The Arts & Sciences
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in..... More
Poisonous Plants on the Farm. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Miscellaneous Publications No. 57.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.58. With 51 illustrations to plate section at rear. In original leather-effect blue quarter cloth, with titles to plain paper-covered boards. Boards lightly browned, with a couple of small water stains to top edge (upper board only). Near fine overall... More
Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone. The New Naturalist Library 16.
London: Collins, 1950. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 254. With 52 colour photographs, 29 black and white photographs, and 35 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 21s. Spotting to..... More
History of Art.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. [Art History]. FINELY BOUND second edition, Stanhope Forbes' copy. 2 volumes. Small quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 466; [2]; pp.[2]; xii; 473; [3]. With 403 in-text wood engravings. In contemporary tan full calf prize binding for Dulwich College, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Frink: A Portrait.
London: Bloomsbury, 1994. [Sculpture] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 23cm), pp.vi; 138. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Photographic endpapers. Slight creasing and toning to wrapper. Near fine. More
General Nursing.
London: Kegan Paul, 1899. [Nursing and Medicine] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 356. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dark navy endpapers. black ink gift inscription to title page dated 1900, relating to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Also to recto of rear free endpaper. Small..... More
Contract of Copartnery of the Clydesdale Banking Company.
Glasgow: James Lumsden and Son, 1838. [Scottish Banking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.70 [2]. Publisher's watered-silk-effect cloth over boards, with titles and crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt. A rather exquisite pencil sketch of the Clyde with square-rigged ships moored either side to verso of..... More
The Environs of London: Being An Historical Account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of That Capital; Interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes. County of Surrey.
London: by A. Strahan for T. Cadell in The Strand, 1792. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.xii;593; [1], blank; [8], General Index. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and engraved dedication. With twenty-four plates (one folding and three being hand-coloured) and two folding charts. Original marbled calf, neatly rapired to joints, later title..... More
Life in Lakes and Rivers. The New Naturalist Library 15.
London: Collins, 1951. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With 45 colour photographs, 68 black and white photographs, and 20 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 21s. Light spotting..... More
Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of Ruins.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. [Photography]. FIRST THUS. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.286. With 160 photogravure images, 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, and 29 maps and plans. Publisher's black and white illustrated leatherette boards with silver titles to spine and upper board. Silver illustrated endpapers. Light browning to..... More
Jack B. Yeats, An Appreciation and Interpretation.
Dublin: Victor Waddington, 1945. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 39. Followed by 19 b/w plates of the artist's work. Limited to 250 copies. In publisher's quarter red cloth with tan paper-covered boards, red titles and red 'JB' monogram. Grey end-papers. With original light tan dust jacket featuring red title..... More
A History of English Furniture. Comprising of: The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of Mahogany, and The Age of Satinwood. With plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe, and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1938. 4 volumes, folio (37 x 28cm). Generously illustrated with chromolithographic and black and white plates. Bound in half burgundy oasis morocco with gilt titles, raised bands to spines, matching cloth boards, top edges tinted red. Internally clean, a few minor marks to covers. A...... More
Performing Under Diffilculties. A recent experience.
By the author. c.1924. Pamphlet,14pp. Original plain, green, paper board, with three staples. Owner's inscription to upper and title page, typography in typewriter style. A good copy. More
Short Whist: its rise, Progress, and Laws; with observations to make any one a Whist Player. By Major A. To which are added, Precepts for Tyros. By Mrs. B.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. [Card Games] VINTAGE EDITION, Fourteenth Edition. Small octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.111 [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Publisher's blind-decorated green cloth over card covers, with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. Two very small bookseller's tickets to front pastedown. Browning to..... More
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with An Inquiry into our Prospects respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it occasions. Reprinted from the last Edition Revised by the author.
London: Ward Lock and Co. n.d (c.1880). With a Biography of Malthus. Quarto, pp614 +pp.16 (advertisemnets). A fine ninetenth century copy in publisher's leather-effect printed cloth, gitl-titled to spine. Binding is rubbed to joints and spine ends, worn to corners, with a significant splash mark to the front board. Rev..... More
The Garden Party, and Other Stories.
London; The Verona Press. [1939]. Limited Edition, Number 135 of 1200 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni after a design by Hans Mardersteig. 4to. Absolutely fine in publisher's paper covered boards in fine dustwrapper. Slipcase with some splitting to base of spine panel. An absolutely impeccable copy of a beautiful..... More
The Haunted Major. Author of 'His Excellency the Governor' etc.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1951. First Illustrated Edition, small 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in pale green pictorial dust jacket. Including 10 comical illustrations throughout the text by John McKay. Slightly bumped to head of spine, some foxing to top edge. In bright dust jacket..... More
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War.
Chichester: Pallant House Gallery, 2014. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.160. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. INSCRIBED by the author and curator in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with all good | wishes, | Simon Martin.' Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers..... More
British Mammals. The New Naturalist Library 21.
London: Collins, 1952. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xii; 410 [2]. With 16 colour plates, 48 black and white plates, and 92 in-text drawings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 25s. Heavy spotting..... More
Every Man is His Own Gardener; The Complete Gardener; Being a Gardener's Calendar and General Directory.
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1826. ENLARGED AND IMPROVED EDITION. Octavo, pp. 658, 10 of index. Frontispiece engraving. Brown cloth with paper label to spine, edges untrimmed. A revised edition edited by R. Forsyth. Some toning and spotting to the textblock, dustiness to edges. Bookplate to front pastedown, neat ownership..... More
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Second Edition, greatly enlarged.
London: Printed For William Tait, Edinburgh, and others 1830. Second edition "Corrected and Greatly Enlarged", in the original cloth, untrimmed (a tall copy with generous margins). 8vo. pp. xii, 563. complete with half-title. Bound in original dark green pebble-grain cloth with paper title label to spine (mostly chipped). Joints are..... More
A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1845. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xv; 504; [32 of publisher's catalogue dated October 1 1884]. Publisher's dark green embossed cloth, gilt titles to spine. Hand coloured bookplate of Charles de Fischer to flyleaf. Armorial stamp to title page. Textblock marginally toned..... More
Preliminary Studies for H. M. Factory, Gretna, and, Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, no date [1920]. [Munitions Factory Plans] SIGNED BY KENNETH BINGHAM QUINAN, one of just 1000 copies. Large octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 145 [1]. With 24 large folding plans and diagrams. SIGNED and dated 3rd November 1920 by Quinan in black ink to front pastedown..... More
Middle East Diary 1917 to 1956.
London: The Cresset Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with red title label to spine. Dust wrapper shows menorah and title to front cover, titles to spine, and review of "The Seat of Pilate" by John Marlowe to rear cover; unprice-clipped, originally priced 35 s. Binding..... More
Pesticides and Pollution. The New Naturalist Library 50.
London: Collins, 1967. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.221. With two colour photographs, 21 black and white photographs, and occasional in-text maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 30s. Spotting to..... More