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c.1731. FIne.. 4-3/4” x 5”- 12 x 12.7 cm.. From” The Philosophical Transactions From the year 1700 to the year 1720. Abridg'd, and Dispos'd Under general heads. In two volumes. By Henry Jones, ... The second edition. London, 1731. Vol. 2 of 2. “ Copper engraved map. A very uncommon map of the island of Santorini and neighbouring islands. Volcanic activity is shown. Greece, Santorini, Islands, volcano ... more information

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London: Orr & Co., [c.1838-40]. 10" x 8-1/4"-25.4 x 20.9 cm. Outline colour. Very good. A detailed map of Scotland also depicting elevations. ... more information

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London: : Mount and Page,, 1776. 15-1/2" x 20"- 39.3 x 50.8 cm. Copper engraved map. Offsetting, stain to lower margin at Otranto, else very good. A very good sea chart of the eastern coast of Italy extending from Otranto in the south to Fruili in the north. Major cities such as Bari, Ancona, Ravenna, Venice and Trieste are noted as well as ports along the Dalmatian coast. ... more information

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London: : Mount and Page,, 1776. 15" x 19"- 38.1x 48.2 cm. Copper engraved map. Offsetting else very good. A very good sea chart engraved by James Bennet showing the Barbary coast with an inset view of the harbour near Agrier. ... more information

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London: : Mount and Page,, 1776. 15-1/2" x 20-1/2"- 39.3x 52 cm. Copper engraved map. Offsetting else very good. A very good sea chart the French Mediterranean coast from Cape Dragon in the Gulf of Lyons to Cape Delle Melle (just past Monaco). With an inset view of the harbour of Toulon. ... more information

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1748.. Repair to lower left margin, right margin trimmed to neatline else very good.. 10-1/4" x 9"- 26 x 22.8 cm. . London: Gentleman's Magazine, Copper engraved map hand coloured in outline. . Jolly Gent-66 A detailed map of South America. Anson’s routes are charted as well as discoveries by Drake.... more information

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London: Orr & Co., [c.1838-40]. 8-1/4" x 10"-20.9 x 25.4 cm. Outline colour. Light offsetting to the Mediterranean, generally very good. A detailed map of Southern Italy with inset maps of Sardinia and Malta. ... more information

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London: : Gentleman's Magazine,, 1756. 9" x 7"- 22.8 x 17.7 cm. Hand coloured copper engraved map. Light crease lower left else very good. Two maps on one sheet-the upper being Spain and delineating the various provinces including Andalusia, Granada, Valencia, Catalonia and the islands of Majorca, Minorca and Ivica. The bottom map shows the Mouth of the River Tagus or Harbour of the City of Lisbon with a small inset view of Belem Castle. ... more information

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London: Orr & Co., [c.1838-40]. Very good. 8-1/4" x 10"-20.9 x 25.4 cm. Outline colour. Light offsetting to the Mediterranean, generally very good. A detailed map of Spain and Portugal and also depicting mountain elevations. ... more information

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Published in Diderot's Astronomie c. 1750. 8-3/4" x 6-1/4"-22.2 x 15.87 cm. Light marginal staining and light crease, o/w a nice crisp impression. A detailed engraving of an armillary sphere. ... more information

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From "Nuovo Atlante Di Geografia Universale..." published in Milan by Batelli & Fanfani [c. 1821] . 7" x 8"-17.7 x 20.3 cm. Hand-coloured in outline Very good. An attractive map of the United States. ... more information

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London:: Collins,, 1957. . 8vo,. cloth and dustjacket. Closed tear to upper left corner of jacket, else very good. A tale of a summer's fishing trip off the coast of British Columbia. ... more information

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New York: : Harper and Brothers, , 1854. . First edition. . 8vo, . Illustrated with frontis portrait and 9 full page woodcuts. recent cloth backed marbled boards with cloth spine label. Spotting to frontis, title and and sporadic spotting throughout, but on the whole very good. An important travel account of the Hawaiian Island written by an American. He visited all parts of the Archipelago and urged their annexation by the United States. In Hawaiian language "Haole" means foreigner or outsider ... more information

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Tours: : Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, , 1929. Limited to 515 numbered copies. 4to, . Illustrated with colour woodcuts by Clement Serveau. 1/2 red morocco and marbled boards, gilt decorated spine panel, t.e.g., original wraps bound in. Corners bumped, top edge a little nicked, boards a little scuffed, otherwise a nice attractive book. ... more information

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New York: : Dick & Fitzgerald, , [1858]. 8vo,. brown embossed cloth, wear to corners and spine ends, few pages creased at upper corner, else very good. A satirical 19th century Canadian work. ... more information

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London: : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, , 1870. 4to, . Illustrated with 12 colour plates. pictorial cloth, cloth faded, lower edge stained, pages brittle with some loose, needs either a rebind or broken up and sold as plates, plates generally clean with some minor soiling in margins. Views of Bethlehem, Nazareth, Sidon, Jerico, Gaza and Joppa. ... more information

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London, New York, and Toronto:: Henry Frowde,, 1908. 8vo,. Illustrated throughout. light blue cloth. Spine darkened, preliminaries foxed, otherwise very good. A good history of church screens, their construction, decoration, development and demise. ... more information

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London:: William Heinemann Ltd.,, 1931. First edition. 8vo,. Illustrated. brown pictorial cloth. Inscription to ffep, very good. Art criticism as recorded in a series of letters and correspondence during the 1920's. Appendix II includes a catalogue raisonne of the works of Jacob Epstein from 1907-1931. ... 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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1805.. Upper cover detached, sporadic spotting, but on the whole very good.. 8vo,. London: James Wallis, full calf. A nicely illustrated edition of James Thomson’s epic poem “The Seasons”, originally published in four parts. Poetry, Bewick, Woodcuts ... more information

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