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 about The Chinese Drama, from the earliest times until to-day. A Panoramic Study of the Art in China,...

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. 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 about Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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 about Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839

(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 about The Book of Thel

Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. First edition. 8vo. (xxiv), 382 pp. Recent speckled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered dark red label. Engraved folding map (Rothschild's second state, bound before A1 and without the distance scale and marking of degrees to the margins) plus a title vignette. Map... More about An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

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 about The Land of Midian (Revisited

London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but 1871]. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (xii), 224 pp. Recent red full morocco , spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, gilt rules to the sides and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Black and white illustrations. Slight soiling to the first... More about Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found there. With... Illustrations by John Tenniel

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 about London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

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 about The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

London: C. Rivington, 1735. First edition. 8vo. viii, 349, (3) pp. Recent full speckled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, gilt lettering to other panels, all edges gilt. Folding map frontispiece. The map title to the upper margin partially cropped, the lower margin shaved to the neatline... More about A Journey Over Land from the Gulf of Honduras to the South-Sea

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 about Sketches Chiefly Relating to the History, Religion, Learning, and Manners, of the Hindoos. With a...

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 about Caledonia: A Poem in Honour of Scotland, And the People of that Nation