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The Railway Panoramic Guide. Complete Midland. A Panoramic Decription of the Principal Objects of Historic Interest, Sacred Edifices, Chief Cities, Towns, Villages, Country Seats, Pleasure Resorts, Natural Objects, Engineering Works, Roads, Rivers, Canals, etc., Inviting the Attention of Passengers over the Main Line and Chief Branches of the Midland Railway.
London: Bembrose and Sons, n.d. [1873]. FIRST EDITION PAMPHLET. (295 X 190mm), pp.i, 56 [10]. First page of adverts dated 1873. With an illustrated map of the railways and steam boat routes of England, Wales and southern Scotland to verso of front cover. In publisher's yellow paper covers with black... More about The Railway Panoramic Guide. Complete Midland. A Panoramic Decription of the Principal Objects of...
Colbran's Guide for Tunbridge Wells. Being a Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and its Neighbourhood Within a Circuit of Nearly Twenty Miles, and Notices of the London and Dover Railway; Illustrated With Plates, Wood Engravings, etc., of Most of the Principle Places.
Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Published by John Colbran, 1840. [Kent]. FIRST EDITION, first issue. Octavo, pp.[2] xiv; 404; xi; [33]. With sixteen engraved plates including a frontispiece, but lacking the map. Publisher's dark green cloth boards, recently re-backed with original cloth spine laid over. Gilt titles to spine and upper... More about Colbran's Guide for Tunbridge Wells. Being a Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and its...
British Olympic Association Official Report of the Olympic Games, XVIIth Olympiad, Rome, August 25 - September 11, 1960.
London: World Sports, n.d. [c.1960]. ORIGINAL REPORT. Magazine (27 x 22cm), pp.112. With five colour photographic plates of athletes, as well as numerous further black and white images. In publisher's colour illustrated paper covers, glued to spine, also with staples. Some rubbing to joints and edges. Upper cover starting at... More about British Olympic Association Official Report of the Olympic Games, XVIIth Olympiad, Rome, August...
Harold Wilson.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. [Political Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 811 [5]. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket reproducing a portrait by Ruskin... More about Harold Wilson
Russia. Or, Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of that Country and its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes made on the Spot, during Travels, at different times, in the service of the Bible Society, and a Residence of many Years in that Country.
London: Seeley and Sons, 1833. First Edition. 8vo; pp. (8), 486, (2). Complete with 8 hand-coloured lithographs. Publisher's original green cloth spine with black title label, grey paper covered boards. Title label chipped. Extremities bumped and rubbed, corners frayed, boards rubbed and marked, joints starting but strong. Bookplate to paste... More about Russia. Or, Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of that Country and its...
Travels through the South of France, and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the Years 1807 and 1808, by a Route Never Before Performed, Being along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne, through the Greater Part of their Course. Made by Permission of the French Government.
London: Printed for T. Purday, 1809. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.vi, 282. In contemporary half tan calf with gilt titles to black label on spine. Black marbled boards. Light spotting to prelims. Spine sunned; some edge-wear, otherwise a very good copy. More about Travels through the South of France, and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and...
An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the Invasion of that Country under Henry II to its Union with Great Britain on the 1st of Janurary, 1801.
London: Printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, Military Library, 1803. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes, bound as three. Quarto, pp.[4] xxxii, 630, 373 [25]; pp.[4] xxiv, 686 [22]; pp.[4] xxii, 687-1076, 404, [14], 45 [5]. With a mezzotint fontispiece portrait of the author to vol. I. Both volumes with... More about An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the Invasion of that Country under Henry II to...
Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch.
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770. [Classical Biography]. FIRST LANGHORNE EDITION. Six volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.lvi; 380 [2]. With a frontispiece copper engraving by Joseph Simpson to each volume. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands and gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels. Joints split;... More about Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a...
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Sebastian Bach [and] Handel. The Great Musicians, Edited by Francis Hueffer.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882-1890. [Music Biography]. FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii, 138; pp.viii, 136 [2]. In contemporary blue half morocco by MUDIE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled boards. All edges and endpapers... More about Sebastian Bach [and] Handel. The Great Musicians, Edited by Francis Hueffer
At 12 Mr Byng was shot...
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. [Naval Narrative History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 338; [2]. With eight double-sided black and white plates, and several other maps and illustrations in-text. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge light blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Francis Russell... More about At 12 Mr Byng was shot
England Expects.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. [Naval history] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.368. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge blue, pictorial dust-jacket featuring a painting by Harold Wyllie, with printed price of 25s net. Illustrated with eight double sided black and white plates and a.... More about England Expects
The Elements of Heraldry, Containing the Definition, Origin, and Historical Account of that Ancient, Useful, and Entertaining Science. The Divers Sorts of Coats-of-Arms in Use; with their Essential and Integral Parts Displayed Separately. The Several Marks by which Bearers of the Same Coat-of-Arms are Distinguished from Each Other. The Different Kinds of Tinctures, Lines, Figures, Charges, and Ornaments Used for Coats-of-Arms. The Laws of Heraldry; Practical Directions for Marshalling Coats-of-Arms; and the Order of Precedence. The Hatchments so Clearly Described, that the Branch and Title, the Deceased was of, may be Readily Known. Illustrated with Several Cuts, and Twenty-Four Copper-Plates, containing above Five Hundred Examples of Escutcheons, Arms, etc. and Interspersed with the Natural History and Allegorical Signification of the Several Species of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Vegetables, etc. Comprised in this Treatise. To which is Annexed, a Dictionary of the Technical Terms Made Use of in Heraldry, etc.
