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London: Staples Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 4to, 80 pages in text with eighty-four reproductions (twelve in color) and a new text by R.A. Skelton. General Bibliography. Provides a survey of maps printed from copper plates or wood-blocks. Twenty-two reproductions are new to this work.

London: John Stockdale, 1795. First edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 624 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, two immense folding engraved maps (including one hand-coloured map of country around Manchester, 43 engraved plates and 18 single-page maps and plans, list of subscribers includes Booksellers as a separate entity after the alphabetical list. Contains a section on canals in the area. Index. All interior plates with tissue guards, some of which slightly toned. Interior contents generally clean and fresh. LOWNDES, I, p.22. UPCOT. pps 462-465. Owner inscription free front endpaper. A large, very heavy tome weighing over eight pounds. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, black leather spine label printed in gilt with cover border panels in both blind and gilt arabesques.

New York: Vendome Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream basket weave cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 299 pages. 33 x 25.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in color -- maps and historical documents. The vast Spanish New World delineated. Bibliography. Index.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Hardcover. Crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 336 pages. This is a revised and modernized version of "History of Signboards," written in 1866. With a chapter on the modern inn sign by Gerald Millar. With sixteen illustrations of Billheads and sixty-four pages of illustrations. An essential work of reference for the collector and the historian. Ex-library.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Quarter kangaroo skin, tapa decorated sides. Near fine in very good slightly sunned slipcase. Ingleton, Geoffrey C.. 310 pages, 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1500 signed by Ingleton and Douglas A. Dunstan (who designed the color frontispiece after Flaxman). Laid-in are the Monthly LEC Letter, a four page LEC brief biography of Cook by A. Grenfell Price, "From Farm to Fame," and "Number Twelve" LEC note stating this work is the final volume of the Twenty-fifth series. NEWMAN & WICHE 279.

Lausanne: Edita Lausanne, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt decorated red leatherette. Fine in fine slipcase.. 221 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Lovely, as new copy.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. Modern black morocco, marbled endpapers, raised bands, red leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Fine. 648 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Two maps, 4 colored lithographic plates; half-title. First edition, second issue, without the suppressed fourth Appendix on female circumcision included in the first issue. In 1849, the East India Company supported an exploration program to present-day Somalia. By 1854, the program was largely abandoned, but was revived by Burton to become his first African expedition. That year, he set out from Aden disguised as an Arab merchant to cross the desert to Harar, a closed city never opened to foreigners. Speke accompanied him on the journey, and their differing accounts of the true source of the Nile River ignited a controversy between them. Appendicies include Speke's diary of his African journey, Hearne's meterological observations, and a description of Cornwallis's 1841 attempt to enter Harrar.… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1954. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Fine. 403 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Sixty three illustrations in color and black and white. Bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco stamped in gilt foot of inside back cover, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels. Chronological Chart. Biographies. Bibliography. Index and Glossary.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Late 19th century three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Aeg. Very good. 80 pages. 29.5 x 24 cm. 80 wood-engraved illustrations printed recto only. Gordon Ray [THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND FROM 1790 TO 1914] calls this "Doyle's most personal book with respect to life in the world.....The artist Brown, in whom there is a good deal of Doyle himself, records in scores of little scenes the vicissitudes and humors encountered by his companions and himself during a summer's excursion to Germany and northern Italy." Title page lightly toned, interior generally clean, firm copy.

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth with front cover illustration in gilt. Very good. 75 pages. Illustrated. Introduction by Kenneth Johnson. Originally published as part of "Seeking The Golden Fleece," 1887 [WHEAT 199], the letters are set forth in the same manner, without salutation or closing. Limited edition, one of 2350 copies.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter green morocco and white linen cloth, backstrip evenly faded to brown. Raised bands, backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 128 pages 25.5 x 20 cm. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter in 14pt. Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Limited edition, copy 90 of 500. An account of the advance of the British Army from the Mediterranean to Baghdad, 1941. COCKALORUM. 155.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 281 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Color, black and white illustrations and maps. Index. This book a companion to the 12 part PBS series.

Paris: Fonteney Et Peltier, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's maroon cloth decorated in blind, spine sunned. Very good. 396 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Half title, twelve lithographs by Charles Gaildrau, ten are tinted. History of shipwrecks from the 16th century onward. Intermittent, scattered text browning, plates generally clean, a few with marginal toning. Text in French. Corners worn, binding firm and tight.

Paris: Furne, Libraire-Editeur, 1855. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 598 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Twenty four full page high quality steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Chapter headings with Initial letters, List of the Doges of Venice Text generally very clean and bright. scattered light toning to margins of front fold-out map of Venise. Small, faint oval library stamp title page. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, sunning to front cover.

Paris & Brussels: Antoine-Urbain Coustelier & Jean Leonard, 1716. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemporary calf backed boards, tan leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 446, (50) Index. 16 x 10.5. [a8-b4,A-Hh8]. Churchman, scholar, a tutor to the Dauphin in 1670, elected to the Academie francais in 1674, Huet owed his reputation the immense number of his writings. This work, a survey of the maritime history of the ancient Mediterranean, the shipping routes taken, also adumbrates the commercial negotiations between the trade partners. Includes material related to the Americas. ALDEN & LANDIS 716/70. KRESS 299. Firm, tight, clean copy; library stamp paste-down front endpaper and title page, raised bands, backstrip head chipped. Blue bookstamp of Katedral Skolans Bibliotek Lund.

London: T. Egerton, 1803. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf slight front cover abrasion at lower left margin. Near fine. (xxi) 387 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm, engraved portrait, two folding tables, three folding maps, one colored in outline. Half title. Sidney Smith in a contemporary review, noted (Edinburgh Review), "The best of the English accounts is certainly that of Robert Wilson....'The narrative is extremely full and very entertaining." [see: ALLIBONE, Vol.III, p.2782]. As a member of Parliament, Wilson pressed to end the practice of corporeal punishment of soldiers, common at the time. Contents Of The Appendix. Action during the Napoleonic Wars. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Tiny faded signature title page head.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols. 307, 250 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm, With one photograph, eight colored plates, 50 full-page and about 130 text illustrations, and a large fold-out Map from Surveys by the author located at the rear of Vol. II. Printed on heavy glossy stock. Appendix dealing with specific events of his capture and imprisonment. He was known for a witty writing style, he also aided in the British World War I designing tanks and planes.

London: Provost & Co., Successors To A.W. Bennett, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, illustrated and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Very good. 182 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Twenty one photographs including the frontispiece, many are tinted and tipped-in. The author calls the island "a paradise of bees, flowers and invalids." Generally clean, bright copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 152 pages. 26 x 23.5 cm. 54 illustrations, with 50 plates in color with 70 recipes on Tuscan cuisine, and a pamphlet in Italian from "Riso Gallo" with rice recipes laid-in.

Portland: Graphic Arts Center, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 112 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Photography by David Fitzgerald. Ninety-five color plates.