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Cambridge, 17th July 1871. 3-sides 8vo, laid down by reverse of conjugate leaf to part of an album page. To "Dear Sir", he writes thanking the recipient for information that will lead to improvements to a new edition of his manual [ Manual of British Botany, the 7th edition corrected throughout published in 1874?] - "....whorls of 5 is the certainly regular form in Erythraea [?] and I did not know that there was any variation. It is not uncommon to find 'accidental' changes of this kind and thus we see the necessity of always looking at several flowers of plants before deciding that we have the true number of the parts in the speciman before us....." etc.

London: Lund Humphries, 1998. First edition. Profusely illustrated. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches), 151-pages. Original cloth, very good in the slighlty edge curled but very good white dust jacket. Signed by both Backemeyer and Coates-Smith on title. With an annotated notice for the Abbot & Holder exhibition of his work on the occasion of this book launch.

London: M.Jones, 1803. Being volume 10 of the works but complete in itself with individual title-page. 8vo, pp. 233, conemporary full green grained calf gilt; lettering piece and headband chipped,

London: G. W. Bacon, n.d. Map 33 x 24 inches folding into the original red cloth covers, these damp marked, the inset plan of St. Leonards stained.The reverse signed and dated 1909.

London: Nelson, 1909. 11th eition, revised. Folding coloured maps, 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches), 273-pages and 56-pages of partly illustrated advertisements. Original red cloth lettered in gilt & blocked in blind. Very good

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910. Fourth Edition. Folding street plans. 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches), pages: x:250, original red cloth, some loss of surface of front pastedown, neat library stamps of the Institution of Civil Engineers throughout. Although ex-library this is actually a very good copy indeed.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910/11. 5 volumes, as under:Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. 24th Edition, 1911. With 75 maps, 20 plans, and 12 panoramas.The Rhine including the Black Forest and the Vosges. 17th Revised Edition, 1911. With 69 maps & 59 plans.Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers. 15th Revised Edition, 1910. With 47 maps and 81 plans.Southern Germany (Wurtemberg and Bavaria). 11th Revised Edition. 1910. With 36 maps and 45 plans.Austria-Hungary. With Excursions to Cetinje, Belgrad, and Bucharest. 11th EditionRevised and Augmented. 1911. With 71 maps, 77 plans and 2 panoramas, 5 volumes 8vo (6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches), pages: 593,554,430,364, & 602. Folding coloured maps. Original red cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Bound-in bookmarks. In superb condition.

Emanuel von Baeyer, London, 2006. Well illustrated exhibition catalogie of 59 prints. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches), original light card wrappers/ Excellent.

London: for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1792. 3 volumes ( of 4, lacking volume 1). Small 8vo, pp. 243:(1, advert.), 275:(1, advert.), & 272, contemporary full marbled calf with burgundy lettering and numbering pieces; lacking 1 numbering piece, joints rubbed but firm. Damp mark to some foremargins, one leaf with early marginal repair. Bound without the half-titles. A tragedy that this extremely rare first edition of this work is lacking the first volume. Only the 2nd edition of 1796 has appeared at auction during the past 30 years and then only on three occasions.

The print 45 x 35.5 cms. A limited edition of 200 signed by Millvina Dean the youngest survivor of the sinking "rescued fro Lifeboat No.13 by the crew of H.M.S. Carpathia on 15th April 1912". Un-numbered but marked "Proof" & signed. In fine condition.

The print 45 x 35.5 cms. A limited edition being number 153 of 350 signed by B.V. Dean a survivor of the sinking having been "Rescued from Lifeboat No. 13 by the crew of R.M.S. Carpathia on 15th April, 1912". Also signed by the artist Laurence Bagley. In fine condition.

London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1890. 18 plates. 8vo, pp.295-469, original printed tan wrappers; backstrip soiled, text block detached from wrappers, internally good. Other papers include Steel Rails, Park Gate Iron Works, Loomis process for making Gas, & Description of the Sheffield Water Works.

Faber & Faber, London, 1977. First paperback edition. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 208-pages. Original pictorial coloured wrappers; very good. Uncommon.

American Ceramic Society, Westerville, OH. 2000. 1st edition. Very well illustrated in colour. 4to ( 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 282-pages. Original coloured pictorial laminated boards. With a letter from the publishers to a contributor inserted. Fine.

The Bystander, London, n.d. Profusely illustrated throughout. The original wrappers not retained. Small folio (11 x 8 inches), about 200-pages in all. Contemporary half calf; rubbed, internally good apart from one leaf which is detached, torn & ragged.

H. R. Baines & Co. The Bystander, London, n.d Folio (11 x 8 inches), 36-pages of plates. Original printed wrappers with applied coloured illustration, as issued.. Wire-stitched as issued. Very good.

H. R. Baines & Co. The Bystander, London, n.d Folio (12 x 8 inches), 42-pages of plates. Original printed wrappers. Wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers edge tanned else very god. Signature on upper wrapper.

H. R. Baines & Co. The Bystander, London, n.d Folio (12 x 8 inches), 48-pages of plates. Original printed wrappers. Wire-stitched as issued. Corners bumped, short split to backstrip else very good. Signature on upper wrapper dated 1916.

H. R. Baines & Co. The Bystander, London, n.d Folio (12 x 8 inches), 44-pages of plates. Original printed wrappers. Wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers edge tanned. Signature on upper wrapper. dated 1916. Splits to backstrip.

H. R. Baines & Co. The Bystander, London, n.d Folio (11 1/4 x 8 inches), 32-pages of plates. Original printed wrappers. Wire-stitched as issued. Very good.