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DEVONSHIRE COURTSHIP
No author listed. Illustrated by W. Wood.
Stock no. 823450
Published by W. Wood. Circa 1869. Very good condition.

Small format. Yellow pictorial paperwraps. A story written in Devonshire dialect. 74 pages + 2 page booklist. Spine rubbed and slightly chipped.

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WISE WIFF IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT
Written by Alexander Craig Gibson.
Stock no. 823200
Published by George Coward. 1867. Slightly better than very good condition.

Small format. 12 pages + 3 page booklist. Modern grey cloth binding, white title label to spine.

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A COMPLETE AND UNIVERSAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Written by James Barclay.
Stock no. 822712
Published by J.F. & C. Rivington. 1792. Slightly better than good condition.

Including Not Only a Full Explanation of Difficult Words and Technical Terms in All Faculties and Professions But Also a Pronouncing Dictionary. Full brown leather binding. Gilt title to spine. Contents very good. Rebacked with original spine laid down.

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GLAMORGANSHIRE PLACE-NAMES
Written by Thomas Morgan.
Stock no. 822305
Published by John E. Southall. 1st 1901. Fair condition.

With Names of Mountains, Fields and Historic Places. Grey card wraps. 121 pages + book list. Ex-library with labels on inside of front cover else contents very good. Front cover almost detached.

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WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN SOUTH WALES INCLUDING THE COURSE OF THE WYE
Written by Thomas Roscoe. Illustrated by D. Cox; et al..
Stock no. 822168
Published by C. Tilt and Simpkin and Co.. 1837. Very good condition.

Dark green leather spine and corners. Raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers. 48 plates including frontis and title vignette. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Spine edges lightly rubbed. Corners bumped and rubbed. Frontis and title page heavily browned, a few scattered foxspots throughout but generally a bright clean copy.

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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS
Written by W. Outram Tristram. Illustrated by Herbert Railton; Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 630817
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1888. Good condition.

Library binding. Green leather spine with gilt title, black cloth boards. B/w plates and illustrations. Ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Spine worn, edges rubbed. Text block a little grubby. Library stamps to verso of plates and margins of some pages. Finger marks and margin marks to contents. A good working copy.

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SPECTACLE DE LA NATURE, OR NATURE DISPLAY'D
No author listed.
Stock no. 819546
Published by J. And J. Pemberton; R. Franklin; C. Davis. 1737. Good condition.

Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French. Second Edition. Volume III. 32 b/w folding plates + frontis. Full leather binding with raised bands to spine. 456 pages. Spine has small areas of loss and split to top, with chipping. Corners are worn. Front pastedown has come unstuck, but binding is tight. Plates in excellent order and all present.

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BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, FISH, INSECTS, AND REPTILES (5 VOLS)
Written by Comte De Buffon.
Stock no. 819573
Published by H.D. Symonds. 1798. Very good condition.

Embellished with upwards of 200 engravings, 44 b/w plates. Leather spine with dark red title labels and gilt titles and decorations. Spine and cover edges and corners are worn. 1 title label is missing. Page edges are browned. REDUCED FROM £440.

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LA CONQUETE DE L'AIR
Written by L. Sazerac De Forge.
Stock no. 630519
Published by Berger-Levrault. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

Le Probleme de la locomotion aerienne les dirigeables et l'aviation - leurs applications. The conquest of the Air. Text in French. Modern three-quarter brown calf leather binding with gilt title and raised bands to spine, brown cloth boards. Green marbled endpapers. B/w illustrations, plates and fold-out diagram. One tiny mark to boards else binding in beautiful condition. Bookplate to front pastedown. Original paperwraps bound in. A few margin marks and corner creases to contents. A very nice copy. Reduced from £125.

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LE BALLON LIBRE
No author listed.
Stock no. 630520
Published by Librairie Aeronautique. 1st 1911. Very good condition.

Theory and practical. Captain du Genie DO. Hot air balloons. Modern three-quarter calf leather binding with gilt title and raised bands to spine, brown cloth boards. Green marbled endpapers. viii and 506 pages plus adverts to rear. B/w illustrations and photos. Binding is beautiful. Bookplate to front pastedown. Light page browning and a few grubby marks. Couple of ink stamps to prelims and top margin of one page. Just a few annotations mostly in pencil to margins.

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THE FOREST PRUNER OR TIMBER OWNER'S ASSISTANT
Written by William Pontey.
Stock no. 818866
Published by J. Harding. 1808. Good condition.

Second Edition. Timber Owner's Assistant: A Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees. White paper spine with title block, blue paper boards. 8 plates including 4 tinted. Spine worn with loss at edges to backstrip, title block is hard to read. Covers a little grubby. Bookplate and shelf label to front pastedown. A number of small ink blots to verso of frontis which show through. A few scattered foxspots. Page crinkling. All plates present. A presentable copy.

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THE PLANTER'S KALENDAR OR THE NURSERYMAN'S & FORESTER'S GUIDE
Written by Walter Nicol; Edward Sang.
Stock no. 630511
Published by Archibald Constable And Company. 1812. Almost very good condition.

Or the Nurseryman's & Forester's Guide, in the Operations of the Nursery, the Forest, and the Grove. Three-quarter brown leather binding, blue marbled boards. Red title block to spine with gilt title. Two colour plus one b/w plate. Leather worn/split to spine edges but binding still tight. Bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing throughout, heavy in places but still perfectly readable. All plates present. A decent copy of an antiquarian title.

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