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Click here to subscribeMargaret Thatcher The Downing St Years Paperback Book. First Edition. Published in 1993 by Harper Collins Publishers. Printed and Bound in Great Britain by the Bath Press. 914 pages. Spine in fair condition. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Artist Without Hands: A Memoir of John Buchanan by Cecil F. Walpole. First Edition Published 1953. Hardback. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Brewery Railways by Ian P Peaty first edition 1985 hardback book. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
WW2 Luftwaffe aces Gunter Rall Hajo Hermann signed photos inside Hardback book Elite of the Third Reich The Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-45. An Illustrated Reference by Walther-Peer Fellgiebel. Scare English translation 2000. First Edition ISBN 1-87462-46-9. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Into The Blue by Captain Norman Macmillan 1929 First Edition Hardback Book with 213 pages published by Duckworth London. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Breakthrough Crossrail's Tunnelling Story first edition 2015 softback book. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Red Guard The Political Biography of Dai Hsiao Ai by Gordon A Bennett and Ronald N Montaperto 1971 First Edition Hardback Book with 267 pages published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Princes Risborough-Thame-Oxford Railway by R. Lingard. Signed by Author. First Edition Published in 1978. Hardback. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
The Royal Mint The Sovereign 2015 Fifth Portrait- First Edition Gold Proof Coin. Boxed with Certificate of Authenticity. Limited Edition of 7,000. No.1064/7000. Alloy: 916.7 Au Weight: 7.98 grams Diameter: 22.05mm Reverse Designer: Benedetto Pistrucci Obverse Designer: Jody Clark Quality: Proof
The Royal Mint The Sovereign 2015 Fifth Portrait- First Edition Gold Proof Coin. Boxed with Certificate of Authenticity. Limited Edition of 7,000. No.1062/7000. Alloy: 916.7 Au Weight: 7.98 grams Diameter: 22.05mm Reverse Designer: Benedetto Pistrucci Obverse Designer: Jody Clark Quality: Proof
The Royal Mint The Sovereign 2015 Fifth Portrait- First Edition Gold Proof Coin. Boxed with Certificate of Authenticity. Limited Edition of 7,000. No.1070/7000. Alloy: 916.7 Au Weight: 7.98 grams Diameter: 22.05mm Reverse Designer: Benedetto Pistrucci Obverse Designer: Jody Clark Quality: Proof
A collection of mixed interest antique books to include a cloth-bound 1898 first edition of 'Rambles Among The Wildflowers - M.C Cooke' published by Nelson with gilted page, gilt spine, coloured plate illustrations and engravings. Aimed at the young, historically somebody has pressed some wildflowers between the pages. In generally good condition with some wear to the cloth along the spine and corners, minimal foxing to the pages and slight weakening to the spine. Also to be included are other books of mixed interest in generally fair condition with signs of wear and use commensurate with age and use. (qty a/f)
The Royal Mint The Sovereign 2015 Fifth Portrait- First Edition Gold Proof Coin. Boxed with Certificate of Authenticity. Limited Edition of 7,000. No.1231/7000. Alloy: 916.7 Au Weight: 7.98 grams Diameter: 22.05mm Reverse Designer: Benedetto Pistrucci Obverse Designer: Jody Clark Quality: Proof
Franklin Mint, The Kings and Queens Collection, forty-three 24ct gold plated silver medallions, each engraved RSBS First Edition Silver Jubilee 1977 and hallmarked Franklin Mint, London 1978, contained within blue presentation folderCondition Report:One medallion approx 0.54 ozt (16.8 grams), total silver weight approx 23.22 ozt (722 grams). Well presented and in good condition. All medallions within plastic capsules.
Tyler (Anne) The Clock Winder, first English edition, light spotting to fore-edge, original cloth, dust-jacket, light spotting and toning along upper edge, spine ends and foot of lower flap slightly scuffed, 1973 § Durrell (Laurence) Livia, first edition, signed by the author to title, original cloth, dust-jacket, very slight rubbing to spine ends and corners, otherwise a fine copy, 1978 § Bullock (Shan F.) The Awkward Squads and Other Stories, first edition, publisher's advertisements at end, light scattered spotting, original blue cloth, a few minor soil marks, extremities slightly rubbed, slight shelf-lean, Cassell and Company, 1893; and c.130 others, English literature, late Victorian and Modern, including a signed first edition of A Smile in the Mind's Eye by Durrell, v.s. (c.130)
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps only (of 3), one with large tear into image, one colour chart, spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Hosken p.189], 1890; My Dark Companions and their strange stories, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, occasional faint finger-soiling, one or two short marginal tears, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.189], 1893; My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave, first American edition, frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, previous owner's pencil signature to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1874; and others on or by Stanley, 8vo (8).
