"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
The Arts & Sciences
A Short History of the Worshipful Company of Horners.
Croydon: Published for Private Circulation by George Becker, no date [1936]. [London Guild History] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 138 [8]. With 35 black and white plates. Number 33 of an unspecified circulation, with a Company bookplate to front pastedown addressed to William Henry Cork, SIGNED by..... 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
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
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
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
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
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
Lewis Carroll: Photographer.
London: Max Parrish and Co., 1949. [Photography] 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. Book is near fine, jacket with..... 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
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
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
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
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
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