The Arts & Sciences
Every Man is His Own Gardener; The Complete Gardener; Being a Gardener's Calendar and General Directory.
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1826. ENLARGED AND IMPROVED EDITION. Octavo, pp. 658, 10 of index. Frontispiece engraving. Brown cloth with paper label to spine, edges untrimmed. A revised edition edited by R. Forsyth. Some toning and spotting to the textblock, dustiness to edges. Bookplate to front pastedown, neat ownership..... More
Operamania.
Wimbledon: Vernon & Yates, no date [1966]. [Opera Appreciation] FIRST EDITION, with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the author. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[8] 92 [4]. With occasional black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's cyan paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Also with a...... More
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Second Edition, greatly enlarged.
London: Printed For William Tait, Edinburgh, and others 1830. Second edition "Corrected and Greatly Enlarged", in the original cloth, untrimmed (a tall copy with generous margins). 8vo. pp. xii, 563. complete with half-title. Bound in original dark green pebble-grain cloth with paper title label to spine (mostly chipped). Joints are..... More
Psycho-Analysis and Social Psychology.
London: Methuen & Co., 1936. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 207 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the peach typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 to the spine. Top edge brown. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Some toning and light spotting to edges, otherwise..... More
Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More
A history of drugs.
Basle: F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Co., 1971. [Drugs and Herbal Stimulants] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY, first edition. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket. A publisher's presentation copy, with a bookplate dedicated to Dr. M.J...... More
The Organ Mountain Range: Its History and Its Orchids.
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Scart, 2008. [Brazilian Botany] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.541 [3]. With 14 double-sided colour illustrated plates, including photographs by Izabel Moura Miller, drawings by Helmut Seehawer, as well as frequent in-text diagrams, photographs, and maps. Also with six colour botanical illustrations by..... More
An Epitome Of The Elementary Principles Of Mechanical Philosophy, Divested of mathematical demonstrations, comprehending the general properties of matter, mechanics, accoustics, pneumatics, hydrostatics, meteorology, hydraulics, and a copious account of the invention, progress, and present state of the steam engine, with many practical remarks on the construction of machinery.
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1830. Second Edition, Prize Binding. Octavo. Bound in full brown calf, with ruled gilt panelling and gilt crest of the University of Glasgow to boards, raised bands, gilt decoration and title label to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, board edges decorated with blind..... More
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
The Domes of Mars.
London: Burke, 1956. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamped Feb 1956 in faint black ink to fly-leaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy showing only a little light wear to the cloth. No jacket. Very good. The second..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers. Boards show light wear and some bowing. Very good. Following 'The Master of the Moon' (1952), this is the..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Toning to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean copy internally. Cloth shows moderate wear and some bumping. Heavy wear to jacket..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION, Publisher's File Copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With a 'Christy & Moore Ltd.' literary agents bookplate to fly-leaf, and a pencil note stating the publication date. Moderate toning to edges..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Tony Ashby | with best wishes from | Patrick Moore.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clothier..... More
Hokusai: One Hundred Poets.
London: Cassell, 1989. [Japanese Art] FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (26 x 36cm), pp.222 [2]. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £55. Some marks to edges and light general handling. Jacket moderately rubbed..... More
Television. To-Day and To-morrow
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons 1934. Demy octavo, pp.xxxii; 208; 24, advertisements. With 70 photographic plates and 56 illustrations. With a new preface to this [fourth] edition, and a foreword by John Logie Baird. Publisher's gilt-titles cloth in striking colour pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is near fine (slightly dusty); jacket..... More
An extra pair of hands: A story of caring, ageing & everyday acts of love.
London: Profile Books, 2021. [Old Age] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 193 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with metallic blue titles to spine, and blue endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99, showing a Waterstones 'Signed by..... More
L'Envers Du Theatre. Machines et Decorations.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1888. [Backstage Production] Third edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 294 [2]. All text in French. Illustrated by the author with 60 wood engravings of theatrical machinery. Contemporary brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and papier tourniquet over boards..... More
Zoological Sketches: Consisting of Descriptions and Engravings of One Hundred and Eighty-Six Animals.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1859. [Zoology] RARE, a New Edition with Additions. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.vi; 346 [2]. With an in-text wood engraving of each animal by Whimper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt bison stamped to upper, and blind decoration to boards..... More
[Materia Medica] Medicines, Their Uses and Mode of Administration. A Complete Conspectus of the Three British Pharmacopoeias, an Account of all the New remedies, and an Appendix of Formulae.
Dublin: J. Fannin and Co., 1844. [Medical science] REBOUND RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[XXXVI] 432. Tan half calf with marbled paper over boards and black rulings to tan borders. Black tooling, gilt titles, and label in black morocco to spine. Raised bands. Binder's label to rear paste-down..... More
The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. FINE ENGRAVINGS. In six volumes. Octavo. With about 150 fine copper engravings. In contemporary brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and marbled boards and endpapers. Lacking the following plates to volume II: Conics IV and V; Misc. IV. Lacking..... More
The English Sense of Humour. An Essay.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1946. [Essay on Humour] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 70 [6]. Number 202 of 550 copies thus, letterpress printed on handmade paper by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. All edges..... More
Modern Nature. The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany.
Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. [History of science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 423; [1]. Publisher's khaki cloth, titles in brown to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine. More
The Flying Wasp. A Laughing Look-Over of what has been said about the Things of the Theatre by the English Dramatic Critics, with many Merry and Amusing Comments thereon, with some shrewd remarks by the author on the Wise, Delicious, and Dignified tendencies in the Theatre of To-Day.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1937. [Theatre Criticism] FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris Alexander Knox. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 201 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to a silver backing square on spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Black ink ownership of..... More
The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré. Containing the Voyages made into Divers Places with many of his writings upon Surgery, Edited and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.
London: Falcon Educational Books, 1951. [Medicine] FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR, with a manuscript letter. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 227 [1]. With four wood-engraved portraits of Pare, including a frontispiece, a vignette 'Wound Man' to the title page, and several in-text woodcut illustrations. INSCRIBED by the editor in..... More