Cookery.- Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, first issue with Bouverie St. address to additional title and p.57 as first line of errata, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 12 chromolithograph plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, S.O. Beeton, 1861. *** 'This is one of the earliest cookery books using colored illustrations' (Bitting).
Birds.- Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds, 2 vol., mixed set, first edition of vol.1 (Land Birds), wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes by Bewick, some pencil annotations, a little browned, some foxing, uniform contemporary half red roan, spines gilt, rubbed, vol.1 joints cracked, vol.2 rebacked preserving old spine, 8vo, Newcastle, 1797-1816.
Erotica & Sex.- Fischer (H. C.) & Dr. E. X. Dubois. Sexual Life during the World War, first edition, half-title, faint spotting at beginning and end, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1927 § Malinowski (Bronislaw) The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little mottled, bumping to corners and extremities, 1932 § Davis (Katharine Bement) Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-Two Hundred Women, light soiling to endpapers, cracked hinges, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, New York & London, 1929 § Davenport (John) Curiositates Eroticæ Physiologiæ; or, Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated, half-title, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1875; and others either erotica or on sex, v.s. (c.80).
Zola (Émile) Le Naturalisme au Théâtre, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Philippe Gille on half-title, some light foxing and marginal browning, contemporary cloth-backed boards, morocco spine label, strips of fading to upper cover, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, spine sunned, label rubbed and chipped, 8vo, Paris, G. Charpentier, 1881.*** The first edition of Zola's second book with a warm presentation inscription: "á Phillipe Gille, son dévoué confrère, Emile Zola". Philippe Gille (1831-1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist who, from 1869, was the art and music critic for Le Figaro and reviewed many of Zola's books. Maggs Bros. catalogue no. 367 in 1918 lists a presentation copy of La Joie de Vivre to Gille with the same inscription as this book.
Leech (John) Follies of the Year, first edition, wood-engraved decorative title with hand-coloured vignette, 21 hand-coloured etched plates by Leech, original half red morocco over pictorial blue cloth, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, [1866] § Elementary Drawing Book for 1828, lithographed throughout with vignette title and 46 plates, occasional marginal soiling, contemporary roan-backed boards, worn, covers detached, J.Dickinson, 1828; and 6 others including 4 limited facsimiles of Alken's Progress of Human Life panorama, v.s. (8)*** The plates of the first were used as frontispieces to Punch's Pocket Books.
Scotland.- Leith harbour.- Whitworth (Robert) Letter by Robert Whitworth, engineer, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, first edition, docket title to final verso, the odd spot, lightly browned, disbound, [Edinburgh], no printer, [10th January, 1788]; and another on the livings of Church of Scotland ministers, 1788, 4to (2) *** Scarce work on enlarging and improving the harbour at Leith. Yorkshireman Whitworth was one of the leading canal engineers of his generation.
Cookery.- Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) Mrs Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book, colour plates, illustrations, advertisements at front and rear, original cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, portions of fading to spine, [c.1930s] § Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.) The Modern Practical Angler, first edition, engraved plates and illustrations, original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., spine ends and corners lightly bumped, a few spots of discolouration, Frederick Warne and Co., 1870 § Euwe (Dr M., Chess Champion of the World) Strategy & Tactics in Chess, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some short tears and creasing along upper edge, repaired tear to lower joint, light spotting, spine toned, 1937; and c.110 others, leisure, including cookery, sport and birds, 8vo (c.115)
India.- Beaton (Cecil) India, first edition, half-title, full-page illustrations, small hole in text to 'Introduction', previous owner's ink inscription to half-title, bookplate, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, light spotting, small chipping to extremities, a little rubbed, Bombay, Thacker & Co, Ltd., 1945; Near East, first edition, frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, small loss to extremities, slight creasing to edges, a little rubbed, 1943; and others on or by the same, 8vo & 4to (11).
