The Arts & Sciences
Instruction in Military Engineering, Volume I (Part III) Military Bridges. Compiled at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1877. [Military history] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.iv; 174. With forty illustrated plates. Contemporary straight grained red morocco, gilt titles to spine and upper board, gilt name to base of front cover: Lieutenant G. Turnbull. All edges gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Small ex..... More
Joe Weider's Muscle Builder Power Magazine. Vol.40, No.11.
Woodland Hills, CA: Brute Enterprises, December 1979. [Body Building] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE, (28 x 21cm), pp.160. Illustrated with a mixture of black and white, and colour leaves, and colour paper covers, perfect-bound and priced at $2.00 / £1. Light wear to covers. Near fine. More
Motor Cycles and How to Manage Them. By the Motor Cycle Staff.
London: Iliffe and Sons Ltd., 1946. [Motorcycles] THIRTIETH EDITION, second impression. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[6] 284. Illustrated with diagrams. Publisher's colour illustrated boards, rebacked in plain white paper with hand-written pencil titles to spine. Heavily browned with a little staining and chipping to edges. Boards rubbed and bumped. A...... More
Mr. America [and] Shape Up. Number One; Number Two; Number Four; vol.14 No.1; Shape Up Vol.1 no. 5.
Croydon: Weider Sports and Health Centre [and] Woodland Hills, CA: Muscle Builder Publications [and] Brute Enterprises, circa 1970; March 1973; May 1974. [Body Building] FIVE ORIGINAL MAGAZINES, (27 x 21cm), pp.52; pp.52; pp.52; pp.92; pp.76. Illustrated in black and white, with colour paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 2/6..... More
Muscle Digest. Vol.2, No.2.
Alhambra, CA: Donald Wong, May / June 1978. [Body Building] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE, (28 x 21cm), pp.84. Illustrated mainly in black and white, with a colour centre-fold, and colour paper covers, stapled twice and priced at $1.50 / 90p. Advertising supplements browned. Tears to head and tail of spine, otherwise light..... More
Muscle Mag. Vol.4 Issue I.
Brampton, Ont.: Health Culture, March 1979. [Body Building] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE, (28 x 21cm), pp.68. Illustrated mainly in black and white, with occasional colour leaves, and colour paper covers, stapled three times and priced at $1.50 / 90p. Light toning to margins, and a little light handling to covers. Near fine..... More
Publicité 1938.
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1938. [French Advertising] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Quarto (31 x 25cm), pp.122. Filled with colour reproductions of advertisements from the previous year, as well as numerous black and white photographic plates. Text in French to coloured card leaves. Publisher's colour illustrated soft covers, bound with three heavy..... More
Strength and Health.
York, PA: Strength and Health Publishing Co., February 1948; August 1949; December 1949; November 1950. [Body Building] FOUR ORIGINAL MAGAZINES, (30 x 22cm), pp.52; pp.52; pp.52; pp.52. Illustrated in black and white, with colour paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 20c / 25c. One small nick to front cover..... More
Useful Hints and Tips for Automobilists, from The Autocar.
London: Iliffe and Sons, 1905. [Early Motoring] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), unpaginated, with 478 hints, an index, and 25 pages of adverts at rear. Occasional in-text diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine, and black and white titles to upper. Blind stamp of W.H. Smith to..... More
The Masque [6 volumes]: The Old Vic King Lear; Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler Parts 1 and 2; Oscar Wilde and the Theatre; The Masque of Christmas; Notes on the Verse Drama.
London: The Curtain Press, 1946-1948. [Theatre notebooks] FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavos (19 x 12cm), pp.16; pp.20; pp.24; pp.36; pp.40; pp.40. Many colour and halftone illustrations throughout each issue. All with the original paper covers, staple-bound, with ads imprinted to cover interiors. All six books are protected by the pink..... More
[An Archive of Books and Papers from the Library of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin].
1907-1988. [Physiology and Biophysics] ORIGINAL FELLOWSHIP DISSERTATION, NOTEBOOK, OFF-PRINT COLLECTION, AND INSCRIBED BOOKS. A remarkable collection of books and papers associated with the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, including the original typescript of the dissertation which won him a research Fellowship at Trinity College in 1936 and a year's study at the..... More
Scottish Art and Letters. Number One.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1944. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With three double-sided illustrated plates, one image reproduced in colour, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and advertisements to endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 2, November 1946.
