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

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: RUSSIA

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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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Book number: 288791

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: CENTRAL ASIA

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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

Catalogue: NAVAL AND MILITARY: GENERAL MILITARY

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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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Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: AFRICA

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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

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: WALES

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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

Catalogue: PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY: EDUCATION

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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

Catalogue: NAVAL AND MILITARY: GENERAL MILITARY

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Baker, Naomi.

PLAIN UGLY. The unattractive body in early modern culture.

Manchester University Press, 2010. 1st Ed. [x] + 260pp. 22 b/w. ills. Very good in d/w.

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Book number: 287643

Catalogue: ART: GENERAL ART REFERENCE

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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

Catalogue: ART: BRITISH ARCHITECTURE

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Balázs, Béla.

DER SICHTBARE MENSCH FILM-DRAMATURGIE.

Wilhelm Knapp Halle (Saale), N.d. c.[1926]. 2nd Ed. Large 8vo. 167pp. + [ii]. German text. From the Library of C.A. and Anthony Lejeune, some browning, original cloth, soiled, spine dulled.
¶ Inscribed to C[aroline] A. L[ejeune]. With her pencil marginalia and notes loosely inserted.

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Catalogue: ART: PERFORMING ARTS

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Baldini, Umberto et al.

PINACOTECA VATICANA. In the Painting the Expression of the Divine Message in the Light the Root of the Pictorial Creation. Introduction by Carlo Pietrangeli.

Enel Società per azioni/Gruppo Editoriale/Rizzoli, New York, 1992. Large Sq. 4to. 472pp. Profusely illus. throughout in colour, with many tipped in. Good in d/w., in grey cloth covered slipcase as issued.
¶ Papal Monuments. Museums. Galleries.

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Book number: 284406

Catalogue: ART: EUROPEAN ART

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Baldwin, Peter.

CONTAGION AND THE STATE IN EUROPE 1830-1930.

CUP, 1999. 1st Ed. xiii + 581pp. Ink ownership stamp to front f.e.p., very sl. rubbed d/w.

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Catalogue: HISTORY: HISTORY

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Balestier, J.

VIEW OF THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS In the Straits of Malacca.

..., March 1848. Thin 8vo. pp.(139-150). Sm. stain to drop title, light browning, rebound in modern marbled boards, paper title label to spine.
¶ An extract from the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, Volume II, No. III.

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Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: SOUTH EAST ASIA

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Ball, Wilfrid.

HAMPSHIRE. Described by Rev. Telford.

A & C Black, 1909. c.[1915]. Reprint. xi + 316pp. 75 colour plates, folding map. Light browning, with the signature of ‘A.J.H. Harper 3.10.1911’, original green cloth decorated in pink and black, gilt lettered spine, spine sl. bumped, t.e.g.
¶ 20 Shilling Series. Inman 34, 3000 Copies.

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Book number: 284278

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: ENGLAND

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Ball, Martin J.; Perkins, Michael R.; Müller, Nicole and Howard, Sara. (Editors).

THE HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL LINGUISTICS.

Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxxiv + 674pp. 25 figures. Upper leading corner of upper board bumped, good in d/w.
¶ Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.

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Book number: 286203

Catalogue: MEDICINE: MEDICINE

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