The Arts & Sciences
Zoological Sketches: Consisting of Descriptions and Engravings of One Hundred and Eighty-Six Animals.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1859. [Zoology] RARE, a New Edition with Additions. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.vi; 346 [2]. With an in-text wood engraving of each animal by Whimper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt bison stamped to upper, and blind decoration to boards..... More
A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne, Kt., M.D.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1924. [Bibliography] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.xii; 255 [1]. With five black and white plates including a frontispiece, and 36 facsimile title pages. Number 264 of just 500 copies thus, hand-numbered to verso of title page. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt..... More
The Different Forms of Flowers, on Plants of the Same Species. The Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 351 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge..... More
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. [Book Illustration] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xiv; 341 [1]. With numerous engraved illustrations, including frequent head and tail pieces, as well as 11 facsimile plates on glossy paper at rear. Publisher's green cloth with white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
The Self and Others: Further Studies in Sanity and Madness.
London: Tavistock Publications, 1961. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 186 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. Top edge green. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Bookseller's label to front pastedown, and a blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Jacket toned to spine, with some..... More
Fashion Stories.
London: Printed by Butler & Tanner for the author, 2004. [Fashion Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 30cm), pp.112. A mixture of colour and black and white photographic images printed on glossy clay paper. Publisher's glossy black and white photographic paper-covered boards, with black endpapers. With the black dust-jacket, including..... 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
Early English Figure Pottery. A Collection of Ralph Wood and Contemporary Pottery.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. [English Pottery] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xviii; 122 [2]. With five fine colour plates, including a frontispiece, and eleven further black and white photographic plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Number 15 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED and dated by the..... More
The Sea Coast. The New Naturalist Library 25.
London: Collins, 1953. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xii; 276. With 10 colour photographs, 24 black and white photographs, and 52 maps and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 25s. Printed ownership..... More
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Authorized Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Natural History] LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 461 [1]; pp.[4] viii; 478 [2]. With 43 in-text illustrations to volume I, and a black and white photographic frontispiece to each volume. Number 127 of 1000..... More
Life's Not a Rehearsal. The Autobiography of Margaret Durdant-Hollamby, MBE, Founder of the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks: Durdant-Hollamby, 1998. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 239 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and architect's drawings to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More
Proust | Three Dialogues.
London: John Calder, 1965. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice crisp, clean copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A republication of Beckett's..... More
Observations upon the Topography and Climate of Crowborough Hill, Sussex.
Lewes: Farncombe & Co., 1898. [Sussex Topography] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 312. With three plates depicting snow flakes, a photographic plate of hailstones, two other in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece engraving of the author's house. Contemporary half vellum by BARBER of Lewes, with gilt titles to red..... More
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Medical Digression.
London: Ash & Co., 1935. [Sherlock Holmes Fan Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 13cm), pp.56. Publisher's green card covers, priced at 1s. Some light spotting. Covers rubbed and toned; upper joint starting. A black ink ownership to front cover partially erased. Very good. A lecture on the medical..... More
De L'Administration des Etablissements d'Instruction Publique et de La Reorganisation de L'Enseignement.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie d'Hacquart, 1801. [Napoleonic Educational Reforms] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] 22. All text in French. Recently bound into plain brown paper covers, sewn, with a paper title label copied from the title page. A crisp, fine copy, in a new paper binding. A short report..... More
A New Dictionary of the English Language.
London: William Pickering, 1839. [English Dictionary] EARLY PRINTING. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[8] [72] 1184 [4]; pp.[8] 1185-2223 [5]. Contemporary lightly-diced brown calf boards with gilt rule, recently re-backed to-style in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles. All edges speckled red; textured orange-patterned endpapers..... More
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin, Second Series 186-1888.
London: George Allen, 1901. [Art and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the sixth edition thus. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 488 [2]. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tree calf for Hampden Gurney School by BICKERS & SON of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Miscellanies. Reprinted Chiefly from 'Fraser's Magazine' and the 'North British Review.'
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. [Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 407 [9]; pp.[4] 389 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, and blind decoration to boards. Brown-coated endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Horace Noble Pym to front pastedown..... More
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America. Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1896]. [Geology] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 648 [2]. With two folding maps, one colour folding plate, and three further folding illustrated plates, as well a numerous in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus..... More
A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages. Improved and augmented with above Ten Thousand Words, omitted in the last Edition of Altieri. To which is added, and Italian and English Grammar.
London: Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1771. [English—Italian Dictionary] A NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (17 x 22cm), pp.[10] xxxiv; [698]; pp.[4] xl; [672]. With an Italian introduction to volume I (Italian to English) and an English introduction to volume II (English to Italian). Main text printed over..... More
Urinary Deposits, their Diagnosis, Pathology, and Therapeutical Indications.
London: John Churchill, 1846. [Medicine] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 356 [2]. With occasional small in-text diagrams and tables. Also with the large folding table to rear, somewhat misfolded. Contemporary tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, and marbled paper..... More
Snapshot: Painters and Photography 1888-1915.
Yale University Press, 2011. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.xiv; 234. heavily illustrated with black and white photographs, and colour images of paintings. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced. Jacket shows a little sunning to spine, with one small..... More
The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with heavy spotting to covers, and some light handling. Blue pencil 'IF' to front over. Very..... More
Malebranch's Search After Truth. Or, a Treatise of the Nature of the Mind, and of its Management for avoiding Error in the Sciences. To which is Added, The Author's Defence against the Accusations of Monsieur de la Ville. Also The Life of Father Malebranch, of the Oratory at Paris: With an Account of his Works, and several particulars of his Controversie with Monsieur Arnaud Dr. of Sorbonne, and Monsieur Regis, Professor in Philosophy at Paris. Written by Monsieur Le Vasseur, lately come over from Paris.
London: Printed for J. Dunton and S. Manship, 1694 and 1695. [Philosophy and Theology] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[32] 224; 229-244; 241-271 [1]; 95 [1]; 96 [2]; pp.[16] 104; 129-312; 353-488; 737-820; [2] 23 [5]. Complete continuous text, despite the wild pagination..... More
The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and its Practical Application to Our Own Time.
Stratford, CT: John E. Edwards, 1971. [Anomalistic Psychology] LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 112 [2]. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to top edge, with a small mark where a label has been removed to fly-leaf..... More