Fielding (Henry) Amelia, 4 vol., first edition, without final blank in vol.1 but with the 'Universal-Register Office' leaf at end of vol. 2 (often lacking), vol. 1 with Foster book-label, vol. 3 with contemporary ink gift inscription 'Penelope Taylor to Miss Margram' to front free endpaper, ink initials 'PT' to titles, vol. 3 I4-6 with blue pencil inscriptions to lower margin in an early ?child's hand, vol. 4 some very small worming to lower margin near start, a few small tears and repairs, vol. 2 B8 causing loss to letter of text, vol. 1 B3, B9 & B10 also with horizontal printing flaw affecting text, vol. 2 M9 small paper-flaw affecting few letters, scattered very small stab-holes to lower margin, light browning, some spotting and staining, modern half calf, spines with red morocco labels, [Rothschild 853], for A. Millar, 1752; and others, 18th century literature, folio & 8vo (c.30)
World.- Underwood & Underwood The Grand Canyon of Arizona through the Stereoscope, 18 mounted stereoscopic cards with printed captions, with accompanying text containing 2 maps (one folding) in original cloth, together in original cloth box with pull-off top, New York & London, 1908 § Nansen (Fridtjof) "Farthest North", 2 vol., second edition, plates, one colour, folding map (torn), original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1898 § Stock (Eugene) Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society, second edition, folding hand-coloured map, original pictorial cloth, 1881 § Trollope (Frances) Vienna and the Austrians, 2 vol., first edition, additional engraved titles and plates, original cloth, spines faded, 1838 § Pankhurst (Sylvia, editor) Ethiopia Observer, vol.2 only, illustrations, original cloth, original wrappers bound in, stained, joints split, 1958, most a little rubbed; and 6 others, travel, 8vo & 4to (13)
Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The Memorial Edition of the Works, 7 vol., half-titles, one engraved portrait frontispiece, 35 plates (most lithographs or chromolithographs), one detached and loosely inserted, 6 maps or plans (4 folding), illustrations, one or two faint spots, original pictorial cloth, gilt, one with two short gouges to spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Penzer pp.54-55; 63-64; 73-74; 82-83], 8vo, 1893-94. *** Vol. 1 of "First Footsteps in East Africa" (vol. 6) has an error in the list of illustrations. 'The Fal' is listed as an illustration, despite never having been added to either this or earlier editions of the same.
[Traherne (Thomas)] Roman Forgeries or a True Account of False Records...of the Church of Rome, first edition, lacking A8 (as usual, seemingly blank), title repaired at inner margin affecting ruled border, short tear at inner margin into text but no loss, a few ink corrections in contemporary hand, trimmed close at head and foot, occasionally touching headline, shaving signature/catchword to A4 and headline to Q8v, a few small marginal nicks, C2 repair to fore-margin and very short tear into text, C8 small repair to fore-margin to verso, some browning, occasional soiling, modern calf, [Wing T2021], S. and B. Griffin, 1673; and 3 others, 17th century, including the third edition of Salmon's Polygraphice, 8vo (4) *** The only work of Traherne's to be published in his lifetime. Rare at auction.
X-rays.- Röntgen (Wilhelm Conrad) "Ueber eine neue art von strahlen" [parts 1 & 2] [and] "Weitere beobachtungen uber eigenschaften der x-strahlen", in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 1898, vol. 64, no.1 pp.1-37, illustrations, modern cloth with gilt-lettered morocco label to upper cover, Leipzig, 1898; and another including a paper by Röntgen and Exner titled "Uber eine Anwendung des Eiscalorimeters zur Besttimmung der intensität der Sonnenstrahlung", 8vo (2)*** The first collected edition of Röntgen's highly important 3 papers on the discovery of X-rays, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.
Marat (Jean-Paul) A Philosophical Essay on Man Being an Attempt to Investigate the Principles and Laws of the Reciprocal Influence of the Soul on the Body, 2 vol., first English edition, first issue without F. Newbery imprint, 2 engraved plates, bookplates, contemporary ink inscription to rear free endpaper of vol.1, light spotting, contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with floral motifs, morocco spine labels, vol.1 spine broken, vol.2 upper joint splitting, extremities and spine detailing rubbed, 8vo, J. Ridley and T. Payne, 1773.
