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![The Works of William Robertson [History of Scotland; History of America etc.] To which is...](/pictures/thumb/51619.jpg?v=1532606359)
The Works of William Robertson [History of Scotland; History of America etc.] To which is prefixed, and Account of his Life and Writings, by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S. Edin.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1831. [History] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] 1170 [2]. With a steel engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Near contemporary maroon full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and further elaborate decoration in gilt and blind all over. All..... More
Six Centuries of Work and Wages. The History of English Labour.
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1901. [Economic History] FINELY BOUND, sixth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 591 [3]. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and grey cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Ex libris Sir Malcolm McEacharn, with his armorial bookplate to..... More
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter Naturalist.
London: John Murray, 1910. FIRST UK EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.xvii, 534 [8]. With 50 illustrations, including a photographic frontispiece of the author, a map, and various photographs and illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with pictorial black stamping. Top edge gilt. Slight..... More
Through the Brazilian Wilderness. With Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other Members of the Expedition.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. [South America] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.383; [1] blank. Illustrated. Smartly bound in brown full morocco, gilt titles to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt border to boards. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Internally clean and bright in a...... More
The Life of Napoleon I. Including New Materials from the British Official Records
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. Biography. 2 volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm). First Cheap Edition, revised. With plates and maps. School Prize binding (Berkhamsted School) in scarlet calf, gilt, with gilt crest to upper, marbled edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate to pastedown (French, signed by Head Master Thomas Charles..... More
Les Interests Presens des Puissances de L'Europe, Fondez sur le Traitez conclus depuis la Paix d'Utrecht inclusivement, et sur les Preuves de leurs Pretensions particulieres.
La Haye: Adrien Moetjens, 1733. 2 volumes. Quarto. Bound in calf with blind decoration to board edges; raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spine; all edges stained red, marbled endpapers. French language. Binding rubbed, corners and spine ends worn; minor worm damage to joints. Insides predominantly clean, with..... More
![Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples,...](/pictures/thumb/46951.jpg?v=1493311007)
Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.398. With 22 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from labels. Spine head..... More
Across Europe In A Motor Boat.
New Yotk, NY: D Appleton and Co., 1908. First Edition. Octavo, pp.304. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine, boat and wake design stamped in dark green to front board; top edge gilt. Binding is a little shaken in its case, bumped, with some..... More
The Beasts, Birds, and Bees of Virgil. A Naturalist's Handbook to the Georgics.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1914. [Classics] ASSOCIATION COPY, First Edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xx; 107; [1]. Inscribed to Rev. A.R. Alsop from the Author's mother, 1914. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Some marking and rubbing to cloth, darkened to spine. Very good... More
Southern Lights. The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937. With Two Chapters by A. Stephenson and an Historical Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1938. First Edition. Large 8vo.; pp. xv, 296. Publisher's green cloth with gilt entitled tan cloth title label to spine; top edge tinted. Illustrated with 122 plates on 81 pages including Frontispiece, and a coloured folding map of Graham Land. Light foxing to edges; spine darkened;..... More
Desert Rat Sketch Book. Written and Illustrated, On-The-Spot, in Full Colour by Clifford Saber.
New York, NY: Sketchbook Press, 1959. [Military Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (27 x 37cm), pp.xxxii; 187 [5]. With 139 illustrations, most colour lithographs, and two maps. Publisher's speckled cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. In the original yellow paper-covered slipcase with plain paper label. Spine..... More
Carnaby Street.
Walton-on-Thames: Margaret and Jack Hobbs, 1970. [Pop culture] FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (21 x 21cm), pp.72. Publisher's bright pictorial card boards, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 25s net, in text illustrations by Malcolm English, pictorial endpapers showing map of Carnaby Street. Internally clean and bright, minor spotting to top edge, bumped..... More
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942. Reprint of the first edition; Octavo; fine binding by Morrell of London, half maroon calf-leather binding with gilt titles / tooling and red cloth; gilt top edge; marbled end papers; pp. xiv, 1094; slight split towards the top of the spine and weak top edge..... More
The Nature and Evolution of the Political Relations between the Indian States and the British Imperial Government.
Joyce and Sone, Newport 1932. Historical essay on Britain's relationship with India. Publisher's softcovers, pp. 202, with loose errata slip present. A fine copy. This thesis was presented to the University of Geneva, and covers the rise of British Power in India up to the Post-Mutiny and Post-War era. The..... More
Drawing Blood: Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored.
London: Little, Brown for Time Warner Books, 2005. [Political Cartoons]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.352. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. SIGNED by Scarfe in black ink to the half-title. Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. With the red illustrated..... More
The Collected Papers.
London: G. Bell and Sons. 1931. First edition. 8vo. 368pp. Fine in publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. In a fine unclipped example of the buff paper dustwrapper. Internally bright and clean, a splendid copy. A labour of love 20th century translation of the 18th century German work..... More
![The History of England. During the Reign of George III [the Third]. Designed as a Continuation of...](/pictures/thumb/28704.jpg?v=1493310825)
The History of England. During the Reign of George III [the Third]. Designed as a Continuation of Hume and Smollett.
London: J. Robins and Co., 1824. 4 volumes; 8vo. Superb contemporary dark brown half calf with burgundy title label, gilt raised bands and volume number, and blind tooling to spines; blind tooled rule; marbled boards and end papers. Portrait frontispiece to volume 1. Bookplate. Some light foxing. A sound and..... More
Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his Friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto Unpublished Prose Fragment by Shelley. Edited by W.S. Scott.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition to 500 numbered copies of which this is No. 279. Publisher's quarter brown morocco with gilt titles to spine, green cloth boards, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Binding slightly rubbed. A clean and tight copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by..... More
Gems of Modern German Art, a Series of Carbon-Photographs from the Pictures of Eminent Modern Artists, with Remarks on the Works Selected, and an Essay on the Schools of Germany.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. [Art Catalogue] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4]; 108; [2]. With sixteen illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt double-headed eagle motif stamped extensively to spine..... More
Edinburgh.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1947. [Scotland] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 112. Illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and numerous black and white plates. Finely bound for the Times Book Club by Zaehnsdorf in blue half morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, top..... More
The Rajputs: A Fighting Race. A Short Account of the Rajput Race, its Warlike Past, its Early Connections with Great Britain, and its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front.
London: East and West Ltd. 1915. First Edition. Quarto, pp. xvi, 164. With a foreword by General Sir O'Moore Creagh, ex commander-in-Chief, India. With 61 plates tipped in. In khaki cloth with gilt titles spine and upper board, gilt margins to upper board. Top edge gilt, all other edges untrimmed..... More
Lisa Fonssagrives: Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. [Fashion Photography History]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.152. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With black and white photographic dust-jacket. A fine as-new copy. More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Very light rubbing to extremities; a few specks of foxing to page edges. With illustrations. Gilt bright, book sound: a near fine copy of this rare title. More
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Shakespeare's plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 1315; [1]. Oxford binding of quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, gilt decoration and titles to spine, top-edge gilt, housed in the original card slipcase. Frontispiece from a drawing by Sir George Scharf. Ownership..... More
A Tour to the West of England in 1788.
London: Printed for Robson and Clarke, 1789. [English Topography]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii, 602 [4]. In contemporary speckled tan calf boards, recently re-backed to-style with original green title label pasted to spine. Pencil ownership inscriptions of A. FitzAlan to pastedowns, dated 1899. Thumbing and chipping to edges..... More