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London: : Jonathan Cape, , [1959]. Third impression. 8vo, . Illustrated. cloth and dustjacket. Small spot to spine of dustjacket, basically fine. The author's travels in Russian Turkestan. ... more information

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Published in "Geographiae Universae Tum Veteris, Tum Novae Absolutissimum Opus, [c. 1597]. 5" x 6-1/2" -12.5 x 17.2 cm. . Copper engraved map hand coloured. Very good. Shows Asian continent extending from the Red Sea to the Isles of Japan. ... more information

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c. 1685. 5-1/2" x 4"-13.9 x 15.5 cm. Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. Left margin ragged else a good clean image. A charming miniature map of Georgia and parts of Armenia including the Black Sea. Swagged cartouche flanked by two classical robed figures. ... more information

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London:: The Company of Stationers,, 1665. Third edition revised. 8vo,. later 1/2 calf and marbled boards. Rebound, residue of an old bookplate on pastedown, title page darkened along margins, a few areas of waterstaining, small holes from the preface pages to pp. 16, on the whole quite good. An important work on the laws of the forest. An amusing little printed note (probably 19th c.) is bound in "Qui Librum abstuleris diris ne liber abito: Si mihi reddideris, mutuus alter erit.-If thou sh... more information

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New York:: Watson-Guptill,, 1975. 4to,. Illustrated with colour plates. cloth and dustjacket. A few short tears to jacket, bookplate, else very good. Excellent reference for American Posters from the Art Nouveau period. ... more information

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New York: : PAJ Publications, , [1988]. . First edition. Lrg. 8vo,. cloth and dustjacket, jacket lightly rubbed & price clipped, else very good. Essays and writings by eminent horticulturists such as Louise Beebe Wilder, Henry Ward Beecher, George Washington, John Bartram etc. ... more information

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London: : Methuen & Co., , [1905]. 8vo, . Illustrated. gilt stamped blue cloth, residue to corner of upper cover, frontis about loose else very good. All about shipbuilding, crews, daily life etc. ... more information

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Toronto:: The Musson Book Company,, 1910. First Canadian edition. 8vo,. brown pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Spine ends rubbed, endpapers foxed, p. 17. torn, otherwise bright. Cover design by Will Bradley. A scarce Canadian imprint. ... more information

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London: : George Bell & Sons, , 1901. First edition. 8vo,. green pictorial cloth spine darkened, bookplate on front pastedown else very good. A brief history of Bristol cathedral. ... more information

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Chicago: : Privately Printed, , 1936. Limited to 200 copies. 8vo,. wraps. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine. ... more information

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Chicago: : Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, , 1939. First edition. Lrg. 8vo, . original printed wraps, wraps a little faded, else very good. Limited to 1500 copies. A Brief history of movable type and printing. ... more information

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1748.. Upper cover detached, blindstamp and ink notation to titlepage, part 2 titlepage misbound, some staining along foredges, otherwise very good.. Thick 8vo, . Lugdunum, Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans, full calf. BMC, Vol 17, p. 172; For a similar map see the Samourka Map Collection #A9109 (cartouche is different). Mela was an early Roman geographer originally from Spain. He theorized that the world was divided into five parts, of which only two were habitable. The map is particularly odd showing an ... more information

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Madrid: : Patronato del Archivo Historico Nacional, , 1947. . Second edition. . Sm. 4to, . printed wraps. Name stamped on front wrap and foredge, spine darkened, else very good. Detailed catalogue in Spanish of the manuscript and printed works housed in the National Archives and National Library in Spain. ... more information

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[c. 1612 or later]. 13-1/2" x 19"- 34.2 x 48.2 cm. Copper engraved map with original hand colouring. Abrasion to lower c/f on neatline ,some oxidizaton to old colour but generally v. good Latin text verso. A good map of the southern Netherlands including Flanders. Rotterdam, Delft, Bergen,Breda and Antwerp are some of the larger cities noted. ... more information

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[c.1612] 13-1/2" x 19"- 34.2 x 48.2 cm. Copper engraved map with original hand colouring. Van der Krogt 3400 ... more information

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[c.1612]. Abrasion to lower c/f on neatline and to cartouche, split to c/f lower margin just into neatline, some oxidizaton to old colour but generally v. good. 13-1/2" x 19"- 34.2 x 48.2 cm.. Copper engraved map with original hand colouring. Van der Krogt 3400 Latin text verso, c.1612. A good map of the central Netherlands. Haerlem, Amsterdam, Leyden are some of the larger cities noted as well as the outying islands. Holland, Netherlands, Map, Mercator ... more information

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1630. 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"- 13.3 x 19 cm. copper engraving hand coloured in outline. Small margin repair upper right, upper margin trimmed close o/w fine. A fine small scale map of China, parts of India, Korea and Japan. Korea is depicted as an island. French text verso. ... more information

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Westminster:: Archibald Constable and Company,, 1898. . 12mo,. vellum backed boards. Spine dusty, bookplate, one page offset, otherwise a nice clean copy. ... more information

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London:: The Nonesuch Press,, 1930. Second edition [published the same year as the first]. 8vo,. green cloth with gilt stamped initials, dustjacket. Jacket chipped with losses and spine sunned, otherwise very good. With an introductory note by her husband Wilfred Meynell. ... more information

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A group of 5 works bound together in 1/2 calf and boards, front hinge about loose, prelims. spotted, title of first work soiled, a few pages dog-eared, but on the whole very good. London: Whittaker & Co., n.d. [c. 1846]. 8vo, 62 pp. Work dealing with slavery and social classes [bound with] Brief Reports of Lectures Delivered to the Working Classes of Edinburgh, On the Means in their Own Power of Improving their Character & Condition by James Simpson. Edinburgh: John Johnstone, n.d. [c. 1844]. 8... more information

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