La Calprenede (Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de) Pharamond: or, the History of France. A Fam'd Romance in twelve parts, translated by J. Phillips, title in red and black, woodcut initials, scattered spotting and staining, occasional marginal worming touching odd letter, one or two small marginal tears or losses, 23O4 with small rust-hole affecting odd letter, new endpapers, modern antique style calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, folio, for T. Bassett, T. Dring and W. Cademan, 1677. *** The scarce first printing of Phillips' translation, which is the second version in English, the first edition having been published in 1662.
Robson (Stephen) The British Flora, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, some light browning, modern half calf, York, W. Blanchard and Company, 1777 § Maddock (James) The Florist's Directory, a Treatise on the Culture of Flowers, new edition, edited by Samuel Curtis, 8 engraved plates at end, bookplate of Rear Admiral Purvis, A2 short repaired tear to lower margin, light offsetting, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt, rebacked, corners quite worn, extremities rubbed, 1810 § Hill (Sir John) The Family Herbal, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates, title working loose at head, soiling, light browning, some spotting, contemporary calf with gilt Greek-key border, rebacked, covers rubbed and worn, Bungay, C. Brightly & T. Kinnersley, [c.1812]; and others, natural history, including Wodarch's Introduction to the Study of Conchology, 8vo (6)
Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, later issue, folding engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, plates, 1 folding chart, 2 folding maps (one in pocket at end), illustrations, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, original cloth, staining to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.126], 1857; The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, sunned spines, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.126], 1874; and others on or by Livingstone, v.s. (8).
Africa.- Baker (Sir Samuel White) The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait and tinted lithograph frontispieces, 12 plates, illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding with tear and neat tape repair verso), bookplate, occasional faint marginal finger-soiling, original pictorial cloth, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Czech p.10], 8vo, 1866.
Bees.- Golding (Robert) The Shilling Bee Book, containing the leading facts in the natural history of bees, with directions for bee management, first edition, additional lithographed vignette title printed in red and green and depicting a hive heightened in gilt, a few wood-engraved illustrations in text, additional title with area of mostly marginal loss to lower corner (just touching small part of decorative border) and neatly laid down, pp.11/12 lower corner repaired, just within text, which remains perfectly legible, some inner gutters neatly strengthened, a few marginal repairs, some staining or soiling, occasional spotting, lightly browned, new to style yellow endpapers, original green limp cloth, gilt title to upper cover, cloth neatly worn at lower edges, some staining, rubbed, [British Bee Books 256; Walker p.30 (second edition)], small 8vo, Longman and Co. [Maidstone, Printed by Cutbush, Son, and Whiting], 1847. *** Rare in commerce. The author was from Hunton in Kent, and here aims his observations at 'the poorer bee-keepers'. '[Golding's book] contained a great deal of up-to-date information, and was a dangerous rival to Huish's book, which was much dearer' (British Bee Books, quoting Fraser). Provenance: 'John Mather, 1860' (ink inscription to head of additional title); Geoffrey Lawes (pencil inscription to front free endpaper '256, Lawes 262'); S.A. Baldwin Bee Library.
England.- Fuller (Thomas) The History of the Worthies of England, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12pp. 18th century index at end, lacking initial blank, a few annotations and errata corrected in an early hand, later ink note to verso of frontispiece, trimmed close at head, a few times shaving ruled border, M3-4 short tears into text repaired affecting few letters, a few other short tears into text without loss, a few small holes within text affecting couple letters, Z1 & 3N4 small marginal paper-flaw hole, the latter affecting ruled border, browning, generally light, some spotting and staining, modern antique-style panelled calf, red morocco spine label, [Wing F2440; Pforzheimer 391], folio, Printed by J.G.W.L. and W.G., 1662; and 2 others 17th century, English law or history, folio (3)
Łukasiewicz (Jan) Die Logischen Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, first edition, text in German, half-title, occasional pencil underlining, previous owner's neat pencil notes to half-title verso, contemporary half-calf, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Krakow, 1913 § Doppler (Christian) Über den Einfluss der Bewegung des Fortpflanzungsmittels auf die Erscheinungen der Äther,- Luft- und Wasserwellen, 3 plates at end, one or two tiny marginal tears, original paper wrappers, small stain to upper cover, light browning to edges, a little rubbed, one or two tiny marginal chips, Prague, 1847; 8vo & 4to (2). *** Łukasiewicz was an important Polish logician, mathematician and philosopher.
