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A MOST CONTAGIOUS GAME.
London.Macdonald and Co. 1967. 188pp. Identical black and white maps of the County of Calleshire on both endpapers. Original boards, silver gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Signed on the half- title by the author 'Catherine Aird'. The price-clipped dust-wrapper has some chipping at the head and heel of spine - not affecting text, also some creasing: else a very good copy.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE GROSVENOR East Indiaman, which was unfortunately wrecked upon the coast of Caffraria, somewhere between the 27th and 32d Degrees of Southern latitude, on the 4th of August, 1782, compiled from the examination of John Hynes, one of the Unfortunate Survivors. By Mr. George Carter, Historical Portrait Painter upon his passage outward bound to India. Containing a Variety of Matter respecting the Sufferers, Never before made Public; With Copper Plates descriptive of the Catastrophe, engraved from Mr. Carter's designs.
London: At the Minerva Press for J, Murray… and William Lane, 1791. [4], 174 pages. Illustrated with a folding engraved frontispiece, and 3 other engraved plates. Original boards crudely re-backed with sheep. Octavo. First edition. This is a rather sad copy. The corners have been trimmed, presumably where once turned down; there is soiling throughout; one of the plates has a piece missing from the blank outer margin; the frontispiece is splitting along one fold, and has been crudely re-attached to the title. A complete, but poor copy, of a rare book.
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A NATURALIST’S VOYAGE. Journal of researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ round the world. Under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. With portrait.
London: John Murray, 1889. x, 519, [1 blank page,] 4 ad’s pages. Portrait frontispiece; some illustrations within text. Original pictorial green cloth gilt. Octavo. Neat name and date on endpaper; some light foxing on endpapers, and a few spots on title; else a very good copy.
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A NATURALIST’S VOYAGE. Journal of researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ round the world. Under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. With portrait.
London: John Murray, 1889. x, 519, [1 blank page,] 4 ad’s pages. Portrait frontispiece; some illustrations within text. Original pictorial green cloth gilt. Octavo. Neat name endpaper; spine worn and beginning to split at head; corners a little worn; couple of light foxing spots on title; else a good plus copy.
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A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRICIPAL CROSS ROADS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Containing, I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages: with their Market-Days, and Counties they are situated in. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port Towns…. The Whole on a Plan entirely new, and far preferable to any Work of the Kind extant. The Sixth Edition, Corrected, and greatly Improved; with Additions. [Price Two Shillings, sewed.]
London: T. Carnan, 1784. viii, xxiv, 272 [136], 273-280 pages. Bound with: Paterson, Daniel, A TRAVELLING DICTIONARY… The Fourth Edition corrected. London. T. Carnan 1781. iv, 180 pages. Double-page map frontispiece to volume I. Original quarter vellum over marbled boards, with printed paper label to spine. Octavo. Binding worn, with some light damage to spine; front inner joint widely cracked; front endpaper loosening; else a good, clean copy.
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A New Dramatic Entertainment, called A Christmas Tale. In Five Parts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Embellished with an Etching, by Mr. Louthbourg. [Price One Shilling and Six-pence.]
London: T. Becket, 1774. [8], 76 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original sheep, recently re-backed; no title. Octavo. First edition. A late play by Garrick based upon Charles Favart's, La fée urgèle. Boards worn at corners; else very good.
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A NEW HISTORY OF DOVER, and of Dover Castle, during the Roman, Saxon, and Norman Governments, with a short Account of the Cinque Ports, Compiled from Ancient Records, and continued to the present time; by W. Batcheller. Embellished with four plates, & illustrated by four plates. To which is added A New Dover Guide, and a Description of the villages near Dover.
Dover: William Batcheller, 1828. 365, [1 blank], xv, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated with four wood-engraved plans, 2 engraved maps, and two engraved views, one of which is by Thomas Sidney Cooper. Bound in later half-calf gilt over marbled boards. 172 x 111mm. First edition. Bookplate; two pages browned where an envelope had been left; else a very good copy in a pleasant binding.
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A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time. In two parts.
London: W. Darton Jun, 1812 (1818). Two volumes, each 64pp., illustrated with engravings; original printed wrappers. 12mo. Covers dated 1818. Price on front covers changed in ink from ‘Price One Shilling’ (each Part) to ‘Sixpence.’ Small outer corner on lower wrapper missing; last line of text in Part Second a little faint; else a very good set indeed of a title rarely found complete and in anything resembling good condition. Darton H1146
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A NEW PICTURE OF LONDON; or, the stranger and foreigner's correct guide and companion through the cities of London and Westminster, and the country round, within a circuit of fourteen miles, accurately describing the situation, antiquity, and curiosity of every place, taken from an actual survey of each object, and assisted by the labours of Mr. Pennant, and other celebrated typographers. A new edition. Illustrated by a correct Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark; a map of the surrounding Country, and Views, of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and Lambeth Palace.
