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Wilme (Benjamin P.)<P> A HAND BOOK FOR PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL MAPPING, AND ENGINEERING DRAWING. 1846. 4to. Engr. title; Errata slip; 40 engr....

Soyer (Alexis)<P> CULINARY CAMPAIGN, 1857. 9 plates including frontis & added title. Advt. leaves. Orig. gt. pict. cloth. Joints rubb...

Kitchener (William)<P> THE COOK'S ORACLE. 1827. 12mo. Endpapers foxed. Orig. boards; joints & ends of spine worn.

Carter (Charles)<P> THE LONDON AND COUNTRY COOK: OR, ACCOMPLISHED HOUSEWIFE ...... 1749. 3rd edn. Engr. frontis. 49 plates ( 4 fldg). O...

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE - various, 1786-1834. 28 vols. (Not a run). Engr. plates & ills. Various bindings, mostly half-calf. Some worn ...

Smith (Charles Hamilton)<P> SELECTIONS OF THE ANCIENT COSTUME OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 1814. 1st edition. Folio. List of subscribers....

La Fontaine (Jean de)<P> FABLES CHOISIES ....... Amsterdam, 1693. 8vo. Engr. frontis. Woodcut title vignette. Cont. sheep, some wear, up...

Phillips (John)<P> CIDER, A POEM IN TWO BOOKS. Ed: C. Dunster. 1791. 1st Dunster edition. Cont. half calf. Lacks backstrip. Upper board ...

Tasso (Torquato)<P> LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA Ills: H. Gravelot. Paris, 1771. 2 vols. 8vo. Engr. frontis & title vignette to each vol. E...

Seward (Anna)<P> MONODY ON MAJOR ANDRE. Lichfield, 1781. 2nd edn. 4to. <B>Bound with]<P> POEM TO THE MEMORY OF LADY MILLER. L...

[Underwood, Thomas]<P> THE SNARLERS. A POEM. L. 1767. 2nd edition. 4to. 27pp. Some staining & a few repairs to inner margin. Small b...

Hamilton (Anthony, 'Count')<P> MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT. Ills: S. Harding. 1794. 4to. Engr. port frontis & 79 port. plates (...

Thackeray (William Makepeace)<P> THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND ESQ., 1858. 1st edn. 24pp booklist dated July 1859. Orig. blind stamped clot...

Thackeray (William Makepeace)<P> THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS. 1849-50. 1st edn. 2 vols. Added engr. titles. Plates & text ills. Light ...

Tasso (Torquato)<P> JERUSALEM DELIVERED. Trans: J. Hoole. Ills: J. Fittler & others. 1811. 10th edn. Tall 8vo. Port. frontis. Engr. ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)<P> THE SIEGE OF CORINTH. PARISINA. 1816. 1st edn. Half-title. Cont. gt. bordered calf. G. dec. spine la...

[Tauchnitz editions] Bronte (Charlotte, 'Currer Bell')<P> JANE EYRE. Leipzig, 1850. 2 vols. Half-titles. Cont. cloth. Leather tit...

Boswell (James)<P> LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1804. 4th edn. 4 vols. Port. frontis. Cont. tree calf; gt dec. spines. Spines a little rubbed...

Thackeray (William makepeace)<P> THE NEWCOMES. 1854-55. 1st edn. 2 vols. Etched plates. Cont. half calf gt. Crimson labels. Plus 3 other...

Jane (Fred T.)<P> BLAKE OF THE "RATTLESNAKE": A STORY OF TORPEDO WARFARE. 1895. 1st edn. B/w ills. Orig. pict. cloth gt. Sl. r...

Yeats (William Butler) <P> THE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE. L. & NY. 1893. 1st edn. Port. frontis. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Very slight rubb...

Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)<P> THE WORKS. 1877. Cabinet edition. 12 vols. Orig. cloth gt. In original presentation box.

[Grant, Anne]<P> MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY. L. 1808. 1st edition. 2 vols. 8vo bound in 12s. Advt. leaf Vol. 1. Sl. staining of f.f.e....

Thompson (James)<P> POEMS, IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. Edin. 1801. 1st edn. Engr. port. Untrimmed. Old library label to front pastedown. 3...

Lacroix (Paul)<P> CONTES DU BIBLIOPHILE JACOB A SES PETITS-ENFANS. Paris [1831]. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. Printed on yellow paper. 6 hand-col. p...

Wordsworth (William)<P> THE SONNETS. 1838. 1st edition with colon following "London" on title-page. 2pp advts. Orig. variant bi...

