Browse by Attribute—Leather Bound

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

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

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

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

Chapman & Hall, London, 1852

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

Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969

With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London

The Century Co, London, 1907

With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London

The Century Co, New York, 1903

1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741

1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome

Chez Barois, Paris, 1727

Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani

Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912

1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee

E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875

with 18 plates, all present

John Nichols, London, 1794

Bolingbroke's political essays, including "on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First"

A Millar, London, 1752

1819, volume 1, Bedfordshire to Cumberland, with 8 maps and 10 engraved plates

J Robins, London, 1819

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

Rebound in quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin

Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1923

Samuel Lover's tales from Irish folklore, ghosts and the supernatural

W F Wakeman, Dublin, 1832

1920. Paul Claudel's French poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hachette

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920