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![Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, reviewed in] The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal. By Several Hands....](/pictures/thumb/51141.jpg?v=1526139671)
[Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, reviewed in] The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal. By Several Hands. Vol, XII.
London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1755. [Book Reviews] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 516 [10]. With an unpaginated index at rear. Contemporary speckled calf boards, re-backed in the nineteenth century in straight-grained red morocco with gilt titles. Not a happy marriage of binding styles..... More
The Victoria Cross Centenary Exhibition, 15th June — 7th July 1956.
London: Marlborough House, 1956. [Medal Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream card wraps printed in brown to upper, stapled three times to spine. Light handling and bumping edges. Near fine. A catalogue of 199 Victoria Cross medals won between 1856 and the end of..... More
War Talks in Kansas.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company. 1906. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue clotht titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Lightly rubbed to extremities, bumped to spine ends and with some dulling of the spine panel. Tight and strong. Internally clean, light uniform toning due to cheap..... More
Foreign Policy: A Series of Extracts from Ministerial Speeches and Declarations on Foreign Affairs.
London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1912. [Liberal Party Speeches] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.24. Publisher plain paper covers with a single staple, priced at 1d. Heavily browned and very brittle, split along the spine with chips and some larger losses to edges. A remarkable survival. Very good..... More
Secret Court Memoirs: Memoirs of Henri IV King of France and Navarre, by the court historian of Louis XIV. [and] Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, written by herself. [and] Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz. Containing all the great events during the minority of Louis XIV and the administration of Cardinal Mazarin. [and] Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, written by herself. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency, by the Duchesse d'Orléans, mother of the Regent. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI taken from the Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and from the Journal of the Princess Lamballe. [and] Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France; with sketches and anecdotes of her private life by Madame Campan, first lady-in-waiting to the Queen. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud in a series of letters from a gentleman at Paris (Stewarton) to a nobleman in London. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of the Empress Josephine, with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison, by Madame Ducrest. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin; or, the Character of the King of Prussia, his ministers, mistresses, generals, courtiers, favourites, and the royal family of Prussia, by Count Mirabeau. [and] Memoirs of the Courts of Sweden and Denmark during the reigns of Christian VII of Denmark and Gustavus III and IV of Sweden. [and] Memoirs of Catherine II and the Court of St. Petersburg during her reign and that of Paul I, by one of her courtiers.
London: Printed for the Grolier Society, no date [1904]. [Regal and Imperial Court Memoirs] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET, Edition De Luxe limited to 1000 copies. Complete in 20 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 80cm). All text in English. Each volume with a title page and frontispiece printed on Japanese..... More
![Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and]...](/pictures/thumb/57768.jpg?v=1599499083)
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Pamphlet.
London: the friends of T. E. Lawrence, no date [circa 1936]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Single page folded (19 x 11cm), with title to front cover and text inside. A couple of tiny marks to rear else fine. A pamphlet describing the actions required to ensure a memorial to Lawrence be erected..... More
Reports from the Commissioners, appointed by His Majesty to execute the measures recommended in an address of the House of Commons, respecting the Public Records of Ireland: with Supplements and Appendixes. 1810-1815.
London: [Hansard], ordered to be printed 13th July 1819. ORIGINAL REPORT. Large Folio (47 x 30cm), pp.[2]; 571; [5]. With 21 plates featuring facsimile reproductions of Irish charters, some coloured, as well as a number of large folding engraved illustrations of buildings in Dublin, all with tissue guards. In recent..... More
Leaves in the Storm. A Book of Diaries.
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1947. [Wartime Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 299 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Heartfield, priced at 10/6. Hinges split but holding firm. A little bumping to boards. Jacket toned, with rubbing to edges and..... More
The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: Illustrated by Topographical, Historical, and Critical Notices; Combining every Interesting Object, Ancient and Modern. From an Elaborate Survey, and Original Designs Taken Upon the Spot. Kent.
London: George Virtue, no date [1829]. [Kent] PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[4]; ii; 130. Contemporary polished calf with gilt double rules, gilt titles to black leather square to spine, later plain brown endpapers. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece, and a vignette title, 126 fine steel engravings..... More
Kent's Capital, A Handbook to Maidstone on the Medway and Guide to the District.