[Byron, Medora Gordon]<P> CELIA IN SEARCH OF A HUSBAND. L. 1809. 1st edition. 2 vols. Half-titles and advertisements. Untrimmed. A very...

Lawrence (David Herbert)<P> TWILIGHT IN ITALY. 1916. 1st edn. [1500]. Half-title with list of works on verso. 16pp Duckworth Booklist, and...

Lawrence (David Herbert)<P> LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. Privately printed, L. 1929. 1st UK edn. The title verso spuriously states Florence...

Lawrence (David Herbert)<P> THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY. Privately printed, Florence, 1930. Lungarno Series No. 4. 1st edn. Limited [500/800]...

Douglas (Lord Alfred)<P> THE COLLECTED SATIRES. 1926. Large 8vo. Ltd edition (550). Partly untrimmed. Orig. quarter morocco gt.

Scott (Sir Walter)<P> THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. Edin. 1854-57. 25 vols. Steel engr. title vignettes & plates with tissue guards. Cont. hal...

Whyte-Melville (George John)<P> NOVELS ...... n.d. [ca 1880]. 27 vols. Cont. half calf gt. Elaborate gt. dec. spines with raised bands. (7)

Pictet (Charles)<P> TRAITE DES ASSOLEMENS, OU DE L'ART D'ETABLIR LES ROTATIONS DE RECOLTES. Geneva, 1801. Half-title. Cont. half ca...

Smythies (Bertram E.)<P> THE BIRDS OF BORNEO. Ills: A.M. Hughes. 1960. 1st edn. 50 col. plates. Orig. cloth. D/w.

Bannerman (David & W. Mary)<P> BIRDS OF CYPRUS. Ills: D.M. Reid-Henry & R. Green. 1958. 1st edn. 4to.

Clancey (P.A.)<P> THE BIRDS OF NATAL AND ZULULAND. Edin. & L. 1964. 4to. Map. 41 col. plates. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. sl. torn d...

Cramp (Stanley)<P> HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. Vols 1-5. 1977-1998. 5 vols. 4to. Col. & b/w i...

Butler (Arthur George) & Frohawk (E.W.)<P> BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. [ca 1895]. 6 vols. 4to. 24 col. plates. B/w plate...

de Schauensee (Rodolphe Meyer)<P> A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF SOUTH AMERICA. Edin. 1971. 1st edn. Col. & b/w plates. Orig. cloth. D/w. ...

Bewick (Thomas)<P> A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. Newcastle, 1800. Wood engr. ills. Staining effecting one or two pages. Cont. calf. gt.

Lloyd (H.S.)<P> THE COCKER SPANIEL. n.d. [ca 1950]. B/w ills. Orig. limp cloth. <B>Vesey-Fitzgerald (Brian)<P> THE BOOK OF TH...

Wood (William)<P> INDEX ENTOMOLOGICUS; OR A COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ..... OF THE LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1839. 54 han...

Pratt (Anne)<P> FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES AND FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1889. 4 vols. Large 8vo. 319 chromolitho plates. Orig. cloth gt. (...

Hartinger (Anton) & Dalla Torre (K.W.)<P> ATLAS DE ALPENFLORA. Vienna, 1884. 1st edn. Vols 1-4 (plate vols). 505 chromolitho plates (...

Pratt (Anne_)<P> WILD FLOWERS. 1857. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. Over 180 hand-col. litho plates. Cont. half morocco gt. Plus 2 others, Grasses &...

Lindley (John)<P> LADIES' BOTANY. 1847. Hand-col. engr. ills. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Chipped at ends of spine.

Smith (Sir James Edward) & Sowerby (James)<P> ENGLISH BOTANY. 1832-40. 2nd edn. 7 vols plus separate volume of FERNS. Approx. 1460 han...

Evelyn (John)<P> SILVA: OR, A DISCOURSE OF FOREST TREES ....... Ed: A. Hunter. York, 1776. 1st Hunter edn. Large 4to. Engr. port. fronti...

FLORIST, FRUITIST AND GARDEN MISCELLANY. Ed: E. Beck & others; ills: J. Andrews & others. Vols. 7, 10-11 and 14. 1854-61. 4 vols. 52 ha...

Paxton (Sir Joseph)<P> MAGAZINE OF BOTANY Vols 2-5 and 14. 1836-48. 5 vols. 225 hand-col. plates, some double-p. Many heightened with gum...

Wilcox (H.A.)<P> THE WOODLANDS AND MARSHLANDS OF BRITAIN. Liverpool, 1953. 2 large linen-backed fldg. maps. Orig. cloth-backed printed boa...

