History & Biography
Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City'. The Historian and his Reputation 1776-1815.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. [Enlightenment Thought] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 452. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Occasional notes to text margins in light pencil. A bright, crisp copy, some minor pencil notes to text. Fine. More
A History of the Roman World from A.D. 138 to 337. Methuen's History of the Greek and Roman world.
London: Methuen and Co, 1935. [Roman History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 402 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind ruling and titles to upper. Includes four folding maps to rear. Toning and spotting to textblock edge, else internally clean. Green 'Foyles' sticker to..... More
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd. 1940. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.376. Folding map to rear. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Aldridge, priced at 8/6. Lightly handled only, with some minor toning to edges. Toned to jacket spine..... More
Royal Tunbridge Wells: The Official Guide issued under the Auspices of the Mayor and Corporation and the Tunbridge Wells Advertising Association.
Cheltenham: J. Burrow and Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Town Guide] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.120. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's colour-illustrated card covers, not priced. A lovely clean, barely handled copy. Almost as-new. A general description of the Spa town..... More
The Second World War. The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell and Co., 1950-1954. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine; top edges pink, with grey monogrammed..... More
Magdalen College Oxford: A History.
Oxford: Magdalen College, 2008. [English University History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xlviii; 1005 [3]. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and maroon endpapers. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Carefully read once with a lean. Light handling, including..... More
History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner.
Des Moines, IA: Iowa Printing Co., 1885 [1891]. [Americana] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 316 [2]. With six black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown leather-effect cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper. All edges speckled red, with patterned endpapers. Neat ownership to..... More
[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6. [Speeches] FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions ('Into Battle' is a first state). Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, none of which are price-clipped. Wartime paper..... More
The Hand-Book of Swindling. By the late Captain Barabbas Whitefeather, late of the Body-Guard of His Majesty, King Carlos; Treasurer of the British Wine and Vinegar Company; Trustee for the Protection of the River Thames from Incendiaries; Principal Inventor of Poyais Stock; Ranger of St George's Fields; Original Patentee of the Parachute Conveyance Association; Knight of every Order of the Fleece; Scamp and Cur.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Crime and Con-Artistry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.viii; 87 [1]. With four engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece. Publisher's green limp cloth covers, with gilt titles and decoration to upper. All edges gilt, with yellow-coated endpapers. A highly attractive armorial bookplate..... More
Among the Sioux of Dakota. Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent.
New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 1881. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.235 [3]. Recently re-backed in red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original red calf boards with gilt and blind ruling to margins. Lightly trimmed to all edges..... More
India. Speeches and An Introduction.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1931. [History and Politics] FIRST EDITION, first and second impression in soft covers. Two volumes. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.141 [3]; pp.141 [3]. With advertisement for the Indian Empire Society at rear. Volumes are identical, except that the first impression is in orange soft covers, and..... More
Greater East Asia War Record. [Official Japanese Second World War Photography].
Tokyo, [circa 1942]. [Japanese War Photography] ORIGINAL COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION. Small quarto portfolio containing 40 loose black and white photographs backed onto card, with descriptions tipped onto verso. Also with a loose introductory leaf, and publishing information to the inside of the portfolio. Publisher's blue cloth chemise portfolio, with plain card..... More
The Real War.
New York, NY: Warner Books, 1980. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.x; 341; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with map endpapers, printed dust-wrapper. With warm presentation note to half-title; "To Sheila MacKellow | with best wishes | from | Richard Nixon | 1-8-81". Near..... More
Kennedy's Messages 1963. Edited, with a Foreword by Edwin Reischauer.
[Japan], 1963. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.155. With three black and white photographic plates [JFK, 88th Congress and Ambassador Reischauer]. Text in English, followed by Japanese, each segment with separate title-page printed on green card. Bound in dark blue silk, blocked in silver-gilt to spine and upper..... More
Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917-41.
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1992. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ALAN ANDERSON. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 451 [11]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with black titles to red backing on spine, and red cloth over boards. With the red and blue dust-jacket, not priced. Simple light..... More
The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War. With Maps and Illustrations.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1921. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xiii; [1]; 392. Publisher's dark blue cloth blocked in gilt and black and white to spine and upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 42/= net to spine. Illustrated throughout both in-text and with plates..... More
Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Views etc. connected with the name of Levis.
