Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923. First edition thus, five volumes, one of 1,000 large paper sets, 8vo. Coloured frontispiece to each novel - that to "Mansfield Park" with an overlaid section showing an earlier view, plus 35 plates and 2 maps plus facsimile titles and pages from other works... More about The Novels of... Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield Park. Emma. Northanger...

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... More about Sense and Sensibility. A Novel

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 535, (1) pp. 3 folding maps, chromolithographed frontispiece and 8 plates plus 26 illustrations in the text, some occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers. 20th century half calf, t.e.g., some very mild soiling otherwise a very good copy. More about Explorations in South-west Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from...

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 about Hindustani Selections with a Vocabulary of the Words. Prepared for the Use of the Scottish Naval...

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 about History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on wood by... The History and Description of Land...

London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton [et al], 1746. Sixth edition, 8vo, (xxxii), 360 pp. 7 folding plates, armorial bookplate of Sir John Hynde Cotton to title verso with a descendant's bookplate to the rear paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, some light wear, recently rebacked retaining the original spine... More about A Treatise of Military Discipline

London: Printed for proprietors Bowles & Carver, 1810. Map dimensions 130 x 101.5 cm, overall 132.5 x 103.5 cm. Large folding map with original colour in block and outline demarcating the counties, ornate title cartouche to the upper right corner with an explanatory key adjacent, inset map of the Isles... More about Bowles's New Four-Sheet Map of England and Wales: Comprehending all the Cities, Boroughs, Market...

London: Grant Richard Ltd., 1916. Sole edition. 4to. (8) pp. Publisher's white cloth backed paper boards illustrated to the upper cover, black lettering to the spine, inscribed by Cadell to G.W. Service for Christmas 1923 on the front free endpaper. 20 colour plates tipped in. Some marking and wear to... More about Jack and Tommy. Twenty Drawings by

Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding... More about Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuouamente Ristampato

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, (1929). Second impression, 8vo, 474 pp. Signed on the fly leaf by Churchill, dated 1929, booklabel removed from the paste down. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, some mild rubbing. More about The World Crisis. The Aftermath

London: James S. Virtue, 1861. Two volumes. 4to. (iv), 148; (ii), 146 pp. Near contemporary dark green half morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered to two compartments, richly gilt to other panels, gilt rules to sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Two title vignettes, 6 portraits... More about Piedmont and Italy, from the Alps to the Tiber. Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot

London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, tenth thousand. 8vo. (xvi), 519, (1) pp. Contemporary prize binding from Rugby School, dark green full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, the college crest in gilt to the upper board, endpapers and all edges marbled. Vignettes in the text. A.... More about Journal of Researches, into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the...

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First "cheap" edition. 8vo. xii, 294, (1) pp. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, gilt to the spine, blindstamped to the boards. Frontispiece by George Cruickshank. Fading to the spine, a few minor blemishes, an attractive copy. The first one volume edition appeared in 1846. This edition... More about The Adventures of Oliver Twist