The Arts & Sciences
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. With the Notes and Illustrations of the Author, and an Analysis of his Doctrine of Ideas. Also, questions of Locke's Essay, by A.M., Gold Medalist and Ethical Moderator in Trinity College, Dublin.
London: William Tegg and Co., 1879. [Epistemology] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition, revised. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 664 [2]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author, and a large folding 'analysis' chart of Locke's ideas. Contemporary tan full calf by SETON & MACKENZIE, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
The Master of the Moon.
London: The Museum Press, 1952. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION, Publisher's File Copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With a 'Christy & Moore Ltd.' literary agents bookplate to fly-leaf, and a pencil note stating the publication date. Moderate toning to edges..... More
Hokusai: One Hundred Poets.
London: Cassell, 1989. [Japanese Art] FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (26 x 36cm), pp.222 [2]. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £55. Some marks to edges and light general handling. Jacket moderately rubbed..... More
Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold From Alexander Teuxeira De Mattos's Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Illustrated by E. J. Detmold.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1921]. [Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm) pp.184, with 12 mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's gilt decorated white cloth. Toning to first and final leaf else clean within. Exterior fresh and bright showing only gentle use. A fine copy... 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
Publicité 1938.
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1938. [French Advertising] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Quarto (31 x 25cm), pp.122. Filled with colour reproductions of advertisements from the previous year, as well as numerous black and white photographic plates. Text in French to coloured card leaves. Publisher's colour illustrated soft covers, bound with three heavy..... More
The Energy System of Matter. A deduction from terrestrial energy phenomena.
London; Longman's. 1912. First edition. Octavo. Near fine in publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine, light bumping to spine ends, minor edgewear. Internally clean, newspaper clipping tipped in to pastedown but without offsetting. Inscribed by the author to Dr. William Park on front flyleaf. More
Man's Estate: Adventures in Economic Discovery.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.480. With notes and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original cream dust-jacket with red titles to spine and covers. Top edge red. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Some minor chips and..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. [Natural history] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 371; [1], blank. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation..... More
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
On Education. especially in Early Childhood.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. [Educational Theory] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254 [2]. With an article by Russell criticising Communism cut from the News Chronicle and Daily Dispatch, March 1956, folded and loose to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with red titles to spine and upper. A lovely..... More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
Of Time and Space and Other Things. Seventeen Essays on Science.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1967. [Science] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xii] 204. Publisher's grey cloth to boards, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Christopher Evans, price cut to flap. Some foxing to leaves, concentrated mostly to first and last few. Small tear along lower..... 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
A History and Description of the Isle of Man Railway.
London: Greenlake Publications, January 1945. [Railways] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.100. With 10 double-sided black and white photographic plates, and one double-sided colour plate. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the grey dust-jacket decorated in red, priced at 7/6. 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
Some Old Portraits. A Book About Art and Human Beings.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. [Portraiture] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xx; 249 [3]. With 12 colour plates, each reproducing one of the paintings discussed. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'For | John Booth | from | Elizabeth Stanley Trotter..... More
The Heart of the Hunter.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. [Legends and fables from the African bush] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Maurice Wilson. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Maurice Wilson. A particularly fine copy with a hint of toning to..... More
The Islanders: An Introduction.
London: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art and Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] SECOND EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.164. With a mixture of colour and black and white illustrations. Publisher's grey leatherette over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers..... More
Onomatopoeia: The Port.
London: Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.79 [1]. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's brown paper over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Spine sunned, with some light wear to boards. Very good. An early publication..... More
Alphabets Old and New. Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Complete Alphabets, Thirty Series of Numerals, and Numerous Facsimiles of Ancient Dates, Etc., for the Use of Craftsmen, with an Introductory Essay on "Art in the Alphabet."
London: B.T. Batsford, 1898. [Arts and crafts] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxii; 40 [159 unpaginated plates], 10. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front blank. With 178 illustrations of alphabets throughout. Publisher's red cloth, designs and titles blocked in black to upper and spine..... More
Action Cook Book. Len Deighton's Guide to Eating.
London: Penguin, Harper Perennial 1967 and 2009. [Gastronomy] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION, and HARDBACK REISSUE. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 24cm, and 14 x 21cm). Both volumes illustrated throughout. 1967 edition in publisher's photographic covers designed by Raymond Hawkey, reissue in with same artwork, adding a four-line quote from Michael Caine..... More
Picasso as a Book Artist.
London: Faber and Faber. 1962. First UK edition. Octavo, pp. 136. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers. Striking dustwrapper. Slight lean to the book. A fine copy. More
The Game of Draw Poker.
New York: White, Stokes and Allen, 1887. [Gaming] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv; 84. Publisher's paper covered boards with blue linen spine. Slightly scuffed and rounded to corners, some light wear to front panel and some fairly inoffensive soiling, a very good copy of a fragile production..... 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