Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Son, 1881. Original stamped red cloth, with gilt titles to spines. Armorial bookplate of Rolfsay to front pastedown. Service in the Napoleonic Wars, the Punjab the Crimea and elsewhere, with most of Vol. II on the Indian Mutiny. With portrait frontispiece and six maps..... More
London, The London Printing & Engraving Co., 1893. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt title and printed decoration to front cover. The bulk of this title describes the manufacturing businesses of the industrial West Riding. Not good externally, with splits to cloth on spine, which is missing the bottom 1½ inches..... More
Huddersfield, The Advertiser Press, 1942. Softback in printed card wraps. Comprises Chapter VI. Landmarks and Localities, Chapter VII. The Stories of Some Structures and Chapter VIII. Follies. Signed and dated by the editor to the titlepage. Previous owner's signature to front cover. Staining from the staples. A good copy. pp..... More
London, Ian Allan, Landscape folio (12½ x 8¾ inches). Spiral bound with illustrated laminated boards. Lowest four rings of the plastic binder damaged and covers a little marked and faded, but otherwise a fair copy. pp. 104. More
Oxford, Oxford Publishing Co., 1980. 4to. Black cloth gilt. In good price-clipped dustwrapper. A good copy. pp. More
Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1982. Blue cloth gilt. In fair dustwrapper, a little faded to spine. Illustrated throughout. Edges a little spotted, but a good copy. pp. 284. More
Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1911. Blue cloth gilt. t.e.g. and other edges uncut. Some spotting to edges, and first and last pages. A good copy. pp. xi, 228. More
Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, 1913. Blue cloth gilt. With two folding maps. Spine a little darkened, and light marking to boards. A good copy. pp. x, 114. More
London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. Blue cloth gilt. Edges uncut. The author became acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia after the British advance against the Turks. He was killed in action at the age of 56 in 1940, when serving as a gunner in the R.A.F. With portrait photographs..... More
London, James & James, 1989. Large 8o. Blue cloth with silvered titles. In good dustwrapper. A good copy. pp. 96. More
Hull, Bradley Publications, 1981. Small 4to. Maroon leather-cloth with printed titles and gilt decoration. A bound photocopied typescript, limited to 500 copies. Much about the author's early life in the East Riding. A very good copy. pp. 120. More
London & edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack, No Date. 12mo. Purple cloth with gilt titles and picture laid down to front cover. With 48 coloured plates. Spine a little faded, and off-setting to endpapers. A good copy. pp. xvi, 94. More
London, G.T. Foulis & Co., 1943. Black cloth with silvered title. Edges spotted and free endpapers with off-setting. A good copy of the Second Edition. pp. 189. More
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. 4to. Green cloth gilt. In good dustwrapper, a little faded to spine and with light wear. Illustrated throughout. A good copy. pp. 191. More
London, Frederick Farrah & Huddersfield, R. Brook, No Date. Green cloth gilt. The second of two volumes. With 54 hand-coloured plates. Some pages a little marked, but generally a good copy. pp. [ii], 349-733, [iii]. More
London, Collins, 1949. Green cloth gilt. In fair, slightly chipped dustwrapper. Covers a little faded. Edges lightly spotted. A good copy of the First Edition. pp. xvi, 311. With 61 photographs in colour, 62 in black and white and with 88 text figures. More
Edinburgh and London, A. Fullarton & Co., No Date. Folio (c.10¼ x 6¾ inches). Not dated, but c.1860-1870? Half black calf, gilt-titled direct, over cloth boards. With portrait frontispiece (tissue-guard torn away), illustrated extra title page with coloured vignette and 32 nicely hand-coloured plates (with seemingly random Roman numerals). The..... More
London, Johnstone and Hunter & Bath, Binns and Goodwin, No Date. Small 4to (c.7 x 5½ inches). Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine. a.e.g. With frontispiece, illustrated extra title, other plates and engravings, complete as per list. Not dated, but from the list of..... More
London, Eden Fisher, 1922. Green cloth gilt. The author served in Ceylon, Ireland and England. Previous owner's signature to front pastedown. A very good and clean copy. pp. [vi], 210. More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with printed label to spines. With maps. Labels a little chipped. Spine to Vol. IV is a little faded, and lightly worn to head. Extensive internal spotting. Otherwise a good, sound set of the New Edition. pp. xxiv, 382; xvi..... More
Chichester, Phillimore, 1984. Green cloth gilt. In very good, price-clipped dustwrapper. A biography to the formidable heiress of the Earls of Cumberland. Page edges browned, otherwise a good copy of the corrected reprint. pp. 181. Black and white photographs. More
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, W. Rapp & Sons, 1911. Maroon cloth gilt, very lightly faded to spine. Extremities a little rubbed and some light marking, but a good copy of the Second Edition. pp. xv, [i], 504. More
London, Folio Society, 1998. Black cloth with gilt titles and printed decoration. In very good slipcase. A very good and clean set. pp. l, 284; xiv, 285-690; xvi, 422; ix, 315; xv, 363. More
Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1968. Blue/green cloth gilt. In good, price-clipped dustwrapper. With plates and text illustrations. A biography of the prolific engineer, and an account of his successors. A very good copy. pp. 216. More
London, Whitaker, Treacher and Co. & Leeds, F.E. Bingley, 1833. A modern rebind in half black morocco with gilt titles, over marbled boards. t.e.g. New endpapers. Two armorial bookplates to endpapers. With frontispiece of Andrew Marvell and further engravings of Lady Anne Clifford and William Roscoe. As well as these..... More