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General subjectsMilitaria, Theology, History, Archaeology
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Small 8vo, 192, (12, 30 Index) pp. Folding table of tolls at the end, lower part repaired with slight loss, modern bookplate. Contemporary calf, a little worn, recently attractively rebacked. £125 Three acts from the reign of George I and three from that of George II legislating for the maintenance of roads to towns including East Grinstead, Sutton and Kingston, in addition to punishing vandalism of the turnpikes.
8vo, (xxii), 166 pp. Two engraved portraits, of Jeremiah and Zedekiah, rear free endpaper torn with loss, front endpapers marked with a later 17th century signature. Contemporary calf, covers slightly bowed, blind stamped rules and cornerpieces, joints a little rubbed, small piece lacking from the lower cover, old faded handwritten spine title, overall a well preserved and clean copy. £200 A loyal Royalist, Allestree was made a canon of Christ Church at the Restoration, and later became Provost of Eton College. A popular guide to religious life, first published 1660 with 17 editions listed before the end of the century. Wing A1119.
Second “impression” (ie edition), 8vo in 4’s, (xvi), 224 pp. Engraved frontispiece and imprimatur leaf, title subtly laid down with some skilful restoration to the outer margins of some text leaves, Rufford Abbey bookplate. Later dark blue calf by Hering, gilt arms to covers, spine a little worn. £250 A guide to moral and Christian speech. A prolific writer and speaker, Allestree fought for the Royalists in the Civil war and was rewarded subsequently by being made both the King’s Chaplain and Provost of Eton College. Wing A1134. First published the same year.
Miniature book, covers measuring 59 x 40 mm, (22) pp. Folding plate, here bound in, of Drury Lane Theatre, marbled endpapers. Contemporary red morocco with a folding flap, a.e.g., one corner marked and with the edges of the leather tie of the flap slightly torn, otherwise a well preserved copy. £200 Published from the late 17th century until the Victorian era, these charming little books give monthly information for saints days and the phases of the moon as well as lists of Lord Mayors and Monarchs. Welsh 4615.
ALMANACS: Remarkable News from the Stars, or an Ephemeris... The Gentleman’s Diary, or the Mathematical Repository... The Ladies’ Diary: or Woman’s Almanack... MOORE, Francis. Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Alamanack... PARTRIDGE, John. Merlinus Liberatus. Parker’s Ephemeris... The Coelestial Diary: or an Ephemeris... Poor Robin. An Almanack... SAUNDERS, Richard. The English Apollo; or Useful Companion... SEASON, Henry. Speculum Anni: or Season on the Seasons... WING, Tycho. [Greek title] Olympia Domata, or an Almanack... WHITE, Robert. [Greek title] Atlas Ouranious. The Cœlestial Atlas; or, A new Ephemeris... London: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1770. Twelve works bound in one volume, 8vo, 48 pp each, with the final gathering of the Gentleman’s Diary bound in the middle of the Ladies’ Diary. Titles and various other parts - tables, etc - printed in red and black, plus diagrams and charts in the text, marbled endpapers, one leaf with slight loss affecting the text, another leaf with a closed tear. Contemporary red morocco, gilt borders and a central lozenge, rebacked to style with further gilt decoration. £600 A splendid array of individually scarce works, each approaching the basic function of an almanac from a different angle, from the social to the scientific and including a good deal of useful astronomical information.
Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 4to, xx, 208 pp. 125 facsimile pages. Blue cloth, a fine copy. £75
Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 4to, (xx), 561, (1) pp. Numerous facsimile pages. Blue cloth, a fine copy. £200
AMERICA: Report of the Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry... into the Loss of the U.S.S. Maine. In the Harbor of Havana, Cuba, on the night of February [15th, 1898]. Convened on board the United States Light-house tender Mangrove by virtue of a Precept signed by Rear-Admiral Montgomery Sicard. Washington 1898. 8vo, 307, (1) pp, with 20 black and white illustrations - 19 photographic - and 2 folding charts, first and last leaf browned, bookplate and cancelled ink stamp of the Reform Club, also a later bookplate to fly leaf, bound in later navy blue buckram. £175 Preceded by a three page message from President McKinley, this report’s conclusion that the Maine’s destruction was caused by a naval mine greatly influenced public opinion and precipitated the Spanish-American war. More modern authorities have questioned this finding, preferring the explanation that a coal bunker ignited. An important historical and Naval document.
First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, 3 portraits - two of Ames and one of Caxton, but lacking the 8 plates of specimen type, some light foxing, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of Edward Henry Scott, contemporary diced roan, edges and corners a little worn, rebacked in a light calf with red and black labels, a.e.g. £450 Enlarged from the first edition of 1749. “...undoubtedly the foundation of English bibliography...” (DNB).
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 470, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece, plus an engraved portrait bound in in the preliminaries, later bookplate. Contemporary tree calf, gilt banded spine with a red label, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. £120 “An amusing collection of gossip from old books” (DNB).
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines a little worn, red spine labels. £200
Facsimile edition, large 8vo, (xxvi), 234, (2) pp. 20 coloured plates with captioned tissues. Original gilt titled green cloth, spine slightly rubbed. £75 A famous country eccentric whose exploits led to his impoverishment and death at only 37. “...he drove a tandem at night across country for a wager... would sometimes strip to the shirt to follow wild fowl in hard weather... One night he even set fire to his night-shirt in order to frighten away the hiccoughs. His average allowance was from four to six bottles of port daily” (DNB).
8vo, vi, 252 pp. Double page lithographic plate plus further illustrations, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Sir William Crossman (1830-1901), Major-General, Royal Engineers. Contemporary dark green straight grained full morocco, gilt rule, a.e.g., a couple of light marks otherwise a fine copy. £75
Seventh edition “by J.A. Johnston”, 8vo, lxxxix, (i), 1776 pp. Two small ink stamps - “checked” - to front blank and title page. Contemporary black half calf, slight wear to corners otherwise a handsome copy. £60
Second edition. 8vo. xv, (1), 205, (3) pp. Publisher’s red ribbed cloth, printed black text to spine and upper cover, neat contemporary ownership inscription to first free endpaper. Fore-edges very lightly spotted, otherwise a fine copy. £65
Small 8vo, 217, (1), 6 advertisement pp, upper wrapper chipped with slight loss, sympathetically rebacked with a new lower wrapper. £150
Oblong 8vo, (26) pp. 15 illustrations and a map, inscribed on the title page from Nancy Astor to “Dearest Janet...”. Original brown pictorial wrappers, slight bumping to extremities otherwise fine. £75 The first woman to take a seat in the House of Parliament.
First edition, 8vo, xxii, (4), 742 pp. 4 plates, 2 maps and 54 plans, some occasional foxing, Regimental presentation stamp to paste down. Original gilt titled blue cloth, spine and lower cover slightly sunned, a couple of small marks. £125
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 463, (1) pp. 50 maps, small signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. with some loss to the top of the spine, upper flap price clipped, spine darkened. £80 b - Back to top
12mo, (xvi), 216 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, later bookplate to title verso, frontispiece a little foxed, marbled endpapers. Contemporary red morocco, double gilt rules and a gilt Greek key roll border to covers, gilt spine a little dull, some minor rubbing, a.e.g. £85
Ten volumes, 8vo. Volume I with a portrait frontispiece and folding pedigree - the latter a little creased, armorial bookplates, marbled endpapers and edges. 19th century dark green half calf, gilt spines very slightly dull, otherwise very good. £800 Including all Bacon’s scientific works as well as his History of Henry VII, his letters and a host of his shorter and more topical pieces. A lovely set.
8vo, xii, 440 pp, coloured frontispiece - with the tissue guard removed - and black and white illustrations, later inscription on fly leaf, original decorated brown cloth, one small mark else a very good copy. £60
Sixth impression, 8vo, (viii), 280 pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, signature to paste down. Contemporary tree calf, double gilt rules, slight wear to edges otherwise a very good copy. £100
Six volumes bound in one, 4to, 40, 40, 42, 36, 32, 32 pp. Original wrappers bound in, numerous black and white cartoons with a coloured one to the first four upper wrappers, upper wrapper of third part cut close at the lower margin with loss of text. Contemporary two toned cloth, gilt title, a very good collection. £125 Popular cartoons of the World War I trenches and surroundings including the famous image of two “Tommys”, one saying “Well, if you knows of a better ‘ole, Go to it”
Six volumes, first editions, 8vo. Portrait frontispieces in the four diaries - two photographic and two drawn, each volume with a typically expansive inscription by the Author, one of the frontispieces also signed and with a photographic greetings card (“Been 57 times on the BBC”) loosely inserted in one of the volumes. Diaries bound in cloth, d.w.’s, slight loss to the tops of three spines, other two works pamphlets, stapled as issued. £125
Second edition, 8vo, (xl), 184, (40), 185-304, 196, (56), 197-312, 312 pp. Some occasional, and mostly marginal, browning, marbled endpapers. Period style 19th century black morocco, covers with blind stamped rules and gilt tooled flower cornerpieces, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip, a.e.g. £575 Reprinted twelve times before the century was up and a classic of English theology - “...a masterpiece of style” (Encyc. Brit.). A non-conformist, Baxter suffered for his beliefs after the Restoration but continued to produce a stream of pamphlets and books. Wing B1384.
Small 4to, (viii), 36 pp. Some light damp staining and foxing, otherwise good, unopened and sewn as issued. £60 An anonymous attack on corruption and bad practice in the running of Bedford grammar school.
8vo. Original maroon cloth covers, gilt lettered and with gilt device to upper board, blindstamped to both sides, Sixteen colour printed pages, each with numerous numbered illustrations of everyday objects, people, animals etc. Recently expertly recased, renewed endpapers, otherwise in very good condition. £250 The plate volume only for the first, or at least a very early, edition of Berlitz’s work for teaching modern languages.
Large 8vo, viii, ii, 1471, (1) pp. 4 folding maps, marbled endpapers and edges, small label removed from paste down. Contemporary straight grain black morocco, double gilt rules, gilt spine with a red label, minor rubbing, a handsome copy. £150
BIBLE: Biblia Hebraica, olim a B. Christiano Reineccio Edita... cum variis Lectionibus ex ingenti codicum copia a B. Kennicotto et I.B. De Rossi collatorum, ediderunt D. Io. Christophi Doederlein et Ioannes Henricus Meisner. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Breitkoppii et Haertelii (1793). Four volumes, 8vo, bound in contemporary calf, blind stamped borders, joints rubbed. £325 Apart from the titles and preliminary leaves, which are in Latin, the text is entirely in Hebrew.
8vo. i-iv, vii-vii, ix-xiv, 608, [2], 194, [40] pp. Full brown morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one compartment and at foot, blind ruled to other panels, boards edged with brass with an integral brass clasp to fore-edge, all edges gilt, neat presentation inscription to second free endpaper dated 1872, two further inscriptions dated 1900 and 1907 on opposing page. Double page chronological chart and 9 colour maps. Binding slightly rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very attractive copy. £150 The preliminaries are complete in spite of the publisher’s erratic pagination.
Six volumes, large 8vo, with 6 maps coloured in outline, preliminaries in volume IV lacking a leaf and with the others laid down, inscription dated 1890 to fly leaves and signature on title, neatly bound in later 19th century black half morocco, gilt titled spines. £100
Large 8vo, (iv, 950, 296) pp. Engraved title page, several leaves with corners torn out with some loss of text, detailed manuscript notes and prayers in a later hand to front and rear blanks, including some passages in Greek, plus also some occasional marginalia and underlining to a few passages, manuscript of a prayer tipped onto the fly leaf, marbled endpapers. Unusually bound in contemporary green stained vellum, somewhat marked, sympathetically rebacked retaining the original backstrip and dark maroon label. £500 Darlow and Moule 605-A, containing an Apocrypha which “possibly do[es] not belong to this edition”. There is not one bound in this copy.
8vo, (iv, 1004) pp. Later inscription to fly leaf, some soiling to endpapers. Contemporary full morocco, gilt tooled rules and decoration, slightly dull, a.e.g., a very good copy. £95
Two volumes, 4to. 7 maps and 53 plates, marbled endpapers. Contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., decorative gilt borders, some minor rubbing otherwise a handsome set. £225
12mo, 839, (1), 252 pp. Later inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary scarlet straight grain morocco, a.e.g., gilt rules, extremities slightly rubbed, a very good bright copy. £225
Brevier 8vo. 974, (2) pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary full speckled calf, inlaid panel bearing the name of the name of the Society lettered in blindstamp to each board, panels with blindstamped cornerpieces, blindstamped border to edges, spine with raised bands, all edges red, printed collect to front pastedown dated 1823, ownership inscription of one Mary King dated April 26th, 1827 with a decorative hand drawn border, two of the endpapers (front and rear) featuring manuscript list of births and deaths between 1799 and 1824. Some light shelfwear, otherwise in very good condition. £150
4to, (31) leaves, printed on rectos only. 30 delicately hand coloured engravings with accompanying text, bookplate and signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, marked rather stained. Internally very good. £200
Two volumes, 8vo. 32 plates, armorial bookplates of John Leslie, marbled endpapers. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in dark blue half morocco, t.e.g., gilt spines, light abrasion to upper cover of volume I otherwise a handsome set. £150
Whether a binding sample or the beginning of a genuine attempt to copy out Ovid, this handsome and completely unmarked quarto would make a luxurious present for any journal writer.
The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others.... London: Printed by John Baskett & London: Printed by John March 1735. Two works in one volume, folio, [BCP] (xxvi, 354), 23, (3), [Psalms] (56) pp, with frontispiece showing St. Paul’s Cathedral, some tears and chipping, with loss to the lower margin and slight loss of text to 3 leaves in the Common Prayer, 18th century manuscript to front endpapers, bound in contemporary reverse calf, marked and torn with loss to spine ends and lower corner of upper cover, gilt stamped maroon morocco label to upper cover reading “M. Monins”. £125 Griffiths p157 - 1.
Third edition thus. 12mo. (2), iv, 294 pp. Contemporary full brown calf, gilt rules to boards, spine with raised bands, gilt rules to compartments else plain, the date written in ink in an old hand to the front paste down, also the initials “J C”. Binding a bit rubbed overall, otherwise a very good example internally and externally. £650 Translated by William Hinchcliffe.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 296 pp, original russet cloth, extremities rubbed, slight cracking of joints. £75 The son of the famous railway engineer, Brassey’s theories benefit from accounts of employing large workforces in completing railway lines all over Europe.
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 386 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, one photographic, plus 4 maps, with a printed compliments slip from Brassey’s son (also named Thomas) tipped onto the fly leaf, marked with offsetting from the paste down, hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original russet cloth, rubbed and a little dull. £75 Brassey’s extraordinary career as a railway contractor started with work for George Stevenson on the Penkridge viaduct in 1836, and over the next 34 years expanded his firm until it was building railways in every part of the world. Ottley 2503.
4to, 28 pp. 12 coloured plates, signature dated 1879 to paste down. Original cloth backed boards, browned with some wear, particularly to the lower joint. Very scarce. £80
8vo, xii, 983, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of the City of London Freemen’s Orphan School, dated 1877. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine, edges and arms, mild rubbing to corners, a lovely copy. £90
Three volumes (volume III a Supplement), 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines marked, slight cracking to joints, volume II lacking its label. £200
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece in volume I, some foxing, later bookplates, some 19th century newspaper cuttings loosely inserted, original cloth, spine ends and corners bumped. £60 From his campaigning against the Corn Laws to opposition of the war in the Crimea, Bright was one of the most influential orators in 19th century political life.
Twelfth edition, 32 volumes, being the 29 volumes of the eleventh edition, an Index volume and three new volumes, 8vo, printed on India paper. Original red cloth, spines sunned, tops of two spines with a tear, some other marks and light wear otherwise a good sound set. £300
First edition, 2 volumes, folio, (iv, 582; ii, 592) pp. Some spotting, marbled endpapers, monogrammatic bookplates. Contemporary reverse calf, edges worn, joints cracked and covers loose but holding firm, black and red morocco spine labels, worn. £350 Roscoe A62. Alston X1.117. Scarce.
