[London]: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, [c.1850]. Fourth edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo. (ii), xx, 431, (1); (ii), xxvii, (i), 371, (1) pp. Owner's ink stamp to title pages and front blanks, piece torn from one fly leaf. Contemporary calf, gilt spines with brown and green labels, one lacking, slight... More about Nouveau Dictionnaire de Poche, Français-Italien... Nuovo Dizionario Portatile,...

London: Bickers and Son, 1885. 8vo. (xx), 300 pp. Contemporary prize binding from Blundell's School, Tiverton, full dark blue calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and their prize label to the front pastedown, endpapers and all edges marbled... More about Robert Blake, Admiral and General at Sea. Based on Family and State Papers by... A New Edition

London: John Murray, 1823. Fourth edition, 8vo, (ii), xvi, 472 pp, first 2 leaves (blank and half title) slightly loose, with staining to the lower margins of early and late leaves, bookplate, original dark green cloth boards, some rubbing, corners bumped, paper spine label browned. Politician and contemporary of many... More about The Diary of the Late... Baron of Melcombe Regis: from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761; with...

Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, (1991). First edition, 8vo, viii, 128 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, inscribed on the fly leaf from the author. Cloth, d.w., very mild rubbing to extremities otherwise fine. More about Fighter Pilot. The Story of One of the Few. Foreword by Leslie Dawson

London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648. First edition, second issue, 8vo, (xvi), 218 pp. Some mostly mild marginal browning, contemporary manuscript title to fore edge. Recent blind ruled goatskin, black spine label, a very good copy. "The earliest of Donne's controversial writings..." (Keynes) and a work that existed only in... More about Greek title] Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Self-homicide is not so...

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First separate edition, large 8vo, (vi), 58 pp. Portrait frontispiece plus one further plate, some light foxing, top edge of one leaf carelessly opened, contemporary signature of the corrupt East End politician Joseph Merceron to fly leaf, later bookplate of the Naval... More about The Life of the Celebrated Francis Drake, the first English Circumnavigator. Reprinted from the...

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883-86. First English edition, six volumes, large 8vo. Numerous illustrations, maps and vignettes, bookplates, several hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled and blind stamped blue cloth, spine ends and joints with some rubbing. More about History of Rome and the Roman People, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian...

London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1844. 8vo, viii, 853, (3) pp, with 6 folding plans, 3 lithographic plates and further plans and folding tables, original cloth, faded with wear to spine ends. More about Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education: with Appendices, and Plans of School-Houses....

London: Country Life Limited, (1946). Second "revised" edition, 4to, 192 pp. Frontispiece and 173 illustrations, light foxing to first three text leaves. Cloth, d.w. soiled and worn with some loss to the spine and edges. More about Georgian Cabinet-Makers

London: Printed by J.B. Nichols and Son, 1833. First edition thus, 4to, 14 pp, followed by 53 plates, 8 of which are folding, some mostly light foxing, contemporary marbled endpaper bound in at the front. Modern dark blue half morocco, marbled sides, gilt titled spine, a very good copy. Originally... More about Account of Cædmon's Metrical Paraphrase, of Scriptural History, an Illuminated Manuscript of the...

London: Faber and Faber, (1953). First edition, 8vo, 326 pp. Ex-library copy, with accession numbers in ink to the title and a bookplate plus labels removed from the rear endpaper, small ink stamp to the foot of the final page. Library buckram, a good sound copy. More about The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks

London: James Nisbet, 1853. First edition, square 12mo, 48 pp. Inscriptions to paste down. Original gilt titled limp cloth, foot of hinges starting but sound. A series of poems "...offered to the Instructors of Youth, under the conviction that a History of England in Verse will greatly facilitate Children in... More about Sovereigns of England in Succession. By M.A.P