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A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads: Intended as an Essay towards Reducing our Biography to System, and a Help to the Knowledge of Portraits: Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons, not to be found in any other Biographical Work. With a Preface, Shewing the Utility of a Collection of Engraved Portraits to Supply the Defect, and Answer the Various Purposes, of Medals.
London: Printed for William Baynes and Son, 1824. [English Biography] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 13cm), pp.[6] xxviii; 364 [2]; pp.[4] 387 [3]; pp.[4] 367 [3]; pp.[4] 231 [3]; pp.[4] 404 [2]; pp.[4] 281 [3]. Contemporary tan full calf, with slightly..... More
A Picture History of the Motor Car. A Sundays Times Book Publication, complete in 20 volumes.
London: The Sundays Times, 1961. [Automotive History] COMPLETE SERIES. 20 small booklets (9 x 9cm), each containing a series of colour illustrations and short descriptions of automotive vehicles (not including trains), from the Cugnot of 1770, right to the time of publication, totalling nearly 600 individual profiles. All in matching..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Children's Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, second issue. Square octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.xii; 209 [19]. With 26 illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. The second issue, showing J.J. Little on the copyright page. In a very fine binding of green full morocco, with..... More
Hours of Idleness: A Series of Poems, Original and Illustrated.
London: Printed for W.T. Sherwin, 1820. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND, the sixth edition overall, and the first authorised edition. Duodecimo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 160 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece after J. Halsted. Also with the misprint 'lngth' for 'length' on line 1 of p.160. In an exceptional late..... More
Moonraker.
London: The Folio Society, 2017. [James Bond] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 243 [3]. With seven colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: The Folio Society, 2020. [James Bond] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 154 [2]. With seven colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper..... More
Literary and Characteristical Lives of John Gregory, M.D., Henry Home, Lord Kame, David Hume, Esq., and Adam Smith, L.L.D. To which are added a Dissertation on Public Spirit; and Three Essays.
Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by Alex. Smellie, [etc.] 1800. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 450 [2]. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to red label, gilt ruling, blind tooling to spine and corners, and grey-brown paper over boards. All edges speckled brown. Small yellow..... More
Health Made Easy for the People; or, Physical Training, to make their lives, in this world, long and happy.
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
Albyn, or, Scotland and the Future.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1927. [Scottish Nationalism] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.95 [21]. Publisher's burgundy paper-covered boards, with printed paper title labels to spine and upper. Some toning to endpapers. Spine toned, with fairly heavy rubbing to joints and board edges. Very good. A...... More
Dr. No.
London: The Folio Society, 2017. [James Bond] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 239 [7]. With seven colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper..... More
From Russia With Love.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [James Bond] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 259 [1]. With seven colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper..... More
The Missing Diplomats.
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.50; [1], blank; [1], imprint. Bound in stiff white card covers with title label to upper, yellow dust-wrapper printed in red and black. Slightly dusty and toned jacket. Fine. Contemporary account of the 'Cambridge Spies', published by..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1870]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary burgundy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper..... More
A Review of Aristotle's Sytem of Ethics. A Prelection Read before the Vice-Chancellor, and Council of the Senate, Feb. 16, 1867.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1867. [Philosophy Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 56 [2]. Contemporary brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; apricot endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. The lightest hint of spotting to blanks and..... More
![Old Moore's Almanack] Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Almanack for the year of human redemption: 1810,...](/pictures/thumb/59164.jpg?v=1617209046)
[Old Moore's Almanack] Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Almanack for the year of human redemption: 1810, 1811 and 1812. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as a Table of Terms and their Returns; the Full, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars; and Other Fixed Stars of Note; the Moon's Age; and a Tide Table fitted to the same; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon; Mutual Aspects; Monthly Observations; and many other Things useful and profitable, unto which are added, Astrological Observations on the Four Quarters of the Year; a remarkable Chronology; the Eclipses; and Other Matters both profitable and curious. Observations on the Weather and Weather Glasses, Rain, etc. and an Hieroglyphic adapted to the Times.
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, by William Thorne [etc.], 1810; 1811; 1812. [Almanacks] ORIGINAL ALMANACKS. Three editions bound together. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.3-48; pp.48; pp.48. Roughly bound in slightly later limp leather. 1812 lacks the title page, otherwise complete. Heavy cropping to right-hand margin of 1811, cutting..... More
At the Sign of the Thistle. A Collection of Essays.
London: Stanley Nott, no date [1934]. [Literary and Political Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A little toned, with a light tobacco scent. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, with a...... More
Three Hymns to Lenin.
Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [Political Poetry] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Jacket spine toned and chipped; front cover also toned. Very good. Three related poems..... More
Three Hymns to Lenin.
Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [Political Poetry] SIGNED FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Jacket toned to spine..... More
Penny Wheep.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1926. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, second issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 90 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Edges toned and spotted, with a tobacco scent. Jacket faded to grey, with..... More
Sangschaw.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Edges toned, with a tobacco scent. Jacket faded to grey, with some toning to spine..... More
Song of the Seraphim.
London: Covent Garden Press in conjunction with INCA Books, no date [1973]. [Political Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 14cm), pp.[20]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue and black to upper. Light handling. A fine copy, almost as-new. MacDiarmid explores the..... More
James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007. A fictional biography by John Pearson.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973. [Fictional biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 317 [3]. Bound in recent black half calf with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge red. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new binding. Very..... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. With the original dust-jacket front cover and flap bound in at rear. Recently bound in black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels on spine, and matching..... More
Les Soirées du Père de Famille, ou, Conversations Familières d'un Pere avec ses Enfans, sur Plusieurs Sujets de Morale et d'Instruction. Ouvrage destiné aux Enfans, et dont le principal objet est de les corriger de leurs défauts; dans lequel on trouve les leçons sur plusieurs points importans d'etude, tels que l'Astronomie, l'Histoire, etc. etc., et un grand nombre d'anecdotes et de traits historiques.
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, Libraire, rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, hôtel de Cluny, 1822. [Morality and Pedagogy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.333 [1]. All text in French. With six of the eight copper engraved plates, including the frontispiece and decorated title page. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to..... More
![The Plays of William Shakspeare [Shakespeare], Accurately printed from the Text of the Corrected...](/pictures/thumb/59149.jpg?v=1617209045)
The Plays of William Shakspeare [Shakespeare], Accurately printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy left the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes. To which are prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of Shakspeare, by Mr. Rowe, and Dr. Johnson's Celebrated Preface to his Edition of Shakspeare, printed in 1765.
London: Printed for Otridge & Rackham, [etc.] 1824. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (18 x 11 x 27cm), pp.[10] xcii; 308 [2]; pp.[6] 328 [2]; pp.[6] 347 [3]; pp.[6] 323 [3]; pp.[6] 398 [2]; pp.[6] 302 [2]; pp.[6] 336 [2]; pp.[6] 399 [3]; pp.[6]..... More