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The Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. [French History] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[2] viii; 526 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 528 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait to each volume. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green..... More
The Middle Temple Bench Book. Being a Register of Benchers of the Middle Temple from the Earliest Records to the present time with Historical Introduction.
London: Printed at the Chancery Lane Press, and published by order of the Masters of the Bench, 1937. [Legal History and Biography] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.lviii; 368. With 14 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's green quarter straight-grained morocco, with gilt..... More
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, for 1852: comprising particulars of upwards of 100,000 individuals.
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. [Genealogy] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8] 989 [3]; pp.[4] 989-1673 [1]; 427 [3]. Including supplement to volume II. Small print in two columns, on thin paper. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to spine and dark..... More
The History of England, under the House of Tudor. Comprehending the Reigns of K. Henry VII. K. Henry VIII. K. Edward VI. Q. Mary, and Q. Elizabeth.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 402 [2]; pp.[2] iv; 403-739 [3]. With the half-title to volume I. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt..... More
The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
London: Printed for the Author, 1741. [Ancient History and Biography] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] xl [24]; 564; pp.[4] 591 [1]. With a copper engraved bust portrait of Cicero as a decorated title page to each volume, and occasional copper engraved head-pieces and decorated..... More
Bugles and a Tiger. A Personal Adventure.
London: Michael Joseph, 1956. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.335; [1]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates, occasional small illustrations and a map. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown and red illustrated dust-jacket titled in black and white, priced at 16s..... More
The County Companion, Diary, Statistical Chronicle, and Magisterial and Official Directory for 1887; Containing: the Calendar—Post Office Regulation—Names of British and Foreign Ambassadors—A Topographical, Geological, and Historical Description of the Counties of England and Wales, Supplemented by Electoral, Financial, Administrative, Police, Criminal, Agricultural, and General Statistics, and Comprising Useful Information respecting the Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessional and Lieutenancy Divisions, Prisons, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Asylums, Chambers of Agriculture and Commerce, Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities, School Boards, Burial Boards, Poor-Law Districts, and Militia and Volunteer Forces; also a County Magisterial Directory, a Table of Acts of the Parliamentary Session of 1885, and a reliable Government, Public Offices, Law, Parliamentary, Banking, and Insurance Guide.
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1887. [Country Almanac] ORIGINAL DIRECTORY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 586. Also with an unpaginated diary and cash account section towards rear, not filled out. Publisher's grain-effect cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges speckled red; advertisements to endpapers. Hinges split..... More
The Life of Nelson, The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, & Company, 1897. [Naval history] FINELY BOUND FIRST UK EDITION, bound from the American sheets. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 17 x 9cm), pp.[4] xxviii; 454 [4]; pp.[2] xx; 427 [7]. Illustrated with nineteen plates and twenty plans, including a frontispiece to each volume..... More
Marlborough. His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1933 - 1938. [Biography/History] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1]. With 325 illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, black and white plates, folding maps and battle plans, and facsimile documents. In publisher's..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. [Military history] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in navy blue half calf, with twin..... More
The Kinks All Day and All of the Night. Day-by-day concerts, recordings and broadcasts, 1961-1996.
San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books, 2004. [Pop Music] SIGNED BY THE KINKS. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.352. Illustrated with occasional black and white photographs. SIGNED by Ray Davies, Mick Avory, Jim Rodford, and Ian Gibbons in black and blue marker to inside front and rear covers. Publisher's photographic soft covers..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
The Makers of Modern Rome. In Four Books: I. Honourable Women not a few, II. The Popes who Made the Papacy, III. Lo Popolo: and the Tribune of the People, IV. The Popes who Made the City.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. [History and Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xx; 507 [1]. With 25 full page plates including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings, by Riviere and Pennell. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Light to moderate spotting throughout, and..... More
Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined: Preceded by Strictures on the Exclusionary System, as pursued in the National Society's Schools: Interspersed with Parallel Views of the English and Scottish Established and Non-Established Churches: and Concluding with Remedies Proposed for Abuses Indicated: and an Examination of the Parliamentary System of Church Reform lately pursued, and still pursuing: including the Proposed New Churches.
London: Effingham Wilson, Printed, 1817: Published, 1818. [Religion and Education] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lvi; ix-xliv; 248; 456. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label on spine, and original speckled calf boards. All edges speckled brown. Pencil notes to margin of..... More
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. [American Civil War] NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxviii; 447 [3]; pp.viii; 528 [2]. With 33 maps, including the large folding map of Virginia and Maryland at the rear of volume I, and two portraits of Stonewall Jackson, one..... More
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1905. [Naval History] FIRST UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 423 [1]; pp.xx; 456. With 27 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and 25 maps and battle plans. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines, and..... More
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
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
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
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
Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1921. [Travel and Diplomacy] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 215 [6]. With 29 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, and two maps bound in. Also with the two folding maps loose in pouch to rear. In..... More
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Chatham [and] Pitt. Twelve English Statesmen.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906 and 1907. [British Political Biography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, later impressions. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 239 [1]; pp.viii; 301 [3]. Contemporary burgundy full calf for Berkhamsted School, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt decoration..... More
The French Revolution: A History.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. [History and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Three volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv, 252; pp.iv; 260; pp.iv; 300 [2]. Contemporary red full calf for Clapham Middle School, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[6] xxxii; 462; lxxx [2]; pp.[6] 555 [3]; pp.[6] 622; lxii [2].With a total..... More
The Court of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Written by Sir Robert Nauton, under the title "Fragmenta Regalia." With considerable Biographical Additions by James Caulfield.
London: Printed and Sold by G. Smeeton, and J. Caulfield, 1814. [Elizabethan Biographies] NEW REVISED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] 127 [1]. With 18 of the 21 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Elizabeth I, but lacking Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Knowles, and Lord Brooke. Publisher's blue /..... More
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