Revised edition. With b/w images. EX-Library with bookplate and tags to front pastedown. Stamps to plates. Rubbing to library binding. Tanning to edges but otherwise clean and binding sound. Fair+ [more...]
Pictorial history, showing the evolution of various forms of travel. With numerous b/w images. oblong 12mo. Light spotting to page edges, tanning within, else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Reprint. With an introduction by Carl Sagan. B/w diagrams and illustrations. Light bumping to edges of DJ. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Charming anthology of sketches, remarks and extracts on dining within friends by a variety of well known authors, each with illustrations of artworks or old photographs on that theme. Oblong 12mo. Very good. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Second issue. Decorative cloth. With b/w illustrations. Cracking to front hinge, light foxing to page edges, mild rubbing and bumping. Contents sound. Good overall. [more...]
Second printing. Comprehensive, readable history of Bruges with b/w images plus a maps and family trees. Toning to spine and covers, slight marking, rubbing to edges. Staining to frontispiece and tissue guard. Tanning to page edges. Previous owner's name [more...]
With tipped in colour illustrations. Third edition. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
'Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II'. Pleasant edition of Defoe's [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition comprising of Macaulay's various writings on the history and politics of the from the reigns of Henry VII and VIII up until Charles II; including biographical chapters on Milton, Bunyan etc. Compiled and arranged by Rowland into a [more...]
Account of means and methods by which art was created over the years, with numerous b/w images. No DJ. With a newspaper clipping of a review of the book. The clipping has left some toning to a couple of pages. Toning to spine. Contents clean and sound. G [more...]
Collection of short biographies of notable 16th century figures including Shakespeare, Walter Raleigh, Phillip Sidney, Thomas More, Francis Bacon and Edmund Spencer. Top edge gilt, decorative cloth. Bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and sound. G [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of della Valle's account of his journeys through Asia Minor, Persia and India during the seventeenth century. With terrific full page b/w illustrations taken from the Dutch edition published in 1665. Complete with slipcase and i [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of White's great account of Selborne, a collection of observations, letters and reports. Written in 1789, it is valuable as a document of pre-industrial England as well as an early example of ecological study. With illustrated by [more...]
A 'straightforward' exploration of the work of six of the most important british dramatists of the last few decades. Wu charts how each writer responded to social and political changes. Also includes an interview with Ayckbourn and a preface discussing Stopp [more...]
