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Mannone, Guido

Le Ali del Littorio

Piccola Storia dell’Aviazione Civile Italiana

Publisher: no publisher details stated, 2004

Large paperback, 48 pages, illustrated, bilingual text in Italian & English, in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Harper, Charles G.

Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore

A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London, 1903

First edition, two volumes, hardback, original red cloth gilt, top page-edges gilt, frontispiece + xii + 360 pages, frontispiece + xi + 368 pages, illustrated with full-page plates and numerous illustrations within the text, bindings a little sunned, a couple of short tears to foot of both spines, small mark to spine of Vol II, some cracking to front inner-hinges of both volumes, a little scattered foxing to endpapers, in Good condition.

£60.00

An Act (passed 12th March 1805) for Making Further Provision for the Effectual Performance of Quarantine;

and also An Order in Council, dated 5th April 1805

Publisher: printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, London, 1805

Hardback, marbled paper-covered boards, 86 + [60] pages, covers a little rubbed, minor spine defects, in Very Good condition.

£195.00

Gleichen, Maj.-Gen. Edward

First General List of Names in the Empire of India

Publisher: Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, London, 1924

Paperback, 16 pages, very slight hint of creasing, a few tiny spots of very light foxing, else in Very Good condition.

£9.50

Benford, Mervyn

Milestones

Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd., 2002

First edition, paperback, pictorial card covers, illustrated, 48 pages, some pencil annotations inside back cover else in Very Good condition.

£4.50

Harper, Charles G.

The Manchester and Glasgow Road

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London, 1907

First edition, two volumes, hardback, original green cloth, frontispiece + xix + 358 pages, frontispiece + xiii + 332 pages, illustrated with full-page plates and numerous illustrations within the text, Vol. 2 a little rubbed to spine and with slight foxing to preliminaries, edges a little dusty, else in Very Good condition.

£48.00

A Chart of the Western Coast of Africa, from the twelfth degree of Latitude North to the eleventh degree South, with the adjacent Islands. Drawn from the French Chart of the Western Ocean published in 1738, by order of the Count de Maurepas

Publisher: Barbot, Smith & Marchaise, nd [circa 1750s]

9¾” x 7¾”, hand coloured, upper border cropped a little tight, surface rubbed in a tiny spot at top left corner, in Good condition.

£30.00

A New Map of Africa

from the best Authorities

Publisher: Cadell & Davies, London, 1797

9¾” x 8½”, a little toning, in Very Good condition.

£30.00

Report by H.M. Government… on the Administration of Togoland under British Mandate

for the year 1929

Publisher: HMSO, London, 1930

Paperback, 78 pages + large folding map, small inscription to front cover, slightly rusty staples, in Good condition.

£12.00

Report by H.M. Government… on the Administration of the Cameroons under British Mandate

for the year 1936

Publisher: HMSO, London, 1937

Paperback, 158 pages + folding tables + large folding colour map, a couple of short tears to edge of map, else in Very Good condition.

£12.00

Scott, John

Digests of the General Highway and Turnpike Laws; with the schedule of forms, as directed by Act of Parliament; and remarks. Also, an appendix on the construction and preservation of roads

Publisher: Edward and Charles Dilley, London, 1778

First edition, hardback, half leather, marbled boards, leather label to spine, [32] + 352 + [20] pages, re-backed with new leather spine, front inner hinge cracking slightly, occasional foxing, in Good condition.

£150.00

Maps & Engravings, Books, Photographs, Bonds

Publisher: A. Karamitsos, Athens, 2012

Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 126 pages, text in English, in Very Good condition.

£7.50

Porter, Rev. J.L.

The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria’s Holy Places

Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1866

Hardback, original green cloth gilt, with title and engraved vignette of ruined temple in gilt on front cover, gilt title and decoration to spine, and blind-stamping on rear cover. 371 pages, tinted vignette illustration to title-page, plus frontispiece and six other illustrations with tissue guards. Bright binding with only slight rubbing at head and foot of spine. Endpapers and tissue-guards a little foxed, previous owner’s name on front endpaper, top-edge a little dusty, else a Very Good copy.

£95.00

Trotter, Captain L.J.

History of India

From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1899

Third (revised) edition, hardback, original red cloth, lx + 445 pages + plates, repaired tear to large folding map, else in Very Good condition.

£20.00

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