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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 From his own unpublished journals.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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ARMENIA: Travels and Studies. Two volumes.
Volume One: THE RUSSIAN PROVINCES. Volume Two: THE TURKISH PROVINCES.
New York: Armenian Prelacy, 1990. Two volumes, the set, 8vo.,pp. xv,470; xi,512, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispieces, loose fold-out map to rear of volume one; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which are very lightly sunned to spines.
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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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THE MAHDI OF ALLAH. A Drama of the Sudan. The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed.
London/New York: Putnam, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,318, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 14 further b/w plates and 2 b/w maps; foxing to fore-edges, some foxing throughout, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tears and light wear to edges, as well as loss to head of spine.
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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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A SKILFUL MASTER BUILDER.
The Continuing Story of a Yorkshire Family Business, Craftsmen for Seven Generations.
York: William Anelay Limited, 1975. 8vo., pp.viii,72, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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THE SHEPHERD FAMILY OF YORK 1664-1990.
York: 1998. Small 4to.,pp. 158,hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with slight staining to rear upper edge.
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A HISTORY OF BREDENBURY AND ITS LANDED ESTATE.
Bromyard: Bromyard & District Local History Society, 1997. 8vo., pp.viii,197, paperback, b/w illustrations; very good+.
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THE RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND. [In Two Volumes]
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839. First edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xx,396; xii,386,16 (adverts), decorative green cloth stamped in blind and gilt, uncut), b/w illustrations throughout; ink ownership inscription (dated 1839) to front free endpaper of both volumes, sunning to spines (and, lightly, to margins of boards), a little light marking to cloth, rubbing to head/tail of spines, internally fresh, overall a very good set.
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HISTORY OF DUNDEE; Being an Account of the Origin and Progress of the Burgh from the Earliest Period; Embracing a Description of its Antiquities, Topography, Public Works and Buildings, Manufactures and Commerce, Municipal, Educational, and Charitable Institutions, With Biographical Sketches of Eminent Men. A New and Enlarged Edition.
Dundee: John Durham, 1874. 8vo., pp.xvi,419,xxxiii,8, uncut, recased, preserving the original heraldic brown cloth, gilt, recased, folding frontispiece map; tear to first fold of frontispiece, light foxing to prelims/Index, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, with slight bubbling to cloth over spine, a very good copy.
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THE WONDER OF THE NORTH:
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press/The National Trust, 2015. 4to., pp.xi,394, green hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MERCHANT TAYLORS OF YORK A History of the Craft and Company from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. Borthwick Texts and Studies 33.
York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York. 8vo., pp.viii,210, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour plates; very slight bump to fore-edges, a very good copy indeed. (No dust-jacket.)
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English Surnames Series I: YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING.
London: Phillimore & Co, 1973. 8vo., pp.xiv,314, hardcover, gilt, b/w maps and a fold-out map; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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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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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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TRAVELS AMONG THE ARAB TRIBES INHABITING THE COUNTRIES EAST OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE, INCLUDING A JOURNEY FROM NAZARETH TO THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE DEAD SEA,
And from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition, 4to., pp.xvi,679, contemporary half calf with contrasting title label to spine, five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, folding frontispiece map, 28 engraved vignette illustrations to chapter headings; crease to upper corner of pp.xiv-17, toning to title/map, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. Includes Appendix, ‘Containing a Refutation of Certain Unfounded Calumnies Industriously Circulated Against the Author of this Work, by William Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and The Quarterly Review’, in which Buckingham seeks to confute the accusations of plagiarism brought against him.
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SCENES IN RUSSIA; Describing the Manners, Customs, Diversions, Modes of Travelling, &c. of the Inhabitants of that Country: Also the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks and Kalmucs, and other Tartar Tribes.
London: E. Wallace, 1842. Fourth edition, 12mo., pp.iv,140, quarter green roan, gilt, marbled boards, engraved frontispiece and 13 further engraved plates; vestiges of ink ownership inscription (dated 1842?) to prelim blank, toning to prelims, foxing/toning to plates and adjacent leaves, with some foxing throughout, light crease to spine, gentle wear to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF DUNDEE. Compiled from Original and Authentic Documents and Records in the Archives of the Town, and other sources; and Embellished by Plans of Ancient and Modern Dundee and Barbour; Engraved Views of Public Buildings; and Fac-Similes of Historical Documents hitherto unpublished.
Dundee: Dundee Advertiser Office, 1873. Tall 8vo., pp.xvi,327, textured pictorial red cloth, gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and maps (including folding plates); ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, two 1cm closed tears and small nick to headband, rubbing, light wear and surface soil to cloth, internally clean, a good+ copy.
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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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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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