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The Meditations, Soliloquia, and Manual, of the Glorious Doctor... Translated into English [by John Floyd].
London: Printed for Matthew Turner, 1686. 12mo, (xxiv), 432 pp. Mild browning to early leaves, rear free endpaper stained, new front free endpaper. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled calf, spine in compartments with a gilt tool to each, upper hinge and top of spine with subtle repair. Wing A4212A. A work..... More
Oryktographia Norica, sive Rerum Fossilium et ad Minerale Regnum Pertinentium, in Territorio Norimbergensi Ejusque Vicinia Observatarum Succincta Descriptio.
Norimbergae (Nuremberg): Wolfgangi Michahellis, 1708. First edition. Small 4to. (viii), 102 pp. Contemporary full vellum, gilt lettered morocco label, the 19th century armorial bookplate of Cecil Deedes to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 6 folding plates of fossils, all finely engraved by Johann Georg Puschner. Slight wear to the spine..... More
A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German by William Johnston.
London: J. Bell, 1797. Three volumes. First English translation. Contemporary full speckled calf, spines with gilt rules, gilt lettered red title labels and dark green oval number labels, the later armorial bookplate of the Cobbold family of Ipswich to the front pastedowns of volumes II and III, all three volumes..... More
Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839.
London: Edward Moxon, 1841. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 453, (1); x, 488 pp. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, gilt to the spines, blindstamped to the boards, contemporary ownership inscription to the half titles. 2 colour frontispieces, 10 lithographic plates and 1 folding map. Both volumes sympathetically rebacked with almost..... More
History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on wood by... The History and Description of Land Birds. ...Water Birds.
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..... More
[The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues...]. [with] The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew...
(London: Printed by E.T. for a Society of Stationers 1655) & London: Printed by A.M. for the Companie of Stationers 1653. 1655 & 1653. Two works in one volume, 8vo, (734; ii), 78 pp. The Bible lacking its engraved title page, some light browning, 18th and 19th century family inscriptions..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Publick Version; with Explanatory Notes, Practical Observations and Copious Marginal References. By Thomas Scott... A New Edition, with Corrections by the Author.
London: Printed by C. Baldwin... and published by L.B. Seeley...; John Hatchard...; and Robert Baldwin, 1812. Six volumes. 4to. Fine contemporary bindings of full calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered to three panels and decorated to the others, the boards richly decorated with a central diamond shaped blind tooled..... More
La Plante. Cent vingt planches et héliogravure d'après des détails très agrandis de formes végétales. Introduction de Charles Nierendorf.
Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce. More
Bathers and Dancers. The white line and silhouette engravings of... with an Introduction by Christopher Buckland Wright.
(Wakefield): The Fleece Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 180 copies from a total edition of 206 copies, tall 8vo, 25, (73) pp. 47 illustrations, 5 tipped in, small booklabel to the top of the paste down. Quarter vellum, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More
Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a Letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition, third impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, title and subsequent leaf, faint damp stain to the top corner of some early leaves. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, some restoration and a new label to the spine. Stung into..... More
![Arabian Nights]. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation......](/pictures/thumb/33871.JPG?v=1557495465)
[Arabian Nights]. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation... [with] Supplemental Nights... with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory by.
Privately Printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]. Sixteen volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces with captioned tissues. Original gold and silver decorated cloth, t.e.g., mild rubbing to the spines of volumes 8, 9 and 10 otherwise a handsome set. More
The Land of Midian (Revisited).
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution..... More
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. [with] Supplemental Nights.
Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers only, [c.1920]. Luristan edition, no. 303 of 1,000 sets, seventeen volumes, large 8vo. Frontispiece and several plates in each volume. Original grey cloth, t.e.g., spines with paper labels, browned and faded, spines ends a little bumped otherwise a good set. More
Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron: Containing an entire new edition of the Hebrew Melodies, with the addition of several never before published... also some Original Poetry, Letters and Recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb.
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1829. Sole edition, 8vo, (iii)-xxxvi, 196, (12 advertisement) pp, bound without the half title. One illustration and 7 pages of facsimile manuscript, some occasional light foxing. Uncut in modern half calf, marbled sides, a very good copy. Wise II p93... More
Hours of Idleness, A Series of Poems, Original and Translated.
Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (iii)-xiv, 187, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Handsomely bound in brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels and decorated to the others, gilt inner..... More
The Birth of Western Painting. A History of Colour, Form, and Iconography, illustrated from the Paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto and Duccio, and of El Greco.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Limited edition, no. 1 of 365 copies, 4to, xvi, (ii), 236 pp. 94 black and white plates. Original teal cloth, maroon leather spine label, a fine copy. A British edition of 650 copies appeared the year before. More
Opera Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii, et Corn. Galli siue Maximani potius. Cum Indice diligenti vocum singlularum...
Hanoviæ [Hanover]: Typis Wechelianis apud Cl. Marnium... 1608. 8vo, (x), 342, 191, (1) pp. Initial letter to page 91 partly coloured, some browning and foxing, last 2 gatherings with a light stain to the top corner, brief later inscriptions to the paste down. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly bowed, handwritten spine..... More
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 498, (2), 32 pp. Later black full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, gilt rules to the sides, marbled endpapers, small early ownership stamp to the half title, the original..... More
War Speeches. Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. [With] Post-War Speeches. The Sinews of Peace. Europe Unite.
London: Cassell and Company, 1943-50. Mixed editions. Nine volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes of the war speeches in publisher's blue cloth, the post-war volume in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, three volumes with early inscriptions, dust jackets, early Singapore bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper of "Victory"..... More
The World Crisis. 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918 parts I and II; The Aftermath; The Eastern Front. [with] The World Crisis by Winston Churchill. A Criticism.
London: Thornton Butterworth [and] Hutchinson & Co., (1923-31) [and 1928]. First edition, first issue. Seven volumes. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spines, the "Criticism" with dust jacket. Frontispiece plus 48 maps, diagrams and tables and 10 plates plus 3 folding sketch maps, another 2 full page and..... More
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention. By a Magistrate...
London: Printed by H. Fry for C. Dilly, 1796. Third edition. 8vo. xviii, (6), 440, xxviii pp. Nineteenth century full tan calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label, engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden to the front pastedown. Joints neatly repaired, spine darkened, else very good. The..... More
California.
New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1856. Map dimensions 36 x 26.5 cm, overall 43 x 34.5 cm. Folding map with original colour marking out the county boundaries, large inset plan of San Francisco to the upper right corner, original blind stamped red cloth boards, gilt lettered to the upper..... More
(The Prayer Book of Edward VII) The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David...
New York: M. Walter Dunne, (1904). 4to, (xiv), 386, (2) pp. Printed in red and black throughout, illustrations to the preliminaries and with decorative initial letters. Bound in at the front is a hand painted japon leaf reading "In witness that this copy of the Westminster Edition of The Prayer..... More
Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science, and Comparative Views of the Structure of Foreign Countries. Part I [All published].
London: William Phillips, 1822. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), lxi, (3), 58, (2), 59-470, (2) pp. Recent dark green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label, early ownership inscription of a W. Parry to the head of the title page. Geological frontispiece map of England and Wales plus a long hand..... More