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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), printed paper-covered boards, folding colour map as frontispiece; small closed tear to upper margin of 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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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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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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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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THE HISTORY OF SELBY, ANCIENT AND MODERN; Containing the Most Remarkable Transactions, Ecclesiastical, Ciil, and Military, From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Period: Interspersed with Portions of General History, Connected with the Subject. With: The History of Cawood, its Castle and Church: Containing the Most Remarkable Transactions, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military. The Monuments, Inscriptions, &c. in the Church and Castle. The Selby Directory for the Year 1800, Containing an Alphabetical List of the Principal Inhabitants. With: A List of the Principal Inhabitants Residing at Cawood, July 1800.
York: Edward Peck, 1800. Two titles bound as one, 12mo., pp.x,162,40,(xii),(vii),(iv) List of Subscribers, 5 raised bands, contrasting red title label, gilt, small decoration in blind to compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges red, engraved folding plate of Selby Abbey after a drawing by the author; ex library, with pictorial bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, Reference Library bookplate to front free endpaper, pocket to rear paste-down endpaper, and acquisition no.s to front free endpaper verso and title verso, but with no stamps to the contents, handwritten gold acquisition no. to foot of spine, extremities rubbed, else very good.
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THE CAVES OF YORK: Topographical Draughtsmen, Artists, Engravers and Copper-Plate Printers.
York: City of York Art Gallery, 1934. Small 8vo., pp.48, printed wrappers; small ink ownership autograph to front wrapper (ex libris A.G. Dickens), light marking to pale wrappers, a very good copy.
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THE FAWKES'S OF YORK IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: Including Notices of the Early History of Guye Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot Conspirator.
Westminster: J.B. Nichols and J.G. Nichols, 1850. Pocket 8vo., pp.67, printed wrappers; wear to paper wrappers at head and foot of spine, light tobacco odour, else very good.
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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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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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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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YORKSHIRE REBEL.
The Life and Times of John Lindley, 1770-1853.
Garston: Riley Publishing, 2013. Second edition, 4to., pp.v,179, paperback; edges of wrappers lightly rubbed, internally fine, a very good copy, with author’s inscription to title page.
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DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT.
Notes and views in Egypt and Nubia, made during the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28: Chiefly consisting of a series of descriptions and delineations of the monuments, scenery, &c. of those countries; The views, with few exceptions, made with the camera-lucida.
The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxxii,588, backed in maroon cloth, gilt, pictorial boards, 160 monochrome plates (including folding plates); slight tone to edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, with two small nicks and creasing to front lower edge, else very good.
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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, quarter green moire cloth over marbled paper boards, publisher’s printed label to spine; black ink ownership inscription, dated 1840, to front free endpaper, very minimal foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, slight foxing to boards, wear to paper covering at edges of boards, overall a very good, fresh copy.
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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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THE OGRE.
Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent.
Sheffield: Vertebrate Publishing, 2017. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,178, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout, endpaper maps; very good indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing and slight peeling of laminate to extremities, but otherwise very good.
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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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A HISTORY OF THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ARCHITECTURE. Three Volumes.
Voume I: The Pioneers. Volume II: A Mature Art. Volume III: Bell and Beyond.
North Eastern Railway Association, 2001. Three volumes, the set, 4to.,pp. 184; 200; 256, pictorial hardcovers, b/w and colour illstrations, b/w figures, pictorial endpapers; sunned to spines, lettering visible, a very good, internally clean set. No dust-jackets.
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THE TRAVELS OF LORD CHARLEMONT IN GREECE & TURKEY 1749. From his own unpublished journals.
London: Trigraph, for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1984. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,244, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and map, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities and sunned to spine and extremities.
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