The Arts & Sciences
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
Health Made Easy for the People; or, Physical Training, to make their lives, in this world, long and happy.
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
A Review of Aristotle's Sytem of Ethics. A Prelection Read before the Vice-Chancellor, and Council of the Senate, Feb. 16, 1867.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1867. [Philosophy Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 56 [2]. Contemporary brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; apricot endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. The lightest hint of spotting to blanks and..... More
Les Soirées du Père de Famille, ou, Conversations Familières d'un Pere avec ses Enfans, sur Plusieurs Sujets de Morale et d'Instruction. Ouvrage destiné aux Enfans, et dont le principal objet est de les corriger de leurs défauts; dans lequel on trouve les leçons sur plusieurs points importans d'etude, tels que l'Astronomie, l'Histoire, etc. etc., et un grand nombre d'anecdotes et de traits historiques.
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, Libraire, rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, hôtel de Cluny, 1822. [Morality and Pedagogy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.333 [1]. All text in French. With six of the eight copper engraved plates, including the frontispiece and decorated title page. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to..... More
The Thorough-Base Primer: Containing Explanations and Examples of the Rudiments of Harmony; with Fifty Exercises.
Boston, MA: James Loring, 1828. [Music] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 10cm), pp.138. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine, and pain pasteboards. Plain small bookplate to front pastedown. Black ink ownership to half-title. Light occasional spotting. Moderate wear to binding, with marks and stains..... More
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs. Four Corners Irregulars No. 6.
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
Aubrey Beardsley: Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1966. Catalogue of the original drawings, letters, manuscripts, paintings; and of books, posters, photographs, documents etc.
Christchurch: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Direct Design, 1966. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (23 x 12cm), unpaginated, containing 611 catalogue entries, and notes on the exhibition and use of the catalogue. Not illustrated. Publisher's green soft covers, with titles to upper. Light handling, and one scratch..... More
[An Archive of Books and Papers from the Library of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin].
1907-1988. [Physiology and Biophysics] ORIGINAL FELLOWSHIP DISSERTATION, NOTEBOOK, OFF-PRINT COLLECTION, AND INSCRIBED BOOKS. A remarkable collection of books and papers associated with the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, including the original typescript of the dissertation which won him a research Fellowship at Trinity College in 1936 and a year's study at the..... More
Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier Les Places.
The Hague: Arnout Leers, 1684. EARLY EDITION. Foolscap octavo, pp.[10], 96 [2]. All text in French. With 12 folding plans and tables at rear. In later mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges flecked red. Armorial..... More
["Mis"-Prints Connected with the French Revolution 1789] La Révolution française depuis l'ouverture des Etats-Généraux jusqu'au 9 brumaire. [and 11 other contemporary engravings relating to the French Revolution].
Paris: Chez Decrouan, Imp. de Baudouin, et al., various dates, especially 1838. [Revolutionary Engravings] RARE CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS, including part of the second edition of Helman's famous print collection. Large portfolio codex (39 x 65cm), featuring 10 engravings of the French Revolution by Helman, after drawings by Monnet, and 11 other..... More
British Game. The New Naturalist Library 2.
London: Collins, 1946. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 240. With 28 colour photographs and 81 black and white photographs. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, priced at 16s. A nice crisp, clean copy internally..... More
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 2, November 1946.
London: Signature, November 1946. [Art Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With numerous black and white plates. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Light toning to covers. Jacket lightly toned and spotted, with some light chipping and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Including a...... 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