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— Franz Kafka
Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell.
London: Shakespeare Printing Office, 1804. FINE BEWICK ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxvii, 68. With five full page woodcuts and numerous vignettes by Thomas and John Bewick. Elegantly bound in later red half Morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to spine. Speckled edges. Some occasional light spotting, some near..... More
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. The Globe Edition, with Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Literary Works]. FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] lxii; 695 [3]. With a wood engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco by BICKERS for Ladies' College Guernsey, with raised bands, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spine, and large armorial gilt stamp of..... 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
A Pictorial History of America: Embracing both the Northern and Southern Portions of the New World. From 'A Pictorial History of the Western World'.
New York, NY: N. Watson, 1854. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.855; [1]; 48; [4]. With a frontispiece mezzotint and decorated title page, as well as frequent in-text wood engravings. In contemporary brown full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and elaborate blind decoration to boards. Marbled edges and endpapers..... 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
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
Cassell's Illustrated History of India.
London: Cassell and Company, 1890. [Colonial History] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.x; 576; [2]; pp.xii; 588; [2]. Printed in two columns, and densely illustrated with engravings. Contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels on spine, and further gilt..... More
Candid Caddies.
London: Duckworth. 1935. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 120. Cream boards black and red decoration and titles, cream cloth spine with black titles, Some light spotting to prelims and to the edges, some dustiness to the top edge. Some light wear and marking to the boards, head and tail caps slightly..... More
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Illustrations in Colour by G.F. Nicholls.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. FINELY BOUND. Octavo. Text flanked within a pictorial background drawn in green; half-page colour illustrations tipped-in within a green decorative frame, legend printed in brown to foot of pages. A superb presentation of what is probably Gray's greatest masterpiece, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe..... More
Brewster's Millions
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. FINE PRIZE BINDING, later edition. Crown octavo (19 x 13 cm), pp.[2] xx; xvii-xix; [1], xxi-xlvii; [1], 872 [2]. With six coloured maps including a frontispiece, genealogical tables and an index. In contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green label on..... More
Trout Culture.
New York. 1870. 8vo., pp. 90 + ii. Original brown embossed cloth. Waterstaining to a few leaves. An early book on this subject. Very Good. More
History of my Pets. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Neat owner's name to first free end paper. A lovely copy of the author's collection of stories, written for young people, of..... More
Recollections of my Childhood. And Other Stories. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Another collection of stories for children from the author of History of my Pets. More
A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1774. [Social history] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (17 x 10cm), pp.[6]; xii; 132; [4]. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt titles to a recent black title label on spine. Marbled endpapers. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, internally clean, toned to edges. Boards rubbed and worn, splits..... More
A Display of Heraldrie. Manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of Method; wherein it is now reduced by the Study and Industry of John Guillim late Pursuivant at Arms. Interlaced with much variety of History, suitable to the severall Occasions or Subjects. The Fourth Edition. Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his life time: Together with his own Addition of explaining the tearms of Hawking and Hunting, for the use and delight of Gentlemen. And now to this fourth Edition are added about three hundred new Coats and Bearings of eminent Families, in their proper Sections, never before inserted. As also a true Register of the Blazons of all the Knights of the Garter, from the first Installment to the last: And also of all the Baronets from their first Creation to the last. Faithfully collested by Francis Nower Arms Painter (and Student in Heraldry) in Bartholomew Lane, London.
London: Printed by T. R. for Jacob Blome, 1660. [Heraldry] FOURTH EDITION, last before the Restoration. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[16] 444; 36 [6]. With in-text wood engravings throughout. In recent tan full calf with brown titles to spine. Marbled endpapers and all edges tinted red. In a matching slipcase..... More
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[Trial of William Dodd], The Whole Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the City of London; and also the Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex; Held at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey... [between Wednesday the 4th of December 1776, and Wednesday the 15th October 1777, Being the First Eight Sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Hallifax, Lord Mayor of the City of London].
London: Printed by William Richardson, 1777. COMPLETE ORIGINAL SESSIONS. Small quarto, pp.417 [7]. Complete with the index at rear. In recent mottled full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blind ruling and decoration to boards. Edges heavily trimmed. Top edge trimmed a little too..... More
The General Orders of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G., etc. etc. etc. in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814; and the Low Countries and France, 1815. Compiled Alphabetically from the several Printed Volumes, which were originally issued to the General and Staff Officers and Officers commanding Regiments in the above Campaigns.
London: Printed by William Clowes, 1832. [Military] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxxii; 460; pp.45; [1]. With the 1834 preface bound in at rear with the second edition title page. With a frontispiece lithograph portrait of the Duke on india paper. Recently re-backed in tan calf with the original..... More
Fish-Tails and Some True Ones.
London: Edward Arnold. 1897. Octavo, pp. 255. With an etching by the author and twelve illustrations by T. Hope M'Lachlan. Blue cloth with blind stamped and silver decoration, edges left untrimmed. Some light wear to the covers, some mild dustiness to the top and fore edge. A fine copy. More
Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, etc.
London: How and Parsons, 1841-43. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Small Quarto (26 x 18cm), pp.[4] xii, 435 [3]; pp.viii, 468 [2]; pp.[2] viii, 512 [2]. With 68 steel-engraved plates, including maps and a frontispiece to volumes I and III, as well as numerous in-text wood engravings. In recent green..... More
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Account Of A Voyage Of Discovery To The West Coast Of Corea [Korea], And The Great Loo-Choo Island [Japanese Ryukyu Islands].
London: John Murray, 1818. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO A NATIONAL HERO. Quarto, pp.xvi; 222; cxxx, (Appendix); [70], Vocabulary and language comparison; [2], blank. Includes half-title, hand-colored aquatint frontispiece of 'Sulphur Island', 8 further plates by Havell (7 of which are hand-coloured), 5 engraved maps (2 of which..... More
Fairy Tales and Romances.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. [Continental Fairy Tales] FINELY BOUND, First Thus. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.vi; 562; [2]. With a frontispiece etching of Count Hamilton. In a fine later binding circa 1900 by WORSFOLD of red half crushed morocco with raised bands, elaborate gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More