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History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools.
London: Printed for J. Brambles [etc.], 1807. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo, pp. viii, 269 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the death of Alexander the Great. In contemporary half brown calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Lightly browned throughout; wear... More about History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools
The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East.
London: Printed for N. Newbury, 1762. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Foolscap octavo, pp.viii, 286 [2]; pp.[2], 238 [16]. In contemporary mottled calf boards, recently re-backed to style with raised bands and gilt titles to original red labels to spines. Armorial bookplates of the De Burghs, Earls of Clanricarde... More about The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His...
A Pictorial History of America: Embracing both the Northern and Southern Portions of the New World. From 'A Pictorial History of the Western World'.
New York, NY: N. Watson, 1854. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.855; [1]; 48; [4]. With a frontispiece mezzotint and decorated title page, as well as frequent in-text wood engravings. In contemporary brown full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and elaborate blind decoration to boards. Marbled edges and endpapers... More about A Pictorial History of America: Embracing both the Northern and Southern Portions of the New...
Geography Anatomiz'd: or, the Geographical Grammar. Being a short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Modern geography, After a New and Curious Method. Comprehending I. A general View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a Compendious System of the true Fundamentals of Geography; Digested into various Definitions, Problems, Theorems, and Paradoxes; with a transient Survey of the Surface of the Earthly Ball, as it consists of Land and Water. II. A particular View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a clear and pleasant Prospect of all remarkable Countries upon the Face of the whole Earth; shewing their Situation, Extent, Division, Sub-division, Cities, Chief Towns, Name, Air, Soil, Commodities, Rarities, Archbishopricks, Arms, Religion. Collected from the best Authors, and illustrated with divers Maps.
London: Printed for A. Ward [etc.], 1744. [Maps]. FINELY BOUND, the Eighteenth Edition, corrected, with new maps. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[24]; 432. With 16 folding maps depicting most parts of the world known at that time. Contemporary brown calf, recently re-backed with original brown calf spine with gilt titles... More about Geography Anatomiz'd: or, the Geographical Grammar. Being a short and Exact Analysis of the whole...
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with... More about Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le...
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration... More about Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations,...
Cassell's Illustrated History of India.
London: Cassell and Company, 1890. [Colonial History] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.x; 576; [2]; pp.xii; 588; [2]. Printed in two columns, and densely illustrated with engravings. Contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels on spine, and further gilt... More about Cassell's Illustrated History of India
Candid Caddies.
London: Duckworth. 1935. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 120. Cream boards black and red decoration and titles, cream cloth spine with black titles, Some light spotting to prelims and to the edges, some dustiness to the top edge. Some light wear and marking to the boards, head and tail caps slightly... More about Candid Caddies
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Illustrations in Colour by G.F. Nicholls.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. FINELY BOUND. Octavo. Text flanked within a pictorial background drawn in green; half-page colour illustrations tipped-in within a green decorative frame, legend printed in brown to foot of pages. A superb presentation of what is probably Gray's greatest masterpiece, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe... More about An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Illustrations in Colour by G.F. Nicholls
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Illustrations in Colour by G.F. Nicholls.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First edition thus. Quarto, pp.75. With eight mounted colour plates. Text printed in brown, flanked within a pictorial background drawn in green. Publisher's green cloth blocked in polychrome, top edge gilt, edges untrimmed, in original pictorial dust-wrapper. Book is fine, but for a little... More about An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Illustrations in Colour by G.F. Nicholls
Brewster's Millions
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank... More about Brewster's Millions
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. FINE PRIZE BINDING, later edition. Crown octavo (19 x 13 cm), pp.[2] xx; xvii-xix; [1], xxi-xlvii; [1], 872 [2]. With six coloured maps including a frontispiece, genealogical tables and an index. In contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green label on... More about A Short History of the English People
Trout Culture.
New York. 1870. 8vo., pp. 90 + ii. Original brown embossed cloth. Waterstaining to a few leaves. An early book on this subject. Very Good. More about Trout Culture
The Ministry of Fear. An Entertainment.
London: William Heinemann, 1943. First edition. Octavo, pp. 236. Half bound in recent red calf over red marbled boards. Printed to wartime economy standards. Textblock remains tight and clean with very little spotting, some marking to the edges. Overall a very good copy. More about The Ministry of Fear. An Entertainment
History of my Pets. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Neat owner's name to first free end paper. A lovely copy of the author's collection of stories, written for young people, of... More about History of my Pets. With Engravings from Designs by Billings
Recollections of my Childhood. And Other Stories. With Engravings from Designs by Billings.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth with decorative titles in gilt to spine and upper. Frayed to corners and spine tips with chips. Another collection of stories for children from the author of History of my Pets. More about Recollections of my Childhood. And Other Stories. With Engravings from Designs by Billings
A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1774. [Social history] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (17 x 10cm), pp.[6]; xii; 132; [4]. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt titles to a recent black title label on spine. Marbled endpapers. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, internally clean, toned to edges. Boards rubbed and worn, splits... More about A Father's Legacy to his Daughters
Gaddings with a Primitive People. Being a Series of Sketches of Alpine Life and Customs.
