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COOK'S HANDBOOK OF THE HEALTH RESORTS of the south of France and northern coast of the Mediterranean, including Marseilles, Toulon, Cannes, Hyeres, Nice, monaco, Bordighera, San Remo, Genoa, and Pisa

COOK'S HANDBOOK OF THE HEALTH RESORTS of the south of France and northern coast of the Mediterranean, including Marseilles, Toulon, Cannes, Hyeres, Nice, monaco, Bordighera, San Remo, Genoa, and Pisa

by Thomas Cook Ltd

London: Thomas Cook & Son, Simpkin Marshall, 1881. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1881-82; 97 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map, Includes index.many adverts., remains of small sticker on spine and front cover, Size: 12 mo., (17 cm).
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$65.00
The history of the science fiction magazine. Part 3, 1946-1955

The history of the science fiction magazine. Part 3, 1946-1955

by Michael Ashley

London, UK: New English Library, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. grey cloth, gilt spine, 349 pages, pt. 3. 1946-1955 , very good copy in protective mylar jacket, scarce.
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$50.00
Modern Painters

Modern Painters

by Ruskin, John

London, 1873. Final and third edition, limited to 1000 copies. Royal 8vo. 3/4 leather and lovely satin finish marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Bindings are attractive with only a little rubbing here and there along the joints and head and foot of spines. A set of tight, clean, very good books with some heavy foxing on prelims of all volumes and a little light foxing scattered here and there. However, all plates are in very good condition.. Affixed to the front pastedown endpaper of each... Read more about this item
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$378.00
Glaciers and Glaciation, 2nd edition (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Glaciers and Glaciation, 2nd edition (Hodder Arnold Publication)

by Benn, Douglas; Evans, David J A

London: Hodder Arnold, 2010. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pict. paper covers, xiv, 802 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) CONTENTS: Part I Glaciers 1. Introduction 2. Snow, ice and climate 3. Glacier hydrology 4. Processes of glacier motion 5. Glacier dynamics 6. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets 7. Glaciers and sea-level change Part II Glaciation 8. Erosional processes, forms and landscapes 9. Debris entrainment and transport 10. Glacigenic... Read more about this item
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$100.00
The Crime Of Syvestre Bonnard; Translated From The French

The Crime Of Syvestre Bonnard; Translated From The French

by France, Anatole

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Minor edge wear; Very good. Octavo; pp. viii, (3), 4-310; three quarter blue morocco and blue boards; Top edge gilt, marbled end papers. Raised bands, spines decorated and lettered in gilt by Maurin;. A Signed binding. Translation by Lafcadio Hearn with his Introduction.
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$75.00
Samoa'Uma

Samoa'Uma

by Churchill, L

Sampson Low No date. 24 plates, contemporary 3/4 black morocco. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.
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$77.48
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Fielding, Henry

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831 Two volumes. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. First edition thus [first edition 1749]. Finely bound in three-quarter tan calf and tan cloth by Bayntun, with five raised bands to the spine, contrasting black and green title labels to the spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, pale beige marbled endpapers. Near fine, with some light soiling to the boards, otherwise fresh bindings, light toning and faint spotting to the illustrated plates, Vol. I with a... Read more about this item
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$500.00
The Student's Quarter, Or, Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Hence

The Student's Quarter, Or, Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Hence

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

London: John Camden Hotten, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated with 5 hand-colored plates by Thackeray signed with his signature 'spectacles' in the lower right hand corners. Contemporary binding of half brown morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt; marbled paper boards and edges, top edge gilt. The binding is lightly worn and rubbed at the edges and hinges else is in very good condition with fine text and illustrations. The binding is unsigned. Church Catalogue, No. 727. Slater,... Read more about this item
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$400.00
In two moods from the Russian of Korolenko

In two moods from the Russian of Korolenko

by Stepniak, Sergius

Ward & Downey, 1892 Contemporary 3/4 russia, slightly rubbed. This is an attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Good.
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$122.68
COPTIC FABRICS

COPTIC FABRICS

by Marie-Helene Rutschowscaya

Paris, France: Adam Biro, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (32 cm). brown cloth, dust jacket, 159 pages : 158 illustrations (71 in color), "Translated from the French by Adam Stephenson [and others]" "Written by the Curator of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre, this richly illustrated study will be an invaluable reference tool for textile historians and designers and will delight all who love pattern and color, so successfullly displayed in Coptic... Read more about this item
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$55.00
The Diary Of Philip Leget Edwards, The Great Cattle Drive From California  To Oregon In 1837

