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...]
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...]
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...]
Handsomely bound by Riviere & Son, first edition of Bates' version of the King James Bible, arranged to be read in a more narrative, literary fashion. With 2 double page colour maps to rear, showing Syria and Palestine and the Mediterranean Basin. With an intr [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...]
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...]
'with the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal References, of the Late John Brown to which is Appended, A Complete Concordance of the Old and New Testaments'. Impressive full leather Bible. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine, raised bands. A [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...]
Nicely produced facsmilie of the first edition of Boyle's 1661 dialogue expounding his corpuscularism, a key text in the foundation of modern chemistry. A photo-facsimile. Limited to 500 copies. Bound in quarter leather. 8vo. With a presentation plate fro [more...]
The collected poetical works of Lord Byron, complete in one volume, including The Childe Harold's pilgrimmage, Don Juan etc. Printed in double columns. Handsomely bound in full polished calf leather, with raised bands with gilt and blind-stampped decoration [more...]
