Best.-Nr. 25481OXFORD PRINTED AT THE THEATRE 1702-4. FIRST EDITION THREE VOLUMES FOLIO 26 BY 40CM. 557pp 581pp 603pp. RECENTLY THIS YEAR 2016 FINELY REBOUND AND RESTORED IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER NEW BROWN BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS. VOLUME 1: LACKS TITLE PAGE HALF TITLE PREFACE xxiii pp 557 pp. PROFESSIONAL REPAIR TO SOME EARLY PAGE EDGES. VOLUME 2: HALF TITLE TITLE PAGE DATED 1703 DEDICATION 8pp 581 pp EARLY PAGES WORN TO THE EDGES THEN VERY GOOD EVIDENCE OF WORMING TO A FEW LATE PAGES. VOLUME 3: TITLE PAGE DATED 1704 DEDICATION 603 pp INDEX. ONE VOLUME CONTAINS THE ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH OF NORTH WALES DATED 1707. OVERALL A VERY HANDSOME AND TIGHT SET. EXTRA WILL BE REQUIRED POSTAGE OUTSIDE THE UK. OXFORD, PRINTED AT THE THEATRE, 1702-4 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 8056WILLIAM MACKENZIE. LONDON. TWELVE VOLUMES WITH MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN MAROON EMBOSSED CLOTH LATE VICTORIAN NO DATE. VOL.1 HAS PAGES 59-61 LOOSE. SOME SPINES FADED SOME WEAR BUT GENERALLY A VERY GOOD SET. WILLIAM MACKENZIE. LONDON. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26975EDINBURGH BELL AND BRADFUTE 1798 . THE TITLE PAGE OF THIS BOOK IS MISSING SO I CANNOT VOUCH FOR THE PUBLISHER OR THE DATE BUT THE FIRST EDITION WAS PRODUCED IN EDINBURGH BY BELL AND BRADFUTE IN 1798. LARGE FOLIO 28 BY 42 CM LATER REBINDING IN HALF LEATHER RAISED BAND GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE RED TITLE LABLE MARBLED ENDPAPERS. BOUND INTO THE FRONT IS A FOUR PAGE HAND-WRITTEN INDEX IN 19TH CENTURY COPPERLATE. THE BINDING IS ATTRACTIVE TIGHT THE PAGES VERY CLEAN. BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM HENRY MASON TO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN. SOME COPIES REFER TO ARMORIAL PLATES IN THE TEXT BUT NOT IN THIS COPY. 562 pp. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS. EDINBURGH, BELL AND BRADFUTE, 1798 (?) hardcover
Best.-Nr. 8759LONDON 1803. PRINTED BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE 111. IN PURSUANCE OF AN ADDRESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN. FOLIO VOLUME IN ORIGINAL PRINTER`S BOARDS WITH LOOSE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS. CALF SPINE AND CORNERS. SPINE IS WORN . THERE ARE DAMP STAINS ON FIRST FEW PAGES. SOME PAGES TO THE REAR HAVE BEEN FOLDED. BINDING IS POOR BUT CONTENTS SOUND AND CLEAN. LONDON, 1803 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 5722LONDON CHARLES KNIGHT 1850. BOUND IN HALF LEATHER VERY WORN TEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE. A CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. WITH QUALITY ENGRAVINGS OF CONTEMPORARY SCENES AND FIGURES. ALSO THREE FOLD-OUT MAPS. 641 PAGES. MARBLED BOARDS. WOULD INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE IF SENT OVERSEAS. LONDON, CHARLES KNIGHT, 1850 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 262721899 METHUEN LONDON. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH PROTECTIVE FILM. ATTRACTIVE ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT BOARD. SOME FOXING TO FIRST 2 PAGES AND PAGE EDGES. ACCOUNT OF CYCLE RIDE FROM LONDON TO KHIVA. SCARCE. 1899 METHUEN, LONDON hardcover
