210 HITCHIN. HINE, Reginald L. [Editor]. The Natural History of the Hitchin region. Hitchin & District Regional Survey, 1934.  £45
FIRST EDITION, pp.256; folding chart & map in pocket at end and many plates in colour & half-tone; a very good copy in original cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.

211 HOGARTH, Paul. Drawing on Life. The autobiography of Paul Hogarth. David & Charles, 1997.  £20
FIRST EDITION, lg.4to., pp.192; illustrations in colour & half-tone throughout; fine in dust-wrapper. An attractive account of the distinguished illustrator & graphic artist. (Published at  £30.)

212 HUNT, John. Our Everest Adventure. The pictorial history from Katmandu to the summit. Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1954.  £15
FIRST EDITION, pp.128; illustrations throughout; a very good copy in original pictorial boards and lightly marked & frayed dust-wrapper.

213 JUNGMAN, Nico. [Illustrator] Holland. Text by Beatrix Jungman. Adam and Charles Black, 1904.  £30
FIRST EDITION, pp.x,212 + 4pp. adverts.; 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards; a good copy in original decorated blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; slight wear at extremities, bookplate removed from endpaper, but sound & attractive.

214 LAWSON, William D. Tyneside Celebrities. Sketches of the lives and labours of famous men of the North. Newcastle-upon Tyne. Published by the Author... 1873.  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,387; 15 wood-engraved plates; original green cloth, gilt, head & tail of backstrip slightly frayed, a little shaken but a good copy. Largely biographical but with digressions into Sports & Pastimes of the North of England, Rowing Clubs & Northern Character.

215 LONGFORD, Elizabeth. DITCHBURN, Jonathan. Images of Chelsea. Gallery of Prints [by] Harriet O'Keefe. Catalogue of Prints[by] Jonathan Ditchburn. Saint Helena Press, Richmond, 1980.  £55
FIRST EDITION, no.130 of 1000 copies, signed by the author; 4to., pp.270; 681 images reproduced from prints, some in two sizes; a fine copy in dust-wrapper of this remarkable record reproducing 'nearly all the prints of the district up to 1860 and any of special interest thereafter'. Presentation inscription on publication from the historian and broadcaster Bamber Gascoigne.

216 MURRAY, David. The Australian Torrens System... [Review of the Treatise by James Edward Hogg.] Reprinted from 'The Juridical Review', Edinburgh [1905]  £20
Pp.8; well preserved in contemporary buckram (with much packing of blank leaves); from the author's own library. A New South Wales barrister, Hogg examined 'the system of land transfer and registration of title now in operation in the six states of the Commonwealth of Australia...'

217 NEW GUINEA. GARDI, René. Tambaran. An Encounter with Cultures in Decline in New Guinea. Translated by Eric Northcott. Constable, 1956.  £20
First English edition, pp.201; 55 plates; very good in dust-wrapper.

218 OLIPHANT, Mrs [Margaret] The Makers of Florence. Dante Giotto Savonarola and their city. Macmillan, 1889.  £15
Pp.xx,422(2); engraved frontispiece & illustrations in line throughout; title & frontis. spotted with light waterstain, otherwise a good copy in original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.

219 OXFORD. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1949.  £25
4to., pp.xxxiv,244; 216 half-tone plates, folding plans throughout & map in pocket at end; original cloth with differential fading but a well preserved copy.

220 OXFORD. ALDEN, Edward C. Alden's Oxford Guide with key-plan of the University and City, and numerous engravings. Enlarged edition... Alden & Co., Oxford, 1900.  £18
Pp.viii,146 + 40pp. adverts. (illustrated); fold-out coloured map, 12 plates & numerous line illustrations; a well-preserved copy in original red cloth, gilt; backstrip rubbed but sound.

