The Arts & Sciences
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
A history of drugs.
Basle: F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Co., 1971. [Drugs and Herbal Stimulants] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY, first edition. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket. A publisher's presentation copy, with a bookplate dedicated to Dr. M.J...... More
Millais's Illustrations: A Collection of Drawings on Wood.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. [Wood Engraving] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm). Eighty wood engraved plates by Millais, on as many leaves, with a decorated title page and a contents leaf. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt; brown-coated endpapers. A bookseller's label to front pastedown..... More
The Organ Mountain Range: Its History and Its Orchids.
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Scart, 2008. [Brazilian Botany] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.541 [3]. With 14 double-sided colour illustrated plates, including photographs by Izabel Moura Miller, drawings by Helmut Seehawer, as well as frequent in-text diagrams, photographs, and maps. Also with six colour botanical illustrations by..... More
An Epitome Of The Elementary Principles Of Mechanical Philosophy, Divested of mathematical demonstrations, comprehending the general properties of matter, mechanics, accoustics, pneumatics, hydrostatics, meteorology, hydraulics, and a copious account of the invention, progress, and present state of the steam engine, with many practical remarks on the construction of machinery.
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1830. Second Edition, Prize Binding. Octavo. Bound in full brown calf, with ruled gilt panelling and gilt crest of the University of Glasgow to boards, raised bands, gilt decoration and title label to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, board edges decorated with blind..... More
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
Television. To-Day and To-morrow
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons 1934. Demy octavo, pp.xxxii; 208; 24, advertisements. With 70 photographic plates and 56 illustrations. With a new preface to this [fourth] edition, and a foreword by John Logie Baird. Publisher's gilt-titles cloth in striking colour pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is near fine (slightly dusty); jacket..... More
The Broads. The People's Wetland. The New Naturalist Library 89.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.392. With a suite of 10 double-sided colour photographic plates, and numerous in-text black and white photographs, maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Rober Gillmor, priced at £34.99..... More
L'Envers Du Theatre. Machines et Decorations.
Paris: Hachette. 1888. [Theatrical props, devices and mechanics] Third edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco gilt over marbled boards. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine, gilt rules to boards. Illustrated with 60 wood engravings of theatrical machinery. Marbled endpapers. Slight scuffing and rubbing to extremities, some shelfwear..... More
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Zurich: David Gessner, 1704. Duodecimo. Bound in brown calf, blind panelling to boards, with raised bands to spine; top edge gilt, front and bottom edges red speckled; two brass clasps on leather thongs, an additionally fleur-de-lys brass stud to front board. Binding is worn, with gouges to spine and spine..... More
The Badger. The New Naturalist Monograph 1.
London: Collins, 1948. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 158 [2]. With a colour photographic frontispiece, 29 black and white photographs, and 12 diagrams and drawings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 12/6..... More
The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. FINE ENGRAVINGS. In six volumes. Octavo. With about 150 fine copper engravings. In contemporary brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and marbled boards and endpapers. Lacking the following plates to volume II: Conics IV and V; Misc. IV. Lacking..... More
A Dictionary of Chemistry, Exhibiting the present State of the Theory and Practice of that Science, its Application to Natural Philosophy, the Processes of Manufactures, Metallurgy, and numerous other Arts dependant on the Properties and Habitudes of Bodies, in the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms. With a Considerable Number of Tables, Expressing the Elective Attractions, Specific Gravities, Comparative Heats, Component Parts, Combinations, and other Affections of the Objects of Chemical Research.
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Quarto, pp.viii, 576; pp.[2], 577-1132. With two plates showing various apparatus and two tables of useful Chemical symbols, at the rear of volume II. Contemporary tree calf, re-backed with original spine laid down, corners repaired. Gilt..... More
The English Sense of Humour. An Essay.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1946. [Essay on Humour] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 70 [6]. Number 202 of 550 copies thus, letterpress printed on handmade paper by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. All edges..... More
Modern Nature. The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany.
Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. [History of science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 423; [1]. Publisher's khaki cloth, titles in brown to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine. More
The Road to Wigan Pier.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.viii; 264. With 32 black and white photographic plates. Not including the foreword, which appeared in the first Left Book Club edition. In publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original light yellow dust-jacket with titles to..... More
The World Cup of Everything.
London: Coronet, 2017. [Trivia / Quiz] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[6] 391 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's illustrated cloth (no jacket as issued), priced at £14.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Corners lightly bumped. Near fine. A...... More
Nooks and Corners. Being a Companion Volume to 'From Kitchen to Garret.'
London: Ward & Downey 1889. [Victorian Interior Design] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 241 [3]. With 18 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Patterned endpapers. A black ink ownership and a small bookseller's label to front..... More
Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest; Being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of the popular toys and sports of youth. From the sixth and greatly improved London Edition.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847. 8vo., pp. 432 + 14. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and "pea-shooter" motif to spine. Light wear, a little bumped and cloth fraying to top of spine. Occasional very light foxing, small discreet booksellers sticker. A nice clean tight copy. Very Good. John Ayrton Paris..... More
Historical Accounting Literature. A catalogue of the collection of early works on book-keeping and accounting in the Library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, together with a bibliography of literature on the subject published before 1750 and not in the Institute Library.
London: Mansell, 1979. [Bibliography] SECOND PRINTING. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 360. With four leaves of illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated bookplate of the Castle Bookshop, Colchester, to front pastedown. Spotting to top edge. A few spots and marks to..... More
The Iron Pirate, A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea.
Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally and Company, n.d. [1897]. [Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.266 [2]. With a lithographic frontispiece. In publisher's brown cloth decorated in green, brown and gilt. Top edge gilt. Light external wear; some rubbing to spine. Very good overall. An early edition, one of..... More
Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in England. Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British Government with notes by the artist and with an introduction by H.G. Wells.
London: William Heinemann, 1917. [War Art] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; with 51 black and white plates, each with an accompanying descriptive leaf. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with titles to plain cream label on spine and illustrated label over upper board. Offsetting to endpapers. Boards rubbed and..... More