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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
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
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
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. [History and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Three volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv, 252; pp.iv; 260; pp.iv; 300 [2]. Contemporary red full calf for Clapham Middle School, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration..... More
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More
London: Hutchinson and Co. 1913. [Travel and sport]. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, quarto (24 x 18 x 10cm), pp.659. With 168 illustrations, panoramas and diagrams. Six maps. Blue buckram titled in gilt, top edge gilt. A little toning/spotting to edges, occasional foxing within, cloth rubbed to spine tips and corners..... More
Tunbridge Wells: Tunbridge Wells Golf Club, n.d., [c. 1989]. RARE PRIVATE PRINTING. Demy Octavo. pp. 58. With b/w photographic illustrations. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original blue dust jacket; gilt titles. Slight wear to jacket edges; near-fine. More
London: Constable, 1954. [Political Biography] MATCHING PAIR, first volume a re-print, second volume a first edition. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 234 [eight black and white plates including frontispiece]; pp.xiv; 348 [eight black and white plates including a frontispiece]. Both volumes in publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles..... More
Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1908. 2 volumes, 8vo. Ex-library copy (Chelsea, England). Very good in publisher's burgundy cloth with discreet library numbering in white to foot of spines; bookplates; small library ink stamp to verso of title pages and some blind library stamping. Illustrated throughout; a few other photographic..... More
London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, n.d. [1869]. [Jacobite History]. FINELY BOUND, seventh edition. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[2] 525 [3]. With a steel engraved vignette title page. In contemporary tan full calf by SETON AND MACKENZIE, with gilt titles to burgundy label on spine, further gilt decoration to..... More
London: Country Life Ltd., 1931. [London] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 276. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to a green square to spine, marbled endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Booksellers ticket to pastedown, internally fine, some dustiness to edges. Cloth..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges tinted green. Very light rubbing to extremities, signs of label removal to spines. Blind stamp to title page and first page of text of each volume..... More
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
London: George Virtue, 1842. [British Coastal Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. In two volumes. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 96 of the original 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title page vignettes after various artists, engraved by the Finden brothers and Bartlett. One leaf of text faces each engraving, to..... More
London: Bell and Daldy, n.d. (ca.1880). FINELY BOUND. Six volumes, octavo (17 x 11 x 13cm). New and Revised edition of the Aldine Poets, with a memoir by Sir Harry Nicolas. Original red calf, twin title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. School prize label to pastedown..... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Small 4to. Publisher's grey paper wrappers with printed titles to spine and upper. Little nicks to head and tail of spine and to corners. Boston Library label to inner cover and small ink stamp to bottom of title page. Clean and strong..... More
London: Cassell and Company, 1930. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 242. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and eight maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to edges, with occasional heavy spotting internally. Light rubbing and some marks..... More
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
London: Seeley and Co., 1908. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 193 [3]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Contemporary brown full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbling to all edges and endpapers..... More
London: Seeley and Co., 1900. [Ancient Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 380 [8]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Heavy spotting to first and final leaves..... More
London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1916. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[vi], xiv; 162; [2], blank. Bound in original red cloth titled and trimmed in black. Tape marks to flyleaves otherwise internally clean. Armorial bookplate of Charles Bird Williams, minor bumping, spine sunned. A very good copy of this wartime account of..... More
London: the friends of T. E. Lawrence, no date [circa 1936]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Single page folded (19 x 11cm), with title to front cover and text inside. Upper left corner heavily browned, otherwise unmarked. Very good. A pamphlet describing the actions required to ensure a memorial to Lawrence be erected..... More
London: Library of Imperial History, no date (1976). [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm). Each volume has the publisher's presentation bookplate loosely inserted, noting that this set is number 8 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Bound in original quarter dark blue..... More
no place, no date. [Autographs] A remarkable autograph album of one Lawrence Biggart containing 95 signatures (1940-48), mostly international statesmen, war leaders, dignitaries and prominent military officials and public servants, plus some contemporary celebrities. Small landscape album (18 x 12cm) in brown crocodile skin-effect leather, comprising 95 autographs on paper..... More