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Francis Edwards - Hay-on-Wye

Francis Edwards InteriorFrancis Edwards Antiquarian Books, was established in 1855 in the West End of London. Now situated on the top floor of the world famous Hay Cinema Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, "The Town of Books", the Francis Edwards division occupies four show-rooms and has in stock over 3,000 volumes. Particular emphasis is on Travel, Natural History, Art & Architecture, History, Naval & Military, Literature and the Social Sciences.

Our recently extended London branch on the ground floor of Quinto Bookshop in Charing Cross Road has in excess of 5,000 volumes.

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Madoc Books - Llandudno

Madoc BooksMadoc Books is a family business firmly established in North Wales. We are Antiquarian Booksellers specialising in British Topography and Travel,  with an emphasis on Wales.

Additionally we have an impressive stock of Private Press books, many with Custom Bindings, along with Poetry and Theology. Books with a Celtic interest and Welsh language titles are always available. Madoc Books are keen to purchase individual books, small collections or large libraries and are pleased to give valuations for insurance & other purposes.

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Mostlymaps.com - Hay-on-Wye

Mostlymaps.comMostlymaps sells antique maps and prints to collectors all over the world. We have a 'real-world' gallery on Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye that was established in 1990. Customers come from far and wide to purchase maps from the gallery - and those that cannot travel in person buy securely online here at Mostlymaps.com!

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Featured books

kepler

Kepler’s Most Influential Work

£75,000 first edition, a fine copy, of the work which ‘ranks next to Ptolemy’s Almagest and Copernicus’ De revolutionibus... [It] is the first systematic complete presentation of astronomy to introduce the idea of modern celestial mechanics founded by Kepler’ (Caspar, Kepler, p 297)

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nationalhall

Olympia 2012. The ABA's London International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held in the superb National Hall at Olympia. The National Hall provides the Fair with much more space – both for circulation and more stands. ¶ Read more...

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Hilaire Belloc