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Charles Dickens Works, comprising a complete c.1910 collection of 18 volumes with 1200 illustrations including 500 Special Plates drawn expressly ...

Edmund Dulac's Picture Book published Hodder & Stoughton c.1915 with tipped-in colour plates (one missing) in gilt decorated cloth, Rubaiyat of Om...

[Wales] North Wales by Baddeley & Ward 1895 in 2 parts (Thorough Guide series). The Welsh Borderland by Pocock & Whitehead. North Wales Geology 19...

[York] History of York Minster edited by Aylmer and Cant 1977. Portraits of York by Fletcher. Notarial Signs from the York archiepiscopal records....

[Bristol] Robert Southey & Bristol by Cottle. The Bristol Avon by Walls 1927. The Georgian Buildings of Bristol. A Chronicle of Clifton and Hotwel...

[Topography] The Mendips 1954, South Hams 1955, The Channel Shore 1953, Northern Marches 1953, Pembrokeshire 1957, Thames Estuary 1954 (Regional b...

[Local] The Footpath Way in Goucestershire 1924. Gloucestershire Mills in Camera. Hereford & Gloucester Canal. Rural Houses of North Avon & South ...

A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns etc with Historical and Stati...

[Brewing] Inns of Sport 1949, Your Local 1947 and The Brewer's Art 1948 published Whitbread. Pride of The Shires, Story of Whitbread Horses. Engli...

[Waterways/Ports/Canals] Canal Builders, Canal Craft, Inland Waterways. The River is Within Us maritime history of Lymington. South Coast Harbours...

[Felixstowe] Collection of Souvenir Programmes from the Felixstowe Drama Festival 1940s-60s. Carnival & Regatta Programmes. Port of Felixstowe Yea...

[Ireland] Irish Houses & Castles with 371 plates by Guinness & Ryan. A Book of Ireland by Frank O'Connor. Collection of Irish Singing Games. Histo...

[Cathedrals & Abbeys] Winchester Cathedral 1079-1979 with foreword by Queen Elizabeth II. History of Canterbury Cathedral. Durham Cathedral. Histo...

Photographers Britain Series including Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Northumberland, Grampian, Glamorgan, Somerset, Sussex, Dorset and Derbyshire. As I...

[Lake District] Wainwright Maps of the Lakeland Fells (maps 4 + 6) Complete Lakeland Fells by Bill Birkett. Lakeland from the Air with Foreword by...

[Travel Guides] Blacks Guide to Edinburgh. Pembrokeshire Coast Path. The Solway. On Foot in the Peak District. South West Coast Path. North Lancas...

Historic Architecture of Northumberland. The Architecture of Southern England. Historic Beverley. Historic Architecture of Newcastle upon Tyne. Ch...

A History of Somerset, The Victoria History of the Counties of England being Vol.1 only (of 5) illustrated with plates, Stained Glass in Somerset ...

[Topography] Shell Guides including Scotland, Exploring Britain, Islands of Britain, British Buildings, English Villages, Country Museums, Cottage...

[Topography] The Wakes of Northamptonshire A Family History. Oxford Words & Watercolours. Portraits of Oxford. Avenham. Brentford Literary & Histo...

[Topography] The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100. Murray's Berkshire. Fashionable Brighton. Mendip Hills. Portraits of the Isle of Wight. Essex...

Windmills of England. England West 1950. Sunrise-Land Rambles in Eastern England 1894. Some Literary Associations of East Anglia 1907. Spas of Eng...

English Medieval Castles. Windsor Castle. Corfe Castle. Some West Surrey Villages 1901. Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls. Windmills in England. ...

[Cookery] Food Some Accounts of its Sources, Constituents and Uses by A.H. Church 1882. The "A1" Cookery Book 1901. Handbook of Cookery by Jessie ...

[Cookery] Fifty Years of a Maryland Kitchen by Mrs. Howard 1884. Edible and Poisonous Fungi with coloured plates 1926. Myra's Cookery Book. The Pu...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Skerryvore Edition published Heinemann 1924-6 in 30 volumes (complete) bound in original gilt lettered cloth ...

[Travel] Large colection of European and Worldwide travel guides including Contact-Reis-Pockets series, Photo Books of the World, Panorama-Books, ...

[Travel] Majorca by Henry Shelley 1926. The Balearics by Whelpton 1953. The Balearics & Their People with maps & illustrations 1927. Madeira. Medi...

[Travel] Edward Lear's Indian Journal 1953. Freya Stark in Southern Arabia + Iraq and Kuwait. Exploration Fawcett. O Toyo Writes Home. Zoo Quest i...

[Travel] Under the Italian Alps 1925. A Walk to Rome A Journey on Foot of 741 miles from Yorkshire. Michelin Guides France 1952, 1955 and Italie 1...

