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FURNESS PAST AND PRESENT ITS HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES
Written by George Markham Tweddell.
Stock no. 628348
Published by J. Richardson. 1st 1870. Very good condition.

Two volumes. Large format. 11 x 8.5 inches. Black leather spine and corners. Raised bands, gilt titles to spine. 16 b/w plates, 4 coloured title pages, 50 beautiful colour plates, 2 double-page colour plates, 1 colour map, 1 double-page colour map plus b/w text illustrations. Marbled endpapers and edges. Both volumes have been professionally rebacked with original spines laid down. Some light foxing to plate margins. Overall a very handsome set.

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A COMPENDIUM OF AVIATION AND AEROSTATION
Written by H. Hoernes; J.H. Ledeboer.
Stock no. 809859
Published by Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1911. Almost very good condition.

Balloons, Dirigibles and Flying-Machines. 54 b/w plates. Small format. Grey cloth, white title to front cover. Scratched inscription on verso of frontis else contents very good. Corners bumped and rubbed. Title to front cover lightly rubbed. REDUCED from £200.

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A COLLECTION OF COATS OF ARMS BORNE BY THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOCESTER
No author listed.
Stock no. 628236
Published by J. Good. 1792. Almost very good condition.

Leather spine and corners. Gilt title to spine. 7 pages list of subscribers; 49 pages of text; 62 b/w heraldic plates with typically 6 images per plate. Marbled edges and endpapers. Large format, 12 x 9.5 inches. Book: all plates present. Title page browned. Some scattered foxing throughout. Plates in general clean and bright. Spine has 3 inch crack at base. Spine rubbed, corners worn. REDUCED FROM £440.

Price: £380.00 £266.00.

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MANWOOD'S TREATISE OF THE FOREST LAWS
Written by William Nelson.
Stock no. 628241
Published by E. Nutt. 1717. Almost very good condition.

Shewing Not Only the Laws Now in Force But the Original of Forests, What They Are, and How They Differ from Chases, Parks and Warrens With All Such Things As Are Incident to Either. Together With the Proper Terms of Art, Collected Out of the Common and Statute Laws of This Realm; as Also From the Assises and Iters of Pickering and Lancaster and Several Other Ancient and Learned Authors. Treating Also of the Offices of Agistors, Beadles, Foresters, Keepers, Rangers, Verderors and Woodwards and of the Courts of Attachment Etc. With All the Variety of Cases Relating to Forests, Chases, Parks and Warrens and All the Laws Concerning the Game Made, Adjudged or Repealed Since the Year 1665. The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Full brown leather binding. Raised bands, gilt title to spine. 435 pages + 23 pages "The Table". Endpapers browned. Contents in general very good. Boards scuffed. Top and tail of spine chipped with loss. Corners worn.

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FRESHWATER FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES (NN 75)
Written by Peter S. Maitland; R. Niall Campbell.
Stock no. 809567
Published by Collins. 1st 1992. As new condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 75 Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 21 colour photos and over 200 b/w photos and diagrams. ISBN to verso of title page is 0002193833 but this is incorrect as this ISBN matches NN No.74 (Ferns). ISBN provided is on verso of dustwrapper of this title. ISBN: 0002193795. REDUCED from £620. Wrapper spine lightly faded. Small closed tear (0.25") to top of wrapper rear fold.

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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF WINCHESTER (2 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 808371
Published by J. Wilkes. 1st 1773. Slightly better than good condition.

Setting forth its original constitution, government, manufactories, trade, commerce and navigation; its several wards, parishes, precincts, Districts, churches, religious and charitable foundations, and other public edifieces. Together with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of that ancient city. Two volumes. Small format. 7.5 x 4.5". Original grey boards with paper spines. 13 b/w plates. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Contents very good. Boards rubbed and slightly marked. Spines browned and chipped. REDUCED FROM £250.

Price: £175.00 £122.50.

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A BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE
Written by Mabel Quiller-Couch; Lilian Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by M. Etheldreda Gray.
Stock no. 380802
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1911. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations and titles. 20 beautiful colour plates mounted on grey card with captions below. Verses arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch. Spine and corners bumped with slight rubbing. Name in ink to front pastedown. Joints just starting to crack. Corner of grey frontis mount is creased. Foxing throughout (some heavy). A nice copy of an attractive book.

Price: £140.00 £98.00.

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OPTIMAL CONTROL BASICS AND BEYOND
Written by Peter Whittle.
Stock no. 627816
Published by John Wiley & Sons. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Wiley-Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization. Blue pictorial cardwraps. ix and 464 pages including index. ISBN: 0471960993. Blind stamp to first page. Front cover creased at top corner. Contents fine.

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BABAR'S FRIEND ZEPHIR
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 806914
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Yellow cloth spine, blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Large format Edges worn, lower edges have some surface paper loss to boards. Front joint just starting to crack. A few fingermarks to margins else clean.

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DAYS IN CATLAND
Written by Arthur Burnaby. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 627756
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1912. Good condition.

A Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong format. 4 plates in concertina form that fold out to create a large panorama with 14 numbered card figures of cats, and corresponding numbered slits in the panorama to insert the cat figures. On the reverse is a rhyme by Arthur Burnaby with b/w illustrations also by Wain. Concertina folds worn leading to two pages being detached and last page fold fragile but holding. Edges rubbed. All figures present and in place. Light page bronwing. Colour illustrations and figures nice and bright.

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TREES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Written by Eve Palmer; Norah Pitman.
Stock no. 806267
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Three volumes. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Covering all known indigenous species in the Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland. Wrappers of Vol 1 and 2 are covered in self-adhesive clear film. In the case of Volume 3 the clear film has been used to stick the wrapper to the book. Books are fine.

Price: £245.00 £171.50.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 806195
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Browning to spine, with a little fraying/chipping to cloth to top and tail. Some browning marks/scuff marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to outer page edges, endpapers, title pages and a few page margins internally. All colour illustrations are present and bright.

Price: £120.00 £84.00.

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