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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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KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF THE NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS OF YORKSHIRE (WITH THE CITIES OF YORK AND HULL).
London: Kelly’s Directories Ltd, 1937. Large 8vo.,pp. xviii,934, red cloth covered boards, black and gilt lettering, fold-out maps, b/w advertisement pages to endpapers; cracking to inner hinge with webbing visible, but contents firm, foxing to extremities of fold-out maps, toned and soiled to edges of text block, scuffed and creased to edges of fold-outs than overlap edges of text block, rubbed to extremities, slight water damage to upper edges of rear board, light sunning to spine and lightly soiled to front boards, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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TRAVELS IN THE ISLAND OF CRETE, IN THE YEAR 1817.
London: Shackell and Arrowsmith, 1975. Paperback reprint of the 1823 edition, 8vo.,pp. 118, paperback, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, wrappers coming away from contents to front inner hinge, otherwise firm, toned to margins, overall a very good copy.
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THE PLACE-NAMES OF LINCOLNSHIRE. Part One: The Place-Names of The County of The City of Lincoln. Part Two: The Place Names of Yarborough Wapentake. Part Three: The Wapentake of Walshcroft. Part Four: The Wapentakes of Ludborough and Haverstoe. Part Five: The Wapentake of Bradley. Part Six: The Wapentakes of Manley and Aslacoe. Part Seven: Lawress Wapentake. English Place-Name Society, Volume LVIII; Volume LXIV/LXV; Volume LXVI; Volume LXXI; Volume LXXIII; Volume LXXVII; and The Survey of English Place-Names Volume LXXXV.
English Place-Name Society, 1985. Seven volumes, 8vo., pp.xliii,236;xix,326; xxiii,197;xv,201;xix,179;xviii,228;xxv,151, blue cloth, gilt, b/w figures; Volume III ex Dorset County Reference Library, Volume IV very mildly ex library, pictorial ownership inkstamp to front paste-down endpaper of Volume VI, otherwise very good indeed, with all volumes internally clean, overall a very good, fresh set, in very good dust-jackets (jacket to Volume III with acquisition no. sticker to foot of spine).
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THE ITINERARY OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,94 (English text),(90) Hebrew text, blue cloth, gilt, folding colour map as frontispiece, manuscript facsimile plates; ex Reference library, with stamps to prelims and sporadically throughout, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and small label to foot of spine, heavy foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, a good copy of this scarce title.
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THE EVE OF THE GREEK REVIVAL.
British Travellers’ Perceptions of Early Nineteenth- Century Greece.
London: Routledge, 1990. 8vo., pp.xvii,289, black hardcover, silver lettering, 6 b/w maps; light soiling to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly shelf-worn, else very good.
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PROVENCE: FROM MINSTRELS TO THE MACHINE.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1938. First edition, 8vo., pp.368, quarter orange cloth with contrasting blue cloth boards, blue gilt to spine, top edges blue, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins and endpapers, light foxing to edges, a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped and a little rubbed to extremities, else very good.
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CRYSTAL PALACE.
A Guide to the Palace & Park.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Pocket 8vo., pp.197,16, pale blue pictorial paper wrappers, b/w frontispiece, folding map, two folding plans, engraved b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; very light foxing throughout, otherwise internally clean, wrappers lightly soiled with significant area of loss to wrappers at head of spine, creasing and light wear to corners of wrappers, else a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF GRAYS OF YORK, 1695-1988.
York: William Sessions Limited, The Ebor Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xiv,234, paperback, 12 b/w illustrations; a very good copy, with slight crease and superficial tear to spine, and slight shelfwear to wrappers.
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GREECE UNTRODDEN.
Athens: Mrs Alan Wace, 1964. 8vo., pp.116, paperback, b/w illustrations by Elektra Megaw; small price sticker to rear wrapper, spine lightly sunned, small crease to lower right corner of rear wrapper, light toning to wrapper margins, lightly shelf-worn, a very good copy.
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A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL WORDS USED IN ENGLAND.
To which is now first incorporated the Supplement.
London: John Russell Smith, 1839. 8vo., pp.iv,188,4,16 (adverts), uncut, cloth, with printed paper label to spine; final advert leaf cropped, small remnant of ownership label to front paste-down endpaper, sunning to spine and, lightly, to margins, rubbing to extremities, a good copy.
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DOUTHWAITE DALE AND THE SHEPHERD FAMILY.
Kirkbymoorside Society. 8vo., pp.17, stapled wrappers, b/w illustrations; small amount of highlighting to p.16, a couple of lightly pencilled annotations, o/w very good.
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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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HARGROVE'S GAZETTEER OF YORKSHIRE, Or, A Dictionary of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets; Monasteries and Castles; Principal Mountains, Rivers, &c. In the County of York; and Ainsty, or County of the City, of York, Describing the Situation of Each, and the Various Events By Whoch Some of Them Have Been Distinguished. With a Neat Map of the County. Second Edition, Considerably Enlarged and Improved.
Knaresbrough: Hargrove and Sons/Wilson and Son, York, 1813. Second edition, 8vo., pp.375,(i), paper-covered boards, folding colour map as frontispiece; small closed tear to upper margin of frontispiece map, which is otherwise fresh and in very good condition, foxing to endpapers, some toning and foxing throughout, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with area of loss to paper covering over spine, a very good copy overall.
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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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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: Journeys to England and Ireland.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. 8vo.,pp. 243, blue cloth, yellow lettering; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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VENICE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.337, pictorial red cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; slight roll forward to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to edges, with light rubbing to front, else very good.
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VIEWS IN DERBYSHIRE,
London: Bremrose & Sons, 1860. Oblong 8vo., pp. 12, yellow cloth-backed card wrappers, 12 tipped-in steel engravings; foxing throughout but plates unaffected except for no.s 5 and 12, light wear to wrappers, overall very good 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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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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