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London: J. Tonson, 1718. Second edition. [xii], x, 410, [x]. With decorative head and tail pieces to chapters, and engravings of coins in the text. Pages yellowing slightly with occasional faint spotting, text block firm, some foxing to endpapers. 12mo, 16 x 10 cms, in the original spine and upper board of full calf gilt, the lower board being a replacement from another book of the period. The whole restored with new spine label and Japanese tissue repairs to joints and spine ends. Includes accounts of Switzerland. An attractive copy. Very Good.

Price: £140.00

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1848. 308pp with additional engraved title page, a frontis, and six other plates (all called for), mostly with guards. Edge stain to upper margins of several plates, and two formerly detached have slight fraying to the edges. Contents otherwise good. New endpapers with original armorial bookplate conserved. Very neatly if rather tightly rebacked, with original decorative binding of brown cloth, with gilt vignette of chamois on front and gilt illustrated spine, all fairly bright: some soiling or discolouration, and with a small nick to upper surface. Nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £140.00

London: Novello, 1955. First edition. xli, 362pp, illustrated. Contents very clean and fresh, with some tanning to the map endpapers. In the original binding of blue cloth titled in gilt: clean, bright and firm, with small dark patches to joints. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: slight discoloration to spine, with chips to ends, nicks to corners, and small closed tears. From the 1829 travel diaries of Vincent and Mary Novello. Very nice copy. Very Good+ in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £48.00