12mo, 240 [mis-numbered 340], 24 advertisement pp. Frontispiece, slight chipping and browning to fly leaf, later inscription. Contemporary sheep, worn, rebacked with a plain spine. £125 One of a number of similarly titled works published by Brown and Hogg from around 1770 onwards. Alston III 349.
Third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines marked, some light wear, a well preserved set. £250
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 392 pp. Inscribed on the title from the Author’s son “Henry M. Browne”, a couple of marks to title. Recent red half morocco, marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, a fine copy. £250 The manuscript on the title also notes that Captain Browne was a member of the 75th regiment, and his Preface refers to his service in the Portuguese army.
First edition, 8vo, xxii, 124 pp. 12 folding maps, one with a closed tear to a fold crease, endpapers browned, upper hinge cracked but sound. Original red cloth, marked and faded, slight loss to spine ends, top of lower joint worn. £150
First edition, 8vo, x, 140 pp. 18 black and white photographic portrait plates, newspaper clippings tipped to fly leaf and at two relevant places in the text, inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth, top of spine rubbed, d.w. with loss to the top edge, foot of the spine and lower corner of the upper wrapper. £100
Seventh edition, 8vo, (xvi), 342 pp, with some later pencilled marginalia, 20th century bookplate on paste down, contemporary full calf, spine a little worn with loss to the top and to the label, covers a little marked. £125 A popular work by one of the great English political writers which, after its translation, had particular influence on the German thinkers of the day.
Second edition, fourth impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Ink stamp of the south-west Essex Technical College to several lower margins, top corner of the title page laid down. Recent half morocco, marbled sides, maroon label. £750 Stung into action upon receiving a letter from his then-friend Thomas Paine on events in Paris, this “rhetorical masterpiece of modern counter-revolutionary writing” (Keane) became a publishing sensation and sparked numerous sympathetic pamphlets as well as Paine’s celebrated response, “Rights of Man”, the following year. Todd 53e. Printing and the Mind of Man 239. Published only a couple of weeks after the first edition.
95th edition, large 8vo, (cxciv), 3057, (7) pp. 9 black and white photographic portraits of the Royal Family, upper hinge tender. Original gilt titled red buckram, a little rubbed and marked. £150
First condensed edition, 8vo, (xxxii), 319, (1), 386, (6 advertisement) pp. Engraved title and 4 plates, each showing 4 portraits, old signature crossed out to the top of the title page. Contemporary calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked with a red spine label. £225 A work undertaken at the request of the Attorney-General, Burnet was given free access to records and after publication of the first volume was voted the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. Eventually appearing in three folio volumes (1679, 1682 and 1714), this abridgment was carried out by the Author. Wing B5754.
No. 458 of 2,010 copies, 8vo, 107 pp, original gilt titled purple cloth, slightly rubbed and sunned. £75 Originally published in 1885.
First edition, large 8vo, (xl), 299, (1) pp. 293 illustrations in the text, some light marginal browning. Original grey cloth, recently rebacked in maroon morocco with leather corners also, covers a little marked, crossed swords design to upper cover. A pleasantly restored copy of one of Burton’s scarcer works. £850 Originally intended to be the first of three volumes (a plan abandoned after the book’s poor sales), Burton traces development from prehistorical times to the Roman empire, including several chapters on the technological advances, from stone to copper to iron and also chapters on Egypt, Greece and the middle east. Penzer p107.
Fourth edition, “corrected and augmented by the Author”, folio, (viii), 78, (6), 218, (4), 219-722, (9 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title page with the explanatory leaf “The Argument of the Frontispiece” opposite, outer edge of the engraved title trimmed with very slight loss to the images, some occasional light marks and browning. Recently and finely rebound in period style full calf, ornamental gilt panel and central ornament to covers, gilt rules to edges, gilt spine with a red label. £3500 “...the most frequently reprinted psychiatric text. It may properly be called the first psychiatric cyclopaedia for nearly one thousand authors are cited, about half of them medical...” (Hunter & MacAlpine pp 94-9, including an illustration of the title page of this edition). “...if ever a single book deserved to be called the work of a lifetime, it is this. Burton had read much, and all that he had read, or nearly all, was refined and incorporated in the ‘Anatomy’... All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there...” (Printing and the Mind of Man 120). STC 4162. First published eleven years earlier in 1621. This edition not in Wellcome.
First collected edition, 16mo, 424, (7 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title, slight loss to one margin not affecting the text, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine and lower cover with some wear. £250 Appointed Austrian Ambassador to the Ottoman Court in the mid-16th century, Busbecq’s Turkish letters are one of the main sources of information on the period. Willems 380.
Fifth edition, 12mo, xxviii, 398, (10 Index) pp. Small contemporary label of W. Bradford, Bookseller, Exeter, on paste down. Contemporary tree calf, simply rebacked with a red spine label. £75 c - Back to top
Limited edition, no. 400 of 1,500 copies, signed by both the Illustrator and the Printer, large 8vo, (xxx), 227, (3) pp, quarter linen, patterned boards, spine slightly dull otherwise near fine, but lacking the slipcase. £65
12mo, (32) pp. Printed in red and black throughout and with decorative borders to two leaves plus initial letters. Original cloth backed boards, a lovely copy. £75
Volume V only (of 5) - the plate volume, 4to, (viii) pp. 201 plates, including 19 maps, the latter with some damp staining to the lower margins, some other spots. Contemporary black half calf, worn, lower board lacking its covering. £150 The plates show scenes and costumes from the Bible, coins, plans, creatures, altars etc; the maps not only the Holy Land but Asia, Africa and the globe.
Folio, (xii), 1047, (1) pp, title printed in red and black, printed throughout in double column, some browning and minor tears to margins, black letter endpapers, cut down in size from an earlier work, contemporary calf, marked, recently rebacked with repair to corners as well. £400 Calvin was Professor of Law at the University of Heidelberg and this Dictionary, first published in 1610, was reprinted several time during the 17th century.
Eight volumes, 8vo, some spotting to endpapers, original gilt titled green buckram, d.w.’s to all volumes except volume IV, a mixed set with varying degrees of sunning to the spines, some chips and minor tears, t.e.g. £200 A scarce set, but without the accompanying folder of maps.
8vo, (viii), 246, (2), 108, (4) pp, chipping and slight loss to top corners of early leaves, some marginal marks, original wrappers, worn, bound in recent cloth, handwritten spine label. £60 The estranged wife of the Prince Regent (later George IV), Princess Caroline had feigned pregnancy and the birth of an illegitimate son. This inquiry, held by four eminent Lords, exposed the ruse, and the Princess was never again welcome in Royal circles, being refused entry to her husband’s Coronation in 1821.
Small folio, (viii), 243, (1, 40 Index) pp, some browning and offsetting, occasional marginal foxing, old inscription on fly leaf, later full calf with blind stamped ruled borders and corner ornaments, some wear to joints, spine darkened, red morocco label, worn. £125 Wing C666.
8vo, 16 pp. 6 plates, two with wear to the outer edge. Original printed wrappers, wear to edges, resewn. £60
Large 8vo, viii, 267, (1) pp, signature on title, in the original cloth with bevelled edges, a little rubbed with a few marks, title and crest in gilt on upper cover. £60
Twelve volumes bound in six, small 8vo. Engraved title in each volume and numerous illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Later dark blue half calf, gilt spines with red labels, a fine set. £375 88 articles including stories and dramas, historical essays and travel writing.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 495, (1) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with a couple of small bumps otherwise very good. £100
Second edition, folio, (viii), 720, (4) pp. Engraved title, frontispiece showing the Royal coat of arms plus 3 splendid double page allegorical plates, some occasional very minor marks. Attractive recent speckled calf with a blind stamped border, spine with gilt decoration and a red label. £675 A fine collection, initially published a couple of years after the Restoration, containing a wealth of correspondence concerning the treaties and declarations in the last years of Charles’ life as well as private letters. Wing C2076.
12mo, (iv), 187, (1) pp. Folding emblematic frontispiece showing Charles kneeling, subtly laid down, browning to edges of a few pages. Recent full calf, blind stamped decoration to corners and spine, gilt title, binder’s ticket to rear paste down. £475 First appearing days after Charles I’s execution, this famous collection of what were purportedly the King’s thoughts and meditations became a publishing sensation, with some 60 editions appearing in Britain and Ireland alone in one year. The question of authorship was for centuries hotly debated, although it now seems likely it was the work of Bishop Gauden, adapting and adding to pages composed by Charles. Madan 13, frontispiece 16.
First edition, 4to, xviii, 558 pp. Photographic illustrations and several maps. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £80
First edition, three volumes, 8vo. Cloth, d.w.’s, two spines slightly sunned, otherwise near fine. £85
Eight volumes, all first editions, 8vo. Each volume well illustrated with photographs. Cloth, d.w.’s, small tear to the top of volume I, upper wrapper of volume V partly faded, some other minor creasing, top edges stained red, that to volume V faded, overall a very good set. £400 A monumental work of biography, Gilbert taking over the project at volume III.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, (xviii), 564; (x), 531 pp. 18 plates, including photogravure portraits and facsimiles, foxing throughout. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, spines a little sunned, some marks. £325 Woods A8(a).
First edition, four volumes, 8vo. Contemporary inscriptions to first three paste downs. Cloth, d.w.’s, that to volume IV price clipped, all with some light browning and rubbing to spines, slight loss to spine ends of volume I otherwise a very good set. £135 Woods A138(a).
First edition. Four volumes, 8vo. Attractively bound by Bayntun-Riviere in half red morocco over matching cloth boards, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered direct to three panels, gilt illustration of the lion rampant to the other three, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. A very handsome set. £1200 Woods A138(a).
Four volumes, volumes III and IV first editions, 8vo. Numerous maps, plans and facsimiles. Original purple cloth, spines and top edges of two covers faded, tops of spines very slightly pulled. £100
First edition. Six volumes, 8vo. The set elegantly bound for Asprey & Co. in half red morocco over matching cloth boards, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, lettered direct to three compartments, gilt rules to sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A very nice set. £2250
First edition, six volumes, 8vo. Numerous maps, some folding. Cloth, d.w.’s, all but one not price clipped, spines sunned, some loss to top of spine of volume II, a little other general edge wear, overall a good set. £120 Woods A123(b).
Second impression (same month as the first), 8vo, 319, (1) pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece, old price in ink to fly leaf. Original gilt titled dark green cloth, some light rubbing, spine a little creased. £75 A collection of newspaper articles on mostly military and political themes.
Five volumes, later impressions, 8vo. Numerous maps, charts and illustrations, booklabel to fly leaf of the final volume, a little foxing to the early leaves of the first volume. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, some light marking otherwise a very good set. £250 Not including the very scarce final volume, “The Eastern Front”.
First edition, first issue. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spines, rear pastedown of volume two with ink purchase stamp, old printed proverb affixed to front free endpaper of volume three (possibly by way of a bookplate), rear pastedown of volume five with a Times Book Club label partially removed. Numerous maps, charts and illustrations. Spines of volumes two and six slightly lighter, some very light spotting to first and last few leaves of each volume and to edges, half title of volume six browned in parts, very small split to head of spine of volume four, a very good clean set overall. £1250
Two volumes, being volumes III and VII only from a set of Cicero’s works, 8vo, (ii), 1551-2202; (ii), 4135-4655, (1) pp. Title pages with some old manuscript, one rather marked, one volume with further manuscript to the front blanks, the other with printed paste downs from a classical commentary. 17th century calf, blind stamped rules and decorative cornerpieces, one spine with most of its label, the other lacking, extremities a little worn with loss to the tops of the spine, ends of the upper joints cracking. £250
Three volumes, 8vo, buckram, d.w.’s, two with prices clipped from upper flaps, some browning to spines else a very good set. £80
Three volumes. Folio. (40 x 25 cm). [4], 557, [1]; [16], 581, [1]; [24, 603, [23]. Contemporary full speckled calf, blind stamped rules to boards, rebacked to style with small restorations to the boards of volume 1, spines with raised bands, red gilt lettered labels, volumes numbered direct, red speckled edges. Engraved armorial bookplates of John Ward of Capethorne, Cheshire, dated 1704 to each of the front paste downs, also another’s later ownership inscriptions in ink. Frontispiece portraits to each volume, each title page with a vignette, ornamental head and tailpieces throughout. Some very occasional age toning at the upper margins. Save for two pages in volume one with a few old ink blots, the contents in very good condition. A handsome set. £1750 Second edition of the first volume, dated 1702 on the title page and the imprimatur, the licence however replicates that of the third volume (dated 1703). First editions of the latter two volumes.
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 859, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 11 plates, one folding, some light foxing. Contemporary tree calf, a little marked, rebacked with new endpapers in a lighter calf, red spine labels. £300 Including chapters on hydraulics, electricity, optics, architecture, dyeing, lacquering and brewing as well as the final chapter on political economy.
Third edition, 12mo, 96 pp, some foxing and browning, contemporary signature on front blank and note on rear paste down, contemporary half calf, cloth sides, slight wear to spine. £60 First published in 1746 under the title “A Letter to a Clergyman Relating to his Sermon on the 30th of January.”
First edition, 12mo, (ii, 382) pp, bound up from the parts with the stabholes visible. Some light foxing, marks to endpapers. Contemporary dark green half calf, marbled sides, some wear, ends of upper joint cracked. £150
First edition, 4to, (viii), 196 pp, with 227 illustrations in the text, a near fine copy, gilt titled blue cloth, corners and spine ends a little bumped, a few marks. £95
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron, and the Tendencies of Don Juan. [with] The Conflagration of Moscow: a Poem. London 1822, 1819, 1822. Three works in 2 volumes, fourteenth, first and fourth editions respectively, 8vo, (iv), 267, (1); (ii), 184, (2 Index, iv), 56, (ii), 30 pp, some light foxing and browning, contemporary full polished calf, slight wear to spines and joints, cracking to head of upper joint of volume II. £75 “Lacon” was a popular and oft-republished collection of aphorisms and observations, and along with the other 2 works make up three-quarters of Colton’s published work.
8vo, 40, 92, 23, (1), 174 pp, some light marking - mostly marginal, Library stamp to title and brief inscription to verso, rebound in modern quarter cloth, gilt spine title. £150 Two reports along with a supplement and appendix from May 1794, concerning 2 radical organisations which supported the aims of the French Revolution and agitated for social reform. Reports such as this were instrumental in the prosecutions brought against their leaders, such as Thomas Hardy and John Horne Tooke, and includes here some of their pamphlets. The Society for Constitutional Information was eventually formally suppressed in 1797.
Three works in one volume, 12mo, (xxiv, 120), 72, (48) pp. Common Prayer lacks a leaf in the preliminaries and the corner of another leaf is torn with loss, old inscriptions to front blank, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in contemporary full maroon morocco, corners and spine ends rubbed, covers with a ruled panel border of flowers and cornerpieces of two further flowers, spine divided into five panels with flowers contained in a variety of wheels, some of the gilt a little dull otherwise a well preserved example of late eighteenth century binding. £150
12mo, 22, 510, 80, (2) pp. Inscriptions to front blank. Contemporary gilt tooled straight grain morocco, a.e.g., light wear to extremities otherwise very good. £150 Griffiths p246.
The Whole Book of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Tho. Sternhold, John Hopkins and others... London: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1636. Two volumes in one, 4to in 8’s, (xl, 436), 186 pp. Engraved titles to both works, both with some manuscript and crossing out, Common Prayer lacking four leaves in signature U, Psalms lacking the final two leaves, one leaf with a closed tear, another with a piece torn out of the outer edge affecting the text, fine engraved bookplate of Martha Streatfeild and later appointment card to paste down, ornate signature of Martha Streatfeild to fly leaf. Contemporary calf with delicate blind stamped decoration to the edges, corners worn, modern reback in a lighter calf. £400 Both works are printed in black letter. STC 16411, 2664. Griffiths 1638-3.
