" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Arts & Sciences
Abbott's American Watchmaker and Jeweller. An Encyclopaedia for the horologist, jeweller, gold and silversmith.
Chicago. Geo. K. Hazlitt and co. 1894. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.354, 14 of adverts. Illustrated with 288 in text engravings. Publisher's pale blue cloth. Some marking to cloth, inner hinges starting, lower inner hinge split. Good. More
Dada and Surealism Reviewed.
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.xii; 475 [33]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and a suite of colour images at rear. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket. Quite heavy rubbing to jacket edges and joints, otherwise..... More
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Elementa Architecturae Civilis [The Elements of Civil Architecture], ad Vitruvii Veterumque Disciplinam, et Recentiorum Praesertim a Palladii Exempla Probatiora Concinnata [According to Vitruvius and Other Ancients, and the Most Approved Practice of Modern Authors, Especially Palladio].
Oxford: Sold by D. Prince and J. Cooke, 1789. [Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[12] 54; pp.[6] lxvi; 66 [2]. Complete with all 55 copper engraved plates at rear, as well as the etched portrait frontispiece after Kneller. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt..... More
Hunting the Sea Otter.
London: Horace Cox, 1910. [Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 188. With eight half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, priced at 7/6. Light spotting and browning to endpapers. Upper board and spine bowed with some rubbing and a...... More
The Air Cadet's Handbook on Navigation Part One (& Signalling). Air Cadet's Handbooks No. 1.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1941. [Aviation] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.3-80. Publisher's blue card boards with black titles to spine and upper. With the blue dust-jacket, priced at 2s. Heavy pencil notes to pp.37-42, and cadet's service number in black ink to half-title. Some rubbing and..... More
Broad-Sword and Single-Stick. with chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella, and other Weapons of Self-Defence. The All-England Series.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. [Sword and Staff Combat] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 X 12cm), pp.[4] 116. With occasional in-text diagrams and illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. Advertisements to endpapers. Light browning to endpapers, with a small black ink inscription to flyleaf..... More
Ski-ing on Water.
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 143. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some occasional spotting to the textblock and marking to the edges, slight wear to the cloth. A couple of closed tears to the front panel of the dustwrapper, small loss at..... More
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[Old Moore's Almanack] Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Almanack for the year of human redemption: 1810, 1811 and 1812. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as a Table of Terms and their Returns; the Full, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars; and Other Fixed Stars of Note; the Moon's Age; and a Tide Table fitted to the same; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon; Mutual Aspects; Monthly Observations; and many other Things useful and profitable, unto which are added, Astrological Observations on the Four Quarters of the Year; a remarkable Chronology; the Eclipses; and Other Matters both profitable and curious. Observations on the Weather and Weather Glasses, Rain, etc. and an Hieroglyphic adapted to the Times.
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, by William Thorne [etc.], 1810; 1811; 1812. [Almanacks] ORIGINAL ALMANACKS. Three editions bound together. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.3-48; pp.48; pp.48. Roughly bound in slightly later limp leather. 1812 lacks the title page, otherwise complete. Heavy cropping to right-hand margin of 1811, cutting..... More
The Golfer's Manual. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the National Game of Scotland by 'A Keen Hand' and originally Published in 1857 and now Reprinted with an Introduction by Bernard Darwin.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood..... More
The Botanical Pocket-Book. With Observations on Some of the Rare Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1840. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.v; [1]; 179; [1]; [one of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green textured cloth with paper labels to spine and upper board. Hand-coloured folding plate of Dentaria Bulbifera facing title page. Bookplate of W. H. Hills to pastedown, some..... More
Neues Panorama Des Rheins Von Mannheim Bis Coln; and, The Rhine From Maynece To Cologne.
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative..... More
The Rocky Horror Show: Mask of Columbia.
Los Angeles: Michael White Productions, n.d. [1974]. EPHEMERA FROM ROCKY HORROR SHOW U.S. OPENING. Card cut out mask of Columbia, approximately 26cm x 19cm with removable eyes and mouth, printed with production notes printed on the rear. Produced as a promotional item for the U.S. opening at the Roxy Theatre..... More
The Ruhleben Bye-Election - July 1915.
Ruhleben, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 32. Blue pictorial wraps. Some toning to paper, wraps have detached along the spine and have some nicks along the edges. Very good, a fascinating survival. Campaign book for the election of an M.P. representing Ruhleben internment camp, just west of Berlin, which..... More
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Agusta 350 Sport: Istruzioni per L'Uso. [Owner's Manual].
[Facsimile Edition]. no date. [Motorcycle Manual] FACSIMILE COPY. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 58. Photocopied from an original copy, in blue card covers with titles, stapled twice. All text in Italian. Some rubbing to covers, especially spine. Very good. First published in 1975. More
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[Album of Cuttings from the Borders of Maps by John Speed].
no date [circa 1650 and 1833]. [Ethnographic Engravings] ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS. Small quarto notebook (25 x 20cm), unpaginated, featuring 179 individual cuttings mounted four per leaf. The album is undated, but the paper has a watermark stating 1833. Contemporary brown half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Generally quite clean internally..... More
Archdale Machine Tools 1868-1948.
Birmingham: James Archdale and Co., 1948. [Industrial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 100. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Publisher's cream cloth, decorated in blue and brown. With the matching dust-jacket. Some spotting to edges and preliminaries. Chipping and closed tears to jacket edges, with a larger..... More
DR. T.J. Barnardo: A Brief Life and Sketch. Reprinted from "Night & Day," October, 1905.
London: Dr. Barnardo's Homes, 1919. [Children's Welfare] EARLY ARTICLE. Octavo pamphlet (24 x 18cm), pp.12. No covers as issued, stapled twice. Folded both horizontally and vertically. Fairly lightly handled, with just a few marks out outer leaves. Very good. A short article on the life and work of philanthropist and..... More
The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with heavy spotting to covers, and some light handling. Blue pencil 'IF' to front over. Very..... More
Larkin Housewives' Cook Book. Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them. Containing over six hundred recipes and helpful hints selected by the Larkin Kitchen from many thousands of tested, favorite recipies submitted by practical housekeepers and culinary experts and compiled especially for customer-friends of Larkin Co Inc.
Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co. Inc., 1923. [Cookery] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.140. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to front cover. Neat inscription to flyleaf, textblock toned and a little shaken. Some marks and wear to boards, heavily rubbed and worn to spine. Very..... More
Pictorial 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: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
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[A Sample Book of Snuff Boxes 1820-1830].
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1830's]. ORIGINAL ENGRAVED DESIGNS. 157x217mm. 16 thick card leaves featuring 104 individual engraved designs for snuff boxes printed on india paper and pasted to leaves. In contemporary dark brown mottled calf boards, re-backed in later tan calf. Held together by two strong brass clasps. Title neatly added..... More
Spare Parts List for Mac (Spring Frame) Model 350 c.c. Velocette.
Birmingham: Veloce, May 1953. [Motorcycling] ORIGINAL PARTS LIST. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.40. Publisher's green textured paper covers with titles to front cover, stapled twice. Browned throughout. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Very good. More
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Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA, 3TA, including from engine no. H65573.
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... 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
Isotopes.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. [Chemistry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp to pastedown and neat inscription to title page of Danish engineer and physicist P.O. Pedersen. Occasional discreet pencil annotation else internally fine. Cloth very slightly..... More