The Arts & Sciences
The Botanic Garden, A Poem. In Two Parts. Part I containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II The Loves of Plants. With Philosophical Notes.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1799. [Botany]. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourth edition. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xiv; xvii-xx; 492 [2]; pp.[4] xii; xv-xvi; 282 [6]. With 21 etchings and copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary navy full diced calf with gilt..... More
Researches on Light. An Examination of All the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes Produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays; Embracing All the Known Photographic Processes, and New Discoveries in the Art.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 303; [32], catalogue dated April 1844. With folding chart as frontispiece, highlighted in colour, errata slip on p.v. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine, coated yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Light and occasional..... More
Contract of Copartnery of the Clydesdale Banking Company.
Glasgow: James Lumsden and Son, 1838. [Scottish Banking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.70 [2]. Publisher's watered-silk-effect cloth over boards, with titles and crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt. A rather exquisite pencil sketch of the Clyde with square-rigged ships moored either side to verso of..... More
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["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
Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. Derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an Inquiry How Far the Differences in the Languages of the Globe are Referrible to Causes now in Operation.
London: Samuel Clarke, 1843. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.lx; 103; [1]; 20, advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Bookplate of writer and illustrator Maud J. Vyse to pastedown. Some light spotting and toning. Occasional pen annotation. Residue where a label has been..... More
A History of English Furniture. Comprising of: The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of Mahogany, and The Age of Satinwood. With plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe, and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1938. 4 volumes, folio (37 x 28cm). Generously illustrated with chromolithographic and black and white plates. Bound in half burgundy oasis morocco with gilt titles, raised bands to spines, matching cloth boards, top edges tinted red. Internally clean, a few minor marks to covers. A...... More
Nixon Head Catalog No 1.
Stockholm: Hu Vudbladet Press, 1972. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (21 x 15cm), unpaginated. Publisher's printed wraps. Lightly rubbed to extremities. Near fine. More
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[A Sample Book of Snuff Boxes 1820-1830].
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1830's]. ORIGINAL ENGRAVED DESIGNS. 157x217mm. 16 thick card leaves featuring 104 individual engraved designs for snuff boxes printed on india paper and pasted to leaves. In contemporary dark brown mottled calf boards, re-backed in later tan calf. Held together by two strong brass clasps. Title neatly added..... More
Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. [Genetics and Heredity] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 598 [2]. Illustrated throughout with tables and small diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed; dark green endpapers. Neatly re-cased with repairs to hinges. Ex libris stamp of Rud Martin..... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
Papers on Current Finance.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 280. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamps of the Swedish Bankers' Association to endpapers, lightly toned to edges. slight wear to the top and bottom of the binding. Near fine. More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). SIGNED by the composer in blue ink to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's..... More
A Treatise on Electricity, Wherein its various phaenomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned. To which is added a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success and in what not.
Oxford: Sackville Parker, 1752. Octavo. p.40. Bound in quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, wtih gilt titles to spine; all edges red speckled. With owner's stamp and bookplate. Binding is rubbed, worn to board edges, bumping to corners and spine ends. Internally clean, with one illustrative diagram (p.32) of..... More
The Works, In Natural History, of the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Comprising the Natural History of Selborne; The Naturalist's Calendar; And Miscellaneous Observations, Extracted From His Papers. To Which Are Added, A Calendar and Observations, By W. Markwick, Esq. F.L.S. In Two Volumes.
London: J. White of Fleet Street, 1802. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii; 392; 300. Bound in original brown card boards, spine in green cloth, red title label to spine, blank endpapers. In very good condition, considering age, with general age toning and discolouration to boards and leather, some 'bubbling'..... More
The Bakerian Lecture: On the manufacture of Glass for optical purposes. Read November 19, December 3 and 10, 1829. [in] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Volume 120.
London: The Royal Society, 1830. [Journal Article] FIRST APPEARANCE, a disbound section from the original journal volume. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.57 [1]. Disbound sheets with marbled edges. Paper is fine, but entirely disbound. Faraday presents the difficulties of obtaining lenses and prisms of a quality sufficient for precise scientific..... More
Modern Economic Life.
Tokyo: Keibundo, 1924. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 263; [3]. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavily browned low-grade paper, with spotting to edges and preliminaries. Pencil annotations in Japanese to the first 20 pages or so. Very light rubbing to cloth. Very good..... More
Banking, Trust and Insurance Services and Modern Commercial English. Edited as a Text-Book of Standard English for Varsity Men.
Tokyo: Maruzen Company, 1930. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 271; [5]. With 18 folding facsimile documents to serve as examples. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Spotting throughout. Occasional black ink annotations in Japanese. Light wear and some bubbling to cloth. Very..... More
Narrative Of A Tour Through Hawaii or Owhyhee; with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants.
London: H Fisher, Son, and P Jackson, 1828. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Bound in calf, with extensive gilt and blind panelling to boards, and decorative gilt to spine with red label and gilt titles. Includes frontispiece portrait of Ellis, two maps and eight plates, and bookplate. Maps in fine condition, bright..... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons. 1931. First edition. 8vo. 368pp. Fine in publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. In a fine unclipped example of the buff paper dustwrapper. Internally bright and clean, a splendid copy. A labour of love 20th century translation of the 18th century German work..... More
Naval Tactics and Trials of Sailing. Illustrated by Diagrams of the Several Evolutions. To which are added: The Established Plan of Lights for Steam Vessels, and Regulations to avoid Collision.
London: Charles Wilson, 1850. First Edition. Illustrated with a fronstispiece of H.M.S. St. Vincent, 4 plates of the Trials, tables, and numerous battle plans heightened in blue and red. With the original Protractor housed in a pocket to front paste down. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Faster Than Thought - A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953. [Technology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.416. Publisher's hardcovers in colour dust-wrapper. A fine copy of the book in an attractive jacket which is a little nicked and toned with some light soiling to rear panel; such reference works are often found..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
The Influence of the Gold Supply on Prices and Profits.
London:Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x15cm), pp.xii; 104. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blind ruled to boards, gilt titles to spine. Errata slip tipped in at page 58. Discreet ownership to rear pastedown, some spotting to preliminaries, to end matter, and to edges, else generally clean and..... More
The Art of the Illustrator. W. Hatherell; Bernard Partridge; Lawson Wood; Bert Thomas; Cyrus Cuneo; Frank Reynolds; Balliol Salmon; Harry Rountree; W. Heath-Robinson; C.A. Shepperson; E.J. Sullivan; F.H. Townsend; H.M. Bateman; C.E. Brock; Spencer Pryse; Warwick Reynolds.
London: The Press Art School, no date [1918]. [Art Reference] ORIGINAL PORTFOLIOS. Fifteen parts out of twenty. Folio (41 x 28cm), each part having a letter-press text of six leaves, including a half-tone photographic portrait of the illustrator tipped in as a frontispiece, as well as six mounted half-tone illustrated..... More
Screencraft, or the Making of a Photoplay.
New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co., 1916. [Early Film-Making] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.151; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Simple typographic dust-jacket with titles and testimonials from well-wishing readers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Toned and a little dusty to edges. Light wear to..... More