London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., [c.1930]. Single sheet (17.5 x 25 cm) comprising a grid with a list of cocktails to the left column and a corresponding list of 30 ingredients, the method of mixing (shaken or stirred) and the type of glass to be used (cocktail, champagne, wine or tumbler)..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 62, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Jacket spine slightly faded with a little wear at the head, generally very good. More
London: John Murray, Andre Deutsch, 1958. Third impression. 8vo. 139, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. A handful of black and white illustrations. A few small tears to the edges of the jacket with old repairs on the verso, one small chip..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, 8vo. 223, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Very good. More
London: John Murray, 1882. Sixth edition, twenty-fourth thousand. 8vo. (iii)-xxi, (1), 458, bound without the half title. Contemporary prize binding from University College School, dark red full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and their prize label to the..... More
London: Robert Riviere & Son, [c.1925]. Three volumes. Small 8vo. Contemporary blue half calf over matching cloth sides, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, early gift inscription to the title page of the Comedies and repeated to..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1936). Second impression, 8vo, 383, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, coloured map endpapers, contemporary note to the half title recording the initial Carnegie Medal being awarded to this title, and underneath signed by the author. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a little browned and soiled with..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879. Tenth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary signature to half titles. Original cloth, paper spine labels slightly browned and rubbed otherwise a very good set. More
London: Dawsons, 1966. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1673, 4to, (ii), (xiv), 162 pp. Original cream cloth, faint mark to the head of the spine otherwise fine. A landmark work in science, this book contains the first mathematical analysis of a pendulum as well as examining motion along..... More
London: (Mitchell and Hughes, printers), 1887. Limited edition, one of 105 copies, large 8vo, viii, 146 pp. Original gilt titled cloth, spine ends bumped otherwise very good. More
London: Constable & Co., [1916]. First edition, square 8vo, viii, 178, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Slightly later black half morocco, marbled sides, very mild rubbing to extremities otherwise a handsome copy. More
Privately Printed, 1929. Limited edition, no. 194 of 1,000 copies, large 8vo, 97, (1) pp. Original linen boards, plain d.w. with the limitation number stamped to the upper wrapper, some mild marks and a few small tears. More
Jacksonville, Florida: San Marco Bookstore, (1987). 8vo, xii, (2), 98, (7 index, 1) pp, in the original cloth, pictorial d.w., slight sunning of spine otherwise fine. First published 1936. More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1903. First edition, xviii, 404 pp. Two coloured folding maps, of South Africa and the Transvaal, one leaf (pp. 89/90) with a closed tear to the outer margin as a result of careless opening. Original gilt titled blue cloth, very good. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1957). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 160 pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w. browned with some loss to the spine and corners. More
London: New Handworkers' Gallery, [1929]. Limited edition, no. 38 of 60 signed copies, 8vo, (iv), 43-56, (2) pp, including wrappers. Title device plus 2 wood engravings by Beedham after designs by Gill. Later card covers with a hand written label to the upper cover, owner's small label to the inside..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. No. 917 of 1,250 copies. Small 8vo. xii, (ii), 104, (2) pp. Publisher's limp parchment, gilt lettered to the spine and blind ruled to the covers, the circular armourial bookplate of a Stanley William Sykes to the front pastedown. A few light marks to the binding..... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1908. First edition. Small 8vo. (iv), 75, (3) pp. Publisher's quarter vellum over green cloth boards, gilt rules to the sides, top edge gilt, neat early gift inscription to the front free endaper. Frontispiece. Very good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Small 8vo. xxviii, 199, (1) pp. Contemporary half vellum over blue cloth sides, spine with twin gilt lettered green labels and gilt tooling, top edge gilt, later inscriptions to the front free endpapers. Very good. More
Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1903. Second edition. Small 8vo. (viii), 146, (2) pp. Publisher's parchment, black lettered to the spine and upper board, near contemporary manuscript annotation to the "Notes" at the back of the book. Very good. First published in 1895, this edition with the additional papers written subsequently..... More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [c.1920]. Small 8vo. (iv), 287, (1) pp. Contemporary green quarter vellum, spine with gilt lettered black label and gilt tooling, top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Very good. More
London: Rivingtons, 1904. Sole edition. 8vo. (ii), xviii, 127, (1) pp. Contemporary quarter vellum, gilt lettered to the spine with the cross motif repeated three times., inscribed by the author on the recto of the first page "Edward Tapsfield with love from his godfather... Dec. 9. 1916". Very good... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1912. 8vo. xx, (ii), 277, (1) pp. Contemporary quarter vellum over red cloth sides, spine with a gilt lettered red label and Art Deco gilt tooling, top edge gilt. Very good. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. 8vo. (viii), 193, (3) pp. Contemporary quarter vellum over red cloth sides, spine with a gilt lettered red label and Art Deco gilt tooling, top edge gilt. Very good. More
