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Roman Antiquities: Or, an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans; Respecting Their Government, Magistracy, Laws, Judicial Proceedings, Religion, Games, Military and Naval Affairs, Dress, Exercises, Baths, Marriages, Divorces, Funerals, Weights and Measures, Coins, Method of Writing, Houses, Gardens, Agriculture, Carriages, Public Buildings, etc. Designed Chiefly to Illustrate the Latin Classics, by Explaining Words and Phrases, From the Rites and Customs to Which They Refer.
London: Printed for Cadell and Davies; F.C. and J. Rivington; G. Wilkie etc., 1819. [Roman antiquity] FINE LEATHER BINDING, eighth edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 570. Dark brown half calf, marbled paper over boards. Brown label with gilt titles to spine, further gilt tooling also to spine. All edges..... More
Sketches in Portugal. During the Civil War of 1834.
London: James Cochrane and Co., 1835. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[ii]; xvi; illustrative plate of a map; 328; [2], blank. Fully bound in tan calf lettered in gilt to spine, embossed patterning to front and back boards, gilt ruling to boards, spine with raised bands and gilt..... More
Hunting the Sea Otter.
London: Horace Cox, 1910. [Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 188. With eight half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, priced at 7/6. Light spotting and browning to endpapers. Upper board and spine bowed with some rubbing and a...... More
Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, adapted for the General Reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. [South American Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.cxxiv; 707 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 782 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, being Zea and Bolivar respectively, and a large folding engraved map to volume I. Recently re-bound..... More
The Selected Poems of Roy Campbell.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxii; 131 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket, priced at £7.50. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Drift of Buddhism From India to the Mongols and Thibet.
London: Robert Banks and son, 1905. Octavo. Bound in paper covers; originally priced at 6d. With a coloured folding map showing the distribution of world religions. The paper cover is somewhat worn, with some small tears to joints, also somewhat tanned. Largely free from spotting, though with some rust spots..... More
In Gallant Company. [A Bolitho Novel].
London: Hutchinson, 1977. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.287; [1]. With maps to grey endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Chris Mayger, priced at £3.95. Spotting to edges. Some rubbing to cloth and some light bruising to jacket edges..... More
The Inshore Squadron. [A Bolitho novel].
London: Hutchinson, 1978. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Maps to light blue endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. A crisp, clean copy, in a price-clipped jacket, a little sunned to spine. Very good. September 1800: Richard..... More
The Only Victor.
London: Heinemann, 1990. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £13.95. Some browning and spotting to edges, otherwise a bright, clean copy. Very good. More
A Tradition of Victory.
London: Hutchinson, 1981. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.296. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Mayger. Discreet Harrods library blind stamp to rear pastedown. Some spotting to edges, slightly handled with some bumping to corners and spine..... More
Command a King's Ship.
London: Hutchinson, 1973. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £2.50. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper, with promotional bookmark. A further instalment in the brilliantly expert Bolitho series. March 1784: Bolitho, new captain of His Majesty's..... More
Sloop Of War.
London: Hutchinson, 1977. [Naval Adventure] INSCRIBED COPY, the third impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Donald James – | with best wishes | Alexander Kent.' Publisher's maroon cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and maps to grey endpapers..... More
Mister Babadook.
St Surry Hills, NSW: Causeway Films, printed by Insight Editions, 2016. [Horror Film Pop-Up] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (33x 26cm), pp.[54]. A hand-made pop-up book, illustrated throughout in black and white. One of 5000 copies thus, SIGNED by the Director, Jennifer Kent, in black marker to the limitation plate at..... More
Shigurf Namah-i-Velaët, or, Excellent Intelligence Concerning Europe: Being the Travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France.
London: Published for John Taylor, 1827. [Middle Eastern and European Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 233 [3]. Advertisements at rear dated June 1827. With a colour frontispiece engraved by R.J. Laine and printed by C. Hullmandel. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles and ruling to spine..... More
William Plomer A Biography.
Oxford: OUP, 1989. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.397; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, illustrated dust-jacket priced £25. A clean, fine copy. William Plomer CBE, was a close friend of Ian Fleming, his trusted Editor-in-chief, the dedicatee of the novel Goldfinger, and the very first..... More
The Town Council Seals of Scotland: Historical, Legendary and Heraldic.
Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1906. [Scottish History, Topography and Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.xii; 300. With an illustration of each seal. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device stamped to upper. All edges untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of William Wade Porteous..... More
The Seeker, and Other Poems; With In Parochiâ.
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg, Melbourne: S. Mullen, 1881. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 291 [1] 54 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title-page. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Errata slip to pg.iii. Grey endpapers. Lightly toned and spotted internally, especially..... More
William Shakespeare. The Complete Works. A new edition, edited with an introduction and glossary by Peter Alexander, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow.
London and Glasgow: Collins, 1954. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxxii; 1376. Recently rebound in red morocco, edges gilt ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Machine-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior bright and clean. Some faint scuffing to boards..... More
Paris and its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Two Hundred Picturesque Views, from Original Drawings, Taken Under the Direction of A. Pugin, Esq. the Engravings Executed Under the Superintendence of Mr. C. Heath. With Topographical and Historical Descriptions.
London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1831. [French Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[2] ii; 100; pp.[2] ii; 101-202. With 200 fine steel engravings after drawings by Pugin, and two steel engraved vignette title pages. Contemporary green half calf, green patterned cloth boards. Tidemark..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
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