Moscow Kremlin [Tourist Guide]
Tourist fold out picture guide to Moscow, 1957, in picture printed covers to upper & lower boards, title in red, with price to lower board. Internally, 12 panes, all B&W, each with the title in Russian to lower margin, & in 7 other languages to…
The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars: being an impartial account of his LIFE, from his leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gipsies ; wherein the Motives of his Conduct are related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his Travels twice through great Part of America: Giving A Particular Account Of the Origin, Government, Laws, and Customs of the Gipsies, with the Method of electing their King: And a dictionary of the Cant Language used by the Mendicants.
[CAREW Bampfylde Moore 1693-1770?] [& various]
In red half calf over red cloth, corners & edges rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt titles & tooling, edges rubbed. Internally, [6], 7-222 pp, [6] dictionary (final leaf with vertical tear & half page loss), c1900 endpapers, hinges strengthened,…
A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour..WITH Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; and Accounts of their Soil and Productions; and of many Singularities in the Structure, Apparel, Customs, Manners, Policy, Manufactures, &c. of their Inhabitants. BOUND WITH: A Description of East Florida, with a Journal, Kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia,.... Upon A Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. Johns, as Far as the Lakes.
[COOK - first Voyage] 1728-1779 [MAGRA James - attributed to] 1748?-1806 AND [STORK William Dr]; BARTRAM John 1699-1777
The First Published Account of Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific, complete with Dedication Leaf. A cornerstone of any Cook collection. Two works in one, bound in modern, to style, half calf over marbled boards, some blind edge tooling, spine with…
An Atlas to Guthrie's Geographical Grammar.
[GUTHRIE William 1708-1770. FLINT W.]
VG, 1807, complete 28 double page folding maps, hand coloured in outline. Includes British colonies in N. America & 2 maps of America. In modern half calf over contemporary marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles.…
A Month's Tour in North Wales, Dublin, and its Environs. With Observations upon their Manners and Police in the year 1780.
[LLOYD Edward] active 1780
VG, 1st ed, 1781. First edition, in modern, to style, quarter speckled calf over red marbled boards. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, [2], 5-119 pp, [1] adverts, small gutter hole, bound without half…
The Punishments of China.
[MASON George Henry] 1770-1851
A striking & influential illustrated book that depicts judicial & penal practices of imperial China during the late Qing Dynasty. VG, FIRST edition, 1801, 22 coloured pls. In contemporary red straight grain morocco, decorative gilt edge tooling,…
A Tour in Wales [With the Moses Griffith Supplemental plates].
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
Regarded by many as Pennant's best travel book! 2 vols, 2nd ed, 62 pls, 3 eng tps, 5 woodcuts, complete. In early 20c half brown calf with blue marbled boards, corners & edges very lightly bumped & worn. Spines, blind & gilt tooling & titles, edges…
The View of Hindoostan
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
A visual documentation of India by British artists & travellers in the late eighteenth century. 2 Vols (of 4), bound as 1, VG, 1st ed, 1798, 1 Map, 19 plates (as called for), 2 vignettes. In contemporary half calf over worn marbled boards, some…
History of Quadrupeds. BOUND With Genera of British Birds. (3 Vols bound as 2, complete)
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
Animals arranged into ordered groups, using the Linnaean framework. Tall 8vo, VG, 71 B&W plates, 1st & 2nd eds. In contemporary full brown calf, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, some marks. Spines, have been relaid, but retaining most…
Arctic Zoology (and Supplement)
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
Beautifully illustrated work on Arctic & American natural history by the noted British naturalist. 3 volumes bound in 2, which includes the Supplement, complete, with 24 B&W plates, 2 vignettes plus 2 large maps. VG. First editions, 1784 , 85 &…
A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
PENNANT'S FIRST WELSH TOUR. 26 plates. VG, 1778. First edition, re-spined in calf over contemporary tree calf boards, decorative gilt edges, corners bumped. Spine, gilt tooling, gilt title to black morocco label. Internally, title with oval…
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales in a collection of Select Views, From Pictures and Drawings by the most Eminent Artists. With Descriptions of each View
ANGUS William 1752-1821
In contemporary half red morocco, over worn marbled boards, corners & edges bumped & worn. Worn spine, faded gilt tooling & titles, edges bumped, some cracks. Internally, engraved title page, list of contents followed by 63 B&W pls each with a leaf…
Sketches of Vesuvius, with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions, From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time.
AULDJO John 1805-1886
Contains a historical overview of the volcano's principal eruptions from the beginning of the Christian era up to the early 19th century. Uncommon, First English Edition, in attractive, half speckled calf over marbled boards. Spine, faded slightly,…
Travels, Comprising Observations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the years 1820, 1821, and 1822.
BAKEWELL R. [Robert] 1768-1843
First edition, 2 volumes in the publishers black cloth, corners & edges bumped. Respined in black cloth, old cloth labels laid down. Internally, lacks the 4 coloured plates. Vol 1, 1823, [3], (iv-xvi), [1], 2-381 pp, [1], 10 B&W Illustrations. Vol…
A Pedestrian Tour Through North Wales
BENNETT GJ (George John) 1800-1879
A useful picture of North Wales before the full impact of Victorian tourism & railway development. VG, 1st ed, 1838, 7 illustrations. In the publishers green embossed cloth, faded at edges, corners rubbed. Spine, faded, gilt titles, edges bumped,…