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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, decorative 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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KING COBRA
An Autobiography of Travel in French Indo-China
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927. First edition, 8vo., pp. 330, black hardcover, silver lettering, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations, fold out colour map to rear; toning to prelims, light yellowing throughout, boards rubbed, else a very good copy
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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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LI HUNG CHANG'S SCRAP-BOOK.
London: Watts and Co, 1913. First edition, red cloth, b/w frontispiece portrait of Li Hung Chang, with caption sheet, 42 further illustrations; endpapers toned, light rubbing to extremities, gilt dulled, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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LINEAR PARISHES AND FARM STRUCTURES IN THE VALE OF PICKERING.
Author’s presentation copy. Reprinted from GEOGRAPHY Vol. lvii, Part 2, April 1972. 8vo., pp.105-119, paperback, stapled wrappers, b/w illustrations; authors presentation inscription to front wrapper verso, lightly yellowed, with a few spots to wrappers, else a very 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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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 HANDBOOK TO THE MEDITERRANEAN: Its Cities, Coasts, and Islands. For the use of General Travellers and Yachtsmen. [two parts in one volume] [Second edition]
London: John Murray, 1882. Small 8vo., pp.xliv, 544, 73 (publisher’s adverts), dark red cloth, gilt, 10 folding maps, partially coloured; contemporary ink ownership inscription and small bookplate to front endpapers, light chipping to fore-edge of front free endpaper, lightly toned throughout, foxing to edges of text block, soil to top edge, very occasional spots of foxing throughout, all maps complete with occasional tears and chipping, rubbing to boards, wear to spine, particularly at head and tail, a good copy of this scarce volume.
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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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NARRATIVE OF A PEDESTRIAN JOURNEY THROUGH RUSSIA AND SIBERIAN TARTARY, FROM THE FRONTIERS OF CHINA TO THE FROZEN SEA AND KAMTCHATKA. Third Edition.
London: Charles Knight, 1825. Third edition, two volumes bound as one, 8vo., pp.xxvii,428,iv,336, half dark brown calf with contrasting green label, marbled boards and endpapers, hand-coloured frontispieces, 2 b/w plates, 3 folding maps (‘Map of the Country between St. Petersburg and the Behring’s Strait, showing the route performed by J. Cochrane’; ‘Map of the Eastern Part of Siberia and the Peninsula of Kamtchatka, compiled from the latest authorities’, and ‘Chart Showing the Route of Major Paulutzki around and through the Country of Tchuktchi’ (preceding Appendix)., and 5 line drawings; foxing to maps, generally bright within, light cracking along higes, a very good copy. INCOMPLETE. MISSING Q TO VOLII (pp.225-40 - section on Kazan)
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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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OLD ROADS AND PANNIERWAYS IN NORTH EAST YORKSHIRE.
Helmsley: North York Moors National Park, 1988. 4to., pp.81, paperback, b/w illustrations, double-page map; signature to inside front cover, ink markings to appendix and rear end paper, lightly water damaged, lightly rubbed to extremities, slightly soiled, a good + copy.
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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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RAWSON, Peter F. and WRIGHT, John K. Geologist’ Association Guide No. 34.
The Geologists Association, 2018. 8vo., pp.vi,178, paperback, ring bound, colour illustrations; very good indeed.
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REPORT ON THE PREVALENCE OF TYPHOID FEVER IN YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1884.
York: Ben Johnson and Company, 1884. 4to., pp.48, printed wrappers, large folding map; wrappers are delicate, with wear to the extremities and partial loss to the spine, a little foxing to prelims, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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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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