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Lez Smart
Maps That Made History: The Influential, the Eccentric and the Sublime
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to upper and lower rear edges. 191pp. A study of twenty-five old maps, here reproduced large scale with magnified details, which record major and minor events of history from the early Elizabethan cartographers to the soldiers of World War Two. A fascinating collection.
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The Editor
Yalta Resort : Postcard Book (1955)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight book of fold-out postcards with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Thirty-eight coloured photographs of Yalta the Russian resort in the Crimea, most postcard size, a few half-size, some double size. Descriptions in English, French, Spanish, German and two Cyrilic languages. Undated, ca 1955. Very scarce.
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Kelleher, D. L.
Ireland of the Welcomes
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing/rubbing to oversize parts of covers. A clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 144pp. Tourist guide to Ireland with some photographs. Undated ca 1930s.
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Daen, Leonid ; Poznyak, Pavel & Cherp, Mark
Kiev Travel Guide
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright vinyl boards, faint ink mark to rear and no bumping to corners. 224pp. Travel guide to Soviet Kiev with an emphasis on Soviet propaganda and history. Scarce in the UK.
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David, Joy (editor)
The Hidden Places of North Yorkshire
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to front cover or to spine, small crease to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight damp effect to part of rear fore-edge and no bumping to corners. Fold-out map at rear in excellent condition. 216pp. An easily used book which takes you on a gentle meander through the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire. As well as some of the well-known tourist attractions are those little known features which are so easily missed.
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R. Harris
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 56pp. Features on old and traditional buildings within the site explaining their constructional methods and history. Well illustrated. Tucked in are five colour postcards from the Museum.
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Alex Inkson McConnochie
Deeside: Aberdeenshire
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked red cloth boards, rubbing to spine ends and lower edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning and a little rubbing to edges. Large fold-out map at the rear (35 x 14 inches) published by Lewis Smith of Aberdeen in excellent condition. 233pp. Originally publshed in 1900, this guide for tourists of the time gives history and legend, poetry and ballad and much description about the area of Deeside and is still of relevance to the present day tourist.
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Cowles, Frederick I.
Not Far from the Smoke
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A series of adventures and excursions to outlying towns and villages around the cities Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leeds and Birmingham. A few photographs.
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A. Wainwright
Wainwright's Favourite Lakeland Mountains
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight indenting to front. 216pp. Superbly illustrated guide to and descriptions of the Lake District mountains from A Wainwright. Tucked in is a guide to a walk from Clapham - Gaping Gill & Ingleborough.
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The Editor
Pompeii: Villa of Mysteries, Vesuvius
Book appears in mint unread condition. 127pp. Tourist guide to Pompeii and Vesuvius. Very well illustrated.
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Leonardo B.Dal Maso
Rome of the Caesars
Book in as new condition. 126pp. Description of Rome in historic times from the 1st century BC up to the mid 4th century. Very well illustrated.
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Stokes, Adrian
Venice : An Aspect of Art
Label removal mark inside rear board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with dusty marked boards and page edges, sunned spine and bumping to front corners. 72pp. A history and description of Venice and its buildings with forty-eight black and white photographic plates.
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Brewer, Leslie
Britain By Road : A Car and Coach Travel Digest
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Slight creasing to front corners, creasing to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty boards, small mark to front, a little rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 214pp. Routes around Britain for the car traveller using many by-roads to get the traveller to a destination more quickly (1963 style). The book avoids the industrial areas - as these are not 'worthy of recommendation to the tourist' !
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Bateman, M. (editor)
Atlas of Portsmouth
A very large book. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some page corners. A clean copy with sound ring binding, slightly dusty slightly sunned unmarked boards with a little peeling to the reinforcing laminate on the boards. Unpaginated. ca 140pp. Mainly a series of maps and associated text showing the statistics applicable to Portsmouth in terms of Administration, Physical Background, Historical Development, Economic Structure & Social Facilities, Census and Community Analysis and Contemporary Growth and Change. Plus a fair number of photographs of the area showing the features referred to in the maps and text.
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John Prebble
John Prebble's Scotland
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked unusual white card boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 207pp. John Prebble's journey through the landscape of Scotland, through memory and history, spanning the Borders, the Highlands and the Isles. Illustrated in colour and in black & white.
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The Editor
Harrogate and York and their surroundings
Name/date on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards, light rubbing to oversize parts of covers, very old price sticker to front and no bumping to corners. 32pp. A series of photogravure photgraphs mainly of buildings plus towns and beauty spots in these parts of North Yorkshire, including Knaresborough, Beverley, Ripon and Ripley.
