Adam, W.

THE GEM OF THE PEAK; Or, Matlock Bath and its Vicinity, An Account of Derby; a Tour from Derby to Matlock; Excursions to Chatsworth, Haddon, Monsal Dale, ... A Review of the Geology of Derbyshire ...

Longman & Co. ..., 1843. 3rd Ed. [xviii] + 432pp. + [iv] index. Folding map frontis. (repaired to verso along centre fold), folding map, 6 plates and numerous text ills. Some very light marginal browning, edges of plates very sl. waterstained, plates offset, some spotting including title page and map frontis., marbled e.ps. and edges, half red morocco with marbled boards, edges and corners rubbed, raised bands with dec. gilt compartments and gilt lettering to sl. rubbed spine.

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Book number: 283994

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: ENGLAND

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Adams, John Coleman.

NATURE STUDIES IN BERKSHIRE.

G P Putnam’s Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. viii + 225pp. Ills. red lettered title page, 16 plates in photogravure from original photographs by Arthur Scott, ills. Light age toning, marbled e.ps., bound by Sotheran in gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, lower corners sl. bumped, light wear and discolouring to boards, gilt ruled and lettered lightly faded spine, t.e.g.
¶ Ex.-libris Herbert G. Squiers.

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Book number: 284247

Catalogue: NATURAL HISTORY: GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY

[Adams, William Henry Davenport].

OUR NATIVE LAND Its Scenery and Associations. A Series of 36 water-colour sketches after Rowbotham, Read, Needham, and Other Eminent Artists with Descriptive Notes.

Marcus Ward & Co., 1879. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [iv] + 120pp. 36 mounted colour plates. Light browning and soiling, marbled e.ps., contemporary navy blue gilt rule edged half calf with cloth boards, stain to lower board, gilt ruling and gilt lettered label to spine, some wear and marking, loss across tail of spine, a.e.g.
¶ Published in parts.

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Book number: 283975

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: ENGLAND

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Adams, Ansel.

SIERRA NEVADA. The John Muir Trail. Introduction by William A. Turnage.

Arion Press for Little, Brown and Company, 2006. Reissue of 1938 Ed. Folio. 128pp. 50 beautiful reproductions from tritone separations made by Thomas Palmer; each tipped by hand onto English mouldmade Somerset paper. Light grey linen covered boards with black lettered grey label to upper board, contained in matching slipcase lightly discoloured and browned.
¶ Copy F of 26 capital letter copies for complimentary distribution by the Publisher, of a larger Limitation of 1-500 copies for sale, and an additional 14 Roman-numeral copies for complimentary distribution by the Printer.

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Book number: 285288

Catalogue: ART: PHOTOGRAPHY

Keywords: ART; PHOTOGRAPHY

Adams, Frank (Illustrator).

THE STORY OF JACK AND JILL. Illustrated by ... (From an Old Chap Book).

Blackie & Son, N.d. c.[1930]. Thin 4to. [xxxii]pp. 12 colour plates, many ills. Colour ills. e.ps., some light browning, original cloth backed ills. boards, extremities rubbed, minor soiling.

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Book number: 269316

Catalogue: LITERATURE: ILLUSTRATED WORKS

Keywords: LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED WORKS

Adams, Richard.

THE TYGER VOYAGE

Jonathan Cape, 1976. 1st Ed. Tall Slim 8vo. 32pp. Colour vignette t.p., colour map, colour tail piece and 14 colour plates by Nicola Bayley. Good in original coloured pictorial laminated boards, lightly faded to spine.
¶ Illustrators Presentation Copy, inscribed to title-page - ‘for Valerie and Paul Thank you for a lovely time in Hereford with love, Nicola Bayley.’

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Book number: 282926

Catalogue: LITERATURE: CHILDRENS

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(Adams). Dalton, William.

WILL ADAMS, THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN IN JAPAN. A Romantic Biography.

London: James Blackwood & Co., N.d. c.[1870]. [xvi] + 298pp. Frontis., illus. title page, 6 plates, numerous text ills. Ex.-Oldham Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. with lib. label loosely inserted, marginal browning and occasional thumbing, several lib. ink stamps throughout, tear to fore-edge of p.201-204 repaired, e.ps. lightly browned, rebound in leather backed lib. binding with cloth boards, some light fading and soiling to boards, binding sl. cockled, blind ruled bands sl. rubbed gilt title and gilt accession nos. to lightly faded spine.

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Book number: 279138

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: CHINA, JAPAN AND FAR EAST

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Adams, W.H. Davenport.

WINDSOR CASTLE and the Water-Way Thither.

Marcus Ward & Co., 1880. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. 144pp. 74 ills. by R.T. Pritchett, 12 mounted colour printed plates after F. Jones. Ex.-libris ‘R.W.H. Sola Virtus Nobilitay’, some age toning and spotting, paper split to upper hinge, gilt lettered black tooled red cloth, some marking, spine bumped, a.e.g.
¶ Our Native Land New Series.