The Diary Of Philip Leget Edwards, The Great Cattle Drive From California To Oregon In 1837

by No Author Noted

San Francisco, CA: The Grabhorn Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Front free endpaper lightly discolored. Edge of rear free endpaper wrinkles (discolration shows that it has been this way for quite sometime. ) Cover shows only light wear. Dust jacket shows edgewear along top edge, small wrinkle to lower corner of back cover. ; Rare Americana Series; Vol. 4; 47 pages .
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$75.00
Official Telephone Directory, The New Brunswick Telephone Co. Limited, Southern Division January, 1923

Official Telephone Directory, The New Brunswick Telephone Co. Limited, Southern Division January, 1923

by New Brunswick Telephone Co

St. John , New Brunswick: New Brunswick Telephone Company, Limited, 1923. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. printed paper wraps, 182,(2) pages, thumb guide at mid fore edges, The exchanges listed include; St. John,Belleisle Bay Telephone Co.,Blissville and Petersville Telephone Co.,Calais, Maine,Chipman,Hampton,Jerusalem Merchantile & Telephone Co.,Kingston Peninsula Telephone Co., Ltd.,Norton,Rothesay,South Branch Telephone Co.,St. Andrews,St. George,St. Martins,St.Stephen,Sussex,S.H. White's Line,... Read more about this item
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$85.00
WALKING DICKENSIAN LONDON

WALKING DICKENSIAN LONDON

by Jones, Richard

London: New Holland, 2004. Book. Fine. Paperbound. First Edition. pict. paper wraps, 208 pages, illustrated, (some col.), maps, Globetrotter walking guides series, Size: Sm 4to., (21 cm).
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$30.00
Blade Runner 2, The Edge of Human

Blade Runner 2, The Edge of Human

by Jeter, K.W

Norwalk: Easton Press, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED by author. with associated (loose) publisher bookplate. silk endpapers with silk ribbon. all edges gilt, full dark green leather with gilt decorations and title. ribbed spine. 340pp..
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$75.00
>VELLUM YAPP DIPLOMA BINDING< Wallace Collection Catalogues. Pictures and Drawings (Illustrations)

>VELLUM YAPP DIPLOMA BINDING< Wallace Collection Catalogues. Pictures and Drawings (Illustrations)

by James Mann [Preface]

London. Printed for the Trustees by Wiliam Clowes Ltd. , and sold at Hertford House., 1960 xii, 214 printed pages. 209 pages of full or half-page photographic, monochrome illustrations (arranged alphabetically by the artists' surnames). Title page slighly creased. 17 x 26 cm. Full limp vellum with vellum ties, yapp foredge & with laced-in vellum sewing supports in the style of the late Renaissance. No lettering nor decoration. Hand-bound in 1989 by female bookbinder (first name only known as... Read more about this item
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$90.40
Traite d&#39;arithmetique a l&#39;usage des ecoles.

Traite d'arithmetique a l'usage des ecoles.

by Bouthillier, Jean-Antoine

Quebec: J & O Cremazie, 1862. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. black cloth, pp., 179, (1), 8e ed., rev. et corr., remains of sticker on spine and front cover, internally sound, clean, BOUTHILLIER, JEAN-ANTOINE, 1872- 1835 surveyor, journalist, author, translator, is the author of this textbook which appeared first in 1809, the first textbook of its kind published In Lower Canada. In use until 1870, it was also published by George-Édouard Desbarats, Joseph and Octave Crémazie, and... Read more about this item
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$65.00
Woodstock or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One

Woodstock or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One

by Scott, Sir Walter

Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. 1898. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Bound in half-leather with gilt and raised bands to spine and marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Some mild rubbing to edges. Paper at front hinge a little cracked but binding solid. Black & white frontispiece with tissue-guard intact. Includes Notes, Appendix and Index. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 503 pages. The Victoria Edition Australasian Issue.... Read more about this item
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$29.94
Sunshine and sentiment in Portugal

