Browse by Attribute—Leather Bound

1699, the second edition of William Salmon's book of surgery containing the first three sections and 12 plates

J Dawks, London, 1699

including Sean Kenny, L S Lowry, Keith Vauughan, Abram Games and many more

Longacre Press, London, 1963

With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate

A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937

This copy in a unique leather Surrealist binding

Vision, London, 1948

Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, The Renaissance, and Appreciations

Macmillan, London, 1924

This copy rebound in quarter leather and marbled page edges, with the crest of Christ's Hospital to the upper board

John Murray, London, 1923

Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students

George G. Harrap, London, 1918

1920, first edition bound in full leather

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920

1924, a nicely bound copy of Pierre Benoit's 1919 classic French lost-world novel

Albin Michel, Paris, 1924

Joseph Shaw's "Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks, and All Others Concerned with Parish Business"

H Lintot et al, London, 1750

The second enlarged edition of Egerton Castle's history of bookplates

George Bell & Sons, London, 1893

1757, first edition. Extracts from their travels around the Levant and North Africa

J Smith, Dublin, 1757

James Nelson's seminal study of the health, manners and education of children

R & J Dodsley, London, 1756

With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker

Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955

Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat

Editions Athena, Paris, 1954

With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate

Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948

Fourth edition of Caraciollo's convent scandal memoir Mysteries of the Neapolitan Cloister / Misteri del Chiostro Napoletano. In the Register of Erotic Books (Entry No 2950).

Richard Bentley, London, 1865

1925, limited edition of Baudelaire's prose poems, illustrated by Louis Bouquet

Enseigne du Pot Cassé, Paris, 1925

Fridtjof Nansen's attempted trek to the North Pole

George Newnes, London, 1898

Benjamin Samuel Williams's first book, 'containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants'

Chapman & Hall, London, 1852

A nice quarter leather binding of François Coppée's poetry, c1880

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1880

c1920, a good selection of Victor Hugo's poetry

Bibliotheque Larousse, Paris, 1920

1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.

Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969

c1920, Chateaubriand travels in America and the Ruins of Ohio etc, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College

Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920

c1920, Chateaubriand travels from Paris to Jerusalem, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College

Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920