and creasing to fore-margin of frontispiece, light wear to extremities of wrappers, paper covering of spine lost, a good copy, which is lightly foxed to prelims, else internally clean, though with surface soil to wrappers.
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SCENES IN CHINA. Sketches of the Country, Religion, and Customs of the Chinese.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. 12mo., pp.223,(i)Index, decoratively blindstamped green cloth with pictorial spine in gilt, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 12 further engraved plates; owner’s nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, with handwritten plate pasted down and now partially removed from rear paste-down endpaper, lacks free endpapers, wear to extremities, spine a little rolled, a good copy of this scarce title.
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