The Arts & Sciences
The Track of Man; Adventures of an Anthropologist.
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1953. [Anthropology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.448. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To Kathleen | with greetings | Henry Field | August 30, 1960.' With two suites of black and white photographic plates, 28 in total. Brown cartographic..... More
English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century.
London: Batsford. 1947. First Edition. Crown Quarto, pp. xv, 190. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to front, top edge stained blue. Some bumping to corners and to head, and tail caps. Light rubbing to covers. More
History of the United States, From their first settlement as colonies, to the close of the war with Great Britain in 1815.
London: John Miller, 1826. First English Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's paper boards, with paper title label to spine; all edges uncut. Binding is worn, with bumping to corners and spine ends, spine chipped, extremities worn, joints cracked. Internally clean,with spotting to prelims and final pages. A popular early US..... More
That's the way I see it.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. [Modern Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.248. With 365 illustrations, most in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine and a yellow illustration to upper board. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. A little rubbing to cloth; jacket edges bruised. Near..... More
Paris de Reves [Paris of Dreams]. 75 Photographies D'Izis Bidermanas.
Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 158. b/w photographic plates to every other page. In publisher's grey card with b/w photographic covers pasted to spine. Errata slip loose to p. 46. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper; light wear to edges; some creasing to spine. Very..... More
An Aubrey Beardsley Lecture. With an Introduction and Notes by R. A. Walker and some Unpublished Letters and Drawings.
London: R. A. Walker. 1924. [Art criticism] LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.103; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, black leather title square with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, others left untrimmed. Number 145 of 500 copies printed, of which 450 were for sale, signed by..... More
The Self and Others: Further Studies in Sanity and Madness.
London: Tavistock Publications, 1961. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 186 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. Top edge green. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Bookseller's label to front pastedown, and a blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Jacket toned to spine, with some..... More
Practical Drawing. A Book for the Student and the General Reader.
New York, NY: Charles S. Pratt [Scribners Sons], 1920. [Drawing] EARLY DUST-JACKET, Sixth Impression, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 250. With frequent in-text illustrations and diagrams by the author. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and grey paper over boards, titled in brown to..... More
Psycho-Analysis and Social Psychology.
London: Methuen & Co., 1936. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 207 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the peach typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 to the spine. Top edge brown. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Some toning and light spotting to edges, otherwise..... More
A history of drugs.
Basle: F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Co., 1971. [Drugs and Herbal Stimulants] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY, first edition. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket. A publisher's presentation copy, with a bookplate dedicated to Dr. M.J...... More
The Organ Mountain Range: Its History and Its Orchids.
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Scart, 2008. [Brazilian Botany] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.541 [3]. With 14 double-sided colour illustrated plates, including photographs by Izabel Moura Miller, drawings by Helmut Seehawer, as well as frequent in-text diagrams, photographs, and maps. Also with six colour botanical illustrations by..... More
The Domes of Mars.
London: Burke, 1956. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamped Feb 1956 in faint black ink to fly-leaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy showing only a little light wear to the cloth. No jacket. Very good. The second..... More
The Island of Fear.
London: The Museum Press, 1954. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers. Boards show light wear and some bowing. Very good. Following 'The Master of the Moon' (1952), this is the..... More
New Hopes For A Changing World.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951. [Political and Philosophical Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.218 [6]. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy showing just a touch of wear to extremities. Near fine. A...... More
The Life of Vertebrates.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1950. [Zoology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 767 [1]. With frequent in-text illustrations and diagrams. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With an obituary from the Times, and five other associated newspaper cuttings loose to preliminaries. With the plain dust-jacket featuring..... More
The Fashionable Letter Writer; or, Art of Polite Correspondence. Consisting of Original Letters on every Occurrence in Life, written in a concise and familiar style, and adapted to both sexes. To which are added, complimentary cards, petitions, wills, bonds, etc.
London: Dean and Munday, and A.K. Newman, n.d. [c.1840]. EARLY EDITION in original publisher's boards. Sexto, pp.216. With a steel engraved frontispiece and decorated title page after drawings by H. Corbould, by H. Adlard. In original publisher's plain paper-covered boards with black titles to spine and upper board. Some outer..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... 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
Painting as a Pastime.
London: Odham Press Limited and Ernest Benn Limited, 1948. [Churchill] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.32; [32]. 18 unpaginated colour plates to rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, dust-jacket with printed price of 10s 6d. Ownership inscription to front endpaper in..... 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
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
Every Man is His Own Gardener; The Complete Gardener; Being a Gardener's Calendar and General Directory.
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1826. ENLARGED AND IMPROVED EDITION. Octavo, pp. 658, 10 of index. Frontispiece engraving. Brown cloth with paper label to spine, edges untrimmed. A revised edition edited by R. Forsyth. Some toning and spotting to the textblock, dustiness to edges. Bookplate to front pastedown, neat ownership..... More
The Special Kinesiology Of Educational Gymnastics.
London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914. Large Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece, and 267 diagrams. Summary sheet in pocket at rear. Binding is a little rubbed to joints and corners, bumped at spine ends. Internally clean and..... More
The Fundamental Pictures.
London: Alexander Roussos, 1997. SIGNED COPY. Oblong, pp.[48]. SIGNED by the artists in black ink to title page. Colour reproductions of art works. In publisher's card covers. A fine copy. Artwork encompassed by the title of the first piece, 'Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit'. 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