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GB: Macmillan, 1898. Contemporary green half leather with five rasied bands over green cloth with armorial stamp of The County School, Harrow on front cover and their presentation plate (dated 1911) on front pastedown. Endpapers and edges marbled. Very clean tight text. Just a littled wear to covers. . New Edition. Hardback. VG/No DW.

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898.. 8vo; pp. (x), 368; b/w frontispiece, 7 b/w plates, 4 pages advertisements at rear, original illustrated blue cloth boards, title in gilt on damaged spine, boards marked and slightly bumped, minor foxing to advertisements, otherwise very good copy. Chapter on the discovery and settlement of Australia from pages 308 - 368.

London; Macmillan,1876,. 1876. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 368pp, frontispiece and 8 plates, edges browning and some light foxing, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, gilt-decorated green cloth, slightly rubbed, Good condition .

Macmillan, London, 1890 Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 other plates and title-page illustration; Leather-Bound Hardback: half dark green calf on grey boards, decorated in gilt, spine panelled with raised bands, edges and end-papers marbled, a school prize (King Edward VI Grammar School Birmingham); Some rubbing of leather especially to spine, frontispiece and title-page foxed, still an attractive book.

London: Macmillan and Co.. 1898. 8vo, pp. (x) 368, (ii adverts), b/w frontis, b/w plates, award plate, minor foxing eps., light offsetting of award plate f.f.ep., orig dec cl bds., spine sunned, small hole front joint, edges discoloured and rubbed. Includes a chapter on Federation of Australia, and the wreck of the Batavia. Cloth Boards.

(London: Macmillan: 1890) New Edition. Muir 3926. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 368 and 4 publisher’s advertisements. An ownership inscription on front free endpaper, head and foot of spine worn and spine a little sunned; corners of boards rubbed; a very good copy.

Macmillan & Co., 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1869. No Edition Stated. 368 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Some finger smudging to page edges. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends.

London: Macmillan, 1876. Original Calf. A Very Good Copy. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 368p., 8 leaves of plates, illustrations, one of the great compilatons with chapters on Marco olo, the old Slave Trade, Alvardo Nunez; John Fox, along with many others. The author was the son of Charles Kingsley and was one of the earliest literary men to go to Australia. His efforts at finding gold led to various misadventures until he returned to England to writing his best novels. All edges gilt. Black morocco label is partially gone but condition is very good.

London: Macmillan, 1882. 8vo. Bound in full polished calf, Prize Binding, front joint starting, else fine. 8vo.

London : Macmillan and Co., 1882. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A smart new edition copy of Tales of Old Travel re-narrated, with illustrations. A new edition of Henry Kingsley's Tales of Old Travel re-narrated. Henry Kingsley was an English novelist and brother of Charles Kingsley. With eight plates. Collated, complete. In prize binding for St. Paul's School. In full calf prize binding for St. Paul's School. Externally, very smart with some marks to the boards. With a prize bookmark to the front pastedown for St. Paul's School. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright pages which are generally clean, with a red tidemark to pages 337-344, affecting on plate. Very Good

London: Macmillan & Co.. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. 15-20mm loss of cloth along edges of corners of boards. Bruising to corners of boards. Spine rubbed. Light creasing to upper corners of leaves up to page 16. Plates called for facing pages 243 and 338 are instead bound in facing page 324 and as the frontispiece. ; [8], 368 pages + 8 plates (including frontispiece) + 54 pages advertisements. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on spine, gilt and black illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 177 x 120mm. Advertisements dated August, 1869. Contents: Marco Polo; The Shipwreck of Pelsart; The Wonderful Adventures of Andrew Battel; The Wanderings of a Capuchin; Peter Carder; The Preservation of the "Terra Nova"; Spitzbergen; D'Ermenonville's Acclimatization Adventure; The Old Slave Trade; Miles Philips; The Sufferings of Robert Everard; John Fox; Alvaro Nunez; The Foundation of an Empire. Illustrations:… Read More