Established 1971

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971 as part of Harrington Brothers, in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. In 1997 the business moved to our present address in Kensington Church Street, where many of London's finest antique dealers can also be found.

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FIRST EDITION OF SMOLLETT'S TRANSLATION. 2 volumes; 4to (290 x 230mm). Bound in recent full speckled and panelled calf, red and black title labels, titled in gilt a handsome modern binding to style. Edges speckled red. Internally clean. Professional repair to margin of frontispiece Volume I, with some minor edgewear to prelims. Some isolated dampstaining to lower edge of a couple of pages of Volume I. Some very light marginal foxing. Errata leaf at end of Volume II. A clean and handsome set in an attractive binding. Illustrated with 28 fine, sharp, copper engraved plates by Ravenet, and Grignion from Hayman's designs. A lovely set of this superb production, Smollett's only illustrated quarto, and Hayman's best book according to Rothschild.

The History and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, Some Account of the Author's Life. By T. Smollett.
[HAYMAN] [SMOLLETT, T.] CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.

London: Printed for A. Millar, T. Osborn, &c., 1755., FIRST EDITION OF SMOLLETT'S TRANSLATION. 2 volumes; 4to (290 x 230mm). Bound in recent full speckled and panelled calf, red.. more

Price: £2,500.00

Complete in 7 volumes, superbly bound in recent full black oasis with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt to spines, gilt rule to boards, top edges gilt, marbled end papers. With frontispieces, black and white and coloured plates. The complete set of the posthumous Memorial Edition, edited and with introductions by Isabel Burton.

The Memorial Edition of the Works of. Containing: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; Vikram and the Vampire; First Footsteps in Africa.
BURTON, Captain Sir Richard F.

London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-94., Complete in 7 volumes, superbly bound in recent full black oasis with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt to spines,.. more

Price: £2,750.00

FIRST EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Large octavo (250 x 190mm) pp. xv, 298, [2 ads.] Original black buckram cloth over bevelled boards, silver titles to upper and spine, plain endpapers and top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 9 further full page plates on variously coloured papers and many illustrations throughout the text. But for a little rubbing and marking to boards, a fine copy and rare thus. Both the silver titles and top edge gilt are bright and fresh and the pages are clean, without writing or other marks and free from foxing. Pictorial bookplate (Michael S. Holowatay) to front pastedown. Waite's extensive exposition of ritual and ceremonial magic is a classic in its field and contains two parts: The Literature of Ceremonial Magic and The Complete Grimoire. It was the first major collection of occult philosophy compiled since Barrett's The Magus, published nearly a hundred years previously in 1801. Waite would go on to revise this work, publishing it in 1911 under the somewhat less alarming title of Ceremonial Magic. An excellent copy of a true occult classic.

The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy.
WAITE, A. E. (Arthur Edward).

London: George Redway, 1898., FIRST EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Large octavo (250 x 190mm) pp. xv, 298, [2 ads.] Original black buckram cloth over.. more

Price: £1,250.00

FIRST EDITION. Twelvemo pp. xi, [1], 480. Bound to style in recent full speckled calf, raised bands, gilt titles to red label with marbled endpapers. Numerous diagrams and tables within the text. Ink name (Captain MacDonald RN) to preface. Occasional pencil notes and one or two in pale red ink that has bled a little, though pages remain generally clean and in good order. Malham's first book on navigation and considerably rarer than his two volume Naval Gazateer of 1795. It is written as a dialogue between Tutor and Pupil and covers logarithms, geometry and plane trigonometry, sailing terms, dead reckoning, high waters, tides and trade winds, compass variations, finding latitude and longitude using celestial bodies etc. Book IV contains an example journal of a voyage from London to Madeira.

Navigation Made Easy and Familiar to the Most Common Capacity: or the Young Sailor's Sure Guide and Scholar's Best Instructor in the Art of Navigation. Comprehending Every Modern Improvement of Real Utility, and Divested of all extraneous Matter, not Imme
MALHAM, Rev. John.

London: Printed for S. Crowder, in Pater-Noster Row and B. C. Collins, in Salisbury., 1790., FIRST EDITION. Twelvemo pp. xi, [1], 480. Bound to style in recent full speckled calf, raised bands, gilt titles to.. more

Price: £750.00

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