Tobruk – A Raid Too Far.
London, Robert Hale, 2013. 20 x 30 cm. 304 pages. Some maps and photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition. As New.
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The Long Journey. Fire and Ice.
London, Gyldendal, ND [c. 1930]. 18 x 12 cm. xiv, 292 pages. Paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Small cut to top of spine (see images). Name of previous owner, dated 1931. Internally clean.
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Sidon Through The Ages. With a Foreword by Maurice Dunand.
Beirut, Dar El-Machreq Publishers, 1971. 28 x 21.5 cm. xxv, 287 pages. With a folding Frontispiece and many B&W Illustrations. Original grey cloth. Hard cover. Inside original decorated dust jacket. Decorated end papers. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the Author on the verso of the Frontispiece, dated ‘71’. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling to edges. Minor spotting to end papers and frontispiece. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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Vetera Monimenta. In quibus praecipue Musiva Opera Sacrarum, Profanarumque Aedium Structura, Ac Nonnulli Antiqui Ritus, Dissertationibus, Iconibusque Illustratur. Pars Prima.
[First Edition]. Romae [Rome], Ex Typographia Joannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi, apud S. Angelum Custodem, [1690]. 33 x 23 cm. Frontispiece, title page, (12) [Dedication etc.], (6) [Praefatio], (2) [Index Capitum], 276 pages plus 22 pages [Index Rerum], (2) [Errara + Blank]. With a frontispiece and 71 further plates of which 16 are folding and one is in text. See comments below for list of plates. Later modern cloth. New end papers. Fore edge deckle. Good condition with several plates being absent. Binding rubbed, bumped and stained. Internally age darkened and occasionally spotted. Some stains and small tears. Remains an impressive folio with more than 70 original architectural copper plate engravings. Please review all ten images to gain better insight in the condition of the book and its binding.
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Little Old New York. Profusely illustrated with scenes from the Cosmopolitan photoplay starring Marion Davies.
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. 12.5 x 19cm. 307 pages, with black and white plates. Original hardcover. Good condition with some signs of wear, mild foxing to edges, small tear to front endpaper.
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Johnson’s Pocket Dictionary of the English Language. Greatly improved by an Augmentation of some Thousand Words and Technical Terms. The Accentuation corrected according to the most approved Mode of Pronunciation. Subjoined is a concise Classical Mythology, a List of Men of Learning and Genius, Phrases from various Languages, and Translations of the Mottos of the Nobility.
London, Printed for T. Tegg & Son et al, 1835. c. 11 x 7.5 cm. iv, 252 pages. With a tissue-guarded Frontispiece showing Samuel Johnson. Contemporary dark green textured cloth. Blind decorations. Gilt title on spine. All edges gilt. Yellow end papers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Tiny material loss to top of spine. Occasional mild foxing. A lovely little item.
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The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is prefixed a Life of the Author by F.W. Blagdon, Esq.
London, Published by W. Suttaby, B. Crosbie, Scatchard, C.Corrall, 1808. 11.5 x 6.5 cm. 84 pages. With a Frontispiece. Contemporary calf. Good condition only. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened throughout. Front board detached. Ex Libris.
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes.
Volume The Sixth ONLY! London, W. Pickering, 1825. 21 x 13 cm. vi, 520 pages. Dark green half- calf ober marbled boards. Red spinal label with gilt title. Gilt decorations. All edges marbled. Marbaled end papers. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping. Ex Libris (on front paste down). Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. Front hinge cracked.
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From the Pacific to the Atlantic: Being an Account of a Journey Overland from Eureka, California, to Webster, Massachusetts, with a Horse, Carriage, Cow and Dog.
Reprint of the original edition from 1887. Kessinger Publishing, ca. 2010. 23.5cm x 15.7cm. III, 369 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate to endpaper.
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Atlas de l’ancienne Géographie Universelle comparée à la Moderne. Precede D’Une Table General, en Forme de Dictionnaire, de tous les noms anciens des Royaumes, Provinces, Villes, Fleuves, Rivieres, Lacs, Montagnes, etc., qui se trouvent dans l’Ancienne Geographie universelle.
A Paris, Andre Augustin Lottin / Arthus Bertrand, An IX. (1801). 29 x 22 cm. Title page, TOC, 78 pages, (2). Complete with 18 Maps, as listed. Order: 1-11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 12, 13, 14. Most Maps folding. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small paper sticker with name of previous owner on title page and one more location. All Maps in very good condition, with some showing some creasing and edge wear. Map 10 (Grece) with closed tear of c. 6 cm. Overall a very good copy.
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Time and Tide.
[First Edition]. London, Henry J. Drane, 1907. 18 x 12 cm. 422 pages plus 32 pages of publishers catalogue. New (2018) black cloth with gilt title on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New Binding. Edges and text block a age darkened. Neat ink inscription, dated 1907. A few small stains inside, otherwise clean.
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England West.
First Edition. London / New York, The Studio Publications, 1950. 24.8cm x 15.5cm. 272 pages. Includes many illustrations and drawings by the author of locations featured in the book (black and white). Original Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine (slightly faded) and on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.
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Posters & Publicity. Fine Printing and Design.
First Edition. London, The Studio, 1926. 29 x 20 cm. 165 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and B&W. Original blue textured cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Edges and end papers age darkened. Bookseller stamps on front paste donw and front free end paper. Mild foxing, otherwise internally clean.
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Christy Brown’s Women. A Biography drawing on his Letters. Includes the Founding of Cerebral Palsy Ireland by Robert Collis.
First Edition. Dublin, Westport Books, Not dated. 21 x 14.5 cm. 178 pages. With B&W photos. Original decorared stiff paper covers. Paperback. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by the Author to Westport Historian Jarlath Duffy. Internally bright and clean.
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Modern Trout Flies and How to Tie Them. Color Photographs by Lee Boltin. Additional photographs by Jorgensen.
London/ Tonbridge, Ernest Benn Limited, 1979. 28.4cm x 22.1cm. 80 pages. 22 pages of photographs. 240 photographs in total. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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Salmon Flies. Their Character, Style and Dressing. A Modern Guide to Tying Flies for Salmon, including over 160 Traditional and Contemporary Patterns. Introduction by Joseph D. Bates, Jr.
PA, Stackpole Books, 1978. 24cm x 19.3cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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