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London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1911. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with circular colour illustration laid down on front cover; pp. xii, [2], 266, colour frontispiece, colour plate and plates in black and white, all after the author's accomplished watercolours; light rubbing to extremities, toning and light offsetting to and from endpapers; a good copy, with authorial, signed presentation inscription to the Conservative and Unionist Club of Yarmouth (their stamp on front fly-leaf and half-title). First edition. Part one of the book gives accounts of small yacht journeys in British, Dutch and Belgian waters whilst the second part describes cruises on big steamers to Portugal and in the Mediterranean.

London, Richard Bentley, 1851. Two volumes, 8vo. Original cloth, spines lettered in gilt, ornamented in blind; pp. xi, 609; one frontispiece in chromolithography the other a steel-engraving, folding facsimile and two steel-engraved plates, steel-engraved folding panorama, and two further plates in chromolithography, two folding plans; volume I with restorations to spine, a little light wear and fading to cloth, remnants of 19th-century library labels to spines; both volumes initially a little browned and spotted due to offsetting from frontispieces, faint ownership inscriptions to title-pages, Petersfield working Men's Institute stamp to beginning of main text, engraved bookplates of George Head Head inside front covers; still a reasonable set, rarely found in the original publisher's binding. First edition of Edwardes' account of the Punjab Rebellion of 1848, or, the second Anglo-Sikh War, which can be seen as a precursor of the Mutiny in the later 1850s. 'Edwardes raised, organized, and equipped a… Read More

London, Max Parrish, [1960]. 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. 139, illustrations in the text; a few short marginal tears to wrappers, otherwise very good. Very rare first edition, first impression of this book for young readers. ~O'Brien E227.