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Botswana Notes and Records, volume 2.

Gaborone: The Botswana Society, 1972. Volume 2 (softcover). 8vo, [xii], 131pp. Text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. This copy is in very good condition.

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Book number: 18879

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The Boy's Own Annual, volume XLII (Forty-second annual), 1919-1920.

London: Boy's Own Paper Office, [1920]. Volume 42 (hardback). 4to (28cm by 21cm), x, 744pp. 12 coloured plates (correct as per list), text illustrations. Original decorated red cloth. Titling a little dulled on the spine, some fraying to the extremities of the binding, text pages tanned, some creasing of the preliminary pages. Overall, this book is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 53593

Catalogue: 3

[William Clarke]:

The Boy's Own Book; a complete encyclopedia of all the diversions, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth.

London: D Bogue, 1852. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (16cm by 13cm), 611pp. Frontispiece, extra-title, text illustrations. Plain 19th-century binding of mottled red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The binding is stained, the spine is chipped, there is light foxing of the frontispiece, but the contents are generally sound. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working, reference or binding copy.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 64233

Catalogue: 4

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The Boys' Book of Magic.

London: Burke, 1957. Eighth impression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 192pp. Text illustrations. Original blue cloth. Light browning of the endpapers, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is present, but is in scruffy condition (rubbed, chipped and torn with some loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

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Book number: 69608

Catalogue: 3

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A brief history of the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1948. Third edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), x, 115pp. Colour plates, folding maps. Original green cloth, silvered titling to the front board and the spine. Light rubbing of the binding, light foxing of the endpapers; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 65772

Catalogue: 3

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Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead.

London: The Times, 1952. Second impression (hardback). 4to (29cm by 21cm), xiii, 69pp. 34 plates. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Light staining of the binding, minor spotting to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 66988

Catalogue: 3

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British Sports and Sportsmen past and present, compiled and edited by "The Sportman" (2 volumes).

London: British Sports and Sportsmen, 1908. First edition, complete in 2 volumes. Folio, xxiii, 324pp. A large number of b&w plates (over 300). Original two-tone cloth binding (green spines, grey boards), gilt titling to the front boards and the spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The bindings are somewhat rubbed, and the edges of the spines are frayed, and there is light scattered foxing of the contents. Overall, this set is in good minus condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 14401

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British Museum; woodcuts and metal cuts of the Fifteenth century, chiefly of the German School.

London: British Museum, 1914. First edition (hardback). 8vo, xii, 36pp. 48 plates. Original dark blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Light rubbing to the edges of the binding, endpapers browned. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 19381

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British Sports and sportsmen: Commerce and Industry.

London: Sports and Sportsmen, nd [c. 1922]. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies (this copy number 180). Folio, xiv, 584pp. Copiously illustrated. Original full red morocco, 5 raised bands to spine, gilt titling to front board and spine, gilt tooling and lining, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing of extremities, some minor bumping of boards, tissue guards to plates foxed, but still a very good plus copy overall.

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Book number: 2577

Catalogue: SPOR

Keywords: SPOR

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British Standard Glossary of Aeronautical Terms.

London: British Standards Institution, 1933. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 149pp. 46 figures, some of which are folding. Original grey cloth. Light rubbing and spotting of the binding, light spotting of the endpapers, else this copy is in very good condition.

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Book number: 49210

Catalogue: 3

[Richard Green]:

British Painting 1890 - 1939 [Richard Green at Three London Galleries].

London: Richard Green, 2006. Catalogue of an exhibition held in November 2006 (softcover). Square 4to (25cm by 25cm), 96pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. This copy is in very good condition. A list of prices is loosely inserted.

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Book number: 53074

Catalogue: 2

[Richard Green]:

British Painting 1885 - 1939 [Richard Green at Three London Galleries].

London: Richard Green, 2007. Catalogue of an exhibition held in November 2007 (softcover). Square 4to (25cm by 25cm), 68pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. There is a light bump to the title page, else this copy is in very good condition. A list of prices is loosely inserted.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 53075

Catalogue: 3

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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.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 54288

Catalogue: 30

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British Museum Catalogue of Maps : World [bound with] England [bound with] London.

London: William Clowes and sons, 1885; 1883; 1884. Three separate British Museum Map Catalogues (World, England & London) bound together in one hardback volume; all are first editions. 4to (35cm by 25cm), title, [108]; title, [1175-1218]; title, [64]. All three parts are paginated in double-column format. Bound in half black cloth, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spine. This book was formerly in a reference library, with a bookplate to the front pastedown and occasional stamps, and the boards are rubbed; overall, this book is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 54369

Catalogue: 3

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British & French Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 7th June - 8th July 1989.

London: Browse & Darby, 1989. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Browse & Darby in London in 1989 (softcover). 8vo (25cm by 17cm), [63pp]. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 64284

Catalogue: 2