8vo, (xxviii, 452, 104) pp. Piece torn from the outer margin of one leaf with slight loss of text, bookplate removed from fly leaf, contemporary gilt lettered black morocco booklabel of Mary and Matilda C. Tate to paste down. Contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., gilt ruled and decorative borders, light wear to spine ends and joints. £65
Small 8vo, (12.5 x 8 cm). Four volumes bound in one. Full black morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the other five, both boards decoratively gilt tooled and trimmed with brass, brass clasp engraved with the name “E. Martin”, plain yellow endpapers. Slight wear to upper edge of joints, else a very pretty binding. £125
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 143, (1) pp, engraved vignette on title page, contemporary speckled calf, corners and spine ends worn with some loss, spine cracked with most of the morocco label still present. £225 A minor poet and critic, Cooper here expounds on a number of subjects, including beauty and truth, Pope’s Iliad, several classical Authors, Architecture and Garrick’s reforms in the Theatre.
8vo, x, 281, (1) pp. Printed initially in English with the Italian version following, some foxing, brief inscription to title page. 19th century half calf, marbled sides, a little worn. £125 A famous treatise on moderation originally published in Padua in 1558.
First edition, 4to, iv, 1-456, 481-672, (2), 557-580 pp. Some light spots. Recently rebound in half calf, cloth sides, gilt banded spine with black label. £450 Detailed pedigrees of Cornish families, complete with an Index. The pages at the end form part of the text, but due to mispagination (“5” for “4”) were bound at the end.
COTTON, Elizabeth R. Our Coffee-Room. With Preface by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Arthur Cotton. London 1876. Second edition, small 8vo, (xii), 247, (1), 4 advertisement pp. Frontispiece, hinges cracked and with some repair to the upper joint, inscribed on the half title from Florence Nightingale. Original blue cloth with bevelled edges, spine rather worn, corners rubbed. £350 The inscription reads “For Robert Robinson, with Florence Nightingale’s kindest regards: London: July 18 1876”. To a drummer-boy in the 68th Light Infantry during the Crimean war, this inscription is a tribute to Robinson’s warm relationship with Nightingale over 20 years later.
Fourth edition, 12mo, (xx), 355, (1) pp. 20th century bookplate of John Geoffrey Aspin, modern inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary full vellum, later handwritten spine title, a handsome copy. £150 A prolific journalist and pamphleteer, Courtilz de Sandras is today best known for his “Mémoires de Mr. d'Artagnan” which were later used by Dumas as the basis for the Three Musketeers.
Second edition. Two volumes, 8vo. xv, (1), 486; vii, (1), 640 pp. Modern tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with blindstamped rules, red and black gilt lettered labels, gilt decoration to other compartments, date in gilt at feet of spines, marbled edges. Recent blue ink ownership inscription to each of the first free endpapers. Frontispiece portrait to each volume, of Cromwell and his wife respectively, plus three further portraits of two of their daughters and one of his sons. The pages adjacent to the plates somewhat foxed, slight wear to extremities of each binding, otherwise in very good condition. £125 According to the title pages, the work composed by “Oliver Cromwell, Esq. A Descendent of the Family”. d - Back to top
8vo, (ii), xvi, 675, (1) pp, printed in double column, signature on fly leaf, contemporary black half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label. £75
First edition, large 8vo, x, 179, (1) pp. Illustrations, several in colour. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £65
8vo. [4], xviii, 382pp. Contemporary half dark blue calf over marbled boards, spine flat with triple gilt ruled compartments, red gilt lettered label, plain endpapers, presentation inscription to first free endpaper reads: “Gilberto Jackson, amicus amico / d.d. Franciscus Hirst / Xmas, 1941”. Binding rubbed, label slightly chipped, some very light spotting towards front of volume, otherwise very good. £400 The volume comprises Sarratt’s translation into English of three early works on Chess: Damiano’s “Libro da imparare giochare a scachi ...”, Ruy Lopez’s “Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez ...” and Salvio’s “Trattato dell'Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco Degli Scacchi”. Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772–1819) was one of the pre-eminent chess players of his age. As well as this publication, he also wrote “A Treatise on the Game of Chess”, the first edition of which was published in 1808.
4to, (iv), 81, (1) pp, text printed in black, with the names of those who lost their lives in red, presentation inscription on a blank prelim dd. 1921, watered silk endpapers with a decorative gilt border, in a fine example of a Roger de Coverly binding, contemporary blue morocco a little faded and marked, gilt crest and title on upper cover, a.e.g. £100
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 335, (1) pp, frontispiece and numerous photographic text illustrations - 38 full page, 4 maps - 2 in colour, some spotting throughout, signatures on fly leaf, in the original red cloth, extremities rubbed, spine a little faded. £60
Two volumes, 8vo, xxxv, (v), 408, (viii Index); (iv), 368, (100 Dictionary) pp, with 35 woodcuts in the dictionary, slight cracking of hinges, occasional slight marginal browning, very slight loss to lower corner of title and following 2 leaves in volume I, contemporary calf, recently rebacked with red morocco labels, lower cover of volume I not matching the other three. £265 The Author, who died in 1711, was a Lieutenant-General in the French Army.
Two volumes in one, 12mo, 480, 256, (12 Index) pp, with an engraved second title and portrait plate, creasing to outer edge of fly leaf, bound in contemporary vellum, later printed spine labels, some marking, else a very good copy. £300 The greatest Dutch Admiral, whose fleet was a constant threat to the British in the mid-17th century and in 1667 fought the Battle of Medway before burning British ships at anchor in Chatham.
First edition thus, 8vo, iv, 368 pp. A few spots, marbled endpapers, bookplate. Bound by F. Bedford in contemporary full calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with red label, a few marks otherwise a handsome copy. £125
Second edition, 12mo, (vi), 414 pp. Some worming through the lower margin, affecting the text in sig. F. Contemporary panelled calf, a little worn, upper joint cracked but sound, maroon spine label. £850 Written in the form of a series of dialogues. “...one of the most popular moral treatises of the century”, running to eight editions by 1720. Moore 309. First published in March 1715, being printed in Newcastle to preserve Defoe’s anonymity with a preface by Rev. Wright. This second edition appeared in September with a new preface by Defoe. Such was its success that a second volume appeared in 1718. Seemingly very scarce - ESTC listing only three copies of this edition.
Five volumes, 8vo. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary tree sheep, gilt spines with brown and blue morocco labels, two of the latter lacking pieces, some wear, loss to the tops of the spines, upper joint to volume II with some holes.\\ \\\\ £350
Four works in one volume, 8vo, (iv), 4; (ii), 14; (ii), 18, (2); (ii), 11, (1) pp, first and last page browned, in the original cloth, slight wear to spine ends. £75 The first work is translated by Jones, the other 3 by Dhole. The half title reads “Dhole’s Vedanta Series. On the Road to Self-Knowledge”.
Fourth edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo. (ii), xx, 431, (1); (ii), xxvii, (i), 371, (1) pp. Owner’s ink stamp to title pages and front blanks, piece torn from one fly leaf. Contemporary calf, gilt spines with brown and green labels, one lacking, slight wear to others, some rubbing, top of one joint starting. £80
First edition, 8vo, xxiii, (i), (13)-516 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 16 plates, lacking the fly leaf. Original brown cloth, spine ends and corners a little worn, binding slightly sprung but sound. £450 Born a slave in 1817, Douglass escaped to New York when 21 where he changed his name and became a vociferous anti-slavery campaigner. After travelling to Britain and founding a newspaper, the North Star, Douglass held several government posts including US Minister to Haiti before dying in Washington in 1895.
First separate edition, large 8vo, (vi), 58 pp. Portrait frontispiece plus one further plate, some light foxing, top edge of one leaf carelessly opened, contemporary signature of the corrupt East End politician Joseph Merceron to fly leaf, later bookplate of the Naval author John Winton (pseud., John Pratt) to paste down. Original boards, a few marks, paper label to upper cover, later paper spine. £125 “Biographia Britannica” originally appeared in six volumes from 1747 to 1766.
First English edition, (iv), 219, (1 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece, owner’s name to frontispiece recto and title page. Contemporary tree calf, slight wear to corners, finely rebacked in matching morocco, double gilt rules, retaining the original black label. An attractive copy of a surprisingly scarce title. £150 e - Back to top
Two volumes, 8vo, ccxcii 212; iv, 580 pp, with 2 folding tables, very good in the original cloth, spine ends bumped. £75
8vo, viii, 853, (3) pp, with 6 folding plans, 3 lithographic plates and further plans and folding tables, original cloth, faded with wear to spine ends. £75
Tenth edition. 12mo. (8), 268 pp. Contemporary mottled calf sometime neatly rebacked, recent maroon gilt lettered label, twin ruled bands, old ownership of one James Jenkins to front pastedown, repeated in pencil to upper edge. Two leaves, L3 and L4, slightly sprung but set firmly into volume nonetheless, otherwise in very good condition. £225 A number of tables throughout, but mostly concentrated between pages 166-229 and 232-259, variously describing “ascensions” and “logistical logarithms”.
Squarish 12mo - the covers and pages shaped round the front cover illustration of two flags, helmet, breastplate and swords. 5 coloured illustrations, one double page. Sewn as issued, slight loss to top corner of the upper cover, a little rubbing to spine. £60 Scarce, Copac listing only 2 copies.
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 4to, (48) pp. 3 plates, including 2 photographs, bookplate. Finely bound in the original red crushed morocco, title and decoration in gilt, t.e.g., still with the original limp cloth d.w., slipcase, some minor wear to the latter else a fine copy. £100 A lunch held 5 days before George VI’s coronation.
8vo, (viii), 565, (1) pp, presentation inscription on front blank, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary full calf, double gilt rules, gilt roundel of Aysgarth School on front blank, gilt spine with black morocco label. £65
Eighty-nine issues, each 4 pp, with a general title leaf, folio. Some light marks. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, extremities worn, ends of joints cracked. £125
12mo, 128, (6) pp. 11 coloured plates plus numerous black and white illustrations, some foxing to first two leaves, small bookseller’s label - James W. Black, Greenock - to paste down. Original decorative cloth, light rubbing to extremities. £75 A finely printed little pocket diary, with some brief entries in ink - all names, presumably recording birthdays.
First edition. 8vo. 100, (2) pp. Original red cloth, gilt lettered to spine, with a presentation inscription by Major Evans to first free endpaper dated 27/1/47. Fifteen full page black and white illustrations plus one colour map. Spine and adjacent parts of boards slightly faded, otherwise very good. £75 This would appear to be the sole edition and very scarce, the only other copy traced on Copac in the Imperial War Museum. f - Back to top
8vo, xvi, 664 pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Newport (Essex) Grammar School. Bound by Relfe Bros. in contemporary tree calf, gilt arms to upper cover, gilt borders and spine, black spine label. £85
Seventh edition, 8vo, x, 328 pp. 16 portraits and 11 plans, contemporary inscription to front blank, light foxing to blanks at both ends, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full vellum, a.e.g., gilt rules and decoration, morocco spine label slightly rubbed, some minor soiling, a handsome copy. £60
Four volumes, volumes I and II second impressions, volumes III and IV first editions, 8vo. 64 portraits and 39 plans plus a folding facsimile letter, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Lionel Ford, Harrow Headmaster 1910-25, to paste down in volume I. Contemporary diced calf, double gilt rules with the school device to corners and spine, a.e.g., the gilt a little rubbed to the spines of volumes II and IV otherwise a bright set. £200
Two volumes bound in one, 4to, xlviii, 942 pp. Portrait frontispiece, engraved titles and 19 plates, some light spots, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary black half calf, gilt spine lacking most of one of the two labels. £80
Third edition, 12mo, xxii, (ii), 154 pp. Fly leaf with a series of familial inscriptions, starting “Esther Parker, Her Book... 1770” before detailing a wedding in Bristol in 1778 and a number of children, the last one born 1792. Contemporary speckled sheep with blind stamped borders, ends of upper joint starting. £150 An important Quaker title first published in 1713. This issue is very scarce, with ESTC listing only 3 copies.
Small 8vo, 15, (1) pp, a near fine copy in the original wrappers, corners very slightly bumped. £100 “This Lodge shall be regularly held at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s-inn-fields...” - from the first Bye Law. 56 Members are listed.
FRENCH REVOLUTION: Bulletin des Lois de la République Française. No.’s 26, 53, 58, 63, 64, 66, 74, 75, 81 [2 copies], 82, 99, 105, 106, 120, 123, 131, [IIIe series] 198, 208, 217. [1794-5, 1802]. Twenty unbound pamphlets, 8vo, most of 8 pp (i.e. an unopened single folded sheet), but with two of 4 pp, one of 12 pp and the last four containing 16 pp, a couple with marginal browning or damp staining, no. 208 with the last leaf almost detached, otherwise a well preserved collection. £500 Dating from 3 Thermidor in the second year of the revolution to 14 Fructidor in the tenth (17 dated either 1794 or 1795 and only the last 3 dating from 1802), the many Laws passed by the Convention listed in these pamphlets include those for paying the police force, military pensions, regulating inheritance and suppressing the Monasteries. The Laws are also numbered separately to the pamphlets - 120-1, 281, 311-7, 340-7, 354-9, 391-401, 422-33, 512-6, 541-558, 634-9, 649-51, 709-12, 1746-64, 1901-21, 1989-93.
57 x 76 cm. Folding genealogical chart of the royal line, the heads of the monarchs illustrated, The armorial bearings of the royal houses, the line and the names of the monarchs with original hand colour. The whole dissected into sixteen sections and mounted on linen, blue marbled paper to folded sections on linen verso. Slipcase wanting. Some light offsetting, otherwise in very good condition. £75 g - Back to top
12mo, xviii, 424 pp. Two folding maps, of Europe and Asia, and 7 plates, some occasional light foxing, attractive contemporary gilt edged Prize label of Woodland House, Blackheath, to paste down dated 1826, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary dark teal calf, gilt rules and cornerpieces, maroon spine labels, some light rubbing, a handsome copy. £150
8vo, (x), 398 pp, 31 plates, inscription on half title, marbled endpapers, finely bound in contemporary wine red morocco, inside gilt dentelles, triple blind rules, a.e.g., slight rubbing of joints else a very good copy. £60
GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE: The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXXIX. For the Year [1769]. By Sylvanus Urban, Gent. London: D. Henry 8vo, (iv), 642, (12 Index) pp. 12 plates, including a folding map of Tartary, torn and repaired, and one of Delaware showing the Mason-Dixon line. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides, worn with joints cracked. £250 The second appearance of the first cartographic representation of the Mason-Dixon line; the map having appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society the previous year.
First edition, 8vo, 30, (2 blank) pp. Sewn as issued, some marking to the first and last page. £75 A succession of letters, printed in double column with a translation into French, concerning the birth of George II’s grandson and the rift between the King and his son Frederick, who had insisted on his wife giving birth in St. James’s Palace. Straining an already bad relationship, this prompted the family’s expulsion from St. James’s Palace and making their eventual home a centre for Whig opposition. Rothschild 140.
GODWIN, William. Essay on Sepulchres: or, a Proposal for Erecting some Memorial of the Illustrious Dead in all Ages on the spot where their remains have been interred. London: W. Miller 1809. First edition, small 8vo, (xii), 116 pp. Frontispiece, a little browned. Uncut in the original blue boards, spine and edges a little worn, paper label with some loss, held in a later limp cloth wrapper, morocco label and gilt title to spine. £450 An eccentric treatise on the need for an organised record of burials and their markers.
Second edition, 8vo, (xvi), 326, (2 advertisement) pp. 13 plates, some extending, and a few spotted, bookseller’s label to foot of paste down. Original cloth backed boards, some marks and wear, recently recased with a new spine label. £300 First published 1832. Ottley 305.