London: Printed for the author for private distribution only at the Chiswick Press, 1914. [Family History] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.xx; 113 [3]. With 32 black and white plates, including a photogravure frontispiece. One of just 50 copies printed. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to..... More
My Recollections of the Sepoy Revolt (1857-58).
London: John Long, 1911. [Indian Mutiny] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.266. With 17 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding plan of Meerut Cantonment. Publisher's navy cloth with titles stamped to spine and red ruling to boards. All edges red. A manuscript letter in..... More
Who's Who & Where: The Illustrated Year Book of Tunbridge Wells & District. Complete Local and Official Information.
Brighton: The Robinson Printing Company, 1908. [Town Guide and Directory] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.18 [2]; xlvi; 19-168. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated card covers priced at 6d. Just a touch of toning and spotting to..... More
Venice and Hospitaller Malta 1530-1798: Aspects of a Relationship.
Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group, 1992. [Maltese History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 366. With 14 illustrations, including occasional maps and four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Mr Graham Archer | with compliments & all good | wishes |..... More
Chronologie de L'Histoire Sainte et des Histoires Etrangeres qui La Concernent depuis La Sortie D'Egypte jusqu'a La Captivite de Babylone. [Chronology of Sacred History]
Berlin: Ambroise Haude, 1738. [Biblical Chronology] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS PHILIP STANHOPE. Two volumes. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.[50] 790 [4]; pp.[6] 866 [22]. With five engraved maps, as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and a vignette title page to volume I. Occasional engraved head-pieces. All..... More
[A collection of articles injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances, and constitutions ecclesiastical, with other publick records of the Church of England; chiefly in the times of K. Edward. VIth. Q. Elizabeth. and K. James. Published to vindicate the Church of England and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. And humbly presented to the Convocation]. Injunctions given by the most excellent Prince, Edward the Sixt; The Order of the Communion; Articles to be enquired of in the Visitation of the Dioces of London, By the reverend Father in God, Nicolas Bishop of London; Articles agreed upon by the Bishops and other Learned and Godly men, In the Last Convocation at London, In the year of our Lord 1552. to root out the discord of Opinions, and establish the Agreement of true Religion; Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi Anno Dom. MDLII; Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty concerning both the Clergy and Laity of this Realm. Published Anno Dom. 1559; Articles Agreed Upon By the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergie; In the Convocation holden at London, in the Year, 1562; Advertisments partly for due order in the publick administration of the Holy Sacraments; The Form and Manner of Making & Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons: According to the Appointment of the Church of England; Articles to be enquired in the Visitation, in the First Year of the reign of our most dread Sovereign Lady Elizabeth; Articuli per Archiepiscopum, Episcopos & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae in Synodo inchoata Londini vicesimo 1584; Celebratio Coenae Domini in Funerbribus, Si Amici & Vicini defuncti Communicare velint etc.; Articuli De quibus convenit inter Archiepiscopos, et Episcopos Utriusque Provinciae, et Clerum Universum In Synodo, Londini; Liber Quorundam Cononum Disciplinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae; Capitula sive Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae, per Archepiscopum, Episcopos, & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae, In Synodo inchorata Londini XXV die mensis Oct. Anno Domini MDXCVII; Constitutiones sive canones ecclesiastici, Per Episcopum Londinensem.
London: printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait at the little north-doore of St. Pauls Church, 1661. [English Church History] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Small quarto (20 x 16cm), pp.[16] 31; [3] 33-92; 63-85; [9] 87-99; 200-247 [3]; 6 [2]; 54 [2] 303-372 [2]. Collates as per the ESTC, except..... More
This Sceptred Isle: 55 BC - 1901.
London: BBC Books and Penguin Books, 2000. [British History] INSCRIBED COPY, the fifth impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 616. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Lightly handled. Fine... More
Heralds of England. A History of the Office and College of Arms.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967. [English Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 23cm), pp.xxviii; 609 [1]. With 44 illustrated plates, many in colour. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. Top edge gilt, with the red illustrated dust-jacket. Presented in the original plain card..... More
The Interest of the Princes and States of Europe.
London: Printed by J.M. for John Wickins, 1681. [European Power Politics] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 11cm), pp.[16] 357 [3]. In contemporary speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges speckled red. Loss to lower edge of title page due to a production fault..... More