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Brodrick, Alan Houghton (editor)
Normandy : The People's France
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked owith small tear/crease near upper front spine edge. Large fold-out map at rear in excellent condition. 316pp. Well illustrated study and guide for the area of Normandy in northern France. The same format as Mee's King's England.
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White, Walter
A Month in Yorkshire (Signed By Publisher)
Appears unread. Signed to front end paper 'With the publisher's compliments M.T.D. Rigg, Dec 01'. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 386pp. The original travel/history account was published in 1858. This is the second edition facsimile.
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Chagnolleau, Jean ; Dez, Gaston ; Lavaud, Jacques & Crozet, Rene
Visages De Poitou
Name, date & origin on front end paper. Also two of authors names and a few place names underlined. Creasing to oversize parts of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with sunning to page edges and covers and rubbing to spine ends. 195pp. Very well illustrated guide, culture and history of the French region of Poitou, now part of the new region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. With a number of fold-out maps all in very good condition. All text in French.
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John Betjeman
John Betjeman's Oxford
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to spine, signs of storage and no bumping to corners. 192pp. Originally written in the 1930s, an unusual illustrated guide and history to the City of Oxford.
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Roderick MacFarquhar
The Forbidden City
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 172pp. With nearly 150 illustrations, many in colour, this account describes China's Forbidden City which only became accessible to all Chinese citizens after the 1911 revolution.
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W.T. Barber
Exploring the Marches and Borderlands of Wales
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 223pp. The author's journeyings over an area of about twenty miles either side of the border from the Severn Estuary to the Dee and Chester. Illustrated.
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Steve Smith
Manchester Real Ale Pub Guide
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 72pp. A real ale pub guide to supping in the city of Manchester and beyond. Very scarce.
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Tring Urban District Council
Tring Urban District : The Official Guide
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out street plan and map on rear in excellent condition. 40pp. Official guide the the Hertfordshire town of Tring with history, Local Authority information and photographs of the town in the early 1970s. Extremely scarce.
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Robert Gambee
Nantucket Island (Signed By Author)
New book still in shrink wrap. Presumably signed before sealing. pp. A photographic album of Nantucket Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Ron Thornton
The River Tyne from Sea to Source
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper and lower edges. 160pp. A historical and background study of the River Tyne accompanied by the author's attractive paintings and illustrations. The direction of travel is from the harbour at Tynemouth upstream to both North and South Tyne sources. Beautifully illustrated.
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The Editors
Aspects of Indonesian Culture : Java - Sumatra
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 84pp. Details of the culture of Indonesia with particular emphasis on Jakarta's Central Museum Pusat. Illustrated.
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Eagleton, Terry
The Truth About the Irish
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 181pp. The book which 'separates the myths about the Irish from the reality with a blend of caustic commentary, jokes that will make you laugh out loud and answers to questions you were too polite to ask'.
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Belling, Lawrence N.
Seychelles : Iles D'amour : Islands of Love (Signed By Chief Minister)
Inscribed on title page from the Chief Minister James R Mancham to Tom Pendry MP. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright cream boards, faint coloured mark to rear and no bumping to corners. 128pp. An account of the Islands of the Seychelles published for the visitor. Very well illustrated. Text in English and French.
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Tooley, R.V.
Maps and Map-Makers
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to bottom of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing/rubbing to upper edge and label removal to dust flap. 140pp. plus 104 plates, mostly full-page. Fourth edition of the classic study of maps with wide applicability to amateurs and professionals alike.
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Susan Nowak; Jill Adam
Beer, Bed and Breakfast
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 384pp. Great accomodation in over 500 UK real ale pubs.
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Fosbery, Richard
OCR A2 Biology Student Unit Guide: Unit F214 Communication, Homeostasis and Energy (Student Unit Guides)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 101pp. Revision guidance, examiner advice, sample questions and answers for biology - communication, homeostasis and energy.
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O. Akbulatova (ed.) N. Vernova
Peterhof (Treasures of Russia)
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 82pp. A guide to the sumptuous Palace and gardens of Peterhof in St. Petersburg, Russia. Very scarce in the UK.
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The Editor
Croatia : Small Country for a Great Holiday
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to upper corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. ca. 60pp. Travel guide to Croatia - the thousand islands of the Croatian Adriatic.
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Abreu, Mauricio & Judice, Nuno
Algarve
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 79pp. Lavish photographs in promotional tourist guide to the Algarve region of Portugal.