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding maps, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpapers, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jackets, rubbed, chipping and creasing to extremities, 1948-54 § Sencourt (Robert) Winston Churchill, frontispiece, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, small loss to edges, slight chipping and creasing to edges, rubbed, 1941 § Churchill (Randolph S.) & Helmut Gernsheim. Churchill: His Life in Photographs, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, slight bumping and extremities, dust-jacket, small loss to edges and folds, creasing and chipping to edges, rubbed, 1955; and others on or by the same, including multiple odd volumes and later editions, 8vo & folio (c.80).
Poetry.- Marriage.- Matrimony, pro and con: or, the resolve, first edition, short horizontal tear to inner margin of all ff., not affecting text, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, disbound, [Foxon M138], Printed for M. Cooper, 1745 § Satire on the physician Henry Jephson.- Leamington Spa, single sheet, printed recto only, double column, lightly creased, Leamington, no printer, 17th June, 1834 § Crimea.- Morgan (John) Yes? I am little Lord John, out of service, single sheet, printed recto only, double column, John Marks, Printer, 206, Brick Lane, [1856]; and 5 others, Poetry & a glee, mostly provincially printed, v.s. (8)
Greene (Graham) The Virtue of Disloyalty, one of 300 copies, original paper wrappers, a little toned, slight bumping to edges, Hatfield, Stellar Press, 1972; Nineteen Stories, second impression, faint spotting and staining at beginning and end, original cloth, water-staining to edges, bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, upper flap detached, staining to verso, chipping and creasing to edges, tears and small loss to spine extremities, rubbed and worn, July 1947; The Quiet American, first edition, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, staining to wrapper, slight chipping and creasing to edges, 1955; A Burnt Out Case, first English edition, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, small loss to spine head, a little rubbed, chipping and creasing to edges, 1961; and others by the same including some first editions and duplicates, 8vo (c.55).
Birds.- Brooke (R. K.) South African Red Data Book - Birds, illustrations, original paper wrappers, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Pretoria, 1984 § Hall (B. P.) & R. E. Moreau. An Atlas of Specification in African Passerine Birds, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, faint spotting to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 1970 § Brown (Leslie H.), Emily K. Urban & Kenneth Newman. The Birds of Africa. vol. 1 only (of 7), first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 1982; and 6 others on African birds, v.s. (9).
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone, first edition, half-title, mounted albumen frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 5 maps only (of 6), of which 1 in text, 3 folding and 2 linen-backed, remnants of missing map loosely inserted,modern endpapers, facsimile bookplate, original pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Hosken p.188], 1872; The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B., first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, folding facsimile, large folding map at end, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, light spotting to boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1909; and 2 others on the Stanley Livingstone expeditions, 8vo (4).
[Smollett (Tobias)] Histoire et Avantures de Sir Williams Pickle, [translated by F.V.Toussaint], 2 vol., first edition in French, half-titles, titles in red & black, lightly browned, contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut, rubbed, spines worn, Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1753 § [Smythies (Susan)] Histoire de Lucie Wellers, 2 vol., first edition in French, water-staining to vol.2, old red ink library stamps to titles, contemporary sheep, Lyons, Benoit Duplain, 1766 § [Sa'di Shirazi.] Traditions Orientales, ou La Morale de Sadi, celebre poete Persan, first edition, bound with 2 other works, later calf-backed boards, Schiras, et se trouve a Paris, Cailleau, 1762 § Dusausoir (F.J.) Le Sultan Indécis, ou les Deux Circassiennes, Anecdote Turque, first edition, engraved frontispiece, foxing, later cloth-backed boards, label worn, Paris, An IV [1796] § Montolieu (Isabelle de) Douze Nouvelles, 4 vol., first edition, some spotting, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, Paris & Geneva, 1812, all rubbed; and c.20 others, French, mostly literature, 8vo et infra (c.30)
Beaton (Cecil) Chinese Album, first edition, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, light foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, extremities rubbed and chipped, 1945 § Page (Tim) Page after Page, first edition, signed by the author on half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, creasing to extremities, 1988; and 15 others, art, photography and architecture, etc., v.s. (17)
Geology & Mines.- Lake District.- Robinson (Thomas) An Essay towards a natural history of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an account is given of their several mineral and surface productions, 2 parts in 1, first edition, mounted errata slip at foot of p.118, advertisement f. at end, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo, Printed by J. L. for W. Freeman, 1709. *** Part 1 largely covers minerals, rocks, metals and mines. Also contains a list of rare plants.
