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Small 8vo, 60 leaves, of which 28 have been used to hold a collection of 355 coloured paper monograms, armorial bearings and other devices. Headings and annotation in both ink and pencil, paste downs with some browning. Contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt title to upper cover, spine ends with some... More about An Album of Crests & Monograms
London: J. Haddon & Co., [1881]. Seventh edition, 8vo, 178, (14) advertisement pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled green cloth, some minor marks. A scarce example of a work that appeared under a variety of similar titles. OCLC lists only three examples of this issue, all in north America. More about Crisp's Business guide for Printers, Lithographers, Engravers, Bookbinders, Rulers, Stationers,...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. 8vo, viii, 533, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of the Edinburgh Angus Club. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine and device to upper cover, an excellent copy. More about Oliver Cromwell
London: Chapman and Hall, 1871-72. Five volumes, small 8vo. Original decorated russet cloth, gilt titled spines, spine ends with some mild rubbing. More about Letters and Speeches. With Elucidations by Thomas Carlyle
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1939). Second impression (3 months after the first), 8vo, 437, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w. worn with loss to the spine ends and edges, old taped repairs to the inside of the spine. More about Suffolk Punch. A Business Man's Autobiography
Cambridge: At the University Press; London: John W. Parker, 1839. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 336, (iv), 8 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Folding table. Neatly rebacked with nearly all of the of the original spine preserved, sensitive repair to the table, very good. More about Synchronology: Being a Treatise on the History, Chronology, and Mythology of the Ancient...
Manchester and London: John Heywood, 1887. First edition, large 8vo, xii, 448 pp. Portrait frontispiece and 49 illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled cloth, a little dull, neatly rebacked. More about County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire
[1] Leeds: Printed by W.S. Maney and Son for the Society of Antiquaries, 1971. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. xxvi, 222; xx, 400 pp. Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. 92 plates (3 colour) and 20 folding plans in volume I, 28 plates (3 colour)... More about Excavations at Fishbourne 1961-1969. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of...
London: Religious Tract Society - Published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, [c.1880]. 8vo, (ii), xvi, 675, (1) pp, printed in double column, signature on fly leaf, contemporary black half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label. More about History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Volumes I, II and III translated by H....
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, (1893). First edition, 8vo, xiv, 274, (4 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, some foxing at each end. Original gilt titled cloth, some mild marks, otherwise an excellent copy. More about Kings of Cricket. Reminiscences and Anecdotes with hints on the game. With introduction by Mr....
London: Michael Joseph, (1960). First edition. 8vo. 493, (1) pp. Recent black full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, signed by the author on the title page. An excellent copy. More about French Provincial Cooking. Illustrated by Juliet Henry
(Harmondsworth): Penguin Books, (1963). 8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis "...Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g. More about Italian Food. Drawings by Renato Guttuso
(London: Elizabeth David, 1971). Second impression, small 8vo, 20 pp. Printed wrappers, stapled as issued, slightly faded and foxed. More about Syllabubs and Fruit Fools
London: Publisher by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, xxix, (i), 141, (1) pp. 8 plates. Original mustard cloth, some light soiling, spine slightly dull. Woolmer 250. More about Life As We Have Known It. By Co-operative Working Women. With an Introductory Letter by Virginia...
[London] In the Savoy: Printed by T.N. for Henry Harrington, 1678. Second edition, folio, (iv), 734, (2, 17 index, 1) pp. Faint ink stamps of the Bradford Free Library to the first three leaves, title page with an old signature and several minor closed tears to the edges. 20th century... More about The History of the Civil Wars of France: Written in Italian by... Translated out of the Original....
London: William Heinemann, 1899. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 335, (1) pp, frontispiece and numerous photographic text illustrations - 38 full page, 4 maps - 2 in colour, some spotting throughout, signatures on fly leaf, in the original red cloth, extremities rubbed, spine a little faded. More about The Cuban & Porto Rican Campaigns
Gwent: Siebe, Gorman & Company Ltd., 1981. Eighth edition, 8vo, xvi, (ii), 693, (23) pp. Folding frontispiece and a folding chart at the end. Gilt titled cloth, d.w. with some mild soiling and creasing. More about Deep Diving and Submarine Operations. A Manual for Deep Sea Divers and Compressed Air Workers
Birmingham: The T.T. Special, (1951). First edition, 8vo, 152 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with some loss to edges. More about Short Circuits! The leading park and aerodrome races described by... with a section on Brands...
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 349, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, attractive contemporary bookplate reading simply "Daisy", with two French mottoes, contemporary signature to front blank. Bound by Hatchards in contemporary red half morocco, t.e.g., mild rubbing of joints and spine. "The Royal Historical Library series" More about Cleopatra. (Her Life and Reign
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First one volume edition. 8vo. 224 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 19 black and white photographic plates plus a further 19 plates reproducing RAF reconaissance photogarphs of the Khan Nuqta-Baghdad road. Small losses to the edges of... More about The Golden Carpet
London: Printed for T. Davis and C. Woodward, 1736-5. Two volumes, 8vo, xxxv, (v), 408, (viii Index); (iv), 368, (100 Dictionary) pp, with 35 woodcuts in the dictionary, slight cracking of hinges, occasional slight marginal browning, very slight loss to lower corner of title and following 2 leaves in volume... More about Memoirs Historical and Military: Containing a Distinct View of all the Considerable States of...
London: Printed for G. Robinson and J. Murray, 1784. Fourth edition, 8vo, (viii), xvi, 540, (20 index) pp. Portrait frontispiece, first few leaves a little damp stained, 19th century inscription to paste down. 20th century half calf, marbled sides, spine a little sunned and mottled. "[De Lolme's] work on the... More about The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government; In which it is compared,...
Paris: Librarie Classiques de Jules Delalain, 1862. Twenty-ninth edition, 8vo, (iii-viii), 672 pp, bound without a half title. Owner's name to fly leaf. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine with red and green labels, some minor rubbing, very good. More about Lexique Grec-Français. Contenant tous les mots des divers opuscules Grecs et cours de versions...
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1902. First edition, 8vo, 520 pp. Folding map at the end plus some maps in the text, prize label to paste down with the inscription to this and to the fly leaf neatly erased, upper hinge tender but sound. Original dark green cloth, spine ends... More about Three Years War. (October 1899 - June 1902
New York: Whittlesey House, (1940). First edition, 8vo, (xviii), 285, (1) pp. Signed on the fly leaf by the author. 42 plates. Cloth, d.w., the red parts faded, some mostly mild edge wear. More about Round-by-Round. An Autobiography. Written in Collaboration with Myron M. Stearns