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First edition. 8vo, 304 pp, 30 maps, some folding, some coloured, numerous wood engravings, bookplate, marbled endpapers; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, worn; overall a very good copy.
£1,900 -
Twenty-eighth edition. lviii, 600pp, 103 maps and plans, 18 panoramas; publisher's original red cloth coarse-grained binding, slightly faded; overall a very good copy.
£100 -
First edition. 8vo.,, xviii, 488 pp, 31 full-page plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations and maps in text, contemporary Clapham College prize binding, blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy.
£375 -
First edition; 2 vols, oblong folio (330 x 260mm, 13 x 10 1/8 in); orchestral score with libretto in Italian and German, vol. I with additional engraved vignette title by Bolt after Kinninger (foxed) of the supper scene between Commendatore and Don Giovanni, printed title with attractive ink presentation to upper corner margin, dated 1877) and 2 following pp. of text, engraved musical score 6-292pp, vol. II with printed title and engraved musical score 294-590pp, with separate printed divisional title 'Anhang von spaeter eingelegten Stuecken', some sporadic light foxing and minor staining, mostly to final leaf of vol. I, some leaves trimmed at upper edge with loss to pagination in vol.2 but in the main clean and bright; modern diced calf, upper covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, most attractive.
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4to (285 x 230 mm); engraved vignette title with portrait of John Gay, Table of the Songs, Dramatis Personne 1777, Introduction, the playscript, and music score with libretto, toned, a few random spots or marks, otherwise very good; later full polished calf, scuffed, marked and bumped but very sound.
£400 -
Sixth edition. pp. xiv, 583, folding silk map at rear, 4 city plans, 4 publisher's advert, 24 adverts at rear;, publisher's brown cloth gilt; overall a very good copy.
£200 -
Sixth edition. xlii, 427pp, 22 maps, 10 plans, and 7 panoramas, some pencilling on endpapers; publisher's red cloth gilt; overall an excellent copy.
£200 -
Fourth edition. xliv, 418pp, 21 maps, 7 plans, 7 panoramas, inner hinges slightly loose. some slight spotting throughout, publisher's original red cloth gilt; overall a good copy.
£275 -
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 381; vii, 447 pp., 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional light spotting, decorated endpapers, bookplate, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, a very attractive example.
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First edition, 8vo (24 x 16 cm), 25 illustrations, map, light browning throughtout some foxing in places; publisher's brownl cloth, somewhat faded, head and tail of spine slightly bumped and with small tears; some foxing to edges; pp. XVI, 528; overall an attractive copy
£475