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HURLEY R. C.
Picturesque Hong Kong. A British Crown Colony and Dependencies. A RARE SURVIVAL IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with over 70 plates and 4 folding maps (2 large and coloured); handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, original pictorial wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a contemporary picture postcard and embroidered Christmas card (1945) loosely inserted. One of the best - and scarcest - pre-WWII guides to Hong Kong. Profusely illustrated and with very numerous trade advertisements throughout, it includes detailed coloured maps of Hong Kong Island and the New Territories, and plans of the Central District of Victoria and the Canton-Kowloon railway. A splendid copy of a work rarely found complete. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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BUNGAY
The Churches of Bungay. Third Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with photographs in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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LAVENHAM
The Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Lavenham. 3rd Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo. Third Edition with photographs in the text; printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements
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YATES Jack
Lincolnshire. A Shell Guide. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and photographic endpapers; red cloth, backstrip blocked in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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SMITH Juliet
Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough. A Shell Guide. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and photographic endpapers; khaki cloth, backstrip blocked in red, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the first edition of 1968.
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SHARP Thomas
Northumberland. A Shell Guide. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED SECOND STATE DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text, 2 coloured maps (one double-page) and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published as 'Northumberland & Durham' in 1937. The dustwrapper is the second state with multiple photographs priced at 15s. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PIPER John
Oxfordshire (not including the City of Oxford). A Shell Guide. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in navy, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the advertisement leaf at end. One of the scarcest titles in this much-loved series. This is the revised version of Piper's original edition of 1938. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HOSKINS W.G.
Rutland. A Shell Guide. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page), full-page map in the text and photographic endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Arguably the scarcest title in this much-loved series. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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THOROLD Henry
Staffordshire. A Shell Guide. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page), double-page coloured map and photographic endpapers; terracotta cloth, backstrip blocked in cream, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HICKMAN Douglas
Warwickshire. [A Shell Guide]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, numerous photographs (many full-page) throughout, double-page coloured map and photographic endpapers; orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WATKIN Bruce
Buckinghamshire. A Shell Guide. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of grey cloth, backstrip blocked in navy, a near fine copy in unclipp Expanded version of Nash's original edition of 1937.
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SCARFE Norman
Cambridgeshire. [A Shell Guide]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, very numerous photographs (a number full-page)in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of beige cloth, backstrip blocked in dark red, a near fine copy in unclippe SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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THOROLD Henry
County Durham. A Shell Guide. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, backstrip blocked in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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PITT-RIVERS Michael
Dorset. A Shell Guide. Incorporating Notes by Andrew Wordsworth. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, backstrip blocked in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Expanded version of the original edition of 1935.
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VEREY David
Herefordshire. A Shell Guide. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED SECOND STATE DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth backstrip blocked in yellow a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is the second state showing multiple photographs. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HEALEY R.M.
Hertfordshire. A Shell Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with frontispiece title-vignette numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of red cloth backstrip lettered in brown a very good bright clean copy i
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VAUGHAN-THOMAS Wynford
South and Mid Wales.. The New Shell Guides. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured title-spread, numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page), and maps in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BETJEMAN John
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide.
8vo. First Edition with numerous plates throughout and folding coloured map; red boards upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black boards lightly age-marked else a very good bright clean copy. With contemporary signature and accompanying personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Peterson A16; Stapleton p.25.
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JENKINSON H.I.
Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to the Isle of Wight. Third Edition. BRIGHT COPY WANTING ONE MAP
8vo., Third Edition, with engraved map as frontispiece, WANTING SECOND MAP; original green cloth, boards with double frame border in black, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, primrose endpapers, case a little loose but a good working copy. With 46pp of trade advertisements at end. First published in 1876. SCARCE. Anderson, p.123.
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MADAN Falconer
Oxford outside the Guide-Books. Second Issue, Revised. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates and plans (a number folding); pictorial blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper, and trade advertisements at rear. Revised and updated version of the first edition of 1923. Cordeaux & Merry 418.
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READ] [Charles H.
A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. [With Preface by Charles H. Read].
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 9 coloured plates and very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, neat contemporary signature on front inside board; original grey boards, upper boards and backstrip lettered in white, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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JOWITT R.L.P.
The Penguin Guides. Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
8vo., First Edition, with 8pp of coloured maps, page-edges tanning slightly as usual; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Penguin G13.
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BANKS F. R.
The Penguin Guides. Warwickshire and the Shakespeare Country.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece and plans in the text, page-edges tanning slightly as usual; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Penguin G18.
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BANKS F. R.
The Penguin Guides. Sussex. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece and plans in the text, page-edges tanning slightly as usual; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Penguin G16.
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NASH John
Bucks. Shell Guide. With Notes on Monuments by Katherine A Esdaile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL COMB-BOUND EDITION
4to., First Edition, with title-vignette, 8 plates on pink stock, numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial wrappers with black comb-binding, an unusually bright, clean copy. One of the first ten titles in this wonderful series edited by Betjeman. In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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ARNOLD E.N.
A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. Illustrated by Denys Ovenden. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and numerous line illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth boards, covers very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
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FIELD Rev. T
Canterbury Official Guide to the Cathedral Church. and Handbook to the City IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and folding maps; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a a very good, bright, clean copy. In this condition, an uncommon survival.
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and LYNMOUTH LYNTON
The Ramblers' Guide to Lynton and Lynmouth. Fifth Revised Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Oblong 8vo., Fifth Edition, with photographs, maps in the text and large folding map; origjnal printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a fragile production.
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CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL
Shilling Guide to Chichester Cathedral. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1946.
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CHURCH Richard
The Royal Parks of London. With Drawings by Victor Cooley. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with folding map as frontispiece, plates, illustrations ( a number full-page) in the text and 7 folding maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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BARNARD Lady Emma
Parham and the Pearsons 1922-1948. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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PALMER W.T.
