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Over the Reefs.
With Engravings by the Author.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1948. First edition. Hardback book in original dust jacket. Dust jacket neatly price clipped, both it and book are in good condition. With wonderful wood engravings. 240 pages. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3780More details Price: £40.00 -
Paul Hogarth's American Album.
Drawings 1962 -65 with notes from a journal
London: Lion and Unicorn Press / RCA, 1973. First Edition. Large format. Original pictorial boards and dust jacket. Number 362 of a limited edition (not specified). A very copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Now in mylar protective wrap. 72 pages. 405 x 290 mm (16 x 11½ inches). Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA was an English artist and illustrator. Named after the Festival of Britain's Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion, the 'Lion and Unicorn Press' was established with the aim of producing finely designed and typeset books, illustrated, printed and bound at the Royal College of Art.
Book ID: 2815More details Price: £35.00 -
Photogravure of gondolas on the Grand Canal, Venice
Paris: Ch. Wittmann, 1896. Lovely example of a photogravure showing gondolas on the Grand Canal, and San Giorgio Island in distance, Venice. B/ w image size: 150 x 200 mm (6 x 7¾ inches). Full item, including border: 250 x 330 mm. Very clean and fresh. Perfect for framing. Blank to verso.
. Bel exemple de photogravure montrant des gondoles sur le Grand Canal et l'île de San Giorgio au loin, Venise. Taille de l'image en noir et blanc : 150 x 200 mm (6 x 7¾ inches). Image complète, y compris la bordure : 250 x 330 mm. Très propre et frais. Parfait pour l'encadrement. Le verso est vierge.
Book ID: 4248More details Price: £60.00 -
Pictures Of The French : A series of literary & graphic delineations of French character...
London: Thomas Tegg, 1841. First edition. Hardback in original cloth, with gilt illustrated title vignette to front and spine. Moiré endpapers. Complete with all 24 b/w plates (including frontispiece), and many others in text. Pages are darkened at edges, and some foxing to a few pages; otherwise good general condition. xii, 200 pages. 250 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 4237More details Price: £40.00 -
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English.
London: John Murray, 1814. First edition. With 50 colour aquatint costume plates, dated 1813. Hardback. Contemporary black long-grained morocco boards, gilt and embossed, corners slightly rubbed. All edges gilt, and gilt inner dentelle. Slight offsetting, and light foxing to some pages. Each plate has a page of text to describe it. All life is here; from Gipsey to Hussar, and Lord Mayor to Dairy Maid. Very attractive copy. Ref: Colas 2537; Lipperheide Gca 21; Tooley 374. [52] pp, plus 50 plates. 240 x 170 mm (9½ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3840More details Price: £825.00 -
Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.
London: T. Cadell, 1791. First Thus. An edition in quarto appeared in the previous year. A simple recent brown full calf binding, with no titles. This is an important work. Complete with the half-title and large folding map by James Rennell, to the rear. The map has in excellent condition, with small tear to outer edge (outside map frame). Binding and book in very good condition. Two New York Historical Society stamps to title. Some minor foxing and page toning.
xvi, 351 pp. + plate: map. 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).Book ID: 2294More details Price: £900.00 -
Round the World on Wings of Song (Reciprocity):
An account of the Tour of the Sheffield Musical Union through the British Dominions from 17th March 1911, to 30th September 1911.
Sheffield: J.W. Northend Ltd, 1933. Special Subscribers' Autographed Edition. Blue hardback boards with gilt titles to spine. Limited to 500 copies. Signed and dated in pen by the author to his frontis portrait photograph. Eight unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits. xiv, including list of subscribers, contents, and illustrations, 215 pp. No dust jacket, but book in good shape and clean inside. Pages a little rough at edges where the leaves have been cut. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 4109More details Price: £40.00 -
Señor Bum in the jungle.
Book ID: 4203More details Price: £30.00
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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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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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Studies on the Tihāmah.
The Report of the Tihāmah Expedition 1982 and Related Papers.
Book ID: 2762More details Price: £40.00
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The Evening Standard Open Road for Motoring, Cycling, and Walking.
With separate large coloured linen road map.
London: The Evening Standard, 1920. Hardback book, in fold-over red cover (similar to a Baedeker) which fastens down neatly with a popper. Includes large loose linen colour folded map in a pocket at the back. Revised edition, circa 1920. Several b/w fold-out maps inside, including one entitled: How to get out of London! With 224 pages of advice, routes and advertisements for relevant items - plus the maps. It's a charming item, and we can't find any other copies available. 224 pages + folding map. 145 x 105 mm (5¾ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3004More details Price: £60.00 -
The Journey from Chester to London.