First edition, small folio, (xii), 212, (4) pp. 65 illustrations, including a coloured map of India and many photographs and include views of China and Japan, most of which are tinted, Errata slip loosely inserted, patterned endpapers, unopened throughout. Original gilt titled dark green cloth, ends of spine slightly worn. £120 A well-illustrated but wholly eccentric work on eastern religions and philosophies.
First edition, large 8vo, xii, 232, (2) pp, with a coloured frontispiece of shields and 106 black and white plates, including 103 portraits, signed on the title page by the Editor and by the then Headmaster, R.S. Trafford, marbled endpapers, contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt arms on upper cover, some slight wear otherwise a very good copy. £100
12mo, 165, (2 Contents, 1) pp. Wood engraved frontispiece, of poor quality, two small blank labels to paste down. Contemporary black full morocco, extremities a little worn. £150 Best known for his chapbooks, Graham was a follower, if not a soldier, of the Jacobite rebellion and was present at the events he describes. A curious little volume written entirely in verse, first published in 1752.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 192 pp. 4 photographic plates and 3 sketch maps. Light mark to fly leaf otherwise a fine bright copy in the original blue cloth with gilt decoration and a white stripe across the upper cover. £65
Three parts in 8 volumes, first editions, “Queen Victoria... 1852 to 1860” 2 volumes, the others 3 volumes each, 8vo, marbled endpapers, bookplates of Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist, showing some books, a flaming torch and the motto “Let There Be Light”, bound by Maclehose of Glasgow in contemporary brown half morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., a fine set. £675 The political memoirs of a man who never held office but knew many important men. “Owing to his close relations with both whigs and tories... he was peculiarly well informed on the most secret transactions of contemporary politics... These characteristics, coupled with the brilliant portraits which he draws of his contemporaries, make his diaries the most important work of their kind of his generation” (DNB).
First edition, 4to, 30 pp, with 4 fine coloured plates plus a coloured plate showing 2 tartans, original cloth backed boards, further coloured illustration to upper cover, some bumping of corners and light wear to edges. £145 No. 1 of Johnston’s Illustrated Histories of the Scottish Regiments.
Folio, 276 pp, coloured illustrations plus silhouette portraits, signed on the fly leaf by 3 of the 25 airmen profiled in this volume, cloth, slight fading to top edge, d.w., spine and upper wrapper lightly sunned. £125
First edition, two volumes, 8vo, (xx), 424; (xii), 494 pp. 5 plates, including 2 photographic portraits, contemporary inscriptions to half titles, marbled endpapers. Contemporary blind stamped full calf, maroon morocco spine labels, edges stained red, minor rubbing to joints, very good. £85 A leading Scottish minister and philanthropist, Guthrie founded many schools and campaigned for temperance.
GUY, Thomas. A Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Guy Esq. With an Act... for incorporating the Executors of the said Will. London 1815. 8vo, 55, (13 blank), 43, (1), 4 pp, with numerous blanks at either end, marbled endpapers and edges, the last 4 pages being an 18th century printing of the Ordinances of Guy’s Hospital, with a later copy of the advertisement prefixed to the first printing of this will loosely inserted, a fine copy in contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spine with morocco label. £150 Thomas Guy, c.1645-1724, made his fortune by selling his South Sea shares before they crashed, and built Guy’s Hospital in London with the profits, dying before it was completed. While the will makes provisions for his relations and many other good causes, the bulk of it went for the maintenance and expansion of the Hospital. h - Back to top
Limited edition, one of 1,200 copies, 4to, x, 206 pp, well illustrated in both colour and black and white, this copy one of the specially bound copies in black quarter morocco, slipcase, a fine copy. £150 With 130 pages of bindings and title pages illustrated followed by the Bibliography, listing over 300 items up to 1920.
First edition, one of 1,200 copies, 4to, x, 206 pp, well illustrated in both colour and black and white, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £60 With 130 pages of bindings and title pages illustrated followed by the Bibliography, listing over 300 items up to 1920.
First edition, large 8vo, (iv), viii, 52, 200, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. Engraved title page and 177 pages of music, contemporary inscription to fly leaf, which is slightly creased. Contemporary tree calf, corners and joints worn, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. £275 86 songs with music, including a few with more than one part for voices.
Six volumes (of 7) - lacking volume II part I of Copinger’s Supplement, 8vo. Marginal browning throughout. Original cloth, spines sunned. £150
First collected edition, 8vo, (ii), 21, (1), 84, (vi), 97, (1), 42, (ii), 30, 16, (ii), 44, (ii), 21, (1, ii), 6, (4) pp. Frontispiece, one leaf with a closed tear and slight loss the outer margin, not affecting text, some browning, 2 ink stamps to title, contemporary inscription to fly leaf, paste downs taken from a contemporary theological work, later small Library label to front paste down. Contemporary panelled calf, blind triple rules and corner decorations, some light wear, neatly rebacked. £1500 An advisor to three Kings in his lifetime, Halifax was involved in many of the momentous events that affected England in the second half of the eighteenth century. Elevated to the peerage and sent on a diplomatic mission to France by Charles II, he was made Lord Privy Seal under William III. Two different tracts, both entitled “A Letter to a Dissenter”, are present. The second, “...from his Friend at the Hague...”, 16 pp, collates as part of the original volume but is by Daniel Defoe, while Halifax’s own piece under the same title, 30 pp, has been inserted. Moore’s Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe, 5, notes this confusion. The “Funeral Poem” to Halifax’s memory at the beginning of the volume is by the playwright Elkanah Settle. Wing H315.
First limited edition, no. 968 of 1,000 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, xvi, 228 pp. Portrait frontispiece plus 8 plates of title pages, slight bumping to the outer edge of several early leaves. Decorated cloth, d.w., price clipped, a near fine copy. £75
Large 8vo, (vi), 398 pp. Small tear to top edge of title from careless opening, ink stamps of the Danish National Library to title, marked as “discarded” below the imprint. Partly unopened in later cloth, a little dull and marked. Scarce. £80
First limited edition, one of 250 copies, oblong 8vo, 156, (4) pp. Wood engraved illustrations throughout plus a signed engraving in a pocket at the end, prospectus and invitation to a reception for this work loosely inserted. Quarter cloth, boards replicating Lawrence’s wood engravings, slipcase, a fine copy. £95
Third edition, folio, (ii), xliv, 632, (14 Index), xlv-xlvi pp, with the final leaf of the preliminaries (Contents) bound at the end. Frontispiece, engraved portrait and one further plate (showing the Venetian Ballot), some very occasional light browning and foxing, armorial bookplates of W.H. Thompson and Henry Babington Smith, the latter being a senior civil servant who among other posts was private secretary to Lord Elgin and President of the National Bank of Turkey. Contemporary calf with some wear, rebacked in a lighter calf. £350 A famous political work first published in 1656 during the Interregnum, which was described by David Hume as the “only valuable model of a commonwealth”. Influenced by a visit to Venice as a young man, “Oceana” is a fictional history of England where a new constitution has been formed, based upon property rights, and legislators are voted in and removed in a complicated rotation system. Pleasing neither side, Cromwell ordered the work seized, and Harrington was later imprisoned by Charles II.
Fourth edition, 8vo, (xx), 442, (26 Index) pp, engraved frontispiece, armorial bookplate, a very good clean copy bound in contemporary calf, a little worn, recently rebacked with repairs to corners, spine with gilt decoration and morocco label. £195 First published 1751.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 266 pp. Some pencilled underlining. Original cloth, spine sunned. £200 Eight essays written over the previous 10 years. An advocate of global capitalism, Hayek won the the Nobel prize in 1974.
First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, spines sunned, some minor marks and wear. £75
Second edition, folio, (vi), 639, (1, 15 Index, 1) pp. Portrait frontispiece of Henry VIII, front blank with a slightly later full page manuscript account of Herbert’s life and works. Coleridge family copy with the inscription of Sir John T. Coleridge, nephew of the poet, to another blank and bookplate of Bernard, Lord Coleridge to the fly leaf, 18th century armorial bookplate of John Lewis Petit to paste down. Contemporary calf, rebacked in a slightly lighter calf with a maroon label. An excellent copy. £700 Wing H1505B. First published in 1649.
Limited edition, no. 99 of 99 copies, inscribed from the Author, 38 pp. 6 full page illustrations. Original printed wrappers, some light marks, a very good copy. £75 No. 100 in the Sette of Odd Volumes.
Second edition, 2 volumes in 1, 12mo, 126, (iv), 176 pp, some spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary gilt bordered calf, worn and cracked, rebacked, corners repaired. £75 Fictional conversations on a religious theme. Hill was a well-known and unorthodox preacher of the time whose methods caused him to be refused orders by a number of Bishops.
HINGESTON, Rev. F.C. (Editor). Royal and Historical Letters During the Reign Henry the Fourth, King of England and of France, and Lord of Ireland. Vol. II. A.D. 1405-1413. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts 1864. Two volumes, being two copies of the same work, the second being a recollated and much changed work, each being one of eight copies only, 8vo. Manuscript to both fly leaves explaining the nature of these volumes by Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, plus two manuscript letters loosely inserted from John (later Lord) Romilly, Master of the Rolls, to Spencer Walpole, historian and civil servant. Both volumes largely unopened in the original patterned cloth, gilt titled maroon spine labels, some wear to spine ends and labels. £250 Volume I of this work, which DNB describes as being “especially censured”, appeared in 1860. The title pages of these volumes have been marked “A” and “B”, and the spines read “Royal & Historical Letters as Originally Proposed” and “...as Amended”. The manuscript to the fly leaves and the letters to Walpole describe how copy A is the original volume as proposed, before Hardy and Romilly decided that it contained too many errors, and copy B the revised version, containing 62 cancelled pages and a 16 page list of Errata. Despite the corrections, the decision was taken not to publish it in any form, and all but eight copies of each volume were destroyed. It eventually appeared in a facsimile form in 1965.
4to, (xiv), 350, (2, 68 Index) pp, frontispiece portrait, printed, preliminaries apart, entirely in black letter, some browning and foxing, hinges cracked, contemporary calf, edges worn with scuff marks resulting in further loss to covers, spine with some small worm holes, raised bands and red morocco label. £225 Wing H2207, describing this as “Another edition”, also giving a second edition in 1650 and a third in 1671.
Second edition, 8vo, xvi, 384 pp. Portrait frontispiece - lower corner damp-stained, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Charles John Vaughan, Headmaster of Harrow. Contemporary diced salmon calf, double gilt rules, the crossed arrows of Harrow to each corner, gilt spine, a.e.g., lower corner of upper cover damp-stained. £150 Commander of the irregular cavalry colloquially known as “Hodson’s Horse”, Hodson was a major influence in Indian campaigns in his short career, most notably in the Indian Mutiny, but died at only 36. First published the same year.
Folio, 95, (1) pp. Uncut in the original printed wrappers, spine a little worn with a handwritten title, tears to both ends of upper joint. £135
First English edition, 2 volumes in 3 (volume II published in 2 parts), 8vo, lxviii, 450; xviii, 420; viii, 421-740 pp. 37 plates, including 5 coloured aquatints, some gatherings unopened, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary black half morocco, slightly rubbed, gilt ruled spines in compartments with raised bands, head of spine of volume III worn, t.e.g. £350 Dealing solely with the long histories of Oxford and Cambridge, excepting a few pages in the appendices on the Universities of Durham and London.
Second edition in English, (xiv), 267, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and 46 engraved plates, marginal browning throughout, one with a small closed tear, some chipping and old manuscript to first and last few leaves, fly leaf with some loss. Contemporary calf with blind stamped decoration to corners, slightly worn, recently rebacked. £500 The most influential emblem book of the 17th century, republished and adapted many times all over Europe. Wing H3350. A translation first published 1677. i - Back to top
8vo, vi, (2), 1208, 112 pp, bookplate removed from paste down, upper hinge cracked, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, marbled boards, upper joint slightly cracked, spine faded. £100 An exhaustive record of the Impeachment investigation of President Johnson, including the testimonies of Ulysses S. Grant and Lafayette Baker, and containing the 112 pp report of the Judiciary Committee. j - Back to top
JAMES STUART: A Full Answer to the Depositions; And to all other the Pretences and Arguments whatsoever, Concerning the Birth of the Prince of Wales. The Intreague thereof detected, The whole design being set forth, with the way and manner of doing it. Whereunto is annexed, A Map... of St. James’s Palace... Describing the Place wherein it is supposed the true Mother was delivered: With the particular Doors and Passages through which the Child was convey’d to the Queens Bed-Chamber. London: Printed for Simon Burgis 1689. First edition, folio, (iv), 21, (1) pp. Folding map, outer margin of first two leaves cut close without loss to text, next leaf with soiling to the margin as a result, outer edge of final leaf laid down with some loss but again no loss of text, one paragraph on page 8 censored using type ornaments, modern booklabel of John Prebble, journalist and historian. 20th century quarter calf. £450 A lively work published in support of the notion that James Stuart was illegitimate. The pressure on Queen Mary (James II’s second wife) to produce a boy after a series of girls was such that even before the birth her pregnancy was called into doubt. “The warming-pan scandal”, so-called after the alleged method that was used to smuggle the false child into the Queen’s bedchamber (the route being shown on the map in this work), became a cause celebré for all the King’s Protestant opponents. Wing F2342.
Two works in three volumes, second work two volumes, sixth and tenth editions, 8vo, with a total of 30 etched plates and 275 illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers, gilt monogram on morocco labels on paste downs, finely bound by Bickers and Son in contemporary maroon full morocco, covers with triple gilt ruled borders, flower corner pieces and a central decorative cross, gilt spine in compartments, faded, some rubbing to joints and corners, a.e.g. £145
First edition, small 4to, 90, (6 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and 30 plates, a few spots, lacking fly leaf, corner torn from last 3 leaves (i.e. 2 advertisement leaves, 1 blank) without loss to text. Original blue cloth, rubbed, spine sunned. £80
First Todd edition, 4 volumes, 4to. Portrait frontispiece in volume I, somewhat foxed and offset onto the opposing title page. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked in tan buckram with maroon morocco labels, some restoration to corners and edges also. £550 Courtney & Smith p59.
Two volumes, 4to, (ii), 12, 60, 1028, (2); (ii), 1084 pp. Portrait frontispiece in volume I, armorial bookplates of Charles William Spicer, a few light spots. Contemporary calf, with some wear and scuffing, neatly rebacked retaining the original red and black morocco labels, minor wear to spine of volume I. £450
Second edition, small 4to, 34, (1 ad, 1) pp. Slight marginal browning, otherwise fine in recent marbled wrappers. £80 Samuel Johnson, 1649-1703, Rector of Corringham and prodigious writer, often of anti-Papist tracts, who “was by many thought to have done more towards paving the way for King William's revolution than any man in England besides” (DNB). Here he argues strongly in favour of annual Parliaments, which were not favoured during James II’s reign. Wing S827.
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 80, 80, 80, 64, 80, 110 pp. Old repairs to minor tears to the title and the first leaf of Preface, one other small tear, later endpapers, fly leaf chipped. Contemporary speckled calf, worn, rebacked with a red morocco spine label. £200 “At the Restoration encomiastic biographies of the king were of course published... the Secret History of Whitehall (1697)... pretending to be published from original papers by D. Jones, is apocryphal though curious, and seeks to trace the hand of France in everything...” (DNB). Wing J934.
First edition, 8vo, (ii), 203, (1), 47, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in modern full calf, gilt banded spine. Very scarce. £275 An alphabetical dictionary of place-names with lists of other place-names and similar words following, including their etymological explanations.
Second edition, small 4to in 2’s, (ii), xix, (i), 147, (45) pp. First three and final leaves with edges slightly chipped, some marginal browning. Recent half calf, marbled boards, black spine label. £500 Appointed tutor to Lord Althorp while still at Oxford, Jones was a renowned oriental scholar as well as a friend of many of the learned men of the day such as Garrick and Burke. Appointed as a Judge to Calcutta in 1783 the last decade of his life was prolific; he founded the Bengal Asiatic society and became the first Englishman to master Sanskrit.
