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The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, in its various Branches and Progress.
London: Printed for B.R.L.W.H.C., 1681. SECOND EDITION. Crown Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xiv; 343. Recently respined using original brown calf boards. New brown calf spine with raised bands nad gilt titles to red calf label. Browning; prelims somewhat brittle. Black ink stamp of the American Congregational Association to title page... More
![Letters of Anton Tchekhov [Chekov] to his Family and Friends. With Biographical Sketch. Anton CHEKHOV, Constance GARNETT,](/pictures/thumb/49457.jpg?v=1510224698)
Letters of Anton Tchekhov [Chekov] to his Family and Friends. With Biographical Sketch.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1920. [Literary correspondence] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[ii]; 416. Elegantly bound in recent blue half morocco with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, matching cloth sides. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard, other photographic plates within. One or... More
My Early Life. Together with: Thoughts and Adventures.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930 and 1932. FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (24 x 16 x 9cm), pp.392; pp.320. Bound in publisher's pink and green cloth respectively, both with gilt titles to spines and upper cover, uniformly stamped in blind. Naval bookplate to first volume, discreet ink inscription to pastedown, some edge-toning, bindings... More
![Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae [A Latin to English Phrasebook], tam accurate congestus, ut nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latine complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglice, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca: opera et industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi possint excerpere, et quam rationem secutus author sit in Vocabulorum interpretatione et dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur. Accessit Dictionarium Arium Historicum et poeticum propria vocabula Virorum, Mulierum, Sectarum, Populorum, Urbium, Montium, et caeterorum locorum complectens, et in his iucundissimas et omnium cognittione dignissimas historias. Thomas COOPER, c.](/pictures/thumb/49562.jpg?v=1510224702)
Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae [A Latin to English Phrasebook], tam accurate congestus, ut nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latine complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglice, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca: opera et industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi possint excerpere, et quam rationem secutus author sit in Vocabulorum interpretatione et dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur. Accessit Dictionarium Arium Historicum et poeticum propria vocabula Virorum, Mulierum, Sectarum, Populorum, Urbium, Montium, et caeterorum locorum complectens, et in his iucundissimas et omnium cognittione dignissimas historias.
London: [Henry Denham], 1584. SHAKESPEARE SOURCE BOOK, fourth and final edition. Quarto (31 x 22 x 10cm), unpaginated: about 2000 pages with signatures according to the English Short Title Catalogue, but lacking blanks at beginning and end. Latin words and phrases arranged alphabetically with English comments and translations appended in... More
![The Peerage of Ireland: or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them, their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Blazon, with their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentick Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. [Together with] The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by. Aaron CROSSLY, died 1725.](/pictures/thumb/49565.jpg?v=1510224702)
The Peerage of Ireland: or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them, their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Blazon, with their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentick Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. [Together with] The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by.
Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume, 1724 - 1725. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (32 x 21cm), pp.[16]; 260; [14]; 86; [10]. In recent brown speckled full panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blue ink library stamp to title page and... More
The Works of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman.
London: William Pickering, 1986-1989. [Science / Evolution] THE COMPLETE WORKS, Pickering Masters Series. Octavo, 29 volumes. Handsomely bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edges gilt. The complete works in 29 volumes edited by Paul H. Barrett and R.... More
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary 1859-1959.
London: John Murray, 1959. [Family history and retrospective]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.[2] 136 [4]. Filled with reproductions of black and white photographs, letters and other clippings. In publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine and silver family crest to upper board. Textured cream endpapers. With original... More
The Works of H. R. Haggard. Including: King Solomon's Mines, She, Montezuma's Daughter, The Spirit of Bambaste, Cleopatra, Alan Quatermain, The People of the Mist etc.
New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, n.d. [c.1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title page or... More
![Views in Kairo. [Illustrations of Cairo]. Robert HAY, Owen Browne CARTER, , artist, J. C. BOURNE, lithographer.](/pictures/thumb/49546.jpg?v=1510224701)
Views in Kairo. [Illustrations of Cairo].
London: Tilt and Bogue, n.d. [1840]. FINE LITHOGRAPHIC ALBUM. Elephant Folio (55 x 37cm). A complete collection of 29 fine lithographs with a decorative lithographic title page and a lithographic dedication plate. Each plate with a recent tissue guard. In recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to... More
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm. With 76 illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1933. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. Publisher's orange cloth hardcover, blocked in black, illustrated endpapers, blue topstain, in original dust-wrapper. Coloured frontispiece and full page and in text line drawings throughout. Some edge-spotting to heavy paper, sunned to spine beneath wrapper, some chips/loss to... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688.
London: Printed for Cadell and Davies [etc.], 1818. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, New Edition. In eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 cm). With a short account of the author's life by himself, and a letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan. In contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles to... More
![Spitfire Parade [Biggles at War]. Stories of Biggles in Wartime. Captain W. E. JOHNS.](/pictures/thumb/49496.jpg?v=1510224699)
Spitfire Parade [Biggles at War]. Stories of Biggles in Wartime.
