Batholomew’s Quarter Inch Map of Ireland. Dublin and Roscommon. With Contoured Colouring. Cloth.
Edinburgh, John Bartholomew & Son, [1955]. Folded map, cloth-backed. Good condition. Some fraying and stains.
EUR 25,-- Order
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Guide to Killarney and Glengariff. With a Map, and Six Plates.
New Edition Revised and Corrected. Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1835. 16 x 10 cm. (2), 130 pages with a map and six plates (incl. frontispiece) – complete. Original textured cloth with paper labels on front board and spine. Good condition. Binding seriously rubbed and bumped, age darkened and stained. Spine label worn off. Spine ends frayed. Age darkened throughout. Front free end paper missing. Roughly 1 cm wide strips missing from title page top and bottom (see image). First few pages water stained. Internally foxed.
EUR 95,-- Order
English Lake Scenery. Illustrated with a Series of Coloured Plates from Drawings by A.F. Lydon.
First Edition. London, John Walker and Company, 1880. 24 x 17 cm. 48 text pages with 25 colour Illustrations, each followed by a blank page Original bright red cloth with elaborate gilt and black decorations. Bevelled boards and all edges gilt. Front board with a lovely inset decoration on green cloth with red and blue lettering and gilt decorations. See images for better appreciation. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Mildly dust dulled. Occasional mild foxing. Small ink stain to rear end papers. Names of previous owners neatly inscribed on front free end paper (dated 1886) and title page (dated 1886). A very nice copy.
EUR 120,-- Order
Life and Explorations of Fridtjof Nansen. A New Edition Revised and Considerably Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations and a Map.
London, Walter Scott, Not dated (ca. 1899). 20 x 14 cm. xix, 449 pages plus 18 pages publishers list. With 15 plates and Illustrations in text (complete). Original red cloth with gilt titles and decorations to front board and spine. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Spine worn and frayed with minor paper losses. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean.
EUR 50,-- Order
Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views taken expressly for this Work by W.H. Bartlett; Esq.
First Edition. London, George Virtue, 1836. 27 x 21 cm. Vol.1: (4), 188 pages, engraved title plus 57 Plates (see comments!) / Vol.2: (2), 152 pages, engraved title plus 48 Plates, plus a folding map of Switzerland in the back. Contemporary half morroco over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and edges. Gilt titles and decorations on spine. Good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges age darkened. Rear free end paper of Vol.1 and front free end paper of Vol.2 missing. Some tissue guards missing. Names of previous owners neatly inscribed in ink. Internally with some browning, foxing and large visible damp stains on most pages, incl. Plates. (see images).
EUR 240,-- Order
Black’s Tourist’s Guide to Ireland. Illustrated with a Map and several Plans and Views.
Twenty-First Edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1891. 15 x 10 cm. vi, 354 pages plus 128 pages of advertising. Original dark cloth. Gilt titles and Illustrations on front board and spine. Illustrated end papers. Folding plans of Dublin, Londonderry and Belfast, folding maps of the Lakes of Killarney, the Antrim Coast, Giants Causeway, Lough Foyle and Malin Head. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Front and rear hinges opened and binding weak, but holding. Internally bright and clean.
EUR 65,-- Order
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