[STEVENS, George]

Directory of York and Neighbourhood Including All Villages Within Six Miles of York. Containing the Private and Commercial Residents (Alphabetically Arranged), Court Directory, the Trades Classified, Coloured Map of Yorkshire (North and East Ridings). Historical Notes, Local Intelligence, &Amp;C.

London: Printed and published by George Stevens, 1885. 8vo., pp.662, rebacked with original spine laid down, brown cloth, gilt, adverts to start and end of volume, double-page map in colour; area of loss to lower inner corner of A2 (advert leaf), foxing to prelims, with toning to front endpapers, rubbing and light wear to extremities, light sunning and vertical crease to spine, a good copy of this scarce title, with original endpaper adverts pasted in.

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Book number: 36345

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Keywords: York & Yorkshire

Dundee and Dundonians Seventy Years Ago: Being Personal Reminiscences of an Old Dundonian.

Dundee: James P. Mathew & Co., 1892. Small 8vo., pp.80, brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, with stamped black border, unlettered spine; light paper-splitting to inner hinges, light rubbing to extremities, internally clean, a very good copy.

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Keywords: Scotland; Scottish History

[DAVIES, Robert]

The Fawkes's of York in the Sixteenth Century: Including Notices of the Early History of Guye Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot Conspirator.

Westminster: J.B. Nichols and J.G. Nichols, 1850. Pocket 8vo., pp.67, printed wrappers; wear to paper wrappers at head and foot of spine, light tobacco odour, else very good.

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Keywords: British History

Federated Australia. Photographs Depicting the Scenery, the Cities, the Industries, and Interesting Phases of Australian Life. Gems of Natural Beauty in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Southern Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania.

London: Charles Taylor, n.d. (c.1901). Oblong 4to., pp.17-160, red cloth lettered in black, b/w plates throughout (printed rectos only); title creased with slight chipping to upper edge, gutter visible between pp.17/18, partial cracking to front inner hinge (apx.4cm at foot), slight loss to lower corner of rear paste-down endpaper, 2cm closed tear to lower margin of front free endpaper, light partial sunning, splash-marks, and surface soiling to cloth, a sound copy. [apparently as published because other copies also begin with pagination beginning at 17 following title - no pages removed.] one plate torn withou loss, a good copy

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1889.

London: Kelly and Co., 1889. 4to., pp.xviii,687,56, red cloth, gilt; lacks map, foxing to endpapers/prelims; rubbing and some wear to extremities (including 2cm break to cloth along lower joint), with light marking to rear board and some general surface soil to cloth, a good copy.

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Book number: 36328

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Lancashire. [Map]

London: Longman, Rees and Co./J. & C. Walker, 1835 Folding linen-backed map in 8 sections, hand-coloured, with decorative paper-covered boards; foxing to reverse, with light foxing and toning to map, very good.

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Book number: 38007

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Keywords: British Topography

[PATERSON, Daniel].

Paterson&Rsquo;S Twenty-Four Miles Round London, with Reference to Seats of Nobility and Gentry.

London: Bowles and Carver, (c.1800). Hand-coloured map in twenty sections, 665 x 665mm, linen-backed, in original marbled slipcase with printed title label to front and advertisement to rear; light soiling to reverse, otherwise near-fine, slipcase worn to extremities, with loss of apx.3cm x 1.5cms to head of RH side-panel, good only. J.Howgego. The Printed Maps of London,

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[SCHICK, Mrs. Henrietta (Hall)]

Scenes in China. Sketches of the Country, Religion, and Customs of the Chinese.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. 12mo., pp.223,(i)Index, decoratively blindstamped green cloth with pictorial spine in gilt, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 12 further engraved plates; owner’s nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, with handwritten plate pasted down and now partially removed from rear paste-down endpaper, lacks free endpapers, wear to extremities, spine a little rolled, a good copy of this scarce title.

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[FRASER,C.M.?]

Scenes in Russia; Describing the Manners, Customs, Diversions, Modes of Travelling, &Amp;C. Of the Inhabitants of That Country: Also the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks and Kalmucs, and Other Tartar Tribes.

London: E. Wallace, n.d. (c.1820) Fourth edition, 12mo., pp.iv,140, quarter green roan, gilt, marbled boards, engraved frontispiece and 13 further engraved plates; vestiges of ink ownership inscription (dated 1842?) to prelim blank, toning to prelims, foxing/toning to plates and adjacent leaves, with some foxing throughout, light crease to spine, gentle wear to extremities, a very good copy.

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Keywords: Illustrated; European History

[CAPTAIN COOK]

The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World Illustrated with Maps and Numerous Engravings on Wood and Steel

London: John Tallis, No Date (c.1860). First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., pp. xx, 596, xi, 556, 89 b/w illustrations, 5 full page engravings (including frontispieces), 12 double page maps, 56 b/w illustrations, half-calf boards; p3-4 torn with loss, p.504-44 missing from vol i, duplicate pp.501 from Cook’s voyage to the pacific ocean vol ii, pp. 412-420 missing from vol ii, pp. 417-424 duplicate vol i Cook’s second voyage round the world. Defective copy but maps and engravings complete. Please email for fuller description of maps.

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Book number: 6850

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The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume XXXVI.

Printed for the Society, (1944). 8vo., pp.v,508, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; lacks title page, light foxing to endpages, label worn, light wear to head and tailbands, light creasing to wrappers, o/w very good.

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Book number: 28812

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Keywords: Archaeology

The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume XXXII.

Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd., Leeds, 1936. 8vo., pp.ix,516, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; occasionally pencil-marking to margins, o/w very good.

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The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume XXV.

Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd., 1920. 8vo., pp.viii,479, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates and one plate in colour; armorial bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small ink inscription to rear free endpaper recto, wear to paper label, o/w very good.

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Book number: 28815

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Keywords: Archaeology

Anon.

Views in Derbyshire,

London, Bremrose & Sons, n.d. (1860). Oblong 8vo., pp. 12, yellow cloth-backed card wrappers, 12 tipped-in steel engravings; foxing throughout but plates unaffected except for no.s 5 and 12, light wear to wrappers, overall very good copy.

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Book number: 38680

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Keywords: Illustrated

APPLETON, Avril E. Webster.

Looking Back at Heworth, a York Suburb.

York: Privately published, 1999. 8vo., pp.ii,97, paperback stapled wrappers, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.

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Book number: 33462

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