Maidstone: Walter Ruck. 1898. Octavo, pp. 22 of adverts, 146, 32 of adverts, folding map housed in pouch to rear. Red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Published as part of the Homeland Association Handbook series. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Some spotting to prelims, joints just starting, map..... More
Report of The Santiago Campaign, 1898.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1908. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, a little scuffed and soiled. Titled in black to spine and front board. Very good. Portrait frontis. Internally clean. A clean tidy copy of a near contemporary account by an officer who served in the campaign. More
Crime in India, with an Introduction on Forensic Difficulties and Peculiarities.
London: Ernest Benn, 1930. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.287; [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 10/6 net. Some spotting to edges, offsetting to half title. Dust-jacket shows well, some tape reinforcement to reverse, two ring marks to front panel..... More
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson: To which are added the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index, and illustrative notes.
London: John Major, 1825. First Major Edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary black morocco, with blind panelling and corner motifs to boards, titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, interior gilt rulings, cream endpapers. Binding is rubbed to joints and extremities, with bumping to corners. Largely clean inside, with spotting..... More
The Complete Angler. New edition, edited by "Ephemera".
London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1854. Second Cooke edition. Pp.309 with woodcut frontispiece, engraved general title and vignette title, facsimile title, and other illustrations within the text, followed by three numbered plates accompanied by explanatory text leaves. Original blind-stamped pale green cloth, with elaborate gilt tooling to spine, yellow coated..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
Appendicia et Pertinentiae; or, Parochial Fragments relating to the Parish of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex; containing a Life of Thomas A Becket, an Historical and Descriptive Account of his (so called) Palace at West Tarring, and of the Figs he introduced; some Account of the Learned John Selden, and Selden's Cottage at Salvington, etc. etc. etc.
London: Francis and John Rivington, 1853. [English Ecclesiastical History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 369 [3]. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth with paper title label to spine. A fine contemporary (and relevant) black ink inscription to recto of rear flyleaf. Typed bookseller's description pasted to rear pastedown. Heavy foxing to..... More
The Writings of George Washington. Being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and other Papers, Official and Private, selected and published from the Original Manuscripts. With A Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations by Jared Sparks.
Boston: American Stationers' Company; Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co.; Boston: Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co. 1834-1837. [American History]. First Sparks Edition, also The First Collected Edition, large paper copies. Twelve volumes,quarto (26 x 18 x 52cm). All first issues except volume..... More
A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography By Evelyn Waugh.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1964. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 234. With five double-sided black and white plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 30s. Fine, but for some spotting to..... More
The Fate Of Homo-Sapiens.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1939. [Futurology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.vi; 330. Publisher's grey cloth with titles in gilt and red to spine. Top edge red. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Lightly browned and rubbed to edges. A little rubbing and toning to board edges..... More
The Natives of British Central Africa.
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1906. [Colonial Ethnography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 303 [1]. With 32 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Index unopened. Bookplate of..... More
Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. [Anthropology]. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 422; 2 of adverts. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Some spotting to endpapers and to edges, slight rubbing to the head and tail of spine and to the corners. Glue residue at the top..... More
Saturdays with Bricks. (and other days under shell-fire).
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Literary Autobiography]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For | K. T. Williams | with best wishes | from | Dennis Wheatley". With five double-sided photographic plates of walls build by the author..... More
A New School Atlas of Modern Geography; consisting of twenty-four maps, from the latest and best authorities.
Edinburgh: Sold by White and Co., [etc.] no date [circa 1850]. [World Maps] HAND-COLOURED MAPS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), including all 24 maps. Original black cloth boards with black leather corners, recently rebacked in plain black cloth, edges speckled red. Gilt titles and price of 7/6 to upper. Slight..... More
Children In Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life.
London: Murdoch and Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION in book-form. Pamphlet, pp.16, printed wrappers. Trivial toning. A fine copy, but for the rust-through from the single staple at fold. The text of Wilde's celebrated letter to the Daily Chronicle, appearing on 28th May 1897, which concerned the affair of Warder T...... More