Jekyll (Gertrude)<P> WOOD AND GARDEN. 1914. 12th imp. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. ANNUALS & BIENNIALS. 1916. 1st edn. Tipped-in col....

Jekyll (Gertrude) & Weaver (Lawrence)<P> GARDENS FOR SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES. 1920. 4th edn. 4to. Col. frontis. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt...

Moreton (C. Oscar) and Sitwell (Sacheverell)<P> OLD CARNATIONS AND PINKS. Ills: R. McEwen. 1955. Folio. 8 col. plates. Orig. cloth-backed...

Stuart (Malcolm)<P> THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HERBS AND HERBALISM. 1994. 4to. Col. & b/w ills. Near-fine in d/w. <B>Spens (Michael)&...

E.R.<P> THE EXPERIENC'D FARRIER, OR FARRING COMPLEATED. 1720. 4th edn. Fldg. engr. frontis. A few text ills. Cont. calf gt. Rubbed. ...

White (James)<P> A COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERINARY ART. n.d. [ca 1840]. 13 engr. plates - 4 hand-col. Cont. cloth gt. <B>Taplin (Willi...

Simms (Frederick W.)<P> A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPAL MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS ...... IN SURVEYING, LEVELLING, AND ASTRONOMY. 1834. 1st edn. ...

Brunton (Robert)<P> A COMPENDIUM OF MECHANICS ...... Glasgow, 1834. 6th edn. Engr. frontis. 4 plates. Booklist. Cont. pebble-grain cloth ...

Michaud (L.)<P> LA CHIMIE DES DAMES OU COURS DE CHIMIE ELEMENTAIRE. Geneva, 1851. Fldg. plate. Occasional light foxing or spotting. Cont. q...

Birmingham Philosophical Society<P> PROCEEDINGS Vols 2 (1881) to 15 (1928). 12 vols. 2 fldg maps of Geological subjects (incl. the Drift De...

Parkinson (James)<P> ORGANIC REMAINS OF A FORMER WORLD. VOL. 2 - THE FOSSIL ZOOPHYTES. Ills: S. Springsguth. L. 1808. 4to. 20 engr. pla...

Seeley (H.G.)<P> DRAGONS OF THE AIR: AN ACCOUNT OF EXTINCT FLYING REPTILES. 1901. 1st edn. Frontis. B/w plates & engr. ills. Booklist...

Curtis (John Harrison)<P> A TREATISE ON THE PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OPF THE EYE. 1833. 1st edn. Hand-col. frontis. Booklist dated Oct 783...

Wagstaffe (William)<P> MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF ...... PHYSICIAN TO ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL 1726 [1725]. 1st collected edition. Port. ...

Bell (Benjamin)<P> A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND MANAGEMENT OF ULCERS. Ed. 1784. 3rd edn. cont. quarter calf, with vellum corners. Sympathet...

Roche (Louis Charles) & Sanson (L.J.)<P> NOUVEAUX ELEMENS DE PATHOLOGIE MEDICO-CHIRUGICALE. Paris, 1828. 2nd edn. 5 vols. Some spottin...

Freud (Sigmund)<P> SAMMLUNG KLEINER SCHRIFTEN ZUR NEUROSENLEHRE .... 1893-1906. Leipsig & Vienna, 1911. 2nd collected edition. Orig. ...

Kidd (John)<P> ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN. 1833. Endpapers spotted. Cont. gt. ruled calf. Lacks...

Brenton (Edward Pelham)<P> THE NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1837. 2 vols. Engr. ports and folding plans. Cont. maroon half morocco gt....

Keppel (Thomas)<P> THE LIFE OF VISCOUNT KEPPEL, 1842. 2 vols. Port. frontis. Some spotting; foxing of frontis. Upper hinges broken vol. 1...

Clowes (Sir William Laird)<P> THE ROYAL NAVY, A HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT. 1897-1903. 7 vols. 4to. Gravure plates, b/...

Maurice (J.F.) <P> THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR 1870-71. 1900. Large 8vo. B/w plates & ills. Fldg. maps. Orig. pict. cloth. Sl. rubbed. &l...

Coley (James)<P> JOURNAL OF THE SUTLEJ CAMPAIGN OF 1845-6. 1856. 1st edn. Orig. cloth gt. Sl. shaken. <B>Hutchinson (Col. H.D.)<...

Cannon (John)<P> HISTORY OF GRANT'S CAMPAIGN FOR THE CAPTURE OF RICHMOND (1864-1805). 1869. 1st edn. Advt. leaf. Orig. cloth gt. Sl....