London: Remington and Co., no date [1878]. [Alpine Travel] FINELY BOUND. 2 volumes. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4] iii-xvi; 279 [5]; [4] iii-viii; 270 [4]. In slightly later blue half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels and further gilt tooling to spines. Marbled paper over boards; all... More about Gaddings with a Primitive People. Being a Series of Sketches of Alpine Life and Customs
A Display of Heraldrie. Manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of Method; wherein it is now reduced by the Study and Industry of John Guillim late Pursuivant at Arms. Interlaced with much variety of History, suitable to the severall Occasions or Subjects. The Fourth Edition. Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his life time: Together with his own Addition of explaining the tearms of Hawking and Hunting, for the use and delight of Gentlemen. And now to this fourth Edition are added about three hundred new Coats and Bearings of eminent Families, in their proper Sections, never before inserted. As also a true Register of the Blazons of all the Knights of the Garter, from the first Installment to the last: And also of all the Baronets from their first Creation to the last. Faithfully collested by Francis Nower Arms Painter (and Student in Heraldry) in Bartholomew Lane, London.
London: Printed by T. R. for Jacob Blome, 1660. [Heraldry] FOURTH EDITION, last before the Restoration. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[16] 444; 36 [6]. With in-text wood engravings throughout. In recent tan full calf with brown titles to spine. Marbled endpapers and all edges tinted red. In a matching slipcase... More about A Display of Heraldrie. Manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge therof then hath...
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[Trial of William Dodd], The Whole Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the City of London; and also the Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex; Held at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey... [between Wednesday the 4th of December 1776, and Wednesday the 15th October 1777, Being the First Eight Sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Hallifax, Lord Mayor of the City of London].
London: Printed by William Richardson, 1777. COMPLETE ORIGINAL SESSIONS. Small quarto, pp.417 [7]. Complete with the index at rear. In recent mottled full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blind ruling and decoration to boards. Edges heavily trimmed. Top edge trimmed a little too... More about Trial of William Dodd], The Whole Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and...
The General Orders of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G., etc. etc. etc. in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814; and the Low Countries and France, 1815. Compiled Alphabetically from the several Printed Volumes, which were originally issued to the General and Staff Officers and Officers commanding Regiments in the above Campaigns.
London: Printed by William Clowes, 1832. [Military] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxxii; 460; pp.45; [1]. With the 1834 preface bound in at rear with the second edition title page. With a frontispiece lithograph portrait of the Duke on india paper. Recently re-backed in tan calf with the original... More about The General Orders of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G., etc. etc. etc. in Portugal,...
Fish-Tails and Some True Ones.
London: Edward Arnold. 1897. Octavo, pp. 255. With an etching by the author and twelve illustrations by T. Hope M'Lachlan. Blue cloth with blind stamped and silver decoration, edges left untrimmed. Some light wear to the covers, some mild dustiness to the top and fore edge. A fine copy. More about Fish-Tails and Some True Ones
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Fragments of Voyages and Travels [to China and the Far East], Including Anecdotes of a Naval Life: Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons. First, Second and Third Series.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1831-33. [Far East Travel] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Three series in nine volumes. Small octavo (16 x 10 x 22cm), pp.[2] vi; 338 [2]; pp.[2] iv; 371 [3]; pp.[2] iv; 320 [2]; pp.[4] vi; 334 [2]; pp.[4] iv; 312 [2]; pp.[4] iv; 339 [3]; pp.[4] viii; 363 [3];... More about Fragments of Voyages and Travels [to China and the Far East], Including Anecdotes of a Naval...
Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, etc.
London: How and Parsons, 1841-43. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Small Quarto (26 x 18cm), pp.[4] xii, 435 [3]; pp.viii, 468 [2]; pp.[2] viii, 512 [2]. With 68 steel-engraved plates, including maps and a frontispiece to volumes I and III, as well as numerous in-text wood engravings. In recent green... More about Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, etc
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Account Of A Voyage Of Discovery To The West Coast Of Corea [Korea], And The Great Loo-Choo Island [Japanese Ryukyu Islands].
London: John Murray, 1818. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO A NATIONAL HERO. Quarto, pp.xvi; 222; cxxx, (Appendix); [70], Vocabulary and language comparison; [2], blank. Includes half-title, hand-colored aquatint frontispiece of 'Sulphur Island', 8 further plates by Havell (7 of which are hand-coloured), 5 engraved maps (2 of which... More about Account Of A Voyage Of Discovery To The West Coast Of Corea [Korea], And The Great Loo-Choo...