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Seagull Morning. The Cornwall of my Childhood.. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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48 pages, illustrated, map eng
12mo, 32 pages, illustrated in colour throughout (Colourmaster Tourist Guide) eng
First edition, 12mo, 48pp., frontispiece, original green printed wrappers, a very nice copy.
in-8 etroit, 238 pp., tres nombreuses illustrations en noir, figures et cartes, index, broche, couverture illustree en couleurs. Bel exemplaire. [MI-4] Toutes les routes et les distances.
First edition, 4to, [2], iv, 26pp., title page mounted on a stub, folding engraved plate, presentation inscription on title "from the Author to Davis Giddy Esqr. [Davies Gilbert]", 4pp. list of subscribers provided "from a copy given me by J. Rashleigh. J. D. Enys", several ink corrections and annotations (by the author?), small neat stamp to fly-leaf, without the final leaf that contains a note announcing the issue of the engravings, marbled endpapers, nineteenth century half green morocco, spine gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, a nice copy. A note pasted in at the end "Mr. F. is sorry he cannot send with this a Plate of the Window, but he has only one copy left.", later provided by Mr Rashleigh of Menabilly. A early ink note on the title refers to the author "The Revd. Benjamin Forster, Rector of Boconnoc & St. Michael Carhayes in Cornwall." The ESTC locates copies at the British Library, the Bodleian, University of California, Riverside, and University of Texas.
First edition, [124]pp., unpaginated, from the library of John Davies Enys with his bookplate to front paste-down, cont. sheep, rubbed, covers holding by cords, library number to foot of spine. "... for the use of my own Sunday School, as a profitable change of employment in the course of Sunday instruction. But as two hundred may be printed with almost as much ease as ten, and at a trifling increase of expense, I allowed the above number to be taken off; and they are now offered to the Teachers of Schools at the price of printing."
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
255 p. Hardcover Good condition First published 1899
Booklet in mint condition. 48pp. Undated. ca 1960s. Price 3/6d.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Inscription of a previous owner on the front endpaper. Inside covers browning. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall eng
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
Book in mint unread condition. 51pp. Concise histories about a number of tram networks based on towns and cities in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Well illustrated with maps.
56 pages. Features: Canadian Scenes on 19th Century English Earthenware - Collard ROM Lecture; Confiscated Tiffany Collection sets new price records at Sotheby's in New York; Bernard Palissy - Creator of Rustic Pottery; Antique Beads - interview with Carol Wallingford; Refinishing and Restoring Wood Furniture - part 1 - stripping and basic repairs; Cornwall, Ontario - A Bicentennial History; Grand Opening of Tea Olive Company and Toys for Big Boys; Wick Support Lighting - informative photo-illustrated article; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title vignette, 10 engraved plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, brown endpapers, uncut, a most attractive, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous woodcut illustrations (by the author) in the text, title very lightly spotted; cloth, boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1865, collecting a series of essays written for the Gentleman's Magazine between 1862 and 1864.
78 pages. Features: Patterns of Power - The symbols of Great Lakes Indian Art; Mason's Ironstone - 'improvements in the manufacture of English porcelain'; Bermuda's Government House; Seeing Double - The 19th century's Stereoscope; South China Sea Find - Ming-filled wreck provides earlier dating documentation; Wilno Furniture - Made in the first Polish settlement in Canada; Nineteenth Century Pottery and Porcelain for Canadian Collectors; Cornwall Pewter Plate Mystery. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with engraved title-vignettes and numerous engraved illustrations and plans in the text, neat uniform signature on front free endpapers, neat contemporary signature on titles; original brown cloth, bevelled boards, upper boards framed in black and blocked in gilt (repeating title-vignettes), primrose endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Bray's classic account was first published as three volumes in 1836. Urged by Southey to report 'everything about a parish that can be made interesting; all of its history, traditions and manners that can be saved from oblivion', she produced a classic and important work combining natural history, topography and folklore in a series of delightful letters. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Brockett, 6260.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. HK33, better known as PINGUIN, was the most successful of the German raiders until she waas caught by HMS CORNWALL in the Indian Ocean. An early Kimber. SCARCE. Enser, p.188; Law 1692.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Beautiful color illustrations. Bright orange cloth boards with blue illustration. 7 1/2"w x 10 1/8"h.
Pages 381-428.. Features: Guinness ad inside front cover features Jane Welsh Carlyle; Nice one-page Benson & Hedges ad features ritzy scene aboard trainr; One-page ad for the David Brown companies features welder at work; Nice half-page ad for Westland helicopters; One-page ad for Cossor shows auto assembly line at Morris Motors; One-page Fairey Aviation Company ad honours the H.M. S. Illustrious; Two pages of photos of Princess Margaret being welcomed in St. Kitts, Jamaica and the Bahamas; Turkey and Iraq sign mutual defence treaty; King Hussein of Jordan engaged to Princess Dina Abd-El-Hamid Aoun; Passing of M. Paul Claudel and Huseyin Ragip Baydur; Farewell photos of the Shaw of Iran and his wife as they leave London; Czech skater Miss Miroslava NNachodska seeks asylum in the U.S.; Amazing photos of the underground thermal power of Wairakei, New Zealand - which will supply heavy water for Britain's atomic power stations; M. Edgar Faure; Page of photos of the Royal Navy's most formidable fighting unit - H.M.S. Ark Royal and its commissioning; Photo of snow in Riviera town; Missing Belgian airliner found after eight days on Mt. Terminillo; One-page colour-photo portrait of Princess Margaret; Six colour photos describe the "Powder Keg of Asia" - Chinese Nationalist troops on Formosa; Excavating an important site inthe Malayan jungles at Gua Cha, in Kelantan; One page photo portrait of Dame Edith Evans; Two pages of photos of/in the first American hotel ever built in London - the Wesbury is the West End's first new hotel for over twenty years; Damage from fire at Shell refinery at Shell Haven, Essex - the three men who kep the fire from spreading - R.A. Jackson, T. Brookbank and H. Dobson; Storm and Explosion in Genoa Harbour - the Nordanland was carrying calcium carbide; Snow scenes in the Pennines and Cornwall; Launching of new British submarine "Excalibur" which uses hydrogen peroxide fuel; Huge wool fire dockside in New Zealand; Voting on the SAAR and Paris agreements; Photos of the amazing Ibex in the Alps;Toronto landmark destroyed by fire - Anglican Church of the Martyr;Nuclear device exploded at Yucca Flat; Nice colour photo ad for Dow-Mac (Products) Ltd.; Back cover colour ad for Johnnie Walker with billiards theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