London: Printed by Dewick and Clarke… for J. Wilson….. And Sold by all other Booksellers, No date [1791]. xvi, 320 pages. Folding Plan showing the ‘New Buildings to the Year 1791.’ Map of London and the country fifteen miles round; three full-page engraved plates. Original full sheep titled in gilt on front board. Binding rubbed and spine cracked, but firm; else a very good, clean copy of rare London guide. Rare. Not in ESTC; one copy only in Worldcat.
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A NEW TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND COMMERCIAL SURVEY OF THE CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Arranged in Alphabetical Order. This work includes a minute and interesting account of the antient and present State of Kent, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military, from the earliest times to this century, with all the improvements of the Arts of Civilization, and Luxury. It comprehends all the chief Harbours, Bays, Rivers, Docks, Forests, Hills, Valleys, Medicinal Springs, and other Curiosities both of Nature and Art; and not only takes Notice of all the Manors and Seats in the County, but also points out the old military Ways, Camps, Castles, and other remarkable Ruins of Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Anglo Norman Antiquity. It shews particularly the Estates that were formerly Abbey Lands, and mentions the Manufacture and Trade, the Privileges and Customs, the principal Buildings and Charitable Foundations of the two Cities, Corporations, and the most noted Villages, with their Distances from London, in measured miles. The ancient and obscure Terms of the Feudal Law, and the obsolete Tenures and Customs relative to it, and also explained. By Charles Seymour, Teacher of the Classics, &c. at Canterbury.
Printed for the Author…, 1776. xxxvi, 827 pages. Bound in early twentieth century full morocco gilt. Book plates. A very good, clean copy.
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A PASTORAL IN IMITATION of Virgil’s first eclogue.
Edinburgh: Printed in the Year 1730. [6 of 8], 12 pages. 4to. Lacks half title. Disbound from Dutch flower paper with remnants left on spine. Author unknown, but Dedication signed ‘T. J.’ and end. Some staining throughout; disbound; but a good copy.
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A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customs of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. And nowe increase by the addition of some things which the Authour him self hath observed since that time….
London: Imprinted at London for Ralph Newberie, dwelling in Fleetstreet a little above the Conduit, 1576. [15], [1 blank], map tipped on to the blank verso of the preceding leaf; 435 pages. Bound in 19th century full calf, sometime re-backed. 197 x 142 mm. Occasional contemporary annotation; the odd mark; else a very good copy of the first edition of the first County History published in England.
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A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customs of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. And nowe increase by the addition of some things which the Authour him self hath observed since that time….
London: Imprinted at London for Ralph Newberie, dwelling in Fleetstreet a little above the Conduit, 1576. [15], [1 blank], 435 pages. Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled boards. 160 x 136 mm. Lacks the original map, but a map from the section edition of 1596 (which is all but identical) had been stuck to the blank verso of the leaf preceding page 1; occasional contemporary annotation; the odd mark; boards rubbed; else a very good copy of the first edition of the first County History published in England.
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A POTTLE OF STRAWBERRIES, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour. With illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.
London: David Bogue. 62, [2 ad’s], [16] illustrated ad’s dated April 1848.] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original colour-printed pictorial wrappers. 143 x 112 mm. First edition. Wrappers a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy. Very scarce in the original wrappers.
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A PRISONER OF THE KHALEEFA. Twelve Years’ Captivity at Omdurman. With numerous portraits and plans.
London: Chapman and Hall., Ltd, 1899. 365 pages. Illustrated with 29 plates and two plans and a map. Original green decorative cloth with red seal to front panel. Octavo. First edition. Binding a little rubbed and worn, but a good copy.
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A Regular Method of Governing a Family: Or Bringing up Children and Servants in the Service of God. Recommended to the serious Consideration and conscientious Practice of the Heads and Governours of Families. By the Author of, The Way of Living in a Method and by Rule. The Second Edition.
London: J. Downing, 1729. Price Three-pence. 47, [1 ad] pages. 12mo. Disbound from a collection. Title-page a little browned. First and second leaves have short vertical tears at the gutter, but without loss; else very good.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. XI. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date[circa 1930]. 97, [3 index] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Reprint. Printed ownership name on endpaper; slight rubbing on spine; else a very good copy. Covers Whitstable, Nettlestead, Seasalter, Swalecliffe, Graveney, Monks-Horton, and Harrietsham.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL.. Volume III. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1901. 95, [1] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men. A very good copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL.. Volume IV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1902. 90, [2] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men.’ A very good, clean copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume IX. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date. 88 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Little rubbed at head & heel of spine; else a very good copy.
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