Otley: Printed for the Author, (1999). Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 4to, xx, 208 pp. 125 facsimile pages, 5 folding. Blue cloth, a fine copy. More
Washington, 1898. 8vo, 307, (1) pp, with 20 black and white illustrations - 19 photographic - and 2 folding charts, first and last leaf browned, bookplate and cancelled ink stamp of the Reform Club, also a later bookplate to fly leaf, bound in later navy blue buckram. Preceded by a.... More
London: John Stockdale, 1789. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 470, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece, plus an engraved portrait bound in in the preliminaries, later bookplate. Contemporary tree calf, gilt banded spine with a red label, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. "An amusing collection of gossip from old books" (DNB). More
Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1982-98. Eight volumes, I and II first reprints, III to VIII first editions, but all uniform nonetheless. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Illustrations throughout. An excellent set. More
London: A. Strahan, 1796-7. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines a little worn, red spine labels. More
London: George Routledge, [c.1890]. 8vo, (xii), 234, (2) pp. 16 coloured plates, signature and bookplate to paste down, some light foxing. Original gilt and black decorated red cloth, spine slightly faded and worn. A famous country eccentric whose exploits led to his impoverishment and death at only 37. "...he drove... More
Bombay: Gopal Narayen & Co., 1912. Second edition, large 8vo, (xii), 1047, (1), 4 advertisement pp. Original gilt titled moiré cloth, spine restored with new endpapers. Without any ownership markings but from the library of Ethel Mairet, so it presumably once belonged to her first husband, the philosopher and historian Ananda Coomaraswamy. More
Antwerpiæ [Antwerp]: Christophori Plantini [Christopher Plantin], 1569. Two volumes bound in one (from a total of five), 4to, (xx), 374, (xiv), 376 pp. Early signature and 20th century ink stamp to the title page, one leaf (V2) torn across and repaired without loss, marbled endpapers. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., extremities worn... More
London: The Fifth Division Benevolent Fund, 1959. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 266, (2) pp. Numerous photographic illustrations and maps. Cloth, d.w., some light soiling and bumping to the top edge, very good. More
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
University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo. viii, 312 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, publisher's review slip loosely inserted. 60 pages of black and white photographic illustrations. Wear to the edges of the jacket, most conspicuously to the... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1934. Second edition. Large 8vo. xiv, 405, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece featuring the London Stock Exchange War Memorial. A little wear and tear to the jacket edges with a few... More
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
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
London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth... More
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
London: John Murray, 1927. First edition. 8vo. x, 529, (1) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spine. 8 photographic plates and 36 maps. Spine dulled, otherwise very good. More
Northwood, Middlesex: Published by the Author, 1935. First edition. Small 4to. (iv), 518 p. Publisher's black buckram, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. Loosely inserted are two supplementary leaves (pp. 147a and 519/520), with an original photostat of the author's handwritten note concerning how they should be inserted... More
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
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
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
[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
London: J. Johnson, W.J. and J. Richardson [et al], 1807. 12mo, (xvi), 216 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, later bookplate to title verso, frontispiece a little foxed, marbled endpapers. Contemporary red morocco, double gilt rules and a gilt Greek key roll border to covers, gilt spine a little dull... More
London: George Routledge and Sons Limited, 1905. 8vo. xx, 920 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered black spine panel. Slight sunning to the spine, very good overall. More
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