"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
History & Biography
Charterhouse Past and Present: A brief history of the Hospital founded in Charterhouse by Thomas Sutton, and more particularly of the school belonging thereto.
Godalming: H. Stedman, 1879. [Public School History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 239 [3]. With 20 illustrations, including a frontispiece and plans of the school. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to first blank: 'Cecil James Gladdish Hulkes | from Dr. Haig Brown | for History..... More
Chaucer's England.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869. [Literature / History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm). Illustrated. Elegantly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere and Son, with twin red and green title labels, full gilt backs, top edge gilt, swirled marble endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, publisher's cloth bound..... More
The African Colony. Studies in the Reconstruction.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 404. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, edges untrimmed, two folding maps printed in colour, blue coated endpapers. Reading lean, textblock generally bright and clean with just the occasional mark, some tearing and..... More
Augustus.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Ancient History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.356. With four photogravure plates including a frontispiece, and and folding map and genealogical table. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper board. Top edge gilt. Light spotting to edges. Slightly..... More
The History of the South African Forces in France.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., no date [1920]. [First World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.404. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, gilt motif to upper board, light brown endpapers, fore and tail edges untrimmed. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seventeen further plates, and twenty..... More
The King's Grace. 1910-1935.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1935. [Royalty] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.285; [1] blank; [48] plates. Publisher's cream cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 15/- net. With a colour frontispiece of King George V and 24 double sided black and white photographic..... More
A Lodge in the Wilderness.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. FIRST EDITION, Presentation Copy. Octavo, pp.[8], 378 [32]. With a printed label to front pastedown stating 'Sent by desire of the Author'. In publisher's aquamarine cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Re-cased with neat repairs to hinges. Brown endpapers..... More
The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, followed by an account of the Family of Buchanan.
Montreal: Printed for Private Circulation, 1911. [Canadian Legal History and Genealogy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] xiv; 475 [3] 5 [1] viii [4]. With 13 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the subject, each with a tissue guard. Number 126 of just 300 copies SIGNED by..... More
British Museum. A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms. Predynastic Antiquities, Mummied Birds and Animals, Portrait Statues, Figures of Gods, Tools, Implements and Weapons, Scarabs, Amulets, Jewellery, and other Objects connected with the Funeral Rites of the Ancient Egyptians.
London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1904. [Antiquities] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 304; [2] advertisements; [2] blank. Recent grey quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards, printed paper title label to spine. With eight plates and one hundred and thirty one illustrations in the text. Internally..... More
The Treaty of Waitangi. Or how New Zealand became a British Colony.
Wellington: S. and W. Mackay, 1914. [History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xv; [1]; 346; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper. Illustrated with two maps and fifteen plates. Inscribed by the author to the verso of the half title page: "To | J.R. Raw..... More
Germany.
London: A. & C. Black, 1930. [German Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 195 [5]. With 32 colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in silver to spine, blind to upper, and blind decoration all over. With the colour-illustrated..... More
The Search for the Western Sea. The Story of the Exploration of North-Western America.
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1908. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated with 51 plates and 6 folding maps. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine and upper, top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, wear to corners, bookplate, faint yellowing to pages, first free end paper's edge frayed, archival repair to..... More
The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. With numerous portraits, illustrations, and maps.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1893. [Travel Biography] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 606; pp.x; 664. With 36 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to each volume and five maps. Publisher's dark green cloth, recently re-backed with the original cloth laid over spines. Gilt titles to spines; yellow..... More
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, 1855-56. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 388; pp.[2]; iv; 426; pp.[2]; x; 448. With four maps and plans, three folding; and 13 lithographic plates, five coloured. Recently re-bound without adverts in burgundy full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines..... More
Sindh, and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus.
London: William H. Allen and Co., 1851. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii; 422. With fold-out frontispiece map on pale blue paper as issued. In an exquisite later binding of half polished calf with full gilt back over marbled sides, edges untrimmed. Some expected toning to paper and uncut edges, light and..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
Winchester Cathedral 1079-1979.
Southampton: Paul Cave Publications Ltd., 1979. [History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xvi; 352. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, brown endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £10. With a foreword by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Profusely illustrated throughout, predominately in black and white..... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
Pathological Studies of the Past: Curious Bypaths of History, being Medico-Historical Studies and Observations.
Paris: Libraire des Bibliophiles, 1898. [History of Medicine] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 366 [4]. With a frontispiece after Daniel Vierge, engraved on copper by F. Masse. Number 464 of just 500 copies in this edition, printed on Van Gelder's vellum paper. Publisher's black cloth with..... More
What's it all about? An Autobiography.
New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First (US) Edition. SIGNED by Michael Caine to half title. Publisher's blue cloth spine with gilt titles, blue paper boards with author's initials in gilt to upper. Fine. In Fine dustwrapper. More
The Discovery of Australia.
London: Dean and Son, 1902. [Australian History] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xii; 184 [8]. With 60 illustrated plates, largely maps, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Lancaster, Massachusetts Town Library to front pastedown, with..... More
For the Record.
London: William Collins, 2019. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xix; [1]; 732. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £25. With two photographic suites. Signed by David Cameron to a tipped in 'Limited Signed Edition' page preceding the half title page. With two..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
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[Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell Photographic Archive and Long-Play Record, including] World Water Speed Record 1956: Donald Campbell's Southward Run on Coniston Water [and] See Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaking the World's Water Speed Record Using Castrol Motor Oil [Flick Book].
London: His Master's Voice, 1937, 1956, and 1984. [Land and Water Speed Records] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNATURES, FLICK BOOK, NEWSPAPER, AND LONG-PLAY RECORD, LEO VILLA ASSOCIATION. Two ink signatures by Malcolm Campbell on separate scraps of paper, one with a small newspaper photograph cut out and laid on, dated 22/07/1935. One..... More
Reminiscences of an Ex-Detective.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1927]. [Detection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.256. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Rebacked in matching black cloth, with the original spine laid over. A very distinct red offset mark..... More