North Wales. The Penguin Guides. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., Second Impression, with 8pp of coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First issued in 1949.
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BEVAN G. Phillips
Tourist's Guide to the West Riding of Yorkshire. Containing full Information concerning all is principal Places of Resort and Interest. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT COPY WANTING ONE MAP
8vo., Fourth Edition, with full-page plan and folding map, free endpapers lightly browned; original brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, case a little shaken (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy. With 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. We have never seen a copy with two maps as called for. If a second map was present, it would probably have been a county map; the exisiting map shows roads and railways.
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BANKS F. R.
Around Godalming. Footpath Guides No. 26. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; printed wrappers, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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WILSON Tom
Crosthwaite Parish Church. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with photographs, illustrations in the text and full-page plan; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM
Durham Castle. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First edition, with photographs; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, cup-ring on front wrapper else a good, bright copy. UNCOMMON.
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CHADWICK John C.
The Unusual Guide to Salisbury. Illustrated by John Cooper, Nigel Clarke. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. UNCOMMON.
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ALLAN John R.
The Shilling Guides. North-East Scotland. Aberdeen. Kincardine. Banff. Moray. Nairn. BRIGHT COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Shell Shilling Guide No. 46.
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TAYLOR Wilfred
The Shilling Guides. The South Highlands. Perth and Angus. BRIGHT COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Shell Shilling Guide No. 45.
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BRADLEY M.C.
The Deanery Guide to Westminster Abbey. Fifteenth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., Fifteenth Edition, with frontispiece, plates, illustrations and plans in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a well-preserved, bright, clean copy. The rear wrapper carries an advertisement for the Charing Cross Turkish Baths - a favourite haunt of Holmes and Watson!
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MONMARCHE Georges
Paris. Photos de Marcelle D'Heilly. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout, small signature on title; pictorial wrappers, a good, clean copy.
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STOBART Tom
The International Wine and Food Society's Guide to Herbs, Spices and Flavourings. Illustrations by Ian Garrard. [CBC edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus, with 8 coloured plates, very numerous monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and decorative endpapers; yellow cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1970, this is arguably the best of the single-volume compendia of herbs and spices. A well-known mountaineer and member of Hunt's 1953 Everest Expedition, Stobart later developed two other careers - as photographer and cookery writer. This volume was some twenty years in the making. Curiously elusive in this condition.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Worthing,. The South Downs, Lancing, Shoreham, Littlehampton, Arundel, with a special Section for Motorists. Seventh Edition - Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with folding map as frontispiece, plates and maps (a number folding), contemporary annotations on front free endpaper; original series binding of limp red cloth covers printed in black, radial corners, cream advertisement endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and 48pp of trade advertisements at rear. The Red Guide series has several versions devoted to Worthing and the adjacent Sussex coast. This is a very nice copy of an early issue
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BYRON Robert
Shell Guide to Wiltshire. A Series of Views. [First Faber edition], BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST FABER EDITION
4to., First Edition thus, with numerous plates on cream stock, photographs (many full-page) in the text, 2 full-page coloured maps and pictorial endpapers; original ivory cloth, backstrip blocked in blue and lettered in white, comb-bound as issued, covers faintly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. Originally published by Architectural Press in 1935, this is one of the first ten titles in this wonderful series edited by Betjeman (see Peterson D4). In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. The Gazetteer was compiled by Edith Olivier. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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PETWORTH
Petworth (Sussex). Rural District Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Rural England series No. 72. With trade advertisements at front and rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BYRON Robert
Shell Guide to Wiltshire. A Series of Views. [First Faber edition], BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST FABER EDITION
4to., First Edition thus, with numerous plates on cream stock, photographs (many full-page) in the text, 2 full-page coloured maps and pictorial endpapers; original ivory cloth, backstrip blocked in blue and lettered in white, comb-bound as issued, covers faintly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. Originally published by Architectural Press in 1935, this is one of the first ten titles in this wonderful series edited by Betjeman (see Peterson D4). In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. The Gazetteer was compiled by Edith Olivier. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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QUENNELL C.H.B.
Somerset. Shell Guide. [Edited by John Betjeman. First Faber edition], BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST FABER EDITION
4to., First Edition thus, with numerous plates on green stock, photographs (many full-page) in the text, 2 full-page coloured maps and patterned endpapers; original ivory cloth, backstrip blocked in red and lettered in white, comb-bound as issued, covers lightly spotted (as often), a very good, bright, clean copy. Originally published by Architectural Press in 1936, this one of the first ten titles in this wonderful series edited by Betjeman (see Peterson D4). In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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CAMERON Mary Lovett
The Inquiring Pilgrim's Guide to Assisi. to which is added the First Life of S. Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edge lightly spotted; burgundy cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at edges and wanting top quarter of backstrip. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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CHAMBERS George F
Tourists' Guide to the County of Sussex. containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Fourth edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with large folding map as frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, endpapers very lightly spotted; original terracotta cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 40pp of trade advertisements at end.
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FORD Richard
A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home. Describing the Country and Cities, the Natives and their Manners; the Antiquities, Religion, Legends, Fine Ars, Literature, Sports and Gastronomy. Foreword by Sir John Balfour. Edited and with an Introduction by Ian Robertson. NEAR FINE SET OF THE CENTAUR EDITION
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 frontispieces and 2 large folding maps; navy cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, a near fine set. The set comprises Vol. I: Preliminary Remarks and Andalucia; Vol. II: Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, Estremadura, Leon and Gallicia; Vol. III: The Asturias, The Castiles (Old and New), The Basque Provinces, Arragon and Navarre. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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