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— Marcel Proust
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A Sketch of some Late Arrangements, and a View of the Rising Resources, in Bengal.
London: John Stockdale, 1792. First Edition; 8vo. Uncut in original grey boards with a recent cloth spine, paper title label and end papers; edges untrimmed. Markings to boards, corners bumped and frayed. Red stamp to verso of title page. A clean and sound copy. More
An Economic History of Soviet Russia.
London: Macmillan and co., 1932. First Edition. 2 vols. Octavo. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red-stained top edge, dust jackets with titles in blue on cover and spine, and list of other published title to back cover. Both volumes in good order. Dust jackets good..... More
Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century.
London and Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1884. [Engineering] PROVINCIAL IMPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304. First edition, illustrated. Contemporary brown pebble grained leather, profuse gilt to all faces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some spotting to the textblock, edges a little dusty. Binding slightly rubbed to extremities, a touch darkened to..... More
British Royal Bookplates and Ex-Libris of Related Families.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992. [Bookplates] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[8]; 259; [5]. Illustrated throughout in black and white. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Ted | with every good wish, | Brian North Lee'. Also with one of just 100 special..... More
Führer Für Fremde Durch Die Ruinen Des Heidelberg Schlosses. (A Visitor's Guide to the Castles of Heidelberg). Edited by Karl von Grainberg. Fourth Edition.
Heidelberg, 1849, 8vo., 210 x 132mm., pp. (xxxiv) + 93. Illustrated with frontispiece and a further 12 steel-engraved plates, mostly captioned in both French and German. Text in traditional Gothic typeface. Bound in original black half calf, with mottled boards and end-papers, panelled spine with raised bands outlined in gilt..... More
Addresses Delivered to the Students of The Royal Academy by the Late Lord Leighton.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1896. [Art] FINELY BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 310. With a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary green half crushed morocco by BUMPUS with raised bands, green cloth over boards, and a gilt armorial device stamped to upper..... More
In His Own Write.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Illustrated Verse] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.79; [1], blank. Illustrated by Lennon in his own amusing and unique style. Publisher's glossy blue covers with the famous portrait of Lennon by Robert Freeman to upper. Very discreet and unobtrusive owner name to top margin..... More
A World on the Wane.
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Memoir] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.404. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 42s net. With a colour photographic frontispiece, a suite of sixty-three black and white photographs, and fifty-three in-text line drawings. Internally fine, some light spotting..... More
Holland House.
London: Macmillan 1874. FINELY BOUND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo, pp.xvi, 289, pp.xi, 255. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark blue half Morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt compartments to spine, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Five steel engraved plates, eight lithographed facsimiles, and..... More
Avars and Ancient Hungarians.
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1983. First Edition. Large Octavo. pp. 208 [24]. With 24 unpaginated plates, Bibliography, Supplements and Index. In publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With original white dust jacket featuring skulls and green titles. Jacket browned to a cream colour, otherwise unblemished - very good overall..... More
A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1699. SECOND EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. [3], 245 [3]. With 6 folding engraved plates, originally facing p. 242, now tipped in between publisher's adverts at rear. In contemporary embossed mottled brown calf boards, respined during the nineteenth century in the style of the original binding..... More
Cookery Up-To-Date: A practical handbook of what to eat and how to cook it.
London: Harrods, n.d. [c.1930]. RARE, Revised Edition. Crown Octavo. pp. 247. In publisher's paper-covered boards with black titles and orange decoration. Black ink ownership inscription to front paste-down dated 1931. Paper heavily browned. Upper joint starting towards head and tail; a good copy considering poor quality materials. More
The Works of John Locke, Esq. Including: An Essay concerning Human Understanding, Some Thoughts concerning Education, Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering the Interest, and Raising the Value of Money, An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin, Some Thoughts concerning Education, etc.
London: Printed for Edmund Parker,... 1740. The Fourth Edition. 3 volumes; Folio. Contemporary full calf boards, recently respined to style with red title label and gilt; edges tinted. With portrait frontispiece and 1 plate. Original boards scratched and marked, corners repaired. Browning and foxing throughout. Bookplate to paste downs. A...... 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
Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Five and Badminton.
London: Seeley, Service and Co., n.d. [1933]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 X 16cm), pp.327 With 115 Illustrations. Publisher's deluxe binding of quarter green leather over buckram boards with gilt crest to upper, raised bands and gilt tiled to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with diagrams and photographic plates..... More
The Game of Cricket. With Fifty-five Illustrations.
London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1930. FIRST EDITION with dated title page. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.255. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's tan buckram blocked in gilt, top edge tinted brown. Vintage gift note to flyleaf. Edges of text block a little toned/spotted otherwise fine, in lightly marked cloth. More
The Game of Golf. Containing: Stroke Play, by Joyce and Roger Withered; Match and Medal Play, Practice, Middle-Aged Golf, Watching for Profit and Famous Courses, by Bernard Darwin; History and Literature, by Horace Hutchinson; Golf Architecture and Green-Keeping, by T.C. Simpson. With 100 Illustrations.
London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1931. FIRST EDITION with dated title page. pp.251. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's tan buckram blocked in gilt, top edge tinted brown. Page edges a little toned otherwise fine, in lightly marked cloth. More
Beautiful Leaved Plants. Being a Description of the Most Beautiful Leaved Plants in this Country; To which is added an Extended Catalogue.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1861. [Botany] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[8]; [ii]; 144. Contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth, gilt titles and tooling to spine, plain green endpapers. With sixty plates in colour, including frontispiece. Textblock a little shaken, some watermarking, toning, spotting and thumb marks throughout..... 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
Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology. Illustrated with Maps, Plates, and Woodcuts.
London: John Murray, 1853. [Geology] REVISED NINTH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 835; [1]. With four wood engraved plates including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board. At some point rebacked with the..... 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 label to..... 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