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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
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The History of Greece [and] The History of Rome. The History of Greece from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great. To which is Added, a Summary Account of the Affairs of Greece, from that Period, to the Sacking of Constantinople by the Othomans. [and] The History of Rome from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire.
Derby: Henry Mozley, 1826. [Greek and Roman History] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 382; pp.viii; 432 [4]. With a folding map as a frontispiece to each title. Contemporary full marbled calf with gilt titles to black label, and extensive gilt decoration to..... 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
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
Outlines of German Literature.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1883. [German Literary Criticism] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 642 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco for the Philological School (later St Marylebone Grammar School), with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt school crest to upper. All edges gilt 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
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
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
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 156 [4]. Number 360 of 500 copies SIGNED by the author in green ink to preliminary limitation page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and mottled grey endpapers. With the..... More
The Lost Childhood. And other Essays.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. [Literary Essays] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 191 [3]. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy. Slightly toned throughout. Very good. Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such..... More
The Ministry of Fear. An Entertainment.
London: William Heinemann, 1943. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 236 [2]. Recent navy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco labels on spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges trimmed. A lovely clean copy in an attractive new binding. Very good. The..... 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
La Révolution Française (1789-1799), D'Apres les Temoignages Contemporains et les Historiens Modernes.
Paris: Alcide Picard et Kaan, no date [circa 1900]. [French History] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] xvi; 459 [7]. All text in French. With frequent wood engravings by various artists. Contemporary red quarter morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... 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
Exmoor; or the Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West, With Illustrations Taken from Nature.
London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1849. [Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4] iv; 441 [5]. With eight fine lithographic plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a vignette title page. In a late Victorian green half calf binding with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine, further..... 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
The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II.
London: John Murray, 1842. [English History] FINELY BOUND, fourth edition. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 708 [2]; pp.viii; 601 [3]. Contemporary tan full calf by James HAYDAY for White of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting labels, and further gilt decoration to spines. All edges speckled..... More
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1853. [Mediaeval History] FINELY BOUND, the tenth edition. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 504 [2]; pp.viii; 427 [3]; pp.[2] iv; 517 [3]. Contemporary tan full polished calf with gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, and very elaborate gilt tooling, to spines. All..... More
The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, Knight, sometime Garter Principal King of Arms. With an Appendix, containing an account of his published works, and index to his manuscript collections, copies of monumental inscriptions to the memory of the Dugdale family, and heraldic grants and pedigrees.
London: Printed for Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [Academic Biography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[2] viii; 529 [5]. With a frontispiece copper engraving of Dugdale, another copper engraved portrait, a facsimile autograph letter, and two folding family trees at rear. Also with two contemporary notices of publication loose..... More
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Two Stories. The Mare's nest [and] The Long Shadow.
London: E. Lahr, 1931. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.27 [5]. Number 147 of just 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear of the volume. In publisher's quarter blue cloth with cream paper-covered boards and black titles to cream paper label on spine. With..... More
Fifty Years Adrift.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1984. [Beatles] FIRST EDITION, an out-of-series review copy. Large Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.x; 541 [3]. Publisher's brown half calf with gilt titles to red morocco label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Brown cloth over boards, with a red and gilt device to upper, and a...... More