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A WESTMINSTER PILGRIM. Being a Record of Service in Church, Cathedral, and Abbey College, University, and Concert-room with a few notes on Sport.
London: Novello & Co., ltd, No date [1919]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xiii, [3], 362 pages. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Lightly foxed at start and end; ; names on endpapers; else a very good copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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A WINTER'S JOURNEY UP THE NILE. 1876-77.
Birmingham: Printed by the "Gazette Co, Limited.", No date [1877-78]. 79, [1 blank], [14] pages. Illustrated with nine original mounted albumen photographic prints. Recently rebound in quarter calf, gilt. Quarto. First edition. Some light browning and occasional spotting; else a very good copy of a rare book. WorldCat records only two copies in the U.K. and three in the United States.
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A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
London.William Heinemann Ltd. 1949. No 92 of a limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the author. Original quarter vellum over blue buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Original Card slipcase with the number '92' written in biro on the base. Octavo. Slipcase rather marked and worn; the book itself, apart from some very light spotting to the vellum, is almost fine.
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ABYSSINIA. Through the Lion-Land to the Court of the Lion of Judah. With 80 illustrations and two maps.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1901. xvi, 342, [2 ad’s] pages. Original blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Spine repaired at head & heel; binding a little tired and worn; but a good, clean copy.
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ACKERMANN 1783 – 1983 the business of art.
London: Ackermann, 1983. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 256 pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. A fine copy in a like Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Signed in full by the author on the title-page.
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ADAM GRAINGER. A Tale. Copyright edition. Vol. 1586.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1876. 255 pages. Bound with; OLIPHANT, Mrs. THE CURATE IN CHARGE. Copyright edition. Vol. 1561. Leipzig. Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1876. 311 pages. The two bound as one in blue pebbled cloth gilt; both titles on the spine. Paper of the second title a little browned; else a good pair, with both half-title present.
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ADÈLE DE SENANGE, ou Lettres de Lord Sydenham. En deux volumes.
Londres: Se trouve chez Debrett, Piccadilly; Hookham, Bond Street; Edwards, Pall Mall; & chez De Boeffe, Gerrard Street, 1794. Two volumes bound as one. [4], xxiv, 186; [4], 259 pages. Contemporary full calf gilt. 12mo. First edition. Spine expertly repaired, and with a new title label; some spotting on the fore-edges, which has penetrated a few millimetres into some of the pages; lack half-titles; else a very good copy. The front pastedown bears the bookplate 'Panshanger' which was the country estate of the Earls of Cowper; the library was dispersed in 1953.
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ADRIAN AND ORRILA; or, A Mother's Vengeance. A play in five acts.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 10, [2], [1], 2-95pp. In original wrappers as issued. Octavo. First edition. Front and back pages a trifle grubby and darkened; some page turning to corners; fore-edges uncut also with some turning; else a good copy.
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ADVICE TO A FRIEND By Simon Patrick, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. The Fourth Edition.
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AEQUANIMITAS with other addresses to medical students, nurses, and practitioners of medicine. With an introduction by H. A. F. Dudley.
London: The Keynes Press, 1984. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper as issued. xiv, 320 pages. Original quarter cloth over marbled boards; ribbon marker. Loosely laid in is a prospectus for the series. Number 67 of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies. A near fine copy.
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AESOP'S FABLES Illustrated by Ernest Griset. With text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. Revised and re-written by J. B. Rundell. Second edition.
London. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. No date [circa 1873]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 244 [4 catalogue] pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original brown pictorial cloth. Gilt. 4to. Front and rear inner joints lightly cracked; head & heel of spine a little worn; but a very good, clean copy.
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AESOPI PHRYGIS fabulae elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantes…
Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1594. Editio postrema, caeteris omnibus castigatior. [1-2], 3 –410, [6]pp. 61 woodcuts in text. Parallel Greek and Latin texts. 18th century calf gilt, expertly re-backed. Some water-staining; else a very good copy. First published by Jean de Tournes in 1570.
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AFFECTIONATE DAUGHTER, Giving an account of Antony Molina, a rich and powerful Gentleman, who for some treasonable Offence against the state, was sentenced to be starved to death in a Dismal Horrible Dungeon! Showing how his life was most wonderfully preserv'd by the milk from his Daughter [sic] Breast.
Northampton: Printed & Published by G. Henson, No date [ circa 1845]. 8 pages, unstitched as issued. 17.5 x 10.7 cm. Slight browning to edges, else a fine copy of this scarce chapbook.
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AFRICA VIEW.
London: Chatto & Windus. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. 455 pages. Illustrated with 34 black & white plates, and a folding map. Original black cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Some light wear to binding, but a very good copy.
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AFRICAN CROSSROADS. With a Foreword by Lord Harlech, K.G.
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 243 page. Portrait frontispiece and 7 other plates. Original blue cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Wrapper a little worn and torn; else a very good copy. Frontispiece inscribed by the author: 'In remembrance of happy days and good companionship in Uganda. Yours ever Charles Dundas July 1955.' Loosely laid in is a three-page manuscript letter to [Major GHR Geoffrey] Pye-Smith discussing the book and his present life in Grasmere.
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Afrikanische wanderungen EINES Naturdorschers und Jägers. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe. Übersetzung von Dr. Max Kullnick. Mit 48 Illustrationen auf 48 Tafeln nach Photographien von Kermit Roosevelt und anderen Mitgliedern der Expedition und nach Zeichnungen von Philip R. Goodwin.
Berlin: Paul Parey, 1910. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xvi, 464, [4 ad's] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. 4to. First German edition. Touch of wrinkling to the head of spine; else very good.
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AFTER DARK. Copyright edition. Vol. CCCLXVII.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1856. 377 pages. Half-title present. Bound in quarter green morocco over marbled boards. Half-title, title, and last leaf lightly browned, and the occasional patch; else a very good copy.
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AIDS TO REFLECTION in the Formation of a Manly Character on the several grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: illustrated by select passages from our elder divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton. By S.T. Coleridge, Esq. R.A., R.S.L. Second edition.
London: Hurst, Chance, & Co. St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1831. xv, [1 blank], 408 pages. Contemporary calf, sometime re-backed. All edges gilt. Octavo. Bookplate; inners joints cracked but firm; else very good
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ALBUM DE REDOUTÉ with twenty-five facsimile colour plates from the edition of 1824 and a new Redouté bibliography.
London: Collins, 1954. Number 97 of 250 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Half black morocco gilt over marbled boards. Top edges gilt. Folio. Contained in a cloth and paper slipcase which is illustrated to one side. 20 pages, plus 25 full page tissue guarded plates printed in six and eight colours on mould-made paper made by Schut of Heelsum. Bound by Mansell of London. Head of spine and one corner lightly bumped; slipcase worn at entry points; else a fine clean copy. Please note this book is very heavy – nearly 4 kilo’s – and would be very expensive to ship abroad.
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Alfred De Musset's Souvenir. Rendered into English Verse.
Cairo: The Salamander Productions, 1942. Illustrated with one plate. Loosely inserted, on publisher's paper, is single sheet of paper bearing a printed quote from Swinburne, and a pencilled inscription from the author: 'For Pat Wright from Keith Bullen Oxford 14 August '48.' Completely split at spine, with small loss; else very good.
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