Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

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. - 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...

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 ...

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. 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

MANTELL, Gideon. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Objects of Geology, Natural History, and Antiquity (Chiefly Discovered in Sussex), in the Museum A...

MANTELL, Gideon. The Medals of Creation; or, First Lessons in Geology and in the Study of Organic Remains. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. 2 vols., (...

MANTELL, Gideon Algernon. The Geology of the South-East of England. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. First edition, 8vo...

GREECE. - William Martin LEAKE. Travels in the Morea with a Map and Plans. London: John Murray, 1830. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (124 x 132mm.) H...

EUROPE. - [Nina Elizabeth MAZUCHELLI.] 'Magyarland'; being the Narrative of our Travels Through the Highlands and Lowlands of Hungary. London: Sam...

BINDINGS. - [Sidone-Gabrielle] COLETTE. Oeuvres Complètes de Colette. Paris: Le Fleuron, 1948-50. 15 vols., 8vo (228 x 156mm.) (Toning.) Late 20th...

[EVANS, Mary Ann.] 'George ELIOT'. The Works of… Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, [1895.] 21 vols., 'Standard Edition', 8vo (178 x 114mm.) (...

BINDINGS. - William COWPER. Poems. London: for J. Johnson, 1800. 2 vols., new edition, 8vo (213 x 124mm.) 10 engraved plates. (Toning, blanks repl...

FINDEN, Edward Francis and William. The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. London: Virtue & Co., [circa 1...

MOUNTAINEERING. - James D. FORBES. Travels Through The Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Gl...

MOUNTAINEERING. - Edward WHYMPER. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, fifth thousand, 8vo (...

EUROPE. - Dudley COSTELLO. Piedmont and Italy, from the Alps to the Tiber, Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot. London: James S. Vi...

LEVANT. - Henry A. HARPER. Walks in Palestine. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1888. First edition, 4to (309 x 244mm.) 24 photogravures with ...