" 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. 8vo. pp. 354, 14 of adverts. Publisher's pale blue cloth. Illustrated with 288 in text engravings. Some marking to cloth, inner hinges starting, lower inner hinge split. Very good. FIRST EDITION. More
Catalog No.4.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1937. Conjuring and Magic Trick apparatus. Publisher's white pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Slight wear to extremities, owners writing in pencil to upper cover and occasional pages. A good copy. More
Catalog No.6.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1940. [Conjuring and Magic trick apparatus] Publisher's orange pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Slight wear to extremities, internally clean. A good copy. More
Catalog No.6.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1940. [Ephemera; tricks, games, conjuring etc.] Pp.544. Publisher's orange pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Internally clean, some dustiness and shelfwear; a very good copy of a substantial catalogue. More
Catalog No.9.
Colon, Michigan. Abbott's Magic Novelty Company. 1947. [Conjuring and Magic trick apparatus] Publisher's blue pictorial card boards. Numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Slight wear to extremities, internally clean. A good copy. More
Lighthouses and Lightships. A Descriptive Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization.
London; T. Nelson. 1871. First Edition. Small 8vo. 322pp. Bound in publisher's bright green cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt to spine and front board. Minor edgewear. A fine copy. Internally clean and fresh, yellow glazed endpapers, signs of erased ownership to front flyleaf. Illustrated with numerous illustrations... More
A Collection of the Published Writings of the Late Thomas Addison, M.D., Physician to Guy's Hospital.
London: The New Sydenham Society, 1868. [Medical Essays]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxxii; 242. With a frontispiece engraving of the author and seven lithographic plates, including three hand-coloured. Publisher's brown blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt bust of the author to upper board. All edges... More
Household Tales With Other Traditional Remains. Collected in the counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham.
London: David Nutt, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii, 163. Bound in publisher's green cloth, blind rules to boards, gilt rules and gilt titles to spine, top edge untrimmed, geometric patterned endpapers. Internally clean, browning to endpapers. Binding is tight and presentable, with spine ends rolled, minor bumping and rubbing to... More
Rene Magritte. Beyond Painting.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. [Art]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 238; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, bright blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white images in text and a suite of colour images. A fine copy. More
Original Watercolour Artwork for the 1959 Paperback Edition of The Dark Frontier.
1959. The watercolour illustration measures 53cm x 34cm and is SIGNED by the artist, Oliver Brabbins, on the lower left. It is mounted and framed, the total size of the yellow metal effect frame is 75.5cm x 55cm. A striking design of the cover for the First Paperback Edition of... 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
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
The History of Medicine.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912-1922. FINELY BOUND. In three volumes, Octavo. Several sections forming the History of Medicine section from the proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine extracted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and smartly bound at the time in black half calf over... 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
Peter Blake.
London: Tate Gallery. 1983. Second Impression. Square octavo, pp. 136. Published to accompany the 1983 Peter Blake exhibition at the Tate, with signed "The Owl and the Pussycat" print in original envelope. Paper back with glossy black covers, Some creasing and rubbing to the covers, a very good copy. 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
Scenes and Recollections. By the author of "The Gaol Chaplain."
London; Dean and Son. n.d. [1850's]. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's elaborately decorated red moire cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt and black to spine and boards. Light wear to extremties, strong bright and solid, some dulling to the gilt, most notably to the spine. Fraying to head of spine. All... More
Better Magic. Containing fifteen tricks by fifteen authors taken from volume one of The Eagle Magician. 'Let us all work for better magic'. Number one.
Minneapolis: The Eagle Magician. 1920. Pamphlet, 21pp. + 3pp. of adverts, publisher's brown paper cover with gold and green title to upper. Black and white illustrations within the text. Slight rubbing to decorative title on upper board, owner's name inscribed to title page, internally clean. A very good copy. More
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[Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'].
[ITC Entertainment] [c. 1957]. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. On cardboard, backed and behind frame-less glass. Depicting three settlers with firearms. Card lightly browned, with black ink inscription 'Hawkeye P16' to top left. More
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[Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'].
[ITC Entertainment] [c. 1957]. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. On cardboard, backed and behind frame-less glass. Depicting a Native American wielding a tomahawk. Card lightly browned. More
[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
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. First Edition. Large Quarto, pp.[28]; 96. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including frontispiece. Bound in recent dark blue half morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to spine, blue cloth boards, fore-edge deckled. Internally clean but for a few... 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