Best.-Nr. 20634S. CROWDER & H. WOODGATE. LONDON. 1755. FIRST EDITION. AN UNANSWERABLE VINDICATION OF THE SOCIETY OF EXETER COLLEGE. IN REPLY TO THE VICE-CHANCELLOR DR. KING AND THE WRITERS OF THE LONDON EVENING POST. ATTRACTIVELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS 32 PAGES SOME FOXING. S. CROWDER & H. WOODGATE. LONDON. 1755 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 28853LONDON MACMILLAN 1867. FIRST EDITION HALF CALF BY J. CARSS OF GLASGOW FRONTISPIECE 2 COLOUR MAPS ONE FOLDING PLUS 24 PLATES FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR. pp xii 596. SOME SCUFFING TO THE LEATHER SPINE FRONT HINGE WEAK OTHERWISE A NICE VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1867 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26553OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1939. 1ST EDITION. FOLIO WITH 10 PLATES IN COLOUR AND 47 IN MONOCHROME. LIMITED TO ONLY 250 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 39.VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL BEIGE CLOTH GILT. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD, UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1939 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26804LONDON CASSELL 1883. SECOND EDITION. VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH. GILT TITLES. ALL EDGES GILT. LACKS F.E.P. WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON, CASSELL, 1883 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 23851LONDON FOR R STEVENS 1761. THIRD EDITION BOUND WITH PLAIN ENGLISH: IN ANSWER TO CITY LATIN. FIRST EDITION. BOTH BOUND TOGETHER IN PLAIN MODERN LEATHER NEW ENDPAPERS. CITY LATIN pp 36. PLAIN ENGLISH IN ANSWER pp 32. ATTRIBUTED TO THE REV. BUSBY BIRCH ON THE TITLE PAGE. BOTH ARE VERY GOOD COPIES BUT 'IN ANSWER' HAS A TEAR ON ONE PAGE. LONDON, FOR R STEVENS, 1761 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 25846LONDON BOUQUET 1754. FIRST EDITION POLITICAL PAMPHLET 63 PAGES VERY NICELY BOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD. A VERY GOOD COPY WITH THE LAST PAGE PROFESSIONALLY REPAIRED. A DEFENCE OF THE FELLOWS AGAINST AN ATTACK BY HUDDESFORD MADE IN A SPEECH ON 8 OCTOBER 1754. LONDON, BOUQUET, 1754 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 262591770 LONDON DODSLEY. SEVENTH EDITION NICELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER NEW ENDPAPERS VERY GOOD. HAND-COLOURED FRONTISPIECE. COLLECTION OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY A FAMILY DURING THEIR RESIDENCE IN BATH. 1770, LONDON, DODSLEY hardcover
Best.-Nr. 285771878 EDWARD STANFORD LONDON. 1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN ORIGINAL GREEN SILK BOARDS DECORATED IN GILT. SOME BUMPING TO THE CORNERS AND TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE AND A CREASE ON THE FRONT BOARD WHICH IS ALSO SLIGHTLY LOOSE. THE FRONT BOARD ALSO HAS A CRACK DOWN THE LENGTH ON THE INSIDE - THIS ALSO APPLIES TO THE REAR BOARD. FOLD OUT MAP AT THE FRONT. AN INSCRIPTION ON THE INSIDE OF THE F.E.P. A LITTLE FOXING. 1878, EDWARD STANFORD, LONDON hardcover
Best.-Nr. 24319LONDON T COOPER 1734. TWO PAMPHLETS VERY NICELY CASED TOGETHER IN MODERN BLUE BOARD QUARTER CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS. VERY GOOD. 'A LETTER TO DR. CODEX ON THE SUBJECT.' 4TH EDITION 40pp. 'A PROPER REPLY TO THE AUTHOR.' 1734 FIRST EDITION 32pp. DR. CODEX WAS EDMUND GIBSON BISHOP OF LONDON. LONDON, T COOPER, 1734 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 20575BURT FRANKLIN. NEW YORK. 1969. VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN MAROON CLOTH - NO DUSTWRAP. WITH NOTICES OF ITS CHIEF AUGMENTORS AND OTHER BENEFACTORS. FIRST PUBLISHED 1870. BURT FRANKLIN. NEW YORK. 1969 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 24765LONDON JOHN LANE 1897. CLASSIC TRAVEL BOOK ON SPAIN. FINELY BOUND IN HALF GREEN LEATHER RAISED BANDS GILT TITLES MARBLED END PAPERS. SIGNED DUCIE ON THE TITLE PAGE WITH THE SAME NAME IN GILT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE HENCE POSSIBLY FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN REYNOLDS-MORETON THE THIRD EARL OF DUCIE. SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS BUT A VERY NICE COPY. LONDON, JOHN LANE, 1897 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 7839RICHARD BENTLEY. LONDON. 