The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History.
First Edition. New York, Harmony Books, Crown Publishers Inc., 2000. 16cm x 24cm. 372 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition.
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The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery.
First Edition. Aldershot, Gale & Polden, 1957. 21 x 13 cm. xv, 417 pages. With photographs, drawings and maps (many folding). Original dark blue colth with gilt title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Cloth binding seriously damp stained / discoloured (see image). Dust jacket dust dulled and showing some edgewear and mild fraying. Edges and end papers age darkened. Tipped in letter by Colonel J.F. Barrington, Honorary Secretary of the Mountain Artillery Dinner Club, to Field Marshal Alanbrooke. Internally in fine condition, bright and clean.
EUR 140,-- Order
Salmon Flyfishing. The Dynamic Approach.
First Edition. Shrewsbury, Swan Hill Press, 1993. 24 x 19 cm. (6), 152 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Hard cover. Inside original decorated prize-clipped dust jacket Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Small paper sticker on front paste down. Internally bright and clean.
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
First Edition. Two Volumes. New York, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. 23 x 15 cm. Vol.1: 584 pages / Vol.2: 647 pages. Illustrated. Original deluxe three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, circular gilt-stamped medallions on front and rear covers, marbled endpapers and edges. Very good condition. Sound bindings. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Neat gift inscription to Library. Small library stamp (‘Peru Library’) on first blank of each volume. Occasional mild foxing. Internally bright and clean. A very nice set overall.
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Silent Songs.
First edition. London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1915. 16 x 10 cm. vii, 119 pages. Small vignette on title page. Contemporary pale white cloth, hard cover with dark green title on front board and spine. See images. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled and mildly foxed. Name of previous owner on front free end paper, dated 1917. Internally very mildly foxed otherwise clean. A very nice copy of this scarce book.
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The Poems of Thomas Gray.
Eton, The Eton College Press, 1894. 27 x 18 cm, xiv, 164 pages.Frontispiece showing Thomas Gray. Three full page plates and various decorations in text. Half leather on marbled paper. New binding; not contemporary. Binding in excellent, as new, condition. Text block very good condition. Some foxing and minor age darkening. Unguarded frontispiece transferred ‘shadow’ to title page. Small water stain on top fore corner on the first pages. Text block otherwise bright and clean.
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Traditional Archery from six Continents. The Charles E. Grayson Collection.
First Edition. Columbia & London, The University of Missouri Press, 2007. 26 x 21 cm. ix, 256 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original black cloth. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.
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Nicanor of Athens. The Autobiography of an Unknown Citizen,
First Edition. Cambridge, At the University Press, 1946. 20 x 12.5 cm. xviii, 359 pages. Map-illustrated end papers. Original brown cloth with gilt title on spine. Hard cover. Very good condition. Name of previous owner (‘Michael Tierney’) in pencil. Internally clean.
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Fourteenth Report of the Poor Law Commissioners; with Appendices.
First Edition. London, Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, 1848. c. 21 x 13 cm. iv, 187 pages. Original dark cloth with gilt title on spine. Hard cover. Very good condition. Occasional mild foxing, otherwise bright and clean.
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The Regent. A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
[First Edition]. Dublin, Printed for Burnet, Colles, Wilkinson et al., 1788. 16 x 10 cm. Title page, (6), 67 pages. Modern cloth with gilt title on front board. Brown matching end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Internally dust dulled, but otherwise very clean. Nice copy.
EUR 30,-- Order
Illustrations of Perspective. Being a Popular Explanation of the Science and its Application to Design Generally.
Third Edition. London, Rowney, Dillon & Rowney, 1845. Oblong c. 31 x 23 cm. Unpaginated. 24 Plates, interspersed with text explanations. Dark brown textured cloth. Rebacked with new spine and new end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Internally mildly age darkened. Some plates and pages stained (see images). The book has been trimmed at some stage and there are minor losses to the top of some pages, not affecting readability. New spine and end papers.
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The Comedians.
First Edition. London, The Bodley Head, 1966. 20 x 13 cm. 313 pages. Original cloth with gilt title on spine. Inside original dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumbing. Edges and end papers dust dulled / darkened. Some edge wear and age darkening to dust jacket and a small closed tear. Internally clean.
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The Spirit of the Border – A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley. With four page illustrations by J. Eatson Davis.
First Edition. New York, A.L.Burt Company, 1906. 8°. 266 pages with 4 additional pages of advertising. Original Hardcover / Illustrated, original cloth in excellent condition. Some minor rubbing and soiling to the cloth at the corners. But overall near fine or better condition of this extremely rare book.
EUR 95,-- Order