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History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick The Great.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1890]. [History] FINELY BOUND. 10 volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 33cm). Illustrated with engravings. Elegant full royal blue morocco prize bindings for The Law Society, with full gilt backs, gilt crest to upper, swirl marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 'Honorary Distinction' certificate... More
Kennedy's Messages 1963. Edited, with a Foreword by Edwin Reischauer.
[Japan], 1963. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.155. With three black and white photographic plates [JFK, 88th Congress and Ambassador Reischauer]. Text in English, followed by Japanese, each segment with separate title-page printed on green card. Bound in dark blue silk, blocked in silver-gilt to spine and upper... More
War in the Midst of America. From a New Point of View.
London: Ackermann and Co., No date [1864]. [Civil War Cartoon Strip] INSCRIBED EARLY STRIP-CARTOON, THE ONLY EDITION. Circa 130 caricatures on 20 numbered folding panels, totalling about 36ft. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the second panel: 'R.G. Parnell, Esq. | from the author, | C.D.' All folded... More
A Chronicle of England, B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485. Written and Illustrated by James E. Doyle, The Designs Engraved and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. [British History] FINE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[4]; viii; 462; [2]. With 81 wood engravings printed in colour depicting medieval pageantry. Contemporary red full morocco by Hayes of Oxford with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and extensive... More
Burmese Days.
New York, NY: Harper and Bros., 1934. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vi;371; [3], blank. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black to spine and upper, floral patterned endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, page edges toned, short tear and small ink number... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [First World War] LEATHERBOUND FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.672. With 54 illustrated plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Handsomely bound in recent half brown morocco leather with raised bands, navy morocco title... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291;[1]. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge dark brown. Typographic dust-jacket with titles in black to spine and upper, showing printed... More
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of making it a Benefit to the World. To which is added, a Letter from M. Turgot, late Comptroller-General if the Finances of France: with An Appendix, containing a Translation of the Will of M. Fortune Ricard, lately published in France.
London: T. Cadell, 1785. [Political Philosophy] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 156 [4]. Recent speckled calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Library stamp to p.1, title page washed, some annotation to p.153. Some toning and spotting to textblock. Very good. A.... More
A Treatise On Money. In Two Volumes.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvii; [1]; 361; [1]; pp.viii; 424. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine. Ownership inscription of Bentley Bridgewater to flyleaf of volume I, some quite extensive pencil annotations to same, ink note to flyleaf and annotation... More
The Wilderness of Zin. With a Chapter on Greek Inscriptions by M.N.Tod. Introduction by Sir Frederic Kenyon.
New York: Scribner (using the Cape sheets printed in Great Britain), 1936. First regularly-published edition, US issue, preceeded only by the scarce printing by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, which was solely obtained through their offices. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.166. Illustrated throughout with a plethora of photographs... More
American Speeches. With a Foreword by the American Ambassador Charles G. Dawes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. [Politics]. FINELY BOUND PRESENTATION COPY. First edition, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157; [3]. Signed and inscribed to the first blank "With best wishes for success | Ramsay MacDonald| 18/11/33.". Finely bound by Bain of London in red full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine... 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
The Road to Wigan Pier.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.viii; 264. With 32 black and white photographic plates. Not including the foreword, which appeared in the first Left Book Club edition. In publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original light yellow dust-jacket with titles to... More
The Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies Reviewed; the several pleas of the Colonies, in Support of their Right to all the Liberties and Privileges of British Subjects, and to Exemption from the Legislative Authority of Parliament, Stated and Considered; and the Nature of their connection with, and Dependence on, Great Britain, shewn, upon the evidence of Historical Facts and Authentic Records.
London: Printed for J. Almon, 1769. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4], 207 [1], lv [1]. Variant 3, without half-title or errata page, but with uncorrected pagination. With a large appendix containing extracts from the printed journals of the Houses of Parliament, as well as colonial seats of government. In later tree... More
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