London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Second edition. Two volumes. 8vo., xii, (ii), 466; (iii-vi), 398) pp., bound without the half title in volume II (not called for in volume I). Contemporary black half calf over deep purple boards, spines with gilt ruled bands, gilt lettered direct to two..... More
Seven works in one volume, 8vo. Upper wrapper of Blacow's Defence bound in, "The Queen that Jack Found" with 13 woodcuts - 12 by George Cruikshank - and bound without the advertisements, Osmer's Dissertation lacking one leaf (pp 43/4). Some light foxing and soiling, old manuscript contents list to front..... More
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Harting, Petersfield: Printed and published at the Pear Tree Press, 1905[-1912]. Two volumes. 4to. (iv), 82 pp. Collection: original boards, printed to the upper cover, recent cloth spine to style with black lettering. Individual issue: limited edition, no. 29 of 100 copies. (vi), 10 pp. Original wrappers, printed to the..... More
(London): Hurtwood Press, (1983). Limited edition, no. 29 of 300 copies signed by Piper, folio, 48 pp. 52 illustrations, mostly in colour, with a pictorial index at the end, signature of the architect Geoffrey Collens to the fly leaf. Original patterned cloth, top and outer edge of the upper cover..... More
Paris: Librarie Gallimard, [1928-31] & [1960s]. Fifteen volumes, 8vo. Original wrappers bound in, owner's inscriptions dating from the late 1920s and early 1930s and also from the 1960s, when this set was rebound in plain blue cloth, t.e.g., morocco spine labels. "Du Coté de Chez Swann", "Le Côté de Guermantes"..... More
London: Scolastic Children's Books, 2005. Three volumes, limited edition, each one of 1,000 copies signed by the author. 8vo. Publisher's cloth of differing colours, silver lettered to the spines, dust jackets, slipcases with matching designs, all three with the original shrink wrap albeit the first two volumes opened at the..... More
Guildford and London: Lutterworth Press, 1983. First edition. Large 8vo. 142, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to spine, dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper ""Happy Birthday" / Dearest Max / August 1984 / and love from Peggy [Angus]" set within and without the outline of a...... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1934]. Limited edition, no. 16 of 250 copies signed by Robinson, 4to, 95, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, later bookplate to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue half morocco, spine slightly sunned with minor wear to the foot, some foxing and sunning to the cloth..... More
London: A.W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to, (viii), xxxiii, (i), 740 pp. 25 plates, 8 hand coloured, plus 5 maps and charts and a large folding map hand coloured in outline, final leaf torn across and repaired without loss. Recent half blue morocco, spine sunned, gilt title from the original..... More
London: R. Ackermann, [1813], 1820. Two volumes, fifth and first editions respectively, 8vo. Coloured aquatint title in volume I plus 30 and 24 coloured aquatint plates respectively. Both volumes trimmed with resulting loss of the imprint to many of the plates, and the attribution of the verse to the foot..... More
London: Printed for W. Johnston [et al], 1760. Seventh edition. 8vo. 640, (16) pp. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, else plain, section of the plain front endpaper excised. Plate of an armillary sphere plus 22 folding maps after Jefferys including a double hemisphere world. Some light wear to..... More
London: Faber & Faber, (1931). Limited edition, no. 243 of 320 copies signed by both Sassoon and Freedman, 8vo, 310, (2) pp. 15 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in the text, pictorial endpapers, later bookplate to fly leaf verso. Original pictorial parchment, t.e.g., small chip to the top..... More
(New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939). No. 295 of 1,950 copies, 4to, (vi), 74, (2) pp. 6 plates, prospectus loosely inserted. Original cloth backed patterned boards, t.e.g., spine browned, very good. More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, R. Baldwin [et al], 1803. Ten volumes. 8vo. 19th century quarter maroon morocco over cream linen boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and richly decorated to the others, endpaper and all edges marbled. Frontispiece portrait to volume I. Foxing to..... More
London: George Routledge, 1858-67. Three volumes, large 8vo. Numerous engravings in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, later bookplate to paste downs. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, some very mild rubbing otherwise a handsome set. More
London: J. Nourse, 1748. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 77, (1) pp. Original course plain paper wrappers. Trigonemetrical diagrams in the text throughout. Wear with two small losses to the spine, though the covers remain sound, very good overall. Thomas Simpson (1710–1761) was a self taught mathematician or "philomath" as they..... More
London: C. Smith, June 4th, 1812. Dimensions 39 x 110.5 cm. Large copper engraved map of the theatre of the war in northern Europe, covering the extents from the North Sea across the Baltic region to Nizhny Novgorod in the east. Printed over four irregularly sized conjoined sheets folded twice..... More
London: Printed by R. Taylor and Co... And sold by the Author... and by White, Fleet-Street, Symonds, Paternoster-row... [then] Printed by Arding and Merrett... and sold by the Author... [and] Sherwood and Co., Paternoster Row; and by all other Book, 1804-17. First edition. Five volumes. Large 8vo. Recent brown half..... More
(London): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. First edition in English, limited edition, no. 283 of 350 copies, small folio, 218, (2) pp. Frontispiece and wood engraved chapter headings plus a folding map, four page prospectus loosely inserted. Original green buckram, gilt vignette to upper cover, brown morocco label, mild rubbing..... More
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London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. [and] George Routledge & Sons, [c.1880]. Seven volumes. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary red half crushed morocco over matching cloth boards by Bickers & Son, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and with the gilt devices of horseshoes, bridles and hunting..... More
(London): Royal Academy of Arts, (2008). First edition. 4to. 160 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, red lettered to spine, dust jacket, with a presentation inscription from the artist to his friend Craigie Aitchison incorporated within an original black pen illustration to the half title, reading "For Craigie, with love from..... More
Paris: Chez Courcier [et] Dentu, 1803. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. Two folding plates in volume I, two folding maps in volume II, marbled endpapers and sides, later bookplate of the collector Stuart W. Jackson. Contemporary green half calf, gilt banded spines slightly sunned, some mild rubbing, head of the..... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 458, (4), 16 advertisement pp. Light foxing at the beginning and end, a couple of early pencilled inscriptions to fly leaf. Original gilt and black titled green cloth, rubbed, spine darkened. Kirkpatrick A1a. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 204, (4) pp. Recent green half morocco over olive buckram sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two compartments, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 66 plates, including two photogravure portraits of the authors, plus 3 folding maps. Very good..... More
New York: Horizon Press, (1957). First edition, 4to, 256 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Jokingly inscribed on the fly leaf from the author to the journalist Leticia Kent, who studied with him, "For Tish, who'd rather be Wright than President. Frank" and dated Christmas 1957. Cloth, d.w., not price..... More