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson [etc.], 1795. [Heraldry] FIFTH EDITION in original boards. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 278; with a large unpaginated Dictionary of Terms at rear, perhaps 50 pages long. With 24 copper engraved plates. Contemporary brown half morocco with gilt titles to red label on... More about The Elements of Heraldry, Containing the Definition, Origin, and Historical Account of that...
Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly.
London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820. Small 4to.; pp. 122. Complete with 4 engravings including the engraved portrait frontispiece of Ali Pacha Vizier of Janana. Bound in recent light brown half oasis morocco with maroon title label and gilt titles to spine, marbled boards. Some 25 leaves... More about Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly
The Snuff Mill Story, Local History of Morden, Mitcham, Merton.
Letchworth: The Garden City Press, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.160. With 100 b/w photographic illustrations. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. Some closed tears and very minor chipping to jacket. Very good overall. A history of three south London communities linked by... More about The Snuff Mill Story, Local History of Morden, Mitcham, Merton
History of The Conquest of Mexico.
London; George Routledge. n.d. C.1872. Author's Authorised Edition. 8vo. 479pp. Bound in full tan calf prize binding with black title label. Decorated in gilt to spine and boards, bearing the crest of University College School to front and rear boards. Minor edgewear, slight toning to spine, clean and strong. Marbled..... More about History of The Conquest of Mexico
The Complete Works of William Hickling Prescott. Edited, with the Author's Latest Corrections, by John Foster Kirk.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., no date [circa 1890s]. [History] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 16 x 45cm). Beautifully bound by Bayntun for Lauriat Booksellers in tan half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on contrasting morocco squares and extra gilt to spines, top edges gilt, marbled... More about The Complete Works of William Hickling Prescott. Edited, with the Author's Latest Corrections, by...
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of making it a Benefit to the World. To which is added, a Letter from M. Turgot, late Comptroller-General if the Finances of France: with An Appendix, containing a Translation of the Will of M. Fortune Ricard, lately published in France.
London: T. Cadell, 1785. [Political Philosophy] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 156 [4]. Recent speckled calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Library stamp to p.1, title page washed, some annotation to p.153. Some toning and spotting to textblock. Very good. A.... More about Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of making it a Benefit...
Observations upon the Topography and Climate of Crowborough Hill, Sussex.
Lewes: Farncombe and Co., 1898. SECOND EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo, pp. 312. Bound by Barber of Lewes in half vellum over marbled boards, paper title label to square. Frontispiece plate of the observatory on Crowborough Hill, numerous in text illustrations and tables throughout. Two labels affixed to the front pastedown... More about Observations upon the Topography and Climate of Crowborough Hill, Sussex
The Godfather Papers, and Other Confessions.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.252 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to flyleaf: 'For Betty and Susan | my LA | tennis-nemesisses | I hope you like the | book | best | Mario.' Publisher's quarter... More about The Godfather Papers, and Other Confessions
The Life of Cardinal Reginald Pole, written originally in Italian, by lodovico Beccatelli, Archbishop of Ragusa; and now first translated into English. With notes Critical and Historical. To which is added, and Appendix, setting forth the Plagiarisms, False Translations, and False Grammar in Thomas Phillip's History of the Life of Reginald Pole.
London: C. Bathurst, 1766. FIRST THUS. Octavo. pp. xxiv, 226. In contemporary full brown calf with gilt titles to orange morocco label. Black ink inscription to front paste-down, otherwise crisp and clean internally. Joints split, boards still attached. Small white sticker with black ink numbers to top left of upper... More about The Life of Cardinal Reginald Pole, written originally in Italian, by lodovico Beccatelli,...
Antiquitates Americanae, sive, Scriptores Septentrionales rerum Ante-Columbianarum in America. [The Antiquities of America, or, Norse Writers on Pre-Columbian Activity in America]. Samling af de i Nordens Oldskrifter Indeholdte Efterretninger om de Gamle Nordboers Opdagelsesreiser til America fra det 10de til det 14de Aarhundrede.
Hafniae [Copenhagen]: Typis Officinae Schultzianae, edidit Societas Regia Antiquariorum Septentrionalium [the Royal Society for Norse Antiquities / Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab], 1837. [Norse History] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (34 x 28cm), pp.xl; 479 [1]. With eight manuscript facsimile plates and 10 further plates at rear, including four maps. Recently re-backed using... More about Antiquitates Americanae, sive, Scriptores Septentrionales rerum Ante-Columbianarum in America....
Merry England.
London: Vista Books, 1960. SIGNED BY ARDIZZONE, first edition. Large octavo, pp.208. With 21 coloured illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. SIGNED by the artist in black ink to front free endpaper. In publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original colour illustrated dust-jacket, also by Ardizzone. Light blue... More about Merry England
The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. [Colonial History] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 565; [1]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates in two groups within the text. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Kjell Ekhorn. Bookplate detailing... More about The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
The French Revolutions from 1789 to 1848.
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1848. [French History]. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2], 6, [2], 7-320 [2]; pp.328 [2]; pp.376 [2]. Contemporary brown half calf with raised bands and gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels to spines. Volume III re-spined to-style in matching... More about The French Revolutions from 1789 to 1848
Somewhere South of Suez.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge blue, dust-jacket priced at 12s. 6d. Bookplate of G, Lillywhite to flyleaf. Spotting to preliminaries, edges toned and marked. Jacket darkened to spine with some small chips... More about Somewhere South of Suez