The Arts & Sciences
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin, Second Series 186-1888.
London: George Allen, 1901. [Art and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the sixth edition thus. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 488 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tree calf for Hampden Gurney School by BICKERS & SON of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
New Hopes For A Changing World.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951. [Political and Philosophical Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.218 [6]. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy showing just a touch of wear to extremities. Near fine. A...... More
On Education. especially in Early Childhood.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. [Educational Theory] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254 [2]. With an article by Russell criticising Communism cut from the News Chronicle and Daily Dispatch, March 1956, folded and loose to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with red titles to spine and upper. A lovely..... More
The Nature and Evolution of the Political Relations between the Indian States and the British Imperial Government.
Joyce and Sone, Newport 1932. Historical essay on Britain's relationship with India. Publisher's softcovers, pp. 202, with loose errata slip present. A fine copy. This thesis was presented to the University of Geneva, and covers the rise of British Power in India up to the Post-Mutiny and Post-War era. The..... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931. [Chemistry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.368. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. With the buff paper dust-jacket, priced at 10s to spine. Internally bright and clean, showing just a touch of spotting and toning to edges and jacket spine. An..... More
Brian Eno: Visual Music.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. [Music and Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.416. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth, with white titles to spine and upper, and bright pink endpapers, priced at $50 / £35. With the magnetic strip affixed to copyright page. A fine, as-new..... More
The Conquest of The Arctic.
London: Harrap, 1939. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 284. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth titled in pale silver to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket depicting modes of transport heading towards the North Pole. Cloth in excellent condition with limited signs of wear. Endcaps a little pushed, with superficial rubbing..... 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
Memorandum on Atmospheric Visibility.
London: Published for the Naval Meterological Service, Hydrographic Department, February 1918. ORIGINAL PAPER. Small quarto, pp.[2], 16. With tables and diagrams. In original oatmeal cloth with black titles to upper board. Some light outer wear and bleeding from rusting staples. Very good. In this short paper Shaw makes some contributions..... More
Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shotakovich to Isaak Glikman 1941-1975. With a Commentary by Isaak Glikman.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. [Musical Correspondence] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xliv; 340. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced..... More
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. [Film Reference] INSCRIBED BY PETER JACKSON, First Edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. INSCRIBED by the film director Peter Jackson to title, once in white ink and once in black ink, both to the title page: 'Hi Cameron! | Best wishes | Peter Jackson.' With photographic illustrations..... More
'Wizard' Smith.
Ultimo, NSW: Murray Book Distributors, 1977. [Land Speed Record] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.128. With numerous black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A production fault to front endpapers. Some wear to extremities, otherwise a crisp..... More
Nixon Head Catalog No 1.
Stockholm: Hu Vudbladet Press, 1972. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (21 x 15cm), unpaginated. Publisher's printed wraps. Lightly rubbed to extremities. Near fine. More
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion. And an Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power Necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies from a State of Rest. Also New Fundamental Experiments upon the Collision of Bodies. With Five Plates of Machines.
London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. FIRST EDITION in book form. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 110 [2]. With five folding copper-engraved plates at rear, and two folding tables. In recent red half calf with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and red cloth boards. Mark..... More
The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer.
London: John Murray, 1860. [Biography] Tenth thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 356; 32 of advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, embossed panelling to boards, gilt titles and gilt steam engine to spine. Includes portrait of Stephenson and illustrative woodcuts. With Edmonds and Remnants, London binder's ticket at rear. Binding is somewhat..... More
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edinburgh: Printed for Silvester Doig and Andrew Stirling, Adam Black, and John Fairbairn [etc.], 1817. [Economics] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; lxvi; 360 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 514 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 448 [52]. With a life of the author to volume I, an appendix to..... More
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The Third Edition, With Additions.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in The Strand, 1784. [Economics] FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, also the first triple-decker (previously published as two quartos in 1776 and 1778), being the third edition overall. Three volumes, complete. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 499; [1], blank; pp.vi; 518; [5], Appendix; [1]..... More
Forty-Three Graphic Tables or Diagrams for the Conversion of Measurements in Different Units, comprising conversions of length; area; volume; weight; stress; density; work; energy in mechanical, thermal, and electrical units; horse-power; and temperature.
London: Charles Griffin and Co., 1895. [Conversion Tables] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 30cm), pp.14, with 28 plates and one leaf of advertisements at end. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards with red cloth spine and titles to upper. Black ink ownership of A.J. Money to front cover, with stamps of the..... More
Elements of Geography. [in] The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. Vol. II.
London: Printed for J. Wallis, 1806. [Historical Geography] FIRST EDITION, volume II of VI only. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[8] 152 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red quarter morocco, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and light blue paper over boards. Contemporary label of Grosvenor's Toy Rooms, Holborn..... More
Snowdon on Stage. With a Personal View of the British Theatre 1954-1996.
London: Pavilion, 1996. [Performing Arts] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's white paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, blind stamped to upper. Dust-jacket, with printed price of £35.00. Inscribed by the two contributors to the half title: "To Edward | with very best |..... More
Handbook to the Tellurium.
Birmingham: Robert Hopper, no date [1879]. [Scientific Equipment] RARE HANDBOOK. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.30 [2]. With intext wood engraved diagrams. Publisher's purple cloth with a gilt illustration stamped to upper board. Light spotting and browning to preliminaries. Some neat black ink corrections to p.20 and p.24. Boards rubbed and..... More
Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided into Five parts, [Ethics] which treat (1) of God; (2) of the Nature and Origin of the Mind; (3) of the Nature and Origin of the Affects; (4) of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects; (5) of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. [Philosophy] FOURTH EDITION THUS, third impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.c; 297 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Gentle toning to edges and endpapers, with occasional light pencil notations. Light wear to cloth, including some scratches to upper. Very good..... More
Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold From Alexander Teuxeira De Mattos's Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Illustrated by E. J. Detmold.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1921]. [Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm) pp.184, with 12 mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's gilt decorated white cloth. Toning to first and final leaf else clean within. Exterior fresh and bright showing only gentle use. A fine copy... More
The Sea Coast. The New Naturalist Library 25.
London: Collins, 1953. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xii; 276. With 10 colour photographs, 24 black and white photographs, and 52 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 25s. Printed ownership..... More
Wood Bending Handbook.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. [Craft and Construction] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (30 x 21cm), pp.[10] 110. With diagrams and black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown faux leather over boards, with lighter brown decoration to upper, and white titles to spine and upper. Priced at £1/15s or £1.75..... More