Hatchards and Son; Bentham & Co.; Millikin, Dublin 1829
'With Anecdotes, documents and cases interesting to Christian Moralist who decline the combat; to experienced duellists; and to benevolent legislators.' Scarce volume containing Hamilton's collected writings on Duelling including The Royal Code of Honour and [more...]
Self published volume by amateur astronomer Walter Goodacre. His hand-drawn maps of the Moon were the standard and in use for many years. Included are dozens of his sketches of the surface as well as a number of high quality plates of some of the most striki [more...]
'A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the greeks and romans. The High opinion which the great men of antiquity had of it, its connection to poetry and philosophy and the use that may b [more...]
The five books of Juvenal's Satires and book one of Persius' satires, with annotations by Theodore Pulman. Printed by christophe Plantin. Text in Latin, annotations in latin to margin. Decorated initials, Plantin's device to title page. Later 17th/18th cen [more...]
'With illustrations on steel and wood by the most eminent artists'. Splendid half leather set of this lavishly illustrated guide to the sights and landscape of Great Britain and Europe. With dramatic, somewhat romantic full page, tissue guarded steel engravi [more...]
Lavishly rebound illustrated edition of Shakespeare complete dramatic works with a life of the author, an account of the various folio editions, the various commendatory poems that accompanied those early editions and an explanation of Shakespeare name and sig [more...]
The extant literary works of Callimachus in the original greek with a translation into Latin by Bonaventura Vulcanius with annotations and index. Together with the bucolic poetry of Moschus of Syracuse and Bion of Smyrna. Callimachus is perhaps best remember [more...]
The First and second collected volumes of Dickens' self published journal which contains, in serialized form, the first appearance of A Tale of Two Cities. In addition to numerous short stories, poems and articles, volume II also contains the first half of Wil [more...]
Ambitiously produced edition of Milton's epic poem, begun by the Richter brothers in 1794 but completed and published in 1796. With twelve splendid engraved plates and twelve engraved headpieces done by Henry James Richter to accompany each book of Paradise L [more...]
Limited edition Gregynog Press edition of selected autobiographical writings by Shaw. Number 103 of 300. Full leather binding designed by artist Paul Nash, with art deco style initials to front and rear cover. Printed on handmade paper by Arnold and Foster, [more...]
Scarce volume describing Prichard's pioneering journey to Haiti in 1899, becoming, reportedly, the first white man to cross the country in a hundred years. An entertaining, eventful and often sympathetic account. With b/w photographs taken by Prichard. Later [more...]
'Orne de figues'. Early edition (possibly first, possibly a pirated copy) of Fromaget's controversial 1742 novel that was banned immediately. Purporting to be a historical document published in Constantinople (hence a lack of bibliographic information), Le C [more...]
Sumptuous limited Folio Society letterpress edition of King Lear. Printed by hand to special mould-made paper. Bound in half-leather with metallic marbled paper done by Ann Muir. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Presented in a cloth bound clam shell box [more...]
Early collected edition, published during the poet's lifetime, containing all his verse dramas and poems up until early 1819. Vol. I (1818): Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos I & II; Vol. II (1818): The Giacour & The Bride of Abydos; Vol. III (1818): The Cors [more...]
Lavishly illustrated account of the history of the nineteenth century and how it reflected in the culture, fashions and mores of society. Features hundreds of images of pictures and engravings, with dozens of colour plates reproduced from La Mode, Gallery of [more...]
Specially produced history of Cunard, 'extracted from the Naval and Military Magazine'. With 13 b/w images of various ships plus appended with cabin plans of the steam ships Umbria, Eturia, Oregon, Aurania, Servia & Gallia. With a list of the ships then in se [more...]
'depuis Schaffhouse jusqu'en Hollande, à Bade, à la vallée de la Murg et à la Forêt Noire, aux principaux environs et aux bains de ces contrées' . Half leather with marbled boards. Guide to walking routes along the Rhine. Text in french. Complete wi [more...]
The Extant books (XIV -XXXI) of Ammianus Marcellninus' great history of Rome, the Res Gestae, concerning the years 353 to 378 AD. With observations by Dutch Scholar and Leiden Professor Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn and a brief account of Marcellinus' life and w [more...]
Limited edition facsimile of the folios from the Great Domesday book pertaining to Wiltshire. Comprising of three volumes, the first contains a high quality reproduction of the original pages and inserted maps of Britain at the time and a large, detailed map o [more...]
Six volumes of Surtees' popular humorous hunting themed novels. Featuring 88 hand coloured steel engraved plates by John Leech and Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) plus hand-coloured title pages and dozens of b/w wood engravings within the text. No date but c.1880. [more...]
