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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Six Months in a Convent, or, the Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, who was under the influence of the Roman Catholics about two years, and an intimate of the Ursuline Convent on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, Mass., nearly six months, in the years 1831-32. With some preliminary suggestions by the committee of publication.
Boston, MA: Russell, Odiorne and Metcalf, 1835. [American History] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (15 x 11cm), pp.192. Publisher's blind-decorated green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Quite heavily spotted throughout, tear to pp.141/42. Corners bumped, binding rubbed, spine toned. Very good. More
A Personal Narrative of The Siege of Lucknow.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. 1858. First edition. 8vo. 380pp. Publisher's orange embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine. Bright and sharp, slight bumping to spine ends and corners, minor edgewear, very good indeed, a very pretty copy. Internally clean, brown, glazed endpapers with ads to pastedowns, Edwards... More
The Emigrant's Guide to the Western States of America. or Backwoods and Prairies: Containing A Complete Statement of the Advantages and Capacities of the Prairie Lands - Full Instructions for Emigrants in Fitting Out; And in Selecting, Purchasing, and Settling on, Land - With Particulars of Farming and Other Business Operations, Pictures of the Home Manners of the People, Successes of Emigrants, etc., etc.,
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, no date [1852]. [Americana] THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.vii; 408. Publisher's purple blind stamped textured cloth, gilt titles to spine. With a frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations. Engraved bookplate of John F. Patrick to pastedown, neat ownership of the same... More
The History of Wargrave, Berks. Compiled Entirely from Original Documents in the British Museum, Record Office, &c. in which is included the Legend of Queen Emma, and an Account of the Ancient Monuments in the Parish Church; its Records and Charities.
Reading: E. Langley, Lovejoy's Library, W. Smith. 1885. Subscribers' Edition. Octavo. pp. ix, 137 [vi]. With three plates, including frontispiece. Including errata and appendix. In embossed deep mauve cloth with gilt titles to upper board only. Yellow end papers. Corners slightly bumped, with further bumping and wear to edges. Some... More
Trekking On.
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fifth impression, octavo, pp. 351. Five folding maps. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in dustwrapper. Some occasional light spotting, some spotting to the edges. Slight wear and marking to the cloth with some bubbling to the rear of the... More
Celtic folklore; Welsh and Manx.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Octavo, pp.xlvi; [2]; 400; pp.[4]; 401-718; [2]; 96 of adverts. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt. Embossed stamp of Edward Cass to front free endpaper of both volumes, ownership inscriptions to both half-title and title-page of volume... More
A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, And Beggars and Begging.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Large Octavo, pp. xxi, 720. With 19 b/w illustrations, and a table showing the number of vagrants apprehended, convicted and discharged from 1831-85. Including and index of statutes, and index of beggars and a general index. In publisher's deep mauve boards with gilt... More
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The Works of David Ricardo [Principles of Political Economy and Taxation]. With A Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author.
London: John Murray, [1861]. [Economics] EARLY COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxxiii; 584; [38 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's purple embossed cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown endpapers, binder's ticket to rear pastedown. A mixed publication with a title page dated 1852 and publisher's advertisements at the rear dated December... More
Dylan's Visions of Sin.
London: Viking, 2003. [Musical Criticism] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 517; [5]. Publisher's white cloth with silver titles to spine. Blue endpapers. With the white dust-jacket featuring a photo of the subject by Elliot Landy / Redferns, priced at £25. Toning to the textblock, more so to... More
Stone - A Biography of Oliver Stone. The controversies, excesses, and exploits of a radical filmmaker
New York, Hyperion 1995. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED By the author. Octavo, pp.xviii; 573; [1], blank. Illustrated with black and white plates. Publisher's grey and black cloth in photographic dustwrapper. Light wear only; a fine copy. More
An Exact Abridgment of all the Irish Statutes, from the Fist Session of Parliament in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward II to the End of the Eighth Year of His Present Majesty King George II. Together with an Abridgment of All the English Statutes, in Force in Ireland, from Magna Charta, to the End of the Eighth Year of His Present Majesty King George II.
Dublin: Printed by George Grierson... and sold by Philip Crampton, 1736. [Irish Law]. FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] 770; [102]; 26 [2]; 26 [2]; 20 [4]; 20 [4]; 25 [3]; 30 [2]; 22 [2]. With seven appendices. Contemporary brown calf with raised bands and gilt titles to... More
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. After Lithographs by Louis Haghe from Drawings made on the spot. With Historical Descriptions by the Rev. George Croly [William Brockedon for vol.IV].
London: Day and Son, 1855. [Near Eastern Travel] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. 6 volumes bound in 3. Quarto (30cm x 23cm). With 250 tinted lithographs (all with paper guards) including frontispiece portrait of David Roberts, 6 title pages and 2 maps. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides... More
The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England in Past Centuries; Illustrated in Regard to their Habits, Municipal Bye-Laws, Civil Progress, etc.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1856. [English History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 572 [26]. With occasional in-text wood engravings. In a mid-twentieth-century green buckram library binding with gilt titles and shelf-mark to spine. All edges flecked red. Library bookplate to front free endpaper, with... More
Golden Arrow. The Story of the 7th Indian Division in the Second World War 1939-1945.
Aldershot: Gale and Polden Ltd., 1952. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 304. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt formation badge to upper board, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 25/-net. Seven folding maps and ten double sided photographic plates. Some toning and marks to... More
Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946.
[Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry... More