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PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH
No author listed. Illustrated by Alexander William.
Stock no. 1805998
Published by John Murray. 1st 1814. Very good condition.

50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, each followed with a page of descriptive text. Modern calf binding, three quarters red leather with blue title block & gilt title and raised bands to spine. Red cloth boards. New, grey marbled endpapers. Leather binding nice and clean. Slight mottling to vertical edge of cloth boards. Scattered spotting throughout and a few grubby marks. All plates present. A delightful copy.

FRECKLES
Written by Gene Stratton-Porter.
Stock no. 1205476
Published by John Murray. 1915. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, blind decoration to front cover. Blue decorated endpapers. 316 page + 12 page book list. Wrapper badly torn and grubby with some loss.

NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE A LOVE STORY
Written by Theo Aronson.
Stock no. 1704166
Published by John Murray. 1ST 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0719547857. Wrapper spine faded.

CONQUERORS OF TIME EXPLORATION AND INVENTION IN THE AGE OF DARING
Written by Trevor Fishlock.
Stock no. 1601536
Published by John Murray. 2004. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. 444 pages. ISBN: 0719555175. SIGNED by author (with dedication) in ink on title page.

ODDLE AND IDDLE
Written by Lily Collier. Illustrated by Joyce Crawshay Williams.
Stock no. 449120
Published by John Murray. 1st 1912. Slightly better than good condition.

The Goblins Of Aloe Shamba. Green cloth, colour pictorial onlay to front. Brown titles. Colour frontis plus 8 b/w plates. 280 pages. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned. Contents generally very good. Corners bumped and rubbed. Rear board marked.

BERTIE AND THE BIG RED BALL
Written by Edward Lucie-Smith. Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
Stock no. 381285
Published by John Murray; Gallery Five. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition.

When Ruby takes Bertie for a quiet walk on the seafront little does she know what lies in store... Pictorial boards. Bright colour pictures throughout. ISBN: 0719539765. Very slight wear to top of spine. Contents clean. A nice copy of a scarce book.

PHYSICS
Written by E. Nightingale; et al.
Stock no. 809587
Published by John Murray. 1st 1961. Very good condition.

The Science Masters' Book Series 4 Part One. Being Experiements Selected From Nos. 101-42 of The School Science Review. B/w photos & diagrams. xiv and 281 pages including index. Text block browned. A few pages have a tiny nick to lower edge. Contents clean.

A FORTNIGHT IN IRELAND
Written by Francis B. Head.
Stock no. 597777
Published by John Murray. 1st 1852. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt heart and shamrock decoration to front cover. Gilt title to spine. B/w map frontis. 400 pages + 16 page booklist. Rebacked with original browned spine laid down. Bookplate to front pastedown.

THE BANKS OF TAMAR
Written by N.T. Carrington.
Stock no. 597626
Published by John Murray. 1828. Very good condition.

A Poem With Other Pieces. A New Edition. Grey paperboards. Gilt title to spine. SIGNED by author.

A HOLIDAY IN UMBRIA
Written by Thomas Graham Jackson. Illustrated by Thomas Graham Jackson.
Stock no. 508130
Published by John Murray. 1st 1916. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour frontis. B/w photos. With An Account of Urbino and The Cortegiano of Castiglione. Corners rubbed.

THE HISTORIC PEERAGE OF ENGLAND
Written by Harris Nicolas; William Courthope.
Stock no. 567399
Published by John Murray. 1857. Almost very good condition.

Black leather spine. Burgundy boards. New edition. 610 pages. Contents very good. Spine split and torn at base. Corners worn. Joints cracked.