Baden-Powell, Sir Robert.

THE BOY SCOUTS IMPERIAL JAMBOREE. Souvenir Volume. With a Message from H.M. the King. Foreword by ...

Boy Scouts Association, 1924. Slim Royal 8vo. 128pp. Profusely illus. with ills. from photos. E.ps. spotted, original black lettered green cloth, some very minor fading to upper board, remains of d/w.

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Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Lord.

LESSONS FROM THE ‘VARSITY OF LIFE.

C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1933. 2nd Imp. 320pp.Colour frontis., 8 b/w. plates, 115 drawings by the author. Sporadic light spotting, bookplate and ownership signature, original gilt lettered blue cloth, some minor soiling rubbing and fading, spine faded and sl. bumped at head and tail.

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Book number: 289176

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(Badiou). Roffe, Jon.

BADIOU’S DELEUZE.

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. 1st US Ed. x + 196pp. E.ps. very lightly browned, good in gilt lettered black cloth.

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Badoglio, Pietro.

THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. With a Foreword by Benito Mussolini.

Methuen Publishers, 1937. 1st English Ed. Royal 8vo. [xvi] + 208pp. 6 facsimile documents, 15 gravure ills. including 6 folding and 9 folding maps in pocket at rear. Front f.e.p. lightly browned and spotted, title page lightly spotted, edges of leaves sl. spotted and occasionally intruding onto inner margins, lib. ink stamp to top and bottom edges of leaves, some occasional thumbing, original gilt lettered brick cloth, soiled, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped.

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Book number: 285136

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Badulescu, Enrique.

SUEÑOS.

daab gmbh, Köln, 2008. 1st Ed. Landscape 4to. Unpaginated. Numerous colour ills. English/German/Spanish/French/Italian text. Good in d/w.
¶ ‘The book is about my dreams, my travels and growing up in Mexico, where color is an everyday experience. ...’

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Baedeker, Karl.

EGYPT 1929.

David & Charles, Newton Abbot/Hippocrene Books Inc., New York, 1984. Facsimile Reprint of 1929 8th Revised Ed. ccviii + 495pp. + [iii]. 106 maps and plans including several folding, 56 woodcuts. Bookplate, sl. chipped d/w. faded to spine.

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Book number: 280300

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Baedeker, Karl.

SWITZERLAND and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. Handbook for Travellers.

Leipzig ..., 1913. 25th Ed. xl + 604pp. 77 maps and 21 plans including many colour/folding, 14 panoramas. Several maps protruding sl. to fore-edge and sl. chipped, light browning, original bright gilt lettered cloth.

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Bagrow, Leo.

A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CARTOGRAPHY Up to 1600; Up to 1800. Edited by Henry W. Castner.

Walker Press Wolfe Island Ontario, 1975. 1st Ed. 2 vols. 4to. xiv + 312pp. + xv + 140pp. Numerous maps. Some light browning, with the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, original pictorial green cloth.

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Book number: 281362

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Bailey, Rev. T. Grahame.

LINGUISTIC STUDIES FROM THE HIMALAYAS Being Studies in the Grammar of Fifteen Himalayan Dialects.

Royal Asiatic Society, 1915. 1st Ed. xv + [iv] + 277pp. Light age toning, indecipherable inscription, original boards, spine neatly taped with title label.
¶ On Purik, Lower Kanauri, Chitkhuli, Kagani and Bahramgala, Koci, Jubbal, Suket and Mandi, Bilaspur and Nalagarh dialects.

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(Baird). Hook, Theodore.

THE LIFE OF GENERAL, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR DAVID BAIRD.

Richard Bentley, 1833. New Ed. Revised and Corrected. 2 vols. xii + 416pp. + viii + 412pp. Port. frontis. (foxed), 2 folding maps, plan. Some pages clumsily opened, rebound in modern morocco with gilt ruling to edges of boards, gilt ruled raised bands with gilt lettered labels to spine.
¶ General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet (1757–1829). The Second-Fourth Anglo-Mysore Wars, French Revolutionary Wars, the Peninsular War.

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Book number: 259250

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Baker, Samuel White.

THE ALBERT N’YANZA, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources.

Macmillan and Co., 1866. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xxx + 395pp. + ix + 384pp. Port. frontis., tinted litho. frontis., 2 maps including 1 folding, 12 plates (one not listed), many ills. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, dec. gilt ruling and filleting to spines with (modern) gilt lettered labels, spines rubbed with loss across tail of spine of vol. 1.
¶ The discovery of the Albert N'Yanza was the most remarkable feat accomplished in Baker's adventurous career; the work of Speke and Grant was completed and the source of the Nile freed from mystery. D.N.B.

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Book number: 277634

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Baker-Gabb, Richard.

HILLS AND VALES OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, on the Borders of Brecon, Monmouth and Hereford.

Hereford: Jakeman and Carver, N.d. c.[1913]. 1st Ed. [viii] + 81pp. + [i]. Folding frontis. map, 17 plates mainly from photos., including 1 folding. F.e.ps. lightly browned, contemporary ownership inscription, some sporadic browning, original dark maroon cloth with gilt lettering to upper board, some minor rubbing, spine faded.

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Book number: 289248

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Baker, Thomas.

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CAMBRIDGE. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press by John E.B. Mayor.

CUP, 1869. 1st Ed. 2 vols. lx + 554pp. + xxvi index + xxxii + ([555]-1235)pp. + [ii]. Light browning, original gilt lettered cloth, some minor rubbing to extremities.

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Book number: 276881

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Baker, B. Granville.

OLD CAVALRY STATIONS. Withe a Foreword by Field-Marshal the Right Hon. the Viscount Allenby.

Heath Cranton, 1934. 1st Ed. xvi + 226pp. Colour frntis., 46 pen and ink sketches by the Author. Age toning, e.ps. browned, inscription to front f.e.p., original black lettered green cloth, spine sl. bumped.

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Book number: 289169

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Baker, Arthur and Herbert.

PLAS MAWR Conway, N. Wales. Illustrated and Described by ...

Printed and Published (for the authors) by Farmer & Sons ..., 1888. 1st Ed. Large 4to. 62pp. 23 plates. With 3pp. Subscribers. Light browning, original gilt lettered red cloth, gilt armorial device to upper board, some darkening and fraying, some soiling, recased.
¶ Limited to 200 Copies. Plas Mawr (English: Great Hall), architecturally, Plas Mawr is almost unchanged from the 16th century, and the historian Rick Turner considers the house to be ‘the finest surviving town house of the Elizabethan era’.

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Book number: 281560

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