South America.- Mountaineering.- Whymper (Edward) Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispiece to vol. 1 only, 4 maps (3 folding), 33 plates, illustrations, spotting at beginning and end, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, sunned spines, bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, 1892-91; and a duplicate of the first volume, 8vo (3). *** "This book was the first of the few great classics of South American mountaineering literature ..." (Neate)
Byzantium.- Evans (Helen C. editor) The Glory of Byzantium, in original plastic wrapping (unopened), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997 § Onasch (Konrad) Icons, first edition in English, jacket small tear spine foot, light creasing and rubbing to extremities, 1963 § Cormack (Robin) and Maria Vassilaki. Byzantium, Royal Academy of Arts, 2008, all with numerous colour illustrations, many whole-page, original cloth or pictorial wrappers, first two with dust-jackets; and 14 others Christian art and theology, v.s. (17)
Rutherford (Ernest) Radio-activity, first edition, plate and diagrams, some light marginal toning, bookplate to front pastedown, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, gilt, spine ends bumped and creased, spine faded, extremities rubbed, [Dibner Heralds of Science 51; Grolier/Horblit 51], 8vo, Cambridge, 1904.*** First edition of Rutherford's survey of contemporary knowledge of the entire field of radioactivity. It includes a discussion of Rutherford's revolutionary transformation theory, according to which radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another.
Eusebius (Pamphilius, of Caesarea) and others. The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ..., translated by Meredith Hanmer, third edition, general title and 4 divisional titles, each with woodcut printer's device, with final blank, lacking Sig. 2T (6ff.), 19th century ownership inscription to pastedown, ink ownership inscription of William ?Frye dated 1653 to general title, divisional title at 2Z2 and final text f., B1 & 2L2 very short marginal tear, 2M4 small portion cut away from fore-margin, 3C5 lower blank corner torn away, some light browning, some water-staining, mainly towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers with central gilt English royal arms enclosed within a garter with coronet, spine gilt and with red morocco label, covers rubbed and scuffed in places, [STC 10574], Richard Field, 1607; and others, 17th century, defective, folio & 8vo (4)
Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Del Contratto Sociale, o Principj del Diritto Politico, translated cy G.Mennini, first edition in Italian, half-title, foxing, contemporary half sheep, label chipped, rubbed, Paris, F.Honnert, 1796 § Tardiani (Scipio) Esame Analitico del Contratto Sociale di G.G.Rousseau, 2 vol., first edition, some spotting, original wrappers, uncut & unopened, a little rubbed and frayed, Lucca, 1819, 8vo et infra (3)
Bees.- Chylinski (Dobrogost) The Beekeeper's Manual: founded on the experience, during many centuries of the apiarians in Poland. Dedicated to the Agriculturists of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates of hives and apparatus, 4pp. publisher's advertisement at end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, yellow endpapers, original green cloth, upper cover with gilt title within a gilt circular garland, spine faded and with ends little frayed, corners worn, [British Bee Books 251; Walker p.13], small 8vo, Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1845. *** Rare. Chylinski was one of the great Bee-Masters of Poland; a country renowned for it's bee-keeping and honey and beeswax production. Here he recommends the use of a large Polish upright hive to British bee-keepers. Provenance: 'Tho. W. ?Lesper, Macclesfield' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); M. Burgess, Bookseller, Macclesfield (contemporary book label to front pastedown).
