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— Henry Ward Beecher
The Arts & Sciences
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics. With the use of the Globes, the Art of Dealing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses.
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1773. 4to. Illustrated with 36 folding engraved plates with partial, light offsetting. Full calf binding with red title label to spine. Levenside bookplate. Upper joint repaired. A superb copy. Ferguson's book was one of the first in English to deal extensively with mechanics and hydraulics..... 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
The Human Race.
London: Cassell Petter and Galpin, [c.1882.]. Octavo. Bound in full calf, gilt ruling to boards, with raised bands, red title label and extra gilt to spine; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blind tooling to board margins, gilt to board edges. Illustrated with 242 engravings. The binding is a little rubbed..... 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
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge [Fishing] wyth an Angle. Being a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book on the Subject of Fishing Printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496. With an Introduction by Rev. M.G. Watkins.
London: Elliot Stock, 1880. Publisher's original embossed thick vellum boards, stained, respined in vellum; internally very clean; pages untrimmed. "The book is of extreme interest... that it has served as a literary quarry to so many succeeding writers on fishing, who have not disdained to adapt the authoress's sentiments to..... More
A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Hastings: G. Wool, 1833. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 94. Folding chart with four hand coloured geological sections bound in at the rear, plus in text illustrations. Original patterned cloth, with recent paper label to spine. Cancelled library stamp and neat inscription to..... More
Lectures on Sculpture. Delivered before The Royal Academy.
London, 1892. Prize-binding by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt; school name and recipient gilt-tooled to front board (this copy awarded by The Royal Academy of Arts, 1906). With engraved portrait frontispiece, and fifty three plates. A fine copy. 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
Medicina Gerocomica: Or the Galenic Art of preserving old men's healths.
London: J. Isted, 1725. SECOND CORRECTED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xviii; 157; [3]. Bound in contemporary panelled speckled calf, professionally respined to style with gilt titles on a red morocco square. Embellished with rather rather charming sporadic woodcut vignettes. An open letter to "Mr. Ch...... St......." by Floyer in response to a...... More
A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees. In which a New Method of Pruning and Training is fully described. To which is added, A New and Improved Edition of 'Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in all kind of Fruit and Forest Trees.' With an Account of a particular Method of Cure.
London: For T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. The Third Edition, with Addition. 8vo.; pp. xxx, 523. With 13 folding copper plates. Contemporary full speckled calf, green title label and gilt to spine. Bookplate to paste down. Upper joint cracked but holding strong; lower joint starting. An excellent, clean copy..... More
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
Respectability: Its Rise and Remedy.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters [Roycroft Press], 1905. [Philosophy and Self-Help] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 122; [2]. Number 68 of just 107 copies finely printed on Imperial Japan Vellum, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Contemporary blue half morocco with raised bands..... 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
Myths Of The Origin Of Fire.
London: Macmillan and co., 1930. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii; 237. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, fore edge and tail edge deckled. Brown paper unclipped dustjacket shows titles to front cover and spine, with publisher's advertisements to rear cover, originally priced at 12s..... 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