History & Biography
The Poll for the Knights of the Shire, to Represent the Western Division of the County of Kent in Parliament, including the Registered Electors who did not vote, also, a General Index, and an Abstract of the Number of Votes for each Parish. Candidates: Thomas Law Hodges, Esq.; Thomas Rider, Esq.; Sir William R.P. Geary, Bart.
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
The Art of the Illustrator. W. Hatherell; Bernard Partridge; Lawson Wood; Bert Thomas; Cyrus Cuneo; Frank Reynolds; Balliol Salmon; Harry Rountree; W. Heath-Robinson; C.A. Shepperson; E.J. Sullivan; F.H. Townsend; H.M. Bateman; C.E. Brock; Spencer Pryse; Warwick Reynolds.
London: The Press Art School, no date [1918]. [Art Reference] ORIGINAL PORTFOLIOS. Fifteen parts out of twenty. Folio (41 x 28cm), each part having a letter-press text of six leaves, including a half-tone photographic portrait of the illustrator tipped in as a frontispiece, as well as six mounted half-tone illustrated..... 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
Madame de Sable. Etudes sur les femmes illustres et la societe du XVIIe siecle.
Paris: Didier, 1854. Signed presentation copy. Octavo. Bound in half brown calf over marbled paper, with raised bands highlighted with gilt, and brown and gilt label to spine. Signed by the author, and presented to Viscount Mahon, later Earl Stanhope, MP, prominent historian and biographer.Binding is rubbed, both leather and..... More
The Assassination of President Kennedy.
London: Jackdaw Publications, 1967. [Historical Dossier] FIRST EDITION. A blue card wallet (23 x 36cm), complete with all 18 documentary items and the contents pamphlet. Light handling and creasing to wallet. Missing a couple of small pieces of the Dealey Plaza model. Near fine. 'This Jackdaw — originally published in..... More
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Arabia Travel] NEW 'DEFINITIVE' EDITION, First Thus. Complete in two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.674; pp.696. Complete with a frontispiece and illustrated plates to volume I, and a large folding map to each volume. Publisher's brown buckram with gilt titles to spines. Top edges..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy; lower edge..... More
The Manners of the Ancient Israelites; Containing an Account of their Peculiar Customs, Ceremonies, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts and Trades, Division of Time, War, Captivities, Dispersion, and Present State. With a Short Account of the Ancient and Modern Samaritans. The Whole Much Enlarged from the Principal Writers on Jewish Antiquities.
London: Sold by William Baynes, 1809. [Jewish History] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 389 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the author after Gobert. In later tan half calf, circa 1900, with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label, Masonic gilt tooling to..... More
Sir John Moore's System of Training.
London: Hutchinson & Co., no date [1925]. [Military Training / Napoleonic Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. With 10 illustrations, including a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. A black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light toning throughout, with some spotting..... More
Modern Weapons of War: By Land, Sea and Air.
London: Blackie and Son, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 192. With 34 photographic plates and a colour frontispiece. In publisher's explosive pictorial tan cloth, with titles to spine and upper board. With rare original monochrome dust jacket. Grey end-papers. Large red stain to jacket back cover, and some slight wear..... More
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century. Cabinet Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899-1901. [British History] FINELY BOUND SET, the Cabinet Edition, new impressions. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (18 x 13 x 23cm). In contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and lighter green cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, and..... More
The New London Family Cook.
London: Albion Press, Printed for James Cundee, 1808. [Cookery]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.634. Full tan diced calf, respined to style with a red title label, marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and ten further plates. Textblock is nice and clean with just occasional light spotting, embossed library stamps to..... More
A Person From England. and other travellers to Turkestan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket and matching endpapers, top edge tinted blue. Illustrated with a map and eight double sided two tone photographic plates. With signed inscription to half title: "Momo /..... More
The Elements of Hieroglyphics and Egyptian Antiquities. In a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, and the University of Cambridge.
London: Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1845. [Ancient Egypt] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 493 [3]. Complete with a frontispiece and 10 folding plates at rear. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. Yellow-coated endpapers. Armorial Coulthart bookplate to..... More
A Guide to Taxila.
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1921. [Pakistan Archaeology] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 132. With 30 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and several folding maps and plans. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Red endpapers. A nice clean copy, with some rubbing to..... More
The Specials: How They Served London. The Story of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Great War Policing] FIRST EDITION with associated signature. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 223 [57]. With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Chief Staff Officer, Colonel Sir Edward Ward, SIGNED by Ward in blue ink to lower margin, and dated January 1921. Publisher's aquamarine..... More
The State Policy of Modern Europe, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xvi, 334; x, 392. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free end-paper, dedicated to Sir Edward Shepherd CREASY, author of 'Fifteen Decisive Battle of the World' (1851). In publisher's light tan embossed..... More
The Goudhurst Jubilee Book [and] The Goudhurst Coronation Book. A Record of Celebrations in Goudhurst and Kilndown (Kent) on May 6th, 1935 [and] May 12th, 1937. The Silver Jubilee of the Reigns of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary 1910-1935 [and] The Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Local Intelligence, Directories, Historical Notes, and Reminiscences.
Tunbridge Wells: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company Limited, 1935 and 1937. [Kent] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.504 [4]; pp.896. Each volume illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions, and a folding map to the first volume. Publisher's purple and blue cloth respectively, with silver and gold titles..... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
The English Baronage: Or an Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our Nobility; With Their Descents, Marriages, and Issue. Deduc'd From Records, Historians, Manuscripts, and Other Authorities. By Arthur Collins Esq. Volume the First.
London: Printed for Robert Gosling, 1727. [English History] SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[4]; xvi; 683; [13]. With numerous engravings by Gerard van der Gucht, including two fold-out monument illustrations. Recently rebound in green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Leaves toned and somewhat soiled/spotted as to be expected..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... More
Marilyn. A Biography.
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973. [Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.[2] 270 [2]. Heavily illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs by various artists. SIGNED by the author and the editor in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's white padded cloth..... More
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. SIGNED by the author to a specially-printed bookplate captioned 'Sir Roger Moore KBE - Limited Edition UK Tour', which has been affixed to the free endpaper. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, sky blue..... More
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry..... More