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…
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,…
The View of Hindoostan.
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
2 Vols (of 4), bound as 1, VG, 1st ed, 1 Map, 19 plates (as called for), 2 vignettes. In contemporary half calf over worn marbled boards, some gilt tooling, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Spines, carefully relaid retaining the old,…
History of Quadrupeds. BOUND With Genera of British Birds. (3 Vols bound as 2, complete)
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
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 of the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to…
The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell.
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
1st ed, 1796, VG, 22 pls, 3 vignettes. In contemporary full basket weave calf, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Relaid spine, raised bands, titles in gilt. Internally, [10], 172 pp, [2], 185-328 pp, 22 pls (dated 1796), 3 vignettes,…
A Tour in Wales [With the Moses Griffith Supplemental plates].
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
VG, 2 vols, 2nd ed, 62 pls, 3 eng tps, 5 woodcuts, complete. In early 20c half brown calf with blue marbled boards, corners and edges very lightly bumped and worn. Spines, blind and gilt tooling and titles, edges rubbed. Internally, no…
Arctic Zoology ( Supplement)
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
Beautifully illustrated work on Arctic and 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
VG, 1778, 26pls complete. In contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, edges bumped. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label, edges worn. Internally, title with oval vignette, [2], [1] (ii-vi), [1] pl list, [1],…
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…
Motor Ways at Home and Abroad
ABRAHAM George D. 1872-1965
In quarter calf over calf cloth, gilt titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), 252 pp, 32 B&W full page illustrations, ink marks to lower cover. An ex-library copy with all the stamps and lib labels. (178*117 mm)
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…
The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain. containing a full and accurate Description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of Nature and Art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland
Anon
A RARE SIX VOLUME SET OF COUNTY JOURNEYS WITH 57 PLATES First editions, not dated but c1774-1776, six volumes in contemporary speckled calf, corners bumped. Spines, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to red calf labels, edges worn some loss. Not dated…