"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
The Arts & Sciences
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
The Problem of Industrial Relations and Other Lectures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth in scarce original dustwrapper. The book is absolutely fine and appears unread; jacket shows some chipping to spine tips, and a little toning to extremities. An attractive copy. First edition in book form. Some of these essays had appeared..... More
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale and Co., no date [1919]. [Hops and Agriculture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 120. With 30 illustrations, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with gilt titles and price of 10/6 to spine. A presentation copy with the plate of W.H. and H. Le May, London Hop..... More
Lithops: Flowering Stones.
Randburg, SA: Acorn Books, 1988. [Botany] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.x; 254. Illustrated with diagrams and colour photographs. Number 268 of 2500 copies. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Green endpapers. A fine copy. More
Darwin and the Naked Lady Discursive Essays on Biology and Art.
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1961. FIRST EDITION: Publisher's boards with original dustwrapper. A fine copy in slightly faded to spine wrapper, with small closed tear verso. From the author of "The Joy of Sex" More
Chester. Painted by E. Harrison Compton. Described by Francis Duckworth.
London: A. and C. Black, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles and decorated with grey lines to spine and upper, with the coat of arms of the city of Chester to centre of upper; top edge gilt. Illustrated with 20 colour plates from paintings by Compton with..... More
System of Positive Polity, or Treatise on Sociology, Instituting the Religion of Humanity.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875-1877. [Positivism and Humanism] COMPLETE FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 21cm), pp.lx; 618 [24]; pp.[2] xxx; 387 [25]; pp.[2] lxxxii; 536 [24]; pp.lxxx; 678 [26]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind to upper boards. Dark brown..... More
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Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey.
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
The Photograph as Contemporary Art.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2011. [Art Reference] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, new edition, later printing. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.248. Illustrated throughout in colour. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'To Edward, | The very best of | everything to you, | Charlotte Cotton | June 2011.'..... More
The Century Book of Gardening. A Comprehensive Work for Every Lover of the Garden.
London: Country Life, n.d. (c.1930). 4to. Publisher's beige cloth beautifully decorated and titled in black, green and red to spine and upper, speckled edges. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photogravures. Binding very little rubbed to extremities. A lovely copy. More
The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978-1985. FOUR VOLUMES, volume one a reprint. Quarto, pp.[10], 722; pp.[8], 695; pp.[8], 913 [2]; pp.[10], 960. With a wealth of colour illustrations. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines. With original colour illustrated dust-jackets. Jackets lightly sunned to spines. Very good indeed. The..... More
Old Waldorf Bar Days. With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Big Brass Rail; also A Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores.
New York, NY: Aventine Press, 1931. [Cocktails] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 242 [6]. With occasional vignette illustrations. INSCRIBED by Oscar Tschirky (1866-1950), Head Waiter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Judge Byron K. Elliot | with best wishes | from Oscar..... More
The Peerage of Ireland: or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them, their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Blazon, with their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentick Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. [Together with] The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by.
Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume, 1724 - 1725. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (32 x 21cm), pp.[16]; 260; [14]; 86; [10]. In recent brown speckled full panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blue ink library stamp to title page and..... More
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the World. Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. From the corrected and enlarged edition of 1845. With a Biographical Introduction. The Minerva Library of Famous Books
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. [Natural History] FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xx; 381; [15]. With 16 full page engraving, including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine, and in black to upper. Green patterned endpapers. School prize plate..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476, with pp.16 adverts bound at the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, stamped in blind to covers, coated brown endpapers. Light and occasional spotting, same ink..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second state. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476. Bound without adverts in contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Contents very clean, same neat ink name (Dutton) to each half title, binding gently aged..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1885. [Evolutionary science] SECOND EDITION, revised and augmented (nineteenth thousand),in a single volume; first published in two volumes, 1871. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 693; [1], blank. With in-text black and white illustrations. Bound in original green cloth with gilt titles to spine, ruled to covers in..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London, John Murray. 1901. New edition, with illustrations [the first of this 2/6 edition, November 1901]. Octavo, pp.1031. Bound in publisher's mid green buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine, title panel and floral decoration stamped in dark green to upper. Some trivial wear, lightly spotted, discreet ink ownership to..... More
A Naturalist's Voyage Round The World.
London: John Murray, 1909. Octavo. Bound in green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and dark green panelling and design to front board. Includes Christmas gift insert and review slip. Stain to front board, and some spotting to edges. Occassional spots in text, mostly to prelims, but largely clean, including..... More
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1892. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition (Forty-third thousand). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 432. Bound in publisher's green buckram, lettered and trimmed in gilt to backstrip, blind-stamped borders, pale blue floral-patterned endpapers. Ink name to first blank (dated 1894), second name to flyleaf, contents very clean, some browning..... More
The Works of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman.
London: William Pickering, 1986-1989. [Science / Evolution] THE COMPLETE WORKS, Pickering Masters Series. Octavo, 29 volumes. Handsomely bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edges gilt. The complete works in 29 volumes edited by Paul H. Barrett and R...... More
The Botanic Garden, A Poem. In Two Parts. Part I containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II The Loves of Plants. With Philosophical Notes.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1799. [Botany]. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourth edition. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xiv; xvii-xx; 492 [2]; pp.[4] xii; xv-xvi; 282 [6]. With 21 etchings and copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary navy full diced calf with gilt..... More
Solution Du Probleme De La Navigation Dans L'Air. Par La Direction Des Aerostats. Expose D'un Nouveau Systeme De Direction.
Librairie De Frederic Henry, Paris, 1864. 6mo., pp. 83 + 5 wood engraved plates. Publisher's paper covers, uncut. Extremities lightly frayed; general age toning. An early study on "... not only the possibility, but also the ease in piloting a balloon in flight." More
Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.
London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in..... More