Two volumes. 8vo. Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled paper boards, bound by Mudie with their small ink stamp to the verso of the first free endpaper, spine with raised bands, gilt rules to compartments, gilt lettered direct to two panels, gilt decorated to others, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Fifty two plates. Paper to upper board of volume two faded, likewise upper edge of lower board of volume one, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise in very good condition. £125 k - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, viii, (1), 259, xii, 88 pp. Some browning and spots, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates, including that of Lord Romilly. 19th century calf, double gilt rules, gilt banded spine with red label, joints rubbed with cracking to tops. £350
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, inscription on front blank in volume I and signatures on half titles in volumes II and III, original gilt titled brown cloth, tops of two spines worn, some other light rubbing. £90
Second edition (same year as the first), 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, spine ends worn with a little loss to the top of the spine of volume II, joints rubbed. £65 Kemble (1809-1893) was an actress, author and well known anti-slavery campaigner, having married a planter from Georgia.
Small 8vo, xxx, 271, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of the King’s School, Canterbury, to paste down. Bound by Bickers and Son in contemporary tree calf, gilt spine and borders, gilt arms to upper cover, a fine copy. £75
Limited edition, one of 105 copies, large 8vo, viii, 146 pp, a very good copy, cloth, spine ends bumped. £95
First edition, 8vo, (ii), xii, 403, (1) pp. Signatures to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, light marking to upper cover otherwise a very good copy. £950 Printing and the Mind of Man 423.
Third impression, two volumes, 8vo. Outer edge of several early leaves in volume II slightly bumped. Original gilt titled cloth, a couple of small marks otherwise very good. £150 The precursor to his “General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”, prompted and informed by the then recent world recession. First published 1930.
First edition, 8vo, (xx), 355, (1) pp, inscribed from the Author to a former teacher on the fly leaf “John Miles, A memento of his Economics Class, 1922-23...” and with the accompanying tls. loosely inserted “...I still recall my first steps in Economics under your sure hand... the book... has been submitted as a PhD. thesis; I have been told unofficially that both examiners will ‘very strongly’ recommend it”. Original black cloth, spine sunned. £150
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 324 pp. 9 coloured maps, 5 folding, marbled endpapers, Prize label to paste down. Contemporary red calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with a green label, a.e.g., some light rubbing and marks. £75
KNOX, R.A. Enthusiasm. A Chapter in the History of Religion. With special reference to the XVII and XVIII centuries. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1950. First edition, 8vo, viii, 622 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the title page. Cloth, d.w. soiled with a tear across the upper wrapper, loss to top of spine. £150 l - Back to top
Second edition, 16mo, 377, (1) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine somewhat worn with loss to top. £400 A leading Protestant lawyer who helped negotiate the Peace of Westphalia, Lampadius’ writings form part of the basis of Germanic constitutional law. First published 1634.
Eighth edition, 8vo, x, 285, (1) pp. Coloured folding map and 29 plates, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of the City of Birmingham Central Secondary School, dated 1906. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine, edges, and arms, maroon label, some very light rubbing spine and extremities, an excellent copy. £60
12mo, with both parts complete despite considerable mispagination, first part 4 leaves, 278 pp, including the portrait-title (often missing), printed title with illustration; second part 112 pp, including the illustrated title. Upper corner of 1 leaf restored with loss of only 1 letter, signature and book plate on end papers, old gilt framed mottled calf, worn, gilt spine a little chipped at ends. £275 BMC records several collections with similar titles and dates, this particular one (which they do not appear to possess) being perhaps of more than passing interest having, in the second part, upwards of a score of pages of prose and verse in which every word commences with the letter P.
4to, (vi), (iii, 76) leaves, complete with 39 coloured plates tipped in, but with the half title and 2 caption leaves removed (the latter being merely blanks with the name of the subject on the rectos), original blue cloth, spotted, spine ends slightly worn. £200
Seventh edition, 12mo, (xx), 305, (24 index, 1 advertisement) pp. Old inscriptions to endpapers, some occasional pencilled marginalia, light browning throughout. Contemporary calf, a little worn, recently rebacked with a black spine label. £180 “Necessary for all Landlords, Tenants, Farmers, Stewards, Agents, Solicitors, and others concerned in the Buying, Selling, and Letting of Estates” (from the title page). Sweet & Maxwell I p460.
First edition, 4to, xlviii, 259, (3) pp. 24 plates and a plan, almost all misbound. Later quarter calf, marbled sides. £125
Second edition. 4to. (vi), 114 pp. Original green cloth backed printed boards. Portrait frontispiece and 56 partly coloured maps with explanatory text on versos. Some light wear to extremities, a few trivial marks, very good condition overall. £65 The sections “Sherifan Co-Operation in September” and “Story of the Arab Movement” are by Lawrence. O’Brien A012.
Sixth edition, 4to, xvi, 1865, (1), 12 advertisement pp. Leaves at the beginning and end creased. Contemporary half calf, worn, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. £60
Fourth edition, 4to, (xviii, 1428) pp. Frontispiece and 2 maps, of Italy and Rome. Early and late leaves worn with some loss to the text to the final 4 leaves, first couple of gatherings loose with some repair to hinges, Library label of University College of South Wales, stamped “Withdrawn”, ink stamp to one preliminary leaf and the reverse of one of the maps, 19th century manuscript to frontispiece verso, lacking the fly leaf. Contemporary calf, lower corners and edges worn with some loss, neatly rebacked. £125 A “great work” (DNB) which was first published in 1673.
LODGE, Sir Oliver. Raymond, or Life and Death. With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death. London: Methuen & Co. (1916). Sixth edition (one month after the first), 8vo, (xii), 403, (1), 33 advertisement, (1) pp. 12 plates showing 18 illustrations, some light foxing, signature of W.J.H. Sprott to fly leaf, two envelopes loosely inserted containing letters from the Author to Sprott. Original gilt titled green cloth. spine sunned, slight wear to ends. £275 Scientist, inventor of the spark plug, rival to Marconi and the first principal of Birmingham University, Lodge also had a lifelong interest in psychic phenomena. Raymond, his son, was killed in the first World War and the first part of the book contains a brief biography with his letters from the front. The letters are both dated April 1917, the first a 6 page als. thanking Sprott for his letter and inviting questions, the second a 3 page tls. answering the questions, which mainly concern spiritualism and its methodology. A psychologist, Walter Sprott (1897-1971) became friends with Maynard Keynes at Cambridge and subsequently formed a close bond with Lytton Strachey. He also had a novel rejected for the Hogarth Press by Virginia Woolf.
8vo, (ii), viii-xvi, 687, (1) pp, lacking some of the preliminaries, some marginal marks and foxing, contemporary half calf, red spine label, head of lower joint starting, minor loss to top of spine. £80 Listing hundreds of gifts and endowments by Parish and by Livery Company.
Two volumes, 8vo, 28; 36 pp, with presentation leaves pasted to front endpapers signed by all the relevant Lord Mayors, a.l.s. loosely inserted in the first work concerning the work and signed by Leslie Boyce, Lord Mayor 1951-52, full morocco, first volume in black, second in blue, spine of second volume faded, upper part of first volume’s spine chipped, title and crest in gilt on upper covers. £150
First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, viii, 399, (1); (viii), 448 pp, with 2 maps and 95 engravings in the text, labels carefully removed from paste downs, in the original green cloth, gilt spines, sunned, small tear to head of spine of volume I. £90
First edition, small 8vo, (viii), 167, (1) pp. Rufford Abbey bookplate. Later speckled calf by Hering, gilt arms to covers, spine, a little worn, red morocco label. £200 Continuing a work of the same name published the previous year by Edward Stillingfleet, later Bishop of Worcester. Wing L2984.
LOVE, John. Geodæsia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring Land made Easy. Shewing By plain and practical Rules, to Survey, Protract, Cast up, Reduce or Divide any Piece of Land whatsoever; with new Tables for the Ease of the Surveyor in Reducing the Measure of Land... London: J.F. and C. Rivington 1786. Tenth edition, 8vo, (xx), 196, (16), 4, (36), 7, (1) pp. Diagrams and illustrations in the text plus 49 pages of distance and trigonometrical tables, bookplates to both paste downs. Contemporary sheep, top of spine worn with loss, head of upper joint starting, some marks, red spine label. £300 m - Back to top
Three works in ten volumes, “History of England” seventh edition in five volumes, “Essays” sixth edition in three volumes, “Miscellaneous Writings” first edition in two volumes, 8vo. Later bookplates, brief contemporary inscriptions to three title pages, one portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half calf, gilt spines with green and brown morocco labels, one board with a few abrasions otherwise some minor rubbing, a good set. £500
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces and 3 maps, plus a further 5 maps in the text, marbled endpapers and sides. Later green half morocco, spines faded to brown, t.e.g. £200
32mo. 64 pp. Full tan pigskin, gilt lettered “Marriage Service” on spine, decorative silver panel to upper board featuring four cherubs, the panel bearing the hallmark of Birmingham silversmith Levi and Salaman, the mark indicating the year 1903. The pigskin slightly soiled, otherwise in very good condition. £100
Second edition, revised. 8vo. xii, 536, (2) pp. Full olive polished calf, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered black label, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial bookplate of Reginald Arthur Savory to front pastedown, his crest replicated in gilt to upper board, some light pencilled annotations throughout. Eleven maps. Spine faded to brown, a few very small marks to upper board, else in very good condition. £65 Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Arthur Savory (1894-1980), a career soldier in the British Indian Army, serving in both the First and Second World Wars.
Third edition, 8vo, (xxviii), 640 pp. 4 plates, 2 in colour plus a coloured folding map, numerous illustrations in the text, Eton Prize inscription to front blank, patterned gilt endpapers. Contemporary vellum with bevelled edges, covers with ruled borders and a central rosette surrounded by the letters “EC”, “HviR” and a crown, gilt spine with a green morocco label, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Slight rubbing to the spine label otherwise a handsome volume. £175
Second impression, 8vo, xiv, 254, (2) pp. 99 coloured plates with tissues plus a folding map and 6 facsimile letters, light foxing to a few text leaves, signature to paste down. Original gilt titled green cloth, some light rubbing, particularly to foot of spine, and a few marks, t.e.g. £60 An account of the Boer War, and the first book when originally published in 1901 to appear in the now-famous 20 shilling series. Inman 85, also pp7-19.
4to, (26) pp. 12 fine chromolithographed plates, internally a very good clean copy, upper hinge cracked and nearly detached. Original gilt decorated red cloth, rubbed with some fading to the gilt, fraying to spine ends. £185 Captioned in French, German and English.
8vo, xx, 591, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound by Bickers and Son in contemporary full calf, gilt borders, gilt spine with raised bands and a black label, some light rubbing, a very good copy. £150
Tenth edition, 2 volumes, slight loss to top edge of rear free endpaper in volume I, original cloth, covers a little marks, paper spine labels, browned and rubbed. £60
MINIATURE BOOK: The Holy Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments... Edinburgh: Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell [1900]. Miniature book, covers measuring 48 x 33 mm, (vi), 876 pp. Complete with the magnifying glass in a pocket at the front, top corners of early leaves bumped. Original blind stamped calf with some rubbing, an old glued repair reattaching the chain to the foot of the lower cover, with the original wooden lectern standing 5½ inches high and in excellent condition. £500 Welsh 565.
8vo, (ii), iv, 174, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece portrait, contemporary owner’s signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped blue cloth, slight wear to spine ends otherwise very good. £110 A sensational and wholly fictious account of terrible goings-on in a Canadian convent, first published in 1836 to cash in on the prevalent anti-Catholic sentiment in North America.
First edition, 8vo, 326 pp, frontispiece, title vignette and engraved illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers and sides, contemporary half calf, slightly worn and rubbed, red spine label with one corner missing, upper hinge starting. £75 Sabin 47126.
Nine volumes, 8vo, of either 68, 72 or 80 pp, some creasing to corners. Sewn as issued in the original printed wrappers - the 1908 volume with two covers bound in, some edgewear, browning and fading, also some minor tears, signature to 6 upper wrappers. £125 A series of catalogues from a renowned printing and publishing firm.
(MOUNTBATTEN). ZIEGLER, Philip. Mountbatten. The Official Biography. London: Collins (1985). First edition, 8vo, 786 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Stapled to the fly leaf is a tls. from Lord Mountbatten to Major-General Reginald Leathes, dated February 1975, concerning a farewell dinner for the latter that Mountbatten attended, and asking him to write out an anecdote concerning a meeting of senior generals at Imphal for the Earl’s archives; signed also by Leathes on a front blank. Cloth, d.w., spine slightly sunned. £100
First edition, 8vo, (xx), 323, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 13 portrait plates, inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, spine a little sunned, minor wear to the outer edge of the lower cover. £65 n - Back to top
Second edition thus, 8vo, (viii), 469, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, marginal closed tear to the final leaf, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary green calf, gilt spine with a black label, gilt borders, arms of Bedford school to the upper cover, some fading and marks. £80
Small 8vo, (viii), 387, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 4 plates, Prize label of North London Collegiate School and later ink stamp of Walsingham College Library to front endpapers. Contemporary red full morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine and decorated borders, gilt arms to upper cover, slight rubbing to extremities and the arms, otherwise a very good bright copy. £90
8vo, 319, (1, 32 advertisement) pp. Hand coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations. Original gilt titled green cloth, slightly rubbed. £75
8vo, (viii), 312 pp. 6 plates, marbled endpapers, label removed from paste down. Contemporary calf, gilt ruled borders, gilt spine, a.e.g., some marks otherwise very good. £75 Eight subjects - Charlemagne, Gregory VII, Roger Bacon, Dante, Chaucer, Copernicus, Clive of India and James Watt.
12mo, (viii), 352 pp. Half title and frontispiece bound in from a copy of Walter Scott’s “Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft”. Contemporary purple half calf, marbled sides, black spine label, top corners rubbed otherwise very good. £75
xii, 324 pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary dark green calf, gilt spine and rules, maroon label, some rubbing to extremities. £55 First published 1813.
Small 8vo, xx, 653, (1) pp, contemporary inscription on front blank, marbled endpapers, contemporary full vellum, a little light soiling, gilt banded spine with a morocco label, a.e.g. £75 With a short Introduction in Latin, else printed entirely in Greek.
Including a two column history of the American Revolution in the style of the Bible, a report of proceedings in the House of Lords and other international news and the usual local news and notices, plus a column entitled “From the Western Star. The Cordwainer, no. III”, being a polemic supposedly from a tradesman in support of Paine’s writings - “Mr. Paine seems to be a mighty nice writer... When he encounters the absurdities, the abuses, and the prejudices; that exist among mankind, he makes snapping work; he is as bold as a lion... O, that I could write like that same Tommy Paine...”
First edition, thin oblong 4to, (30) pp. 12 full page coloured illustrations, inscribed “five hundred copies only printed, no. 31” to the inside front cover in North’s hand and with his compliments slip tipped onto the fly leaf. Original pictorial wrappers, some soiling and creasing, subtle repairs to the inside of the outer edges, recently resewn. Scarce. £175 o - Back to top
First edition. 8vo. 230 pp. Original green cloth, regimental crest in gilt to upper board, blind stamped lettering to spine, presentation inscription from the author to verso of front free endpaper. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, six further photographic illustrations over four pages and four large folding maps. Spine faded, some very light marking endpapers, otherwise very good. £150 Uncommon, the only copies traced on Copac are at the British Library and Imperial War Museum.
