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Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, Fives. With Contributions by the Hon. A. Lyttelton, W.C. Marshall, Miss L. Dod, H.W.W. Wilberforce, H.F. Lawford, Spencer W. Gore, R.D. Sears and Herbert Chipp. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. [Racquet Sports] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 488. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
Swimming. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Swimming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 452. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and upper. Green..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1880. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition, twenty-second thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxii; 458. With a folding tree diagram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. An old paper repair to upper hinge, coloured to match. A 1cm tear..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1888. [Anthropology] SECOND EDITION, revised. The Twenty-first thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi; 693 [1]. Complete in one volume with occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dark brown endpapers. Repairs to split hinges. Binding quite weak, with a few gatherings a...... More
Gilbert & George: Moscow 1990.
Moscow: Central House of Artists, 1990. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 35cm), pp.121 [3]. A full colour catalogue of all 44 exhibits, printed on clay paper. All text in Russian. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George in red ink to first blank: 'For Michael and Miriam | love..... More
The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1871. [Fine Art] FINE COLOUR PLATES, a new edition. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[8] 286 [2]. With 26 fine colour-printed plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard, as well as 69 in-text woodcuts. Publisher's green cloth with elaborate gilt titles and decoration..... More
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation.
Pasadena, CA: Published by the Author, 1925. [Art and Politics] FIRST EDITION, paperback issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vi; 390 [2]. Publisher's plain paper covers, illustrated with G.F. Watt's 'Mammon' (1885). One of 4000 paperbacks printed. Gently toned throughout. Light rubbing and bumping to covers, with some creasing to spine..... More
The Art of Botanical Illustration. The New Naturalist Library 14.
London: Collins, 1950. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 304. With 47 colour plates, 32 black and white plates, and 75 in-text figures. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 21s. With a Collins..... More
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