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TRAVELS IN CHINA. A Plantsman's Paradise.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. First Edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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TRAVELS IN NUBIA; by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa.
Farnborough: Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1968. 498 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three maps, 2 of which are folding. Hardcover. Green cloth gilt. Octavo. A fine copy.
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TRAVELS IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT, during the campaigns of General Bonaparte. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, an historical account of the Invasion of Egypt by the French. By E.A. Kendal, Esq. Illustrated by maps, views &c. &c. in two volumes.
London.B.Crosby and Co. 1802. Vol. I: [iii], lxx, [1], 2-264pp; folding map with some outline colouring; 3 engraved plates. Vol II: [1], 2-285pp; folding plan and 3 engraved plates. Both volumes in half calf over marbled boards. Octavo. First edition. Spines and corners a trifle rubbed with some bumping to Vol. 1; board edges showing some wear; pages lightly browned - particularly the title of volume I; bookplates to both volumes; else a very good set.
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TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. The Fifith edition, Corrected.
London: Charles Bathurst, at the Cross-Keys in Fleet-Street, 1747. [10], 296 pages. Six engraved full-Page plates. Contemporary calf, some time re-backed. Octavo. There is some old worming to the lower margin, affecting the imprint and some of the letterpress of the ‘contents’ leaves; small piece cut from flyleaf, probably to remove an ownership name; else a very good, clean copy. The first three editions were published by Motte. Bathurst published the fourth edition in 1742 and the fifth in 1747. See Teerink 303. Scarce.
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TREASURE ISLAND. Drawings by Mervyn Peake.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1949. [vi], vii + [iii] + [3]-244 + [i] pages. Hardback. Original pictorial unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. First edition thus. A fine copy in a fine dust-wrapper.
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TRIBES WITH FLAGS A Journey Curtailed.
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TRILBY A Novel. With 121 illustrations by the author.
London. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1895. Hardback. First edition. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Light spotting to the untrimmed fore-edges, else a fine copy, the binding bright and fresh.
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TROIS DÉVOTS PAIENS. II. Porphyre, Lettre a Marcella. Traduit par A.-J. Festugière.
Paris: La Colombe, 1944. No 469 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Little rubbed; else very good.
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TROIS DÉVOTS PAIENS. III. Sallustius.. Des Dieux et du Monde. Traduit par A.-J. Festugière.
Paris: La Colombe, 1944. No 469 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Little rubbed on spine; else very good.
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TROPICAL AFRICA. With maps and illustrations.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1888. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 228, 16 [ad's] pages. Illustrated with six folding maps, and engravings. Original red cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head of spine a little worn; else a very good, clean copy.
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS, and its neighbourhood, illustrated by a series of etchings, and historical descriptions. The etchings executed by Letitia Byrne.
London: William Miller, 1810. [8], 183[184] pages. Illustrated with 31 full-page engraved plates and 12 engraved vignettes. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Folio. 350 x 295 mm. First edition. Binding very worn and splitting at spine; frontispiece foxed and three plates a little foxed; else remarkably clean copy in need of re-binding.
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TUNC a novel.
London. Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy in printed wrappers. A very good copy.
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TUSCAN FOLK-LORE AND SKETCHES Together with some other papers. Edited with a biographical note, by her brothers H, Orsmond Anderton and Basil Anderton.
London: Arnold Fairbairns, 1905. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 271 pages. Frontispiece. Original pictorial cloth. 8vo. First edition. Binding soiled on the rear board; spine dulled; light spotting to endpapers; a very good working copy.
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TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE PICKWICK PAPERS.
London.Albert Jackson. 1894. A portfolio containing an 'Advertisement' leaf; title-page to Pickwick Papers with a hand-coloured etched vignette; 12 full-page hand-coloured etchings; and plate list. Original blue printed wrappers with contents loose and unstitched, as issued. Small, blank corner torn from plate list; wrappers a little bumped and creased at extremities; slight dusting at margins; else a very good, clean set.Originally designed to be published in 1847, these plates were thought lost until discovered by the family and here printed and published for the first time.
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TWICE ROUND THE CLOCK or the Hours of the Day and Night in London. Illustrated with forty-seven engravings on wood from drawings by the late William M’Connell.
London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1878. 392 pages. Bound in half red sheep gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. Ownership inscription on endpaper., else a very good copy in a handsome binding.
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TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. By Will. Shakespere: Printed Complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell, British Library, Strand, 1786. 96 pages. Not illustrated. Bound with: ANNOTATIONS by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and the various commentators, upon, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, written by Will. Shakespere. John Bell. 1787. 48 pages. The pair bound as one in contemporary half calf, gilt over marbled boards with a red gilt label to the spine. 12mo. 14.6 x 9.3 cm. Some browning to a few leaves at start and end from the leather corners; slight loss at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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TWO OLD MEN'S TALES. The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter.
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. [4], 364 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Very slight rubbing to head & heel of spine; else an excellent copy.
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ULSTER FIRESIDE TALES.
lONDON.Heath Cranton, Limited. No date. (1921.). 253pp. Original cloth. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. Some foxing front and rear and on endpapers; folding reproduction of a review from The Times on front free endpaper; presentation inscription from the author on the half-title. A very good copy in a scarce wrapper that has some light marking and one short tear.
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UNDERGROUND. Metropolitan District Railway. London Electric Railway. City and South London Railway. Central London Railway. INDEX TO THE TRAFFIC NOTICES Nos. 1/22 – 52/22. January to December, 1922 inclusive.
London: 1922. 494 pages, followed by 10 leaves, printed on one side only, of Failure Bulletins. Bound in cloth gilt. Binding a little worn; 2 library stamps have been scribbled over; fore-edges browned; else very good.
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URBAN RESIDENCE IN THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Compiled and Published under Authority of The General Manager, South African Railways and Harbours.
1924. Softcover. 64 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original pictorial covers. Octavo. 18.4 x 12.3 cm. Few light spots; name in pencil on title; else a very good, clean copy.
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