London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925. 3rd edition. Plates with facing verse throughout. 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches), unpaginated. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in brown. 2 1/2 inch tear into one leaf without loss, a little light foxing; the binding very clean. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18159
London: Longman, Green, 1838. Frontispiece. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 853-pages printed in double column. Contemporary half brown calf, marbled boards. Spine decorated in gilt on raised bands and blocked in blind in compartments, with burgundy lettering piece. Prelims foxed. Overall very good. £22.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17143
London: Cape, 1974. First edition. Plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 381-pages. Original cloth; very good in edge rubbed dust jacket. Bookplate. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18178
London: Chatto & Windus, 1986. First edition. Plates. 8vo, 252-pages. Original cloth; very good in like dust jacket which is slightly bruised at headband. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17303
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. First edition. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 660-pages. Original cloth, some tanning to page edges else very good in very good dust jacket. £18.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17299
London: Smith Eder, 1903. Portrait. 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: ix:433, original brown cloth decoratively blocked in dark brown. Slight bruising to heaband otherwise a nice copy. Contemporary inscription on front fly.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19037
London: by and for Geo. Smeeton, 1820. First edition. 8vo (8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches), 24-pages. Disbound from a larger volume of pamphlets. Very rare; no copy cited on Copac. £120.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17979
London: Goupil & Co. 1898. First edition. Frontispiece in gold and colours. Plates & illustrations. 4to (13 x 10 1/4 inches), 185-pages. Half green morocco gilt, marbled boards, lettered direct. Top edge gilt others uncut. Some rubbing to extremities, overall very good. Engraved armorial bookplate of Violet Gurney on front pastedown.
Weight 2.420 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19272
London: for Alexander Lyon, 1732. Engraved portrait, engraved folding map. 8vo, pp. xi:371:(1), contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt, rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped, hinges cracked but firm. Corner torn from corner of front free endpaper. Internally a crisp copy. |
With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812).
£80.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7900
London: Heinemann, 1967. First edition. Plates. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 775-pages. Original red cloth. Front free endpaper creased else very good. Together with the 3 companion volumes to this volume, all first editions published in 1969. All very good in dust jackets apart from Volume 3 which has the jacket partly adhered to the binding.. They are: Part 1 1901-1907; Part 2 1907-1911; and Part 3 1911-1914; a total of 2159-pages. |
Very heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16895
London: Heinemann, 1966. Published 1966-1976. Volume 3 a first reprint, other volumes first editions. Thick 8vo. Numerous plates. Original red cloth, no dust jackets. A little bruising to the headband of Volume 1. Generally excellent and sharp. Very heavy - extra postage will be requested. |
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16802
London: Methuen, 1933. First edition. 4 plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 207-pages. Full contemporary polished crimson calf, spine blocked in gilt & lettered direct, upper cover blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. The binding by Bumpus. St. Paul's Girls School prize label on front pastedown; narrow band of slight fading to upper margin of covers, light foxing to prelims. else excellent.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18952
[Privately Printed: 1907] Frontispiece and portrait. Small 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 87-pages. Original maroon cloth blocked in white; binding unevenly faded.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12783
London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. First edition. Portrait. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 278-pages, original cloth in dust jacket. Text tanned, cloth foxed, jacket soiled and with considerable loss. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18265
London: for J. Bew, 1776. Engraved portrait frontispiece. 8vo, pp. xvi:352, contemporary full calf with lettering piece. Heavy foxing. Upper cover detached having been attached at some stage with sellotape, this leaving the usual residue both to the binding and endpapers and to the inner margin of the recto of the portrait with some slight show through on blank inner margin of verso. Very old auction lot number label on upper cover. Anonymous. |
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10184
Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, 1898. Portrait. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 224-pages. Contemporary full tan prize calf, decorative gilt rule to sides, spine gilt in compartments, black lettering piece. The arms of Wesley College, Sheffield, in gilt on upper cover; prize label on front pastedown. Very good.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14232
London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. First edition. Volume 1 & Volume 2 Part 1 (lacking the third volume i.e. Volume 2, Part 2). Two volumes 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), pages: xxiii:304 & 352, recent grey buckram, unlettered. Browning to titles. Totally uncut therefore with full margins.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.13087
No place: by the author, 2000. Decorative headpieces. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 92-pages, original light boards in blue gilt lettered dust jacket. Very good. The Dragon School, John Betjeman, etc. |
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18917
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1897. 49th edition. Portrait, . 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 348-pages. Contemporary full burgundy calf, sides with decorative gilt border, upper cover blocked in gilt "The Grange School, Eastbourne". Spine gilt in compartments and gilt lettered direct. A "Holiday Task Prize" inscription dated 1898 on verso of front free endpaper. Spine a little dulled. £16.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17180
London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First edition. Portrait, plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 251-pages. Original plum cloth; spine gilt dulled else very good.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17842
London: T. Fisher Unwin, c. 1905. Portrait. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 337-pages. Contemporary full polished tree calf, decorative border to sides, upper cover blocked in gilt with the arms of Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School. Spine blocked in gilt in 5 compartments within raised bands, black lettering piiece, all edges marbled, Prize label on froont pastedown. Band of light fading to upper margin of upper cover else an attractive binding in very good condition.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18949
London: John Murray, 1845. First edition. Engraved portrait and title vignette. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 inches), pages: xv:395:1, 19th Century half red roan, gilt ruled and lettered direct; some scuffing, crack at one inner joint but very firm. Some spotting to portrait but overall good. Bound with the half-title. |
£48.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17484
[Privately Printed] 1992. Plates. 8vo ( 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 66-pages. Original blue cloth; narrow band of light fading to upper cover else excellent. Inscribed by the author.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15479
London: Privately Printed, 2009. First (& only) edition. Illustrations. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), unpaginated (c.150-pages). Original pictorial wrappers. Tear to upper margin of upper wrapper repaired with tape, upper cover a little creased. |
£16.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18882
Henry Frowde, 1904. Portraits. Two volumes slim 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches), pages 680 & 704 on fine paper. Publisher's full grained green calf, top edge gilt, spines gilt extra. Spines uniformly and not unattractively sunned. Prize inscription on front free endpaper of Volume One. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18643
London: T. Cadell, 1807. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches), 480-pages. Contemporary full marbled tan calf, spine gilt with red & green lettering pieces; rubbed. Bound with the half-title. Old name on front pastedown. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17805
London: John Murray, 1876. Engraved portraits, extra engraved title, plates. Tall 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), 874-pages. Contemporaryu half dark brown morocco, marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Some light rubbing to extremities; overall strongly and well bound, internally very clean. £21.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16288
London: Edward Moxon, 1837. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards. Two volumes 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), pages: x:335 & 338. Very attractive contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments and with black and crimson lettering pieces. Foxing to prelims and portraits, the body of the text however unaffected. Gilt to spines dulled however still very pleasing and in excelent condition. £90.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17186
Wareham, Dorset: the Author, n.d. Photographic plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), 15-pages. Original pictorial wrappers; remains of sticker on rear wrapper. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17861
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Portraits, vignettes. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), pages: xxxi:535 & 631, plus unpaginated index. Later half brown calf, spines gilt in compartments with crimson lettering piece, top edges gilt, by Henry Young of Liverpool. Bound with the half-titles. Attractive bindings in excellent condition.
