A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND Divided into their respective Wards From the Best Surveys and Intelligences, Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to Natural History, Produce, Trade and Manufactures Shewing also the Rectories & Vicarages With various other Improvements.
1760. Engraved map, size 27" x 20", folded, not dissected. Original colouring of borders of Hundreds and border of map. Decorative cartouche, and dedication top right to Sir James Lowther. Descriptive text around edge of map. Map trimmed to within a quarter of an inch of border, losing imprint (as was often done with folded maps). Two tiny splits in paper where folds meet reinforced on verso with archival tape. Small light brown spot in border bottom right. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include CUMBERLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2543) £180.00
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HOLYHEAD TO GREAT ORMES HEAD Compiled from Admiralty Surveys 1835-1893.
Corrections to Jan. 2nd 1931. Sea chart size 26" x 37", three sections and inset map of Amlwch Harbour along the top, linen-backed and folding into plain cloth boards. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2442) £17.00
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AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF YORK Divided into its Ridings and Subdivided into Wopentakes, drawn from Surveys with Various Improvements Shewing also by Concentrick Circles the Distances of all places in the County from the City of York.
c1770. Engraved map, hand coloured in outline, size 21" x 27", folded to small 4to but not dissected. Cartouche with title, with spinning wheel, rolls of cloth, etc. Vertical tear down almost all of one fold, repaired on verso with archival tape. Some slight loss at a few points where points leaf. One small ink blot. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include YORKSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2141) £65.00
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PLAN OF PORTSMOUTH From the Ordnance & Actual Surveys.
c1885. Size approx 12«" x 18", single fold at centre. Scale 6" to 1 mile. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include HAMPSHIRE and ISLE OF WIGHT [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-953) £20.00
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TO BE SOLD The Fee Simple and Inheritance of the first three Lots, and the residue of a Term of 600 Years commencing the 13th of August 1793, in the last six Lots.... The Measure of the different Estates is taken from actual Surveys... A survey will be held at the House of Mrs. Palmer, at Lifton, on Tuesday the 12th day of June 1804....
Launceston, Printed by W. Bray, Bookseller and Stationer. 1804. Handbill, size 12" x 15", traces of folds, with 9 Lots listed, with columns for Tenants, Tenements, Acreages, Lives, Rents, Heriots. In fine condition. Includes tenements in Woolacott, Frankaborough, Maina Moor, Cobton, Thrushelton, Broadwoodwidger. Gives the names and ages of 28 people. The Conventionary rents could be paid in money or as a capon or hen. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DEVON [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-438) £40.00
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CHAMBERS’S CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English tongue from the Earliest Times till the Present Day, with Specimens of their Writings.
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited 1903. New Ed. 3 vols. Sm. 4to. Port. frontiss., numerous other ports throughout. Ex.-libris Edward H. Douty, ‘Dr Douty’ ink stamp to prelims. and fore-edge of leaves, marbled e.ps. and edges, half maroon morocco with cloth boards, corners sl. rubbed, raised bands and gilt title to lightly faded and very sl. rubbed spines with sl. discolouring to head of spines of vols. 2 and 3. US$103 (Book ref. 214766) £65.00
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THE IMPERIAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. A Complete Encyclopædic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific and Technological. Edited by Charles Annandale.
Blackie & Son, Limited 1898. New Ed., carefully revised and greatly augmented. 4 vols. Sm. 4to. Above 3000 ills. printed in the text and a series of engraved and coloured plates. Ex.-libris Edward H. Douty and with ‘Dr. Douty’ ink stamp to flyleaves, marbled e.ps. and edges, half morocco with cloth covered boards, raised bands and gilt title to spines, some very minor signs of wear to extremities. US$119 (Book ref. 214809) £75.00
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EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask.
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd/Pantheon Books 1953. [xviii] + 662pp. Lower leading corner of upper board sl. bumped otherwise very good in d/w. design by E. McKnight Kauffer. Bollingen Series XXXVI. US$32 (Book ref. 214720) £20.00
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TRANSLATION OR TRAVESTY? An Enquiry into Robert Graves’s version of some Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With a Foreword by Peter Avery.
