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Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Flappers and Philosophers.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. [The jazz age]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 269; [1]. Smartly bound in recent green full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to spine, marbled endpapers. Paper stock slightly toned as often found, but clean. A very good copy in a smart..... More
The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. With the original green cloth cover and spine bound in at rear. Recent green full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and a gilt autograph stamped to upper board. Marbled endpapers; fore-edge..... More
Lectures on Sculpture. Delivered before The Royal Academy.
London, 1892. Prize-binding by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt; school name and recipient gilt-tooled to front board (this copy awarded by The Royal Academy of Arts, 1906). With engraved portrait frontispiece, and fifty three plates. A fine copy. More
Dr No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott. The first issue without the 'Dancing Lady' design on the upper board (present on the later issue). Book is clean and bright with some minor..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label on spine, and original publisher's burgundy cloth over boards, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in..... More
Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System.
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Roman History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second edition, probably a later printing. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 389 [3]. With 36 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece and several folding maps. Contemporary burgundy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green label..... More
The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church, Being a complete History of Martyrdom, from the Commencement of Christianity to the present Time. Revised and Improved.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1811. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Folio, pp.cviii, 692 [4]. With 62 copper engravings on 31 plates, being two more than called for in the binder's instructions. Also with copper engraved frontispiece and title page. In recent mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label..... More
Journal of the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and other Patented Inventions. Third Series. Vol. XXI, Whole No. Vol. LI [and] LII.
Philadelphia, PA: Published by the Franklin Institute, 1851. [Engineering Papers] ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 444; pp.[2]; 444; [4]. With numerous folding charts and diagrams. Later straight grained tan morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, as well..... More
Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied. For the Use of Colleges and Schools.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. FINE PRIZE BINDING, fourteenth edition. Octavo, pp.[2]; xii; 1115; [3]. With 9 colour plates including a frontispiece, and numerous futher in-text engraved illustrations. In contemporary aubergine full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and large gilt crest of King's College London to..... More
Cromwell's Place in History. Founded on Six Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. FINELY BOUND, FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.[10], 120 [2]. With a wood engraving of Oliver Cromwell loose to prelims. In contemporary brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Bookplate of Rangemore Hall, Staffordshire..... More
The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. [European History] PRIZE BINDING, Second Edition. Small octavo (15 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 233 [3]. With a coloured folding map of Germany as a frontispiece. Contemporary prize binding for the St. Clere Collegiate School, near Sevenoaks. Red full calf with gilt titles to black..... More
Cranford and Mary Barton.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 409 [3]. With three wood engravings by Hammond, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. A New Edition, with Additional Notes, by William Smith.
London: John Murray, 1862. [Late Antiquity] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 28cm). With a frontispiece etching of the author to volume I, and one or two folding maps to each volume. Slightly later black full morocco with gilt titles to spines and..... More
The World's Foundations, or, Geology for Beginners.
London: Seeley and Co., 1892. Octavo; fine prize binding for Aske's Hatcham School for Girls, 1894; full red calf-leather with gilt lettering / tooling and green title background; all edges marbled; inner dentelle and marbled endpapers; prize bookplate on front free endpaper; 16 illustrations; pp. xiv, 315; some slight wear..... More
Observations on the Coasts of Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty: made in the summer of the year 1774.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. [Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 135 [3]. With six lithographic illustrations. Contemporary full speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red and black labels, and further gilt decoration to spine. Armorial bookplate and..... More
The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive.
London: John Murray, 1861. [East India Company] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 314 [4]. Contemporary orange full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt and yellow coated endpapers. Black ink gift inscription related to Eton College to flyleaf, dated 1884..... More
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[Dead Souls] Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia.
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. [Russian Literature] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. In two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 308; pp.[8] 309-484 [6]. With occasional in-text chromolithographic illustrations by Lucille Corcos. Number 648 of 1200 copies SIGNED by the artist in red ink to the..... More
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The Works of Nikolay Gogol. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Including] Dead Souls; The Overcoat and Other Stories; Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka; Mirgorod; and The Government Inspector and Other Plays.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1922-28. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS OF THE GARNETT TRANSLATION. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 21cm). Elegantly hand-bound in blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, with raised bands and gilt titles to red labels on spines, top edges gilt. Occasional light marginal marks to 'The..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. [Illustrated Classic] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 305; [3]. With numerous wood engravings by Thomson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary lilac half calf by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine, and blue cloth over..... More
History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools.
London: Printed for J. Brambles [etc.], 1807. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo, pp. viii, 269 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the death of Alexander the Great. In contemporary half brown calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Lightly browned throughout; wear..... 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
Geography Anatomiz'd: or, the Geographical Grammar. Being a short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Modern geography, After a New and Curious Method. Comprehending I. A general View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a Compendious System of the true Fundamentals of Geography; Digested into various Definitions, Problems, Theorems, and Paradoxes; with a transient Survey of the Surface of the Earthly Ball, as it consists of Land and Water. II. A particular View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a clear and pleasant Prospect of all remarkable Countries upon the Face of the whole Earth; shewing their Situation, Extent, Division, Sub-division, Cities, Chief Towns, Name, Air, Soil, Commodities, Rarities, Archbishopricks, Arms, Religion. Collected from the best Authors, and illustrated with divers Maps.
London: Printed for A. Ward [etc.], 1744. [Maps]. FINELY BOUND, the Eighteenth Edition, corrected, with new maps. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[24]; 432. With 16 folding maps depicting most parts of the world known at that time. Contemporary brown calf, recently re-backed with original brown calf spine with gilt titles..... More
Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemonies and Corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
London: Van Voorst, 1860. [Marine Biology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xl; 362. With 12 very fine chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by W. Dickes. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Light yellow-coated endpapers. Some pencil notes, spotting and offsetting to verso of flyleaf and..... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More