The Army List, for February, 1857. Rank, Honours and Rewards.
War Office, By Authority. Small 8vo, 217, (1), 6 advertisement pp, upper wrapper chipped with slight loss, sympathetically rebacked with a new lower wrapper. More
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Book of Toasts. From all sources. For all occasions.
London: Leopold B. Hill, [1916]. 24mo, 75, (5) pp. Original patterned paper endpapers and covers, a fine copy still held in the publisher's original paper envelope, this with some chipping and loss. Scarce. More
Life of Lord Kitchener.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portraits and 7 maps plus a facsimile letter, endpapers foxed. Original gilt titled blue cloth, some light marking to covers, one small scuff to the top of the upper cover of volume III. More
The Arundel Choirbook. London, Lambeth Palace Library MS I. A Facsimile and Introduction. Introduction by David Skinner.
[London]: The Roxburghe Club, 2003. Folio, (x), 26, (196) pp, including 190 pages of facsimile in colour plus further illustrations in the introduction. Original quarter morocco, a fine copy. There is no limitation, although only 41 members of the Club are listed and Roxburghe Club publications are never produced in..... More
Cricket Highways and Byways.
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1927). First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. 8 plates, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original cloth, slight rubbing to the gilt on the spine ends, otherwise very good. More
Edward Mills Grace, Cricketer.
London: Chatto & Windus, (1916). First edition, 8vo, (xii), 240, (32 advertisement) pp. 6 plates, some foxing to preliminaries, owner's signature to fly leaf. Original cloth, a few light marks, a very good copy. More
Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions. Together with A Large Vindication of the Doctrine Contain'd in The Sermon preach'd at the Funeral of Mr. Thomas Bennet.
London: Printed by E.P. for James Bowyer, 1708. First edition, 8vo, (xxxvi), lxix, (iii), 144, *145-*149, (3), 145-456 pp. Some light browning, endpapers foxed, signature of Eliza Giffard, Flintshire, to the paste down, dated 1807, with loosely inserted a folded sheet containing extracts of poetry in another hand. Contemporary panelled..... More
History of the 17th (Northern) Division.
Glasgow: Printed for the Division by Robert Maclehose & Co. Ltd., the University Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 482 pp. Publisher's red buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, gilt ruled panels to the upper cover with two small sections of the cloth neatly excised. 35 maps, including a folding..... More
British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers: The British Administration of Weihaiwei (1898-1930) and the Territory's Return to Chinese Rule. With a Foreword by N.J. Miners.
Oxford University Press, (1985). First edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 302 pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., some mild soiling otherwise a handsome copy. More
The Audi Book.
(Kempen): Teneues, (2012). Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, folio, 285, (19) pp. Photographic illustrations throughout, inscription to half title. Original pictorial cloth, a lovely copy. More
The Confessions of... In ten books.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1900. 8vo, xxvi, 346, (2) pp. Frontispiece by Paul Woodroffe, engraved title designed by Laurence Housman, some foxing to the endpapers and first and last leaves. Original quarter vellum, faint rubbing to extremities otherwise a handsome copy. More
The Meditations, Soliloquia, and Manual, of the Glorious Doctor... Translated into English [by John Floyd].
London: Printed for Matthew Turner, 1686. 12mo, (xxiv), 432 pp. Mild browning to early leaves, rear free endpaper stained, new front free endpaper. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled calf, spine in compartments with a gilt tool to each, upper hinge and top of spine with subtle repair. Wing A4212A. A work..... More
Life in Ancient Britain. A Survey of the social and economic development of the people of England from earliest times to the Roman Conquest.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 260 pp. Patterned endpapers. Bound in a designer-style binding of full grey morocco, spine and edges sunned, upper cover with three skulls and a mammoth outlined in various colours, four vertical spears in onlaid brown morocco, the lower cover with..... More
Burial Grounds and Cemeteries: A Practical Guide to their Administration by Local Authorities: With Forms Showing a Simple Way of Keeping the Necessary Books and Records; Model Scale of Fees and Regulations; and Statistics of the Chief Municipal Cemeteries in the British Isles.
