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The Secret Adversary.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1922. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.312; [4], advertisements. Elegantly bound in dark green full oasis morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers. Internally clean, spine very lightly aged. A near fine copy in an..... More
Pigs Have Wings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. [Classic Humour] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 220 [4]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, pictorial dust-jacket by 'Sax' priced at 9/6. Contemporary ink ownership, jacket with a few small chips and rubs, some minor wrinkling to rear panel. Very good. Against a...... 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
The Experienced English House-keeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies House-keepers, Cooks, etc. Wrote purely from Practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as House-keeper. Consisting of near 800 Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print.
Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, for the Author, 1769. [English Cookery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] iv; 362; xii. SIGNED by the author (title page states all copies are to be signed) in black ink to p.1, complete with two folding plates showing a first and second..... More
The Lawson History of the America's Cup. A Record of Fifty Years.
Boston, MA: Thomas W. Lawson, 1902. [Sailing] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, number 2434 of 3000 copies thus, inscribed in black ink to the Ellenville Public Library. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.xv; 402. With 89 illustrated plates in colour and black and white, with captioned tissue-guards. Recently re-bound in navy full morocco..... More
I, Claudius. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Emperor of the Romans born B.C. 10 murdered and deified A.D. 54.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Roman Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.494. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, lower edge of text block untrimmed. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Aldridge, priced at 8s. Usual spotting to..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation. The Second, Concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy.
Oxford: [no publisher stated] 1687. [Theology] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes as one. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[26]; [8]; 104; pp.[4]; 39; [35]. Contemporary brown panelled calf, rebacked to style with raised bands and gilt titles. Small black ink 'R.H.' to top right corner of fly-leaf, denoting the initials Woodhead..... More
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