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pp. vi, 199, (3). Small 12mo. Uncut. Original plain paper wraps. Later paper spine. Early (1784) manuscript English ownership. Extremely scarce and significant French tract on the health benefits of Mineral Waters. VERY SCARCE **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN 1 W34 W154.
Book is in excellent condition with very light edge wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and is in impressively fine condition with tipped-in color plates and b&w prints, map endpapers showing the locations of the text. Dust jacket is price clipped and is extensively repaired at edges with scotch tape. Contents include The pleasure gardens, White conduit house, Marylebone gardens, Jenny's whim, Bagnigge wells, Islington spa, Sadler's wells, Highbury barn, Bermondsey spa, The English grotto, Finch's grotto gardens, Florida gardens, The Yorkshire stingo, etc.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on Lockeia and Pelecypodichnu fossils, Chirotherium and the Quarrymen, Liverpool Spa, Fuerteventura and a Mafic Pluton, 3D pictures with a digital camera, the Ogwen Valley, the Jurassic of Rutland..
64 pages. Features: Refugees - Allies or Enemies? - article with heart-rending photos of refugees in Spain, China, Austria and Poland, plus photos and brief write-ups of 32 influential people who are also refugees (i.e. Einstein); Two Mothers - and Two Sons - the mothers of Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff and Joseph Stalin; The Swiss Keep Guard - the job of these white troops is to make sure their country shall never become a second Finland; This Wasn't New in 1899 - interesting parachute history; The Life Story of Pope Pius XII; A Girl Prepares for Spring - spa treatments to freshen up ladies after winter; What it Means To-day to be a Merchant Seaman - one page photo of lifeboats pulling away from the sinking "Clan Stuart"; ; The Return of the Horse - Hitler's effect on British roads; Diary of the War, No. 30 - The Twenty-Eighth Week - with photo of Hitler visiting his wounded troops, and a large photo of British Cavalry on horseback in Nazareth; Cartoon by Low shows Hitler and Stalin pouring alcohol into the brains of their cannon fodder; Cargo for Delivery; France is Fighting; Full-page ad for Moussec champagne; Nice back cover ad for Sultanas (a useful wartime food); Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
451 p. + Engraved half title and Frontis. Lacks rear folding map. Foxed. Early bookseller's label, Tewskbury & Brothers, Manchester, NH, embossed in blind on front fly leaf. 12mo. Original patterned publisher's cloth binding. Boards embossed in blind and decorated with interlocking flowers. Gold lettered spine. Extremities worn with slight loss. Boards rubbed. Hardbound. Born in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was a popular and influential American poet, literary critic, journalist, translator, and travel author. HOLY LAND BOX 1
Very Good French Paperback. 12mo. (15 x 11,5 cm). In French. [8] p., 7 unnumbered b/w plates of shores, SPA hotels, and baths in Yalova. A rare pamphlet on thermal baths in Yalova.
First edition, tall 12mo (190 x 90 mm), 263pp., orig. cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, a very good copy. Provenance: Presentation inscription "To Mrs Hewitt from Andrew Fairleigh, Hastings 1925"; armorial bookplate of C. Vipar; N. S. Harding, All SS Vicarage, Lincoln.
8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32 and front and rear endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A standard reference on Norwood and the Crystal Palace. THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC STUDY IS NOW SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.