Oxford University Press / London: Humphrey Milford 1941. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, printed on THICK PAPER. Octavo, pp.256, with colour frontispiece by Radcliffe Wilson, black and white illustrations within. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with text and decoration printed in black, top edge tinted blue, pictorial dust-jacket with original... More
The Rambler.
London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1750-1751. FIRST EDITION. Folio (31 x 21cm), 2 volumes, pp.[2]; 532; [2]; pp.533-1096. With the very rare First Issue of the Title-Page. A fine tall set with full margins containing 183 original bi-weekly sheets, from March 20, 1750 to December 17, 1751... More
The General History of Ireland.
London: Printed by J. Bettenham for B. Creake, 1723. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Folio, pp.[8], vi, xxiv, [10], 563, [3], 12. With a frontispiece copper engraving of King Brian Boru, a folding map of Ireland, a folding map of 'The Travels of the Scythians till they arrived in Ireland', 28... More
![The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. [Set of writings / novels / poems including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.]. KIPLING, Joseph Rudyard.](/pictures/thumb/48929.jpg?v=1510224383)
The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. [Set of writings / novels / poems including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1913-1938. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large 8vo. (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from... More
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, by G. Maspero. Volumes X, XI, and XII by S. Rapoport. Volume XIII by L. W. King and H. R. Hall. Edited by A.H. Sayce and Translated by L.M. McClure
London: The Grolier Society, 1903-1906. The Edition de Luxe, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 359. Complete in 13 volumes, large octavo. Containing over 1200 plates and illustrations, some plates in 2 states, including frontispieces, of which one is hand coloured. Bound in recent dark green half... More
![[Correspondence with the Duke of Marlborough concerning an affair between Edith Finch, Lady Aylesford, and George Spencer-Churchill, later the 8th Duke]. Robert Harding MILWARD, , Gerald LEACH, transcriber.](/pictures/thumb/49567.jpg?v=1510230275)
[Correspondence with the Duke of Marlborough concerning an affair between Edith Finch, Lady Aylesford, and George Spencer-Churchill, later the 8th Duke].
None. 1876-1890. ORIGINAL LEDGER WITH COPIED MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM THE DUKE'S BIRMINGHAM SOLICITOR. Quarto (29 x 24cm), with letters written in black ink to a single side of 214 numbered leaves, out of a total of 1000. Delicate leaves akin to tracing paper. In original tan half calf with dark... More
A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, K. B. etc. etc. etc. Authenticated by Official Papers and Original Letters.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1809. THIRD EDITION, First in octavo. Octavo, pp.[2]; xx; 388; 136; [2]. With two folding maps, each with hand-coloured marches and battle positions, as well as a large appendix with letters, etc. In later horizontal-grained brown calf boards, recently re-backed in brown calf with gilt... More
A Dictionary of Chemistry, Exhibiting the present State of the Theory and Practice of that Science, its Application to Natural Philosophy, the Processes of Manufactures, Metallurgy, and numerous other Arts dependant on the Properties and Habitudes of Bodies, in the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms. With a Considerable Number of Tables, Expressing the Elective Attractions, Specific Gravities, Comparative Heats, Component Parts, Combinations, and other Affections of the Objects of Chemical Research.
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Quarto, pp.viii, 576; pp.[2], 577-1132. With two plates showing various apparatus and two tables of useful Chemical symbols, at the rear of volume II. In contemporary full tree calf, recently re-backed with original spine leather pasted... More
i-contact.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 1998. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE being number 21 of just 100 copies, in full leather with additional mounted photo of Charlie Watts, signed by Mankowitz. Folio, pp.208. Masterprinted on 200gsm matt art paper with red acetate title-page and bound in rich black cloth, silk-screened in... More
![[On the Occasion of James Booth's Retirement from the Position of General Manager at the Co-operative Printing Society]. VARIOUS.](/pictures/thumb/49520.jpg?v=1510224700)
[On the Occasion of James Booth's Retirement from the Position of General Manager at the Co-operative Printing Society].
Manchester: The co-operative Printing Society, February 1923. [Manchester Printing and Binding History]. FINE ILLUMINATED DOCUMENT IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Two sheets of vellum hand-illuminated in red, blue, green and gilt, announcing the retirement of the General Manager, James Booth. A token of the high esteem in which he was... More
The History of Charles XII. King of Sweden.
London: Printed for Alexander Lyon, 1732. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6], 194; 185 [7]. With the errata page at rear. Recently re-backed using the original contemporary mottled calf boards with original spine leather pasted over new calf spine, to style. With raised bands and gilt titles... More
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Robert Ross.
New York City: Bigelow Brown and Company 1927. The Authorised Edition. 10 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece etching. Elegantly bound in red morocco ornately tooled in gilt, cloth sides ruled in gilt, top edge gilt with gilt-patterned endpapers. Some gentle aging; a clean, near fine set. Unusual to find in a vintage... More
The Cat and The Moon and Certain Poems
Dublin: The Cuala Press 1924. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author on the title page. Slim octavo, pp.[viii], blank; [viii]; 41; [1] blank; [1], imprint; [5], blank. Original oatmeal coloured cloth over pale blue paper boards, titled in black, paper label to spine, pale blue endpapers. Clean text, some offset... More
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