London: Printed For Wilkie and Robinson;...And J. Johnson and Co, 1811. Later edition. Half leather hardback binding. Gilt titles to spine. Complete with six plates - five portraits (including frontis) and one view. Boards are very worn, and the front board is almost detached. Previous owner's name to half title. Only very light foxing. A reasonable copy. [1], viii, 622 pp. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2978More details Price: £40.00 -
The New York Visitor. World's Fair News July 1939
New York Central System, 1939. A lovely guide to the World's Fair at New York. Illustrated throughout with information for visitors to New York. There were regular monthly publications throughout 1939 giving up to date information. Aerial sketch map of the fair, and a folding map of New York and the subway system. 50 pages (inc covers). 230 x 100 mm (9 x 4 inches).
Book ID: 3212More details Price: £35.00 -
The Stranger's Guide to Brussels and Its Environs;
to which is added the description of The Battle of Waterloo, and that of Sedan - with plans and maps
Brussels: Kiessling & Company, 1873. In hardback paper covered boards. Fifth edition. Complete - with frontis map and three others. Covers bumped and rubbed. Map of Brussels has one small tear to upper section (shown in photographs). Overall in good condition. With the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates (1874-1958), who was born in London but partly educated in Belgium. He served in the First World War as a private soldier, whilst simultaneously making a substantial fortune through his financial interest in a firm of industrial chemists. After the WW1 ended he became an antique dealer, and gained an international reputation in the antiquarian book trade. Text in English. 148 pages + tables and adverts. 170 x 115 mm (6¾ x 4½ inches).
Book ID: 3030More details Price: £75.00 -
The Voice of Asia.
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. Stated first printing. Hardback in neatly price clipped dust jacket - now in Mylar. Dust jacket has some light edge wear. Illustrated end papers. Pages clean. Michener had travelled widely in Asia and this book is the result of him having talked to many people he encountered along the way about their opinions of their country's religious problems, economic questions, and social revolutions. A snap shot of mid twentieth century Asia. 338 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3222More details Price: £48.00 -
Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770 - 1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey Vol. I & II
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Two volumes. Hardback in dust wrapper. The front of the wrapper of Volume 1 has been sliced in half (quite neatly!) now held in removable plastic. Apart from this flaw, the wrappers are clean and tidy. Books are bound in burgundy laminated cloth. The front of Volume 1 has a thin scratch (corresponding to the wrapper damage).
Volume 1 - contains the World, Europe and Africa. 347 works are catalogued, with 44 plates and illustrations.
Volume 2 - contains Asia, Oceania, Antarctica & America. Contains 381 works catalogued and 46 plates and illustrations.
xiv, 1-300., xiv, 301-676. pp. 320 by 240 mm (12½ by 9½ inches).Book ID: 2120More details Price: £225.00 -
Travels through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological &c
Also a Catalogue of Plants, Found spontaneously growing in those Parts and their Virtues.
London: J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch..et al, 1738. Second edition. Volume I only (of two). Full leather binding with gilt details and titles. The leather is a little rubbed and the gilt faded. Slight cracking to the hinge, but holding well. Complete with three engraved plates (two folding). All three of the engraved plates are found in this, the first of the two volumes. Engraved capitals and end pieces. Internally in good clean condition, in a good, tight condition. Owner's name to the head of the title page. iv, 428, 120 pp. 205 x 130 mm (8 x 5 inches).
John Ray was an English naturalist, widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists, and the man with whom "the adventure of modern science begins".
Book ID: 3332More details Price: £480.00 -
Vieille Alsace.
Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, 1945. Large grey / green paper folder. Under a new glassine protection. Eight pages of text, and then 12 loose plates in both b/w and some hand coloured. Folder and plates are in a good condition. 330 x 255 mm (13 x 10 inches).
. Grande chemise en papier gris / vert. Sous une nouvelle protection en glassine. Huit pages de texte, puis 12 planches détachées en noir et blanc et certaines coloriées à la main. La chemise et les planches sont en bon état. 330 x 255 mm.
Book ID: 4361More details Price: £40.00 -
Vue d'optique - Vue de la Tour des Pleureurs, à Amsterdam, du coté du Quai de Gueldre
Book ID: 3414More details Price: £120.00