Recent Additions
A selection of items from recently added stock.
AN OFFICER OF THE INDIAN POLICE: The "Walking Stick Method of Self-Defence. By an Officer of the Indian Police.
Plates from photographs throughout. 8vo 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Original red cloth; unevenly faded, tear in one blank margin. With the ragged front panel of the dust jacket only from which we learn that "The Daintiest Lady carrying a walking cane is a Match for the Burliest Hooligan".
£180.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22644
ANON: My Mother's picture book: containing, My mother, The dogs' dinner-party, The white cat, Little dog Trusty, with twenty-four pages of illustrations.
Routledge, London [1870]. 23 chromolitho (coloured) plates as called for [one being a double-page]. 4to (10 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches), original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and colours. Headbands rubbed, inner joints cracked. Two blank leaves torn and with early repair with cloth tape. 1877 gift inscription on front free endpaper. A very nice copy indeed. Very rare.
£275.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22830
ARNOLD, MATTHEW: New Poems. Inscribed.
Macmillan and Co. 1868. Second edition. (1st was 1867). 8vo ( 7 1/4 x 5 inches), pages: 246:(1, Works by Matthew Arnold, M.A.) original green cloth, sides ruled in gilt, by Burn & Co. with their ticket on rear pastedown. Slight bubbling of cloth to upper cover else very good. Inscribed "From the Author" on verso of front free endpaper. Inscribed " J [?] Exon" on front pastedown. Rare. seemingly more so than the first edition of 1867 of which 20 copies are cited by Jisc wheras only 6 copies cited for the second edition!
£750.00
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BAUR, ERWIN; FISCHER, EUGEN; & LENZ, FRITZ. (Translated by Eden & Cedar Paul): Human Heredity. With 172 illustrations in the text and 9 plates.
George Allen & Unwin, 1931. First English edition. 9vo ( 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 734-pages. Original blue-grained cloth in the dust jacket. The dust jacket now browned and edge worn but it has done a wonderful job in preserving the cloth binding which remains very good indeed; also very good internally.
£495.00
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CATLEEN, ELLEN: Peking Studies.
Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, 1934. Photographs by Catleen and sketches by F.H. Schife throughout. Folio (15 x 10 5/8 inchen), 87-pages. Original 2-tone cloth with pictorial inset as issued. Binding dustmarked and spotted at base of upper cover, some spotting and marking elsewhere but overall very good and internally excellent. In the rare dust jacket which has edge wear and with chipped loss and foxing.
£425.00
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GAUTIER, THEOPHILE& La Morte Amoureuse. Compositions de A.P. Laurels, Gravees en Coleurs par Eug. Decisy. Exquisitely bound by the Parisian binder LUCIEN DURVAND (1852-1924), celebrated as one of the finest binders of his era.
Published by Librairie de la Collection des Dix A. Romagnol Editeur Paris, 1904 Number 240 of a total edition of 300 (Numbers 101-300 being "exemplaires.sur papier Velin de Arches avec l'etat termine avant la lettre des planches hors texte".Coloured plates and coloured vignettes all with tissue guards. 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches), pages: 79:(1):(3). Exquisitely bound by Durand - [stamp signed at head of verso of front free endpaper] - in full brown crushed morocco, with intricate floral coloured inlays to both covers, the upper cover with embossed gilt medallion of a hooded skull with flowers. The inner pastedowns in blue morocco with coloured floral corner inlays, the free endpapers in silk. Bound-in silk marker. Some foxing within; the binding fine and now preserved in a quarter burgundy calf solander case, 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches overall.
£2,800
Enquire - please quote Item No. 23366
LEWIN, W: The Papilios of Great Britain: systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature: with the natural history of each species, from a close application to the subject, and observations made in different counties of this kingdom, as well as from breeding numbers from the egg, or caterpillar, during the last thirty years, the figures engraved from the subjects themselves, by the author, W. Lewin ... and painted under his immediate direction.
Printed for J. Johnson, London, 1795. First edition, second issue. (Previously issued the same year as Volume 1 of "The insects of Great Britain"; of which this was the only volume published). 46 fine hand-coloured copper engraved plates. Titles and text both in English & French. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), pages: 97:(3, index). Contemporary full dark blue straight grained calf, wide decorative floral gilt border to sides, spine with sunburst gilt decoration and gilt lettered direct, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. The tissue guards to the plates foxed, the plates themselves very clean and unblemished. The binding very good, handsome and attractive. Contemporary inscription, "Thos. Kinder Esq. St. Albans" on front fly.
£2000.00
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings. Edited by Herbert Farjeon.
Nonesuch Press, 1929. Published 1929-1933. Number 574 of a limited edition of 1050 for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, a further 550 sets were printed for sale in the United State of America. Seven volumes large 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), publisher's full tan morroco, sides ruled in gilt, spines with wide raised bands and gilt lettered direct, top edges gilt, others uncut. Spines a little sunned apart from Volume 6. Small scuff to lower compartment of Volume 3. Internally excellent.
£700.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.22377