De Fezensac (Lt. Gen., Duke of)<P> AN INTRODUCTION TO THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1812. Trans: Sir W. Knollys. 1852. Fldg maps orig. cloth gt....

Wrottesley (Maj. Gen. The Hon. George)<P> CRECY AND CALAIS. 1896. Large 8vo. Ltd edn [100]. 9 col. plates. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. <B&g...

Gleig (G.R.)<P> THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR THOMAS MUNRO, BART, KCB. 1831. 2 vols. Port. frontis. Fldg map of India, hand-col. in outli...

Montgomery (Maj-Gen. Sir Archibald)<P> THE STORY OF THE FOURTH ARMY IN THE BATTLES OF THE HUNDRED DAYS ...... 1918. L. 1919. 2 vols (incl. ...

Atkinson (C.J.)<P> THE SOUTH WALES BORDERERS 24TH FOOT. 1689-1937. Privately printed, Cambridge, 1937. 4to. Port. frontis. col. plate. B/...

Jameson (James S.)<P> STORY OF THE REAR COLUMN OF THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITIION. 1890. 1st edition. Plates, maps & plans as called ...

[Civil War]<P> A TRUE RELATION CONCERNING THE LATE FIGHT AT TORRINGTON ....... IN A LETTER TO WILLIAM LENTHALL. 1645. Sm. 4to. 8pp. Upper...

MacKenzie (Compton)<P> GALLIPOLI MEMORIES / FIRST ATHENIAN MEMORIES / GREEK MEMORIES 1929; 1931; 1932. 1st edns. All nice copies in d/w'...

Lake (Col. Atwell)<P> NARRATIVE OF THE DEENCE OF KARS. Ills: W. Simpson. 1857. 1st edn. 7 tinted litho plates, including a fldg. panoram...

Semmes (Admiral Raphael)<P> MY ADVENTURES AFLOAT: A PERSONAL MEMOIR .... OF MY SERVICES IN 'THE SUMTER' AND 'ALABAMA'. 1869...

Burton (Sir Richard F.)<P> THE BOOK OF THE SWORD. 1884. 1st edition. Large 8vo. B/w ills. Orig. dec. cloth gt. a little rubbing & a...

Bruce-Mitford (R.L.S.)<P> RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN BRITAIN. [1956]. Tall 8vo. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. Plus 20 others, arch...

Burke (John)<P> A GENERAL AND HERALDIC DICTIONARY OF THE PEERAGES ....... EXTINCT, DORMANT AND IN ABEYANCE. 1831. Port-frontis. 19th Centur...

Goodman, (Godfrey)<P> THE COURT OF KING JAMES THE FIRST. Ed. J.S. Brewer. 1839. 2 vols. Port frontis to each vol. Cont. gt. ruled calf. C...

Searle (Mark)<P> TURNPIKES AND TOLL-BARS [1930]. 2 vols. 4to. Ltd edn [500] numbered. 12 col. plates. B/w ills. Orig. maroon half morocco...

Gardiner (Samuel Rawson)<P> OLIVER CROMWELL L., Paris & N.Y. 1899. Large 4to. ltd edn. [1475]. Col. frontis. B/w ills. Some light f...

Gibbon (Edward)<P> THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 1807. 12 vols. 12mo. Port. frontis. Half-titles. Cont. speck...

Sloane (William Milligan)<P> THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 1896. 4 vols. 4to. Col. & b/w plates. One or two plates loose. Orig. g...

Hyman (Louis)<P> THE JEWS OF IRELAND. L. & Jerusalem, 1972. 1st edn. Orig. cloth gt. D/w. <B>Bartoszewski (Wladyslaw T.) & ...

[Industrial History] Bell (Lady - )<P> AT THE WORKS: A STUDY OF A MANUFACTURING TOWN. 1907. 1st edn. Frontis. Booklist. Orig. cl

Caulfield (James)<P> THE HIGH COURTS OF JUSTICE; COMPRISING MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONS WHO SAT IN JUDGEMENT ON KING CHARLES THE FIRST. ...

MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. 1841-2. L. 1842. Many tables. Mod. half calf gt.

MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. 1839-40. L. 1840. 16 fldg litho plans. 4pp suplementary minute loosely inserted. Orig. pebble-g

Duigenan (Patrick)<P> AN ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY GRATTAN ..... TO HIS FELLOW CITIZENS OF DUBLIN. Dublin, 1798. 3...