Extending sheet, 4½ x 48½ inches, with engraved title and 17 hand coloured illustrations of different costumes, 2 fold creases with careful repairs showing staining from previous repair, folding down into blind stamped cloth covers, title in gilt on upper cover. £125
Folding sheet, 18 x 30½ inches, coloured, showing 24 figures in the various outfits of the University, with some tears along fold creases and carefully repaired, folding down into small 8vo decorated boards, a little marked, with owner’s inscription on upper cover and presentation label with two date stamps inside. £125 p - Back to top
8vo, 19, (1) pp. Ink stamp of Battersea Public Library to two pages. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £140 Written as a protest against the new ruling classes of revolutionary France, who had quickly lapsed into the bad habits of the aristocracy they had replaced, the pamphlet proposed reform of land ownership, a one-off payment of £15 for all persons reaching 21 years old and pensions for persons over 50. “Private property is God-given, [Paine] agreed, but it is always subject to the primary rule that the earth is ‘the common property of the human race’” (Keane pp 424-7). Not in Gimbel. First published 1797.
8vo, 56 pp. Ink stamp of Battersea Public Library to two pages. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards, paper label to upper cover. £225 Paine’s first major work, originally published in Philadelphia at the beginning of 1776. Attacking the Monarchy and government by the English, he proposes a Congress of “at least 390 [members]” to choose a President and points out the notional strength of America compared to European powers. “...the independency of America should have been considered as dating its era from... the first musket that was fired against her. This line is a line of consistency; neither drawn by caprice, nor extended by ambition; but produced by a chain of events, of which the colonies were not the authors.” Gimbel p54.
8vo, 36 pp. Portrait frontispiece by Peel of Philadelphia with some restoration to the outer edge and lower margin, repair also to the foot of the title page, title also with an old signature to the top. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards, paper label to upper cover. £375 Paine’s first major work, originally published in Philadelphia at the beginning of 1776. Attacking the Monarchy and government by the English, he proposes a Congress of “at least 390 [members]” to choose a President and points out the notional strength of America compared to European powers. “...the independency of America should have been considered as dating its era from... the first musket that was fired against her. This line is a line of consistency; neither drawn by caprice, nor extended by ambition; but produced by a chain of events, of which the colonies were not the authors.” Gimbel pp52-3. Thetford Collection 89-91.
8vo, 26 pp. Ink stamp of Battersea Public Libraries to one page. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £150 “An attempt by Paine to try his hand at economic forecasting” (Keane). First published 1796 and enthusiastically adopted by the French Council of Five Hundred, who paid for its printing and translation into German, believing that its criticism of bank notes and England’s level of debt would influence international financiers. Gimbel p62.
8vo, 31, (1 advertisement) pp. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £120 A work submitted to the Convention of the French Revolution in July 1795 illustrating the differences between the principles of 1789 and the proposed constitution, in particular the proposals to limit citizenship to direct taxpayers while at the same time granting it to soldiers. First published 1795. Gimbel p66 lists two Sherwin issues in this year, neither collating like this copy.
First English edition, 8vo, 54 pp. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £125 Beginning with his thoughts on the bank recently established in Pennsylvania, Paine moves on to more general political and economics subjects before decrying paper money. “...the evils of paper-money have no end. Its uncertain and fluctuating value is continually awakening or creating new schemes of deceit...” Gimbel p66. First published in 1786.
12mo, (ii), 58 pp. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £300 “An attempt by Paine to try his hand at economic forecasting” (Keane). The work was enthusiastically adopted by the French Council of Five Hundred, who paid for its printing and translation into German, believing that its criticism of bank notes and England’s level of debt would influence international financiers. Not in Gimbel.
First Paris edition, 8vo, (ii), iv, 113, (1) pp. Some foxing, small hole to margin of the final two leaves. Contemporary half roan, marbled sides, some light wear. £1000 Paine’s first major work, originally published in Philadelphia at the beginning of 1776 and first translated into French in the same year. Attacking the Monarchy and government by the English, he proposes a Congress of “at least 390 [members]” to choose a President and points out the notional strength of America compared to European powers. “...the independency of America should have been considered as dating its era from... the first musket that was fired against her. This line is a line of consistency; neither drawn by caprice, nor extended by ambition; but produced by a chain of events, of which the colonies were not the authors.” Gimbel p57. Sabin 58217.
8vo, 59, (1), iii, (1) pp. Minor marking to foot of title page. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards, paper label to upper cover. £100 “A Letter to Abbé Raynal” first appeared in 1782 and remains one of Paine’s most important works, disputing an earlier account of the American revolution, and indeed the definition of “revolution” itself. Gimbel p72. Sabin 58222.
8vo, 46 pp. Marbled endpapers and sides. Bound by W. Roach of New York in 20th century black half morocco, upper joint rubbed, top starting. £125 The late proclamation being the government’s warning against “wicked and seditious libels” in May 1792, directed chiefly at the second part of “The Rights of Man”. This response was at the printers even as he fled the country in September of the same year. Gimbel p74.
8vo, 11, (1 advertisement) pp. Small ink stamp of Birmingham Library to last page. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £150 Criticising the Government’s tactics and foreseeing an Invasion by Napoleon, Paine ends by calling for a revolution - “the people of England have... the benefit of experience in theory, and fact... [they] have two revolutions before them [ie America and France]. The one as an example; the other as a warning...” Gimbel p118. Originally published in Philadelphia in 1804 as “Thomas Paine to the People of England...”
8vo, 34 pp. Ink stamp of Battersea Public Library to two pages. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards, paper label to upper cover. £135 Eight letters, including Paine’s correspondence with Samuel Adams concerning “The Rights of Man”. Gimbel p83. First published 1802.
Three works bound in one, “Miscellaneous Articles” first edition, 33, (3 advertisement), 36, 40 pp. Some light browning and minor tears, one corner torn away without loss. 20th century boards. £400 “Miscellaneous Articles” collects 8 pieces; letters to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Authors of the Republican, Abbé Syeyes, Lord Onslow the people of France and two to Henry Dundas as well as his “Thoughts on the Peace”. “A Letter to Abbé Raynal” first appeared in 1782 and remains one of Paine’s most important works, disputing an earlier account of the American revolution, and indeed the definition of “revolution” itself. The “Letter to the Addressers...” concerns the government’s warning against “wicked and seditious libels” in May 1792, directed chiefly at the second part of “The Rights of Man” and follows on from his letters to Dundas and Onslow. This response was at the printers even as he fled the country in September of the same year. Gimbel pp83, 72, 74. Sabin 58222 notes similar editions of “Abbé Raynal”.
8vo, 33, (1) pp. Ink stamp of Battersea Public Libraries to one page. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £80 An angry polemic on the war with France. “What has been the event of all the wars of England, but an amazing accumulation of debt, and an unparalleled burthen of taxes...” First published in 1787, and also published as “Prospects on the War and Paper Currency of Great Britain”. Gimbel p86.
Third edition, viii, 68 pp. Some foxing. Modern half calf, marbled boards. £200 An angry polemic on the war with France. “What has been the event of all the wars of England, but an amazing accumulation of debt, and an unparalleled burthen of taxes...” Gimbel p86. First published in 1787 as “Prospects on the Rubicon”.
First edition, 8vo, 8 pp. First and last page browned, later booklabel with some offsetting to the title, further small label to the inside front cover partly removed. Simply bound in later limp boards, taped spine. Scarce. £80 Signed “Atlanticus”, this piece originally appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine in 1775. Gimbel p88.
Fifth edition, second issue, of the first part and seventh edition, variant b, of the second part, 8vo, x, (7)-171, (1, xvi), 178 pp. A few light spots, attractive later bookplate of William John Robertson, marbled endpapers. 19th century maroon half morocco, t.e.g., a handsome copy. £750 An instant best-seller on publication, its radical views led to a flurry of opposing pamphlets and quickly to Paine’s exile. Still one of the most influential political tracts ever, it was dedicated to George Washington - “That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old...” “...the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy...” (Printing and the Mind of Man 241). Gimbel pp 99 & 105. Complete in two parts.
8vo, vii, 98, (1, xii), 118, iv, (2) pp. Some foxing, one leaf with a closed tear, without loss. Recent half calf, marbled sides, green spine label. £285 An instant bestseller on its publication in 1791, its radical views led to a flurry of opposing pamphlets and quickly to Paine’s exile. Still one of the most influential political tracts ever, it was dedicated to George Washington - “That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old...” “...the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy...” (Printing and the Mind of Man 241). Gimbel pp 93, 109. Complete with both parts.
Third edition, 8vo, 36, (4 advertisement) pp. First and last page with some soiling. 20th century quarter calf, marbled sides. £200 Dundas was Home Secretary in Pitt’s government, which in May of 1792 had issued a proclamation against “wicked and seditious writings” and summoned Paine to appear in court as a result of the publication of the second part of “The Rights of Man”. Paine angrily expands his arguments, comparing the British and American systems of government, and signs off “I am, Mr. Dundas, Not your obedient humble Servant, But the contrary...” Onslow had arranged a public meeting to celebrate the proclamation, and on being handed Paine’s letter at the meeting called him “the common enemy of us all”, something that Paine confirms in the second letter “if you confine the expression to men... living in indolence and luxury, on the spoil and labours of the Public”. Gimbel p119. Sabin 58243. First thus, preceded by various issues of letters to one or both Onslow and Dundas.
8vo, xvi, 352 pp. Portrait frontispiece, text in double columns, slightly browned throughout, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original green cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed. £125 First published in New York in 1892 and the first dispassionate account, earlier works being either hostile or concerned with Paine’s defence.
An Abstract of... An Appendix to the Sacred Tragedy. [n.d., 1737]. viii, 17, (1) pp. BLACOW: The Defence of the Rev. Richard Blacow, Addressed to the Jury, in the Court at Lancaster... for a Libel against the Queen, with Notes on the Whig-Radical Faction. To which is prefixed, the Sermon that was read in evidence... London: Printed and Published for the Author 1822. (ii), 120 pp. The Operatives, a Genteel Comedy, in three acts. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Miller 1827. (ii), 25, (1) pp. The Queen that Jack Found. London: John Fairburn 1820. Sixth edition, (36) pp. OSMER, William. A Dissertation on Horses; Wherein it is demonstrated... that Innate Qualities do not exist, and that the excellence of this Animal is altogether mechanical and not in the Blood. London: T. Waller 1756. First edition, 42, 45-61, (3) pp. FREER, Adam. Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis, De Syphilide Venerea... Edinburgh: Balfour, Auld & Smellie 1767. (iv), 42 pp. Seven works in one volume, 8vo. Upper wrapper of Blacow’s Defence bound in, “The Queen that Jack Found” with 13 woodcuts - 12 by George Cruikshank - and bound without the advertisements, Osmer’s Dissertation lacking one leaf (pp 43/4). Some light foxing and soiling, old manuscript contents list to front blank, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, bookplates to paste down and fly leaf. 19th century half calf, slightly worn, rebacked with a black label reading “Pamphlets”. £450 A varied collection of 18th and 19th century works, including several very rare items. Scholefield’s sermon followed the riots and destruction of the Dissenters’ chapels in Birmingham. The Abstract and Appendix to the Sacred Tragedy are removed from a larger work. Rev. Richard Blacow was convicted of libel, having referred to Queen Caroline in a sermon as “the Goddess of Lust”, and she is also the subject of the lively poem “The Queen That Jack Found”, which contains caricatures of the royal couple and other public figures. Freer’s paper on syphilis was his only published work. Only two copies (Oxford and Cambridge) located of Blacow’s Defence, and one (Edinburgh) of the play “The Operatives”. Osmer’s “Dissertation on Horses” is a very scarce work in any edition with only three copies appearing at auction in the last 30 years. Cohn 679.
12mo, viii, 334 pp, some light foxing, inscribed from the Author on the half title, later bookplate, dark green quarter morocco, corners and spine ends rubbed, t.e.g. £100
First edition, 4to, 192 pp. Numerous illustrations. Full two tone morocco, spine and outer edges in beige with a broad strip down the middle of both covers in orange, upper cover with a beige roundel containing a gilt chorus girl, spine with gilt bands and orange labels, slipcase, a unique copy. £200
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Ink stamp to title pages. Bound in later marbled half calf, marbled sides, t.e.g., some light rubbing, volume I rebacked retaining the original backstrip otherwise an attractive set. £250 A complete run of this monthly magazine, printed from September 1819 to June 1822, containing an important collection of Welsh literature and history.
8vo, 288 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Napoleon, marbled endpapers, Prize label of the Haberdashers’ School dated 1907. Contemporary blue calf, a.e.g., gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine with a red label, a fine copy. £60
Two volumes, folio, xvii, (vii), 238, (9 Index, 1); vi, (x), 239-581, (9 Index) pp, frontispiece and 9 plates, some occasional light browning, armorial bookplates of Sir Simon Taylor, Bart., on paste downs, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt patterned borders and gilt arms to covers, attractively rebacked with gilt tooling and black morocco labels, slight wear to foot of spine of volume II, else a very good copy. £300 “Commendably free from political bias” (DNB), Peck’s wide-ranging collection of antiquities is reflected in this publication, which includes royal expenses, letters from Archbishops and nobility and a section on Lincoln Cathedral. The Subscribers’ List shows just 227 names, including David Garrick and Edward Gibbon. Lowndes VII p1812.
PELHAM, Camden [pseud.]. The Chronicles of Crime; or, the New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who have outraged the Laws of Great Britain... with... Engravings... by “Phiz” [Hablot K. Browne]. London: T. Miles & Co. 1891. Two volumes, 8vo. Engraved title and 51 plates, with the booklabel of Ernest Shackleton to paste downs, later owner’s bookplate also, two small bits of sellotape to paste down in volume II with signs of its removal at the back. Original gilt titled red cloth, light rubbing to extremities, a few marks otherwise a very good set. £300
Limited edition, no. 21 of 25 copies on Lafuma paper, 8vo, (viii), ix, (i), 246, (2) pp, portrait frontispiece, original upper wrapper bound in, marbled endpapers and sides, finely bound in contemporary black half morocco, gilt spine with green label, minor rubbing to edges else very good, t.e.g. £75
Two volumes in one, thirty-seventh and fifty-seventh editions respectively, small 8vo. Original printed wrappers bound in. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, rather worn, slight cracking to tops of joints, old paper label to spine. £65
First edition, 4to, (xvi), 142 pp. 21 plates, 4 in colour, plus illustrations in the text, plus a Stanley Gibbons colour chart loosely inserted with 100 “stamps” in a spectrum, signature to fly leaf. Original black cloth, small piece worn to top edge of lower cover, otherwise very good. £150
PHILIPPS, Fabian. The Reforming Registry: Or a Representation of The very many Mischiefs and Inconveniences which will unavoidably happen by the Needless, Chargeable, and Destructive way of Registries, Proposed to be erected in every County of England and Wales; For the Recording of all Deeds, Evidences, Morgages [sic]... London: Printed for Christopher Wilkinson 1671. Second edition, 8vo, (lxxii), 134, 137-452 pp. Inscribed from the Author on a front blank “Ex Dono Authoris. June 3d. 1671” with a later inscription below, and with manuscript corrections to several leaves, one leaf with soiling to the outer edge. Modern half calf, maroon spine label. £750 A staunch Royalist, Philipps wrote widely on legal matters as well as publishing a pamphlet in support of Charles I two days before the latter’s execution. Often, as here, he argued for the retention of the status quo in the face of proposed reforms. Wing P2015. First published in 1662. Containing all the cancels mentioned by ESTC. The corrections include several phrases inserted as well as more simple changes. The first edition’s title is suffixed “written in the year 1656 when Oliver and the Levelling-party made it their design to ruine monarchy” and had only 8 chapters to this edition’s 29.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 244, (8 advertisement) pp, 4 plates, signature on fly leaf, some light foxing, original green cloth, a very good copy. £75
16mo, 260 pp, engraved title, frontispiece showing Krakow Castle, a very good clean copy bound in the original maroon morocco with a folding flap, a couple of tiny holes to the flap, a.e.g. £65 With some contemporary entries in the accounting part of the book. The “useful information” includes lists of country banks, peers, M.P.’s and military officers.
Small 8vo, 241, (1) pp. Bertram Mills’ price ticket loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w., some soiling, loss to top of spine. £60 First published 1941.
8vo, xii, 416 pp, with one folding table, original cloth, rubbed, with light damp staining to the upper cover. £175 Including a section on crime across the country and on trials of various enforcement techniques, this report quickly led to a Parliamentary Act setting up paid Police forces.