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Book number: 284273

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: ENGLAND

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Adcock, St. John.

A BOOK OF BOHEMIANS. Verses by ...

Sampson Low Marston & Co. Ltd., N.d. c.[1925]. Slim 8vo. [x] + [26]pp. Illus. title page, 12 tipped in plates by Fred Adlington, with decorations. E.ps. browned, some very light marginal browning, fore-edge uncut unopened in parts, original cloth backed dec. blue and yellow boards, extremities rubbed, some minor fading, corrners bumped with some wear.

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Book number: 280012

Catalogue: LITERATURE: POETRY

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY

Addington, A.C.

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART. The Descendants of King James VI of Scotland, James I of England. Volume Two [only of 3]: The Descendants of Anne Henriette Countess Palatine of The Rhine 1648-1723 and Henri Jules Prince of Condé 1644-1709 ... The Descendants of Louise Princess of Great Britain 1724-1751 and Frederik V King of Denmark 1723-1766.

Charles Skilton Ltd., 1971. 1st Ed. 4to. [xvi] + 409pp. + [vii]. Tipped in colour port. frontis., 37 b/w. plates. Sl. shaken, original gilt lettered beige cloth, spine faded, some sl. fading to lower board and sl. waterspotting to corner, upper board dampstained, t.e.red.

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Book number: 288639

Catalogue: HISTORY: HERALDRY

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Addison, Thomas.

ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LOCAL EFFECTS OF DISEASE OF THE SUPRA-RENAL CAPSULES.

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. Facsimile of 1855 Ed. Tall thin 4to. viii + 43pp. 11 colour plates. Bound in calf backed cloth boards, gilt lettering to lightly sunned spine.
¶ Garrison and Morton 3118 (1st Ed). Addison included a classical description of pernicious (Addisonian) anaemia in his paper on the condition later known as "Addison’s disease". Although preceded by Combe, his account was more important in bringing the disease to the notice of the medical profession.

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Book number: 276222

Catalogue: MEDICINE: MEDICINE

Keywords: MEDICINE; MEDICINE

Adelson, Candace J.

EUROPEAN TAPESTRY in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994. 1st Ed. 4to. [xviii] + 476pp. Colour frontis., 202 ills. including 64 in colour. Good in d/w. faded to spine.

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Book number: 285982

Catalogue: ART: COSTUME AND NEEDLEWORK

Keywords: ART; COSTUME AND NEEDLEWORK

(Aesop). Phaedri, [Gaius Julius].

AUGUSTI LIBERTI FABULARUM AESOPIARUM Libri Quinque. Publii Syri et Aliorum Veterum Sententiae. Recensuit et Notas Addidit Richardus Bentleius.

Cantabrigiae: Apud Cornelium Crownfield, 1726. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [viii] + 87pp. Copper engraved frontis. sculp B. Baron. Latin text. Signature A browned to head and with sm. closed tear, marbled e.ps., contemporary mottled calf boards with gilt tooled edges, minor loss to corners, some fading to edges, rebacked in modern calf with gilt motifs and tooling with gilt lettering to spine.
¶ Aesops Fables Latin. Edited by Richard Bentley. ESTC N38784 ‘Aesop’s fables. Latin. Also issued as part of: ’Publii Terentii Afri comoediae, ..’ Cantabrigiae, 1726.’ 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Inscribed in beautiful and legible script ‘Jo Brown Universitatis Glasguensis Alumnus Elegantiorus ingenii dotes Diligentia gnavitas excolens Hoc prienuum in hunc usum A Pratribus Goergii Muirhead quondam L.H.P. In hac Universitate legatis Publice Tulit. Guyil Richardson L.H.P. ... 1794.’ Presumably William Richardson (1743–1814), literary scholar and Professor of Humanity at Glasgow.

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Book number: 263165

Catalogue: LITERATURE: CLASSICS

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(Æthelred). Williams, Ann.

ÆTHELRED THE UNREADY. The Ill-Counselled King.

Hambledon and London, 2003. 1st Ed. [xx] + 263pp. 8 plates, 4 tables. Very good in d/w.

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Book number: 282674

Catalogue: HISTORY: HISTORY

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Aflalo, F.G. (Editor).

SPORT IN EUROPE.

Sands and Co., 1901. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xii + 483pp. 54 plates and numerous text ills. from drawings by Archibald Thorburn, E. Caldwell, and E.F.T. Bennett and from photos. Some light browning, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt ills. to upper board, spine sl. faded and rubbed, with sm. nicks to head of joints, t.e.g.
¶ Including Russia and Turkey. With chapters by W.A. Baille-Grohman, and E. Demidoff, etc.

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Book number: 285805

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: EUROPE

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; EUROPE