A collection of plates from a variety of sources depicting various interior features of notable homes and palaces. Includes photographs and engravings showing decorative and architectural details of entrance halls, rooms, libraries etc. dating from the late 1 [more...]
First edition. Volume VIII of Jardine's Naturalist Library. A study of the amphibious mammals, including a short biography of Francois Peron and a final section of sea monsters. Complete with 33 plates, including engraved title and a fronstiportrait of Pero [more...]
First edition. Volume V of Jardine's Naturalist Library. A study of the larger mammals, including a short biography of Hans Sloane. Complete with 32 plates, including engraved title and a fronstiportrait of Sloane. 28 engravings are delicately hand-coloure [more...]
Handsomely rebound, extra illustrated edition of Rhind comprehensive account of the physiology of plant life, with extensive descriptions of many plants and their uses in medicine and industry. With hundreds of b/w wood and steel engravings within the text pl [more...]
Handsome leather binding of Craik's 1830 account of New Zealand and its peoples and cultures that appeared in the Entertaining Library of Knowledge series. Notable for its descriptions of the Maori people, in particular Te Pehi Kupe (Tupai Cupa), which would [more...]
First edition. Volume III of Jardine's Naturalist Library, Ichthyology. The first volume in the section on the fishes of Guiana, based upon the expeditions of the author himself, including a short biography of Schomnurgk. Complete with 34 plates (one a doub [more...]
Beautifully rebound. The first, original series of Tyas' descriptions of common British flowers, including the Snowdrop, Daisy, Hyacinth, Cowslip etc. Complete with 12 hand-coloured plates displaying several flowers, Most with tissue guards. Bound in half r [more...]
Neat set of Shakespeare's complete works in a small compact but not quite miniature format. Full leather bindings, all edges gilt. Each volume with several b/w illustrations. Complete with original silk lined, padded box with contents printed onto silk bene [more...]
Impressive illustrated edition of Green's pioneering history of England that eschews War and International politics and focuses on English people and society; which, according to Green, was more influential to the nation and its development than battles and ki [more...]
Elegantly bound edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and shorter poems/songs. Published and bound by Hatchards in their customary style. Full red leather with raised bands. Gilt rules to inner and outer edges. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edges uncut. 12mo [more...]
Handsomely bound edition of Quarles' massively influential and enduring 1634 emblem book. Comprising of 60 'emblems' over five books which feature newly engraved versions of the original allegorical pictures along with Quarles' verse paraphrasing the related [more...]
The two volumes concerning the Province region, from the exhaustive Les Francais series. Appearing between 1840 and 1842, it sought to provide a complete view of French society, bequeathed to future generations by the present. As such it features numerous pi [more...]
First editon Alfred Radcliffe-Brown important study of the Andaman islanders, based on his field research between 1906-1908. Access to these islands is now largely restricted. Complete with 2 maps and 19 b/w plates plus frontispiece. 8vo. [xiv] 504pp. Ex- [more...]
Handsomely bound edition of Moore's works, 'as collected by himself' with Moore's insightful introduction to each volume and its contents. Including Odes of Anacreon, Juvenalia, Poems of America, Lalla Rookh etc. Full leather with gilt decoration to spine wi [more...]
Nicely rebound copy of James' hefty but readable history of Britain, from the earliest period to the present time. six volumes bound as three. With numerous excellent b/w plates, portraits and fold-out maps bound in at the start of each division. With signif [more...]
Canadian War Records Office; The Pictorial Newspaper Co. 1917
Complete run of the magazine, in book form, detailing Canadian actions in World War One. With numerous b/w images and maps plus colour plates. Bound in half leather. 4to. Slight shelf-wear. A few nicks to covers. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean an [more...]
Early edition of Irving's sometimes imaginative (though less so than in his biography of Columbus) history of conquest of Granada that saw Ferdinand II defeat Abu Abdallah Muhammad, conquering the last muslim stronghold in Spain in 1491. Irving traveled to Sp [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...]
Fine Half vellum binding of Douglas' biography of the Parisian Soprano, describing her eventful career and private life. With b/w engravings by Charles Wittmann. Gilt decoration to spine with leather label. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rou [more...]
Early reprint of this treatise on how good christians are led astray, written by The Author of The Whole Duty of Man, which is now commonly attributed to Richard Allestree. Engraved title page with two portraits of Ezekial and King David done by Wenceslaus Ho [more...]
