Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive Libri Canonici Priscae Judaiorum Ecclesiae a Deo Traditi, Latini recens ex Hebreao facti, brevibusque Scholiis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio, et Francisco Junio. Accesserunt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocyphi, Latine redditi, et Notis quibusdam aucti a Francisco Junio. Multo omnes quam ante emendatus editi et aucti locis innumeris : quibus etiam adjunximus Novi Testamenti libros ex sermone syro ab eodem Tremellio, et ex Graeco a Theodoro Beza in Latinum verso, Notisque itidem illustratos. Tertia Cura Francisci Junii.
Hanoviae: Impensis Andreae Wecheli heredum, Claudii Marnii, et Ioannis Aubrii, 1596. [Latin Bible] THIRD THUS. Folio in sixes (35 x 23cm), pp.[12] 177 [1]; [6] 292 numbered leaves [2]; 74 numbered leaves [2]; [2] 448 [16]. In a nineteenth century full brown calf binding, recently re-backed with the original spine..... More
Byzantine Architecture; Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity. With Historical & Archaeological Descriptions.
London: Day and Son, 1864. [Byzantine Architecture] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Folio (44 x 31cm), pp.xii, 218. Illustrated with 70 tinted lithographic plates (including 12 in colour), each with a tissue guard, and many woodcuts. Rebound with the original publisher's purple cloth boards, decorated liberally in gilt to upper and blind..... More
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.
London: John Murray, 1828. [Colonial History]. FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. In four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xii; 473 [7]; pp.[12] 490 [6]; pp.[2] viii; 413 [5]; pp.[2] viii; 489 [5]. With two large folding maps. In contemporary green calf boards, re-backed to style in green calf with gilt..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Attractively bound in tan half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to contrasting burgundy and green..... More
The Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950, 1959. [Gothic Fantasy] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm), pp.438; pp.454; pp.222. Illustrated frontispiece to final volume. Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf with marbled paper over boards, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered to twin black..... More
The Sonnets of Shakspere.
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881. [Love Poetry] FIRST DOWDEN EDITION, finely bound and printed. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[6] lxii; 251 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, as well as extensive notes and an introduction. Printed by A. and T. Constable at the Edinburgh University..... More
I Me Mine.
Guildford: Genesis Press [Genesis Publications], 1980. [Music autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION (No.482). Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.404; [2], blank. With sepia plates and illustrations. Original half brown morocco with 'guitar' gilt-stamped to boards, gilt edges, in original slipcase. Number 482 of 2000 copies only, signed by the late former..... More
The Odyssey of Homer. To which is added The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
London: Printed for J. Walker [et al.], 1811. [Classics] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo (13 x 7cm), pp.[6] 426 [2]. With an etched frontispiece and decorated title page after Thomas Uwins, by Anthony Cardon. Contemporary brown diced full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers. Small contemporary booksellers' label..... More
Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha. [Annals of England and Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth]. Tribus Voluminibus comprehensi. E Codice praeclaro Smithiano, propria Auctoris manu correcto, Multisque magni momenti Additionibus locupletato, Eruit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, Qui et alium Codicem e Bibliotheca Rawlinsoniana adhibuit.
[Oxford], 1717. [English History] FIRST THUS, a later edition. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] ccviii; 200 [2]; pp.[2] 201-588 [2]; pp.[2] 589-1012 [2]. With two copper engraved portraits of Elizabeth to volume I. Text largely in Latin, with occasional small passages in English (blackletter type). Contemporary full speckled..... More
Poetry of Byron.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Poetry Selection] FINELY BOUND, third impression thus. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xxxvi; 276. With a vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spotting to preliminaries. Light rubbing to binding; spine..... More
History of Europe. From the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. [and] From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII [1774-1852].
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1843-59. [European History] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET, various editions. Nineteen volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x 97cm). Finely bound by W.J. MANSELL, successor to James HAYDAY in contemporary tan full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels to spine, further..... 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
The Story of Africa and its Explorers. With Two Hundred Original Illustrations.
London: Cassell and Company, no date [1892-95]. [Colonial Exploration] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes bound as two. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312. With frequent half-tone vignette illustrations, as well as occasional maps and full-page illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco with raised bands..... More
The Works of Shakespeare, with three hundred and forty illustrations by Sir John Gilbert.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.560; pp.560. With a frontispiece engraving of the Bard by E.W. Robinson to volume I, and frequent vignette wood engravings by Gilbert throughout. Text printed in two columns. Contemporary red half calf..... More
The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book. Complete with "Appendix" and "Accompaniment" and all the Plates.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1895. FINELY BOUND, revised edition. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[4]; 440. With 122 facsimile engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Second title page reproduces that of the Third Edition (1802). In recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and burgundy cloth boards. Top..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label on spine, and original publisher's burgundy cloth over boards, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in..... More
The Romish Horseleech: or, an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, In an Historical Remembrance of some of those Prodigious summs of money heretofore extorted from all degrees during the exercise of the Papal power here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England.
London: Printed by R.W. for Ralph Smith, 1674. [Anti-Catholic Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[32]; 286; [4]. Later (likely late eighteenth-century) brown straight grained calf, with gilt titles to a black label, and gilt decorations to spine. Trimmed, with all edges and endpapers marbled. Some black ink scribbling..... More
Charterhouse Past and Present: A brief history of the Hospital founded in Charterhouse by Thomas Sutton, and more particularly of the school belonging thereto.
Godalming: H. Stedman, 1879. [Public School History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 239 [3]. With 20 illustrations, including a frontispiece and plans of the school. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to first blank: 'Cecil James Gladdish Hulkes | from Dr. Haig Brown | for History..... More
Maximes.
London: Arthur Humphreys, 1902. [French Proverbs] FINELY BOUND, a duel language edition. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.[8] 209 [7]. French printed to verso and English to recto of each leaf. Contemporary burnt orange full morocco by BICKERS AND SON of Leicester Square, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. The Globe Edition: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.lxxxviii; 662. Contemporary red half morocco by MUDIE, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Lightly browned throughout. Pencil ownership to first blank dated..... More
Glyndebourne. A History of the Festival Opera Founded in 1934 by Audrey and John Christie.
London: Methuen, 1965. [Opera] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.307; [1]. Beautifully bound for Asprey and Company, likely by Bayntun or Sangorski, in red half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated photographs in colour and..... More
![The Novels of Jane Austen, comprising] Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield...](/pictures/thumb/55302.jpg?v=1576515246)
[The Novels of Jane Austen, comprising] Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; and Emma]. The Series of English Idylls.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907-1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRSTS THUS, the complete first Brock Colour editions. Six volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 19cm). Each volume with 24 colour illustrations by Brock, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Recent biscuit-brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Alexander's Path. From Caria to Cilicia.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Travel literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 283 [1]. With 21 black and white photographic plates, as well as vignette title page illustration by Reynolds Stone, in-text illustrations by the author, maps, and an index. Recent blue half morocco with raised bands..... More
Hebrew Melodies.
London: John Murray, 1815. [Romantic Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 53 [1]. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label; incorporating contemporary tan calf boards by W. Nutt, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound without the advertisement and without the half title..... More
The Seven Lamps Of Architecture.
Orpington: George Allen, 1890. [Architecture] FINELY BOUND, second edition in small form. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xx; 401 [1]. With 14 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by the author. Contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to a black morocco label on spine, and further gilt tooling. Decorative textured endpapers;..... More