History & Biography
Prelude to Victory.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red. Dust wrapper has titles in black to front cover and spine, rear cover blank. With an introduction by Winston Churchill, fold-out maps and photographic illustrations. Binding is lightly rubbed..... More
An Essay Descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey, in Hampshire, Founded by King Edward the Elder: Compiled by from Various Voluminous Works and Ancient Manuscripts, in the British Museum and Elsewhere.
Romsey: C. L. Lordan, no date [circa 1845]. [Church architecture] SECOND EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.[8]; viii; 124. With a lithographic illustrated title page, and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth with gilt titles to upper board. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean; some weakness to binding at the..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
M.S. [The French Retreat from Moscow]. Original M.S. of the article published in the Quarterly Review October 1867.
[c.1867]. BOUND MANUSCRIPT. Small Quarto, pp.305. Page numbers in light pencil; writing in black ink. In a contemporary binding of full calf with raised bands, burgundy calf label with gilt titles to spine, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Edward Stanhope to front pastedown. Large water or oil stain to top right..... More
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
Alexander's Path. From Caria to Cilicia.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Turkish Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 284. With 21 black and white photographic plates, as well as vignette title page illustration by Reynolds Stone, in-text illustrations by the author, maps, and an index. Publisher's aqua cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
Baghdad Sketches.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Iraqi Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 269 [3]. With 25 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a photographic frontispiece, and the green folding sketch map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt facsimile signature stamped to upper. Typographic bookplate..... More
The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939.
London: John Murray, 1953. [Travel Autobiography] FIRST EDITION with VARIANT PUBLISHER'S BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 287 [1]. With a green sketch-map by H.W. Hawes, and 20 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine, rather than the usual green cloth. With the..... More
The Lycian Shore.
London: John Murray, 1956. [Turkish Travel] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED MANUSCRIPT POSTCARD. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 204. With occasional in-text illustrations by the author, a title page vignette by Reynolds Stone, a folding map at rear, and 26 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's aqua cloth with gilt..... More
The Minaret of Djam. An Excursion in Afghanistan.
London: John Murray, 1970. [Middle East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[16] 99 [1]. With 24 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a blue sketch map of the location, and numerous drawings, by the author and her two travelling companions. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x 169 [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by F. Quilter, priced at 12/6..... More
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x 169 [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by F. Quilter. A touch of..... More
Riding to the Tigris.
London: John Murray, 1959. [Turkish Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 114 [2]. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's aqua cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge aqua. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 21s. Typographic..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel Autobiography] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Octavo (23 x 15 x 13cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Each with a green sketch-map and numerous black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel writing] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (23 x 16 x 14cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. Crisp..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel writing] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (23 x 16 x 14cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original green cloth over boards, with facsimile signatures..... More
The Romish Horseleech: or, an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, In an Historical Remembrance of some of those Prodigious summs of money heretofore extorted from all degrees during the exercise of the Papal power here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England.
London: Printed by R.W. for Ralph Smith, 1674. [Anti-Catholic Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[32]; 286; [4]. Later (likely late eighteenth-century) brown straight grained calf, with gilt titles to a black label, and gilt decorations to spine. Trimmed, with all edges and endpapers marbled. Some black ink scribbling..... More
A History of the Orient.
Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1926. [Asian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 469 [1]. With numerous coloured maps and black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. Illustrated bookplate of Santa Barbara Girls School to..... More
Congo Past and Present.
London: World Dominion Press, 1937. [Christian Missionaries in Africa] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[14] 202 [6]. With a large folding map, as well as a black and white photographic frontispiece and three further black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
The Roy Strong Diaries. 1967-1987.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1997. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 461; [4]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, with photographic dust-jacket by John Swannell, with printed price £20.00 to flap. Illustrated map endpapers, with photographic plates throughout the text. Signed by author in black..... More
Douglas Hurd the Public Servant. An Authorised Biography.
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1998. [British Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.472; [8]. With eight doubled sided plates, in black and white and colour. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. A fine copy..... More
The State Policy of Modern Europe, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xvi, 334; x, 392. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free end-paper, dedicated to Sir Edward Shepherd CREASY, author of 'Fifteen Decisive Battle of the World' (1851). In publisher's light tan embossed..... More
The Sub: The Autobiography of David Munro, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 356 [2]. With 5 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece. In publisher's cyan cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Lacking jacket. Slight browning to poor quality paper, and slight sunning to spine; near-fine overall. An account of..... More
Heroes of the Middle Ages (Alaric to Columbus).
London: George G. Harrap, 1914. [History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.252 [4]. With 22 full-page illustrations and many more vignettes throughout. Blue illustrative endpapers. Brown quarter morocco, green cloth over boards. Both upper and spine with gilt-stamped titles and decoration. Top edge gilt. Advertisements to rear. Interior bright..... More
The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. [Court Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 226 [18]. Catalogue at rear dated December 1861. With an engraved frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's blind-decorated green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown, with ink and pencil ownerships..... More