Rare books from A & F MCILREAVY BUDERIM RARE BOOKS

Macmillan, London, 1884 - 1893. 8vo.Ten Volumes. Original Talwyn Morris Binding Dark blue cloth Blocked on boards and spine with a gilt acorn and oak leaf entwined motif. Uncut and in exceptional condition.

London: Longmans Green, 1877. New Edition. pp.210.With Illustrations, original and from the antique drawn on wood by George Scharf. Green morocco binding tooled in gilt raised bands, aeg. Tooled in gilt on the boards with classical motives, eagles etc. A Fine binding by Riviere.

Universal Mag. J.Hinton.Newgate Street,London. Size of Image 36 x 27.[1757]. Original Wash hand coloured. Fine full color example of this scarce map of New England, the Northeast and Canada at the beginning of the French & Indian War.Engraved by R.W. Seale, London.

Printed for R.Ackermann, London,[1824]. 12mo.pp.ix+ 241.18 handcoloured engravings.Fine half dark green calf,raised bands tooled in gilt,marbled boards.very attractive.a little offsetting of plates else very clean and fresh.Abbey Travel.No.6.p.13. Tooley:English Books with Coloured Plates:515.p.417. "The Proper Study of Mankind is Man" Pope.

Glasgow, Robert & Andrew Foulis , 1745. 8vo.16.5 cm x 10.5 cm. Two Volumes pp.vi + 354 ,pp.ii + 452 .Greek and Latin text. Contemporary full brown calf, gilt decorations in panels , red title labels, gilt rolls to top and bottom board eges and faces. A small chip to head of spine in Volume Two. A little surface rubbing to boards.Corners a little bumped.Images can be sent on request. See Gaskell .68. A Bibliography of The Foulis Press .Images are available on request.

T,T. & J. Tegg,.London, 1833. Two Volumes.4to. .Frontispiece portrait of the author.pp.xiv + 1029, pp,title page + 1084. Recently rebound in black half calf leather with raised bands and leather title labels dark blue plain cloth.both title pages had a portion removed where an owners name had been these have been expertly repaired. There is some general toning to paper and foredges,else a Very Good attractive set of this iconic work. Johnson's Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 173 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-eminent English dictionary. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who laboured under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time'.

Published by Pitmans , London, 1835-1843 Lacks November issue 1842. Tall 8vo.16 Volumes in total , Many steel engraved plates of horses, dogs, birds and other animals. Half red morocco with a little rubbing to extremities.Mainly top edge gilt. marbled boards,spines darkened,some foxing to some of the plates.

Complied, Lithographed and Published by H.E.C.Robinson, Wentworth Court Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W. published in 1900. 850 mm x 748 mm. Scarce Map of Sydney, 1900, In 24 panels laid down on linen. Very Good in original boards with a new backstrip.

Published by Sotheby's Hong Kong Ltd, Hong Kong 1986 & 1987. Volume 1 , 194 lots, Volume 2 195-381. 4to 28 x 22 cms Two Volumes fine hardcovers in Fine dust wrappers.

Patience Worth Publishing, New York,1928. 8vo. pp.vi + 270 + 10p ads. Original light blue boards with gilt title on upper board and spine.Foredge of front board and spine are discoloured [ see image] Previous owner's name on free frontendpaper. internally fine.Scarce. Pearl Lenore Curran reportedly channeled Patricia Worth and wrote books.

Sothebys, Hong Kong, 1993. 4to,pp.431,Over 700 superb colour illustrations.Red cloth hardcover in fine dust wrapper. A Fine Copy of this very scarce book.

Kegan Paul.Trench, London,1884. Each Volume with an etched frontispiece with a tissue guard.Volume One contains a facsimile letter.Bound in half red calf with red cloth sides.A Very attractive set.

Constable & Company, London, 1909. 4to. pp.xv + 325. 54 black & white illustrations and 40 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards. Decorated, endpapers There is an original inscription from previous owner on half title page.some odd tanning and one or two areas with marks or spotting not affecting the plates else a beautiful copy of this one of the most desirable Rackham titles.in a very attractive eather binding.

Cambridge University Press, 2010. Six Volumes,8vo.over 4300 pages, bibliography, indexes,black & white, illustrations,maps and figures.This set is Fine as new in original publishers shrink wrap. The New Cambridge History of Islam is a comprehensive history of Islamic civilization, tracing its development from its beginnings in seventh-century Arabia to its wide and varied presence.

Cork Street, London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. Small 8vo Fourth issue, with first edition sheets and cancel title-page.pp. 63 pages uncut.Original printed wrappers,The spine has been underbacked and the upper wrapper has been laid onto the new paper.The interior is near fine with the ad page at the rear. there is a discrete previous owners signature to the endpaper. Only 400 copies were issued with cover design by Dorothy Shakespear Pound.