London: for Joseph Smith, 1828. 12mo (6 x 3 1/4 inches), pages 143:(1, contents), original printed boards. Title-page stitched in back to front. Lacking one leaf, page 97/98. Lacking backstrip, crudely re-stitched, boards very darkened and rubbed, browning or foxing within, stitching slack, piece of blank margin torn away. Poor but very rare; no copy on Copac. £28.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13946
London: Castell Brothers, n.d. ca. 1890. Three coloured plates and three coloured illustrations. 6-leaves within the original coloured pictorial card wrappers, silk tie bound. Verse. Rare.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 8916
Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper and with a very narrow strip of fading to front of dustwrapper along edge of spine (barely noticeable), else in all other respects, an excellent copy. £25.00 |
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Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper corners rubbed and slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper, else in all other respects, an excellent copy. £25.00 |
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London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. Engraved title vignette, other engraved vignettes and pictorial initials. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), pages: xvi:408, the half-title is present. Attractively bound 20th Century 3/4 tan calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and with burgundy lettering piece, uncut. A good large copy. Some light foxing, discolouration from damp affecting the lower blank fore-corner of a few leaves; overall good.
£495.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18931
London: Keen, Robinson & Co. 1892. Plates (including reproductions of their advertisements for Keen's Mustard over the years). Small 8vo (7 x 5 1/4 inches), 63-pages. Original green cloth gilt; a very good copy. £15.00 |
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Italy: Lavazza, 1994. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.287, original cloth in clipped dustwrapper; some slight shelf-wear to dustwrapper and short tear to bottom edge of front dustwrapper, else an excellent copy. £20.00 |
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London: for J. Buckland [& others], 1773. Frontispiece and 4 engraved plates as called for. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: (40):400, contemporary full dark tan calf; rubbed, backstrip very chipped. Blank lower fore-corner of one leaf torn away without loss, another leaf torn also without loss. Crack at one inner gutter but firm. Hinges cracked but holding. Generally internally very good. Early name, Mrs Arthur Hobby, and address on recto of frontispiece.
£260.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17755
J. Pemberton, London, 1728. Second edition. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches) pages: xv:318:(2, Pembertons list). Old calf, rubbed, broken. Very slight occasional marginal worm trait. Corners rounded, some browning. Overall internally good. The 6 folding plates detached and with some marginal damp marking and browning. First published the preceding year.
In need of rebinding and priced to allow for such.
£580.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19896
Jaipur: IIME ( Indian Institute of Marwari Entrepreneurship ), 2002. First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. 4to, pp.264, original black cloth; headbands slightly bumped but generally a very good copy indeed in like dustwrapper. With a prospectus for the work and a letter from the publisher loosely inserted. £50.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10111