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AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish), Bristol, United Kingdom
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With 24 full page copper engraved plates and with the small map by John Cary. (4) + 329 and ii + (4) + 46 + 382 and 383-504 + corrections leaf. 3 volumes bound in one, early half morocco, raised bands, gilt lines, marbled boards, a few plates have some spotting to margins, one of them badly, 3 plates have a small amount of worming to margins, 2 plates have a short tear to fore-edge margin which is neatly repaired to verso. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ). Seller Inventory # AB52-1263
Title: THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE.
Publisher: Exeter: Printed by T. Trewman for Cadell Johnson and Dilly London: 1793 1806
Publication Date: 1797
Binding: Hardcover
Seller: AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish), Bristol, United Kingdom
With 24 full page copper engraved plates and with the small map by John Cary. (4) + 329 and ii + (4) + 46 + 382 and 383-504 + corrections leaf. 3 volumes bound in one, early half morocco, raised bands, gilt lines, marbled boards, a few plates have some spotting to margins, one of them badly, 3 plates have a small amount of worming to margins, 2 plates have a short tear to fore-edge margin which is neatly repaired to verso. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ). Seller Inventory # AB54-1265
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Seller: AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish), Bristol, United Kingdom
With 23 of 24 full page copper engraved plates, lacking the view of Lawrence Tower, Haldon, all but 2 the 23 plates have been neatly hand-coloured, a small map by John Cary, and a double-page map by Stockdale, engraved by Cary with the boundaries of the Hundreds coloured in outline, extra-illustrated with 3 maps, plan of Tiverton, and 134 engraved and lithographed views, of various sizes, some of which have been hand-coloured. Includes several lithographs of Devon Churches by Spreat and copper-plate views by S. & N. Buck. All of the plates, including the originals have been pasted onto interleaved blanks. A few blanks have no plates attached. 3 volumes, folio, (4) + 329 and ii + (4) + 46 + 276 and 277-382 + (1) + 383-504 + corrections leaf, untrimmed, interleaved and finely bound by Period Binders of Bath, with their stamp to verso of the front endpapers, in recent full green morocco, raised bands, gilt tooling to spines, and gilt lines to spines and to boards, marbled endpapers. A few plates have some spotting to margins, light waterstaining to lower corners and margins of a few pages, small portion torn from top corner margins of one leaf, one title-page has a portion re-margined. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ). Seller Inventory # AB54-1264
Quantity: 1 available