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Two volumes. Paginated consecutively. Quarto. Pp. 296; 297-633. Includes Addend & Corrigenda section. Set in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary three quarter cloth, spines lettered and individually numbered in gilt, cloth inner hinges; paper on boards bit creased in places, minor marking in red pencil on a page or two. In a very good condition, very clean interior. ~ First edition. With the handsome armorial bookplate of Alten Hofer inside cover of first volume and old signature on half-title.
In-8 p. (mm. 210x133), brossura muta coeva (con manc.), pp. XVI,424, con 1 tabella “des anciennes et des nouvelles échelles employées en France pour la topographie” e 12 tavole inc. in rame f.t. (ciascuna con numerose figure) di cui 6 più volte ripieg. relative a: “Lever militaire du pays, entre le village de Borne, Bornstadt et Nedlitz, près de Potsdam - Lever.. entre les villages de Borne, Eiche et Golm, près de Potsdam - Canevas pris sur la carte de Saxe de Petri et arrangé pour servir à lever militairement les environs de Meissen - Lever militaire des environs de Meissen - 2 tables avec lignes de limites et de divisions”. Questa edizione è stata “revu et augmenté de Notes et figures additionnelles par un Officier au Corps Impérial du Génie de France”. Con qualche uniforme lieve arross. o fiorit. ma buon esemplare con barbe.
Two volumes. Quarto. I. Text Volume. Pp. viii, 105. II. Plate Volume., consists of title leaf and 114 single-sheet collotype plates. Both volumes placed in the original cloth portfolio with some wear to extremities and a few repairs at folds inside. Both volumes in fine condition, plates are exceptionally well preserved. ~ First edition. Beautifully illustrated Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
Crown quarto. Pp. 368. Appendix, bibliography, Index of Proper Names. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's navy blue full cloth, spine gilt. In about fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition.
Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. 146; 332, (2). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth, with dust-jackets. In fine condition (ownership signature on first free endpaper). Excellent set, practically unused. ~ First edition.
Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xviii, 317, plus a folding map, coloured along route, bound at end, cut into two parts along fold; viii, 360. Plus different frontispiece to each volume, with tissue-guard, and numerous photographic plates. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's full green cloth, embossed lettering on cover, spine gilt, contemporary inscription to one volume. A very good, untrimmed set, in overall fine condition, a bit foxed in places. ~ First edition. Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Marquess of Zetland (1876-1971), a British politician, Secretary of State for India in the late 1930s. Beside with China, his travelogue deals also with Japan, Korea, Manchuria.
Roy. 4to., with 70 pages of reduced facsimiles and numerous illustrations in the text; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. An invaluable work of reference illustrating and describing the area. The catalogue was prepared under the editorial supervision of Ralph Hyde, Keeper of Prints and Map at the Guildhall Library, City of London
First edition, 12mo (160 x 104 mm), [5], 6-112pp., engraved frontispiece of Whitby Abbey (lightly spotted with a stain to lower blank margin), bookplate, text illustrs., orig. publisher's printed boards, a very nice copy. Rare, Copac locates the BL and York Minster copies only.
First Edition, engraved vignette on title, folding hand-coloured map (1 inch closed tear), 2 plates, viii, 717, [15] pp., cont. half half, rubbed.
4to (315 x 250 mm), xxxvi, 355pp., one of 250 copies, large paper copy, a very good ex-library copy, last 30 or so leaves browned, later calf calf, marbled paper covers, untrimmed.
8vo., Fourth Edition, on laid paper, title and text partly in black letter; eighteenth century full calf, sides with double frame border, supplemented at joint edge by decorative fillet, back with five raised bands, gilt dentelles (faded at fore edges), expertly rebacked in calf to style with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably crisp, clean copy in period binding. With 3pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end. Shaw's compendium remained the standard reference on parochial jurisprudence for almost two centuries. SCARCE.
4to., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 2 coloured plates of arms and 27 plates and portraits in monochrome, some light and mainly marginal spotting; original full faux-vellum, sides with double frame border in gilt enclosing an armorial bearing blocked in gilt, bevelled edges, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, firm copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 46). Sold with a few items of printed and MS ephemera relating to the Bloomer family of Accrington.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, wanting all advertised maps and plans as usual, some moderate age-browning (but nowhere affecting legibility); crudely bound in tan leather [sheep?], backs with red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, a good, sound working copy of a scarce work. The Directory was compiled by W. Parson. The index to the work as a whole in included in the second volume. With the contemporary binder's tickets of E.Orthick of Leeds (first volume) and J. Nicholson of Bradford (second volume) on front paste-downs; both tickets must surely have been carried forward from the original bindings. The maps and plans advertised by the publisher were actually issued as a separate volume and are seldom, if ever, present. Nevertheless, a very substantial body of information and an invaluable county reference. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. Anderson p.310; Boyne XV.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with wood-engraved title-vignette, fine engraved armorial dedication, 6 engraved plates, folding pedigree, 11 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and several engraved head- and tail-pieces, wanting frontispiece, list of plates and folding map; contemporary boards, uncut, neatly rebacked, old calf backstrip laid down, a most attractive working or reference copy. THIS COPY IS BOUND WITHOUT THE FRONTISPIECE, LIST OF PLATES AND FOLDING MAP. The engraved illustrations are by Nesbitt of Chelsea. Anderson, p.175; Upcott, p. 600.