London: Signature, November 1946. [Art Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With numerous black and white plates. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Light toning to covers. Jacket lightly toned and spotted, with some light chipping and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Including a...... More
Hector Servadac, Or the Career of a Comet.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Fantasy adventure. 'Uniform Edition'. Octavo, pp.370. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in gilt and black. Nominal edgewear, spine ends chipped, some age-related toning to spine,gift note in ink to pastedown. Very good. More
British Game. The New Naturalist Library 2.
London: Collins, 1946. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 240. With 28 colour photographs and 81 black and white photographs. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 16s. A nice crisp, clean copy internally..... More
Silver Stream. With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Inman of Knaresborough.
London: The Epworth press, 1947. [Child Welfare] PRESENTATION COPY TO MRS ATTLEE. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With eight half-tone plates and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Deluxe binding of blue full calf with gilt titles to spine and white watered silk endpapers, with a silver strip to hinges. Bookplate..... More
Common British Wild Flowers Easily Named.
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927. [Wild Flowers] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 194 [2]. With a woodcut of each plant after drawings by the author, and a colour-chart frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, with titles and decoration in blue and black to spine and upper. With the..... More
The Complete Angler [Compleat Angler]. New edition, edited by "Ephemera".
London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1854. Second Cooke edition. Pp.309 with woodcut frontispiece, engraved general title and vignette title, facsimile title, and other illustrations within the text, followed by three numbered plates accompanied by explanatory text leaves. Original blind-stamped pale green cloth, with elaborate gilt tooling to spine, yellow coated..... More
A Cyclopaedia of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Finance, Commercial Geography and Navigation: Comprising Descriptive and statistical accounts of commodities, with customs and excise regulations, duties, &c. Commercial statistics of the different countries of the world, including their physical character, productions, trade, seaports, monies, measures, finances, &c. Summary of the principles of commerce, finance, and banking, with historical and statistical illustrations. Digest of commercial law, including insurance, partnership, principal and agent, bills of exchange, sale, guaranty, bankruptcy, shipping, and contracts and obligations in general. Commercial arithmetic and accounts, exchanges, coins, measures and weights, public funds, interest, annuities, and assurances, with numerous tables. Explanation of mercantile terms and usages, besides a variety of miscellaneous information. With four maps.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. [Trade and Finance Encyclopaedia] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.iv; 684. With folding maps of England, Scotland, Ireland and the World, one as a frontispiece and three at rear. Extremely small print. Publisher's brown cloth, recently re-backed with original spine laid over. Gilt titles..... More
The Energy System of Matter. A deduction from terrestrial energy phenomena.
London; Longman's. 1912. First edition. Octavo. Near fine in publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine, light bumping to spine ends, minor edgewear. Internally clean, newspaper clipping tipped in to pastedown but without offsetting. Inscribed by the author to Dr. William Park on front flyleaf. More
Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1980. [Artist Biography] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.192. Heavily illustrated with black and white in-text illustrations, as well as four double-sided colour plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the Ardizzone-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $22.50. Some bumping..... More
The Works, In Natural History, of the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Comprising the Natural History of Selborne; The Naturalist's Calendar; And Miscellaneous Observations, Extracted From His Papers. To Which Are Added, A Calendar and Observations, By W. Markwick, Esq. F.L.S. In Two Volumes.
London: J. White of Fleet Street, 1802. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii; 392; 300. Bound in original brown card boards, spine in green cloth, red title label to spine, blank endpapers. In very good condition, considering age, with general age toning and discolouration to boards and leather, some 'bubbling'..... More
Lectures on Diet and Regimen: being a Systematic Inquiry into the most Rational means of preserving Health and prolonging Life. Together with Physiological and Chemical Explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of Families, in order to banish the prevailing Abuses and Prejudices in Medicine.
London: Printed by A. Strahan for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Third Edition, revised and enlarged, of this early work on health consciousness, healthy lifestyle and general well-being through advices on personal cleanliness, exercises and rest, food, drink and spices, etc. 8vo.; pp. 674 including Index, (2) Printers' catalogue..... More
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945.
New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2007. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xxxii; 278. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $60. Light markings to jacket. Near fine. From the..... More
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
London: Printed for for J. Johnson, 1792. [Political Philosophy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 452 [2]. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all edges trimmed. Spotting to title page and facing leaves..... More