The Arts & Sciences
Elements of Geography. [in] The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. Vol. II.
London: Printed for J. Wallis, 1806. [Historical Geography] FIRST EDITION, volume II of VI only. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[8] 152 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red quarter morocco, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and light blue paper over boards. Contemporary label of Grosvenor's Toy Rooms, Holborn..... More
Brangwyn Talks.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1944. [Art] FIRST EDITION, with a LETTER FROM BRANGWYN. Limited to 500 copies, this being number 92. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xx; 182. Includes a carbon copy of an original letter from Brangwyn to fellow artist Delmar Banner. With 24 halftone plates including a frontispiece, as..... More
The Track of Man; Adventures of an Anthropologist.
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1953. [Anthropology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.448. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To Kathleen | with greetings | Henry Field | August 30, 1960.' With two suites of black and white photographic plates, 28 in total. Brown cartographic..... More
British and European Butterflies and Moths (Macrolepidoptera).
London: Ernest Nister, no date [1895]. [Lepidopterology] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.xvi; 273 [1]. Complete with 30 fine chromolithographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in white and gilt to spine and upper. All edges red. Gentle even toning to endpapers and margins, with a hint of light..... More
The Horse; With a Treatise on Draught; and a Copious Index. Published Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1831. [Hippology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.viii; 472. Numerous in-text engravings. Brown half-calf, borders blind-tooled. Marbled paper over boards. Black label containing gilt titles, as well as gilt embellishment, to spine. Edges speckled brown. Some spotting/soiling to interior and endpapers. Previous ownership inscription in..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1869. [Evolutionary science] FIFTH Edition, tenth thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 596; 32. With the folding tree diagram to pg.132 and Murray's advertisements to rear. With 29 chief additions and corrections from the fourth edition. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind to boards, with three gilt..... More
David Attenborough: Life Stories.
London: Collins, 2009. [Natural History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.224. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'to Lottie | David Attenborough'. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and light green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edinburgh: Printed for Silvester Doig and Andrew Stirling, Adam Black, and John Fairbairn [etc.], 1817. [Economics] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; lxvi; 360 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 514 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 448 [52]. With a life of the author to volume I, an appendix to..... More
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. [Little Red Book].
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. [Marxism-Leninism] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, No. 1050-491 00077 1-E-734Pc. Vigesimo-quarto (13 x 9cm), pp.[10] 312 [2]. With a black and white frontispiece portrait of Mao. Publisher's red vinyl covers with blind titles to upper. Heavy pencil underlining to p.11, otherwise crisp and clean with a...... More
Electrical Power Transmission and Interconnection.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd, 1930. [Engineering] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xi; [1]; 424; 23; [1]. With numerous in-text diagrams and mathematical figures. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt device to upper and gilt titles to upper and spine. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Light toning throughout..... More
The Domes of Mars.
London: Burke, 1956. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamped Feb 1956 in faint black ink to fly-leaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy showing only a little light wear to the cloth. No jacket. Very good. The second..... More
Scottish Art and Letters. Number One.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1944. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With three double-sided illustrated plates, one image reproduced in colour, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and advertisements to endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Tony Ashby | with best wishes from | Patrick Moore.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clothier..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Toning to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean copy internally. Cloth shows moderate wear and some bumping. Heavy wear to jacket..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers. Boards show light wear and some bowing. Very good. Following 'The Master of the Moon' (1952), this is the..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION, Publisher's File Copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With a 'Christy & Moore Ltd.' literary agents bookplate to fly-leaf, and a pencil note stating the publication date. Moderate toning to edges..... More
The Roy Strong Diaries. 1967-1987.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1997. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 461; [4]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, with photographic dust-jacket by John Swannell, with printed price £20.00 to flap. Illustrated map endpapers, with photographic plates throughout the text. Signed by author in black..... More
The Floral World Garden Guide and Country Companion 1878. Illustrated with Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. [Gardening] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.vi; 378 [2]. With 14 fine colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. Truro bookseller's label to..... More
Monarchy, and Three Political Letters.
New York, NY: The Noonday Press, 1954. [Political and Theological Philosophy] FIRST THUS, an English edition translated by Nicholl and Hardie. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. xxii; 121 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown monogrammed endpapers. With the brown typographic dust-jacket, priced at $2.75. Internally crisp..... More
The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected From the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By William Enfield, LL.D. Lecturer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington.
London: Joseph Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1774. [Education] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[xxxii] 376. Brown full calf, upper board and spine rebound. Blind ruling to boards. Red label with gilt title to spine. Raised bands. Top edge green. Heavy toning to leaves, especially preliminaries and rear. Frequent..... More
Philip Henry Gosse: A Bibliography.
Folkestone: Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd., 1980. [Natural History Bibliography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 148 [2]. With six black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket, priced at £12.00. A crisp, clean copy..... More
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. [Film Reference] INSCRIBED BY PETER JACKSON, First Edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. INSCRIBED by the film director Peter Jackson to title, once in white ink and once in black ink, both to the title page: 'Hi Cameron! | Best wishes | Peter Jackson.' With photographic illustrations..... More
New Hopes For A Changing World.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951. [Political and Philosophical Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.218 [6]. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy showing just a touch of wear to extremities. Near fine. A...... More
A Pictorial Autobiography.
Bath: Adams & Dart, 1970. [Sculptor Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.128. Heavily illustrated with in-text black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'For Bruce with love | January 10th | Barbara.' Publisher's orange cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
Sumer is icumen in.
London: Novello and Company, 1914. [English Music] INSCRIBED SECOND EDITION. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.53 [3]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece facsimile of the original manuscript, and a transcript of the whole score in modern notation. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'E. Board | with the author's..... More