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: Addey and Co., 1857. First edition. Folio. 83, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth boards, gilt lettered and decorated to the upper cover, recently respined with matching corners in brown morocco in keeping with the original binding. 12 plates. Some wear and discolouration to the boards, occasional finger marking to..... More
London: H. Ingram & Co., [c.1857]. Map dimensions 51.5 x 76.5 cm. Attractive folding map of London and the surrounding area showing the extents from Hatfield down to Coulsdon and Hornchurch across to Maidenhead, original wash colour marking out the county boundaries, the map peppered with decorative vignette views of..... More
London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 358, (2) pp. Publisher's dark red cloth with gilt and black lettering and decoration to the spine and upper cover, contemporary prize bookplate from "The Captain" boys magazine. Frontispiece and 15 plates by Sidney Paget. Some marking an discolouration to the cloth..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. First edition, 8vo, 351, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original light blue cloth, spine and edges with light browning. More
London: Printed for and sold by the Booksellers, 1753. First edition. 12mo. xxviii, 140 pp. Contemporary full sheep, spine with raised bands, renewed gilt lettered red label, old ink ownership stamp of a John Beard to the front free endpaper. Repairs to the spine, some wear to the corners, semicircular..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1957). First edition, first impression, 8vo, 253, (1) pp. Signature to the fly leaf. Publisher's black cloth, with a gun and a rose in silver and red on the upper cover, with a twelfth printing d.w. carrying an advertisement for John Pearson's Life of Fleming to the..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1959). First edition, first issue, 8vo, 318 pp. Full page map, staining from the tape fastening to an old covering to the wrapper to free endpapers. Publisher's cloth, blind stamped skull to the upper cover with gilt coins in the eye sockets, d.w., not price clipped, further..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1961). First edition, 8vo, 253, (1) pp. Cloth with a blind stamped skeletal hand to the upper cover, d.w., spine a little browned with very minor loss to ends. Gilbert A9a (1.1); binding A. 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
Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1933. Limited edition, no. 165 of 235 copies from a total edition of 250 copies, large 8vo, xi, (iii), 108, (2) pp. 8 wood engraved illustrations and a small press device. Recent gilt titled yellow morocco in imitation of the original binding, a handsome copy. Harrop..... More
London: Blackie and Son, [1910]. First edition thus, 4to, xxiv, 369, (3) pp. 36 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues, brief contemporary inscription to half title. Original gilt decorated cream cloth, t.e.g., some light soiling, spine a little browned. More
London: Macdonald, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 676 pp. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt to spine, dust jacket, price clipped, the posthumous booklabel of the writer and historian C.J. Sturman to the front pastedown. Illustrations set into the text throughout. The jacket spine tanned and with small losses at the head, a...... More
London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. (xxxii), 352; (ii), 353-824 pp. Nineteenth century black half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, gilt decorated to the others..... More
(Toronto): Lumiere Press, (2000). Limited edition, no. 84 of 100 copies signed by the Author, 4to, (100) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., held in a folding cloth case with a signed and numbered photograph ("Washington Square, New York City, 1958") in a separate paper folder. Fine. More
London: John Murray, 1853. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 417, (1) pp. Recent dark blue half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered to two panels and decorated to the others. Frontispiece and 3 plates, all tinted lithographs plus a black and white lithographic plate, 5 illustrations in the text, a black..... More
London: [I-III] Hodder and Stoughton, [IV] George Newnes, [I-III] 1930-31, [IV c.1930]. Four volumes, three first edition, "Romeo and Juliet" a later printing, 8vo. Each volume inscribed from the author to his secretary, Doris Farr, dated between September 1930 and January 1931. Cloth, d.w.'s with some mild edge wear, front..... More
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London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., [later volumes] W. Nicol, Sold by J. Hatchard, 1812-30. Seven volumes. 4to. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and blind decorated to the others, volumes I-VI uniformly bound, volume VII in a...... More
[North Tawton, Devon]: The Morrigu Press, 1983. Limited edition, no. 50 of 75 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (4) pp. One illustration plus the press device by Leonard Baskin. Sewn as issued in paper wrappers, fine. The Morrigu Press was founded by Hughes' son Nicholas following the gift of..... More
[North Tawton, Devon]: The Morrigu Press, 1983. Limited edition, no. 62 of 75 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (4) pp. One illustration plus the press device by Leonard Baskin. Loosely held as issued in paper wrappers, fine. The Morrigu Press was founded by Hughes' son Nicholas following the gift..... More
[N.p.]: Intelligence Dept. War Office, June, 1882. Map in four parts each measuring 56 x 83 cm, i.e. c.112 x 166 cm if conjoined, each dissected into eighteen sections and mounted on linen, folds into original Stanford's red cloth slipcase with their printed label to the upper board, marbled paper..... More
London: James Leath, 1850. First edition, 8vo, (ii), xx, 488 pp. Contemporary inscription to paste down. Original patterned black cloth, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Very scarce with OCLC only listing 3 copies - two at the British Library and one in Oxford. More
London: G.W. Bacon & Co., Ltd., [1914]. Map dimensions 48.5 x 69.5 cm, overall 55.5 x 74.5 cm. Folding colour printed comic map of Europe, mounted on linen, folds between publisher's brown cloth boards with a printed title label to the upper cover. The cover label a little soiled, a...... More