1837. VOLUMES I & II OF THREE VOLUMES. RECOLLECTIONS SKETCHES AND REFLECTIONS MADE DURING A TOUR IN THE EAST IN 1832-1833. SOME FOXING TITLE PAGE PORTRAIT. RUBBED AND WORN LEATHER SPINES GREEN BOARDS. THIRD EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTED. RICHARD BENTLEY. LONDON. 1837 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 22449FLINTSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. A RUN OF 5 VOLUMES VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL GREY CARD COVERS:- VOLUMES 22 23 26 27 AND 28. YEARS 1965 TO 1978 INCLUSIVE. ILLUSTRATED WITH LINE DRAWINGS CHARTS AND BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. FLINTSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY unknown
Best.-Nr. 22725LONDON. E CURLL. 1714. FIRST EDITION. TWO VOLUMES FULL DICED LEATHER BADLY WORN AND RUBBED FRONT BOARD TO VOLUME 1 DETACHED. CONTENTS GENERALLY VERY GOOD. A WORKING SET OR READY FOR REBINDING. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTEDOWN OF FREDERICI GEORGII LEE. LONDON. E CURLL. 1714 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 29255LONDON T. BECKET 1768. FIRST EDITION QUARTO ORIGINAL FULL LEATHER RAISED BANDS GILT. THE FRONT BOARD IS SCARRED TO THE BOTTOM CORNER OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. VERY CLEAN TIGHT BINDING. 382 PAGES PLUS TWO PAGE CATALOGUE. THE AUTHOR WAS A MINISTER ON THE ISLE OF SKYE. LONDON, T. BECKET, 1768 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26127NEW YORK MACMILLAN 1939. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. VERY GOOD IN SLIGHTLY WORN PROTECTED DUSTWRAPPER. WITH 220 PLATES IN PHOTOGRAVURE 18 SKETCHES IN THE TEXT 2 FOLDING PANORAMAS AND ONE MAP IN THE REAR POCKET. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. NEW YORK, MACMILLAN, 1939 unknown
Best.-Nr. 19457PARIS. LEON DUREUIL. 1830. VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE BOARDS - RAISED BANDS WITH GILT DECORATION. GILT TITLE MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND EDGES. 410 PAGES. VIGNETTE OF LOWE AND FRONTISPICE OF LONG WOOD. WITH A LETTER FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM DATED 1894 PASTED IN CONCERNING A POSSIBLE BOOK ON HUDSON LOWE BY HIS SON. THE BINDING IS VERY FIRM EXTERNAL CONDITION VERY GOOD INTERNALLY VERY GOOD EXCEPT FOR SOME WATER STAINING TO SOME PAGES. PARIS. LEON DUREUIL. 1830 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 7684TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM 1954/56. SEVEN BOUND COPIES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM JOURNAL. INTERESTING ARTICLES FROM THE DEPARTMENTS OF MANUSCIPTS COINS AND MEDALS GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS ETHNOGRAPHY BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. MANY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. EX PUBLIC LIBRARY COPIES. BOUND IN BLUE CLOTH WITH GILT TITLES AND NUMBERS TO THE SPINES. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. REMAINS OF LIBRARY LABELS TO FEPS. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1954/56 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26983NEW YORK WILLIAM ALLISON. COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE MARBLED END PAPERS. NO DATE BUT CIRCA 1910. SLIGHT WEAR TO TOP OF SOME SPINES BUT AN ATTRACTIVE SET. NEW YORK, WILLIAM ALLISON hardcover