![History of Europe, from the commencement of the French Revolution in [1789] to the restoration of the Bourbons in [1815]. Archibald ALISON.](/pictures/thumb/28918.JPG?v=1490098613)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847-48. Twenty volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in volume I, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, slightly sunned, some occasional rubbing, several corners with light wear otherwise a very good set. More
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. More
London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth... More
London: J.M. Dent, 1897-8. Sixth edition thus, 10 volumes, small 8vo. 31 plates, some light browning, mostly to endpapers. Original light green gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt, gilt spines slightly darkened, minor rubbing to several spine tops. More
London: Sold by C. Hitch..., W. Johnston... & by W.H. Toms, [1742]. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style with raised bands, gilt rules to the compartments, elaborate ownership inscription by a Samuel Thomas of St. James's, Bristol to one of the versos of the title page dated 1767. Engraved... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. First edition. 8vo. xx, 668, (2) pp. Contemporary calf boards, sometime rebacked, gilt lettered green label, gilt decoration to the rest of spine, endpapers and all edges marbled. Five folding plates. The boards worn, else a very good copy. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition, 4to, 357, (1) pp. 64 plates, some foxing, with a letter to a previous owner and several relevant press cuttings tipped in, other material loosely inserted. Original gilt titled dark blue buckram, some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. A scholarly and very scarce... More
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
London: Printed by J. Davis, 1793. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 241, (1) pp, 6 folding plates - five of Athens and one of Palermo, some subtle repairs otherwise a very good clean copy recently bound in quarter roan, marbled sides, black morocco spine label. Setting out from Palermo, Bisani travelled... More
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, (1995). Limited edition, one of 204 copies from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations, small booklabel to the top of the paste down. Quarter vellum, marbled endpapers, folding cloth case, a fine copy. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856. First edition, 8vo, xl, (ii), 648, 24 advertisement pp. 4 fine coloured lithographs and 2 maps, the plates with some mostly marginal soiling, original endpapers with advertisements bound in. Modern red half morocco, black spine label. A famous account of Burton's journey to... More
London: Printed for J. Robinson and W. Payne, 1744. Second English edition. 12mo. (iv), 290 pp. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, renewed gilt lettered label to style, gilt tooling to other panels, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Expert repairs to head, tail and joints, a very good copy... More
London: Printed... by Rouland Hall for Humfrey Toye dwelling in Paules Churche yearde at the signe of the Helmette, 1562. First English edition. Small 4to. (10), 32, 32-68, 99-100, 1-42, [3] ff. Six leaves (D3-E4) with slight loss to the lower corners just clipping the text, now sensitively repaired and... More
London: Printed for the Society, Published and Sold by Francis Westley... and Sold by Black and Co.... [et al]. 1822. First edition. Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. viii, xii, 322; (iv), 384 pp. Fine recent red full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered blue and green labels... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1874. 8vo. (viii), 192 pp. Attractive near contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards by E.P. Dutton & Co., spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and with gilt flower devices inlaid with red to the other... More
Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen and François Halma; Utrecht: Wilhelm vande Water, 1700. Two volumes. Second edition. Folio. (28), 666, (10) [pp. 183-184 repeated and page numbers 343-348 omitted as usual, the text and signatures continual]; (18), 390, (6), 393-608, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary mottled full calf, spine with raised... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. Forty-nine volumes bound in four, each individually paginated. Small folio. Quarter maroon morocco over matching boards, gilt lettered to the spine, ex-libris Victoria Institute, Worcester Public Library, with their shelf marks in gilt to the feet of the spines, bookplates to the front pastedowns... More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903. Second impression, 8vo, xii, 336, (4 advertisement) pp. Four maps (1 folding), some occasional light foxing. Original black cloth, silver vignette to upper cover, rebacked retaining the original, slightly dull, backstrip. 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. Winston S. CHURCHILL.](/pictures/thumb/32061.JPG?v=1534862987)
London: Cassell and Company, 1943-48. Mixed editions. Eight 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
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790. Revised edition, 8vo, (viii), 422, (1 errata, 1) pp. One folding plate, armorial bookplate of Andrew Berkeley Drummond. Contemporary speckled calf, corners bumped, neatly rebacked retaining the original morocco label. A member of the East India Company, Craufurd was appointed to Madras in 1761... More
(Harmondsworth): Penguin Books, (1963). 8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis "...Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g. More
La Haye [The Hague]: Imprimé pour l'Auteur... et se vend... Chez Adrien Moetjens, 1734. First edition. Folio. (viii), 256, (8) pp. Contemporary tree sheep, spine flat with gilt tooled bands, gilt lettered to one panel, the 19th century armorial bookplate of the Pauncefoot Duncombe baronets to the front pastedown. Frontispiece... More
London: Printed for W. Owen... and sold at the Pamphlet Shops at the Royal Exchange,... 1748. Third edition. 8vo. (vi), 9-58 pp. Later printed marbled wrappers. Very good. Cf. Moore, 129, with slightly different pagination, though this copy matches those listed on ESTC. First published in 1706 in Edinburgh in... More
![De Elocutione. [Title repeated in Greek]. DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS.](/pictures/thumb/29228.JPG?v=1493913550)
Florentiæ [Florence]: Apud Iuntas [Giunta], 1552. First separate edition. 8vo. (12), 96, (2) pp, bound without the final blank as often. Later, probably 18th century full calf, spine with raised bands, blindstamped decoration to the boards, the early ownership inscription of a Danto Maria di Franco del Besso to the... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. Small 8vo. (8), 166, (2) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered and decorated to the spine and upper board, yellow endpapers, recent red quarter morocco clamshell box. Four colour plates including the frontispiece plus three illustrations in the text. Wear to the spine... More