"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Illustrated & Plate Books
The Microscope, and its Revelations.
London: John Churchill, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xx, 778 [2]. With 345 wood engraved diagrams. In publisher's blind-tooled cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Slight reading lean and a little external wear; very good indeed. A popular early manual on the use of the microscope, by..... More
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Alice I Underlandet. [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland].
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1966. FIRST JANSSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo, pp.112. All text in Swedish. With frequent illustrations by Tove Jansson, some full page, including 11 in colour. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original colour-illustrated cream dust-jacket. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly browned; near-fine. The elegant..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. Very clean within; one small tear and brown mark to foot of spine. A near fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. A fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by the much-loved and award-winning creator of the Moomins. More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. First Nonesuch Press edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 1165; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge red. With occasional in-text illustrations. Textblock a little toned, edges a little more so, else a fine..... More
Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What She Found There.
London: Walker Books, 2005. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.226 [2]. Sumptuously illustrated in colour by Oxenbury. Number 528 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to limitation bookplate on flyleaf. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with white titles to spine, illustrated paper-covered boards..... More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: John F. Shaw and Co., no date [circa 1933]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SEXTON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. With eight chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece, 23 full page wood engravings, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Some spotting to preliminaries..... More
The Nursery Alice.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. [Children's illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[viii]; 56; [1], blank; [3], An Easter Greeting; [1], Christmas Greetings; [2], ads; [1], Specimen Page. Priced at Four Shillings. With twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice in Wonderland. Handsomely bound in deep red..... More
Victorian Fiction. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Abermarle Street, London, Janurary to February 1947.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiii, 50. With 16 b/w photographic plates detailing some of the highlights of the exhibition. With Foreword and Introduction by Carter and Sadleir. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pink pictorial dust jacket. Chipping and closed tears..... More
Our Sentimental Garden.
London: William Heinemann, 1914. First Robinson Illustrated Edition. Quarto. Bound in recent half brown morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers, front board and spine of publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt titles bound in at rear. 8 full page colour illustrations..... More
The Garter Town.
London: The Fortune Press, no date [1953]. [Topographical Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. With eight illustrations by Gurney. INSCRIBED in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To the Rt Hon. C.R. attlee | with the author's compliments. | 2/1/54.' With Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate..... More
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BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament.
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W. H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie.
London: George Virtue, 1842. [British Coastal Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. In two volumes. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 96 of the original 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title page vignettes after various artists, engraved by the Finden brothers and Bartlett. One leaf of text faces each engraving, to..... More
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: Bell and Daldy, n.d. (ca.1880). FINELY BOUND. Six volumes, octavo (17 x 11 x 13cm). New and Revised edition of the Aldine Poets, with a memoir by Sir Harry Nicolas. Original red calf, twin title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. School prize label to pastedown..... More
The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa.
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More
Studies in Terrestrial Magnetism.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First printing of a collection of the main results of Chree's works on Terrestrial Magnetism up to 1912, with several charts and diagrams. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and embossed to upper. A superb copy of a rare book..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
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S.O.S. [in] Christmas Pie Magazine.
London: Odhams Press, 1939. [Short Stories] EARLY MAGAZINE APPEARANCE. A4 magazine (29 x 22cm), pp.104. Illustrated throughout in photogravure, with illustrations for the Christie story by Colin Orme. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled to spine. Light browning to edges. Staples oxidising; some rubbing to edges and spine. Very good. An..... More
On the Theory and Practice of Midwifery.
London: Henry Renshaw, 1855. [Obstetrics] THIRD EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.ii-xvi; 667 [5]. Lacking the half-title. With 119 in-text wood engravings. Recently rebound in brown buckram with the original gilt and blind-decorated cloth laid over boards and spine. New endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Occasional moderate spotting; lightly browned..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Attractively bound in navy half morocco with matching cloth over boards, red..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Attractively bound in burgundy half morocco with matching cloth over boards, blue..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Recently bound in navy half calf with matching cloth over boards, red..... More
Landscape into Art.
London: John Murray, 1949. [Landscape Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 148. With 52 double-sided half-tone plates at rear. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Graham Sutherland, priced at 25s. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Slightly short jacket toned to..... More
The Marching Wind.
London: Hutchinson, 1955. [Tibet Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.347 [3]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, a frontispiece, and five maps. Publisher's lilac cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Michael Rose, priced at 21s. Small blue ink..... More
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale and Co., no date [1919]. [Hops and Agriculture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 120. With 30 illustrations, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with gilt titles and price of 10/6 to spine. A presentation copy with the plate of W.H. and H. Le May, London Hop..... More