Definitive biography of the mercurial Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. With b/w plates. Complete with slipcase. Dust jackets are price-clipped with mild bumping and shelf-wear. Rubbing to slipcase. Previous owner's name to ffeps. Volumes otherwise c [more...]
'A Chronological survey of Maritime Events from 5000BC to the present day.' With 203 illustrations and 31 maps. Hefty nautical history. Arranged chronologically. With full page colour illustrations. Decorated end-papers. 4to. Some toning to spines of DJs. [more...]
Pleasant cloth edition of Irving's pioneering satirical history of New York, that came on the back of a bizarre marketing strategy. With frontispiece. All edges gilt. Blind stamped decoration to cover. Previous owner's related newspaper clipping to ffep. [more...]
Pleasant compact edition of McCarthy's well received history of the nineteenth century, during which time he was an MP and a prominent Anti-Parnellite. Printed on fine paper. Decorative cloth with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. 12mo. Previous ow [more...]
Neatly rebound compact one volume edition of Robertson's important 1777 History of America. Bound in blue cloth with printed marbled end-papers. Some toning to title page, tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
comprehensive guide to the terminology of the bible, giving topographical and historical context. With b/w illustrations. No date but c. 1880. 12mo. Printed in double columns. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Mild foxing within. Tanning to pages edges. Co [more...]
Handsome, illustrated edition of Boswell's famous biography, called "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature". With 16 phorogravure plates plus numrous b/w images of locations etc. from drawings from Railton. Maps to end-pa [more...]
Complete in four volumes, the Oxford world classics edition of landmark documents and speeches from american History, from its founding to the start of the second world war. Complete with dust jackets. DJ of vol. III has a tear to tail of spine. Some light [more...]
Generously illustrated account of the company, its history and current products and holding. With numerous colour plates and b/w images within the text. No DJ. 4to. Mild shelf-wear. Faint foxing to page edges, else clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Second volume of the extensive journals of the Sturt, who wrote as George Bourne on rural life. EX-Library with stamps and tags to end-papers. Spine slightly cocked, mild shelf-wear and toning within, binding sound, contents clean. Good overall. [more...]
English translation of Vavra comprehensive and generously illustrated history of glass-making from antiquity to the present day. Featuring 32 colour and b/w images throughout the text and to the rear is a 172pp. section of illustrations and photographic image [more...]
Lavishly illustrated guide to accompany the 2012 exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, that tells the story of the Thames and its significance throughout British history. With hundreds of colour images and photographs. With an introduction b [more...]
The fifth division of Virtue's stupendous Universal Geography, a detailed cultural, ethnological and topographical study of the Earth that was to meant to run to 24 divisions over a number of volumes between 1878 to 1894. This division contains sections on Au [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of Bell's revised 1952 account of the Great Fire of London, describing the state of the city prior to the inferno; the cause of the blaze and accounts of its spread throughout London, as well the immediate and long term aftermat [more...]
Handsome and generously illustrated account of exploration in sub-saharan africa. decorative cloth covers with gilt titling. Numerous b/w engravings. All edges gilt. No date but c. 1900. Mild sunning to spine. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner [more...]
Handsome collection of extracts from various great histories by eminent authors describing key events, including The Fire of London, The Discovery of America, The South Sea Bubble, The Salem Witch trials and dozens more. Decorative blue cloth. Bevelled edges. [more...]
Fascinating exploration of Roman trade and how it was perceived and participated in by various Roman classes. DJ has toning and staining. Mild rubbing to edges, contents bright and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Interesting, charmingly dated, somewhat triumphalist account of the City of London, featuring its other landmarks in addition to the financial district. With numerous b/w and colour images. Large 4to. (340x260mm) 191pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear [more...]
Comprehensive history of China from ancient times and the Shang to the present day. With numerous b/w images and maps. Some light sunning to spines. Mild foxing to page edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and bindings sound. Good+ [more...]
