BARD, Émile

Chinese Life in Town and Country. Adapted from the French of Émile Bard by H. Twitchell. [First edition].

New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. 22 x 14 cm. [4],xiii,[1],285 pp. Original decorated half cloth, top edge gilt. With frontispiece in colour, and 58 b/w plates after photographs. - First English edition. - 'I have seen China and the Chinese with the eyes of a man of affairs; I have attempted to avoid, within the limits of the possible, the exaggerated optimism of certain writers on this country, - chiefly travellers and missionaries, - and I also have been careful not to fall into the spirit of systematic depreciation common to Europeans in referring to the Celestial Empire and its inhabitants.' [Preface]. - Sides a bit chafed, name on upper paste down, else a very good copy

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Cameron, John ; Currier & Ives

Great Horses in a Great Race “the Finish in the Great Match Race for $ 5. 000. A Side and $ 5. 000. Added Money One Mile and a Quarter... At Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. June 25th 1890... Between Salvator and Tenny. J.B. Haggin’S Ch. C. Salvator by Prince Charlie Murphy... 1.D. T. Pulsifer’S B.C. Tenny by Rayon D’or... Garrison 2. Won by a Neck Only... Time 2: 05. First Edition

New York: Currier & Ives, 1891. Original handcolored lithograph. 23 x 32.5 inches sheet size. Repaired tear lower lines of text and reinforced along edges verso. Two thoroughbreds head for the finish line in this depiction of a horse race held between Salvator and Tenny at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, June 25th 1890. Currier & Ives : A Catalogue Raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c. 1983, no. 2841. .

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Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Wimborne and Ringwood. Sheet 131 . Popular Edition. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. FIRST ISSUE OF THE POPULAR EDITION

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1919]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, folds lightly worn else a bright, clean copy. First issue of the famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a

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Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Winchester and District. Sheet 123. Popular Edition. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. FIRST ISSUE OF THE POPULAR EDITION

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1919]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, folds mildly worn, some light age-soiling to map surface else a bright, clean copy. First issue of the famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a

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Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Yeovil and Blandford. Sheet 130. Popular Edition. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. FIRST ISSUE OF THE POOPULAR EDITION

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1919]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a bright, clean copy. First issue of the famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a

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Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Norwich and Great Yarmouth. Sheet 67. Popular Edition. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. FIRST ISSUE OF THE POPULAR EDITION

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1921]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First issue of the famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a

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Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Pembroke and Tenby. Sheet 99. Popular Edition. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. FIRST ISSUE OF THE POPULAR EDITION

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1922]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 24 x 35 ins (approx. 61.0 x 89.0 cms) folding in 36 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First issue of the famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a

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Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Dolgelley and Lake Vwynwy. Sheet 59. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. FIRST ISSUE OF THE POPULAR EDITION

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1921]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 53.3 x 76.2 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, near fine copy. First issue of the famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a

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Ordnance Survey Map of Isles of Scilly. Fifth Relief Edition. Scale: Two Inches to One Mile. UNIQUE VARIANT OF THE FIRST POST-WAR OS COVER DESIGN

Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1961]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 25.5 ins (approx. 56 x 65 cms) folding in 18 panels to 8.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 20.0 x 11.5 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNIQUE VARIANT OF THE ELLIS MARTIN STANDARD COVER DESIGN. Martin created the 'wavy border' cover format in 1940. It it became the first OS post-war design, lasting with its various variants well into the 1960s. The Isles of Scilly Fifth Relief was first published in 1933; this is the 1961 reissue. It is a unique design variant, with blue border in long format on cream card. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Browne 96.2.b.c.

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Wales and the Marches. Quarter Inch Map. [Quarter-Inch Fifth Series Special Sheet. Scale: Quarter-Inch to One Mile]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE WITH UNIQUE COVER

Ordnance Survey, Chessington,, [1959]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 41 x 32 ins (approx. 104 x 81 cms) folding in 36 panels to 8.25 x 5.0 ins (approx. 21.0 x 13.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, some light dust-soiling, small closed tear in rear wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Fifth Series Special Sheets were produced for a relatively small number of selected regions, and not included in the numbered sheet series. The cover is Reeves' 'Five Lines' in blue landscape format with Welsh Dragon in red. THIS COVER DESIGN IS UNIQUE, AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Browne, 100.2.

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STANFORD, PETER

The Extra Mile: A Twenty-First Century Pilgrimage

London: Continuum, 2010. First Edition; First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Xv, 201 pages. Slight shelfwear. With illustrations in black and white. ; Quarto. New in New dust jacket .

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