The Postal History of Trinidad & Tobago.
Heathfield: Proud-Bailey Co., (1997). First edition, 8vo, 520 pp. Numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. More
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Tim All Alone.
Oxford University Press, (1956). First edition, large 8vo, (48) pp. Illustrations throughout in both colour and black and white, neat signature to fly leaf. Original pictorial boards, several scratches to the upper cover. More
The Folklore of Birds. An Enquiry into the Origin & Distribution of Some Magico-Religious Traditions.
London: Collins, 1958. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 272 pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, dust jacket, not price clipped. Colour frontispiece and 32 photographic plates. The white areas of the jacket fairly evenly tanned, small chip to the head..... More
Yachting.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. 56 plates, including 7 coloured plates of flags, numerous black and white illustrations in the text, owner's ink stamp to the paste downs, both volumes unopened. Original decorative brown cloth, lower covers a little marked with gilt initials to..... More
![Item #40499 The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. [with] Night...](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/40499.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649162114)
The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. [with] Night Thoughts. The Poem by Edward Young. Illustrated with Watercolours by William Blake. Commentary by Robin Hamblin.
London: The Folio Society, 2005. Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title..... More
Poems. 1930-1940.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1940. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 263, (1) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine browned. More
Map of China Prepared for the Inland Mission 1905.
London: Stanford's Geographical Establishment, 1905. Map dimensions 91 x 106 cm, overall 94 x 115 cm. Large folding colour map of China, including Korea, inset key describing the "Significations of of Walled Cities in China Proper" to the lower right corner - listing capitals, prefectures etc. and their symbols on..... More
The Anatomy of Dessert.
London: Dulau & Company, 1929. Limited edition, no. 137 of 1,000 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, (viii), 133, (3) pp. Wood engraved frontispiece by John Nash, light stain to the top edge of the fly leaf. Original green buckram, t.e.g., d.w. reproducing the frontispiece with some rubbing and light..... More
The Letters of Edward Burra. Edited by William Chappell.
London: Gordon Fraser, 1985. First edition. Large 8vo. 224 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Some tanning and fading to the jacket, else a decent copy. More
Full Point. A Typographer Remembers.
Esher: Penmiel Press, 1976. Limited edition, no. 23 of 125 copies, being one of the first 25 copies reserved for the author, signed by him and with his presentation inscription on the first preliminary leaf plus a typed letter signed from him on headed paper loosely inserted. 8vo. xii, 33..... More
Essential Elements.
(London): Thames & Hudson, (2016). First UK edition, oblong 4to, 202 pp. Colour photographic illustrations throughout, including 7 extending. Cloth, slight wear to the outer edge of the lower cover, d.w. with corresponding wear also, otherwise very good. More
Oil. Essays - Michael Mitchell, William E. Rees, Paul Roth.
(Göttingen): Steidl, (2009). First edition, oblong folio, 215, (1) pp. Coloured photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
A History of Soviet Russia. The Interregnum. 1923-1924. Socialism in One Country. 1924-1926.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1954-64. Five volumes - volume III of "Socialism in One Country" in two volumes, all first editions, 8vo. Owner's dated initials to fly leaves. Gilt titled blue cloth, one spine slightly sunned. More
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, ...also his Life written by himself, in which is included a continuation of his History of the Grand Rebellion.
Oxford: At the University Press, 1843. Large 8vo, (iv), 1364 pp. Marbled endpapers, later inscription to fly leaf verso, Harrow School prize label to the paste down. Contemporary diced calf, a.e.g., gilt spine and borders, spine slightly sunned, light rubbing to joints. More
Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick. Wherein is shewed the Nature and Use of Decimal Fractions in the usual Rules of Arithmetick, and the Mensuration of Plains and Solids. Together with Tables of Interest and Rebate for the Valuation of Leases and Annuities... Whereunto is added, His Artifical Arithmetick, shewing the Genesis or Fabrick of the Logarithms... also His Algebraical Arithmetick, containing the Doctrine of Composing and Resolving an Equation... Perused, Corrected and Published, by John Hawkins...