8vo, iv,316 pp, some foxing, contemporary signature of “Geo. Gibson” (?philanthropist and botanist, 1818-1883), original green cloth, recased, spine ends bumped. £150 One of a series of important parliamentary investigations into poverty, containing a wealth of statistics and other information.
8vo, (xx), 580 pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army, dated 1881, to paste down. Contemporary full calf, covers with gilt arms and rules, gilt spine, some very minor rubbing otherwise a handsome copy. £60
Two volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, one further portrait and 2 folding maps plus a facsimile plate showing Cortes’ signature, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Cheltenham College dated 1906 in volume I, brief inscription in volume II. Contemporary red full calf, double gilt rules, gilt crests, gilt spines with red and brown labels, slight scuffing to the upper cover of volume II otherwise very good. £125
8vo, 227, (1) pp, a few spots, original printed wrappers, spine a little worn, some browning to wrappers. £185 Arranged by county and with a full breakdown of individual prison populations.
12mo, (236) pp, part of one gathering loose, marbled endpapers, finely bound in contemporary red straight grained morocco, gilt ruled border, a.e.g, an attractive copy. £150
PSALMS: WADDELL, P. Hately. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew intil Scottis. Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Glasgow: T. & J. Lochhead 1882. 8vo, (iv), 105, (1) pp. Map, a plate and one vignette in the text, inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled moiré cloth, slight fading to spine. £80 Psalm 23 - “The Lord is my herd, nae want sal fa’ me, He louts me tille lie amang green howes; he airts me atowre by the lown watirs...”
16mo, 208 pp, with an extending coloured frontispiece showing people riding penny farthings entitled “A World on Wheels”, coloured second title and 14 plates, upper hinge cracking, bound in the original scarlet morocco with a folding flap, a very good copy. £100 q - Back to top
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4to, xxviii, 552, 130 pp, a few spots, minor repairs to upper joint, uncut in the original printed blue wrappers, spine faded with loss to foot. £80
Two parts in one, with a Supplement bound in as well, 12mo, 128, 92 pp. Original wrappers bound in. Contemporary patterned cloth, gilt title and steam engine on upper cover, slight sunning to spine and rubbing to ends, else a very good copy. £175 Listing hundreds of 19th century publications and an invaluable bibliographic tool.
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 467, (1) pp. Contemporary signature to paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, double gilt rules, spine worn, joints cracking but sound. £125 An answer to Nathaniel Hooke’s “Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough from her first coming to Court to the year 1710”, published the same year. A jobbing journalist who had arrived in London with Benjamin Franklin in 1724, DNB described this work as “one of the most spirited of his performances”.
Second edition, (viii), 414, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. Title page skilfully laid down, pages browned with some minor marks, a few leaves cut close at the top with slight loss of headline and page number, pencilled underlining throughout. 20th century brown full morocco, gilt titled spine. £300 Naturalist and member of the Royal Society, Ray first published this collection anonymously in 1670. Considerably enlarged, this edition has an added Appendix of Jewish proverbs printed in both Hebrew and English. Keynes 11 - “one of his most important books”.
KELLY, James. A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs explained and made intelligible to the English reader. London: Printed for T. and J. Allman... [&] Rodwell & Martin 1818. Two works in one volume, second work second edition, 8vo, (viii), 308, vi, 255, (1, 13 Index, 1) pp. Slight wear to the first title page with loss of text, later signature to fly leaf. 19th century half morocco, spine rather worn and dull, marbled edges. £200 Ray’s work was first published in 1670, Kelly’s in 1721.
First edition, 8vo, 319, (1) pp. 20 plates, some light foxing, marbled endpapers. Beautifully bound in full vellum, gilt rules with roses to each corner, spine with red and black labels and further roses, t.e.g., a lovely copy. £75 Articles on Gladstone, Cecil Rhodes, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy and Aubrey Beardsley among others.
First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo. 2 coloured plates plus many other black and white illustrations, one black and white plate detached. Original black buckram, slight rubbing to the lettering to the spine of volume I, otherwise a very good set. £400
Limited edition, no. 39 of 150 copies, small 4to, (xviii), 150 pp. Frontispiece and 28 plates, 4 in colour. Original red quarter morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., a fine copy. £80
Three volumes, volume III first edition, volumes I and II first reprint, 8vo, cloth, d.w.’s with some small tears, minor loss to wrapper on volume I. £75 A series of important lectures delivered by the Author on his retirement from the Professorship of Political Economy at Cambridge University.
Twelve volumes, being the eighteenth edition of “Scotland” in three volumes; the eleventh editions of “Charles V” and “America” in four volumes each and the fifth edition of “India” in one volume, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of the Author and 5 plates plus 4 folding maps of the Americas and 2 folding maps of India, contemporary signature to fly leaves. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt and blind stamped decoration, spines faded and a little rubbed, black labels, several with some chipping, minor wear to tops of two spines, but overall a good sound set. £600 Including a lengthy biography of Robertson in volume I. First published between 1759 and 1791.
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 1366 pp. Some leaves cut close to top margins, but without loss, minor worming through much of book, upper hinge subtly repaired. Contemporary calf, worn, upper cover wormed. £225 An English to Latin Dictionary which was reprinted twice before 1700. Wing R1616.
First edition, no. 39 of an unknown quantity, folio, (x), 158 pp. 33 fine plates, of which 28 are coloured. Frontispiece, title page and dedication leaf nearly detached, bookplate of Charles Cook, folded copy of the Ross-shire Journal for March 18th, 1938, loosely inserted. Original gilt titled red cloth, marked and a little worn, loss to spine ends. £275
Second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Numerous black and white plates, browning to endpapers, brief inscription to fly leaves. Buckram, d.w.’s, browned and price clipped. £150
First edition, 8vo, 77, (1) pp, with presentation inscription “...With the Authors Compliments” on front blank, some marks to front endpapers, ink mark on fly leaf, in the original cloth, gilt title on upper cover, dull, a little rubbed. £125
Fourth edition, volume I and part of volume II only, bound in one volume, (xxiv), 464, (iv), 196 pp. 6 engraved plates, armorial bookplate. 20th century maroon half morocco, marbled sides, spine ends worn with slight loss to top. £85 Containing 6 essays (18 in total were published), including accounts of the treatment of the poor in Munich, more general answers to poverty, the feeding of soldiers, the properties of various types of fuel and chimney design.
Three volumes, second thousand of volume I, first editions of volumes II and III, 8vo. 13 plates. Finely bound in later blue half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., spines with raised bands and gilt shamrocks. £125 The first 36 letters (of 96 in all). After these the letters appeared with continuous pagination. “...one of the curiosities of literature” (DNB). Wise I pp165-175.
RUSSELL, Bertrand. Freedom and Organization, 1814-1914. London: George Allen & Unwin (1945). Third impression, 8vo, 528 pp. Inscribed from the Author to Irina Morley on the fly leaf, free endpapers foxed, slight cracking of upper hinge. Original red cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends a little worn. £250 s - Back to top
12mo, 230 pp, with 2 engraved illustrations, lacking rear free endpaper, contemporary vellum, lightly marked, gilt title to spine, dull, £80
Two volumes, folio, (xvi), 410, (2); (xiv), 411-793, (111) pp, most of volume I and a few pages in volume II foxed, contemporary calf, volume I worn with upper joint cracked, spines with raised bands, red morocco label to volume II, and missing from spine of volume I. £200
First edition, 12mo, (xii), 3-180 pp. Rufford Abbey bookplate. Later calf by Hering, gilt arms to covers, gilt spine, some light spots otherwise very good. £300 An anonymous French work translated by John Savage, Author and sometime Chaplain to the Earl of Salisbury. Wing M1673.
Second edition, 8vo, xiv, 369, (3 advertisement) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Original printed wrappers, lacking lower cover and top part of spine, upper cover detached. £150
Third edition, folio, (xxxiv), 756 pp, with some mispagination. Portrait frontispiece plus wood engravings in the text, a few leaves marked, later manuscript to front blank listing the illustrations. Contemporary calf with a blind stamped panel, edges worn and darkened, rebacked with new endpapers. £400 One of the leading jurists of the 17th century, advisor to several monarchs and author of many books. Best know for his “Table Talk”, this learned work “has remained to this day the most comprehensive and trustworthy work of its kind that we possess” (Encyc Brit.). Wing S2440. First published 1614 with a second edition in 1631. The third is “considered the best edition” (Lowndes).
Tenth edition, 8vo, (xxx), 524, (24) pp. Frontispiece, cut close at the top edge with very slight loss of image, marbled endpapers. Contemporary diced calf, spine and corners a little worn, lacking a piece to the top of the spine. £75 A translation first published in 1678.
8vo. (7), 8-17, (18-25), 26-36 pp. Contemporary dark brown full morocco, arms of the Seton family with an elaborate scrolled border in gilt to the upper board, both boards blindstamped to edges, spine with raised bands, richly gilt to compartments, inner dentelles gilt lined, plain yellow endpapers, bookplate of Walter Seton to front pastedown, old manuscript note alluding to Seton’s demise to first free endpaper, all edges gilt. Extremities rubbed, a very handsome volume. £250 Lieutenant-Colonel Seton was aboard H.M.S. Birkenhead when the vessel struck rocks off the coast of South Africa whilst en route to what was known as the Kaffir War, now termed the 8th Xhosa War. As commander of the 74th Highland Foot Regiment, one of 10 regiments aboard, Seton played an active role in attempts to organise the orderly evacuation of the sinking ship. It was upon his order that the men were told to stand fast whilst the women and children were allowed to board the lifeboats. However, the vessel broke up quickly causing significant loss of life, less than 1 in 3 of those on board survived. Seton was one of those who drowned. His efforts, and his company, were subsequently honoured by a memorial in St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. From the preface: “The family ... having been much and frequently urged to furnish a Narrative of his Life, have been induced to print for the use of friends the following Memoir, written out by a gentleman from memoranda furnished by them.” The first part comprises that memoir, the second comprises extracts from personal and official letters as well as press reports regarding the sinking of the Birkenhead. Only three copies listed on Copac, in Aberdeen, National Library of Scotland and the British Library.
8vo, vi, 26 pp. Disbound. £75 With an ironic dedication to Cromwell, this apology for tyrannicide was first printed in Holland in 1657. Sexby was sent as an agent from Cromwell to negotiate with European powers, but later broke with him and devised plots in support of Charles II before being captured and dying in the Tower. Evelyn attributes this work to Titus, who was a royalist and close friend of Sexby’s, but other evidence points to Sexby as being the more likely author.
First edition, small 4to, (xvi), 28 pp. Sewn as issued, some wear and staining to the front and rear blanks. £60 Wing S2827.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispieces and 195 illustrations, ownership inscription to fly leaf in volume I, original gilt titled blue cloth, some edgewear, spines slightly dull. £75 Thirty essays on all aspects of Elizabethan England, including Religion, Handwriting, the Arts, Bookselling, Medicine and Sport.
Five volumes, volumes I-III second edition, volumes IV-V first edition, 8vo. Small bookseller’s ink stamp to foot of titles and up per wrappers of four of the volumes. Original printed wrappers with some bumping and minor tears to edges, one small tear to the upper wrapper of volume IV. £100
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 196, (10 advertisement) pp. 4 engraved portraits - some staining to these, contemporary inscription to paste down partly crossed out. Original boards, marked, corners bumped, rebacked retaining the original paper spine label, browned. £80
Volumes I-V only (of 12), folio. 60 fine chromolithographs printed on card with tissues, some foxing - particularly heavy in volumes I and V, almost all of the plates with an attractive small coloured regimental flag added to the top left of the image, later inscription in volume I. Original gilt titled red cloth, a little sprung but sound, some marks and wear, a.e.g. £950
First edition. 8vo. 273, (1) pp. Publisher’s red cloth, title gilt to spine and blindstamped to upper board, presentation inscription from the author to first free endpaper. Fifty-one black and white illustrations, a few set in text, mostly reproducing prints from Simon’s own collection. Edges spotted, some light spotting to margins, spine and small area to upper board slightly faded, otherwise very good. £120
8vo, xxvii, (i), 351, (1 advertisement, 20 Index, 4) pp. Fine engraved bookplate of Sir John Smith, later booklabel. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, spine and corners a little worn, black label. £150 Not in Gimbel. First published in Macclesfield in 1797.
Two works, 8vo, 16 & 24, (4) pp respectively. Loosely inserted is a further four page pamphlet “The Church of England and the Gipsies” plus a sheet in each work detailing how the work is being sent to the Presbytery Clerks of the three Scottish Presbyterian Churches, ink stamps of the Solicitors Supreme Courts to front cover, title and inside lower cover, manuscript note of the same to upper covers. Original printed wrappers, recently rebacked. £75
Limited edition, no. 180 of 250 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, 192 pp. 10 plates and 4 illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers. Publisher’s maroon half morocco, t.e.g., spine faded, slight rubbing to ends. £100
SMEDLEY, Rev. Edward; ROSE, Rev. Hugh James & ROSE, Rev. Henry John Encyclopædia Metropolitana; or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan... Volume XIV. Miscellaneous and Lexicographical, vol. I. London 1845. 4to, (ii), 806 pp. 14 plates and 10 maps - 2 of Africa and 8 of America (“America in eight sheets...”) - at the end, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary diced calf, gilt and blind rules, spine with raised bands, some light rubbing, a few small holes to the lower joint. £250 “Miscellaneous and Lexicographical” covers Lexicography, Geography, Botany, Zoology, Mineralogy and Law - this volume containing “A” to “Ascalabotes” (or gecko).
First edition, 8vo, xii, 474 pp. Contemporary inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound by Bumpus in contemporary full calf, gilt borders, gilt spine with raised bands and a black label, slightly darkened and rubbed, very good. £100 One of the follow-up volumes to Smiles’ best-selling opus “Self-Help”. This too ran through a number of editions.
8vo, xviii, 415, (1) pp. Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary maroon full calf, double gilt rules, gilt arms of Salisbury School, gilt spine sunned otherwise a handsome copy. £80
Small 4to, (28) pp. 6 portrait plates and 6 plates showing embossed coloured City crests, a further plate of smaller portraits, a fine production printed on thick paper and sewn as issued in the original gilt edged wrappers, held in a limp morocco folder with red silk moiré endpapers and inside gilt dentelles, gilt monogram to upper cover, the whole held in a black morocco case, with a green silk moiré lining, this box with wear to edges. £100
First edition, 12mo, (ii), xix, (20)-242 pp, bound without the advertisement leaf at the end. Bookplate of the well known collector Edward Huth, marbled endpapers. Later half calf, marbled sides, t.e.g., an excellent copy. £175 A collection of writings on many subjects, including Slavery, Trade, Religion and Politics, and including some poetry as well as events from the Author’s life, although without anything directly connected to Sussex.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 552, (2 Errata) pp. Title page with some repairs to the edges, pages browned throughout, marbled endpapers. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, slight sunning of spine. £100
16mo, 424, (7 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine rather worn with slight loss to ends. £250 The history of part of Switzerland during Roman times. Willems 392. First published 1617.
Small 8vo, (xxiv), 120 pp. 4 engraved plates, marbled endpapers. Contemporary dark blue calf, gilt ruled and dotted borders, gilt spine, some rubbing, a near fine copy, a.e.g. £75 First published in 1750 and originally attributed to the publisher Robert Dodsley.
STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn. Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey. London: John Murray, 1868. First edition, 8vo, (xxxii), 564 pp. Frontispiece plan plus further plans in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, cancelled Library stamp of the Church Missionary Society to front blank as well as the contemporary ownership inscription of John Amps, Vicar of Ickleton in Cambridgeshire, marbled endpapers and edges. An als. from Stanley is tipped in at the front, thanking the recipient for sending a list of errata from another of his books. Contemporary calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with a brown label, some light marks, very good. £95
Small 4to, 36 pp. A few light marks and some soiling, recent marbled wrappers. £175 Concerning the Glorious Revolution and events since, in particular “attributing the want of success in Ireland to division of counsel; complaining that James II's advisers remained unpunished; and denouncing the ‘scuffling for preferments in the church’” (DNB). Wing S5437.
