NAVARRETE Domingo

The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-86. Volumes I and II. Edited from Manuscript and Printed Sources by J.S. Cummins. [Hakluyt Society]. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

University Press, Cambridge, for the Hakluyt Society,, 1960-62. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates and maps (a number folding); original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing a sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. CXVII 1118, 1119. Describes travels in China and the outward and homeward journeys. The origin and nature of the Jesuit-Dominican controversy over the Chinese rites are summarized in the editor's introduction. Bridges & Hair, p.286.

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NEW ZEALAND 1863 Act of Parliament

An Act to alter the Boundaries of New Zealand. THE BOUNDARIES OF NEW ZEALAND

[George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,, 1863]. Sm. folio, single leaf, fine woodblock arms of Victoria at head; a very good, crisp, clrean copy ideal for framing and display. 26 Victoriae, Cap. 23, granted Royal Assent 8 June 1863.

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NEWBY Eric

The Big Red Train Ride. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, double-page map in the text and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LENGTHY HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE: 'It would be a quiet time, I thought, something in parentheses in a life that was sometimes almost too full of movement…'. INSCRIBED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 49080

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NEWBY Eric

On the Shores of the Mediterranean. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Harvill Press,, 1984. 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 49177

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NEWBY Eric

Slowly down the Ganges. [Second Impression]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1966]. 8vo., Second Impression, with 16 coloured plates, 16 monochrome plates and 3 maps (one double-page); original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The dustwrapper of this title is notoriously prone to browning and chafing due to poor lamination; the present example is well above average. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.

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NEWBY Eric

Slowly down the Ganges. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates, 16 monochrome plates and 3 maps (one double-page); original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at extremities, chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and with loss at upper edge of rear panel. The dustwrapper of this title is notoriously prone to browning and chafing due to poor lamination; there is virtually no trace of this here. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49063

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NEWBY Eric

Slowly down the Ganges. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates, 16 monochrome plates and 3 maps (one double-page), neat inscription (in addition to author's) on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, top and fore-edge lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LENGTHY SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER:. 'I hope that you will not find as many holes to pick in this book as we found in the bottom of the boat in which were supposed to travel down the Ganges.' The dustwrapper of this title is notoriously prone to browning and chafing due to poor lamination; there is virtually no trace of this here. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49079

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NEWFOUNDLAND

Newfoundland Discovered. English Attempts at Colonisation, 1610-1630. Edited by Gillian T. Cell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hakluyt Society,, 1982. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 160. Bridges & Hair, p.293.

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NEWMAN Robert P.

Owen Lattimore and the 'Loss' of China.

University of California Press, Berkeley CA,, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip creased else a very good, clean copy.

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NICOL T.

The Croall Lecture for 1898. Recent Archaeology and the Bible.

Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1899. 8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper verso; original navy cloth, gilt back, uncut, blue endpapers, lower hinge starting (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear.

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NIGHTINGALE Florence

Letters from Egypt. A Journey on the Nile 1849-1850. Selected and Introduced by Anthony Sattin. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York NY,, [1988]. Oblong 4to., with coloured frontispiece, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout; black cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with mounted coloured illustration (repeated from text), gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in in unclipped dustwrapper.

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NORTHWEST PASSAGE.

Voyages to Hudson's Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741-1747. Edited by William Barr and Glyndwr Williams. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Hakluyt Society,, 1994-1995. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742; Vol. II: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 177, 181. Bridges & Hair, pp. 295-6.

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NORWICH John Julius

A History of Venice [Complete set.]. Venice. The Rise to Empire [with] Venice. The Greatness and the Fall NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPER

Allen Lane,, [1978-1981]. 2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispiece and numerous plates; brown cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The set comprises 'Venice. The Rise to Empire' (1977; second impression 1978) and 'Venice. The Greatness and the Fall' (First impression 1981). The two volumes were later combined in a single-volume edition (1982).

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NORWICH John Julius

Venice. A Travellers' Companion. Selected and introduced by John Julius Norwich. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Constable,, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN TITLE.

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NUGENT Lady

Lady Nugent's Journal of her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805. New and Revised Edition by Philip Wright. [Fourth Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Institute of Jamaica, Kingston,, 1966. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped but worn dustwrapper, the latter with loss at backstrip and heavily rubbed at fold-ins.

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