Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Historia Ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti in Rem Theologiae Candidatorum [The Ecclesiastical History of the Old Testament, concerning matters of Pure Theology], Ubi res praecipuae, quae vel ad historiam sacram, et eius chronologiam, Legem, ac Disciplinam Hebraeorum spectant, vel quae ad Prophetarum Gesta, Vaticinia in Jesu Christo ad amussim impleta, et ad Divinam sacrorum Librorum, quibus continetur Historia Veteris Testamenti, Auctoritatem attinent, per breves interrogationes, et Responsiones perstringuntur, et in praeclaro ordine collocantur. Opus tribus tomis comprehensum, auctore Fr. Ignatio Hyacintho Amat de Graveson. Editio Novissima, Luculentissimis additionibus, ac perpetuis adnotationibus illustrata A.P. Joanne Dominico Mansi, congregationis matris dei Lugensi.
Bassani [Bassano]: Prostant Venetiis apud Remondini, 1791. [Church History] NEW EDITION, finely bound from a provincial press. Complete in three volumes, bound as one. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.xxiv; 112; 132; 164. All text in Latin. Contemporary half vellum, with gilt titles to black labels on spine, and decorated paste..... More
The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor, who was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided several months in the city of Tombuctoo. With a Map, Notes, and an Appendix.
London: Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.xl; 231 [1]. With a large folding map. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over..... More
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, Longman and Rees, 1802. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xii [2] 120. With 11 woodcuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary brown half calf, marbled paper over boards. Spine in six compartments with gilt embellishment, and green label with gilt..... More
Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii.
London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1817-1819. [Ancient History and Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Parts one and two complete, bound as one volume. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xxxii; 273 [3]. Including a leaf with emendations and instructions to the binder. Complete with 77 engraved plates, some folding, each with a tissue..... More
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel Di Volterra, and Others.
London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1883. [Bible] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing thus. Quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.xvi; 540. With 60 wood engravings by the named artists, as well as ubiquitous marginal ornamentation. Publisher's brown cloth, heavily illustrated and titled in gilt, grey and black to spine and upper. Grey..... More
Cricket. With contributions by A. Lang, W. G. Grace, R. A. H. Mitchell, and F. Gale. With Numerous Engravings after Lucien Davis and from Photographs.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. [Sports] 1901 Reissue (first published 1888). Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.408; [4], ads. Includes a large number of illustrations. Handsomely bound in brown half morocco, gilt, with contrasting blue title label and cloth sides. Marbled paper over sides. Contents clean but for some very..... More
Great Contemporaries.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. [Political biographies] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 335 [3]. With twenty-one photographic portrait plates. Bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and rampant lion tooling to spine, and blue cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Internally crisp..... More
Kings of England: Characters of the Kings and Queens of England; Selected from the Best Historians. To which is added, a Table of the Succession of each, from Alfred to the present Time. With Heads, by T. Bewick, Newcastle.
London: Printed for E. Newbury, 1795. [English Royalty] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.viii; 204 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and a vignette bust portrait for each Monarch, all by Thomas Bewick. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and the original brown..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with later engraved plates by Chapman and Hall, depicting Little Paul, Florence, Edith and Alice. Lacks the half-title. Contains..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Elegantly bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy]: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage Trilogy] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 11cm), pp.350, pp.532, pp.328. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt, and with the original..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines. Top edges gilt..... More
I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Bound in dark blue half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 295 [20]. Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf over matching cloth sides, red endpapers, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Illustrated dust-jacket and poppy-patterned endpapers bound in at rear. A fine copy in an attractive..... More
American Domestic Cookery, formed on Principles of Economy, for the use of Private Families. By an Experienced Housekeeper. To which is added the Complete Family Brewer.
New York, NY: Evert Duyckinck, 1823. [Cookery] EARLY EDITION. Sexto (15 x 9cm), pp.357; [7]. With nine engraved plates including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary straight grained brown calf with gilt decoration to spine and gilt titles to recently applied black labels. Marbled endpapers. Black ink ownership to..... More
A Zoo in My Luggage.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. [Animals] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.205 [3]. With frequent illustrations by Ralph Thompson. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket, also illustrated by Thompson, re-priced by the publisher from 18s to 16s. A nice crisp copy with..... More
The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an Account of his Travels through the Cities of London and Westminster, in Search of a Real Friend.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. [Sentimental Novel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] x; 278; pp.[2] 322. Re-backed in the mid-twentieth century in speckled calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and the original speckled calf boards..... More
The Old Curiosity Shop.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [circa 1910]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 370; [1], blank; pp.ii; 363; [1], blank. With introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. With the original illustrations throughout. Title pages printed in two colours. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in..... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James The Second. With the author's Last Corrections. Embellished with Portraits.
Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver & Co., 1803-4. [English History] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In eight volumes. Octavo (18 x 11 cm). With a short account of the author's life by himself, and a letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan. In contemporary marbled and polished brown calf with gilt decoration and..... More
Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Illustrated Folk Tales] FIRST DULAC EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. With 10 mounted colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to..... More
Elements of Geography. [in] The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. Vol. II.
London: Printed for J. Wallis, 1806. [Historical Geography] FIRST EDITION, volume II of VI only. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[8] 152 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red quarter morocco, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and light blue paper over boards. Contemporary label of Grosvenor's Toy Rooms, Holborn..... More
The World Crisis 1916-1918. Part I and Part II.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS, third impressions, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPIES, referencing to a key point in Churchill's political career. Octavo (24 x 16 x 7cm), pp.292, pp.x; 293-590. Illustrated with black and white plates, maps and other inserts, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel / History] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Recently bound in mid brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to red..... More
The Gulistan of Shaik Saday; a Complete Analysis of the Entire Persian Text.
Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1861. [Persian Literature in translation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; pp.592 [2]. Re-bound in contemporary or slightly later brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and textured brown cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers, and vestiges of..... More