First edition, 8vo, xxiv, (ii), 555, (1) pp. Colour frontispiece, contemporary owner’s name to fly leaf. Original red cloth, gilt medal to upper cover, boards slightly bowed with some sunning, spine ends bumped. £75
4to, (xii), 694 pp, numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with some marks and small tears, still in the original slipcase. £60
Large 8vo, 84, (4) pp. Upper hinge cracked but sound, small label removed from paste down. Original gilt titled red cloth, dull and rather soiled, bevelled edges, spine ends and corners bumped, a.e.g. £150 Governor of Jersey from 1804-14, General Don built up the defences of the island and was a popular leader. This volume covers events up to 1809 - the last paragraph stating a second part was to be published. No evidence for this can be found, and only one copy of this volume has been located, in the British Library.
Folio. (54.5 x 43.5 cm). Part calligraphic manuscript title page, 13 leaves featuring cuttings from the Sussex Daily News and its Supplement regarding the meeting. Manuscript errata slip inserted at title noting that “Society” should read “Institute”, the mistake caused “through an error given to the Writer”. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt to spine. Binding slightly rubbed at a few points, front endpaper creased, otherwise very good. £100
Folio, 36 pp, large label removed from paste down, original gilt titled blue cloth, gilt masonic symbols to corners of upper cover and in blind to lower cover, some light wear. £150 Augustus Frederick, 1773-1843, ninth child of George III. A curious publication dedicated “...to the Freemasons of the United Kingdom” by “Br. Wm. Heseltine”. One copy noted, in the Museum of Freemasonry Library in London.
First edition, 8vo, xxviii, 428 pp. Frontispiece and 12 plates plus 21 folding maps. Original dark green cloth, slightly sprung but sound, a little rubbed. £200 t - Back to top
First edition, 2 volumes, (xx), 406; (xiv), 409, (1) pp. 32 plates, including many portraits. Original gilt titled red cloth, spines faded, damp stain to the foot of the lower cover of volume I, t.e.g. £350
Eight volumes, small 4to, with 46 engraved portraits and views and 6 coloured maps, bound in the original gilt decorated brown cloth, a.e.g, corners and spine ends bumped, otherwise near fine. £75
8vo, xxiv, (6), 327, (1) pp. Some light foxing, later inscription to paste down. Later half vellum, marbled sides, maroon morocco spine labels, minor soiling, a very good copy. £55
Second edition, 8vo, 202, 16 advertisement pp, with 11 portrait plates, marginal browning throughout, owner’s signature on paste down, original cloth with bevelled edges, spine ends bumped. £75 Subjects include Kitchener, Wolseley, Roberts and Grenfell.
8vo, (ii), xiv, 546, (16) pp, with 4 engraved plates, small tear to one leaf, without loss, some light spots and browning, mostly marginal, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with new endpapers, repairs to corners, red calf spine label. £75 The second part, “Private Devotions”, is dated 1759. Many editions were published in the mid-18th century, all anonymous.
THEOLOGY: The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of a Christian: Made Easy for the Practice of the Present Age... Gainsborough: Printed by and for H Mozley, 1813. 8vo, 471, (15 Index) pp. Engraved title and frontispiece, some occasional foxing. Modern bookplate. Modern red quarter morocco, t.e.g., spine a little sunned. £65 A common enough title with numerous reprints throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, although Copac lists only one copy of this Gainsborough imprint, in the British Library.
12mo, 292, lxxvi, (56) pp, text entirely in Latin, inscriptions on front blank and verso of title, plus signature dated 1788 on title, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf, extremities worn, crude repair to top of gilt spine, red morocco label. £80
Fourth edition, 8vo, 16 pp. Sewn as issued, a little creased, small mark to title page. £60
Fourth edition, 8vo, xxxii, 666, (2), xix, (1) pp. Contemporary calf, red spine label, joints slightly cracked, some light marks. £75
Tout is best known for his influential study “The Standard of Living in Bristol”, published 1938. His monthly salary from the University of Bristol of £35 12s 6d is here recorded. A London address is recorded in the earlier volume, a Bristol one in the later.
8vo, (iv), 92 pp. Numerous illustrations, tls. from the company director V.E. Ellis loosely inserted dated November 1926. Original stiff wrappers, stapled as issued, the staples now rusty otherwise a good clean copy. £65
First edition, 8vo, (16) pp. Printed wrappers, stapled as issued, the staples now rusted, with light rust marks also to the outer edge of the upper cover. £200 A parody of the writings of Aleister Crowley, price “One shilling and sixpence - including Astral-duplicate”.
First edition, 8vo, 116, (2) pp. Portrait frontispiece, inscription to fly leaf. Cloth backed boards, edges faded, d.w. browned with some loss. £75 A curious collection of letters purporting to be from the deceased via automatic writing. The title verso reads “Copies of this book can be obtained from Mrs. Tristram, Cox’s Mill, Dallington, Heathfield, Sussex. Price 7/6”, with “Mrs.” amended to “Major” and the price increased by a shilling.
Eighteenth edition, 12mo, 108 pp. Folding advertisement for Trusler’s works by title, bookplate of T. Newby Wilson. Contemporary green quarter morocco, marbled sides, top of spine very slightly worn otherwise an excellent copy. £150 First published 1775 and a popular guide to etiquette. No copy of this issue located. u - Back to top
8vo, 376 pp, with engraved title and 14 plates, including one of a Kangaroo, of John Flamsteed - the first Astronomer Royal and a folding view of the “Field of Mars at Paris, July 14, 1790”, quarter calf, marbled boards, worn, upper cover a little loose. £150 v - Back to top
Fourth edition, 8vo, lxvi, 500 pp. Contemporary calf, joints slightly cracked but sound, some marking, red spine label. £125
Folio in 6s, (ii), 691, (37 Index, 2) pp. Printer’s device to title and verso of final leaf, some worming and mostly light marginal damp staining at the beginning and the end, woodcut borders to two early leaves with some subtle old hand colouring, one with a small hole burnt through, bookplate of George Becher Blomfield, Canon of Chester. 19th century half calf, rather worn, spine with some cracking, marbled paper sides, a few small holes to joints. £1500 Born in Italy, Vergil came to England in 1501 or 1502 and except for a short period of imprisonment in 1515 enjoyed the patronage of the King with a series of clerical appointments. It was Henry VIII himself who asked Vergil to compose this history, and his researches led him to be in regular contact with many of the scholars of the day. Although his imprisonment had made him an enemy of Wolsey and subsequently skewed the opinions of generations of historians concerning the Cardinal, the work as a whole was massive influential. “Vergil's historical method was far in advance of anything that England had then known. Unlike preceding chroniclers, he wrote a history on modern lines, attempted to weigh authorities, and told a connected story. As an authority he is invaluable for the reign of Henry VII, with whose aims and character he thoroughly sympathised, and he realised fully the changes which marked the passing away of the middle ages... The substance of his history became... common property” (DNB). Adams V448. First published 1534 with another edition in 1546, this edition extended the period covered up to 1538.
Three volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines a little marked and darkened, ends rubbed, red labels, a well preserved set. £200 w - Back to top
Small 4to, 48 pp, a few leaves with loss to lower margins, not affecting text, first and last pages soiled, recent marbled wrappers. £80 A reply to Zachary Taylor’s pamphlet demanding that all took the Oath of Allegiance to William and Mary. Overall’s Convocation Book had been written in 1606 and was eventually published to justify the stance of the non-jurors. Wagstaffe here challenges Taylor’s assertion that it in fact states “that a government originating in successful rebellion might acquire the stamp of divine authority” (DNB). Wing W202.
Second edition, fourteen volumes, 4to. Three engraved titles and 108 portrait plates. Original gilt and black decorated brown cloth, bevelled edges, some light spots and staining otherwise a very good bright set. £200
First edition. 8vo. 164 pp. Publisher’s red cloth, printed black text to spine and upper cover, slightly later neat ownership inscription to first free endpaper, oval ink stamp stating “Sold by H.M. Stationary Office” to head of title page. A fine copy. £75 Including the pastedown there are 8 pages of advertisements to the front of the volume, with more to the rear pastedown.
First edition, small 4to, (ii), 46 pp. Outer margin cut close with occasional loss of pagination, some light browning, modern booklabel of John Sparrow. Modern boards. £75 Bishop of Exeter and subsequently Salisbury, Ward was also a leading astronomer, publishing a couple of important treatises in reply to the French astronomer Boulliau. Wing W814.
Fourth edition, 12mo, (xii), 287, (1) pp. Frontispiece showing a painting by G.F. Watts. Finely bound by Bumpus in brown full morocco, gilt and black rules, gilt spine with raised bands, a.e.g., a lovely copy. £125 A collection of homilies, sayings and poetry from Thomas Aquinas to W.B. Yeats.
First edition, oblong 4to. Upper wrapper, rather soiled, bound in and followed by 12 lithographic plates captioned in either English or French, several dated 1842, some light marginal browning, slight loss to corners of the final plate. 20th century cloth backed boards, bookplate. £135 A unusual collection of views of the landmarks, monuments and buildings of Waterloo three decades on, including contemporary figures engaged in sightseeing which give the collection a rather gentrified air.
12mo, 142 pp. Bookplate of Robert Washington Oates plus a later booklabel to paste down, label removed from fly leaf. Original boards, a little marked and worn, rebacked with a new paper spine label. £75 First published 1796 in response to the second part of “The Age of Reason”. Bishop of Llandaff, Watson’s reply was one of the less hostile, admitting several of Paine’s points on the origins of the Scriptures. Gimbel p35.
12mo, 163, (1 advertisement) pp. Later booklabel to paste down, some light spotting. Original boards, rebacked with a new paper spine label. £80 First published 1796 in response to the second part of “The Age of Reason”. Bishop of Llandaff, Watson’s reply was one of the less hostile, admitting several of Paine’s points on the origins of the Scriptures. Not in Gimbel.
Seventh edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary diced calf, minor wear to corners and spine ends, gilt spines sunned. £150 First published 1777.
Third edition, 8vo, (vi), 365, (5) pp. Brief contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary panelled calf, some wear to extremities, minor loss to foot of upper joint, spine lacking its label. £100 Isaac Watts, 1674-1748, Nonconformist Minister & prolific hymn writer. “One of the most popular writers of the day...” (DNB). First published 1725.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Wine in Peace and War. With Decorations by Rex Whistler. London [1954]. First trade edition, 8vo, 77, (1) pp. 2 full page illustrations, browning to front and rear paste downs. Original decorative cream boards, slight browning to edges, spine ends bumped. £90
Third edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 405, (3 advertisement) pp. Some foxing throughout plus a few minor marginal chips, slightly later inscription to paste down. Contemporary calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked. £150 Welwood was Physician to Mary II, for whom the work was originally written. Wing B1308, although the collation agrees with that of the first two editions as noted on ESTC. First published in the same year.
Three volumes of four, lacking volume I, being the second part of the “Tractatus Generalis” plus “Tractatus Specialis” complete in two volumes, 16mo. Volume III with an engraved title page, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), some wear with loss to tops of two spines, the leather to volume II coming loose from its board. £150
First edition, 16mo, (xxxiv), 376, (16) pp. Marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine worn with some loss to ends. £250
8vo, lvi, 380 pp. Marbled endpapers, Pilkington Prize label to paste down. Bound by Bickers and Son in contemporary tree calf, gilt borders and arms, gilt spine with a maroon label, edges stained red, a fine copy. £75 First published 1883. A voluminous commentary with only a few lines of Greek per page above the notes.
Limited edition, no. 31 of 50 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, 467, (1) pp. Pencilled note by the Author concerning his grandfather opposite the Preface, armorial bookplate. Original green cloth, a few minor marks. £125
First edition, small 4to, x, 102 pp. 7 colour and 40 black and white illustrations, free endpapers browned. Original dark blue cloth, spine rubbed and dull, marbled slipcase with a coloured pictorial label, slightly rubbed and browned. £65
First edition, 8vo, xx, 378, (4 advertisement) pp. 61 coloured plates with captioned tissues, some foxing to text leaves, inscription to paste down. Original gilt titled decorative blue cloth, slight rubbing to extremities otherwise very good, t.e.g. £125 Inman 59.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 301, (7) pp. 15 plates, newspaper cutting and accompanying manuscript note concerning the bombing of Plymouth in the Second World War to fly leaf, armorial bookplate (“Mockler”) to paste down. Original gilt titled maroon buckram, upper cover slightly dull otherwise very good. £80 “Vol. I”, but no further volumes were published.
First edition, four volumes bound in two, 4to. Engraved titles and 86 plates, including 10 double page maps coloured in outline by Rapkin/Tallis, plus 2 extra plates not listed, lacking one further plate and a map, and with 16 pages misbound in volume I and 16 pages and 2 plates bound in upside down in volume IV. A good clean set bound in later quarter morocco, linen sides, some rubbing and marks. £275
Third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, small wormhole through outer margin of first 50 pages in volume I, not affecting text, otherwise a good clean set in contemporary calf, worn, slight loss to spine ends, spines cracked with red and black morocco labels. £150
First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo. 28 plates, one coloured, plus illustrations in the text, armorial bookplates. Contemporary tree calf, spines with red and black morocco labels, two labels missing, some light wear, spine to volume I and a few joints slightly cracked. £250 Covering all manner of medical, gastronomic and agricultural subjects, from bees to brewing and metalwork to the dropsy as well as a wealth of botanical information.
Folio, (xiv), 85, (13), 76, 48, 64, 64, 75, (1) pp. Portrait plates of Georges V and VI, 12 coloured plates with captioned tissues (plate V bound in upside down) and 64 pages of black and white illustrations showing hundreds of stamps, marbled endpapers. Contemporary wine red crushed morocco, spine slightly sunned, a.e.g., a near fine copy held in the original red cloth slipcase - the latter a little worn. £400 Comprising both a history of the collection and a catalogue, arranged geographically by (the then) British territories on the different continents.
First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, cracking to the lower parts of several joints, spines with red and black labels, ends rubbed, one spine end with loss, otherwise a clean sound set. £450 The Subscriber’s List shows just over 300 sets sold.
Seven volumes, “Historical Memoirs” four volumes, new edition, and “Posthumous Memoirs” three volumes, second edition. 8vo. Uniformly bound in tan full calf, spine with raised bands, red and green gilt lettered labels, gilt to other compartments, gilt rules to sides. Spines slightly worn, a few scuffs to boards, one label slightly frayed, otherwise a decent set. £350
Second edition, small 4to, (viii), 99, (1) pp. 20 plates of hand-writing, contemporary owner’s inscription to title page. Old half calf over boards, rather worn, with a plain but serviceable reback. £200 First published two years earlier. The Subscriber’s List shows only 198 copies sold.
First edition, 12mo, 43, (1) pp. Disbound. £75
8vo, (xxii), 335, (1) pp. 20 plates and 43 illustrations in the text, former owner’s ink stamp to fly leaf and paste down. Cloth, d.w., spine slightly darkened otherwise very good. £60 x - Back to top
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YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale, 1871. New Haven: D.L. Davies. 4to, engraved title page, foxed, followed by 68 stiff leaves containing 134 photographs, including 124 portraits of staff and students - the remainder showing the grounds and buildings, each portrait with handwritten name and home town, presumably in the subject’s handwriting, some spotting with slight damage to a couple of images, 5 leaves detached, handsomely bound in modern half calf, cloth sides, gilt ruled spine with morocco label, t.e.g. £400 First edition, 8vo, xvi, 207, (1) pp, 16 black and white photographic plates, a partly unopened copy bound in the original maroon cloth, a couple of minor marks otherwise a very good copy. £150 Detailed history of a regiment founded in India in the 1840s. z - Back to top
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