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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3 volumes, Folio. With 80 fine plates, 70 of which are hand-coloured and illuminated in gold and silver; also 27 fine hand-coloured historiated initials. Each volume with half-title, engraved title and full title. Beautifully bound in dark brown half crushed morocco with gilt titles and blind tooling to spines, marbled boards and edges. A superb set.

A Critical Inquiry into Antient [Ancient] Armour, as it Existed in Europe, but Particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II, with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages.
MEYRICK, Samuel Rush.

London: For Robert Jennings, 1824., 3 volumes, Folio. With 80 fine plates, 70 of which are hand-coloured and illuminated in gold and silver; also 27.. more

Price: £3,500.00

Fourth Edition. 4to. Bound in recent full panelled calf with red title label. Very handsome. Internally uniformally toned throughout, with neat marginal notes in what appears to be some sort of shorthand. Perhaps a little tired internally but nevertheless a respectable and durable copy. Marginal wear to frontispiece and prelims. The penultimate lifetime edition with additions and revisions by Locke, a new chapter on the association of ideas and a chapter on Enthusiasm appear here for the first time. Often regarded as the birthplace of experimental psychology, this is an important and influential work in an attractive modern binding.

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.
LOCKE, John.

London; Awnsham and John Churchil at The Black Swan. 1700, Fourth Edition. 4to. Bound in recent full panelled calf with red title label. Very handsome. Internally uniformally toned throughout, with.. more

Price: £1,500.00

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

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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