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

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: 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

London: Blackie and Son, (1904). Small 8vo, vii, (i), 314 pp. Portrait frontispiece, title and headlines printed in red, patterned endpapers. Publisher's vellum, t.e.g., decorated in gilt and red, designed by Talwin Morris, light sunning of spine otherwise a lovely copy. 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

London: The Folio Society, 2013. First edition thus. Large 8vo. lviii, (x), 540 pp. Publisher's blue morocco backed white boards richly decorated in blue, red and gilt. Frontispiece and 48 fine colour reproductions of leaves from the manuscript of the text held by the British Library. A few trivial marks... More