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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
Letters from a Traveller.
London: Collins, 1962. First English Edition. Octavo. pp. 380. With 4 photographic illustrations including frontispiece, and a map. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original blue dust jacket. Occasional blue ink marginalia to introduction. Wear and some small closed tears to jacket edges. Some very light..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. First Edition. Octavo, pp. vi, 371. 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 copy inscribed "to Mr. T. Jones with the..... More
Action Cook Book. Len Deighton's Guide to Eating.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 and 2009. [Gastronomy] UNCORRECTED PROOF, FIRST EDITION, and REISSUE. Three volumes. Octavo (20 x 24cm, and 14 x 21cm), pp.[6] 134 [4]; pp.[6] 138; pp.320. All volumes illustrated throughout, including diagrammatic endpapers to proof and first edition. Proof in publisher's green monogrammed soft covers, with provisional..... 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
A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840. Illustrated with several hundred sketches by the author.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886. [Artistic Diary] SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.xii; 152. With an engraved portrait of the author, and a facsimile of Doyle's 1840 diary, complete with illustrations to every page. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper..... More
Italic Quartet: A Record of the Collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker, and Edward Prince in the Making the Cranach Press Italic.
Cambridge: at the University Printing House, 1966. [Private Press] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.viii; 50 [2]. With a selection of collotype illustrations, on fine handmade paper. One of 500 copies thus. Publisher's tan cloth wit gilt titles to spine and orange and brown decoration all-over. With the matching..... 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
The Booze Book.
San Francisco, CA: Determined Productions, 1967. [Cocktail Book] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (15 x 15cm), pp.68. Illustrated in colour throughout by Astrop and Hill. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine, and to corners. Jacket..... 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
Economic Warfare.
London: Macmillan and co., 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine; plain endpapers. Dust wrapper with titles to spine and front cover in red, publisher's advertisements for further titles by Einzig in red to rear cover; unprice-clipped, originally priced at 7s 6d. Dust..... 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
The Bakerian Lecture: On the manufacture of Glass for optical purposes. Read November 19, December 3 and 10, 1829. [in] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Volume 120.
London: The Royal Society, 1830. [Journal Article] FIRST APPEARANCE, a disbound section from the original journal volume. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.57 [1]. Disbound sheets with marbled edges. Paper is fine, but entirely disbound. Faraday presents the difficulties of obtaining lenses and prisms of a quality sufficient for precise scientific..... 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
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