London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. First edition, 8vo, 350 pp. Marginal foxing throughout, contemporary signature to fly leaf, light damp staining to the endpapers and the outer edge of the final three leaves. Original cloth, some marks and rubbing, spine slightly skewed.

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London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. 4to. iv, 88 pp. Later dark brown half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt rules and lettered to the compartments. A folding plate and 3 folding charts. One of the latter shaved to the neatline along the lower edge, all the...

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Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick [&] Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797, 1804. First edition, two volumes, demy 8vo. 445 wood engraved illustrations, small blind stamps of the University of Bristol to the lower margin of the first two and final leaves in each...

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London: John Murray, 1894. Sixth edition, 45th thousand, 8vo, xxi, 432 pp. Folding plate, contemporary prize label to paste down with the recipient's name rather messily excised. Original dark green cloth, light rubbing to spine otherwise very good. Freeman 442.

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Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine...

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London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648. First edition, second issue, 8vo, (xvi), 218 pp. Some mostly mild marginal browning, contemporary manuscript title to fore edge. Recent blind ruled goatskin, black spine label, a very good copy. "The earliest of Donne's controversial writings..." (Keynes) and a work that existed only in...

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London: G. Willis, 1850. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards, spine with wide gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered black labels, another lettered direct, endpapers and all edges marbled. 121 full page steel engravings, 2 double page plates, 2 folding plates and 4 folding maps, 2 in colour. A very good set.

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London: George Routledge, 1851. 12mo, (3)-286, (4 advertisement) pp. Ink signature to title, brief pencilled inscription to the next leaf, upper joint slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary cloth, gilt titled spine, some marks and rubbing. A scarce issue of "Sense and Sensibility" published in Routledge's Railway Library, not noted in...

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London: Jonathan Cape & the Medici Society, (1924). Two volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 623, (1); xiv, 690 pp. 9 plates, illustrations in the text and a large coloured folding map in a pocket at the end of volume I. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter from the author, on his headed...

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London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue, fifth thousand. 8vo. x, 502 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, endpapers and all edges marbled, early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Folding table. Some mild rubbing to the extremities, very...

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London: Marcus Ward & Co., and Belfast: Royal Ulster Works, c.1875]. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, decorated in black to the upper board. A generic blank album enlivened by cut and mounted colour lithographs of 24 humming birds and 30 flowers, mostly captioned. Very good.

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Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hogson, for Beilby & Bewick [&] Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797 [but 1798], 1804. Two volumes, imperial 8vo, second edition of "Land Birds" and first edition of "Water Birds". 445 wood engraved illustrations. Uncut in 20th century half roan, buckram sides, an excellent...

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