"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
History & Biography
The Holy War In Tripoli.
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. [Military History/Travel] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.333; [1], blank; [2], advertisements; 8, Catalogue. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt, edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Edges slightly dusty, spine of jacket a touch sunned..... More
Grace and Glory. Malta: People, Places & Events.
Valletta: Progress Press Company, 1997. [Historical Vignettes] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 238 [2]. With frequent in-text photographic images. INSCRIBED and dated by the author in black ink to title page: 'To His Excellency | Mr Graham Archer, CMG | with the respectful compliments of | the..... More
A Nation's Praise. Malta: People, Places & Events.
Valletta: Progress Press Company, 1994. [Historical Vignettes] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 232. With frequent in-text photographic images. SIGNED and dated by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue illustrated glossy boards, with the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Some light handling. Near fine... More
London. The Biography.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2000. [History] FIRST EDITION. Thick octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.822 [2]. With four suites of plates, illustrated endpapers. Hardcover in photographic dust-jacket priced at £25.00. One scratch to the fore-edge. Near fine. This acclaimed work by the multi award-winning author has been described by Ackroyd himself..... More
The Temple Church.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. [Mediaeval Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 127 [5]. With five fine lithographic plates by Brandard, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Engravings also to chapter headings. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind and in gilt to spine and upper, yellow-coated..... More
A Translation, in Verse, of the Mottos of the English Nobility and Sixteen Peers of Scotland, in the year 1800.
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Robert Triphook, 1822. [Verse Mottos] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 127 [3]. Recently re-backed in rough brown calf with a plain hand-written title label, and the original blind and gilt decorated calf boards. New endpapers to-style. Light toning and few..... More
Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean and..... More
Die grosse feuersbrunst zu New-York, am 19. juli 1845. Vollständigste schilderung nach den berichten von augenzeugen und amerikan. blättern. Mit einer getreuen abbildung der explosion in Broad-street und dem namensverzeichnisse sämmtlicher abgebrannten und ihrer geschäfte.
Hamburg: Berendsohn, 1845. [History] Pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.28, original printed yellow covers. Frontispiece plate of the explosion at Crocker and Warren. Text in German. Short tear to upper, neat archival support to fold. Near fine. A remarkable survival. More
Scenes and Recollections. By the author of "The Gaol Chaplain."
London; Dean and Son. n.d. [1850's]. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's elaborately decorated red moire cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt and black to spine and boards. Light wear to extremities, strong bright and solid, some dulling to the gilt, most notably to the spine. Fraying to head of spine..... More
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
The Royal Kalendar: or Complete and Correct Annual Register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1806. Including a Complete and Correct List of the 2d Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their First Session in November, 1802: Upon a new and more extensive Plan than any hitherto offered to the Public.
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, [etc.] 1806. [Directory] ORIGINAL DIRECTORY. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 9cm), pp.iv; 364. Quite heavily trimmed. Publisher's tan full sheepskin with gilt date and ruling to spine. All edges speckled grey. Some black ink notes to front endpapers. Heavy black ink emendations to the members..... More
Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1792; Including a complete and correct List of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first session in November, 1790. Upon a new and more extensive Plan than any hitherto offered to the Public. [with] A Companion to the Royal Kalendar. The Fifty-Seventh Edition, carefully corrected.
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1792. [Almanac] ORIGINAL BINDING. Duodecimo (16 x 10cm), pp.iv; 281; 144. In publisher's full tan sheepskin binding. Title page notes 'Price bound two shillings'. Internally clean; very heavy external wear. Skin torn away from boards in places; spine head and tail torn away. Joints weak..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in Vogue, with a list of the sixty orders of Prime Coves, the whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
Complete Life of The Right Honourable Winston L. Spencer Churchill. Life-Stories of Success No.2 Soldier and Statesman.
London: The Self-Help Press, no date [circa 1910]. [Self-Help / Political Biography] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's paper covers illustrated with a photograph by Elliott and Fry, stapled twice and priced at 2d. Crumbling to dust as you read this; as brown as they come and..... More
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Deutsche Gefangene in England [German Prisoners in England].
London: the London General News and Book Agency, no date [circa 1916]. [Wartime Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.62. A collection of photogravure images printed on clay paper showing German prisoners of war engaging in wholesome and enjoyable activities, including gardening, tailoring, amateur dramatics, sport, and model..... More
Documents Diplomatiques 1914 La Guerre Européene. 1. Pièces Relatives aux Négotiations qui ont Précédé Les Déclarations de Guerre de L'Allemagne a La Russie (1er Août 1914) et a La France (3 Août 1914) Déclaration du 4 Septembre 1914.
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie. 1914. Foreign Office Government publication [Ministére Des Affairés Etrangéres]. Printed pamphlet, pp.xx; 194; [1], imprint. Quatriéme édition. Original price 0fr.50. Slightly browned, simple later paper spine and label. Near fine. More
Extracts from Regimental Orders, for the Use of the First Battalion Grenadier Guards.
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1878]. ORIGINAL HANDBOOK, printed material interleaved with MS notes. Octavo, pp.36, xcv. With approximately half the booklet consisting of blank unpaginated leaves. Printed material interleaved with MS notes in black and red ink, paginated by hand in Roman numerals. Some annotations to printed leaves. Folding poster 'Arrangement..... More
Great Britain and the European Crisis. Correspondence, and Statements In Parliament, together with an Introductory Narrative of Events.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914. Government publication. Printed pamphlet, pp.xxvi; 102. Original price One Penny. Blue wrappers, slightly browned, simple later paper spine and label. Near fine. More
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Greater East Asia War Record. [Official Japanese Second World War Photography].
Tokyo, [circa 1942]. [Japanese War Photography] ORIGINAL COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION. Small quarto portfolio containing 40 loose black and white photographs backed onto card, with descriptions tipped onto verso. Also with a loose introductory leaf, and publishing information to the inside of the portfolio. Publisher's blue cloth chemise portfolio, with plain card..... More
The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: James Sangster and Co., no date [circa 1881]. [True adventure and hunting] FINE DECORATIVE CLOTH. No edition stated. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[4]; 508; [2]. With eight colour plates, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, (lacking the plate of the Bear and Prey), as well as numerous..... More
The Poll for the Knights of the Shire, to Represent the Western Division of the County of Kent in Parliament, including the Registered Electors who did not vote, also, a General Index, and an Abstract of the Number of Votes for each Parish. Candidates: Thomas Law Hodges, Esq.; Thomas Rider, Esq.; Sir William R.P. Geary, Bart.
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. Revised Army Regulations. Vol. II.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1868. [Military Regulations] ORIGINAL HANDBOOK. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.viii; 395 [1]. Interleaved with blank leaves for notes, and with an errata slip. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles and decoration to upper. Advertisements to pink endpapers. Repairs to..... More
Recueil de Plans de Batailles, Sieges et Combats, Arrives dans les Expeditions Memorables de la Guerre de Sept Ans, pour Servir A L'Intelligence des Oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse.
Amsterdam: J. G. Treuttel, 1789. [Seven Years War] DUKE OF GRAFTON'S COPY. Folio (42 x 27cm), pp.[4] followed by 19 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, paper covered spine designed to look like speckled calf, printed paper label to spine. Introductory text in French, text to plates in either English or French..... More
Who's Who & Where: The Illustrated Year Book of Tunbridge Wells & District. Complete Local and Official Information.
Brighton: The Robinson Printing Company, 1908. [Town Guide and Directory] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.18 [2]; xlvi; 19-168. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated card covers priced at 6d. Just a touch of toning and spotting to..... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More