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The Economic Cottage Builder: or, Cottages for Men of Small Means. Adapted to every locality, with instructions for choosing the most economical materials afforded by the neighborhood. To which are added many valuable hints and most useful observations.
Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim and Co., 1856. 8vo. Illustrated with tinted designs on stone. Publisher's original embossed brown cloth with gilt titles and devices to spine and upper. Head of spine and corners frayed; light marking to edges; some light foxing. A very good copy. More
Paul Nash 1889-1946. The Master of the Image.
London: John Murray, 1973. [Art Biography and Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.xvi; 156. With a catalogue of 144 images, mainly black and white, as well as several black and white photographic plates. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt device to upper. Top edge..... More
Trees, Woods and Man. The New Naturalist Library 32.
London: Collins, 1970. [Natural History] REVISED EDITION, third overall. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With 12 double-sided plates, both colour and black and white. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at £2.25. Light spotting and browning to..... More
Chromes.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (34 x 33cm), pp.728. Publisher's blue, red and yellow cloth with black titles to spine. With the grey cloth-covered slipcase titled in yellow and orange, still in the original shrink wrap. A fine, as-new copy. William Eggleston's standing as one of..... 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
Narrative Of A Tour Through Hawaii or Owhyhee; with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants.
London: H Fisher, Son, and P Jackson, 1828. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Bound in calf, with extensive gilt and blind panelling to boards, and decorative gilt to spine with red label and gilt titles. Includes frontispiece portrait of Ellis, two maps and eight plates, and bookplate. Maps in fine condition, bright..... More
Some Common Birds of West Africa. With Coloured lllustrations.
Lagos: Church Missionary Society Bookshop, no date [1933]. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.xii; 112. With a fine colour illustration of each bird. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Light spotting to endpapers. Very light rubbing to cloth with a few marks to lower..... More
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
Donald Maxwell 1877-1936.
Kendal: The Maxwell Estate, 1995. [Art Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.xvi; 245 [3]. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper board. Decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. A small gum mark to..... More
English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century.
London: Batsford. 1947. First Edition. Crown Quarto, pp. xv, 190. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to front, top edge stained blue. Some bumping to corners and to head, and tail caps. Light rubbing to covers. More
Zur Chirurgie des Herzens und des Herzbeutels, in 'Archiv fur Klinische Chirurgie'.
Berlin: Verlag von August Hirshwald 1907. Pp.904. Original printed wrappers. Prof. Dr. Rehn's treatise appears on pp.723-778. A fine copy, in a folding protective case with gilt-titled orange leather label to spine and gilt crest to upper (some wear to box). This is an account of the first successful suture..... 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
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
Nouveau Dictionnaire des Passages François-Allemand et Allemand-François, oder Neues Französisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Französisches Wöter-Buch, worinn alle Französische Wöter, auch der Künste und Wissenschaften, aus den vollkommensten und neuesten Wöterbuchern, nebst den nöthigen Constructionen und Redensarten, durch kürzlich gezeigte Etnmologie, und durch das gebräuchlichste, auch reineste Deutsch erklärt worden, daß die liebhaber bender Sprachen dieses Buch mit großem Rußen gebrauchen können.
Leipzig: In Johann Friedrich Sleditschens Handlung, 1780. [French-German Dictionary] NEW EDITION, revised. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[32] 2039; 4-743. French printed in Italic; German printed in Gothic. With a copper engraved frontispiece. In a contemporary or slightly later vellum binding with black titles to spine and a faint blind armorial..... 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
The Thessaloniki Photographs.
Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2008. [Greek Photography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 23cm), pp.104. A collection of colour and black and white photographs accompanying the contemporaneous exhibition, recording life in Thessaloniki between the late 1960's and the mid 1990's. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards with titles in red and..... More
Lewis Carroll: Photographer.
London: Max Parrish and Co., 1949. FIRST EDITION. 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 head..... 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
Light Matters: Writings on Photography.
New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2005. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.248. Publilsher's brown paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Francesca Richer, priced at $29.95 / £16.95. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward..... More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). SIGNED by the composer in blue ink to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's..... More
Dogs in Art.
London: Reaktion Books, 2019. [Art history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.280. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, titles in yellow to spine, dust-jacket featuring a detail from a painting by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet and a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, yellow/green endpapers. With 164 illustrations, 158 in colour..... 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