Abbey Press Abingdon 1973. Thin 8vo. xi + 43pp. Very good in original lightly soiled wrapps. Freshet Library No. 2.Discussing whether Fitzgerald’s (1859) or Graves’s (1967) version of the Rubaiyat is the more accurate translation; quoting conclusive evidence that Robert Graves’s version, far from having been translated from a manuscript which has lain hidden in the Hindu Kush for the past 800 years, is based on the text of a book published in London in 1899. US$16 (Book ref. 214492) £10.00
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TRANSLATION OR TRAVESTY? An Enquiry into Robert Graves’s version of some Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With a Foreword by Peter Avery.
Abbey Press Abingdon 1973. Thin 8vo. xi + 43pp. Very good in original lightly soiled wrapps. Freshet Library No. 2.Discussing whether Fitzgerald’s (1859) or Graves’s (1967) version of the Rubaiyat is the more accurate translation; quoting conclusive evidence that Robert Graves’s version, far from having been translated from a manuscript which has lain hidden in the Hindu Kush for the past 800 years, is based on the text of a book published in London in 1899. US$16 (Book ref. 214491) £10.00
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THE BOOK OF DAYS. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar including Anecdote, Biography & History Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character.
W. & R. Chamber, London & Edinburgh 1863-4. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. [x] + 832pp. + [vi] + 840pp. Numerous engravings thoughout. Marbled e.ps. and edges, hinges tender, half calf with sl. rubbed marbled boards, sl. wear to corners, head and tail of joints tender, raised bands dec. gilt compartments and leather title labels to sl. rubbed spines sl. chipped at head of spine to vol. 2. US$119 (Book ref. 214553) £75.00
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Cruchley's Road and Railway Map of the County of Kent Showing All the Railways and Names of Stations, Also the Turnpike Roads, Gentlemens Seats, Etc., Etc., Improved from the Ordinance Surveys.
Gall and Inglis c.1890 Folding coloured map, 19ins x 22ins, mounted on linin, within maroon pictorial glazed linen covers. Slight handling wear, pencil notes to one section of the reverse. VG overall. (SHELF 9) ** To see a scan of this book please visit our Home page ** Our shop is open to visitors Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm. - Credit and (UK) Debit cards welcome.- Books posted Worldwide. - For any queries please contact us. (Book ref. 31062) £65.00
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Lanarkshire - Prehistoric and Roman Monuments
Edinburgh: HMSO, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-lib but minimal marking. Detailed descriptions of over 350 monuments, with maps and plans. A large folded map is laid into a pocket on the rear paste-down. Label to front paste-down but no other library markings, small ink spot to ffep, o/wise VG in VG DJ. xxxiv+172pp (Book ref. BYB9529) £18.00
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THE IRISH. A Treasury of Art and Literature.
Beaux Arts Editions 1993. 4to. 368pp. Numerous cold. and b/w. ills., many from photos. Very good in d/w. US$40 (Book ref. 203732) £25.00
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Historians of London : An Account of the Many Surveys, Histories, Perambulations, Maps and Engravings Made about the City and Its Environs and of the Dedicated Londoners Who Made Them
GB: Peter Owen, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/No DW. 072063850X Bookplate. Name stamp of owner at front of book. (Book ref. d117A.004) £6.95
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ANCINET HIGHWAYS OF THE PARISH OF HALIFAX V: THE ROAD SURVEYS OF JOHN WARBURTON
GB: Halifax Antiquarian Society. Paper. VG-. Pages 13-48 of a larger publication but complete in itself and with one loose folded map inserted. No covers. Stape rusted. (Book ref. at070.037) £9.00
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I.C.S. REFERENCE LIBRARY: Leveling, Circular Curves, Stadia and Plane-Table Surveying, Topographic Surveying, Hydrographic Surveying, United States Land Surveys, Mapping, Astronomy
USA: International Textbook Company (Scranton). Hardback. VG/Not Issued in DW. 116. Half leather over brown bobbled cloth. Very clean tight text but some cover wear. (Book ref. d017A.020) £14.00
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Derrida on the Threshold of Sense
USA: St Martin's Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardback. nrFine/VG+ DW. 0312194099 (Book ref. kb639.996) £19.00
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Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. nrFine. 0415074088) (Book ref. kb651.017) £6.95
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Citation and Modernity: Derrida, Joyce and Brecht
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardback. nrFine/nrFine DW. 0806125063 Minor pencil annotation. (Book ref. kb693.018) £5.95
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