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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
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
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 New Cyclopaedia of Botany and Complete Book of Herbs: Forming a History and Description of All Plants, British or Foreign.
London: W.M. Clark, no date [1854]. [Herbal] FINELY BOUND WITH COLOUR PLATES. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] iv; 348 [4]; pp.[6] 349-733 [3]; v-lix [7]. With most of the introductory matter bound at the rear of volume II, for some reason. With 99 coloured plates, including a frontispiece..... 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
Sextants at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-Staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles, and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. [Navigational Instruments] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.xii; 323 [1]. Illustrated largely in black and white, with few colour plates. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and a blind sextant device stamped to upper board. Brown endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket and..... 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
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With and Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Other Additions.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood [etc.], 1798. [Aesthetics] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a New Edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 342. With a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary full speckled calf, with gilt titles to red morocco label on spine. All edges light yellow. Ownership label of Hugh de Poix..... 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 Thorough-Base Primer: Containing Explanations and Examples of the Rudiments of Harmony; with Fifty Exercises.
Boston, MA: James Loring, 1828. [Music] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 10cm), pp.138. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine, and pain pasteboards. Plain small bookplate to front pastedown. Black ink ownership to half-title. Light occasional spotting. Moderate wear to binding, with marks and stains..... 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
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... 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
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Medical Digression.
London: Ash & Co., 1935. [Sherlock Holmes Fan Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 13cm), pp.56. Publisher's green card covers, priced at 1s. Some light spotting. Covers rubbed and toned; upper joint starting. A black ink ownership to front cover partially erased. Very good. A lecture on the medical..... 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
Les Soirées du Père de Famille, ou, Conversations Familières d'un Pere avec ses Enfans, sur Plusieurs Sujets de Morale et d'Instruction. Ouvrage destiné aux Enfans, et dont le principal objet est de les corriger de leurs défauts; dans lequel on trouve les leçons sur plusieurs points importans d'etude, tels que l'Astronomie, l'Histoire, etc. etc., et un grand nombre d'anecdotes et de traits historiques.
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, Libraire, rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, hôtel de Cluny, 1822. [Morality and Pedagogy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.333 [1]. All text in French. With six of the eight copper engraved plates, including the frontispiece and decorated title page. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to..... 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
Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. [Space-Flight Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 241 [5]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive yellow Gollancz dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Toning to edges. A little oxidation to gilt on spine. Jacket toned, with chipping to edges. Very good..... More