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Winston Halstead (editor)
Lancashire Magazine : Autumn 1978
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 71pp. Features on Clitheroe and Gisburn, curious Lancashire, Ferries across the Mersey, fashion, leisure, local history.
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The Editor
Welcome to Stockbridge Massachusetts 1978-1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight boklet with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 20pp. Brochure for the town of Stockbridge in Massachusetts, North America with history, what to see and adverts. Scarce.
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Kalcovsky, Antonin (art editor)
Praha
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 192pp. Architectural and cultural pictorial guide to Prague. Interestingly the Mayor states (in 1985) that the city was saved in 1945 by the illustrious (!) Soviet Army from destruction.. A number of poems in Czech throughout the book. The page-referenced index at the end names each illustration in five languages including English.
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Karoly Szelenyi
Tokaj: Countryside in Changing Light
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards with fainly intented rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with faintly indented rear. Unpaginated pp. A pictorial account of the Hungarian regions of Bodrogkoz, Hegyalja, Hegykos and the Tokaj Hills. Almost all text in English, a little in Hungarian. With 136 colour plates, many full or double page. Scarce in the UK.
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The Editor
Brownie Annual 1981
Name/date to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Title page not price clipped. Puzzles not done. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 77pp. Girl Guides Association Brownie Annual for 1981.
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Ordnance Survey
Reprint of the First Edition of the One-inch ORDNANCE SURVEY of England and Wales : Sheet No. 26 : Northwich & Warrington
Large fold-out map in excellent unmarked condition. Slip folder with very slight bumps to corners. 1pp. Reprint of the Ordnance Survey map covering parts of Cheshire and (originally) Lancashire with data up to about 1890.
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Geographia
Vintage Denmark Map 1970
No marks or inscriptions to map or covers. Very minor creasing to covers. A very clean not torn map with bright unmarked boards. 1pp. Opens up to 23 x 30 inch vintage Geographia map of Denmark in 1970.
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Bartholomew
Bartholomew's Quarter Inch Map of Ireland : Sheet 4 - Cork and Killarney
No marks or inscriptions. Two secitions slightly sunned. A little tearing along most exposed vertical fold. Some exposure of the linen but still intact along some other folds. 1pp. Folded linen-backed vintage map of Cork and Killarney opens up to 23 x 33 inches. Undated ca 1950s. Compass north bearing date 1948.
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Bartholomew
Bartholomew's Quarter Inch Map of Ireland : Sheet 5 - Galway - Mayo
No marks or inscriptions. A little very slightl sunning. Intact map with no tears. 1pp. Folded linen-backed vintage map of Galway and Mayo opens up to 23 x 33 inches. Undated ca 1950s. Compass north bearing date 1951.
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Ordnance Survey
Killarney & Dingle Bay : Survey of Ireland Sheet 20 : Quarter Inch
No marks or inscriptions. A clean bright slightly sunned unmarked folded map opens up to 21 x 30 inches. Tears (2 and 3 inches) along two folds and small opening up at two corners 1pp. Ordnance Survey of Ireland quarter inch to 1 mile map of Killarney & Dingle Bay. Scarce.
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Ordnance Survey of Ireland
Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1:250,000 Sheet 5 South West
No marks or inscriptions. Clean, not torn folded 1:250, 000 map opens out to 28 x 35 inches. Tiny nicks/creasing to oversized part of slightly sunned covers. 1pp. Covers South West Ireland from Limerick in the north down to Cork and Killarney in the west across to Tipperary.
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The Editor
Carte De France - Map of Nancy (1962)
Very good condition with a little creasing to corners. Unmarked, not torn map. 1pp. Folded map 1:100.000 of French City of Nancy based on 1958 with partial update 1962. Opens up to 22 x 28 inches.
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John Bartholomew
Map of Spain and Portugal in Layer Colouring 1 : 1,600,000. (1943)
Clean map with two panes a little dusty, four inch tear along one fold and small holes to a few folding corners. 1pp. Linen-backed folded contour map dated 1943 opens up to 25 x 31 inches. Scale given on front cover of 1:6,000,000 is corrected inside as being 1:1,600.000. Date 1943 printed on lower map corner. Scarce.
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Demouy, Patrick
Rheims Cathedral
Name/date to first page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 32pp. History, architecture and guide to Rheims Cathedral in France. Well illustrated in colour.
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National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) Visitor Guide
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Description and examples of major exhibits at the Gallery.
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