cm. 24,5 x 34, x-388 pp. con 467 ill. n.t., 4 tavv. f.t. a col. e 3 pieghevoli a col. Forma Italiae - Serie I Il volume esamina un vasto settore della Campagna Romana particolarmente conservato dal punto di vista ambientale e ricco di evidenze archeologiche. Il lavoro, condotto con le tecniche pi? avanzate di ricognizione e documentazione, ha permesso l?identificazione e localizzazione di pi? di 800 siti archeologici, alcuni dei quali sottoposti a forte rischio o gi? parzialmente danneggiati; molti di essi sono di grande importanza archeologica, ed alcuni, oltre 700, del tutto sconosciuti. The volume examines a large part of the Roman Campagna with a particularly well preserved environment, very rich in archaeological remains. This work has been conducted with the most recent tecniques of survey and documentation that permitted the identification of more than 800 sites, some of which risk being completely destroyed, others having been already damaged. Many are of great archeological importance and over 700 sites were previously not known. 2485 gr. x-388 p.
276pp + list subscr. VG/none First (only) edition. Modern binding in grey plain stiff cardboard with black lettering on spine, red edges, tiny tears and crease at the bottom of the spine, some mild sporadic offsetting otherwise an excellent copy, fresh and tight. The full title is "The Antiquities of Arundel; the Peculiar Privilege of its Castle and Lordship; with an Abstract of the Lives of the Earls of Arundel, from the Conquest to this Time by the Master of the Grammar-School of Arundel". Charles Caraccioli was the Master of the Grammar School, dedicated to the Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel and his Heir Apparent Edward Howard, Esq.
In 4° (310x210); pagg. XXXI, 652 con una grande tavola ripiegata fuori testo raffigurante una veduta di Verona di Marco Moro, XV illustrazioni a col. , XXI in nero, 341 in nero di stampe e piante della città, particolari architettonici, monumenti ecc.Interessante bibliografia sulle vedute, piante e carte geogr. di Verona con dettagliate schede Contiene saggi di Marchi, Lorenzoni, Brugnoli, Marchini, Concina, mazzi, Borelli ed altri. Tela editoriale con sovracoperta a colori e custodia. Contiene interessanti saggi di storia veneta, architettura, istituzioni civili e sociali. Come nuovo.
Folio, First Edition thus, with frontispiece, half-title, title and text in red and black, coloured engraved plate, engraved plate in monochrome, and illustrations and full-page pedigree in the text; original half roan, marbled boards, gilt back, gilt top, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, uncut, joints very lightly rubbed else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 75 COPIES FOR PRESENTATION ONLY. Reprinted with additional notes from 'Archaeologia Cantiana', vol. V. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Bennett, p. 240.
2 vols., sm. folio, First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED, with plates, illustrations, maps and plans; original series binding of red cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean set. 1000 COPIES OF EACH VOLUME WERE PRINTED. All published to date, though several other volumes have been in preparation for many years. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates (a number folding), and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
15 vols., sm. 8vo., with illustrations and maps throughout, page-edges very lightly browning as usual; original illustrated wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean run. Runs of this length and calibre, especially of the early volumes, are extremely scarce.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignettes, 23 plates and 2 large folding maps; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a near fine copy. With a pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper. Categorisation includes: assemblies, hundreds and sessions, oaths political and religious, oaths of office, registration and deposit, coroner, court of record, general instruments, process, correspondence, government circulars and returns, customs and precedents, cinque ports, account, receipts, vouchers and payments, special accounts with vouchers, borough rates, taxation, musters and militia, prisons, water supply, commissioners of sewers, harbour and maritime records, borough council, charities, corporation properties, maps and plans, parish and church properties, transferred records, civil and parish records, printed books, acts of parliament, fragments of records and seals. Extremely scarce in any condition.
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, titles in red and black, with 2 frontispieces (one coloured), 117 plates and facsimiles on 114, 38 illustrations in the text and a folding map, neat inked initials on half-title of first volume; decorative buckram gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, upper hinge of first volume crudely reinforced with adhesive tape at title else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1,107 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FIRST VOLUME. One of the outstanding town histories of the early twentieth century. The blocks for the illustrations were prepared by Emery Walker and the work is complete with list of subscribers, addenda and corrigenda, an extensive bibliography and indexes of persons and places.
2 vols. 8vo. Second Edition with title-vignettes; attractively bound in contemporary half calf marbled boards backs with flat bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments with black leather labels framed and lettered in gilt all other compartments t Published in the same year as the first edition
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece; nineteenth century full roan, sides with blind frame border, gilt back, uncut, patterned endpapers, backstrip chafed at extreme head, a very fresh, clean copy of a scarce work. The proposed 'Appendix' mentioned in the final leaf was not issued. The first published individual history of the county town. A VERY DESIRABLE COPY . Anderson p.143; Upcott, p.431