"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Book of Martyrs. Containing an Authentic Account of the Lives, Persecutions and Sufferings of the Holy Martyrs. And forming a Complete History of Martyrdom from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Time. Revised, Corrected, and Improved by the Rev. John Malham. Embellished with a series of superior Engravings from Original Designs.
London: Thomas Kelly, 1822. Folio; pp. (viii), ix-cviii, 692, (iv). Contemporary full calf with rubbed gilt rule to marked boards, corners nicely restored; respined to style with gilt raised bands, black title label, blind tooling to compartment. Marbled end papers; with 2 crimson and gilt leather owners labels to paste..... More
Papers on Current Finance.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 280. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamps of the Swedish Bankers' Association to endpapers, lightly toned to edges. slight wear to the top and bottom of the binding. Near fine. More
A Book of Ornamental Glazing Quarries, Collected and Arranged from Ancient Examples.
London: John Henry Parker, 1849. [Stained Glass] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.34. With 112 tinted lithographic plates, complete with tissue guards. Later red cloth with white titles to spine, top edge gilt. Some light spotting to preliminaries, toned to edges. Light rubbing to binding. Very good... More
The Drift of Buddhism From India to the Mongols and Thibet.
London: Robert Banks and son, 1905. Octavo. Bound in paper covers; originally priced at 6d. With a coloured folding map showing the distribution of world religions. The paper cover is somewhat worn, with some small tears to joints, also somewhat tanned. Largely free from spotting, though with some rust spots..... More
Journal of the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and other Patented Inventions. Third Series. Vol. XXI, Whole No. Vol. LI [and] LII.
Philadelphia, PA: Published by the Franklin Institute, 1851. [Engineering Papers] ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 444; pp.[2]; 444; [4]. With numerous folding charts and diagrams. Later straight grained tan morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, as well..... More
The Art of Photoplay Making.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1918. [Filmmaking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 283; [11]. With 10 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece of the Venus de Milo. Publisher's brown cloth. gilt titles to spine and in dark brown to upper board, dust-jacket title with printed price of $2.00..... More
Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings; A Catalogue and a List of Criticisms.
New York: Godfrey A. S. Wieners. 1903. First Edition. Quarto, pp. 62. Limited edition of 250 copies, quarter bound with a cream parchment spine over dark grey cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine, and gilt decoration to rear. Fore and tail edges untrimmed. Small split along the..... More
Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied. For the Use of Colleges and Schools.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. FINE PRIZE BINDING, fourteenth edition. Octavo, pp.[2]; xii; 1115; [3]. With 9 colour plates including a frontispiece, and numerous futher in-text engraved illustrations. In contemporary aubergine full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and large gilt crest of King's College London to..... More
Hand-book of Ready Reference.
Springfield, Mass. King Richardson Pub. Co. 1897. FIRST EDITION: 4to. 636pp. Attractively bound in half brown morocco with brown cloth boards, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine and handsome marbled endpapers. A comprehensive practical guide to animal husbandry. Contains many monochrome wood engravings and two intricate full colour cut-away/pop-ups of..... More
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston: Little Brown 1897. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated. Attractive Art-Nouveau style binding in full green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. with gilt floral endpapers. Spine sunned else fine. Includes a chapter on Salem. More
Magic Without Apparatus. A treatise on the principles, old and new, of sleight of hand with cards, coins, billiard balls and thimbles.
New Jersey; Fleming Book Company. 1945. Conjuring. First US edition. Large 8vo. 527pp. Bound in publishers light blue buckram titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Clean and bright, very good indeed. Minor edgewear. Internally clean and bright, a comprehensive and fascinating work on simple sleight of..... More
Lewis Carroll: Photographer.
London: Max Parrish and Co., 1949. FIRST EDITION. Square Octavo, pp.xii; 121; [5]. With 64 photogravure plates, featuring portraits of several notable authors, artists and their family contemporary with Lewis Carroll. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Gilt partially oxidised; wear to jacket..... More
Aerodynamics of the Helicopter.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, no date [1952]. [Aviation] GALLEY PROOF. A4 photocopied paper, ring-bound in black plastic with clear plastic covers. (28 x 24cm), lacking pages 2 and 3 (one sheet of paper). pp.[6] 1; 4-343. A small blank area of the first page cut away. Browned throughout..... More
The World's Foundations, or, Geology for Beginners.
