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A Travel Photograph Album Of England, Germany, South Tyrol And Austria.
Book ID: 2911More details Price: £475.00
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Notes of A Tour in Sweden During The Summer of 1858;
Including An Historical Sketch of its Religious Condition, and the Question of Religious Liberty in it.
London: James Nisbet and Co, 1859. First Edition. Personal dedication to the front, and short ALS from Reverend Hinton loose inside. Dated August 12th 1858 - the paper is headed ' De Beauvoir Town' - the note offers thanks to Mr. von Koch, who was the Royal Chancellor of Justice in Sweden, and was interviewed twice for the book. Original hardback brown embossed Celtic knot decorated buckram. Gilt stamped title to spine. Complete with woodcut frontispiece (Dalecarlian peasants). Pxii, 232 pp. 185 x 125 mm (7¼ x 5 inches). Covers lightly rubbed, but starting to split at head and tail of the spine. Foxing inside, and pages are age toned. Binding a little loose, but overall in good condition.
Book ID: 2813More details Price: £65.00 -
Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications
London: J. Debrett, 1798. First edition. Two volumes, sympathetically rebound in half calf, with new leather spines, but retaining carefully restored original marbled boards. Original boards a little rubbed, but recent leather all very good. Some spots of foxing internally. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches). Volume I: viii, 526 pp. Volume II: viii, 528 pp.
William Tooke (1744–1820) was a British clergyman and an historian of Russia. This work gives a fascinating historical perspective, not only on his favoured Russia, but also on everything from the way ladies dressed in Peru, to the use of spices in 'the torrid zone'.Book ID: 2490More details Price: £260.00 -
The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla
During the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry
London: John Murray, 1825. 2nd revised edition. 7 plates. (all called for). Lacks map.
From the library of Downside Abbey. Library cloth with red leather spine. Internally clean and tidy with slight darkening. Very good condition apart from the lack of map.Book ID: 2061More details Price: £180.00 -
Waikna; or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore.
Edition: First Thus
London: Sampson Low & Son, 1856. First Thus. Notable survey of the Mosquito Coast region of Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua; includes a short glossary of the Miskito language. Red soft back with titles and engraving to the front cover - adverts to the rear. These are dated May 15th 1856. This edition has no maps or illustrations. The soft red covers are a little darkened / marked, but without significant wear. Internally clean and tidy. iv, 188, 16 pp. Adverts to rear.
Book ID: 1822More details Price: £80.00