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CONWAY (W.M.) Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram - Himalayas. First Edition. folded map, v. many illus. (by A.D. McCormick, some full-page),

MACDONALD (D.) Touring in Sikkim and Tibet. First Edition. with the folded map (often missing) loosely inserted; (4), 2, 126pp.; printed wrappers (w

INDIAN SUB CONTINENT - a small miscellany (older & newer). * includes Byron's First Russia Then Tibet (1st edition, 1935) & Gregory's To the Alps of

ORIENTAL TRAVEL - a worthwhile miscellany (mostly mid & earlier 20th cent.); includes Savage-Landor's Gems of the East (2 vols., 1904) & Doumer's L'In

PRIP-MOLLER (J.) Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: their plan and its function as a setting for Buddhist monastic life. First Edition. coloured frontis.

TRAVEL - a useful miscellany of (mostly) older books; includes Browne's Conquest of Mount McKinley (1913) & Meinertzhagen's Birds of Arabia (1954).

BLYTON (E.) The Noddy Books. First Editions, 24 vols. (complete set). coloured illus. throughout; coloured pictorial boards & d/wrappers, sm. 8vo. 19

CHILDRENS' BOOKS - a miscellaneous quantity; older & newer.

MISCELLANY - a large collection, mostly earlier/mid 20th cent., with a fair proportion on the British theatre, & a few later novels.

MURPHY (A.) The Life of David Garrick, Esq. First Edition, 2 vols. portrait frontis.; rebound leather. 1801; BOADEN (J.) Memoirs of Mrs Siddons .

WARD (A.W.) The Electress Sophia and the Hanovarian Succession. First Edition. coloured portrait frontis., num. other plates (incl. a large folded f

CESCINSKY (H.) Chinese Furniture: a series of examples from collections in France . . . First Edition. 54 collotype plates (with captioned guards)

ARLINGTON (L.C.) The Chinese Drama: from the earliest times until to-day. Limited Edition. 115 coloured plates, text illus.; cloth-backed patterned

CHINESE CERAMICS - and related books, older & newer.

CHINESE PLATES - 33 coloured & 3 plain (captioned) plates of architectural & other designs (within mounts) & contained in the original 'fall-down' obl

CHINESE ILLUSTRATED - 9 coloured pictorial assorted books, various sizes & bindings (incl. silk, other fabrics & cloth), some in slipcases (mostly mid

ORIENTAL ILLUSTRATED - a small & (mostly) modern selection.

[WANG HSUN. Shadow Plays of Peking] 15 coloured plates, Chinese illustrated title & 3 letterpress pp.; silk-patterned boards with coloured & mounte

KAWASE -HASUI. The Japanese Dolls, Gosho-Ningyo. 24 coloured plates (within numbered paper mounts) & contained in the decorated & gilt-lettered colou

WALPOLE-BOND (J.) A History of Sussex Birds. First Edition, 3 vols. 53 coloured plates (by Philip Rickman); gilt-lettered buckram, roy. 8vo. 1938.

AUDUBON (J.J.) The Birds of America . . . Limited Facsimile Edition, 2 vols. a selection of 40 coloured plates, with new descriptions & some introd

SALTER (T.F.) The Angler's Guide, being a complete practical treatise on angling . . . 4th edition, with very considerable additions . . . 2 wood

OGILVIE-GRANT (W.R.) & Others. British Game Birds and Wildfowl. photogravure frontis., 26 coloured plates (by George Lodge), with captioned guards,

MISCELLANY - includes 'Vallance's' The Old Colleges of Oxford (1912, folio); Jekyll & Hussey's Garden Ornament (rev. edition 1927, folio); also an Oxf