London: Seeley and Co., 1892. Octavo; fine prize binding for Aske's Hatcham School for Girls, 1894; full red calf-leather with gilt lettering / tooling and green title background; all edges marbled; inner dentelle and marbled endpapers; prize bookplate on front free endpaper; 16 illustrations; pp. xiv, 315; some slight wear..... More
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries.
London: Effingham Wilson, 1831. [Phillosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; viii; 471; [5]. Publisher's original brown paper-covered boards, with a later respibne in green cloth with the original paper title label retained and laid on, new endpapers supplied. All edges untrimmed. Occasional thumbmark and some sporadic light spotting..... More
The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East.
London: Printed for N. Newbury, 1762. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Foolscap octavo, pp.viii, 286 [2]; pp.[2], 238 [16]. In contemporary mottled calf boards, recently re-backed to style with raised bands and gilt titles to original red labels to spines. Armorial bookplates of the De Burghs, Earls of Clanricarde..... More
Geography Anatomiz'd: or, the Geographical Grammar. Being a short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Modern geography, After a New and Curious Method. Comprehending I. A general View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a Compendious System of the true Fundamentals of Geography; Digested into various Definitions, Problems, Theorems, and Paradoxes; with a transient Survey of the Surface of the Earthly Ball, as it consists of Land and Water. II. A particular View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a clear and pleasant Prospect of all remarkable Countries upon the Face of the whole Earth; shewing their Situation, Extent, Division, Sub-division, Cities, Chief Towns, Name, Air, Soil, Commodities, Rarities, Archbishopricks, Arms, Religion. Collected from the best Authors, and illustrated with divers Maps.
London: Printed for A. Ward [etc.], 1744. [Maps]. FINELY BOUND, the Eighteenth Edition, corrected, with new maps. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[24]; 432. With 16 folding maps depicting most parts of the world known at that time. Contemporary brown calf, recently re-backed with original brown calf spine with gilt titles..... More
The Complete Plain Words.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954. [Official English]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14 cm), pp.vi; 209; [1]. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to black strip on spine. With original cream dust-jacket. Jacket spine lightly toned, with some rubbing to edges. Very good indeed. An amalgamation of 'Plain..... More
The Story of St Thomas's 1106-1947.
London: Faber and Faber, 1947. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.72. With eight colour plates and 41 further illustrations. SIGNED by 35 members of the hospital nursing staff, in blue and black ink to the front free endpaper. In publisher's cream paper-covered boards with blue and red titles and hospital..... More
Trout Culture.
New York. 1870. 8vo., pp. 90 + ii. Original brown embossed cloth. Waterstaining to a few leaves. An early book on this subject. Very Good. More
The Trees of Old England: Sketches of the Aspects, Associations, and Uses of those which Constitute the Forests, and give Effect to the Scenery of our Native Country.
London: F. Pitman, 1868. [Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 96 [2]. With occasional in-text engravings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and blind decoration to boards. Dark brown coated endpapers. Browning throughout. Light rubbing to cloth. Some marks and soiling to upper board. Very good... More
The History Of The Great Northern Railway 1845-1895.
Methuen and Co., London. 1898. 8vo., pp. vi, 429, (+ publisher's catalogue pp. 40.) Publisher's dark red cloth. Ex-library copy, with bookplates and stamps internally and number to spine, previous owner's name. Light rubbing, edges bumped, hinges starting, overall light wear. Very Good. More
The Evolution of Man.
London; Watts and Co. 1905. First UK Edition. Two Volumes, Large 8vo. Near fine in like dustwrappers, publisher's blue cloth with titles and ruling in bronze gilt to spines, minor edgewear. Handsome copies. Some minor edgewear to wrappers and uniform toning to spine panels, inside flap on volume 2 with..... More
History of the United States, From their first settlement as colonies, to the close of the war with Great Britain in 1815.
London: John Miller, 1826. First English Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's paper boards, with paper title label to spine; all edges uncut. Binding is worn, with bumping to corners and spine ends, spine chipped, extremities worn, joints cracked. Internally clean,with spotting to prelims and final pages. A popular early US..... More
Fashion Drawing and Dress Design. A Handbook dealing with Proportion, construction, pose and draping of the adult and child figure with numerous illustrations.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1928. [Fashion] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 164; [4] of advertisements. Publisher's cloth, titled in red and black to spine and upper. Illustrated throughout in red and black. Neat gift inscription to half title, occasional marks to the textblock but generally..... More