London: Printed for Richard Wellington, 1713. Fourth edition, 8vo, xvi, 192, 177-436 pp, with some mispagination. Title page with loss and chipping to edges, not affecting text or borders, and with some careful repairs to the verso, leaves browned and somewhat cockled throughout, final leaf with an old repair. Neatly..... More
An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, Principally Designed for the Use of Emigrants.
London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 31 Poultry. 1824. 8vo. x, [ii], 207, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, recased and rebacked preserving original spine, original paper label, plain endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at head and foot of spine, paper browned throughout but more pronounced at front and rear..... More
South with Scott.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1921). First edition, 8vo, xiv, 283, (1, 6 advertisement) pp. Portrait frontispiece, bound in after the title page, 3 maps - 2 folding and one double page, and a folding diagram, one gathering in the preliminaries unopened, a small stain to the top margin..... More
![Item #25873 [Psychrolousia], or the History of Cold Bathing, Both Ancient and Modern. In Two...](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25873.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446579302)
[Psychrolousia], or the History of Cold Bathing, Both Ancient and Modern. In Two Parts... the Genuine Use of Hot and Cold Baths. Together with the Wonderful Effects of the Bath-Water, drank hot from the Pump, in decay'd Stomachs, and in most Diseases of the Bowels, Liver, and Spleen &c...
London: William Innys, 1715. Fourth edition, 8vo, (xxii), 484 pp. Mild damp staining to the front and rear blanks only, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with recent subtle repairs to joints and ends, red label, a very good copy. "...one of the most original physicians..... More
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire with an Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
London: (Published in the Everyman's Library) by David Campbell Publishing Ltd., 1993-94. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets, volumes IV-VI held in an original printed card slipcase. A few minor marks, very good overall. More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-88. Six volumes, volume I second edition, volumes II-VI first edition. 4to. Recent panelled calf, spines with raised bands, the old twin spine labels preserved (a few with repair and renewed gilt) with gilt decoration to the other panels, the 19th century..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edited and with an Introduction by Betty Radice (Felipe Fernández-Armesto).
London: The Folio Society, 1983-90. Eight volumes. Large 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt to the spines and boards, plain individual slipcases. Numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Repairs to the slipcase of volume I, minor wear to a few others, otherwise a very good set. More
![Item #31741 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [with] The Miscellaneous...](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31741.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1530882731)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [with] The Miscellaneous Works of... with Memoirs of his Life and Writings... with occasional notes and narrative by... John, Lord Sheffield.
London: [I] Lackington, Allen and Co. [et al]; [II] Printed for John Murray, 1815, 1814. Seventeen volumes, 8vo, "Decline and Fall..." 12 volumes with a portrait frontispiece and 2 folding maps, "Miscellaneous Works" second edition, 5 volumes with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates and a folding genealogy. Some occasional light..... More
A New View of London; or an Ample Account of that City,...
London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. (xxxii), 352; (ii), 353-824 pp. Nineteenth century black half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, gilt decorated to the others..... More
![Item #42541 Familiar Wild Flowers. Figured and Described by... First [to] Seventh Series [only of...](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42541.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669986865)
Familiar Wild Flowers. Figured and Described by... First [to] Seventh Series [only of eight].
London: Cassell and Company, [c.1900]. Seven volumes. 8vo. Contemporary plain olive cloth, gilt lettered maroon spine labels. 280 colour plates. Some light rubbing, very good overall. More
Favorite Haunts and Rural Studies; Including Visits to Spots of Interest in the vicinity of Windsor and Eton.
London: John Murray, 1847. First edition, 8vo, (ii), vi, 365, (1) pp. 18 plates and 3 engravings in the text. Contemporary dark green half morocco, spine ends slightly rubbed. More