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Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in England. Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British Government with notes by the artist and with an introduction by H.G. Wells.
London: William Heinemann, 1917. [War Art] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; with 51 black and white plates, each with an accompanying descriptive leaf. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with titles to plain cream label on spine and illustrated label over upper board. Offsetting to endpapers. Boards rubbed and..... More
The New Naturalist: Amphibians and Reptiles; a Natural History of the British Herpetofauna.
London: HarperCollins, 2000. [Natural History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.270. With diagrams and tables, and a suite of four double-sided colour plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Robert Gilmore, priced at £34.99. One large chip from lower left jacket spine..... More
The New Naturalist: Trees, Woods and Man.
London: Collins, 1970. [Natural History] REVISED EDITION, third overall. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With 12 double-sided plates, both colour and black and white. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at £2.25. Light spotting and browning to..... More
Thames and Tweed.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [1870]. [Fishing] FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Le Fanu. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 141; [19]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board, with further black decoration to borders. Advertisements to green coated endpapers. Armorial..... More
Hunting the Sea Otter.
London: Horace Cox, 1910. [Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 188. With eight half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, priced at 7/6. Light spotting and browning to endpapers. Upper board and spine bowed with some rubbing and a...... More
On Photography: A Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 1983.
New York, NY: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1983. [Photography and Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.29 [3]. With three in-text illustrations. Publisher's gently marbled soft covers with orange titles to upper. Rare. Very light rubbing to edges. Near Fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive..... More
On Living in a Revolution.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1944. [Essays on War and Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 196. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and yellow dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Light spotting to edges. Jacket with small chips and closed tears to edges. A bright..... More
The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book. Complete with "Appendix" and "Accompaniment" and all the Plates.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1895. FINELY BOUND, revised edition. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[4]; 440. With 122 facsimile engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Second title page reproduces that of the Third Edition (1802). In recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and burgundy cloth boards. Top..... More
The Palm Tree.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1864. [Palm Trees] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.448. With six colour plates by the author, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark pink cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; brown endpapers. Blue ink price to verso of..... More
Views of Labour and Gold.
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. [Political Economy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 190 [18]. Partly unopened (with some leaves roughly opened); yellow-coated endpapers. Publisher's binding of blind-decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, binding by Bone and Son, London. Leaves heavily worn and soiled, with damp..... More
The Conquest Of Space.
London: Hurst and Blackett, no date [1932]. [Space Flight] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.288. With four black and white plates, including a frontispiece, and six in-text illustrations. Recent black half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels on spine, and the original publisher's blue cloth..... More
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