London: Butterworth & Co. [and] Shaw & Sons, 1907. Sole edition. 8vo. x, 60 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine an upper board. Occasional very light spotting, an extremely well preserved copy. More
Austro-Prussian War, 1866. Treaties, &c., Between Prussia, Austria, and German States. 1864-1867.
[N.p.]:, 1871. 8vo. (ii), iv, 124 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine vertically gilt lettered direct. Some wear to the extremities, else very good. More
Sussex After the Bomb. What will happen to Newhaven, Lewes, the Ouse Valley, Seaford, Eastbourne and Brighton? And what will happen to us?
Sussex: Professions for Peace, 1984. Small square 8vo, 28 pp. Illustrated with photographs and charts. Original pictorial wrappers featuring illustrations by Raymond Briggs, taken from "When the Wind Blows", some light browning and marks. A grimly factual account of the effects of a nuclear bomb being dropped on Newhaven, and..... More
A Chronicle of the Kings of England, From the time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James. Containing all Passages of State and Church, with all other Observations proper for a Chronicle. Faithfully Collected out of Authors, Ancient and Modern; and digested into a new Method. Whereunto is now added... The Reign of Charles I with a Continuation of the Chronicle To the End of Year [1658]...
London: Printed by E. Cotes, 1660. Third edition, folio, (x), 96, 197-232, 133-385, 384-454, 457-504, 405-430, 433-466, 447-[506], (4), 507-546, 457-458, (50) pp. Wood engraved frontispiece, backed onto old paper, the recto of which shows some scorch marks, lower section of the final leaf torn away, not affecting text. The..... More
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket. Being the Autobiography of...
Manchester: John Heywood, Ltd., [1908]. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), xi, (i), 255, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations plus numerous examples of players' autographs. Original gilt decorated cloth, spine sunned. More
A History of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846.
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1930. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 336 pp. Publisher's maroon buckram, dulled gilt lettering to the spine, dust jacket. The jacket with some wear to the edges with loss and some foxing, some pronounced foxing to the front and rear leaves, else a decent copy..... More
Certamen Religiosum: or, A Conference Between the late King of England, and the Late Lo: Marquesse of Worcester, Concerning Religion. Together with a Vindication of the Protestant Cause, from the Pretences of the Marquesse his Last Papers; which the Necessity, of the King's Affaires Denyed Him the Opportunity to Answer...
London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally..... More
The Postal Service of Sierra Leone. Its History, Stamps and Stationery until 1961.
London: The Royal Philatelic Society, 1988. First edition, small folio, xii, 240 pp. Inscribed from the author on the title page, owner's signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., spine slightly sunned, near fine. More
The Strenuous Years. Diaries 1948-55.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. First edition. 8vo. viii, 231, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 12 pages of black and white photographic illustrations. Slight sunning to the jacket spine with some wear and attendant creasing to the ends and the corners..... More
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism.
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid & J. Bell; And for E. & C. Dilly, London, 1771. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". 8vo. (viii), 568 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine flat with gilt rules, gilt lettered red label, discreet old bookseller's ticket of W. Cornish and Co. of..... More
Recipes from Baghdad with an Introduction by Her Majesty the Queen Mother of Iraq. Edited by... with the Assistance of Bedia Afnan, Renée Al Kabir, Helen Gaudin and Ann Walter. Caricatures by Suad Salim.
Baghdad: Published by the Indian Red Cross. Printed at the Government Press, 1946. First edition. 8vo. 163, (2), xi pp. Publisher's black cloth, green lettered to the upper board, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations of measuring utensils (actual size) to the endpapers, black..... More
Gallus, or Roman scenes in the time of Augustus. With notes and excursuses illustrative of the manners and customs of the Romans. Translated by Rev. Frederick Metcalfe.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. 8vo, xxi, (i), 533, (1) pp. Light foxing to front and rear blanks, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Derby School. Bound by Relfe Brothers in contemporary red calf, gilt spine, borders and arms, a lovely copy. More