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— Franz Kafka
History & Biography
Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. Edited by Francis L. Loewenhein, Harold D. Langley, Manfred Jonas.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1975. [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.805. With photographs. Publisher's blue cloth hardcover, yellow endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper priced at £10.00 net. Top edge dusty/spotted, jacket lightly handled; near fine. More
The Speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., in the House of Commons, (8th December 1802) on the Motion for the Army Establishment for the Ensuing Year.
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1802. [Commons Speech] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.22 [2]. Paper cover, priced at 6d, sewn. In an early twentieth-century brown cloth chemise case with the armorial bookplate of Viscount Esher (1852-1930). Gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to covers. Edges rough and dog-eared..... More
The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa.
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. [Military History] FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Bound in dark green half morocco with cloth-covered sides, red title labels, raised..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo, pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each volume, 18 coloured plates, and 260 photographic plates taken by members of the expedition. Handsomely bound in dark..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and..... 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
Ionia: A Quest.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Near-Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION WITH SIGNED LETTER AND POSTCARD. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 263 [1]. With 17 black and white photographic plates, many double-sided, as well as a double-page spread sketch map by E.G. Morton. Publisher's turquoise cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
Pathological Studies of the Past: Curious Bypaths of History, being Medico-Historical Studies and Observations.
Paris: Libraire des Bibliophiles, 1898. [History of Medicine] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 366 [4]. With a frontispiece after Daniel Vierge, engraved on copper by F. Masse. Number 464 of just 500 copies in this edition, printed on Van Gelder's vellum paper. Publisher's black cloth with..... More
America, I like you.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1956. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 212 [4]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Marc Simont. Publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. Blue paper over board, with titles in red and blue. Top edge red, others untrimmed. With the cream..... More
The Discovery of Australia.
London: Dean and Son, 1902. [Australian History] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xii; 184 [8]. With 60 illustrated plates, largely maps, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Lancaster, Massachusetts Town Library to front pastedown, with..... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.382. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... More
The Indian Police.
London: Faber and Faber, no date [circa 1933]. [Indian Policing History] FIRST CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.353 [1]. With a folding map at rear. Publisher's light blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. A browned newspaper..... 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
Modern Egypt.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Near Eastern History] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 594 [2]; pp.xiv; 600. With a frontispiece of the author and a folding map to volume I. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Fore edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to..... More
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[Simla Accord] The Boundary Question between China and Tibet: A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference between China, Britain and Tibet in India, 1913-1914.
Peking, 1940. [Far East Diplomacy] GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] ii; 150 [2]. Publisher's plain paper covers with titles to spine and front cover. Quite heavily browned, as expected. Only mild spotting to covers, and very light edge wear. Near fine. Published while Beijing was occupied by Japanese..... More
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Handbook to British Malaya [1937].
London: The Malayan Information Agency, no date [1937]. [Malaysian History] LAST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 201 [7]. With frequent in-text photographic illustrations and two folding maps dated 1937, one loose to pouch at rear. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to boards; upper with a vertical crease. Very good..... More
A New School Atlas of Modern Geography; consisting of twenty-four maps, from the latest and best authorities.
Edinburgh: Sold by White and Co., [etc.] no date [circa 1850]. [World Maps] HAND-COLOURED MAPS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), including all 24 maps. Original black cloth boards with black leather corners, recently rebacked in plain black cloth, edges speckled red. Gilt titles and price of 7/6 to upper. Slight..... More
For the Record.
London: William Collins, 2019. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xix; [1]; 732. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £25. With two photographic suites. Signed by David Cameron to a tipped in 'Limited Signed Edition' page preceding the half title page. With two..... 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
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.
Canterbury: W. Bristow, 1797-1801. [Kent history] SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. Twelve volumes, octavo (24 x 15 x 46cm). With 34 folding maps and 33 plates, (volume twelve lacking two plates). Solidly bound in brown quarter cloth over green cloth sides, gilt titles to spine. Modern bookplates to pastedown of..... 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
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Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats [1820-1824].
London: Oxford University Press, 1939. [Literary Correspondence] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxviii; 77 [3]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with red titles to spine and publisher's device to upper. Top edge red, others untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket printed in red, priced at..... More