Sunshine and sentiment in Portugal

by Watson, G

Edward Arnold, London, 1904 8 plates, contemporary 3/4 black morocco, slightly rubbed at corners. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet..... Read more about this item
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$38.74
A HISTORY OF GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION; Harrap&#39;s New Geographical Series

A HISTORY OF GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION; Harrap's New Geographical Series

by Baker J N L

London, Nottingham,: George G. Harrap, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition, Revised,. brown, blind-stamped, pict. cloth, gilt spine, pp., 552 , front., maps (part fold.), index, front free end paper missing else, a clean, bright copy, in protective mylar jacket."The whole work is illustrated by fifty maps, most of which show the routes of the more important explorers, but a few are outline sketches of important maps at certian periods. Thus the progress of exploration can be compared with... Read more about this item
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$55.00
Etrennes du Sentiment, dediees aux ames bienfaisantes. A.P.D.R.

Etrennes du Sentiment, dediees aux ames bienfaisantes. A.P.D.R.

by >>SCARCE MINIATURE ALMANAC<<

Paris, chez Boulanger, rue du Petit Pont, mm de M. Petit, à l'image N. Dame., 1784 62pp. (pp. 21-44 bound after pp.45), 10 blank. Engraved title-page (drapery held by cupids in front of a column on which another cupid writes: Drawn and engraved by Queverdo). 2 folding engraved calendars. 12 engraved copper plates bearing the names of the months of the year at the top and the following legends at the bottom: Janvier, La bonne année sans politique. Février, Le Seigneur bienfaisant. Mars, Les Rivaux... Read more about this item
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$1,259.12
Quinti Horati Flacci Opera Omnia

Quinti Horati Flacci Opera Omnia

by Binding: Bumpus

London: P. H. Lee Warner, Medici Society, 1910. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 290.(2)pp. Finely printed letterpress at the Clarendon Press. Initials in blue. One of 1015 copies. This copy bound by Bumpus of Oxford in full brown morocco, the spine in six compartments, gilt, the boards tooled in blind and gilt lines with gilt florals at the corners. Gilt inner dentelles in the same design. All edges gilt. Upper hinge rubbed else a fine copy. In Latin. .
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$400.00
George Bush:  The Life of a Lone Star Yankee

George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee

by Parmet, Herbert S

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, bound in genuine dark forest green leather with real 22 kt gold decoration. 576 pages. All edges gilt, silk ribbon markers sewn-in, raised spine. Notes, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Two-page broad-side, Collector's Notes from The Library of the Presidents, laid-in loose. First edition thus. Biography of George Waker Bush,... Read more about this item
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$60.00
Official Telephone Directory, The New Brunswick Telephone Co. Limited, Southeren Division January, 1922

Official Telephone Directory, The New Brunswick Telephone Co. Limited, Southeren Division January, 1922

by New Brunswick Telephone Co

St. John , New Brunswick: New Brunswick Telephone Company, Limited, 1922. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. printed paper wraps, 170,(2) pages, minor chps to fore edges, small loss at head of spine, thumb guide at mid fore edges, The exchanges listed include; St. John,Belleisle Bay Telephone Co.,Blissville and Petersville Telephone Co.,Calais, Maine,Chipman,Hampton,Jerusalem Merchantile & Telephone Co.,Kingston Peninsula Telephone Co., Ltd.,Norton,Rothesay,St. Andrews,St. George,St.... Read more about this item
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$60.00
THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV. AND KING WILLIAM I.V.

THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV. AND KING WILLIAM I.V.

by Greville, Charles C. F

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874.. Three volumes. Large octavos.Three-quarter green calf and marbled boards, spines elaborately gilt extra, gilt labels, half-titles bound in.. Foretips shelfworn, crowns of spines frayed a bit, bookplate in first volume, but very good. First edition of the first component of this this substantial and occasionally controversial historical record, edited by Henry Reeve, and published posthumously. "Greville did not stoop to collect or record private scandals. His... Read more about this item
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$275.00
James Cummins Bookseller; Catalog Number One;

James Cummins Bookseller; Catalog Number One;

by James Cummins

New York: Printed and published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1980. Book. Illus. by Compiled by Nanne Carroll & Carol Rydell. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. dec. paper wraps, stapled at spine,96 pages,illustrated, (7 pp., black & white illustrations,541 items,.
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$30.00