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THE ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL VOLUME 81
No author listed.
Stock no. 668723
Published by Society Of Antiquaries Of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2001.
Nearly fine condition.
Cream card wraps, b/w photos and illustrations.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE BASIN OF THE TAY
Written by James Knox.
Stock no. 693734
Published by John Anderson; William Hunter.
1st
1831.
Good condition.
A comprehensive study of the geography and topography of the Tay Basin region in Scotland. The author provides a detailed description of the landscape, including the rivers, lakes, and mountains that make up the region. The book also covers the history of the region, including the settlements and communities that have existed there over the centuries. Brown cloth boards. 3 b/w engravings including frontispiece. xii and 226 pages plus appendix and subscribers list to rear, and a list of works lately published. Contents tight but both joints broken and contents being held in the boards by the lower edge of cloth covering spine. Corners worn. Boards rubbed and marked. A few foxspots to contents. All three plates present with sme staining and browning mainly to margins.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SCOTLAND
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ANTIQUARIAN
ROYAL BOROUGH
Written by Rachel Ferguson.
Stock no. 620857
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1950.
Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.
A selection of readers letters with the author's comments and replies; Kensington in the 2nd World War; The Coming of Peace; and Kensington today. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Corners slightly worn. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pale foxing. Pictorial wrapper edge-torn with loss and almost in two halves.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LONDON
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ETAT ET DELICES DE LA SUISSE
No author listed.
Stock no. 693767
Published by Samuel Fauche.
1778.
Very good condition.
Full brown calf binding with gilt decorations and title to spine. All edges red. Description historique et geographique des treize cantons Suisses et de leurs allies nouvelle edition. Two volumes in one. 4 folding b/w maps. 3 single page b/w maps. 30 b/w plates and one folding b/w plate. Text in French. Covers slightly rubbed at edges, spine slightly sunned. New marbled endpapers. Most pages have light brown stain on lower half of page (looks like ancient dampstain). Last sentence on page 272 has been adversely affected with a couple of words illegible. Otherwise the text is bright and readable. One map is browned at corner. Majority of plates not marked. A handsome copy.
THE DAUGHTERS OF INDIA
Written by Edward Jewitt Robinson.
Stock no. 693811
Published by Thomas Murray And Son.
1st
1860.
Good condition.
Red cloth, gilt titles. The social condition, religion, literature, obligations and prospects of women in India. Contents very good. A few foxspots to prelims and endpapers. Corners worn. One text page missing.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- INDIA
THE CHANGING USE OF LAND IN BRITAIN
Written by Robin H. Best; J.T. Coppock.
Stock no. 560340
Published by Faber & Faber.
1965.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The rapid and radical transformation of the landscape of Britain up to the 1960s. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 253 pages including index. Second impression. Top & tail of spine lightly rubbed. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Contents clean. Green dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and a little grubby.
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- GEOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
- FORESTRY
LAROUSSE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN HISTORY
Written by Marcel Dunan.
Stock no. 656768
Published by Paul Hamlyn.
1967.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Colour and b/w illustrations. From 1500 to the present day. Wrapper edge-chipped with slight loss.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
CRADLE OF SPLENDOUR
Written by George Borodin.
Stock no. 656779
Published by Staples Press.
1st
1945.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The immense tale of Samarkand. Name in ink to front endpaper.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- ASIA
- TURKESTAN
- RUSSIA
THE TWENTY YEARS' TRUCE 1919-1939
Written by Robert M. Rayner.
Stock no. 668970
Published by Longmans, Green & Co..
1st
1943.
Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
Colour maps. Blue cloth. Red wrapper edge-chipped with loss.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
THEIR WAY
Written by Thomas Cowan.
Stock no. 611428
Published by Arlington Books.
1st
1989.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Thumbnail biographies of famous gay people. ISBN: 0851407692.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
FETES DE NOEL EN PROVENCE
Written by M.J. De Kersaint-Gilly.
Stock no. 989444
Published by Imprimerie De La Manufacture De La Charite.
1900.
Almost very good condition.
Only 500 copies printed. Quater cloth binding with marble boards. 34 pages. Ex-Lib. Library binding.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (FRENCH)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE
- FRENCH
- CHRISTMAS
- LIMITED EDITION
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC SINCE 1900
Written by C. Hartley Grattann.
Stock no. 560546
Published by University of Michigan.
1st
1963.
Almost very good condition.
759 + xxviii pages. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Australia, New Zealand, the Islands and Antarctica. Ex-lib with stamping to prelims else contents very good.
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- HISTORY
- PACIFIC
- AUSTRALIA
- NEW ZEALAND
- ANTARCTIC
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)