The Arts & Sciences
James Cook and the Conquest of Scurvy.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. [History of Medicine] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 163 [3]. With a suite of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp..... More
Dali by Dali.
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. [Art and Philosophy] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 156 [4]. Heavily illustrated in colour. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced with a sticker at £2.50. A touch of toning to extremities..... More
Electrical Power Transmission and Interconnection.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd, 1930. [Engineering] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xi; [1]; 424; 23; [1]. With numerous in-text diagrams and mathematical figures. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt device to upper and gilt titles to upper and spine. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Light toning throughout..... More
Monarchy, and Three Political Letters.
New York, NY: The Noonday Press, 1954. [Political and Theological Philosophy] FIRST THUS, an English edition translated by Nicholl and Hardie. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. xxii; 121 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown monogrammed endpapers. With the brown typographic dust-jacket, priced at $2.75. Internally crisp..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: Watts & Co., 1950. [Evolutionary Science] FIRST REPRINT OF THE 1859 EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 426. With a facsimile frontispiece showing the original 'Whale-Bear' passage. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. A touch of light toning..... More
The Different Forms of Flowers, on Plants of the Same Species. The Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 351 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge..... More
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits.
London: John Murray, 1881. [Biology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] vii [1] 326 [2], publisher's advertisement to rear. With numerous in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth, boards blind-ruled, gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. With a loose photograph included. Minor, infrequent spotting, mostly to front and rear blanks..... More
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America. Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1896]. [Geology] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 648 [2]. With two folding maps, one colour folding plate, and three further folding illustrated plates, as well a numerous in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1869. [Evolutionary science] FIFTH Edition, tenth thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 596; 32. With the folding tree diagram to pg.132 and Murray's advertisements to rear. With 29 chief additions and corrections from the fourth edition. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind to boards, with three gilt..... More
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Authorized Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 461 [1]; pp.[4] viii; 478 [2]. With 43 in-text illustrations to volume I, and a black and white photographic frontispiece to each volume. Number 127 of 1000..... More
A Book of Mediterranean Food.
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1951. [Travel and Cookery] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Minton, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, with gilt titles to brown backing on the spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Minton..... 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
Alphabets Old and New. Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Complete Alphabets, Thirty Series of Numerals, and Numerous Facsimiles of Ancient Dates, Etc., for the Use of Craftsmen, with an Introductory Essay on "Art in the Alphabet."
London: B.T. Batsford, 1898. [Arts and crafts] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxii; 40 [159 unpaginated plates], 10. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front blank. With 178 illustrations of alphabets throughout. Publisher's red cloth, designs and titles blocked in black to upper and spine..... More
Brangwyn Talks.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1944. [Art] FIRST EDITION, with a LETTER FROM BRANGWYN. Limited to 500 copies, this being number 92. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xx; 182. Includes a carbon copy of an original letter from Brangwyn to fellow artist Delmar Banner. With 24 halftone plates including a frontispiece, as..... More
The Life and Times of Madame Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin.
Reims: Printed for Champagne Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin by the Curwen Press, 1961. [Champagne] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. With frequent black and white illustrations by Drian. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow patterned soft covers, with the original..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. [Natural history] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 371; [1], blank. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation..... More
Action Cook Book. Len Deighton's Guide to Eating.
London: Penguin, Harper Perennial 1967 and 2009. [Gastronomy] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION, and HARDBACK REISSUE. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 24cm, and 14 x 21cm). Both volumes illustrated throughout. 1967 edition in publisher's photographic covers designed by Raymond Hawkey, reissue in with same artwork, adding a four-line quote from Michael Caine..... More
Où Est Le Garlic. French Cooking In 50 Lessons. Including chapters on L'Art Culinaire, Les Viandes, Les Fromages, Les Corps Gras, La Carte des Vins, La Cuisine Francaise et Le Froid, Le Lexique, La Batterie de Cuisine, and 50 Cookstrips 50.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. [French Cookery] FIRST U.S. EDITION, being the FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.224. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, without jacket as issued. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Price obscured to rear else a fine copy. True first hardback, following the..... More
London Photographs.
London: The Museum of London, 1999. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.131 [1]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's black soft covers with white titles. Light rubbing to covers. Near fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver... More
The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery. With a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle.
London: Paddington Press, 1978. FIRST EDITION. Double-width Crown Octavo (19 x 26cm), pp.xxx, 91. In publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. End-papers with burgundy marbling effect. With original burgundy dust jacket. Jacket worn and lightly chipped to edges. Light even browning to text-block, as expected..... More
Life's Not a Rehearsal. The Autobiography of Margaret Durdant-Hollamby, MBE, Founder of the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks: Durdant-Hollamby, 1998. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 239 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and architect's drawings to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More
A Zoo in My Luggage.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. [Animals] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.205 [3]. With frequent illustrations by Ralph Thompson. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket, also illustrated by Thompson, re-priced by the publisher from 18s to 16s. A nice crisp copy with..... More
Economic Problems of the Next War.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1939. FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. x, 146 [2]. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Lacking jacket. Slight sunning to spine, otherwise very good. More
Finance and Politics. Being a Sequel to "Behind the Scenes on International Finance".
London: Macmillan, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x, 139. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small bookseller's sticker from the Hague to front paste-down. One or two page corners folded over (and since folded back). Small black ink inscription reading 'April 1932' to upper board. Very light pencil..... More