World.- Bowdler (Thomas) Letters Written in Holland, in the Months of September and October, 1787..., first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, title with short tear to blank upper margin without loss, scattered spotting, modern boards, uncut, Printed for the Benefit of a Charitable Institution at Bath, 1788 § Walter (Richard) A Voyage Round the World...By George Anson, Esq., sixth edition, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 advertisement leaves at end, Foster book-label, first map laid down, third map with a few tears and neat repairs with tiny loss at some folds, other maps with a few short tears into image but no loss, title very light soiled, some spotting and light browning to maps, modern marbled half calf, for John and Paul Knapton, 1749; and others, travel, including "The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone" in original pictorial morocco, 4to & 8vo (6)
Orczy (Baroness) I Will Repay, first edition, folding frontispiece, book-label, lightly spotted, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and faded, 1906 § Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary, 2 vol. in one, second edition, front free endpaper detached, light spotting, bookplate, original half morocco, lightly rubbed, 1857; and 25 others, mostly 19th century, v.s. (27)
Fisheries.- Gentleman in Town (A) A Letter from a Gentleman in Town, to a friend in the country, concerning the present state of the Fishing-Copartnery in North-Britain, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-piece, B3 closely trimmed at foot, just touching catch-word, occasional spotting, lightly browned, attractive antique style polished calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [Kress 3517; Goldsmiths' 6188; Hanson 3218], a very good copy, small 4to, Edinburgh, no printer, 1723. *** Rare copy in commerce. The work proposes improvements to a partnership within the Scottish fleet, in order to counter the highly successful Dutch herring fleet with superior equipment and sales infrastructure (canals).
Weever (John) Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchs of Great Britaine, Ireland, and of the Islands adjacent, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, illustrations, woodcut initials and headpieces, corrections inserted by hand, frontispiece with small loss to bottom edge and neat repair, occasional faint staining, H4-6 and 3P3-6 with small loss to bottom edges (not affecting text), N1 with small loss to upper corner (not affecting text), O4 with small marginal loss to fore-edge (not affecting text), 3T1 with small rust-hole affecting odd letter, 4E4 laid down, later calf, monogram in blind to centre boards, a little rubbed, small loss to spine head, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Thomas Harper ... to be sold by Lawrence Sadler, 1631. *** This copy with the final index, often lacking.
Onions (George Oliver) "Oliver Onions". Whom God Hath Sundered. A Trilogy, first collected edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, dated May 1930, some spotting to half-title and fore-edge, foxing to endpapers, contemporary vellum, gilt, light toning and faint soiling to covers, t.e.g., Martin Secker, 1925 § [Connolly (Cyril)] "Palinurus". The Unqiuet Grave, first edition, one of 1000 copies, 4 plates, red morocco by Atkinsons of Salisbury, spine gilt, faint strip of sunning to lower cover, t.e.g., Printed at The Curwen Press for Horizon, 1944 § Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., plates, bound in navy half morocco by Bayntun, spines gilt but very slightly sunned, spine ends and corners little rubbed, Bath, George Bayntun, 1925; and others, 20th century, attractively bound, 8vo & 4to (c.30)
Kent.- Kilburne (Richard) A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials and headpieces, occasional manuscript notes, ink number to title verso, lacking 3D1 (provided in facsimile), frontispiece and early blank with tiny loss to lower corner (neatly repaired), one or two short marginal tears, S3 with marginal tear just touching text, 2N5 with marginal hole not affecting text, scattered faint spotting and staining, modern endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, 'R. M.' scored into lower cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, by Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659.
Dickens family copies.- The Letters of Charles Dickens. Edited by his Sister-in-law and his Eldest Daughter, reprint, light stain to fore-edge towards end, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, spine a touch darkened, lightly rubbed, 1903 § Jacbos (W. W.) Sea Urchins, first edition, margins lightly toned, a few light marks, original pictorial cloth, upper cover with ink gift inscription "Annie Cavenor Roche to Hal. C. Dickens, Xmas 1898" and a few small doodles in ink, spine darkened, corners bumped, lightly rubbed, 1898 § The Frank Lockwood Sketch Book, third edition, illustrations, some light finger-soiling, original cloth, rubbed and soiled, lower cover with very short tear to fore-edge, 1898, each with ownership inscription Henry C. Dickens to front free endpaper, in the first and second in ink and in the third in pencil; and c.34 others, literature, Dickens family copies, including 13 others with ownership inscription of Henry C. Dickens in pencil or ink, a few Dickens related including early translations of The Life of Our Lord into Dutch, Esperanto and Japanese, 8vo & 4to (c.37) *** Henry Charles Dickens (1878-1966), barrister, son of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens and grandson of Charles Dickens. The father of author Monica Dickens.
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