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The New London Family Cook.
London: Albion Press, Printed for James Cundee, 1808. [Cookery]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.634. Full tan diced calf, respined to style with a red title label, marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and ten further plates. Textblock is nice and clean with just occasional light spotting, embossed library stamps to..... More
History of the French Revolution, and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event; From the commencement of Hostilities in 1792, to the Second Restoration of Louis XVIII. and the Deportation of Napoleon Buonaparte to the Island of St. Helena, including a complete account of the War between Great Britain and America; and the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, to which are appended Biographical Sketches of the Heroes of Waterloo, and other distinguished public characters. The whole compiled from official state-papers and other authentic sources; and embellished with a series of Equestrian Portraits, Historical Engravings, and coloured Maps.
London: printed for Thomas Kelly, 1817. [European History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] 732; pp.[2] 733-1441 [1]. With 61 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume I and eight coloured maps, some folding. Bound in highly attractive contemporary marbled calf, with gilt..... More
Harold Wilson: A Critical Biography.
London: Robert Hale, 1964. [Labour Party] HAROLD WILSON'S COPY WITH NOTES, a reprint. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. With six double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red photographic dust-jacket, priced at 21s. With four A5 note cards bearing Harold Wilson's..... More
The Story of The 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1920. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 226 [2]. With 20 black and white half-tone plates, a colour frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and a red and black device stamped to upper. Armorial..... More
Festivals and Songs of Ancient China.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932. [Chinese History] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 281 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink; others untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket, titled in green and priced at 18s to spine. Spotting to preliminary leaves..... More
Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
Bombay: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, August 1944. [Tiger hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 228. Maps to endpapers, and three black and white photographic plates. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles to spine. A small blue ink ownership to both sides of the flyleaf. Some light general..... More
A Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons. August 20th 1940.
Baynard Press, 1940. [Second World War] FIRST PRINTING. Slim pamphlet. pp.16. Grey card covers titled in dark red. Contents clean, covers archivally repaired with a new paper spine. Very good. A Statement of War Aims; this is the historic address given by Churchill to the Commons, which summarises the second..... More
A Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons. August 20th 1940.
Baynard Press, 1940. [Second World War] FIRST PRINTING. Slim pamphlet. pp.16. Grey card covers titled in dark red. Contents clean, covers lightly spotted, minor handling. A near fine example of this monumental speech. A Statement of War Aims; this is the historic address given by Churchill to the Commons, which..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in Vogue, with a list of the sixty orders of Prime Coves, the whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
Unwilling Passenger.
London: Faber & Faber, 1932. [Great War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.415 [1]. With occasional sketch-maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf, and a blue ink note in the same hand to p.141. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, and..... More
The War Speeches of the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, O.M., C.H., P.C., M.P.
London: Cassell and Company, 1951-1952. [Second World War Speeches] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, First Printings. Three volumes. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 483 [1]; pp.xvi; 560; pp.xvi; 578 [2]. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Each volume with the cream and pink dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Contents very..... More
Waterloo Letters. A Selection from Original and hitherto Unpublished Letters bearing on the Operations of the 16th, 17th, and 18th June, 1815, by Officers who served in the Campaign.
London: Cassell & Company, 1891. [Napoleonic Wars] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xvi; 415 [3]. With 10 folding maps and plans, and several other single page maps and in-text diagrams. Recent navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original pebble-grained black..... More
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign. Kept throughout the Campaign of 1815.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Napoleonic Wars] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xii; 369 [3]; pp.[4] viii; 347 [5]. Recently bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and the original regimental pebble-grained black cloth over..... More
The First British Rifle Corps.
London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1890. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.149 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth with silver titles to spine and upper. Black coated endpapers. Damp staining and wear to boards. Two ink ownerships to verso of flyleaf. Heavy toning to preliminaries, with a tear..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... More
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