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NewYork: Day co. 3rd impression circa, 1955. Very Good. col.plates(18)+text ils by Yee. Octavo lime green cl. 281pp inscr.FEP else V.G+ Incription Before cover page. A unique book on New York in the 1950s. Illustrated by the author with 18 coloured plates. Yee Chiang was an exile of Maoist China who became Emeritus Professor of Chinese… Read more about this item

Wakefield: West Yorkshire Printing Co./Proceedings of Yorkshire GEOLOGICAL society, 1942. Softcover. Very Good. Plates (8) including folding + examples of Smith's manuscripts. . Octavo grey printed wrappers 99pp. Pencil annotations and marginal lines throughout but a neat tight copy, pagination excellent, very little foxing. Signed bookplate of Stan Robinson to inside of cover. Early geological studies by… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co., 1885. Hardcover. Good. Colour plates (7) + titlepage with shaggy dog and bowl, by Walter Crane (1845-1915).. Octavo (190x130mm) modern red cloth library covers with slightly worn spine and gilt title, top corners of cover slightly worn, inscription on FEP dated 1916, faint purple library stamps on half title & p240, [vi] +240pp +32pp… Read more about this item

New York: Schocken Books, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo Paperback {edges sl.rubbed] xii [includes frontis + titlepage + Preface + contents +list of illustrations + Quotations & abbreviations] +384pp + addendum page +Schoken paperback list. The text includes an introduction + 13 chapters dealing with Old Comedy + citizens & foreigners, money & property, the slaves, war &… Read more about this item

London: Crosby Lockwood and Co., Edinburgh Oliver & Boyd, Dublin M.H. Gill & Son 46th edition Revised & Enlarged., 1883. Hardcover. Good. Octavo (164 x 103mm in 8's) red blindstamped roan gilt lettered to cover and gilt ruled to spine (head & foot of spine chipped and repaired, edges rubbed, corners worn) All Edges Marbled vi +6pp +p5*/p6*… Read more about this item

London: T.Fisher Unwin, 4th edition. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations [40 including one doublepage map] . 8vo dark red rexine-like boards with gilt grey spine title laid on. [rebound April 1983 with spare title label tipped to rear endpaper] xviiii [= half title frontispiece of Algier in 1700 +title + contents +illustrations +Authorities consulted.] + doublepage map +316pp. Illustrations include… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo red cloth gilt titled to spine in dust jacket (half inch tear without loss to dust jacket) half title + titlepage + Preface + contents (each of these 4 leaves printed recto only with blank verso) + VII-XXVI + 64 pages of GREEK TEXT + 65-174pp of English textural commentary.… Read more about this item

Paris: Plon freres + Plancy [chez] Societe de Saint-Victor, 1847. Hardcover. Good. Engraved Frontispiece . 8vo Handsome Purple full leather with blindstamped and gilt covers Spine extra gilt gilt dentelles [sl. Chipping to gilt line around the covers/corners sl.worn] All edges marbled 468pp includes all preliminaries and contents list as the end. Minor pale foxing to the first… Read more about this item

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo Red cloth black lettered to spine and cover [sl rubbed to edges] Hald title +titlepage + contents +1-170pp Clean neat and tight.

Tours {France}: Alfred Mame et fils, 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. engraved plates [4 including the engraved pictorial title . 12mo Dark Green gilt levant morocco spine with blind-stamped cloth sides [ corners rubbed/cloth sl.damp marked] All Edges Gilt 286pp +[1p =contents] includes half title of the Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse Chretienne and the title as required. Nice engraved… Read more about this item

London: Cape 1st published for general circulation 2nd impression Aug.1935, 1935. Hardcover. Good. plates & illustration (54 of 55) & 4 folding maps. Plates by Eric Kennington and others.. 4to(10x7.6") tan buckram gilt to cover and spine(tips bumped) 672pp Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Name FEP and first 25 leaves with a bend to the fore-edge of the… Read more about this item

London: Loingsmans Green and Co., 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece +56 illustrations by W.F. Keyl, J.B. Zwecker & E. Smith. PRIZE BINDING full tan leather on 5 raised bands with black spine label gilt cover of the Technical Day School Birmingham and spine extra gilt to all comparments and gilt dentelles, blindtooled reverses. {edges rubbed/gilt sl.rubbed to spine]… Read more about this item

Cape Town & Amsterdam: Medical Association of South Africa, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Plates (32) + line illustrations and Maps (16). . Octavo boards with gilt arms of the society to cover [spine gilt dulled/tips & lower edges bumped/small dent to spine] 389pp + inside rear cover a multifolding xerox manuscript of the "Bickersteth Family Pedigree from 1687" +… Read more about this item

Tours [France]: Ad MAME et Cie., 1855. Hardcover. Fair. Engraved plates [3} . 12mo green diapered cloth gilt floral wreath to cover and Rococco gilt to lower cover, spine extra gilt and titled [cloth rubbed/ somewhat dusty/ head & foot of spine sl.worn as also corners] half title =Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse Chrétienne + titlepage +308pp Newer endpapers… Read more about this item

Paris: Societe d'edition Les Belles Lettres 5th revised/corrected edition, 1954. Softcover. Good. Octavo paper wraps with owl to cover.(tips rubbed/lower corner somewhat creased) Half title + titlepage + notice etc,[total 13pp] + 14-147pp +blank page +errata. Facing pages have the same page number and are parallel translations of the Greek and French. Two Ownerships to upper corner of… Read more about this item

Calcutta: Governmentof India Central Publication Branch, 1928. folding map in black & yellow + 19 photographs including folding photos + Maps, Diagrams & Statistics [27 including folding & folding in colour]. 8vo tan cloth spine with paper spine-label in red and black [minor signs of use] Coat of arm to titlepage + SNPL stencil to title/ verso with list… Read more about this item

London: n, 1782. Hardcover. Fair. plate bound behind the titlepage = "Il retourne chez ses egaux" by Moreau. 12mo tan speckled leather with black spine label and gilt spine decoration [hinges partly cracked/lacking part of head and foot of spine/label chipped & affecting letters] All edges brightly gilt 4 leaves [incl.2 free endpapers + half title +titlepages] +… Read more about this item

Cambridge & London & New York: Deighton Bell and Co. + George Bell and Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Good. Coin [?] Vignette with eagle & rabbit . 16mo green cloth with black decoration to covers. Half-title + Titlepage with vignette of a coin with Eagles & rabbit + 4pages of introduction in English + [9-11] -12-60pp entirely in Greek… Read more about this item

Paris: Marchant, 1842. Hardcover. Good. steel engraved plates [40 as listed] byMulready, Mulready,Chalon, Faulkner,Kneller etc. Sm.4to Green blindstamped cloth spine gilt [edges rubbed,sl.marked /lower hinge with 2" split] All Edges Gilt text paper uniformly tanned. Plates on thicker paler paper but some plates have narrow edge browning and a few have pale foxing but not near to any… Read more about this item

London: by the Author & W.B.Ford 4th edition, 1858 approx.. Hardcover. Very Good-. 120 x 75mm diapered brown cloth gilt title to cover [lower cover sl.creased] viii [includes leaf of other books by the author to face the titlepage = Preface] + 184pp A few signs of use but neat and tight.