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Secret Despatches from Arabia.
Published by Permission of the Foreign Office.
London: 1939. Nice copy of this numbered limited first edition from The Golden Cockerel Press. Cream boards with quarter Niger leather spine and gilt titles by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The black leather is in excellent condition, but the cream boards are a little rubbed on the corners, and slightly soiled. Still attractive though. The end papers have stains where tape has been used (it seems to hold a previous cover). Otherwise the book is in very good clean condition. #458 / 1000 copies. Printed on Arnold's mould made paper. Top edge gilt. Frontis photograph of Lawrence. 173, [2], pp. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3311More details Price: £300.00 -
Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu: The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits
Book ID: 2818More details Price: £300.00
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Select Fables; with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, previous to the year 1784; together with a memoir; and a descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1820. First edition. A nice copy of this collection of fables with the attractive Bewick engravings. Frontis portrait of Thomas Bewick, title with engraved vignette. Half leather with marbled boards and gilt titles to spine. Slight rubbing to the edges. of the binding. Internally clean and tidy, with just a little darkening to the page edges. [4]; xl; 332 pp. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3879More details Price: £200.00 -
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy
With portrait & Title page design engraved on the wood by William Nicholson.
London: Philip Lee Warner - Medici Society, 1921. A very nice copy of this limited edition. Pale blue hardback with cloth spine. A little marking / staining to the base of the spine. Paper labels to the front board and spine (spine is somewhat darkened). Owner's inscription to the front end page. Limited to 1025 copies, this is copy 470. Printed on Riccardi Paper. Internally, the book is clean and tidy. Lovely rough cut paper. Beautiful illustrations by William Nicholson. An excellent copy. Spare labels to the rear end paper. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches). x, 1-144, [iv]. pp.
Book ID: 1979More details Price: £100.00 -
Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications
London: J. Debrett, 1798. First edition. Two volumes, sympathetically rebound in half calf, with new leather spines, but retaining carefully restored original marbled boards. Original boards a little rubbed, but recent leather all very good. Some spots of foxing internally. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches). Volume I: viii, 526 pp. Volume II: viii, 528 pp.
William Tooke (1744–1820) was a British clergyman and an historian of Russia. This work gives a fascinating historical perspective, not only on his favoured Russia, but also on everything from the way ladies dressed in Peru, to the use of spices in 'the torrid zone'.Book ID: 2490More details Price: £260.00 -
Self - Portrait: U.S.A.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. 325 fascinating b/w photographs giving a unique and intimate insight in to the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968. In publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt, inside its dust jacket. Very good condition dust jacket, with lightly bumped corners (one has a very small closed tear shown in photographs). Book itself is in a fine condition. David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist renowned for his photographs of combat situations in the Vietnam War, during which he was an officer in the Marine Corps. His camera of choice was the Nikon F. This was Nikon's first SLR camera, and one of the most advanced cameras of its day. 240 pages. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches).
Book ID: 2560More details Price: £40.00 -
Señor Bum in the jungle.
Book ID: 4203More details Price: £30.00
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Sentimens d'un Chrétien touché d'un véritable Amour de Dieu,
tirez de divers passages de L'Ecriture Sainte, et représentez par quarante-six figures en taille-douce.
Book ID: 2319More details Price: £130.00
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[Sermones de tempore et de Sanctis]
Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479. An attractive leaf, taken from Bonaventure's Sermons. Printed in black with red highlighting of capitals and key letters. Printed to both sides of the leaf, in two columns. Area of light staining to the bottom corner of the leaf (visible both sides) otherwise in excellent condition. The paper is chain laid paper, with a crude unicorn watermark. Although we have been unable to date / match precisely, the paper and watermark are very similar to some in the graphics arts collection at Princeton University, including one from Bruges dated to 1475 and another dated 1593. Very small damage to the edge where removed from a book. Slight marking to one side of the paper. 270 x190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
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Sermones Hyemales.
Autoris vitam, indicemque locupletissimum in fronte libri praefiximus. Eisdem denuo summa cura per D. Damianum Diaz Lusitanum... recognitis luculentae adnotationes in margines accesserunt.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1382More details Price: £550.00 -
Serrurerie du Moyen-Age. Les Ferrures de Portes.
Avec dessins par Henri Gerente et G. Bouet.
Book ID: 3209More details Price: £175.00
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Set of five original early photographic prints of Australia and New Zealand in late 1800's
Book ID: 3010More details Price: £120.00
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Set of five Sporting Novels with hand coloured illustrations by John Leech
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour / Handley Cross / Ask Mama / Plain or Ringlets / Mr Romford's Hounds
Book ID: 4053More details Price: £650.00
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Seven Fugues
London: The Fortune Press, 1956. First Edition poetry book. Hardback in original light coloured dust jacket, which is age toned. Black cloth boards in very good condition. Internally quite clean, with light water stain to lower corner of last few pages.
Giovanni Baldelli (1914–1986) was an Italian anarchist theorist, best known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism he also wrote poetry, plays and philosophical works. 47 pages. 215 x 160 mm (8½ x 6¼ inches).Book ID: 3292More details Price: £60.00 -
Seventeen Reasons: An Essay of Contingent Acts.
Or, Short Theoretical Stories.
Book ID: 2505More details Price: £250.00
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Shadowheart.
London: Gollancz, 2003. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches). 421 pages
Book ID: 2356More details Price: £15.00 -
SHAMAN and other poems.
London: Turret Books, 1968. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Signed in ink to title page by Sillitoe. With the original gilt printed dust jacket, in green boards with title to spine in gilt. The dust jacket is faded to edges and spine. A small closed tear to the dust jacket on the top of the front cover. The extremities of the jacket are rubbed and nicked. Bookplate tipped-in to FFEP. Boards clean and bright. Internally appears unread / fine. 38 pp. 235 x 155 mm (9¼ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2372More details Price: £30.00 -
SHANGHAI;
A handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city
Book ID: 2184More details Price: £700.00
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Share certificate 005682
An original signed share certificate with 40 accompanying numbered shares
Seville: Islas del Guadalquivir, 1926. An original share certificate for this Spanish company. Signed in ink by the administrator to the certificate, and stamped with the validation / tax stamp. Now lightly mounted on mounting board, and covered in protective cellophane. Certificate measures 14" x 161/2" Mount is 171/2" x 201/2"
Condition: A little darkening to the paper, and the stamp / signature have faded a touch. light creasing, but nothing significant. A nice example of this certificate.
Book ID: 1704More details Price: £12.00 -
Shepherd tending sheep
Scarce signed etching from a watercolour painted by Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950). Under glass in a gilt frame. Signed in pencil to lower right. In excellent condition. Numbered.
Born in Paris, Lecomte was the son of renowned landscape painter Paul Lecomte. Paul Emile studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under portraitist and history painter Fernand Cormon; his works were often featured in prestigious galleries like the Paris Salon.
Book ID: 3408More details Price: £225.00