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Abbott's American Watchmaker and Jeweller. An Encyclopaedia for the horologist, jeweller, gold and silversmith.
Chicago. Geo. K. Hazlitt and co. 1894. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.354, 14 of adverts. Illustrated with 288 in text engravings. Publisher's pale blue cloth. Some marking to cloth, inner hinges starting, lower inner hinge split. Good. More
Hunting the Sea Otter.
London: Horace Cox, 1910. [Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 188. With eight half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, priced at 7/6. Light spotting and browning to endpapers. Upper board and spine bowed with some rubbing and a...... More
Ski-ing on Water.
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 143. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some occasional spotting to the textblock and marking to the edges, slight wear to the cloth. A couple of closed tears to the front panel of the dustwrapper, small loss at..... More
The Golfer's Manual. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the National Game of Scotland by 'A Keen Hand' and originally Published in 1857 and now Reprinted with an Introduction by Bernard Darwin.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood..... More
The Botanical Pocket-Book. With Observations on Some of the Rare Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1840. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.v; [1]; 179; [1]; [one of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green textured cloth with paper labels to spine and upper board. Hand-coloured folding plate of Dentaria Bulbifera facing title page. Bookplate of W. H. Hills to pastedown, some..... More
Neues Panorama Des Rheins Von Mannheim Bis Coln; and, The Rhine From Maynece To Cologne.
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative..... More
The Rocky Horror Show: Mask of Columbia.
Los Angeles: Michael White Productions, n.d. [1974]. EPHEMERA FROM ROCKY HORROR SHOW U.S. OPENING. Card cut out mask of Columbia, approximately 26cm x 19cm with removable eyes and mouth, printed with production notes printed on the rear. Produced as a promotional item for the U.S. opening at the Roxy Theatre..... More
The Ruhleben Bye-Election - July 1915.
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which..... More
Archdale Machine Tools 1868-1948.
Birmingham: James Archdale and Co., 1948. [Industrial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 100. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Publisher's cream cloth, decorated in blue and brown. With the matching dust-jacket. Some spotting to edges and preliminaries. Chipping and closed tears to jacket edges, with a larger..... More
Larkin Housewives' Cook Book. Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them. Containing over six hundred recipes and helpful hints selected by the Larkin Kitchen from many thousands of tested, favorite recipies submitted by practical housekeepers and culinary experts and compiled especially for customer-friends of Larkin Co Inc.
Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co. Inc., 1923. [Cookery] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.140. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to front cover. Neat inscription to flyleaf, textblock toned and a little shaken. Some marks and wear to boards, heavily rubbed and worn to spine. Very..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
[A Sample Book of Snuff Boxes 1820-1830].
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1830's]. ORIGINAL ENGRAVED DESIGNS. 157x217mm. 16 thick card leaves featuring 104 individual engraved designs for snuff boxes printed on india paper and pasted to leaves. In contemporary dark brown mottled calf boards, re-backed in later tan calf. Held together by two strong brass clasps. Title neatly added..... 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 Scripture Chronology Demonstrated by Astronomical Calculations: and also by the Year of Jubilee, and the Sabbatical Year among the Jews: or, An Account of Time from the Creation of the World, to the Destruction of Jerusalem... Illustrated with a Great Variety of Tables, Maps, and Copper Plates. By Arthur Bedford, M.A. Rector of Newton St. Loe in the County of Somerset, and Chaplain to the Haberdashers-Hospital at Hoxton near London.
London: Printed for James and John Knapton etc., 1730. Folio pp. Title, [2 list of subscribers], vi, [2], 774, [44], [4 index], [17 index and errata], [1 ads.]. Full 18th Century calf, rebacked and recornered with original spine laid on, gilt rule and blindstamping to boards and gilt rules, raised..... More
A Companion to the Almanack, containing an Explanation of the Saints' Days and Holidays, with Biographical Sketches of the Persons, and Historical Accounts of the Events, on which the Festivals are founded. To which is prefixed, and Introduction, Explaining the Chronological and Astronomical Terms, and the general Contents of Modern Almanacks; with a brief inquiry into their origin.
London: Printed for J. Mawman, 1808. [Calendars] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the Third Edition. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.151; [7]. Contemporary brown full calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light browning and spotting to preliminaries. Contemporary black ink ownership to flyleaf. Joints rubbed and starting, but holding well. Corners bumped..... More
Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of those Disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated Bilious.
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
Raphael, Mozart, The Renaissance. A Lecture Delivered in the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh, on Saturday, June 24, 1882.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and sons. 1882. A rare publication, 'Printed strictly for Private Circulation.' Octavo. pp. 58. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles and dark green endpapers. Author of the more widely circulated 'On Musical Education and Vocal Culture', Bach was a professional singer based in Edinburgh. More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa..... More
Skating.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound (for Denny of The Strand) in half brown calf with twin labels, gilt to spine, cloth sides. Internally clean but for a neat library stamp to title and verso, bookplate to pastedown. Binding a little rubbed, some..... More
Cricket. With 52 Illustrations.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THIS TEXT. Octavo, pp.348. Includes a large number of illustrations. Publisher's original pictorial brown cloth blocked in gilt and colours, plain endpapers. A little edge-spotting, gift inscription to flyleaf; bing clean and fresh. A particularly sharp-looking copy. Stated as 'A New..... More
Boating
Longmans Green and Co., London 1888. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco leather over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt. A little spotting to first and final leaves else a fine copy in attractive recent leather..... More
Beady Minces.
London: Mathews Miller Dunbar and Bailey Co-Production, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream laminated boards, titles in black to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of Bailey's work. With an introduction by Terence Donovan. Internally clean, some toning to endpapers and..... More
The Influence of the Gold Supply on Prices and Profits.
London:Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x15cm), pp.xii; 104. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blind ruled to boards, gilt titles to spine. Errata slip tipped in at page 58. Discreet ownership to rear pastedown, some spotting to preliminaries, to end matter, and to edges, else generally clean and..... More
Views of Labour and Gold.
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. [Political Economy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 190 [18]. Partly unopened (with some leaves roughly opened); yellow-coated endpapers. Publisher's binding of blind-decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, binding by Bone and Son, London. Leaves heavily worn and soiled, with damp..... More
Through the Woods. The English Woodland - April to April.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1936. [Wood engravings] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.142. Publisher's russet cloth, gilt titles, dust-jacket with printed price of 10/6 net to spine. Handsomely printed with seventy-three wood engravings by Parker. Some spotting to edges and first and last leaves else internally very clean..... More