Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914.
University of California Press, 1967. First edition, 8vo, xiv, (ii), 432 pp. Cloth, d.w., spine faded. More
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The Letters of King Henry VIII. A Selection, with a Few Documents. Edited by...
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1936. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 454, (2) pp. Publisher's plum cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Frontispiece facsimile of Henry VIII's handwriting. Occasional very mild edge wear and spotting to the jacket, very good. More
The Stowe-Byron Controversy: a Complete Résumé of all that has been written and said upon the subject, re-printed from "The Times", "Saturday Review", "Daily News", "Pall Mall Gazette", "Daily Telegraph", etc. Together with an Impartial Review of the Merits of the Case by the Editor of "Once a Week".
London: Thomas Cooper & Co., [1869]. First edition, 8vo, 128, 11, (1) pp. Modern marbled boards, very good. Uncommon. Collecting the responses to an article by Harrier Beecher Stowe, published in the Atlantic Magazine in the US and Macmillan's Magazine in Britain, written as a result of her conversations with..... More
Play the Evans Gambit. A Study in Depth.
London Robert Hale & Company, 1976. First edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, original bookseller's label to the foot of the front free endpaper. Illustrations of table positions set in the text throughout. Some fading to the jacket spine, else very good..... More
From Friend to Friend. A Calendar for the Year 1911.
London: Ernest Nister. Small 8vo, (24) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout, contemporary inscription to front blank. Cloth backed paper boards, some light marking. A typical gift book of the period, including suitable quotes concerning friendship by various authors. More
Liberties & Communities in Medieval England. Collected Studies in Local Administration and Topography.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1944. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 267, (1) pp. Folding map, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. with a few minor marks, very good. More
Scepticism and Construction. Bradley's Sceptical Principle as the Basis of Constructive Philosophy.
London: George Allen & Unwin, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 322, (2) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue cloth, spine slightly faded, a few minor marks. More
The Case of Mary Queen of Scots, and of Elizabeth Queen of England, Legally, Briefly, and Historically Stated. Embracing the Amorous Life of Virgin Queen and Identifying Her with All the Plans that Led to Mary's Ruin and Murder...
London: Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1825. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 391, (1) pp. Contemporary calf boards sometime plainly rebacked, the old bookplate of the London Society of Compositors with their stamps on a few pages, an early inscription stating that the volume was presented by a "Mr Markham of the..... More
Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands, 1699-1700.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. First edition, 8vo, xxxii, 319, (1) pp. 23 plates at the end, inscribed from Campbell on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., closed tear to the lower flap otherwise a good bright copy. More
A Snowdon Stream, (the Gwyrfai) and how to fish it. Decorations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford.
London: Putnam, 1958. First edition, 8vo, 86 pp. Black and white illustrations, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. slightly browned with mild loss to extremities. More
Historical Record of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1777, and of its subsequent services to 1852.
London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode... Published by Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1852. Sole edition, 8vo, xix, (i), xvi, 196 [ie 169], (3) pp. Engraved general title and 3 lithographic plates, including two in colour showing flags and uniforms. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned, some..... More
![Item #40609 Memoirs of the Life of Robert Cary [sic], Baron of Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth....](/pictures/thumb/40609.jpg?v=1649505364)
Memoirs of the Life of Robert Cary [sic], Baron of Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth. Written by himself, And now published from an original Manuscript in the Custody of John, Earl of Corke and Orrery. With some explanatory notes.
London: Printed by J. Hughs... for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. Second edition, 8vo, 236, (4 index) pp. Frontispiece, with a later manuscript genealogy bound in near the end. Modern maroon half morocco, marbled sides, a lovely copy. Carey was member of Elizabeth I's court and subsequently governor to the..... More
The John Carlos Story. The Sports Moment That Changed the World.
Chicago: Haymarket Books, (2011). Second printing, 8vo, xxi, (i), 193, (1) pp. Inscribed from Carlos on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Collected and Republished (First Time, 1839; Final, 1869).
London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. Three volumes. 8vo. Publisher's black buckram, gilt lettered to the spines and with the author's signature reproduced in gilt to the upper boards, early marginalia and underlining at intervals, ownership inscriptions dated 1907 to the front free endpapers. in what appear to be the same..... More
Printing and the Mind of Man. A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization during five centuries. Compiled and Edited by... Assisted by Nicholas Barker, H.A. Feisenberger, Howard Nixon and S.H. Steinberg. With an Introductory Essay Denys Hay.
London: Cassell and Company, 1967. First edition. 4to. xxxiii, (iii), 280 pp. 4to. xxxvi, 280 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Numerous illustrations in the text. Some very mild wear along the head of the jacket, else very good. Starting with the Gutenberg Bible in 1455..... More
The Gospel of Buddha According to Old Records. Told by...
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1895. First British edition. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 275, (1) pp, with the half title having been neatly excised. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Fading to the spine, some rubbing to the extremities, else a decent..... More
The Black Diaries. An account of Roger Casement's life and times with a collection of his diaries and public writings.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1959). First UK edition, 8vo, 536 pp. Black and white illustrations, map endpapers, errata slip tipped in. Cloth, d.w., slightly too tall for the volume, spine and top edge sunned. Actually the first US edition published by the Grove Press, but with a different wrapper and..... More
Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuouamente Ristampato.
Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding..... More
The Way of Tea. With a Foreword by Sen No Soshitsu.
New York & Tokyo: Weatherill, 1979. Second printing. Square 8vo. 329, (3) pp. Publisher's brown cloth backed olive boards, gilt to the spine and upper cover, wrap-around band of text and what appears to be the original glassine protector, decoratively illustrated card slipcase. Black and white illustrations. A lovely copy..... More
Everest: moins 2 mètres / minus 2 metres.
[N.p.]: Editions Initiative, (1993). Large 8vo. 127, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Colour photographs throughout. Very good. More
Work and Wages. In Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages'. Part I. Foreign Competition. With an Introduction by Lord Brassey.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo, xxxv, (i), 301, (3), 40 advertisement pp. Inscribed from Brassey on the title page to the Labour politician George Barnes, ink stamp of the New Commonwealth Library to the title page but without any other institutional markings. Partly unopened, one gathering..... More
Artillery's Astrologers. A History of British Survey & Mapping on the Western Front 1914-1918.
Lewes: Mapbooks, 1999. First edition. 4to. xviii, 558 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Photographic illustrations and several maps. Fine. More
At the Sign of the Wicket. Essays on the Glorious Game.
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, [1894]. First edition, small 8vo, 191, (5 advertisement) pp. Original gilt and black titled cloth, slight darkening of spine otherwise a near fine copy. More
Pictures from Roman Life and Story.
London: Hutchinson & Co., [c.1910]. 8vo, viii, 344 pp. Frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Banstead School to paste down. Bound by Bickers and Son in contemporary green calf, gilt spine, rules and arms, spine sunned otherwise an excellent copy. More
Winston S. Churchill. Companion Volume I. Part 1 1874-1896. Part 2 1896-1900.
London: Heinemann, (1967). First edition, two volumes, 8vo. Cloth, d.w.'s, a few light marks otherwise very good. More