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The Arts & Sciences
Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980.
London: The Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1980. First Edition. Quarto, pp. 20, 100 black and white plates. Black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in striking black and white dustjacket. Slight wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustwrapper and some bubbling along the left hand edge of..... More
Nudes.
New York, NY: The Arts Publisher, 1986. [Art] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (38 x 34cm), Unpaginated, with 21 drawings, etchings, photographs, and chromolithographic reproductions of watercolours by Brandt, and a poem by Guest printed over four leaves at rear. Number 195 of 750 copies, signed by the artist in pencil..... More
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
Indian Mission in Guiana.
London, George Bell, 1851. Small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine. with engraved frontispiece, title vignette, engraved map and 9 engraved plates. Head and tail of spine bumped, extremities rubbed. Light browning to edges of plates, otherwise very good. FIRST EDITION. 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
Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumours and Intumescence. Reprinted from the 'Guy's Hospital Reports.'
London: The New Sydenham Society, 1861. [Medicine] SECOND PRINTING THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 326. With occasional in-text diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind and gilt decoration to boards. All edges red; yellow-coated endpapers. Exceptionally crisp and clean internally. Rubbing to spine..... More
The Book of the Triumph: A Complete Guide for Owners and Prospective Purchasers of Triumph Motor-Cycles and Sidecars. Dealing with every Phase of the Subject, including chapters on Driving, Touring, Adjustments and Overhauling. Pitman's Motorcyclists Library.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1941. [Motorcycles] SIXTH EDITION, a later printing. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.vi; 89 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth spine with paper over boards. Advertisements to rear cover and endpapers. Some rubbing to edges and sunned spine. A clean, tidy example. Very good. More
Having the Last Word.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Etymology] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.132. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to edges; spine toned with some rubbing to cloth. Very good. The sixth in Brown's popular..... More
Say the Word.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. [Etymology] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.127 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a blue ink gift inscription addressed to his wife to flyleaf: 'Violet H. Attlee |..... More
Advice to Mothers, on the subject of their own Health; and on the means of promoting the Health, Strength, and Beauty, of their Offspring.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4]; 419; [1]. Recently re-backed with a cream paper-covered spine using original blue/grey paper-covered boards. Hand-written black ink titles to white label on spine; all edges untrimmed. Large damp stain extending through the first 50 pages of text, with (inactive)..... More
The Mummy. Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1893. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo, pp.xvi, 404. Bound in the publisher's red cloth, with gilt stamp of Mestha (otherwise known as Imseti) to front board, double-ruled blind panneling to boards, gilt titles and publisher's imprint to spine; deckled edges, newspaper insert pasted in to front flyleaf..... More
The Search for the Western Sea. The Story of the Exploration of North-Western America.
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1908. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated with 51 plates and 6 folding maps. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine and upper, top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, wear to corners, bookplate, faint yellowing to pages, first free end paper's edge frayed, archival repair to..... More
The Story of Broadcasting.
London: Cassell and Company, 1924. [Wireless and radio] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 182 [2]. With eight half-tone plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 to to spine. Offsetting to endpapers; a little..... More
Winchester Cathedral 1079-1979.
Southampton: Paul Cave Publications Ltd., 1979. [History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xvi; 352. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, brown endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £10. With a foreword by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Profusely illustrated throughout, predominately in black and white..... More
Results of Reading
London: John Murray 1843. First Edition. Octavo, pp.viii; 351; [1], imprint. Conforms to the BL copy. Original half navy calf with gilt and blind decorations to spine, combed marbled sides, coated yellow endpapers. Some light and acceptable wear, inside paper joint parted, minor spotting. Essentially a clean, near fine copy..... More
Practical Game Preserving: containing the fullest directions for rearing and preserving both winged and ground game, and destroying vermin; with other information of value to the game preserver.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884. [Hunting and Shooting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 570 [10]. With occasional wood engravings. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt and black decoration to upper. Publisher's monogrammed endpapers. Small bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Spotting to preliminaries, small mark..... More
The Microscope, and its Revelations.
London: John Churchill, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xx, 778 [2]. With 345 wood engraved diagrams. In publisher's blind-tooled cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Slight reading lean and a little external wear; very good indeed. A popular early manual on the use of the microscope, by..... More
Illuminations.
San Francisco, CA: Editions One, 1996. [Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.120. Publisher's black cloth, titles in grey to spine, grey endpapers, dust-jacket. Inscribed by the photographer to the dedication page: "to Kate and Dick | with warmest regards | - William Carter | December 1996"..... More
Unmarried Love. Sexual Wisdom for the Single.
London: Jarrolds, 1965. [Sex advice] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with red and black titles, priced at 15s. Light spotting to edges and endpapers. Cloth a rubbed and marked, bumped to fore edge and top corners. Jacket lightly sunned..... More
![ECONOMICS] A Statistical View of the Population of Massachussetts, from 1765 to 1840. Jesse...](/pictures/thumb/15200.jpg?v=1493310809)
[ECONOMICS] A Statistical View of the Population of Massachussetts, from 1765 to 1840.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Small 4to. Publisher's grey paper wrappers with printed titles to spine and upper. Little nicks to head and tail of spine and to corners. Boston Library label to inner cover and small ink stamp to bottom of title page. Clean and strong..... More
Studies in Terrestrial Magnetism.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First printing of a collection of the main results of Chree's works on Terrestrial Magnetism up to 1912, with several charts and diagrams. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and embossed to upper. A superb copy of a rare book..... More
On the Theory and Practice of Midwifery.
London: Henry Renshaw, 1855. [Obstetrics] THIRD EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.ii-xvi; 667 [5]. Lacking the half-title. With 119 in-text wood engravings. Recently rebound in brown buckram with the original gilt and blind-decorated cloth laid over boards and spine. New endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Occasional moderate spotting; lightly browned..... More
Landscape into Art.
London: John Murray, 1949. [Landscape Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 148. With 52 double-sided half-tone plates at rear. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Graham Sutherland, priced at 25s. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Slightly short jacket toned to..... More
The Exploration of Space.
London: Temple Press Ltd, 1951. [Science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiii; [1]; 198. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leslie Carr, cosmic endpapers. With fifteen plates plus a number of in-text illustrations. Internally clean with some light spotting to the preliminaries and to..... More
Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics. Technical Trends Series.
London: Temple Press Limited, 1950. [Space Exploration] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 164 [2]. With six double-sided black and white plates. SIGNED to flyleaf by the author, and eleven other important science fiction writers and editors, including John (Wyndham) Harris, author of 'The Day of the Triffids'..... More