History & Biography
Road through Kurdistan. The Narrative of an Engineer in Iraq.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.331; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles on red square to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. With twenty-eight half tone illustrations and two folding maps. Neat ownership to fly-leaf, some light spotting to preliminaries and to the folding maps at the..... 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
Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt Pepper.
Guidford: Genesis Publications, 2007. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 239 of 350 DELUXE copies. Large quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.176. Elaborately bound in full pink leather with a photo of George Martin laid down to upper cover, housed in original silk-screen printed box with ribbon pull, the whole protected in a...... 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
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. The complete set of the Life. Eight volumes, octavos (24 x 17 x 51cm). In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, in original dust-jackets of various colours, red top edges. An attractive set showing some gentle..... More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... 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. Ltd., 1948-54. [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..... More
Hitler. Where is Germany Going?
New York, NY: Dial Press, 1932. [Modern European History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 256; [8], blank. With photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, striking pictorial jacket by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer priced at $3.00. Neat ink ownership dated 1932, jacket a little toned to..... More
The Desolate Antarctic.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. [Antarctic exploration] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title..... More
Account of Mr. Pybus's Mission to the King of Kandy, in 1762. Printed from the Records of the Madras Government.
Colombo: W. Skeen, Government Printer, 1862. [Sri Lanka] FIRST PRINTED EDITION. Duodecimo booklet (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. Publisher's light blue card, sewn, with titles to upper. Gently toned throughout. Light wear and spotting to covers. A rare survival, last seen at auction in 2008. Very good. An official..... More
Britain's Air Peril: The Danger of Neglect, Together with Considerations on the Role of the Air Force.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. CLEMENT ATLEE'S COPY, First Edition with a letter from the Air League of the British Empire. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x, 132 [2], 28. With Atlee's distinctive Art-Deco monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a typed letter on headed note paper signed by..... More
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
[The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband], The Mystery of Marie Lafarge.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1840 and 1951. [Original news clippings scrapbook] First Use of Forensic Evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, with a first edition of the 1951 biography by Edith Saunders. Quarto (29 x 24cm), and octavo (22 x 15cm), 31 leaves with newspaper clippings pasted to recto only in two..... More
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, comprising A Large Fund of Biography of Actual Residents, and an Interesting Historical Sketch of Thirteen Counties.
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, 1890. [Louisiana Biographies] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 24cm), pp.703; [3]. With 14 lithographic portraits of notable residents. Publisher's deluxe red straight-grained morocco boards with gilt titles stamped to upper board and blind to lower, with further blind decoration. Recently re-backed and re-cornered..... More
Supplement to The London Gazette. [Second World War Despatches]. Numbers 35305; 37573; 37594; 37609; 37655; 37685; 37695; 37703; 37711; 37719; 37729; 37779; 37786; 37838; 38005; 38011; 38017; 38023; 38031; 38086; 38098; 38111; 38149; 38183; 38196; 38204; 38205; 38214; 38215; 38216; 38225; 38228; 38229; 38266; 38269; 38273; 38274; 38281; 38287; 38293; 38296; 38300; 38308; 38331; 38342; 38346; 38349; 38377; 38404; 38423; 38426; 38432; 38437; 38937.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, Friday 17th October 1941 to Tuesday 6th June 1950. [Second World War] ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENTS. Folio (31 x 19cm), with intermittent pagination. 55 individual supplements to The London Gazette, including a duplication of the first number, all publishing despatches from various theatres of conflict during the..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[8] xxxii; 462; lxxx [4]; pp.[8] 555 [5]; pp.[5] 622; lxii [4]. With a...... More
["Mis"-Prints Connected with the French Revolution 1789] La Révolution française depuis l'ouverture des Etats-Généraux jusqu'au 9 brumaire. [and 11 other contemporary engravings relating to the French Revolution].
Paris: Chez Decrouan, Imp. de Baudouin, et al., various dates, especially 1838. [Revolutionary Engravings] RARE CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS, including part of the second edition of Helman's famous print collection. Large portfolio codex (39 x 65cm), featuring 10 engravings of the French Revolution by Helman, after drawings by Monnet, and 11 other..... More
The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accession of George IV, in January 1820. A New Edition, with considerable Additions and Improvements, including Diagrams of all principal Actions.
London: Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [History] New Edition. Six volumes, all folding tables present. Octavos (23 x 14 x 25cm) pp.L; [2]; 568, pp.vi; [2]; 568, pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 533; [5], pp.[2]; v; [3]; 539; [3], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 581; [5], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 740; [4]. Bound in half..... 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
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
Thoughts and Adventures.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932. [Political Autobiography] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.320. With a black and white photographic portrait of the author at work on a painting, and a handful of in-text illustrations. Recently rebound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and lions..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for Cadell & Davies [et al.], 1807. [Late Antiquity] EARLY OCTAVO EDITION. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 37cm). With an engraved portrait of the author to volume I, and two large folding maps. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt decoration and twin black title..... More
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black..... More
India and Its Native Princes. Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal. Carefully Revised and Edited by Lieut.-Col. Buckle.
London: Bickers and Son, 1878. [Indian Colonial Travel] NEW EDITION. Quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.[2] xviii; 579 [1]. With 317 engraved illustrations after photographs by Rousselet, including a frontispiece, and six maps. Recently re-backed using the original publisher's red cloth, heavily decorated and titled in gilt and black to spine..... More