Belgian Printing and Publishing Society; Hauman & Co. 1840
'Containing Descriptions of the Principal Cities, their Museums, Picture Galleries, &c, The Railways and Great High RoadsAlso Directions for Travellers and hints for Tours'. Fourth revised edition of Murray's guidebook, published here by Belgian Printing and [more...]
No date but c. 1863 in this collected form. Generously illustrated, thorough history of the United States of America from its founding to the early days of the American Civil War - the final paragraph laments that it cannot report a peaceful settlement to thi [more...]
Charming volume of short writings and aphorisms by the author of Friends in Council. Subjects vary from perennial issue to specifics of the time, such as the French Claque and the need to rehabilitate the reputation of st. George. Fine leather binding. Full [more...]
Complete set of Scott's novels. With frontisportrait to volume one and fold out facsimile letter showing Scott's handwriting. Engraved title pages. Half leather bindings with marbled boards. Raised bands with gilt decoration. 8vo. Rubbing and wear to covers. [more...]
Charming deluxe leather edition of three of Kipling's dog stories: Thy Servant a Dog; Toby Dog and The Great Play Hunt. Features b/w illustrations by G. L. Stampa throughout. Blue mottled leather wth gilt decoration and titling. Inner dentelles, all edges [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Eliot's first published work, a series of stories on a clerical theme, featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by Chris Hammond and an introduction by William [more...]
Marvelous, if unorthodox, account of Lurchers and their often dubious owners, who would engage in hunting, coursing, poaching and the like. With b/w images. Red leatherette boards with gilt titling. Possible reissue (published by the author with no referenc [more...]
Rather full leather binding done by Bumpus of Tennyson's works, including Ulysses, English Idylls, Idylls of the King as well as his Juvenalia. Printed in double columns. Raised bands to spine. All edges gilt, inner dentelles. 8vo. Toning to spine and cove [more...]
Handsome half leather binding of Tennyson's works, including Ulysses, English Idylls, Idylls of the King as well as his Juvenalia. Red half leather with marbled boards, matching marbling to page edges and end-papers. Printed in double columns. 8vo. Rubbing [more...]
Charming collection of nature themed poetry chosen from a wide variety of authors including Bryant, Wordsworth, Holmes, Lowell, Keats plus some lesser known poets. Interesting prize binding. Half leather with marbled boards and matching marbling to endpapers [more...]
Pleasing quarter leather binding of Wood's accessible guide to the Animal Kingdom. Arranged by species, Wood describes the behavior and physiology of the animals in a narrative but scientifically learned style. With charming b/w illustrations plus diagrams o [more...]
Series of lectures, addressed to young people, that primarily examine the evidence for the christian revelation. Half leather with marbled boards, matching marbling to page edges. 8vo. Lacks spine label. Previous owner's bookplate cleanly removed from front [more...]
Pleasant leather binding of Burns' songs, his posthumous poems and further reliques, With engravings. Full leather with gilt lyre decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges, with inner and outer dentelles. Toning and rubbin [more...]
Nicely bound and produced copy of Longfellow's poetical works. Including Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish etc. Full leather, tree calf binding, with raised bands and gilt decoration. Inner dentelles. Marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Printed [more...]
Together with a life of the author. Small 32mo. [xliv] 216pp with one advertisement to rear. Mottled (acid treated/tree calf style) leather with gilt decoration. Engraved frontispiece. outer dentelles. Rubbing to covers and spine. Contents clean within, [more...]
Handsome later full leather binding of this collection of Addison's writings on Christianity, including elements of Cato. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. [xxvii] 268pp. Some splitting to spine. Marking to covers. Rubbing to extremities. Tanning [more...]
The butterflies portion of the illustrated edition of Newman's significant guide to british lepidoptera. With numerous b/w engravings within the text. Bound in full leather. Inner and outer dentelles, marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. No date but c. 1871 [more...]
The collected volumes for two years, bound as one. All 24 issues for those years of the Children's magazine. With stories, poems and articles and 24 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. Bound in half-leather with marbled paper to bo [more...]
T Osborne, C Hitch, A Millar, John Rivington, S Crowder, P Davey and B Law & Co., T Longman and C Ware 1763
Volume of the universal history dealing with the Americas, from the arrival of Columbus and the earliest spanish explorers to aftermath of the campaigns of the conquistadors from Peru to Mexico. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather, c [more...]
Impressive Easton Press edition of Haggard's dramatic 1887 adventure of lost civilizations and sorceresses. Full leather with gilt design to covers. Decorative devices within. All edges gilt. Some light shelf-wear to edges, else crisp and clean. Fine cond [more...]
