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Notebooks 1914-1916. Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961. [Maths] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.131; [1] blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in printed dust-jacket. Owner name else a fine copy in a lightly used jacket with a few tiny nicks. More
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. [Maths] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.204. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in printed dust-jacket. Owner name to flyleaf other wise near fine, in used jacket with some chips and tears, spine sunned, some brittleness to same. Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in... More
Researches on Light. An Examination of All the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes Produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays; Embracing All the Known Photographic Processes, and New Discoveries in the Art.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 303; [32], catalogue dated April 1844. With folding chart as frontispiece, highlighted in colour, errata slip on p.v. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine, coated yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Light and occasional... More
Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. Derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an Inquiry How Far the Differences in the Languages of the Globe are Referrible to Causes now in Operation.
London: Samuel Clarke, 1843. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.lx; 103; [1]; 20, advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Bookplate of writer and illustrator Maud J. Vyse to pastedown. Some light spotting and toning. Occasional pen annotation. Residue where a label has been... More
Screencraft, or the Making of a Photoplay.
New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co., 1916. [Early Film-Making] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.151; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Simple typographic dust-jacket with titles and testimonials from well-wishing readers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Toned and a little dusty to edges. Light wear to... 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 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
A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General; with Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Railroads. Illustrated by Engravings.
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. [Railway History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[14]; 314. With five folding copper-engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original brown paper-covered boards, with a new brown paper-covered spine to style. Black titles to cream label on spine, with the date... More
Papers on Current Finance.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 280. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamps of the Swedish Bankers' Association to endpapers, lightly toned to edges. slight wear to the top and bottom of the binding. Near fine. More
The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East.
London: Printed for N. Newbury, 1762. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Foolscap octavo, pp.viii, 286 [2]; pp.[2], 238 [16]. In contemporary mottled calf boards, recently re-backed to style with raised bands and gilt titles to original red labels to spines. Armorial bookplates of the De Burghs, Earls of Clanricarde... More
The American Senator.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. First One-volume Edition. Bound in red cloth, with gilt titles and black-tooled decoration to spine, and decorative black-tooled panneling and titles to front board, edges untrimmed. Includes bookplate. A handsome copy. Binding in fine order, excepting slight bump to top of spine. Text is crisp... More
A Revision of The Treaty. Being a sequel to: The Economic Consequences of The Peace.
London, Macmillan. 1922. First Edition. 8vo.; 223pp. + 6pp. (ads). Bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt tiles to spine blind ruling to boards. Slight shelfwear to extremities, lightly bumped at head and tail of spine. Some spotting to fore-edge and offsetting to endpapers (as always). Internally clean, a tight and... More
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