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Original hand-coloured engraving: Site of the Crystal Palace in 1852
Mid-victorian, the view from Sydenham Ridge, framed and glazed
Not stated
Not stated, London, n.d.
£20.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed
Hand-coloured engraving Yarmouth, with Nelson's Monument
c1840, a fine view from the Lowestoft Road, framed and glazed
W H Bartlett, artist, engraved by H. Griffiths
Not stated, London, 1840
£20.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed
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, 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, London, 1870
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Tottel's Miscellany, Songes and Sonnets
An 1870 printing of the first anthology of Englsh poetry (1557)
Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder, Nicholas Grimald, and Uncertain Authors. Edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author, London, 1870
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
On War
Princeton's scholarly edition of von Clausewitz's military masterpiece
Carl von Clausewitz, edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, introductory essays & commentary by Peter Paret, Michael Howard and Bernard Brodie, index by Rosalie West
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989
£18.00
Military & War | Hard Cover
Camelia, original Japanese watercolour
c1900 by Kwako.
Kwako
Original Artwork, Japan, 1900
£75.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Castle in Italy
The autobiography of Lina Waterfield (nee Duff Gordon)
Lina Waterfield
John Murray, London, 1961
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Pronouncing Gaelic Dictionary
1845, 2nd edition of Neil McAlpine's Gaelic Dictionary and grammar
Neil McAlpine
Printed for the Author, Edinburgh, 1845
£25.00
Language | Hard Cover
Told in the Furthest Hebrides
1936, True stories of second-sight in the islands given the Author first-hand
Florence Robertson Cameron, foreword by Sheriff J Macmaster Campbell
Eneas Mackay, Stirling, 1936
Sold
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Great Escape
1951, third impression of the famous tunnel escape from Stalag Luft III
Paul Brickhill, drawings by Ley Kenyon
Faber & Faber, London, 1951
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Book of Common Prayer (1798)
with the Psalms, printed for the Clarendon Press, Oxford
Common Prayer
W Dawson, T Bensley & J Cooke, Oxford, 1798
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Iliad of Homer
1864, two volumes of Edward, Earl of Derby's translation into blank verse
Homer, translated by Edward, Earl of Derby
John Murray, London, 1864
£50.00
Classics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Rose and the Yew Tree
1973, a novel from Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott
Collins, London, 1973
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes
1933, first edition, collected, edited and arranged for voice and piano by Alfred Moffat
Alfred Edward Moffat, cover illustration by M C Shoosmith
Augener Ltd, London, 1933
£40.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Legion of the Lost
1930, a scarce novel of the French Foreign Legion
Julien Le Brocq
Boots Pure Drug Co [Printed by Collins], Nottingham & London, 1930
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Public Library Buildings 1975–1983
An illustrated review of 150 library projects 1975–83
K C Harrison, editor. Editorial board members: R F Atkins, Alan Longworth, K A Stockham, and G K V Tomlinson
Library Services Limited, London, 1987
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Library Buildings 1984–1989
An illustrated review of 121 library projects 1984–89
K C Harrison, editor. Editorial board members: Elizabeth M Rodger, W A G Wilson, Dean Harrison, Julian W Lendon
Library Services Limited, London, 1990
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Apostolic Benediction for the Bonham family, 1950
with the stamped signature of Joseph Migone, Archbishop of Nicodemia and Papal stamp
Joseph Migone
The Vatican, Vatican City, 1950
£25.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Works of John Bunyan
1859, first thus, three illustrated volumes, including The Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy City
John Bunyan, edited by George Offor
Blackie & Son, Glasgow, 1859
£60.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
The History of Liquor Licensing in England
1903, Beatrice and Sidney Webb's history from 1700 to 1830
Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bracelet of Bones (Signed copy)
Signed by Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Viking Sagas #1
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Quercus, London, 2011
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Draughts of Remembrance
1959, a study of reincarnation and the seven year cycles of life
Ann Ree Colton
Arc Publishing Co, California, 1959
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Evil Hour
1980, the first UK edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Jonathan Cape, London, 1980
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The First Fabians
1977, first edition. The efforts to convert the British to Socialism...
Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1977
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