[Travel] John Cocker Guides to The Caribbean + Bermuda, Bahamas. Butler's Caribbean & Central America. A Wayfarer in the West Indies. Pocket Gude ...

[Travel] Marco Polo Travels 1931 with illustrations & maps. Christophe Colomb by Charcot 1928. The Western Ocean Packets 1925. The Jeannette Exped...

[Travel] Freya Stark East is West 1945. Days in old Spain illustrated by Muirhead Bone 1938. Lear's Indian Journal. Hill Towns of Italy 1963. Good...

[Travel] Portugal, The Rhineland, Italian Lakes, Turkey, Greece + Southern Italy published Batsford. George Bean Turkey volumes 1-3. Passage of th...

[Travel] Persia from the Origins to Alexander the Great by Ghirshman. The Formation of Chinese Civilization. Vols 1881-1955 The City and the Peopl...

[Travel] Karl Baedeker Guides: South-Eastern France 1895, Northern France 1899, Southern France 1907, South-Western France 1895, Belgium and Holla...

[London] London on Thames 1903. Georgian London. Royal Kew. Crossing London’s River. Earl’s Court and Brompton Past. London’s East End. London fro...

Buttons A Guide for Collectors by Gwen Squire 1972. About Buttons A Collector's Guide 1500 AD to the Present by Peggy Osborne 1994. The Collector'...

The Big Book of Buttons by Elizabeth Hughes and Marion Lester 1993 with 326 full-page plates illustrating multiple examples, mostly in colour, bou...

[Natural History] Wild Flowers of The Year by A. Pratt with coloured plates. Vita Sackville-West Some Flowers. Flore-Manuel de la Province de Queb...

[Natural History] Border Plants Illustrated. Garden Flowers in Colour. Complete Guide to Soilless Gardening. Story of My Rock Garden. The Mystic G...

[Natural History] The Book of Plants The Complete Plates by Basilius Besler. An English Florilegium watercolour paintings by Mary Grierson. The Tu...

The Mountain World 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958-69 in 9 volumes illustrated. Everest The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein 1966. The North Cascades photogra...

[America/Canada] The English In America, The Puritan Colonies, 1887 in 2 volumes + Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas 1889 by J.A. Doyle each wi...

W.H. Hudson a Collection of Books including British Birds 1906 with colour plates. Birds & Man 1924. A Little Boy Lost illustrated by McCormick. A...

[Natural History] Rev. Wood Birds One Should Know 1925 + Coward’s Birds With Their Young 1923 both with mounted colour plates. A Bird Artist in Sc...

Bulletin of The Alpine Garden Society, volume 2 March 1933 + 12 other volumes to 1975, each with photographic plates offered with 10 volumes of th...

[Natural History] The New Naturalist. Marvels of Insect Life with coloured plates. Field Guide to Butterflies. The Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies)...

[Sport] Sporting Days & Sporting Ways 1910. Athletics of Today 1929. Riding 1882. Cricket Annual 1937 by Frank Thorogood, Corner to Corner by John...

Dictionary of Gardening A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture Edited by Fred J. Chittenden The Clarendon Press 1951 in 4 volume...

[Clocks/Watches] English House Clocks 1600-1850. Clockmaker’s Company Museum Guide 1939. Clock Cleaning & Repairing. The Old Clock Book. Science o...

[Angling] A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell illustrated with nearly 400 woodcuts 1836 in 2 volumes. The Science of Dry Fly Fishing & ...

[Angling] Fine Angling for Coarse Fish 1930. Sea Fishing by Bickerdyke 1895. Deep-Sea Fishing & Fishing Boats by Holdsworth 1874. Clear Waters. Fi...

The Penny Cyclopaedia of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge illustrated with wood-engravings, published Charles Knight 1833-1843 co...

The Smithsonian Institution Annual Report of the Board of Regents showing the Operations, Expenditures and Conditions of the Institution published...

Reports of the German Botanical Society (Berichte Der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft) 10 illustrated volumes dated between 1930 and 1955 bound...

[Africa] Uganda by Thomas & Scott 1935. South of Suez by Makin. West Africa with Maps & Illustrations. The Scramble for Africa. African Voyage. Wi...

[Australia] Commonwealth of Australia Federal Handbook 1914. Australia: The Masking of a Nation 1913. Select Documents in Australian History 1788-...

New Zealand: Being a Narrative of Travels and Adventures during a Residence in that Country between the years 1831 and 1837 by J.S. Polack publish...

[Travel/Pacific] The Riddle of The Pacific illustrated 1924. Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago 1930. In Southern Seas 1924. The Right Hon. R.J. ...