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The Beauties of Scotland. [Complete in 5 volumes] Containing a clear and full account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of each county.
Edinburgh and London: Thomson Bonar; John Brown; Vernor & Hood; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; et al, 1805.
First edition. More than 2,700 pages in total, with c.100 plates, each volume with an additional engraved title, and Volume I with a folding coloured map. Contents mostly very clean and bright. There is some soiling to the prelims of Vol I, but very little elsewhere. A few plates have very pale tidemarks. Vol III has worm holes to many pages, mostly confined to the top margin, but invading and damaging the text between pages 235 and 294, losing a few words to each of these pages. All edges marbled. In new half bindings of green Victorian cloth with marbled boards, with printed paper spine labels. A very attractive set. Near Fine.
Price: £650.00
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London: Ward Lock, 1902-3 Series.
Seventh Edition - re-written. 192pp, with photographs, plans and maps in the text, and two fold-out maps. Preceded, interspersed and followed by many pages of advertisements, some being on tinted paper. Contents unmarked and in very good order, with some toning to edges of maps. Octavo, with rounded corners, in the original red cloth over thin boards, with patterned borders and with 'Harrogate' given as the title. Firm, slightly darkened and rubbed. Very good copy. VG.
Price: £40.00
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Cathedral Cities of England.
London: Heinemann, 1905.
First edition. viii, 307pp, plus the 60 guarded colour plates, very bright and fresh. Slight browning to endpapers, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Top edge gilt, faint mottled foxing to fore-edge. In the original binding of ochre cloth, titled in black, and with a crest on the front in gilt, black and red. Firm, but rather soiled, spine ends puckered. VG.
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Price: £60.00
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Circles of Stone: the Prehistoric Rings of Britain and Ireland.
London: The Harvill Press, 1999.
First edition, first impression. 232pp, gorgeously illustrated with photographs, informative text, and with plans of the layout at each site. Contents fresh and clean. Large square quarto, in the original binding of black paper-covered boards, spine titled in silver. Spine ends very slightly blunted. In unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket, bright and fresh, with slight knocks to the edges. Lovely copy. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.
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Price: £85.00
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