History & Biography
William of Wykeham. And His Colleges.
London: David Nutt, 1852. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 473; xv [11]. With five steel engravings and twenty-seven wood engravings. Contemporary full tan calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, and further gilt decorations to spine, as well as raised bands and gilt and..... More
Edward Gibbon. Bicentenary essays. Studies on Voltaire and The Eighteenth Century. 355.
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1997. [Essays] Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[14]; 429; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Frontispiece of Gibbon. Edited with the assistance of John Burrow and John Pocock. Frontispiece slightly loose, else bright and clean. Fine. More
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
Scenes and Recollections. By the author of "The Gaol Chaplain."
London; Dean and Son. n.d. [1850's]. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's elaborately decorated red moire cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt and black to spine and boards. Light wear to extremities, strong bright and solid, some dulling to the gilt, most notably to the spine. Fraying to head of spine..... More
The History of Gambling in England.
Chicago, MI: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. [Gambling] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] viii, 286 [8]. In contemporary maroon half morocco by the Eagle Art Bindery, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Text..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
American Prince: My Autobiography.
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... More
Worthies of the World, A Series of Historical and Critical Sketches of the Lives, Actions, and Characters of Great and Eminent Men of all Countries and Times.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d. [c.1880]. [Historical Biographies]. FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]; pp.417-832 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engraved portraits of notable characters. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt title to spines and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers; all..... More
Miss Eden's Letters.
London: Macmillan, 1919. General Wavell's copy. First Edition. Royal Octavo, pp. xvi, 414, [2], advertisements (predominantly listing military titles). In publisher's blue buckram. Discreet ownership inscription, covers flecked white; spine lettering dulled. A very good copy, which bears the pictorial bookplate of [then Brigadier General] A.P. Wavell, showing a Private..... More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
As It Was and World Without End.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Romance] FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, white titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean with toning to edges. Toning to dust-jacket, especially spine. Minimal wear to jacket..... More
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson: To which are added the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index, and illustrative notes.
London: John Major, 1825. First Major Edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary black morocco, with blind panelling and corner motifs to boards, titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, interior gilt rulings, cream endpapers. Binding is rubbed to joints and extremities, with bumping to corners. Largely clean inside, with spotting..... More
Fabled Shore. From the Pyrenees to Portugal.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15), pp.[12]; 200. Bound in recent burgundy half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Photographic frontispiece and fifteen double sided half tone plates. Original cartographic endpapers bound in at rear. A fine copy in a...... More
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward the Fourth. With a Memoir of Elizabeth of York, and Notes.
London: William Pickering, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8] civ, 265 [3]. In near-contemporary navy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. Textured red cloth boards; endpapers marbled; top edge gilt. Two large armorial bookplates to front pastedown, one of..... 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 Fish-Retailer and his Trade.
London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., 1933. [Food history]. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.224; pp.225-464; pp.465-683; [5]. Publisher's blue blind stamped cloth, gilt titles of black squares to spines, top edges tinted blue, blue endpapers. Profusely illustrated with half tone plates and a number of..... More
The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. Revised Army Regulations. Vol. II.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1868. [Military Regulations] ORIGINAL HANDBOOK. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.viii; 395 [1]. Interleaved with blank leaves for notes, and with an errata slip. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles and decoration to upper. Advertisements to pink endpapers. Repairs to..... 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
In The Balance. Speeches 1949 and 1950.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. [Post-War Churchill Speeches] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 456. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles and decoration to spine. With the deep red dust-jacket designed by Samuel H. Bryant, priced at $5.00. Light toning and spotting to edges. Light..... More
The Liberal Magazine vol. 14. A Periodical for the Use of Liberal Speakers and Canvassers: Forming a Political Record for the Year 1906.
London: The Liberal Publication Department. 1907. Including Churchill's speeches on South Africa and Ireland. Octavo. pp. 764; 72. In navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding somewhat loose in places, but complete with index. Good. Published following the landslide victory for the Liberal Party in the 1906 General..... More
A Charmed Life: The Autobiography of David Essex.
London: Orion, 2002. [Music Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 248. With three suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth, with gilt titles to spine and lilac endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co., 1897. [American Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 221 [5]. With numerous in-text engravings by the author, as well as a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary Art-Nouveau style binding of green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
Winston S. Churchill: Volume IV Companion. Parts I, II, and III: January 1917-November 1922.
London: Heinemann, 1977. [Winston Churchill] FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Octavos (24 x 16 x 13cm), pp.xxiii; [1]; 720, pp.[10]; 721-1426; [4], pp.[10]; 1427-2165; [3]. The complete companion volumes to volume IV of the Life. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, and red top edges. With the white typographic..... More
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
The Arms of Time, The Power of Chance, and Halfway To Heaven. A Memoir.
London: Hamish Hamilton, Sinclair-Stevenson, Sutton Publishing, 1979, 1991, 1998. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITIONS, three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 6cm) pp.xii; 157 [1], pp.xii; 196, pp.xii; 163 [1]. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-jackets, variously priced (first vol. p/c). No ink inscriptions, contents clean, crisp jackets (spine sunned to first title)..... More