London: for Joseph Smith, 1828. 12mo (6 x 3 1/4 inches), pages 143:(1, contents), original printed boards. Title-page stitched in back to front. Lacking one leaf, page 97/98. Lacking backstrip, crudely re-stitched, boards very darkened and rubbed, browning or foxing within, stitching slack, piece of blank margin torn away. Poor but very rare; no copy on Copac. £28.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13946
Zurich: Johann Jacobs Museum, 1991. English and German text. Black & white plates. Large 8vo, pp.247, original cloth in dustwrapper; generally an excellent copy. £16.00 |
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London: Castell Brothers, n.d. ca. 1890. Three coloured plates and three coloured illustrations. 6-leaves within the original coloured pictorial card wrappers, silk tie bound. Verse. Rare.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 8916
London: Hutchinson, 1923. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), later linen backed marbled boards with burgundy morocco gilt lettering piece. Some foxing and browning to the text; good. £30.00 |
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London: Dulau: 1877. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 500-pages. Original green cloth. Some rubbing and spotting to the binding, headband bruised and snagged, inner joints and some inner gutters cracked but firm. Anon.
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14625
Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper and with a very narrow strip of fading to front of dustwrapper along edge of spine (barely noticeable), else in all other respects, an excellent copy. £25.00 |
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Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper corners rubbed and slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper, else in all other respects, an excellent copy. £25.00 |
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New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1917. First edition. Illustrations. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches), 201-pages, original red cloth pictorially blocked in blue and black; spine dulled and spotted, overall good. £90.00 |
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London: Joseph Tetley & Co. 1937. Illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.(24), original green wrappers gilt, with silk ties. Title foxed else good. A history of this tea importer.
£20.00
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London: Keen, Robinson & Co. 1892. Plates (including reproductions of their advertisements for Keen's Mustard over the years). Small 8vo (7 x 5 1/4 inches), 63-pages. Original green cloth gilt; a very good copy. £25.00 |
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London: circa 1830. Engraved bill-head, 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, filled out by hand, made out to the Marchioness of [indistinct] & dated October 1832? Indistinct. Marginal browning, central light horizontal fold. Contemporary calculations to the reverse. £35.00 |
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London: John Haddon, 1894. First edition. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 214-pages. Original red cloth gilt pictorially blocked in white & black with an image of a chef holdng aloft a cooked fowl. Spine sunned and spotted else good. £55.00 |
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Jaipur: IIME ( Indian Institute of Marwari Entrepreneurship ), 2002. First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. 4to, pp.264, original black cloth; headbands slightly bumped but generally a very good copy indeed in like dustwrapper. With a prospectus for the work and a letter from the publisher loosely inserted. £50.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10111
London: T. Bickersteth circa 1866. Woodcuts throughout. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 48-pages, original brown cloth; small ink mark on backstrip, headbands rubbed, overall good. (Anon.). £50.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16267