£48.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18451
London: Longmans, Green, 1877. Two volumes. 8vo, pp.viii:484 & xv:479, contemporary full 'tree' calf, spines gilt within raised bands, with double lettering pieces,inner gilt dentelles, all edges marbled, with gilt arms of Eton College on upper covers. |
Joints a little rubbed but firm, head & base of spine of Volume 1 a trifle chipped. Prize label on verso of front free endpaper and Eton presentation inscription on flyleaf. Portrait a little foxed and slightly stained on blank foremargin. Lower fore-corner of upper cover of Volume 1 chipped.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10590
Reprinted from Bengal Past and Present, Diamond Jubilee Number, 1967. Offprint. 4to, pages 24-37, printed wrappers; wrappers worn, some browning. Inscribed by the author and signed at end.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16195
London: for J. Robinson, G. Woodfall, & Lockyer Davis, 1753. First edition. Part 1 only (Part 2 was published in 1760). Small Large 12mo, pp.xi:263, contemporary full tan calf; rubbed, base of spine chipped, joints cracked but boards held on cords, several old paint (?) splash marks to upper cover. |
Two pages of advertisements precede the title. Contemporary engraved armorial bookplate. Adapted from the 'Memoires' of Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle. Also attributed to Louis Antoine de Caraccioli.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7938
London: for James Hodges, 1741 First edition. Engraved portrait and engraved folding map. 8vo, pp. 371:(10, index & errata), contemporary full blindstamped calf, headband a little chipped, binding edge rubbed but very sound, lacking lettering piece. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). £125.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7901
An offprint of the Cambridge Law Journal, July 2001. Two plates. 8vo, 4-pages, original printed wrappers; fine. £14.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17901
London: T. Cadell, 1797. First edition. Six genealogical charts, 5 folding. 8vo, pp. viii:456, contemporary full tan polished calf, spine guled ruled on raised bands, lettering piece faded and slightly chipped. Upper joint cracked but held on cords. Some light foxing. |
With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).
£90.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.7947
London: for D. Wilson, 1752. 8vo, pp.xx:408:(20, index):(2, An Alphabetical Interpretation of all the Scotish Words and Phrases):(2, blanks):(8, Instructions to the Earl of Bedford). Contemporary full tan calf, spine with raised bands and crimson lettering piece. Headband a little chipped, joints cracked but very firm. Extremities rubbed. Generally a very good copy. |
With the engraved amorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755).
£140.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7956
Paris: Albin Michel, 1939. Plates. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 383-pages. Contemporary 3/4 red calf, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt direct. Original front wrapper bound in. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16928
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. Two volumes bound in one. Engraved portrait. 8vo, pp. 304:318, with the half-titles. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt ruled with lettering piece, marbled boards. Some light foxing, some rubbing to binding but generally very good. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 8388
Paris : A la Librairie Francaise de Ladvocat, Palais-Royal, Galerie de Bois, No. 195, 1821. First edition. Two volumes 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: xxxii:384 & iv:444. Finely bound 19th Century full brown crushed morocco, spines with raised bands and gilt lettered direct, wide inner gilt dentelles, patterned silk endpapers, top edge gilt, the bindings by Zaehnsdorf. With engraved Woburn Abbey armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. Bound with the half-titles. |
Inscription on front fly, "From J.G.A. June 18, 1885. A remembrance of a Revolution". A number of scuffs to the lower cover of Volume 2 otherwise excellent. Some marginal foxing within.
