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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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WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL.
Pages Out of the East.
New York and London: The Century Co, 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.349, pictorial dark green cloth showing a large statue of the Buddha, blocked in red and paler green, pictorial spine, gilt lettering, 31 b/w plates plus frontispiece; small ownership label to front endpapers, a near-fine copy.
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A DREAM OF MAYA:
Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth-Century Yucatan.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Tall 8vo., pp.xxi,147, paperback, b/w illustrations; sunning to spine and margins of wrappers, else very good.
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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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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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STAINFORTH: STEPPING STONES THROUGH HISTORY.
A History of a North Yorkshire Village.
North Yorkshire: Stainforth History Group, 2001. 8vo., pp.,vii,153, paperback, b/w photos, fold-out archaeological map; a very good, fresh copy.
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EARLY MAN IN NORTH-EAST YORKSHIRE.
Gloucester: John Bellows, 1930. 4to.,pp. xvi,259, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures, b/w frontispiece; toned to margins, sunned to spine and margins of boards, rubbing to extremities with light wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE PERCEHAY FAMILY OF RYTON.
Forgotten Lords of a Deserted Ryedale Township.
South Ainsty Archaeological Society, 2017. 4to.,pp. 100, pictorial wrappers, b/w and colour figures; a very good copy.
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ASPECTS OF COXWOLDSHIRE: A North Yorkshire Local History.
A Local History of the Villages around Coxwold.
York: Husthwaite Local History Society, in association with Sessions of York, 1992. 4to.,pp. 102, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations and maps, map to front wrapper vero and pictorial title page; a very good copy.
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THE ARAB OF THE DESERT. A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau’di Arabia.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967. 3rd edition (revised and abridged) 8vo., pp.xxvii,228, hardcover, black lettering, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in vg+ unclipped 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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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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DANBY: THREE VIEWS OF A HISTORY.
Whitby: privately published, 2021. 8vo., pp. 117, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good copy.
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DANBY: FOUR MORE VIEWS OF A HISTORY.
Whitby: 2021. 8vo., pp. 117, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good copy.
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CHURCH RIDES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 8vo., pp. xxxviii,183, decorative purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine; sunned to spine and edges of boards, rubbed to extremities and light rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners, light foxing to endpapers, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SEEN ON THE PACKHORSE TRACKS.
South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust, 2002. Oblong 4to., pp.xxii,105, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; large crease across front wrapper, else a very good copy.
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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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FIELD GUIDE TO THE PICTISH SYMBOL STONES.
Balgavies: The Pinkfoot Press, 1997. tall and narrow 8vo., pp.xiv,191, hardcover, b/w maps and illustrations; a very good copy.
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AN ALMSHOUSE FOR LINTON. Richard Fountaine’s Legacy.
Skipton: Devenish Press, 2018. Tall 8vo., pp.130, paperback, colour plates; small handwritten inscription (’History Society, 13 December 2018’) to title verso, a very good, fresh copy, with slight crease to lower corner of front wrapper.
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INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES.
Lyons and Burford, 1993. 8vo., pp.v,184, quarter turquoise cloth lettered in purple, contrasting green paper-covered boards; autographed to title, a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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