221 POPE, Alfred. The Old Stone Crosses of Dorset. With an introduction and descriptive articles. Illustrated. Printed at the Chiswick Press and sold by Henry Ling, Dorchester, 1906.  £30
Sm.4to., pp.xiv,145; large folding map & 34 plates with captioned guards; a good uncut copy in original green cloth, a little faded with slight wear at head & tail of backstrip. The second edition with author's printed presentation slip tipped in.

222 SCORESBY, William. The Story of Dr. Scoresby the Arctic Navigator. T. Nelson and Sons, 1877.  £25
Pp.120; chromolithograph frontispiece & extra title with additional hand-colouring; a very good copy in original gilt & black decorated green cloth with mounted oval colour vignette on upper cover; first issued the previous year without the colour plates.

223 SEITZ, Georg. People of the Rain-Forests. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Heinemann, 1963.  £18
First English edition, pp.208; sketch-map & 40 half-tone illustrations; very good in repaired dust-wrapper. The account of an early modern exploration of the Amazon rain-forest and encounters with the Araraibo & Xamatari tribes. Translated from the German.

224 STANLEY, Henry M. In Darkest Africa or the quest rescue and retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. In two volumes. Samson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890.  £110
FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.xvi,529; xv,472 + advert. leaf; two large folding maps (with short tears but no loss), two other maps, 38 wood-engraved plates and c.108 other illustrations in text; a good set in original pictorial cloth, a little shaken & rubbed at extremities but sound.

225 STONY STRATFORD. BARLEY, R. Ewart. Romance around Stony Stratford. With A Sketch of its History and Charities by C.P. Woollard. O.C. Barley, Eastbourne, 1928.  £35
FIRST EDITION, pp.80; 12 half-tone plates (3 unlisted); a good copy in original printed boards, backstrip a little rubbed & worn but secure.

226 STRAUS, Ralph. Carriages & Coaches. Their History & their Evolution. Fully illustrated with reproductions from old prints, contemporary drawings & photographs. Martin Secker, 1912.  £35
FIRST EDITION, pp.309 + advert. leaf; 46 illustrations in line & half-tone; faint mark at foot of upper cover but a nice copy in original blue cloth, gilt backstrip.

227 TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Album Views Tunbridge Wells. The Photographic Series. The Photochrom Co. Ld., Tunbridge Wells [c1905]  £25
Landscape format (210 x 305mm); pp.(28); 16pp. of plates, the majority with multiple views & 9pp. of accompanying text; well preserved in original gold-blocked green cloth; neat endpaper inscription dated April 24th, 1905.

228 TURNER, J.M.W. RUSKIN, J. The Harbours of England. Engraved by Thomas Lupton fom original drawings made expressly for the work. With illustrative text by J. Ruskin. E. Gambart and Co., 1856.  £250
FIRST EDITION folio (365 x 265mm) pp.(2)viii,53; 12 fine mezzotint plates engraved by Lupton from Turner's original drawings; a very good copy in contemporary half navy morocco, gilt, all edges gilt. A handsome copy of the first printing with far superior impressions of the plates to those in later editions.

229 VOYAGE And Venture; or, Perils by Sea and Land. With illustrations by William Harvey. George Routledge, 1853.  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.iv,380; 8 wood-engraved plates; a good copy in St Marylebone & All Souls Grammar School prize binding of crimson calf, gilt, lacks label, a little rubbed but sound. Shipwrecks, Piracy, Sharks in New South Wales, Whaling, Adventures in the American Wild West, &c. Anon in NSTC.

230 WILKINSON, Sir Gardner. Hand-Book for Travellers in Egypt; including descriptions of the course of the Nile... Alexandria, Cairo, The Pyramids, and Thebes, The overland transit to India... being a new edition, corrected and condensed of 'Modern Egypt and Thebes'. John Murray, 1847.  £350
FIRST EDITION, pp.xxx(2)errata,448; large folding map at end (a little frayed & short tear at fold but no loss); a very good copy in original cloth, gilt, largely faded to tan but well preserved. Lister 187 records that Wilkinson was paid  £100 by Murray for revising his 'Modern Egypt' for the Hand-Book series.