"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
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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.
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...
British Bats.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. [Chiropterology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.218. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Robert Gillmor, showing the printed price of £35. Illustrated with eight plates in colour and over 120 black and white photographic reproductions and line drawings. Fine...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.....
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...
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.
Etiquette for Ladies. A Guide to the Observances of Good Society.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [1930s]. [Social guide] ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.176; [16] publisher's catalogue. Publisher's red cloth, with black titling and decoration to spine and upper board. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ellen Edwards, priced at 2/- net. Toning to half title page, light spotting...
[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.....
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...
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...
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases Peculiar to Women, Illustrated by Cases, Derived from Hospital and Private Practice.
London: Samuel Highley, 1845. [Medicine] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 737 [5]. Publisher's brown blind-decorated cloth, recently re-backed with the original gilt titled spine cloth laid over. Yellow coated endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Atkin-Roberts of Glassenbury, Kent, to front pastedown, with...
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...
The Scripture Chronology Demonstrated by Astronomical Calculations: and also by the Year of Jubilee, and the Sabbatical Year among the Jews: or, An Account of Time from the Creation of the World, to the Destruction of Jerusalem... Illustrated with a Great Variety of Tables, Maps, and Copper Plates. By Arthur Bedford, M.A. Rector of Newton St. Loe in the County of Somerset, and Chaplain to the Haberdashers-Hospital at Hoxton near London.
London: Printed for James and John Knapton etc., 1730. Folio pp. Title, [2 list of subscribers], vi, [2], 774, [44], [4 index], [17 index and errata], [1 ads.]. Full 18th Century calf, rebacked and recornered with original spine laid on, gilt rule and blindstamping to boards and gilt rules, raised...
Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval Styles.
London: Henry Southeran, 1882. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp.viii, 32. With 36 very fine chromolithographic plates, designed by the authors and executed by Firmin Didot. Each plate is followed by a leaf with a description. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Library...
Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of those Disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated Bilious.
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of...
![[Computers] Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers From 1 To 108000. Charles BABBAGE.](/pictures/thumb/40411.jpg?v=1493310879)
[Computers] Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers From 1 To 108000
London: Printed for B Fellowes, Ludgate Street. 1831. Second Edition, being the First Corrected Edition; the earlier printing featured nine errors which, given the content, were crucial. Tall octavo pp. xx, 202, [1 imprint]. A very attractive copy in a most elaborate full binding (for a table of logarithms) of...
Raphael, Mozart, The Renaissance. A Lecture Delivered in the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh, on Saturday, June 24, 1882.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and sons. 1882. A rare publication, 'Printed strictly for Private Circulation.' Octavo. pp. 58. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles and dark green endpapers. Author of the more widely circulated 'On Musical Education and Vocal Culture', Bach was a professional singer based in Edinburgh.
The Works of Lord Bacon, Moral and Historical, including his Essays Civil and Moral, Apophthegms, Advancement of Learning, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Life of Henry VII., Queen Elizabeth, etc. With a brief Memoir of the Author.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [circa 1890]. [Philosophy and History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 9-518. Fine contemporary tree calf for Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a large gilt school crest stamped to upper board...
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa...
Skating.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound (for Denny of The Strand) in half brown calf with twin labels, gilt to spine, cloth sides. Internally clean but for a neat library stamp to title and verso, bookplate to pastedown. Binding a little rubbed, some...