£180.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18561
Glasgow: W. R. M'phun, 1831. Vignette silhouette portrait. 8vo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 160-pages, original boards. Backstrip chipped, boards detached. Publisher's 4-page catalogue at front. Prelims foxed, portrait offset to title. Label on front pastedown: "From the Library of the late Charles Bradlaugh M.P". £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17796
London: Constable, 1916. First thus. Coloured plates. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), publisher's grained brown morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt others uncut. Some foxing but overall very good. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18489
London: Smith, Elder, 1913. Portrait. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 325-pages. Original blue cloth,; extremities rubbed, overall good. Engraved bookplate of Princess Beatrice designed by Prince Louis of Battenberg on front pastedown. H.R.H. Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, the youngest (& favourite) daughter of Queen Victoria.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19278
Market Rasen: New Age Poetry Press, 2014. One of an edition of 100 copies only. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 inches), 147-pages. Softback, original purple pictorial wrappers, fine. Inscribed by the author. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17840
Orpington: George Allen, 1886. Steel engraved plate. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 432-pages. Contemporary 1/4 morocco, vellum corner tips, top edge gilt; very good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19018
Paris : chez Garnery, rue de Seine, hotel Mirabeau. De l'imprimerie stereotype de Mame. freres. 1811. 12 volumes 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches), approx. 200-pages per volume. Contemporary half red calf, marbled boards, spines gilt and lettered direct. |
Some cracks to a few joints but very firm, scuffing to extremities and to spines, small chip out of one headband, corners scuffed but overall very sound and clean internally. Engraved armorial bookplate of Samuel Dick Fleming to front pastedowns.
£120.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18532
London: Aaron Ward ( & 5 others), 1729. Engraved folding portrait, engraved folding plate (this torn without loss), engraved headpieces and intial letters. Two volumes 8vo, pp. xvi:400 & iv:272:(xliv - the censored sections, the fly-title reading "The Castrations" and comprising "Some Account of the Revolution" & A Feast of the Gods). Contemporary full panelled tan calf, spines with raised bands; spine of Volume 2 darkened, joints of volume one cracked, upper board almost detached. With the half-title/license leaf to Volume 1. £100.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7940
London : Printed for Henry Seile over against St Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1652. First edition. Title within typographic border. Small 8vo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches). pages: [8]:247, old full calf, all edges gilt upper cover detached, headband chipped. Internally a very good & clean/ Added engraved portrait of Sidney as frontispiece. In need of re-backing or re-binding and priced to allow for such. |
£750.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18872
London: Richard Bentley, 1850. Two volumes. Frontispiece to Volume 1. 8vo, pp.xxxvi:381 & vi:318, original blindstamped grained blue cloth. Nick in headband of volume 1, headband of Volume 2 chipped. Light crease to frontispiece, prelims. of vol. 1 foxed. Circulating library stamps of J. Brassington, Kensington, on endpapers.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9605
Together with several appendices, e.g. 'The Families of van Straubenzee, Schoncken and Vermaesen compiled by Colonel Storm de Grave'. 4to, pp. 87, ring-bound old wrappers rather worn & chipped, marked 'duplicate'. Illustrated by the insertion of photographs of family portraits. Together with another, roneo'd, memoir of another member of the Straubenzee family, 4to, pp.67, wrappers.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 364
London: John Murray 1907 (1st series). Portraits & plates, folding genealogies.The1st Series in 3 volumes 8vo (9 1/ x 6 1/2 inches), original red cloth blocked in gilt and white, top edges gilt. Some dust-marking to edge of text block of volume 1. Spines faded. The 2nd Series. John Murray 1926-1928. 3 volumes, uniform with 1st series, Very good in dust jackets which have had price increase stickers applied by the publisher. The 3rd Series. John Murray 1930-1932. 3 volumes uniform with the 2nd Series, with the dust jacket to vol. 3 only.
Weight 10 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£220.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19281
London: at the Chiswick Press, 1928. Portrait & plates. 4 volumes 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches) pages:1148 (Volumes 1 & 2), 472 (Volume 3) & 184 (the supplement), original blue grained cloth. Volume 3 printed by the Stellar Press in 1963. The supplementary volume at the Stellar Press in 1974. |
The supplementary volume comprises: Part 1. Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume III, and Part 2. A Biographical List of those admitted to the School from Lent Term 1961 to the Play Term 1974. 6 inch split to the cloth of outer upper joint of Volume 2 else good.
Weight 3.9 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18954
Norfolk: Warren House Press, 1983. First edition. Portrait. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), 135-pages. Original cloth. Very good in sligtly edge worn dust jacket. Withdrawn stamps on endpapers, no other library markings. £16.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17864