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GAMES OF SKILL AND CONJURING
No author listed.
Stock no. 811534
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1865. Very good condition.

Dark blue embossed cloth, gilt title to front cover. B/w illustrations. Small format. Including - Chess; Draughts; Dominoes; Tricks with Cards. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Rebacked in matching blue cloth.

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LANCASHIRE ILLUSTRATED
Written by William H. Pyne; D. Wylie. Illustrated by S. Austin; J. Harwood; G. Pyne; C. Pyne.
Stock no. 811417
Published by H. Fisher, Son And Jackson. 1831. Good condition.

Large format. 11.5 x 9". Three-quarter burgundy leather binding. Gilt titles and decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers. 52 plates, each with two b/w views plus engraved title page. Lancashire Illustrated in a Series of Views, showing Towns, Public Buildings, Streets, Docks, Churches, Antiquities, Abbeys, Castles, Seats of the Nobility Etc. Engraved on Steel by Robert Wallis. Book: all plates present. Front joint broken. Some foxing throughout. Spine edges rubbed. Corners worn.

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LE THEATRE DE MONSIEUR DE MARIVAUX
Written by Monsieur De Marivaux.
Stock no. 810343
Published by Arkstee & Merkus. 1754. Almost very good condition.

Four volumes. Small format. 5.5 x 3 inches. Full tree calf binding. Raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spines. B/w frontis to each volume. Title pages in red and black with b/w vignette. Title label missing from Volume 4. Spine edges slightly cracked. A nice set.

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SHORT SORTIES
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 810250
Published by Latimer House Limited. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, black title to spine. A variety of stories by Johns. 202 pages. Spine and corners are bumped. A few grubby marks to covers. Damp mark to bottom corner of front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Pictorial wrapper is damp marked to front flap, edge-torn in places, with some small chips of loss; 3-4" split to bottom of spine and the horizontally across. Worn to edges.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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