Beattie, William.

Scotland. Illustrated in a Series of Views taken expressly for this Work by Messrs. T. Allom, W.H. Bartlett, and H. McCulloch.

First Edition. Two Volumes. London, George Virtue, 1838. Vol.1: viii, (2), engraved folded map, 200 pages. / Vol.2: 164 pages. With engaved half titles in each volume. With 118 tissue guarded full page engravings. Half leather over brown cloth. Gilt decorated spine. Gilt title and volume number on spine. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Bindings are age darkened, dulled, rubbed and bumped. Boards faded and (water) stained. Textblock and engavings in very good condition. Clean and bright. Some mild foxing/age darkening. A few mild water stains to some pages.

Blythe, Ronald.

Places – An Anthology of Britain.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981. 24cm x 16cm. XI, 238 pages. With 27 illustrations in black/white. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Boissonnade, P. / Power, Eileen (Translator),

Life and Work in Medieval Europe. (Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries).

First English Edition. London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1927. 24 x 15 cm, xix, 394 pages + 20 pages publisher’s list. Frontispiece and seven additional plates. Original dark blue cloth. Small gilt decoration on front board. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition.Boards and spine partially faded. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Age darkening and foxing. Edges darkened and foxed. Name of previous owner on front and rear pastedown, dated 1932. Not Ex Library.

Cahill, Thomas.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter.

First edition. New York, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2003. 15 x 21.5cm. 304 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckle edges. Excellent condition, like new. From the series ‘The Hinges of History’ (Book Four).

Casson, Lionel.

Reisen in der Alten Welt.

München, Prestel Verlag, 1976. 18.6cm x 11.2cm. 450 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on dustjacket.

Cole, Howard N.

On Wings of Healing. The Story of The Airborne Medical Services 1940 – 1960.

First Edition. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1963. 21 x 14 cm. xviii, 227 pages. With a Frontispiece photograph. Complete with ten folding maps in excellent condition. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine. Hard cover with dust jacket. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Dust jacket with minor losses near spine and corners, now protected in archival plastic jacket. Edges dust dulled and some foxing internally.

Craster, O.E.

Tintern Abbey – Monmouthshire.

London, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1956. 21.2cm x 14.8cm. 24 pages. With historic illustrations and fold-out map at the end. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Deutsche Baukunst des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Old German Architecture. Ancienne Architecture Allemande.

[First Edition]. Koenigstein im Taunus, Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1920. 29 x 21 cm. xvi, 192 pages. With 200 photographs, mostly full page. Multi-lingual text: German, English and French. Original pale cloth with dark brown decorations and title on front board and spine. Brown end papers. Top edge dark coloured. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with some discoloration and staining. Top of spine frayed. Binding shaky, but holding. Gift inscription on half title, dated June 1930 (in German). Edges dust dulled and mildly foxed. Internally clean and bright.

Dibdin, Tho.(Thomas) Frognall.

A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.

First Edition. Three Volumes. London, Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821. Vol.1: xxv, (6), 462 pages, lxxix (Index & Addenda). With 13 full page plates (incl. one colour and one fold-out plate) and 23 engraved plates on India paper which are mounted in the text. / Vol. 2: 555 page. With 24 full page plates (incl. two sepia and one double page plate) and 17 engraved plates on India paper which are mounted. / Vol. 3: 622 pages, lxii (Supplement). With 46 full page plates (incl. two colour/sepia and three double page plates) and 24 engraved plates on India paper which are mounted. No half titles. Volume 1 with Dedication page showing Crest of the Roxburghe Club, the first ‘Book Club’. Half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt titles and volume numbers on spine. Volume 3 professionally repaired in 2017 and fitted with new end papers. Very good condition. Boards, corners and hinges a little rubbed and bumped. This is an Ex Library book with an interesting history. All three volumes have a special commemoration plate mounted to front paste-downs: “Norfolk & Norwich Library. This book is Part of the Salvage from the Fire which occurred on August 1st, 1898”. Front free end-papers and title pages show some edge discoloration, possibly because of that fire. The rest of the text pages and plates appears not affected. Edges and pages are a little age darkened and a little browned.

[Eason & Son Ltd.].

Souvenir of Cork & Killarney. With 19 [tipped in] Illustrations [early photographs], complete with Letterpress.

Dublin / Belfast, Eason & Son, Ltd., no year [c. 1910]. 28,5 cm x 22 cm. 13 pages with tipped in photographic postcard illustrations in different sizes. Original, illustrated softcover. Breathtaking publication in unusually excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This very rare publication is a true gem for all collectors of local Cork and Kerry photography. The photographs are all accompanied by a very informative text. Very Rare !