Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

MAHOMED, Sake Dean. Shampooing; or, Benefits Resulting from the use of the Indian Medicated Vapour Bath. Brighton: Creasy and Baker, 1826. Second ...

SPORT. - John CAIRNIE. Essay on Curling and Artificial Pond Making. Glasgow: W.R. M'Phun, 1833. First edition, 8vo (218 x 135mm.) 4 lithographed p...

MANTELL, Gideon. A Narrative of the Visit of their Most Gracious Majesties William IV and Queen Adelaide, to the Ancient Borough of Lewes, on the ...

ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS. - [Hilary Douglas PEPLER.] Pertinent & Impertinent. An Assortment of Verse. Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1926. Limited edi...

SOUZA, Francis Newton. F.N. Souza 1957. [London:] Gallery One, 1957. 8vo (228 x 149mm.) Portrait frontispiece after a photograph by Ida Kar, photo...

SOUZA, Francis Newton. - Edwin MULLINS. F.N. Souza: an Introduction. London: Anthony Blond Ltd., 1962. 8vo (228 x 211mm.) Numerous photographic il...

FLEMING, Ian. From Russia With Love. London: Pan Books Ltd, 1963. Reprint, signed by Ian Fleming, 8vo (178 x 114mm.) (Browning to margins.) Origin...

SOUZA, Francis Newton. Words and Lines. London: Villiers Publications, 1959. Limited edition, this being number 6 of 50 copies signed by F.N. Souz...

KEROUAC, Jack. Rimbaud. [San Francisco:] City Lights Books, 1960. First edition, folding broadside (124 x 625mm.) Printed in black on yellow paper...

LEWIS, C.S. Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. First edition, 8vo (194 x 129mm.) Colour frontispiece and numerous ...

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. - Constance GARNETT (translator). White Nights and Other Stories. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First UK edition, 8vo (188 ...

BOWEN, Elizabeth. A Word of Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (188 x 121mm.) (Mild toning.) Original gre...

NEW NATURALIST. - Oliver RACKHAM. Woodlands. London: Collins, 2006. Limited edition, this being number 80 of 100 copies signed by the author, 8vo ...

NEW NATURALIST. - R.J. BERRY. The Natural History of Orkney. London: Collins, 1985. First edition, first issue, signed by the author, 8vo (217 x 1...

NEW NATURALIST. - Edward A. ARMSTRONG. The Wren. London: Collins, 1955. First edition, no. 3 in the New Naturalist Monograph Series, 8vo (216 x 14...

NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Collins, 1946-1967. 50 vols., including 45 first editions, 8vo (222 x 151mm.) Numerous illustr...

NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Collins and Harper Collins, 1971-2001. 37 vols., including 32 first editions, 8vo (221 x 151mm...

NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Harper Collins, 2001-2013. 34 vols., first editions, 8vo (223 x 148mm.) Numerous illustrations...

NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Harper Collins, 2013-2020. 19 vols., first edition, 8vo (223 x 148mm.) Numerous illustrations....

CLARENDON, Edward Hyde. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the Year 1641. Oxford: at the Theatre, 1707. 3 vols. in 6...

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays… with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and Ge...

BINDINGS. - William SHAKESPEARE. The Family Shakespeare… by Thomas Bowdler. London: Longman, Green, et al., 1865. 6 vols., 8vo (164 x 95mm.) 36 en...

PLUTARCH. Plutarch's Lives…translated from the Greek. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 6 vols., 8vo (203 x 123mm.) Engraved frontispiece, with 'Lif...

CHEMISTRY. - Michael FARADAY. Chemical Manipulation; Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry. London: W. Phillips, 1827. First edition, 8vo (2...

MASON, Charlotte. The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying Her Table, Being a Complete System of Cookery. London: J. Walter, 1777. Third ...

COOKERY. - Catherine Frances FRERE (editor). The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. Limited editio...

COOKERY. - Charles Elmé FRANCATELLI. The Modern Cook, a Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in all Its Branches. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Fi...

WOOLLEY, Hannah. The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying, and Cookery, Very Pleas...

LYELL, Charles. Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. London: John Murray, 1845. 2...

DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of the Species… thirteenth thousand. London: John Murray, 1872. Sixth edition, 8vo (183 x 113mm.) 1 folding chart, 16p...

