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Constable.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1905. [Artist Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 239 [3]. With 39 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and delicate panelled decoration..... More
The Household Narrative of Current Events, (for the Year 1851,) being a monthly supplement to Household Words, conducted by Charles Dickens.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 29th October 1851 to the 28th July 1852; from the 28th September 1852 to the 27th July 1853. [Current Affairs] FINELY BOUND ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENT. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] viii; 241-264; 25-168; 24; 217-280; 168; 265-280. Confusingly bound, with various sections completely out of order. Contemporary..... More
Lectures on the History of The Eastern Church, with an Introduction on the Study of Ecclesiastical History.
London: John Murray, 1876. [Ecclesiastical History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fifth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 437 [3]. With a coloured folding map to rear. In a fine full green morocco binding bearing the arms of both Winchester College and the Baron Saye and Sele, stamped in gilt to..... More
The Zulu War: Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift. Great Battles of History Series.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. [Colonial Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 210 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates, and three maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Brian Keogh, priced at 21s. Spotting to..... More
The Roman Poets of The Republic.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1889. [Latin Literature] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the Third Edition, revised. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 474 [2]. Contemporary black full calf by RELFE BROS of London for Huddersfield College School, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to spine, and the..... More
Gems, Principally from the Antique,
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. [Ancient Cameos] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 52 [2]. With 21 etchings by Dagley, including a frontispiece, and an appendix at rear giving details of each gem. Contemporary tan half calf by BIRDSALL & SON of Northampton, with gilt titles..... More
Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
London: Collins, 1938. [Colonial Wars] NEW EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 262 [2]. With three colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with navy titles to spine, and a navy stamp in the shape of Africa to upper. Top edge blue. With the red illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting to..... More
A History of Greece, from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. The Student's Greece.
London: John Murray, 1869. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 626 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration to spine, raised bands, and marbled paper over boards. All edges..... More
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Discorsi del 1925. [Speeches of 1925].
Milano: Casa Editrice "Alpes," 1926. [Fascist Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.281 [7]. All text in Italian. Publisher's white paper covers, titled in black and red, with a gilt illustration to upper. All edges untrimmed; substantially unopened. Heavily browned throughout to low grade paper. Moderate rubbing to covers..... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation Postmaster. The Untold Top Secret Story.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. [Ian Fleming / James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 255 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. A fine, as-new copy. The history of a recently unclassified sabotage operation performed with..... More
Eight Years in Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor, from 1842 to 1850.
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. [Near Eastern Travel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the Second Edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 316; pp.iii-x; 307 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume; bound without half-titles. Contemporary green full calf for Bray Collegiate School, with gilt titles to..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782; 1787; 1787; 1788; 1788; 1788. [Late Antiquity] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, first three volumes New Edition, final three volumes First Edition. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12]..... More
Marlborough. His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1933-1938. [Biography/History] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, the first volume SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. Octavo (24 x 17 x 22cm), pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1]. With 325 illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, black..... More
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793: Containing a General View of the Valuable Productions and the Political Importance of this Flourishing Kingdom; and also of such European Settlements as were Visited on the Voyage: with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhabitants. To which is Annexed and Account of a Journey, made in the Years 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation, being the Remotest Point in the Interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto Penetrated. The Facts and Descritions taken from a Manuscript Journal with a Chart of the Route. Illustrated and Embellished with several Engravings by Medland, Coloured after the Original Drawings by Mr. Alexander and Mr. Daniell.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[2] xx; 447 [3]. With 21 coloured engraved plates, some folding. Bound without the half-title. Contemporary brown mottled calf boards with panelled decoration in gilt, carefully respined in the later nineteenth century in matching..... More
Peeps at History: Ireland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [Ireland] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 92. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in navy, not priced. Heavy..... More
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf.
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1985. [Literary Letters] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.448. Publisher's white quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, white paper over boards, and brown endpapers. Top edge brown; fore-edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $17.95. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown..... More
The Beatles. The Authorised Biography.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. With four suites of four black and white photographic plates. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the laminated psychedelic jacket designed by Alan Aldridge, with printed price of 30s net. Heavy wear to jacket, with..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
The Jews Under Roman Rule.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Ancient History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxx; 426 [4]. With 62 maps and illustrations, including a folding map of Palestine. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Tonbridge School, with gilt titles to brown label and..... More
Battles of the British Army, being a continuous history of Its Services, its Defeats and its Victories from the Earliest Times.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. [Military History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 528 [2]. With occasional engraved plates by Caton Woodville, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration to..... More
A Life Drawing.
London: The Bodley Head, 2002. [Artist Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.208. Heavily illustrated by the author in colour throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated green endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. Light rubbing and bumping to outer edges, with..... More
Helen Oxenbury: a life in illustration.
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. [Political Pamphlet] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.24. Publisher's grey paper covers, priced at 1s. The lightest of handling to edges. A crisp, fine copy. The poet questions why the Ottoman suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 had received such widespread condemnation..... More
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