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The British Museum : Catalogue of Printed Maps, Charts and Plans [16 volumes, including ten-year supplement 1964-1974].

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1967. Photolithographic edition, complete to 1964, complete in 16 hardback volumes (including the ten-year supplement volume 1964-1974). Each volume is quarto (35cm by 23cm), has about 500 pages (paginated in double-column format), and is bound in burgundy cloth, with gilt titling to the spines. This set is in very good condition (some light rubbing of the boards). Please note that this is an extremely heavy set (about 40kg), and we will need to ask for additional postage to destinations outside of Europe.

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Book number: 54288

Catalogue: 30

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Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, volume II (2).

London: British Museum, 1844. First edition (hardback), volume 2 only. 8vo (26cm by 17cm) 483pp. Bound in black cloth, gilt titling to the spine. This copy was formerly in an institutional library, with occasional stamps, and the contents are a little tanned; overall, this book is in good plus condition. Please note that this is volume 2 only.

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Book number: 66191

Catalogue: 30

Hon Evelyn Ashley:

The Life and Correspondence of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, volumw II (2).

London: Richard Bentley & son, 1879. First edition (hardback), volume 2 (of 2) only. 8vo (20cm by 13cm), vii, 517pp. Frontispiece engraving of Broadlands. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Light rubbing of the binding, light foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 65759

Catalogue: 30

Sir John Dugdale Astley:

Fifty Years of my Life in the world of sport, at home and abroad, volume one (1, I)

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1894. First edition, volume 1 (of 2) only (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 14cm), xvi, 367pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt motif to the front board. Binding a little rubbed and dusty, preliminary pages foxed, bookplate to the front pastdown; overall, this book is in good plus condition. Please note that this is volume 1 only.

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Book number: 71231

Catalogue: 30

Madame Ducrest:

Secret Memoirs of the Court of the Empress osephine, with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison, volume II (2).

London: The Grolier Society, no date [c. 1904]. Volume 2 (of 3) only (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), 378pp. 6 plates. Original green cloth, title label to the spine, top edge gilt. There is some spotting of the front board, and some foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. De-luxe edition, limited to 1000 copies. Please note that this is volume 2 only.

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Book number: 72424

Catalogue: 30

Dylan Thomas, adapted by Andrew Sinclair:

Adventures in the Skin Trade.

London: J M Dent & sons, 1967. Uncorrected proof copy (softcover). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), xiii, 89pp. Original printed grey card wrappers. This book is in very good condition.

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Book number: 56879

Catalogue: 30

Daniel De Foe [Defoe]:

Defoe's Family Instructor, volume I.

Oxford: printed by D A Talboys for Thomas Tegg, 1841. Volume 1 (of 2) only, no edition stated (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 11cm), x, 393pp. Bound in blindstamped green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. There is some bumping to the edges of the boards, a bookplate to the front pastedown, and many pages are unopened; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Please note that this is volume 1 only.

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Book number: 65084

Catalogue: 30

Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux:

Master Francis Rabelais: Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel [volume 1].

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. First edition thus (hardback), volume 1 only. 4to (30cm by 22cm), xlvi, 341pp. 10 plates by Louis Chalon. Original white cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt morif to the front board. Binding rubbed and dusty, bookplate to the front pastedown, chafing to the foot of the spine, many pages unopened; overall, this book is in good condition. The is the large-paper edition printed on japon, limited to 210 sets (this book is number 92). Please note that this is volume 1 only.

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Book number: 64734

Catalogue: 30

Tom Holt:

Lucia Triumphant.

London: Macmillan, 1986. Uncorrected book proof (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 224pp. Original printed blue card wrappers, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is good to very good (some creasing of the top edge).

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Book number: 61726

Catalogue: 30

Peter Lovesey:

On The Edge.

London: Century, 1989. Uncorrected proof of the first edition (softcover), limited to 250 numbered copies (this is copy number 174). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), [iv], 204pp. Original laminated card wrappers. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, else this book is in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. ISBN 0712625933

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Book number: 61488

Catalogue: 30

C W Mackworth-Praed, & Captain C H B Grant:

Birds of Eastern and North Eastern Africa, volume I.

London: Longman, 1980. Second edition, volume 1 (of 2) only. 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xxxvi, 836pp. 53 colour plates, 6pp photographic plates, text illustrations. Original grey cloth, gilt titling to the spine, no dustwrapper. The top edge is slightly dusty, else this book is in very good condition. ISBN 0582460824

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Book number: 57311

Catalogue: 30

Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes:

A History of Persia, volume II (2).

London: Macmillan & co, 1963. Thirdt edition (hardback), volume 2 (of 2) only. 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xx, 616pp. 16 plates and a folding map. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, minor spotting to the edges of the boards, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (a little rubbed and scuffed, label removed from the spine panel). Please note that this is volume 2 only.

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Book number: 66116

Catalogue: 30

George Ticknor:

Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor, volume II (2).

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. Second edition (hardback), volume 2 only. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), vii, 436pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Binding a little rubbed, inner hinges cracked (and repaired), some scattered foxing. Overall, this book is in good condition. Please note that this is volume 2 only.

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Book number: 66192

Catalogue: 30