The Arts & Sciences
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
The Ornamental Designs of Chippendale from the Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director 1762.
London: Alec Tiranti. 1949. First Edition Thus. Octavo, pp. 24, 80 of plates, 1 of adverts. Black cloth covers with white titles to spine, in black and white pictorial dustwrapper. Some spotting to edges, slight dustiness to the top edge and top inch of boards and dustjacket. More
Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New-York, for the Year 1854.
Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and co., 1854. [Americana] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (), pp.[4] 445 [1]. Bound in red morocco, foliate gilt panelling to boards, "R.F. Wilson" in gilt to front board, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt. Binding is rubbed, with some marks and tanning..... More
Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction.
London: Continuum, 2007. [Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 215 [13]. Publisher's glossy white and blue boards, not priced. Light handling and a few small marks to binding. Near fine. An edited volume containing papers concerning Jacques Derrida and the future of the theory of Deconstruction... More
Strength and Health.
York, PA: Strength and Health Publishing Co., February 1948; August 1949; December 1949; November 1950. [Body Building] FOUR ORIGINAL MAGAZINES, (30 x 22cm), pp.52; pp.52; pp.52; pp.52. Illustrated in black and white, with colour paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 20c / 25c. One small nick to front cover..... More
Finance and Politics. Being a Sequel to "Behind the Scenes on International Finance".
London: Macmillan, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x, 139. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small bookseller's sticker from the Hague to front paste-down. One or two page corners folded over (and since folded back). Small black ink inscription reading 'April 1932' to upper board. Very light pencil..... More
The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour.
London: Collins / BBC Books, 1990. [Animal Behaviour] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.95. A fine, as-new copy. The third in Attenborough's book and TV series..... 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
James Cook and the Conquest of Scurvy.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. [History of Medicine] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 163 [3]. With a suite of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp..... More
Dali by Dali.
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. [Art and Philosophy] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 156 [4]. Heavily illustrated in colour. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced with a sticker at £2.50. A touch of toning to extremities..... More
Lewis Carroll: Photographer.
London: Max Parrish and Co., 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 121; [5]. With 64 photogravure plates, featuring portraits of several notable authors, artists and their family contemporary with Lewis Carroll. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Gilt partially oxidised; wear to jacket head..... More
Music & Light: Ceol and Solas. Irish Traditional Music Photography.
Enniskerry: Silver Spear Press, 2008. [Irish Music Photography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 25cm), pp.[12], with 130 black and white photographs, each captioned at rear [16]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'To Susan | Forward in all | directions! | much love | Tony..... 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