Gift Books & Fine Bindings
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 317 [9]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Recently bound in green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original gilt-titled green cloth laid over..... More
The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. [Including 'The Last of the Mohicans'; 'The Pathfinder'; 'The Deerslayer' etc.] The Mohawk Edition.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date [circa 1895]. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET. 32 volumes, ctavo (22 x 15 x 96cm). Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Each volume with a photogravure frontispiece reproducing illustrations by F.T. Richards. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to contrasting red..... More
The Last Of The Mohicans.
London: The Folio Society, 2011. [American Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.389 [1]. With 10 colour plates. Publisher's illustrated brown cloth, with the black paper-covered slipcase. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap. The second part of the Leatherstocking Tales series following 'The Deerslayer'. 'The Last..... 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
L'Entraîneuse. Roman.
Paris: Albin Michel, n.d. [1923]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.347 [5]. Fine contemporary navy half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, red labels titled in gilt, with red onlays and gilt tooling. Original cream softcovers and backstrip..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1854. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxx; 416 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 428 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary green full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
Poems by William Cowper, Of the Inner Temple, Esq.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. [Poetry] THIRD EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 367 [1]; pp.[8] 359 [1]. Contemporary full tan calf, recently rebacked with the original spines laid over. Gilt titles to red labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Michael Pepper to front pastedown of each..... More
Tales of the Gods and Heroes.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1895. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 205 [3]. Contemporary red full straight-grained calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a green label, further gilt decoration to spine, and a...... More
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. A Story of New York by Stephen Crane.
Mount Vernon, NY: printed for The Limited Editions Club by A. Colish, 1974. [American Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] 105 [5]. With six photogravures from etchings by Abeles, including a frontispiece. Number 1642 of 2000 copies thus, SIGNED in black ink by the illustrator to..... More
Excursions in the County of Sussex: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1822. [Topography] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, first edition. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.iv; 201 [3]. With 46 engraved plates, including folding maps of the county, and of Chichester. Some plates hand-coloured. Contemporary or lightly later tan half calf with gilt titles..... More
Excusions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1821. [Topography] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, first edition. Sextodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.iv; 214. With 45 engraved plates including a frontispiece and vignette title page, most hand-coloured, as well as a folding map of the county. Contemporary or lightly later tan..... More
The Peerage of Ireland: or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them, their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Blazon, with their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentick Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. [Together with] The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by.
Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume, 1724 - 1725. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (32 x 21cm), pp.[16]; 260; [14]; 86; [10]. In recent brown speckled full panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blue ink library stamp to title page and..... More
The Great Tone-Poets: Being Short Memoirs of the Greater Musical Composers.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1881. [Musical Biographies] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 373 [3]. With a very large Atlas Moth wing loose to preliminaries. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt..... More
Mistura Curiosa.
Edinburgh. Maclachlan and Stewart. 1896. First edition. 4to. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth covered bevelled boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Light edgewear, some slight frayiong to head of spine; bright, clean and handsome. All edges gilt. Internally clean. A bizarre and unusual collection..... More
American Prince: My Autobiography.
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... More
Les Dieux Rouges. Roman.
Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, n.d. [1924]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.356. Fine contemporary red half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, brown labels titled in gilt with onlays and gilt tooling. Decorative matching endpapers. Original yellow..... More
Two Fables.
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986. [Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. Number 45 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations, and a colour frontispiece, by Dean. Publisher's red quarter calf, with gilt titles to..... More
Rural Sports.
London: Bunny and Gold, no date [1801-1813]. [Hunting] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, including the supplement. Quarto (27 x 22 x 17cm), pp.[10] 383 [5]; pp.[4] 520 [4]; pp.[16] 507 [25]. With 19 copper engravings and a lithographic frontispiece to volume I; 44 copper engravings and a lithographic frontispiece and decorated..... More
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America. Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Westminster Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, no date [circa 1896]. [Geology] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 648 [2]. With two folding maps, one colour folding plate, and three further folding illustrated plates, as well a numerous in-text illustrations. Number 127 of 1000 copies thus..... More
Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.
London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in..... More
William Tell, or the Patriot of Switzerland. And Hofer, the Tyrolese.
London: J. Harris, no date [circa 1824]. [Swiss Legend] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a New Edition. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] 252. With 10 engraved plates, and a decorated title page from the 1823 edition. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to brown label, and further decoration in gilt..... More
"Castelli Romani", an account of certain towns and villages in Latium, with an appendix containing short notices of Tivoli, Anzio, and Nettuno, illustrated with original sketches by Roman artists.
Florence: Alinari Brothers, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.158 [2]. With many monochrome reproductions of paintings by various artists. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to upper board and significantly raised relief-decoration. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some marks to boards and bumped corners, otherwise very good... More
Historia Ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti in Rem Theologiae Candidatorum [The Ecclesiastical History of the Old Testament, concerning matters of Pure Theology], Ubi res praecipuae, quae vel ad historiam sacram, et eius chronologiam, Legem, ac Disciplinam Hebraeorum spectant, vel quae ad Prophetarum Gesta, Vaticinia in Jesu Christo ad amussim impleta, et ad Divinam sacrorum Librorum, quibus continetur Historia Veteris Testamenti, Auctoritatem attinent, per breves interrogationes, et Responsiones perstringuntur, et in praeclaro ordine collocantur. Opus tribus tomis comprehensum, auctore Fr. Ignatio Hyacintho Amat de Graveson. Editio Novissima, Luculentissimis additionibus, ac perpetuis adnotationibus illustrata A.P. Joanne Dominico Mansi, congregationis matris dei Lugensi.
Bassani [Bassano]: Prostant Venetiis apud Remondini, 1791. [Church History] NEW EDITION, finely bound from a provincial press. Complete in three volumes, bound as one. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.xxiv; 112; 132; 164. All text in Latin. Contemporary half vellum, with gilt titles to black labels on spine, and decorated paste..... More
De Veritate Religionis Christianae Liber; Adversus Atheos, Epicureos, Ethnicos, Iudaeos, Mahumedistas, et caeteros Infideles: a Philippo Mornaeo Plessiaci Dominio, nobili Gallo, Gallicè primùm conscriptus, Latinè versus, nunc autem ab eodem accuratissimè correctus.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1592. [Christian Theology] PLANTIN PRESS, the Second Latin Edition. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[36] 694 [8]. Contemporary full vellum. All edges speckled red. Toning to edges, with some creasing to the first and final few blank leaves. Very occasional black ink..... More
Chronologie de L'Histoire Sainte et des Histoires Etrangeres qui La Concernent depuis La Sortie D'Egypte jusqu'a La Captivite de Babylone. [Chronology of Sacred History]
Berlin: Ambroise Haude, 1738. [Biblical Chronology] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS PHILIP STANHOPE. Two volumes. Quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.[50] 790 [4]; pp.[6] 866 [22]. With five engraved maps, as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and a vignette title page to volume I. Occasional engraved head-pieces. All..... More