Recent Additions

Voyages en Amérique, en Italie, au Mont Blanc
c1920, Chateaubriand travels in America and the Ruins of Ohio etc, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College
François-René de Chateaubriand
Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
c1920, Chateaubriand travels from Paris to Jerusalem, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College
François-René de Chateaubriand
Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan (1907, first edition)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield
The Century Co, London, 1907
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Present-Day Egypt (1903)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield, illustrated by Paul Philippoteaux and R Talbot Kelly
The Century Co, New York, 1903
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

Twilight of the Pistons (Signed first edition)
Malcolm Finnis' history of Air Ferry Limited at Manston Airport
Malcolm Finnis
M J Finnis, Eastbourne, 1997
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | First thus

The Haunted Realm (1986, first edition)
Simon Marsden's photographs and visits to haunted houses and supernatural sites
Simon Marsden, introduction by Colin Wilson
Webb & Bower, London, 1986
£15.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

La Vie de Jésus-Christ (Volumes 1 & 3)
1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels
Bernardin de Montereul, revised by Jean Brignon
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Histoire des Révolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la République Romaine
1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome
L’Abbé de Vertot
Chez Barois, Paris, 1727
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire (1793–1795)
Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani
G Lenotre, pseudonym of Théodore Gosselin
Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

La Hollande Pittoresque: Voyage aux Villes Mortes du Zuiderzée
1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee
Henry Havard, illustrations by the author and van Heemskerck van Beest
E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875
£60.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

The Astonishing Island (1933, first edition)
Winifred Holtby's tale from the Radio Times, illustrated by Batt
Winifred Holtby, illustrated by Batt
Lovat Dickson, London, 1933
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Irish Folk-Tales Collected by Jeremiah Curtin
1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga
Seamus O Duilearga, editor
Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944
£18.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover

The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonne
Volume Two: The American Years 1941–1973
Alan G Wilkinson
Thames and Hudson, London, 2000
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

Epitome Rerum Germanicarum ab Anno MDCXVII ad XLIII Gestarum
1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War
Leonhard Pappus
Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644
£200.00
History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings

Destroyer from America (Signed first edition)
1942, signed by John Fernald, and based on his wartime escort duties
John Fernald, illustrated by John Worsley
Jonathan Cape, London, 1942
£35.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated

Commissioning Contemporary Art (Signed first edition)
Signed by Louisa Buck. A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists
Louisa Buck, and Daniel McClean
Thames and Hudson, London, 2012
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Lys Hansen, Camden Arts Centre exhibition
A slim brochure which opens to be the exhibition poster
Lys Hansen
Camden Arts Centre, London, 1986
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover

Ian McCulloch, Camden Arts Centre exhibition
A slim brochure which opens to be the exhibition poster
Ian McCulloch
Camden Arts Centre, London, 1986
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover

The Curse of Khatra (1947, first edition)
One of T C H Jacobs' Superintendent John Bellamy crime classics
T C H Jacobs
Stanley Paul, London, 1947
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

When My Ship Comes Home (1959, first edition)
Chris Massie's last novel in an Edward Ardizzone dustwrapper
Chris Massie, dustwrapper by Edward Ardizzone
Faber & Faber, London, 1959
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Two Invitations from Squadron Leader Damodar Madhao Oka
1951, from the Indian Air Force pilot to a British RPAF officer
Damodar Madhao Oka
Indian Air Force, Karachi, 1951
£15.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover

British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
The scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes
Dominic Janes
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2022
£15.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Pan and the Nightmare
Two essays by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher & James Hillman
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher, and James Hillman
Spring Publications, University of Dallas, Irving, 1979
£12.00
Psychology | Soft Cover

Treatises on Architecture and Building (1832)
William Hosking's text from the Encyclopaedia Britannia, with 27 plates
William Hosking
Adam Black, Edinburgh, 1832
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Illustrated

Expert Cigarette Magic (1932, first edition)
With Demon's Head bookseller ticket from L Davenport
D Deveen, with a foreword by Oswald Williams
Edward Bagshawe, London, 1932
£15.00
Magic | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

