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Two round white cotton mats with silk fringes (190mm in diameter). In the centre of each mat is a drawing. The first shows a simian, heavily bearded man carrying a large folio volume under his arm and removing his top hat. The frame around the image is in the form of a heraldic garter on which is written "A specimen of the Darwinian race". The other mat has a drawing of a naval officer (in contemporary tail-coat) standing in front of a shaving mirror brandishing a cut-throat razor. Written on the garter is "A native trimming his beard".

n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century].An album of hand-drawn maps with handwritten notes in an attractive italic. 230x180mm. Unpaginated, 137 pages of maps (84 maps) and text: pp. 89, 24bl, 48 (including 4 blank pages), 14bl. The maps are beautifully drawn in pen and ink with borders in coloured ink and watercolour. Tan half calf, rebacked and corners repaired, eighteenth-century marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt "Maps J:R". Some scuffing and staining to the boards. A repair tear to the first page of text but otherwise in very good condition throughout.

n.p. . n.d. [c1970].Two volumes. 254x202mm. pp. 7 [1bl], 42. 6 illustrations; 47 [1bl], 9 illustrations. Typed pages stapled at left edge with green card covers on the first volume and orange on the second. Some marks and toning on the covers and four of the leaves have been repaired with coloured tape at the edges. An utterly bizarre (and unrecorded) home-made production of which we have been unable to find another copy. At first sight, on encountering the photocopied illustrations, this would appear to be a fantasy work for rubber fetishists.

Norwich: Printed and sold by Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson. 1808.First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. [12], 117, [1bl], [7, 1bl], 4pp advertisements of books on farming tipped in. Original blue-grey boards, backed with white paper, original orange label to spine. Spine cracked and worn with loss of c45mm to lower part of spine and loss to label. Corners bumped and some soiling to the boards. Internally very good but with some foxing. Overall an excellent uncut copy in the original boards. A rare book, Worldcat locates eight copies worldwide and only one appears in the auction records.