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Argyll, an Inventory of the Monuments, Volume Four: Iona.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1982. 4to., pp.xvi,296, blue cloth, gilt, 4 folding plates to rear of volume, numerous b/w illustrations throughout; very good+, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has closed tear (and small crease) to foot of rear flap-fold, small closed tear to head of rear flap-fold, and light sunning to spine, else very good and now in protective cover.
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The Wonders of Elora; or, the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings Excavated out of a Mountain of Granite, and Extending Upwards of Mile and a Quarter, at Elora, in the East Indies, by the Route of Poona, Ahmed-Nuggur, and Toka, Returning by Dowlutabad and Aurungabad; with Some General Observations on the People and Country.
London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. 8vo., pp.xx,597, full brown calf, four raised bands, title label in red, gilt, with gilt decorations to compartments and double border in gilt and blind to boards, marbled endpapers, folding frontispiece plate, engraved by F. Vincent, showing View of the Temple of Indra, 7 full-page engraved plates, 2 further folding plates, and two in-text illustrations; small closed tear to inner margin of plate at p.383, upper joint lightly cracked, two marks to rear board, small archival tape repair to small closed tear at upper margin of title, upper joint just starting (lightly cracked for first two and a half compartments; board remains firm), foxing throughout, delicately pencilled notes to rear free endpaper and adjacent blank, small nick to top edges pp.565-8 (OO3/4), light wear at headband,
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A Skilful Master Builder. The Continuing Story of a Yorkshire Family Business, Craftsmen for Seven Generations.
York: William Anelay Limited, 1975. 8vo., pp.viii,72, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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Keywords: Architecture
Baghdad Sketches
London, John Murray, 1937. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,269, green cloth, gilt, 59 b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; mild foxing to endpapers, very clean and neat interior, a very good copy, in a good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is chipped with areas of loss to the head and foot of spine, and has both open and closed tears to extremities.
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GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 343 US$ 369.39 | JP¥ 57536]
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Cedars, Saints and Sinners in Syria.
London: Hurst and Blackett, n.d. (1926). First edition, 8vo., pp.291, blue cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, 74 further b/w illustrations; closed tear to upper inner corner of p.143(/144), foxing to edges and endpapers, small (1cm) split to cloth at head of spine, slight marking to cloth, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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Historical Sketches of Bridlington.
Bridlington, Printed for the author and sold by G. Furby, 1821. First edition, 8vo., pp.iv,176, green quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, original publishers printed label to spine, black lettering, black ink ownership inscription dated from 1840 on front free endpaper, very minimal foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, light foxing to upper and lower boards, very slight wear to extremities, overall a very pleasing, fresh copy.
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Keywords: British History
History of Dundee; Being an Account of the Origin and Progress of the Burgh from the Earliest Period; Embracing a Description of Its Antiquities, Topography, Public Works and Buildings, Manufactures and Commerce, Municipal, Educational, and Charitable Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Eminent Men. A New and Enlarged Edition.
Dundee: John Durham, 1874. 8vo., pp.xvi,419,xxxiii,8, uncut, recased, preserving the original heraldic brown cloth, gilt, recased, folding frontispiece map; tear to first fold of frontispiece, light foxing to prelims/Index, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, with slight bubbling to cloth over spine, a very good copy.
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Map Collectors&Rsquo; Circle. No. 44: The Printed Maps of New South Wales, 1773-1873. Map Collectors&Rsquo; Series (Fifth Volume).
London: Map Collectors’ Circle, 1968. Large 8vo., pp.49,xxx(b/w plates), printed wrappers; extended closed tear to front wrapper, some loss to head of spine, upper corners of wrappers creased and lightly worn, internally clean, a good working copy.
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An Ottoman Traveller. Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi.
London: Eland, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxxviii,482, red hardcover, gilt, 6pp. colour plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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Keywords: Early Modern; Seventeenth Century
The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907.
Ilford, Frank Cass, 1994. 8vo.,pp. xvi,155, paperback; author’s presentation copy with inscription to half title page, a very good copy.
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A History of Bredenbury and Its Landed Estate.
Bromyard: Bromyard & District Local History Society, 1997. 8vo., pp.viii,197, paperback, b/w illustrations; very good+.
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Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England. Fourth Edition, (Now First Published Separately) with Additions, and Illustrative Remarks Upon the Scenery of the Alps.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 12mo., pp.iv,144, printed paper wrappers, b/w folding map as frontispiece; light foxing to folding map and to title, two short tears (without loss) to the map, front wrapper has surface loss (rubbed) for apx. 7.5 x cms at upper margin, corners a little light creasing, partial loss to spine, partial cracking to front joint, otherwise a very good copy of a delicate item. [First separately published in 1822; this edition includes an enlarged and revised text, including 27 lines from the then unpublished Recluse.]
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The Municipal History of the Royal Burgh of Dundee. Compiled from Original and Authentic Documents and Records in the Archives of the Town, and Other Sources; and Embellished by Plans of Ancient and Modern Dundee and Barbour; Engraved Views of Public Buildings; and Fac-Similes of Historical Documents Hitherto Unpublished.
Dundee: Dundee Advertiser Office, 1873. Tall 8vo., pp.xvi,327, textured pictorial red cloth, gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and maps (including folding plates); ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, two 1cm closed tears and small nick to headband, rubbing, light wear and surface soil to cloth, internally clean, a good+ copy.
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GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 145.5 US$ 156.52 | JP¥ 24380]
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