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C. D. Booth & Isabelle Bridge Booth: Italys Aegean Possessions - The Tragedy of Twelve Islands

CODE: 101364

£79.99
In stock
London. Arrowsmith. 1928.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. 324 pages. Dustwrapper slight foxed and covers slightly marked by dust. Dust wrapper torn with slight loss.

Good / Very Good condition

Camille Mauclair (trans by Cicely Binyon): Florence

CODE: 1805097

£10.00
In stock
London. Methuen and Co. 1927.

First edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. (6 x 9 inches), xii/ 221 pages + 8 pages of pub adverts. 48 illustrations. Prize bookplate from Crediton High School. Covers stained with water spots, esp rear cover.

Very Good condition

Edgar T. Agius: Pocket Guide to Malta and Gozo

CODE: 100729

£24.99
In stock
Malta. Government Tourist Bureau. 1934.

Very small and rare paperback guide book with a binding variant. 32mo.. 37 pages. Double front covers followed by title page. Covers slightly fellowing with age.

Very Good + condition

Frances M. Gostling: The Bretons at Home

CODE: 102078

£19.99
In stock
London. Methuen & Co.. 1909.

First edition. Hard cover. 8vo. xxiv/ 304 pages plus 40 pages if ads. Illustrated with 12 coloured and 32 B&W Plates. Some foxing to pages. Some light rubbing to corners and edges of spine and covers with some soiling to base of spine.

Good + condition.

Ian Hay: The Unconquered Isle - The Story of Malta G.C.

CODE: 2410082

£3.49
In stock
London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1943.

Reprint. Hardback. No dust jacket. 12mo.(13cm x 19cm), 208 pages. Illustrated. Maps on endpapers. Front end page creased but not torn. Spine faded and covers slightly marked.

Good condition

John Scott: Journal of a Tour to Waterloo and Paris in the Company with Sir Walter Scott in 1815.

CODE: 102011

£175.00
In stock
London. Saunders and Otley. 1842.

First edition. Scarce book. Original publishers cloth binding. Hardback. No dust jacket. 8vo.. [viii]/ 284 pages + 4 pages of adverts. Corners slightly bumped. Some fading to covers and spine. Owners embossed stamp on front end page. One or two foxing spots on first few pages.

Very Good condition

Leitch Ritchie [1800-1865]: Wanderings by the Loire

CODE: 2006071

£100.00
In stock
London. Published for the Proprietor by Longman Rees Orme Brown Green And Longman. [1833].

First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. 256 pages. 20 engraved plates after drawings by J M W Turner. Untrimmed in 19th century quarter roan, gilt back & top edge gilt. Light foxing to plates. Corner bumped. The Wanderings By The Loire was the first in the series of books describing and illustrating the scenery of the rivers of France. "The original studies for the Rivers of France and the drawings made there from, are among the most characteristic and perfect of his works. Careless, as usual, as to exact topographical accuracy, they express the essential spirit and character of the localities, and the atmospheric effects peculiar to them." ref. the dictionary of national bibliography.

Very Good + condition

Sir William Jackson: The Governors Cat

CODE: 101356

£29.99
In stock
Gibraltar Books. 1992.

First Edition. Signed limited edition No. 28 of 200. Hard back. No dust jacket. 8vo.. xvi/ 200 pages. Photos. Slightest mark to covers.

Near Fine

W H Mallock: In An Enchanted Island or A Winters Retreat in Cyprus

CODE: 0210081

£265.00
In stock
London. Richard Bentley & Son. 1889.

Second edition. Original publishers cloth binding. Hardback. 8vo. vi/ 298 pages + 50 pages of adverts at end dated October 1889. Wood-engraved frontispiece. Small illustrations of cherobs, etc, in the text. Covers and spine marked in places. Edges rubbed and worn with some loss to the head and foot of the spine. Corners worn and bumped. Blank prelim page missing. Very slight foxing and pencil marginal notes have been removed. Internally very clean and bright. Scarce.

Good + condition
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