"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
History & Biography
A Voyage In The 'Sunbeam.' Our Home On The Ocean For Eleven Months.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884. [Voyages / Exploration]. FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 14 cm), pp.[2]; xx; 492; [2]. With 66 wood engravings including a frontispiece of the ship, and a coloured folding map of the voyage. In contemporary red full calf with gilt titles to green labels..... More
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Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats [1820-1824].
London: Oxford University Press, 1939. [Literary Correspondence] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxviii; 77 [3]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with red titles to spine and publisher's device to upper. Top edge red, others untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket printed in red, priced at..... More
Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire; Illustrative of the Works of Rober Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed, a Memoir of the Poet's Life.
London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe [etc.], n.d. [1806]. [Literary Topography]. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[2] 56 [2]. With 14 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece, and a decorated title page. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards with original cream paper title label to upper board, recently re-backed to-style with..... More
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
Indian Mission in Guiana.
London, George Bell, 1851. Small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine. with engraved frontispiece, title vignette, engraved map and 9 engraved plates. Head and tail of spine bumped, extremities rubbed. Light browning to edges of plates, otherwise very good. FIRST EDITION. More
The Autogiro and How to Fly It.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xiii, 82, 24 of adverts. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Numerous illustrations; both photographic and line drawings. With a foreword by Juan de la Cierva, the Spanish engineer who built autogiros in..... More
Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate. With Brief Notices of the Picturesque Scenery, Seats, and Antiquities in the Vicinity, Embellished with Maps and Prints.
London: Published by the Author, 1832. [Town Guide] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 148; [4 of adverts]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and 2 in-text woodcuts. Bound in the original pink satin-effect cloth with paper title labels to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Light spotting..... More
Tintagel and the Arthurian Mythos.
Launceston: Pendragon Press, 1995. [Mythology] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.203; [1]. Number 992 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. With eleven colour photographic plates and frequent monochrome in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour illustrated card covers. Reading crease to spine; some light..... More
A History of English Costume.
London: Methuen, 1937. [Historical Costume]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 227 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's red cloth with blue titles to spine. With the white illustrated dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout. Slight reading lean. Chipping to jacket edges; light toning to jacket spine. Very..... More
Beasts in Heraldry.
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. [Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.96. Containing twenty colour illustrations by Marie Angel (1923-2010). Publisher's cream vegetable parchment with gilt titles to spine, presented in the original blue paper-covered box, with a cream insert and a tri-fold flier for the..... More
The Story of Africa and its Explorers. With Two Hundred Original Illustrations.
London: Cassell and Company, no date [1892-95]. [Colonial Exploration] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes bound as two. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312. With frequent half-tone vignette illustrations, as well as occasional maps and full-page illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco with raised bands..... More
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
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
Simla: Past and Present.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1904. RARE FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.xiv, 270 [2]. With 51 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece (actually facing p.1), and a folding map to prelims. In publisher's brown cloth (formerly green) with b/w stamped illustrations to upper board. Vestiges of stamping to spine. Decorative textured end-papers. Cloth..... More
Evils And Remedies Of The Present System Of Popular Elections, With a sketch of the qualifications and duties of representatives and constituents; to which is added an address on the proposed reforms in the commerce and finance of the country.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and co., 1841. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, with raised bands, black title label, and gilt decoration to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Binding is rubbed, corners worn, joints rubbed. Internally clean and free from spotting. Buckingham's grand..... 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 Mummy. Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1893. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo, pp.xvi, 404. Bound in the publisher's red cloth, with gilt stamp of Mestha (otherwise known as Imseti) to front board, double-ruled blind panneling to boards, gilt titles and publisher's imprint to spine; deckled edges, newspaper insert pasted in to front flyleaf..... More
Lonely Challenge.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1956. [Mountaineering] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 xx 15cm), pp.318; [2]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Paul Galdone, priced at $5.00. Some offsetting to..... 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
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 History of Tunbridge-Wells.
London: M. Hingeston, J. Dodsley, T. Caslon; Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker, 1766. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 317; [7]. Bound in contemporary tan full calf, gilt titles on a morocco square to spine. Very attractive label of Tunbridge Wells bookseller and printer Jasper Sprange to front pastedown..... More