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8vo., with several photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; originals pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Writings and illustrations by residents of Winsford on Exmoor in West Somerset. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, upper hinge tender (but binding wholly sound), a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
A new edition, corrected and much enlarged, 12mo (170 x 105 mm), 183, [5]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 17 plates on 12 and 14 illustrations in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper, top lightly spotted; purple cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 17 plates on 12 and 14 illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with medium length tears on upper and lower covers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. With a bookplate and neat signature on front paste-down.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly faded dustwrapper.
ill., br. Per secoli l'uomo si è rifiutato di affrontare il mare grigio, roboante e tempestoso che si estendeva al di là delle Colonne d'Ercole, abitato da mostri terrificanti come le Gorgoni e i Giganti Centimani o da razze bizzarre come i Cimmeri, gli Etiopi e i Pigmei; solo i Fenici, avidi e temerari, osarono sfidare quelle acque alla ricerca di un mollusco da cui estrarre il colore più ambito dalle élite di potere dell'età classica. Oggi l'Atlantico, nella percezione di molti, non è altro che un piccolo inconveniente, che dura giusto il tempo di un paio di film proiettati durante un volo intercontinentale. Fra questi due estremi sono intercorsi duemilacinquecento anni di esplorazioni, guerre, commerci e disastri, attraverso i quali l'oceano ha plasmato le ambizioni e la condotta di marinai, scienziati, mercanti e soldati, venendo visto, a seconda delle circostanze e della sorte, come un alleato o un nemico, una risorsa o un pericolo. Simon Winchester racconta l'ultra millenaria relazione fra l'Atlantico e gli esseri umani - predatori vichinghi e monaci irlandesi, cacciatori di balene e mercanti di schiavi, posatori di cavi e pirati -, mescolando storia e aneddoto, geografia e ricordi personali, scienza e affabulazione. Il risultato è un'epopea del "mare interno della civiltà occidentale" maestosa, sorprendente, burrascosa, cangiante - quasi quanto l'oceano stesso.
8vo.,First Edition, with 57 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps, fore-edges very lightly spotted; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) cover. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Scarce in this condition. Brockett, 79190.
8vo., First Edition, with 64 sepia-toned plates (a number double-page), and front and rear endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Scarce in this condition.
8vo., with a full-page illustration, a full-page plan and a double-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Winbolt's guide was first published in 1925, with the updated edition following in 1930. Bonser 5092 (recording the updated edition).
8vo., First Edition, with 8pp of coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. No. 10 of the Penguin Guides, edited by L. Russell Muirhead.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 3 illustrations (2 full-page) in the text and double-page plan, neat inscription on front free endpaper and some light pencilled annotations in a neat hand; boards, cloth back, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., with illustrations, maps and a double-page plan; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., with plates; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
4to., 34 leaves, with fine woodblock arms of Edward VII at head; sewed as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy ideal for framing and display. 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5. The Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Company Ltd., incorporated in law by the present Act, continued in operation from 1910 to 1925. When, in 1923, the Southern Railway Company was formed by merging the five major southern lines (and several smaller operators), the Wimbledon & Sutton fought to stay apart. It was one of the last to remain independent before its inevitable absorption in 1925. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Not in Ottley.
Folio, First Edition, with title in red and black, plates and maps, neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Folio, drop-head and docket titles, 14 pp., uncut, stitched and folded as issued, a fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with map in the text; orange cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., with photographs, illustrations in the text and full-page plan; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) 12mo 48pp illustrated
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and diagrams in the text, and endpaper maps; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The first appearance of this handy (but deceptively detailed) standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map in the text; original series binding of blue tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
209 pages. Index. Nine black and white plates. Twelve black and white figures. Fold-out two-colour plan of Jerusalem at back. Published posthumously. A detailed investigation of the question of the validity of the traditional sites of the Holy Sepulchre and of Golgotha. Average wear and soiling to dark yellow exterior. All lettering and gilt decorations clearly legible/visible upon backstrip and front board. Binding intact. Prior owner's signature atop title page, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Book
