"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
The Arts & Sciences
Handbook to the Tellurium.
Birmingham: Robert Hopper, no date [1879]. [Scientific Equipment] RARE HANDBOOK. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.30 [2]. With intext wood engraved diagrams. Publisher's purple cloth with a gilt illustration stamped to upper board. Light spotting and browning to preliminaries. Some neat black ink corrections to p.20 and p.24. Boards rubbed and..... More
Flowers in House and Garden.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1937. [Gardening, Flower-Arranging, and Interior Design] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xx; 179 [1]. With numerous black and white photographic plates, and a colour frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'To | Michael Barr | with thanks for..... More
Man and the Land. The New Naturalist Library 31.
London: Collins, 1955. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With 35 colour photographs, 46 black and white photographs, and 52 in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 25s. Heavy spotting to..... More
Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold From Alexander Teuxeira De Mattos's Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Illustrated by E. J. Detmold.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1921]. [Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm) pp.184, with 12 mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's gilt decorated white cloth. Toning to first and final leaf else clean within. Exterior fresh and bright showing only gentle use. A fine copy... More
The Sea Coast. The New Naturalist Library 25.
London: Collins, 1953. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xii; 276. With 10 colour photographs, 24 black and white photographs, and 52 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 25s. Printed ownership..... More
Wood Bending Handbook.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. [Craft and Construction] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (30 x 21cm), pp.[10] 110. With diagrams and black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown faux leather over boards, with lighter brown decoration to upper, and white titles to spine and upper. Priced at £1/15s or £1.75..... More
Grona Lund. Om Manniskor Pa Ett Nojesfalt.
Helsingborg: Fyra Forlaggare AB, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (29 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's white paper covered boards, printed in black. Introductory text in Swedish, followed by black and white photography. Internally fine. Some slight toning to binding, more so to the spine, some light rubbing to extremities and..... More
Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress.
London: Century, 2011. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xx; 363 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates; illustrated endpapers. With an associated Royal Academy bookmark. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. A fine, as-new copy. From the..... More
The Ornamental Designs of Chippendale from the Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director 1762.
London: Alec Tiranti. 1949. First Edition Thus. Octavo, pp. 24, 80 of plates, 1 of adverts. Black cloth covers with white titles to spine, in black and white pictorial dustwrapper. Some spotting to edges, slight dustiness to the top edge and top inch of boards and dustjacket. More
Some Nigerian Fertility Cults.
London: Humphrey Milford [Oxford University Press], 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 140. With 48 illustrations including a frontispiece, some on clay paper plates. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small illustrated bookplate of Adam A. Chalmers to front pastedown. Slight reading lean, otherwise very good indeed... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
Television for the Home. The Wonders of "Seeing by Wireless".
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d. [1927]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xx, 106. Publisher's light brown cloth with black titles to upper board and spine, gilt crest of Waid Academy Anstuther to upper as well. Eight black and white photographic plates. Waid Academy prize bookplate dated 1930 to front free endpaper, some..... More
The Relations of the Sexes.
Christchurch: The Free Age Press, 1901. [Letters and Diaries] FIRST THUS. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.80. Publisher's green paper covers, priced at 4d. Rubbing and toning to spine, with a 1cm loss to head. Very good. A series of extracts from Tolstoy's letters, diaries and unpublished MSS. More
The Principles of Great Circle and Composite Sailing; a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, December 1853. With observations made from more recent voyages. [and] Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and Determination of Azimuths.
Liverpool [and] London: Printed for Private Circulation [and] Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1855 [and] 1854. [Navigation] PRIVATELY PRINTED, with a fifth edition copy of 'Tables'. A Presentation copy to AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD. Two pamphlets bound as one. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 30; iii-viii; 67 [5]. With a...... More
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs. Four Corners Irregulars No. 6.
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. More
Faster Than Thought - A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953. [Technology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.416. Publisher's hardcovers in colour dust-wrapper. A fine copy of the book in an attractive jacket which is a little nicked and toned with some light soiling to rear panel; such reference works are often found..... More
The Fashionable Letter Writer; or, Art of Polite Correspondence. Consisting of Original Letters on every Occurrence in Life, written in a concise and familiar style, and adapted to both sexes. To which are added, complimentary cards, petitions, wills, bonds, etc.
London: Dean and Munday, and A.K. Newman, n.d. [c.1840]. EARLY EDITION in original publisher's boards. Sexto, pp.216. With a steel engraved frontispiece and decorated title page after drawings by H. Corbould, by H. Adlard. In original publisher's plain paper-covered boards with black titles to spine and upper board. Some outer..... More
British Plant Life. The New Naturalist Library 10.
London: Collins, 1948. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 315 [3]. With 53 colour photographs, 27 black and white photographs, and 10 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 21s. Light..... More
Heat. A Mode of Motion.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. Fifth Edition. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt titles and extra gilt to spine, embossed boards, all edges gilt. Prize binding with King's College, London, emblem stamped in gilt to upper and presentation slip dated 1876 to paste down. Folding plate and numerous illustrations..... More
A Handbook of Pictorial Art.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1875. [Draughtsmanship]. FINELY BOUND, Second Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 384 [2]. With 17 plates, some hand-coloured, including a frontispiece, and 24 further in-text illustrations. Contemporary brown full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, elaborate blind decoration to boards, and gilt VR monogram..... More
Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New-York, for the Year 1854.
Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and co., 1854. First Edition. Duodecimo. Bound in red morocco, foliate gilt panelling to boards, "R.F. Wilson" in gilt to front board, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt. Binding is rubbed, with some marks and tanning. Text is clean, though with..... More
The Heart of the Hunter.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. [Anthropology]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Maurice Wilson. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Maurice Wilson. Very occasional spotting, cloth slightly rubbed to extremities. Dust-jacket shows very well with slight rubbing at..... More
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[Review of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex in] The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: (No 273), July, 1871.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, and London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871. [Evolution] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.36 of advertisements; 16 of advertisements; ii; 302; [20 of advertisements]. Publisher blue printed wraps, yellow paper spine with cream paper title label. Partially unopened, some sporadic light spotting and..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
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[Contribute to] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume VI. - Part I.
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. [Americana] IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.xx; [4] contents; 190. Original grey paper covered boards, cream paper spine, with title label, edges untrimmed and some leaves unopened. Four engraved plates and numerous tables throughout. Small circle clipped from title page, perhaps removing an ownership..... More