Complete with 128 intricately engraved plates showing scenes not just of important sites, such as the Great Wall, Temples, Palaces and the landscape but also of more intimate scenes, such as dinner parties and cat -merchants. The plates are accompanied by deta [more...]
First edition of Racinet's ground breaking study of historical costume (and hair-styles) from antiquity to the present day. Complete with 300 colour plates (including many double page spreads) plus 200 duo-tone images. Half-leather with marbled boards. Rais [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...]
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...]
Impressively produced edition of Cervantes' landmark work intended to echo the epochal 1780 Spanish edition by Joaquin Ibarra, using Smollett's 1755 translation. Featuring 22 engravings by Bromley after Spanish masterworks by Carnicero and Barranco. With a [more...]
The complete four volumes of Couch's account of British Fish, his most significant work, featuring illustrations from the author's own sketches. A comprehensive survey, including a scientific study of each species plus descriptions of their habitats and inte [more...]
One of several compact editions brought out after the success of Alexander's 1803 'The Costume of the Russian Empire'. With 64 hand-coloured plates here, each with a description in English only. The plates were derived from the engravings done by Johann Go [more...]
Exquisite leather 'relievo' binding, designed and illustrated by Owen Jones, with verse by Mary Ann Bacon, with the engraving done by Edward La Trobe Bateman. One of a small selection of deluxe volumes produced using an innovative technique devised by the pri [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...]
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...]
Archibald Constable & Co.; Dawson; University of London Institute; Oxford University Press 1903
The first ten volumes of the colossal ongoing Victoria History of the County of Essex plus the bibliography and first and second bibliography supplements. Began in 1903 to rival and update Morant's comprehensive 1768 history of Essex, The first three volumes [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...]
'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...]
T. Osborne, J. Whiston, S.Baker, L. Davis, C. Reymers, B. White 1768
The first complete edition of Morant's influential county history that was unrivalled until the recent Victoria History of Essex. Includes his 1748 text 'The History and Antiquities of Colchester' in an updated form. 'Compiled from the best and most ancient [more...]
The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1875
Handsomely rebound set of Ball's generously illustrated account of the Sepoy rebellion. Complete with 90 engravings, including a two page map, three double page spreads, frontispieces and engraved title vignettes. Bound in half leather. With raised bands to [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...]
'Illustrated by A Series of Views taken on the spot, by Messrs. G. Arnold, A. R. A. Bartlett, Campion, etc.' Lavishly illustrated account of the history and antiquities of Essex, with a district by district description of the county. With 101 engraved plates [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...]
Tremendous illustrated 'Savoy' edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Including all his plays and his sonnets plus his longer poems, the Rape of Lucrece etc. Printed in double columns. With a brief biography. With 28 colour images, including the Chandos p [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...]
