The Arts & Sciences
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
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 Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré. Containing the Voyages made into Divers Places with many of his writings upon Surgery, Edited and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.
London: Falcon Educational Books, 1951. [Medicine] FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR, with a manuscript letter. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 227 [1]. With four wood-engraved portraits of Pare, including a frontispiece, a vignette 'Wound Man' to the title page, and several in-text woodcut illustrations. INSCRIBED by the editor in..... More
Danny Rouzer's Glamour Photography. Trend Book 134
Hollywood, CA: Trend Books, 1956. [Figure Photography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.128. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Lightly browned throughout. Some light rubbing to covers. One tear to p.81/82. Very good. Essentially a guide for nude photography by the..... More
Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shotakovich to Isaak Glikman 1941-1975. With a Commentary by Isaak Glikman.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. [Musical Correspondence] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xliv; 340. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, not priced..... 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
Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress.
London: Century, 2011. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xx; 363 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates; illustrated endpapers. With an associated Royal Academy bookmark. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. A fine, as-new copy. From the..... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
Adrian Turner on Goldfinger.
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, pp.[vi]; 248; [2]. Publisher's photographic softcovers. [Together with] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000. Small octavo, pp.[iv]; 314; [2]. Publisher's photographic softcovers priced at £4.99. Both are fine copies. No.2 in a series of pocket movie guides..... More
Mr. America [and] Shape Up. Number One; Number Two; Number Four; vol.14 No.1; Shape Up Vol.1 no. 5.
Croydon: Weider Sports and Health Centre [and] Woodland Hills, CA: Muscle Builder Publications [and] Brute Enterprises, circa 1970; March 1973; May 1974. [Body Building] FIVE ORIGINAL MAGAZINES, (27 x 21cm), pp.52; pp.52; pp.52; pp.92; pp.76. Illustrated in black and white, with colour paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 2/6..... 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
Life on Air. Memoirs of a Broadcaster.
London: BBC Books, 2002. [Science and Nature / Television] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.384; with eight suites of photographic plates. Brown hardcovers in photographic jacket with printed price of £18.99 to front flap. A fine, fresh copy. The much-loved naturalist's reflections on a career in broadcasting. More
The Unexpurgated Beaton. The Cecil Beaton's Diaries as he Wrote Them. Introduced by Hugo Vickers.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002. [Photographer's Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), ppxii; 418. With three suites of double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket. Some light marking to textblock edges. Jacket price-clipped. Some scuffing and edgewear 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
[ECONOMICS] A Statistical View of the Population of Massachussetts, from 1765 to 1840.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Small 4to. Publisher's grey paper wrappers with printed titles to spine and upper. Little nicks to head and tail of spine and to corners. Boston Library label to inner cover and small ink stamp to bottom of title page. Clean and strong..... 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
Où Est Le Garlic. French Cooking In 50 Lessons. Including chapters on L'Art Culinaire, Les Viandes, Les Fromages, Les Corps Gras, La Carte des Vins, La Cuisine Francaise et Le Froid, Le Lexique, La Batterie de Cuisine, and 50 Cookstrips 50.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. [French Cookery] FIRST U.S. EDITION, being the FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.224. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's illustrated hardcovers, without jacket as issued. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Price obscured to rear else a fine copy. True first hardback, following the..... More
Dogs in Art.
London: Reaktion Books, 2019. [Art history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.280. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, titles in yellow to spine, dust-jacket featuring a detail from a painting by Nicolas Toussaint Charlet and a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, yellow/green endpapers. With 164 illustrations, 158 in colour..... More
Music, A Joy for Life.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1976. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Square Octavo, pp.204 [4]. With numerous b/w illustrations and a colour plate section. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to front free end-paper. A fine copy... More
The Essays of Elia.
London: Edward Moxon, 1853. Foolscap octavo, pp.viii, 436. Bound by Kerby and Son of Oxford Street in full tan calf with dark green title label to spine, five raised bands, extra gilt decoration, two-line gilt border adorning front and rear boards, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt detailing to board edges..... 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
The Philosophy of Whist: An Essay on the Scientific and Intellectual Aspects of the Modern Game, in two parts: part I, the Philosophy of Whist Play: part II, the Philosophy of Whist Probabilities.
London: Thomas de la Rue and Co., 1884. [Card Games] SECOND EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 218 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; brown patterned endpapers. Small black ink inscription to verso of flyleaf. Browned throughout. Upper hinge..... More
Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided into Five parts, [Ethics] which treat (1) of God; (2) of the Nature and Origin of the Mind; (3) of the Nature and Origin of the Affects; (4) of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects; (5) of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. [Philosophy] FOURTH EDITION THUS, third impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.c; 297 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Gentle toning to edges and endpapers, with occasional light pencil notations. Light wear to cloth, including some scratches to upper. Very good..... More