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The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with heavy spotting to covers, and some light handling. Blue pencil 'IF' to front over. Very..... More
Athletics. With chapters on Athletics at school by W. Beach Thomas; Athletic Sports in America by C.H. Sherrill; A contribution on Paper-Chasing by W. Rye; and an Introduction by Sir Richard Webster, Q.C., M.P. (Lord Alverstone).
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. [Athletics] DELUXE NEW EDITION, a reissue. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 356 [4]. Publisher's navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards, with Duke of Beaufort's coat of arms stamped in gilt to upper. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed;..... More
Malebranch's Search After Truth. Or, a Treatise of the Nature of the Mind, and of its Management for avoiding Error in the Sciences. To which is Added, The Author's Defence against the Accusations of Monsieur de la Ville. Also The Life of Father Malebranch, of the Oratory at Paris: With an Account of his Works, and several particulars of his Controversie with Monsieur Arnaud Dr. of Sorbonne, and Monsieur Regis, Professor in Philosophy at Paris. Written by Monsieur Le Vasseur, lately come over from Paris.
London: Printed for J. Dunton and S. Manship, 1694 and 1695. [Philosophy and Theology] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[32] 224; 229-244; 241-271 [1]; 95 [1]; 96 [2]; pp.[16] 104; 129-312; 353-488; 737-820; [2] 23 [5]. Complete continuous text, despite the wild pagination..... More
The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927. [Fishing and Philosophy] FIRST DAGLISH-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.367 [1]. With sixteen wood engraved plates by Daglish, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Text reprinted from Major's edition of 1889. Publisher's oatmeal quarter cloth, with black titles to spine and cream..... More
The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and its Practical Application to Our Own Time.
Stratford, CT: John E. Edwards, 1971. [Anomalistic Psychology] LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 112 [2]. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to top edge, with a small mark where a label has been removed to fly-leaf..... More
A Plurality of Worlds.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. [Popular Science] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] x; 138 [6]. With fine colour-illustrated head pieces. Number 1556 of 1600 copies, including 1200 thus, and 400 for sale in the US by Random House. A fine letterpress printing on Van Gelder paper..... More
Swimming. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Swimming] LIMITED DELUXE LARGE PAPER EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[2] xviii; 486 [2]. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Number 50 of just 250 copies printed on large paper. Recently re-backed in..... More
A Picture History of the Motor Car. A Sundays Times Book Publication, complete in 20 volumes.
London: The Sundays Times, 1961. [Automotive History] COMPLETE SERIES. 20 small booklets (9 x 9cm), each containing a series of colour illustrations and short descriptions of automotive vehicles (not including trains), from the Cugnot of 1770, right to the time of publication, totalling nearly 600 individual profiles. All in matching..... More
Health Made Easy for the People; or, Physical Training, to make their lives, in this world, long and happy.
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
A Review of Aristotle's Sytem of Ethics. A Prelection Read before the Vice-Chancellor, and Council of the Senate, Feb. 16, 1867.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1867. [Philosophy Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 56 [2]. Contemporary brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; apricot endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. The lightest hint of spotting to blanks and..... More
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[Old Moore's Almanack] Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Almanack for the year of human redemption: 1810, 1811 and 1812. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as a Table of Terms and their Returns; the Full, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars; and Other Fixed Stars of Note; the Moon's Age; and a Tide Table fitted to the same; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon; Mutual Aspects; Monthly Observations; and many other Things useful and profitable, unto which are added, Astrological Observations on the Four Quarters of the Year; a remarkable Chronology; the Eclipses; and Other Matters both profitable and curious. Observations on the Weather and Weather Glasses, Rain, etc. and an Hieroglyphic adapted to the Times.
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, by William Thorne [etc.], 1810; 1811; 1812. [Almanacks] ORIGINAL ALMANACKS. Three editions bound together. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.3-48; pp.48; pp.48. Roughly bound in slightly later limp leather. 1812 lacks the title page, otherwise complete. Heavy cropping to right-hand margin of 1811, cutting..... More
Les Soirées du Père de Famille, ou, Conversations Familières d'un Pere avec ses Enfans, sur Plusieurs Sujets de Morale et d'Instruction. Ouvrage destiné aux Enfans, et dont le principal objet est de les corriger de leurs défauts; dans lequel on trouve les leçons sur plusieurs points importans d'etude, tels que l'Astronomie, l'Histoire, etc. etc., et un grand nombre d'anecdotes et de traits historiques.
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, Libraire, rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, hôtel de Cluny, 1822. [Morality and Pedagogy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.333 [1]. All text in French. With six of the eight copper engraved plates, including the frontispiece and decorated title page. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to..... More
The Thorough-Base Primer: Containing Explanations and Examples of the Rudiments of Harmony; with Fifty Exercises.
Boston, MA: James Loring, 1828. [Music] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 10cm), pp.138. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine, and pain pasteboards. Plain small bookplate to front pastedown. Black ink ownership to half-title. Light occasional spotting. Moderate wear to binding, with marks and stains..... More
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs. Four Corners Irregulars No. 6.
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. [Political Essay] LIMITED EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.[10] 90 [8]. One of just 600 copies finely printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Publisher's plain card boards with grey paper over. Black titles to spine, and red and black titles to upper. All..... More
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[Album of Cuttings from the Borders of Maps by John Speed].
no date [circa 1650 and 1833]. [Ethnographic Engravings] ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS. Small quarto notebook (25 x 20cm), unpaginated, featuring 179 individual cuttings mounted four per leaf. The album is undated, but the paper has a watermark stating 1833. Contemporary brown half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Generally quite clean internally..... More
Warhol: Red Books.
Göttingen: Steidl / Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2004. [Photography Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Twelve small ring-bound booklets, including one in black covers containing the introduction and index, and eleven containing reproductions of Warhol's photographs, all in red covers. All housed in a red box with white titles (9 x 17..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, Disposed into Classes of Different Sorts; with some Account of His Life.
London: Printed for William Bathoe, 1759. [Catalogue Raisonné] SECOND EDITION, revised. Small Quarto, pp.[6]; vi; 151; [5]. In contemporary brown mottled leather boards with gilt and blind ruled decoration, recently re-spined to style with brown mottled leather, raised bands and gilt titles to a green morocco label. Original marbled endpapers..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1909. [Anthropology] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xx; 1031 [5]. Publisher's mid green buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine, title panel and floral decoration stamped in dark green to upper. A few light marks to rear cover, spine age-toned. A very good copy indeed. The..... More
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