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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol XIX, 1895
including details of the Crystal Palace Fruit Show of 1895
Rev W Wilks, and Mr John Weathers (editors)
Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1896
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol XVIII, 1895
Papers presented to a conference on trees, and on British-grown fruit
Rev W Wilks, and Mr John Weathers (editors)
Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1895
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol XVII, 1894/1895
including Lord Bute's Vineyards, and rare trees in the Arnold Arboretum
Rev W Wilks, and Mr John Weathers (editors)
Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1895
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol XVI, 1894
including the effect of urban fog on cultivated plants, the treatment of American Blight etc
Rev W Wilks, and Mr John Weathers (editors)
Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1894
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol XV, 1893
including an array of articles on sunflowers, cultivation of the railway embankment etc
Rev W Wilks, and Mr John Weathers (editors)
Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1893
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol XIV, 1892
Containing articles and presentations on Conifers
Rev W Wilks, and Mr John Weathers (editors)
Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1892
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
Pedigree of the Family of Bonham, signed association plus manuscript copy
1891, signed by Admiral Charles W Bonham, uncle of the author, Edward William Bonham
Edward William Bonham
Printed for the Author(s), 1891
£50.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Handwritten
Le Manuscrit de Ma Mere
Half-vellum binding, 1886. Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary
Alphonse De Lamartine
Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
My Little Lady
1871. Eleanor Frances Poynter's first novel, complete in two volumes
Eleanor Frances Poynter, but published anonymously
Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1871
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Uncle Tom's Cabin
c1875, with eight colour plates
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1875
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
The Disciple and Other Poems
1874, an early printing of a collection of George MacDonald's verse
George MacDonald
Daldy, Isbister & Co, London, 1874
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Violin Songs and Other Poems
1874, an early edition of George MacDonald's poetry
George MacDonald
Daldy, Isbister & Co, London, 1874
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Poems and Prose by The Penge Poet
1899, the poetry of Joseph Gwyer, one of the world's worst poets
Joseph Gwyer, the Penge Poet
F Perraton, London, 1899
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Ballades, Les Rayons et les Ombres
1890, a pocket edition of Victor Hugo's poems in a fine leather binding
Victor Hugo
G Charpentier, Paris, 1890
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Histoire des Plantes
1865, first French edition of Louis Figuier's illustrated study of botany
Louis Figuier
Librairie de L Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1865
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Mysteries of the Ocean
1868, illustrated with 130 engravings, and in a full leather binding
Arthur Mangin, translated from the French by W H D Adams, illustrated by W Freeman and J Noel.
Thomas Nelson, London, 1868
£30.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Poems of William Wordsworth
1854, in a full leather binding with marbled page edges
William Wordsworth
Edward Moxon, London, 1854
£45.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Unconscious Influence; or, Horace and May
1855, from the library of Vinters country house in Maidstone
Catherine Douglas Bell
William P Kennedy, Edinburgh, 1855
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Hints to Young Architects
1895, a guide for all budding builders
George Wightwick, revised and enlarged by G Huskisson Guillaume
Crosby Lockwood & Co, London, 1895
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Lectures on Painting delivered at the Royal Academy
1866, four lectures by Henry Nelson O'Neil
Henry O'Neil
Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, 1866
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Last Fight of the Revenge at sea
by Walter Raleigh et al, bound with poet Barnabe Googe's Sonnets etc, and Row & Barlowe's Dialogue
William Roy, and Jerome Barlowe; Sir Walter Raleigh, Gervase Markham, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten; and Barnabe Googe; edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author(s), London, 1871
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Fragmentia Regalia (1630)
by Sir Robert Naunton, his observations on Elizabeth I, bound with Thomas Watson's poems
Sir Robert Naunton, and Thomas Watson, edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author(s), London, 1870
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Atalanta in Calydon
1865, the second edition of A C Swinburne's tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Edward Moxon, London, 1865
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Hawkshead, Its History, Archaeology, Industries, Folklore, Dialect, etc
1899, a first edition of H S Cowper's history of the Lake District parish
Henry Swainson Cowper
Bemrose & Sons, London, 1899
Sold
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Helbeck of Bannisdale
1898, a first edition of Mrs Humphrey Ward's Lake District romance
Mrs Humphrey Ward
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
