London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to..... More
(New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974). First edition, 4to, (106) pp. 51 full page black and white illustrations, contemporary signature and an old inked price to the fly leaf. Cloth, with mild spotting, d.w. with light soiling and slight loss to the spine ends. 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: Ward, Lock and Tyler, [c.1869]. 197th thousand. 8vo. xli, (ii), 1139, (1) pp., bound without the advertisements. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine and the gilt lettered maroon label, marbled endpapers, the front pastedown featuring an attractive gilt lettered label presenting the..... More
Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, 1615], 1608. Two works bound in one, 8vo, (iv), 241, 248-249, 256-350, 352-435 (i.e. 434), (2), 441-554, (80) leaves. Bible lacking 16 leaves - general title, ff 242-247, 250-255, 351, the New Testament title and one other preliminary NT leaf. Concordance lacking A2..... More
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
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
Amsterdamo: [Elzevir], 1665. First Amsterdam edition, later issue, 12mo, (xxiv), 744 pp. Title page printed in red and black, some light marks to first and last few leaves. Attractively bound in 20th century speckled calf, very slight sunning, red spine label, a.e.g., a handsome copy. A finely printed pocket edition..... More
[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1577. 8vo, (xvi), 72, 134 pp. Printer's woodcut device to the title page, some light foxing, title browned with some small ink marks. Contemporary dappled calf with a central decorative blind stamped panel, a little worn, outer edge of lower cover darkened, recently rebacked with a...... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. Twenty first thousand. 8vo. (x), 192, (2) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, central circular gilt medallions featuring Alice and the Cheshire Cat to the upper and lower boards respectively, all edges gilt, contemporary gift inscription to the half title, what looks..... More
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: Heinemann, 1966-88. First edition. Twenty-one volumes. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jackets, volume I signed by Randolph S. Churchill to the half title. Photographic illustrations throughout. A little edge wear to the first few jackets, fading to the spine of volume VII, the lettering to..... More
Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine..... More
Edinburgh: Archd. Constable & Co. and London: T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804. Second edition. 4to. (vi), xvi, (5)-287 pp. Recent dark blue half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt ruled compartments, lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, all edges untrimmed. 52 folding plates of..... More
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-28. Medallion edition, twenty-two volumes, 8vo. Each volume with a frontispiece, many photographic, some light foxing to early leaves in most volumes, a handful of upper hinges with minor cracking. Original gilt titled blue cloth, mild rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a good bright set..... More
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
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891. Third edition, 8vo, (xiv), 648 pp. 2 folding maps and 5 folding plates, including a hand coloured geological section, light staining to the top edge of the plates at the end as folded, hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled green cloth, mild..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. First separate edition, large 8vo, (v-vi, iv), (229)-306, 420 pp, with the preface leaf bound in before the title. Engravings in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, s small closed tear with very slight loss to the top edge of the rear free endpaper. Original..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition, early issue. One volume bound in two. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 624 pp, bound without the half title. Contemporary black half morocco over marbled boards, spines with double gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered to one one panel. Frontispiece, engraved title and 38 plates The plates..... More
London: Jonathan Cape & the Medici Society, (1924). Two volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 623, (1); xiv, 690 pp. 9 plates, illustrations in the text and a large coloured folding map in a pocket at the end of volume I. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter from the author, on his headed..... More
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1953. Limited edition, no. 87 of 500 copies. xviii, 92, (2) pp. 8vo. Publisher's black buckram, gilt lettered red spine label, the publisher's initials in gilt to both boards, top edge red, dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and three illustrations to the head of the chapters..... More
London: Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1723. Third edition. Small folio. (xxiv), xx, xxv-xxxviii, 115, (1); (vi), 74 pp. Contemporary blindstamped calf boards, rebacked to style with a gilt lettered dark green label, early annotations to..... More
Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff and Brussels: Édicions de la Connaissance [later] La Conaissance, 1967-76. First edition thus. Fourteen volumes bound in sixteen plus the "Supplements" part. 4to. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and upper boards, dust jackets, "Supplements" in plain white printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Profusely illustrated..... More