Books - History, America – Prescott (William H.) History of ...

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Books - History, America – Prescott (William H.) History of the Conquest of Peru with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas, 3 vols., London, Richard Bentley, 1854, small 12mo, marbled edges and end papers, marbled boards bound half calf, five raised band sto spines, gilt embossed titles on red reserves; Vol I: xxxi + 357, engr. frontis and map; Vol. II: xvi + 357pp, engr. frontis., Vol III: xv + 330pp, facsimile frontis. of signatures of Pizarro; Kouwenhoven (John Atlee), Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Historical Record from Harper’s Weekly, New York and London, Harper Bros., 1938, 4to, 255 woodcut illustrations from the well-known periodical, supporting script, bookplate M. C. Griswold, oatmeal cloth with mounted printed vignette to front board, titles, dirty, with some splitting to spine; Children’s – Bond ([Thomas] Michael, CBE, 1926-2017), A Bear Called Paddington, an Omnibus, London, Chancellor Press, 1985, 8vo, 636pp, illus. Peggy Fortnum, 5 Vols. in 1: A Bear Called Paddington; More about Paddington; Paddington Helps Out; Paddington at Large and Paddington Marches On, bound cream printed boards, spine torn but repaired; Howitt (Mary), Our Four-Footed Friends, London, S W Partridge & Co., n. d. (1867), 8vo, 168pp, engr. frontis., numerous other plates and engraved vignettes, advertisement pastedowns, gilt embossed and bevelled green boards front board mounted with lithograph, gilt titles; Caroll (Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,] 1832-1898), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, London, & Glasgow, Collins, reprinted 1941, 2 Vols. in 1, small 8vo, 239pp frontis. & 7 colour plates and vignettes, bound oatmeal boards, green titles, dirty and worn d.w. front board and frontis. loose; Milne (Alan Alexander, 1882-1956), Winnie-the-Pooh, the Complete Collection, of Stories and Poems, London, Methuen, 1994, small 4to, 432pp, profusely illustrated in colour after E H Shephard monochrome printed endpapers, gilt embossed green boards and spine titles, clean d. w.; Anon., My Big Book of Stories and Rhymes, Loughborough, Ladybird, 4to, 384pp profusely illustrated in colour, colour printed boards and spine; Anon., Bugs Bunny Annual 1975, Racine Wn., USA & Manchester 1975, small 4to, 77pp, colour strip cartoons, coloured endpapers and printed boards, cover dirty; Walt Disney’s Giant Book of Bedtime Stories, London, Purnell, reprint, `975, small 4to, 189pp, profusely illus. in colour colour printed endpapers, blue boards with gilt vignette gilt titles to spine, colour printed d. w., slight tear to top; Brockbank (Russell), The Brockbank Omnibus, London, Perpetua, 1957, small 4to, 120pp, illus. in monochrome, black boards, gilt titles, binding stained by damp, good d. w., minor tears; Medicine, History – Cresswell (Clarendon Hyde, FSA Scot), The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Historical Notes from 1505 to 1905, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1926, 8vo, xii + 315, 8 photographic plates, blue boards, gilt titles; Sports and Pastimes, The Chase – Randall (James Lowndes), A History of the Meynell Hounds and Country 1780-1901, 2 vols., London, Sampson Low, 1901, large 8vo, bound red boards, gilt titles, Vol I: xii + 397, photographic frontis of Hugo F. Meynell-Ingram of Hoar Cross after Sir Francis Grant, 27 other plates and four maps; Vol II: viii + 428pp, frontis and 20 plates, and 1 map, covers slightly faded and stained; The New Sporting Magazine, New Series, Vol. 1, London, R. Ackermann 1841 8vo, 448 + coursing calendar 55pp, 44 lithographic illus., gilt embossed red covers and titles; Loudon (Jane) Ornamental Flowers, Classic Natural History Prints, London, Studio 1991, small folio 128pp, 64 coloured plates, green boards, gilt titles, clean d.w. (17)