LYELL, Charles. Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface. London: John Murray, 1832-1833. 3 vo...

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. - T.E. LAWRENCE. Crusader Castles. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 432 of 1...

HORACE. Epistolae ad Pisones, et Augustum. London: W. Thurlbourne, 1753. 2 vols., second edition, 8vo (169 x 114mm.) (Toning, marginal insect dama...

BINDINGS. - Edmund SPENSER. The Poetical Works of… edited by J.C. Smith. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1909-1910. 3 vols., 8vo (221 x 140mm.) (T...

MANSFIELD, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. London: The Verona Press, 1939. Limited edition, this being number 451 of 1200 copies, 4...

DUMAS, Alexandre. Le Comte de Monte-Christo [sic.] Bruxelles: Sociétié Belge de Librairie, 1845. 6 vols. in 3, 12mo (151 x 91mm.) Half-titles, sep...

MINIATURE BOOK. The Smallest English Dictionary in the World. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, [n.d. but 1893.] 64mo (27 x 18mm.) Frontispiece of Sam...

MINIATURE BOOK. The English Bijou Almanac for 1838. Poetically Illustrated by L.E.L. London: Schloss, [1837.] 64mo (14 x 9mm.) 6 wood-engraved por...

DARWIN, Charles. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1874. Second edition revised, 8vo (173 x 114mm.) 2 fol...

GEOLOGY. - Roderick Impey MURCHISON. On the Geological Structure of the Alps, Apennines and Carpathians. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1849....

HIBBERT, Samuel. History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine. Edinburgh: W. and D. Laing, 1832. First edition, 8vo...

DAUBENY, Charles. A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos; with Remarks on their Origin, Their Chemical Phenomena, and the Character of their...

PALMIERI, Luigi. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872. London: Asher & Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo (244 x 148mm.) 8 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding,...

WOODWARD, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: by John Stacy for Longman's & Co., 1833. First edition, 8vo (222 x 135mm.) 1 hand...

CHARPENTIER, Jean de. Essai sur Les Glaciers et sur Le Terrain Erratique du Bassin du Rhone. Lausanne: Marc Ducloux, 1841. First edition, 8vo (232...

GEOLOGY. - Roderick Impey MURCHISON. Siluria. The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains. London: John Murray, 1854. First e...

CUNNINGHAM, Robert James Hay. Essay on the Geology of the Lothians. Edinburgh: Neil & Company, 1838. First edition, signed and inscribed by the au...

WEGENER, Alfred. The Origin of Continents and Oceans... translated from the third German edition by J.G.A. Skerl. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. Fir...

GREENOUGH, G.B. A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geology in a Series of Essays. London: Strahan and Spottiswoode, 1819. First edi...

GEOLOGY. - H.T. De La BECHE (editor and translator.) A Selection of Geological Memoirs Contained in the Annales Des Mines, written by Brongniart, ...

NATURAL HISTORY. - [Thomas BOREMAN.] A Description of Three Hundred Animals… with a Particular Account of the Manner of their Catching of Whales i...

MEDICINE. - Johann Theodore SCHENCK. Synopsis Institutionum Medicinae Disputatoriae Pars Semiotica, Hygieine et Therapeutica. Jena: Johanne Nisius...

TAUNT, Henry W. A New Map of the River Thames, from Thames Head to London… from entirely New Surveys finished during the Summer of 1878. Oxford: H...

GRAY, John Miller. James and William Tassie, a Biographical and Critical Sketch. Edinburgh: Walter Greenoak Patterson, 1894. First edition, 8vo (1...

GEOLOGY. - James D. FORBES. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo (224 x 138mm....

PHILLIPS, William. An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy: comprising Some Account of the Characters and Elements of Minerals… ...

YOUNG, Arthur. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk. London: for G. and W. Nicol et al., 1804. First edition, 8vo (208 x 126mm...

CAPPER, Benjamin. A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom; compiled from Parliamentary, and Other Authentic Documents and Authorities. Lo...

AFRICA. - Charles John ANDERSSON. Notes on the Birds of Damara Land and the Adjacent Countries of South-West Africa… arranged and edited by John H...

WOOD, William. Index Testaceologicus; or, A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, Arranged According to the Linnean System. London: for W. Woo...