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![Twoo [Bookes of...] Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane. Francis BACON.](/pictures/thumb/27592.JPG?v=1472137960)
Twoo [Bookes of...] Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane.
London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. First edition. Small 4to. (1), 45, 118 ff., plus leaves 70b, 70c and 70d, bound without the final blank and the succeeding two errata leaves as often. Recent period style full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt device repeated to the panels, a handful... 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
Hindustani Selections with a Vocabulary of the Words. Prepared for the Use of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy.
London: J. Madden & Co.; Edinburgh: C. Smith and J. Braidwood. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (ii), 20, (4), 28, (48) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, original printed title label to the upper board with the handwritten note "Royal and Military Academy" to the lower edge, old pencilled ownership inscription to the... More
Certamen Religiosum: or, A Conference Between the late King of England, and the Late Lo: Marquesse of Worcester, Concerning Religion. Together with a Vindication of the Protestant Cause, from the Pretences of the Marquesse his Last Papers; which the Necessity, of the King's Affaires Denyed Him the Opportunity to Answer...
London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally... More
The Listener, and other stories.
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. More
The Book of Thel.
(Paris & Jura: The Trianon Press, 1965). Limited edition, no. 358 of 380 copies from a total edition of 426, 4to. 8 plates followed by (10) pp of text. Original brown quarter morocco, t.e.g., marbled sides and slipcase, spine sunned with some mild wear to the slipcase ends, otherwise very good. More
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat. From Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.
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... 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
Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Habitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most Remote Antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, Exemplified and Proved by Monuments Now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language.
London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition. Folio. Later black full morocco, bands to spine, gilt lettered to one panel. 37 illustrations comprising a folding map, a full page map, a folding plate, 24 full... 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
Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate Account of the Turks, and Neighbouring Nations, Their Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstition, Policy, Riches, Coins, &c. Translated from the Original Latin of...
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
Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary Society; Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of that Country.
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
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. Eighth thousand, or fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, some occasional spots, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later maroon half morocco, t.e.g., red cloth sides, spine, sunned, with gilt vignettes, a very good copy. Williams... More
Winston S. Churchill. Youth 1874-1900. Young Statesman 1901-1914. 1914-1916. 1917-1922. 1922-1939. Finest Hour 1939-1941. Road to Victory 1941-1945. 'Never Despair' 1945-1965. Companion volume I parts 1 & 2. ...volume II parts 1, 2 & 3. ...volume III parts 1 & 2. ...volume IV parts 1, 2 & 3. ...volume V parts 1, 2 & 3.
London: Heinemann, (1966-88). First edition. Twenty-one volumes. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jackets. Photographic illustrations throughout. The jacket spines of the three Companion volumes to volume IV sunned, some fading to the cloth of the final volume, some occasional very light edge wear and marking, a.... More
The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems.
London: Taylor and Hessey..., and E. Drury, 1821. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxviii, 216; (iii-viii), 211, (1) pp., bound without the half title and 4 pages of the publisher's catalogue in volume II. Late twentieth century quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered to... More
Cruchley's Improved Geographical Companion Throughout England & Wales Including Part of Scotland.
London: G.F. Cruchley, 1830. Map dimensions 96.5 65 cm, overall dimensions 99 x 67.54 cm. Large folding map of England and Wales, with original outline colour marking out the county boundaries. Very detailed tables to the left, lower and right edges listing towns and cities with their individual county names... More
The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are Accurately Represented in their Natural Colours. To which are Added their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, According to the Celebrated Linnæus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: Together with the Most Approved Methods of Culture. A Work Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they Cultivate.
London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, for W. Curtis; [last volume] for T. Curtis, 1793-1801. Volumes I-XV bound in four. 8vo. Later tan quarter sheep over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels. 586 (of 588) finely engraved plates, all but one with excellent contemporary handcolouring plus... More
On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1861. Third edition, seventh thousand. 8vo. xx, 538 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt to the spine and blindstamped to the boards. Folding table. Neatly recased, subtle repairs to the joints and spine ends, some wear to the endpapers, else a decent copy. Freeman, 381. First published 1859... More
The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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. More
Caledonia: A Poem in Honour of Scotland, And the People of that Nation...
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)
De Elocutione. [Title repeated in Greek].
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
The Newtonian System of the World, the Best Model of Government: An Allegorical Poem. With a plain and intelligible Account of the System of the World, by Way of Annotations... To which is added, Cambria's Complaint Against the Intercalary Day in the Leap-Year.
Westminster: Printed by A. Campbell for J. Roberts, 1728. First edition, small 4to, (iv), 46 pp, lacking the 2 leaf dedication at the beginning and the final leaf (advertisement and errata), but with the text of the poem complete. 3 folding plates, one with an old repair, some light foxing... More
A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Illustrated by I.M. Gaugengigl and T.V. Chominski.
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. First edition thus. 4to. (ii), 121, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped white cloth backed green boards, gilt lettered to the spine and upper cover, slightly later ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece tipped in, second title and 23 black and white plates. Occasional... More
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
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